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Speaker 1: Hello, Texans, Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 2: Mark vandermir and John Harris with you in the hun

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Speaker 2: Day Texans Radio studio and as usual, we are everywhere.

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Speaker 2: By everywhere, I mean Johnny and Aron studio, but John McClain,

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Speaker 2: who joins us most off it on Thursday nights, is everywhere.

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Speaker 2: He's on his way to Port Arthur for a big event,

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Speaker 2: the bum Phillips Award and Wade is presenting general Good Evenings.

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Speaker 1: Straighten us out. What is happening with you?

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm all the way to port Arthur with Mark Burns,

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Speaker 3: our director extraordinaire on all our documentaries. Rob Lanch runs

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Speaker 3: the Great Iron Lances for the Texans and he's a

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Speaker 3: producer and stoordinaire and we're going to Stortway. It's an

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Speaker 3: annual event that he gives to the Coach of the

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Speaker 3: Year over from the Goland Triangle and that it's a

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Speaker 3: big event over there. Dan pastorin he's meeting us, so

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Speaker 3: we're looking forward to it.

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Speaker 1: Very very cool.

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Speaker 4: General, we didn't get a chance to talk to you

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Speaker 4: about the schedule. That's much the release of it, but

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Speaker 4: just a schedule in general, thirty thousand foot view specific

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Speaker 4: things you took out of it. What did you see

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Speaker 4: when you saw that schedule? Did you get warm and fuzzies?

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Speaker 4: Did you go, oh my gosh, I don't like this.

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Speaker 4: What are your thoughts about the schedule the Texas will

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Speaker 4: have in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 3: The one that stood out? John? Maybe you guys could

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Speaker 3: tell me different, But I have never seen the Texans

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Speaker 3: or the Oilers, or any team for that matter, be

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Speaker 3: done with all its division rug games by Sober eighteen.

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Speaker 3: I've never seen that, and I think that's great and

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Speaker 3: get them out of the way, play them later. The

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Speaker 3: other thing, because of defense is the best in the

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Speaker 3: NFL and has a chance to establish itself as right

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Speaker 3: up there with the lovely Blue Oilers defense with three

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Speaker 3: Hall of Fame famers and the ninety three Oilers of

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Speaker 3: Buddy Ryan, to be one of the three best in

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Speaker 3: Houston history, and as a chance maybe even to be

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Speaker 3: the best in Houston history. And what a way to

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Speaker 3: start off when you're going against you start off with

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Speaker 3: Josh Allen and you're dominated the last two years Joe Burrow,

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Speaker 3: who says he's got the best team in Cincinnati he's had,

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Speaker 3: and then dak Pruscott for a Cowboy game. I think

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Speaker 3: got a chance to win the division because they have

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Speaker 3: that offense is prolific. So that is a great way

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Speaker 3: to start for Jamiko Ryans and Matt Burk's defenseles. I

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Speaker 3: always look to see when they play the sc South

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Speaker 3: when the bye week is who they close with and

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Speaker 3: that closing schedule not the Titans. Of course, for those

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Speaker 3: last two road games, you could have snow. I think

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Speaker 3: it's going to be great. You can't wait. I wish

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Speaker 3: Freyan Campbell was about to be over and this season

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Speaker 3: was radio.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we all do. It'd be great to get into

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Speaker 2: the season, but I think they need the time. I'm

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Speaker 2: going to allow them the time to prepare properly for

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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty six campaign. General thoughts on cold weather

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Speaker 2: outdoors late in the season and the fact that they've

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Speaker 2: had their taste of it recently. They had a taste

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Speaker 2: of it the year before last. Twenty twenty four didn't

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Speaker 2: fare as well as they did last year when they

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Speaker 2: did beat Kansas City on the road in December and

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Speaker 2: a cold night. They did beat Pittsburgh, and so I'm

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna call it so so weather. It's just

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Speaker 2: up there it's so so weather. It was to us.

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Speaker 2: It was cold, wintery weather in the Steel City. But

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Speaker 2: your thoughts on that aspect of the schedule.

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Speaker 3: First of all, this deventse is so good. It doesn't

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Speaker 3: matter where they played. I don't think I think you

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Speaker 3: know the cold weather came. I remember the most. Of course,

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Speaker 3: the Chris brown Bill goal in h Green Bay was

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Speaker 3: that Green Bay. But the one I remember was Chicago

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Speaker 3: down when the team came off the field in Soldier

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Speaker 3: Field and it was raining and the wind was blowing

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Speaker 3: and it was cold, and they kicked the Bears butt.

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Speaker 3: That team celebrated like it was the playoffs. Those are

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Speaker 3: two that have stood out to me, And of course

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Speaker 3: Pittsburgh came last year. But I think that the running

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Speaker 3: game is going to be vastly improved. David Montgomery, he

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Speaker 3: is a sporting machine. He is a red zone touchdown machine.

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Speaker 3: He's playing Green Bay every year. Now. Granted he didn't

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Speaker 3: So when they get to that time of the year,

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Speaker 3: he's probably gonna eat it up. And I think that

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Speaker 3: he's going to be a big difference in this team

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Speaker 3: because not only what he can do in the middle

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Speaker 4: General. I just thought about this as you were talking

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Speaker 4: about the offense.

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Speaker 1: Mark.

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Speaker 4: I want to get your view because I don't think

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Speaker 4: we've brought this up. Take CJ. Strout out of this,

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Speaker 4: because you obviously watch your quarterback to play every single week,

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Speaker 4: no question, And obviously he didn't do it last year,

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Speaker 4: but he's been there and been pretty reliable. You think

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Speaker 4: he's gonna be in He's the most indispensable player, no question.

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Speaker 4: On offense. What one player, if you could pick one player,

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Speaker 4: this one player has got to play Let's give it

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Speaker 4: sixteen games. This one player for the offense has got

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Speaker 4: to be in some sort of trouble. Who's it gonna be?

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Speaker 2: Is it?

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Speaker 4: Nico is a Montgomery is an offensive lineman? Who is

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Speaker 4: it on this offense outside of the quarterback? Take CJ.

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Speaker 4: Strout out of it. Who's the most indispensable player on

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Speaker 4: this offense that you feel like has got to play

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Speaker 4: sixteen plus games this year?

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Speaker 3: Well, Nico Collins has never done it. And Niko because

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Speaker 3: he's their big play player and he's Droud's favorite target.

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Speaker 3: Who knows, if he'd been able to play sixteen plus

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Speaker 3: games in his career, they might have gotten on field advantage.

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Speaker 3: But I'm just assuming because Nico gets hurt every year,

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Speaker 3: he's not going to do it. So David Montgomery because

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Speaker 3: he also can score touchdowns. Because his author is going

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Speaker 3: to move the ball they did last year. Nick Kayley's

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Speaker 3: going to be calling a whole different game when they

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Speaker 3: get down inside the five and ten yard line. So

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Speaker 3: I'm going to say David Montgomery, who, as he did

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Speaker 3: Wood he Marks will get a lot of playing time,

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Speaker 3: but boy, when they need when they need a third

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Speaker 3: all inside the five, David Montgomery, he's gonna be there

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Speaker 3: MVP other than Strout.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm with him on Nicocollins, and I would

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Speaker 2: imagine that's yours too. Johnny Nicocollins has to be the

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Speaker 2: guy who's out there for the.

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Speaker 1: Bulk of it.

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Speaker 4: Now, I got an answer.

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Speaker 2: In two of the last three years he's played fifteen games. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: stratus number one. You said that last year, I'd say

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Speaker 2: one of the tackles because once you got Trent Brown

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Speaker 2: and social media. They didn't lose when Trent Brown was

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Speaker 2: in the lineup. This year, I feel like they've got

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Speaker 2: some insurance there if one of the tackles goes down

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Speaker 2: for a bit, as long as Brown is.

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Speaker 1: Healthy, Blake stays healthy.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, Braden Smith is playing right tackle, but they can

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Speaker 2: move Brown to left tackle if need be. If erse

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Speaker 2: three goes out. Let's have none of this happen. By

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Speaker 2: the way, this is all hypothetical, just in case. I

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Speaker 2: don't want to speak into the being stuff. But that's

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Speaker 2: how I feel.

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Speaker 1: What's yours.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say Arionte Airstrie. I just feel

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Speaker 4: like having him as the consistent piece over a left tackle,

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Speaker 4: letting him continue to grow. I was gonna I was

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Speaker 4: gonna say Wyatt Tyler at first, and then Braden Smith,

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Speaker 4: but I feel like with Wyatt is something what happen.

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Speaker 4: I do think there's more guard center depth now, and

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Speaker 4: I feel like there is right tackle depth. That said,

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Speaker 4: I don't know. I like Trent a lot don't get

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Speaker 4: me wrong. And Trent's got to go over to left tackle.

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Speaker 4: I think you would handle it fine. But I want

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Speaker 4: to see Ersery continue every single game, keep stacking games,

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Speaker 4: because I think by the end of year two he's

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Speaker 4: gonna end up being a player that we look at,

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Speaker 4: maybe not not yet as a Dwayne Brown for this team,

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Speaker 4: but definitely on the track and maybe ahead of Dwayne's

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Speaker 4: progress through year two.

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Speaker 1: Man that team that's got ahead.

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Speaker 3: The erth rate that that he is good enough right

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Speaker 3: now that he should replace Nicocollins has proven or David

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Speaker 3: Montgomery who's proven and Trent Brown was seven and oho,

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Speaker 3: I believe, and he's got to come back and way Lass,

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Speaker 3: you know, I don't tell him. He may wait four fifty.

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Speaker 3: They list him at three eighty five, and I think

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Speaker 3: they got just as much as they're going to get

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Speaker 3: What would be nice, of course, is Breton Smith go distance,

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Speaker 3: wife Teller go to distance and them have the kind

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Speaker 3: of luck they had that one season in which of

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Speaker 3: the five starting linemen the only one to miss a

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Speaker 3: he was illed they had to go hospital. Now that's

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Speaker 3: not realistic today, but I think it's got to be

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Speaker 3: the guy that can score. And Nico changes the offense

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Speaker 3: because of being a great deep threat, great run after

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Speaker 3: catch that he is in Montgomery. If he can stay healthy,

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Speaker 3: he has certainly not been used up, and I think

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Speaker 3: that he will give them their best running back since

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Speaker 3: Arian Foster, the greatest Enfranchise history.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if they see it differently, but I

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Speaker 2: see Trent Brown as in case of emergency break last. Yes,

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Speaker 2: use Trent Brown absolutely, but maybe he sees it differently.

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Speaker 2: Maybe they see it differently. But general, let me ask

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Speaker 2: but until you get some play during the regular season.

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Speaker 2: But I'll ask you right now where we are here

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Speaker 2: in late May.

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Speaker 1: Did they do.

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Speaker 2: Enough to change and improve the offensive line this twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six offseason.

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Speaker 3: I believe it should be so much better because of

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Speaker 3: the run blocking as protection wasn't a consistent issue. A

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Speaker 3: lot of that had to do with Stroud because he

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Speaker 3: did a better job of getting rid of the ball.

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Speaker 3: But I like Wyatt Teller. Now he's going to be

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Speaker 3: thirty two. He was hurt last year. You didn't worry

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Speaker 3: when he went from Buffalo to Cleveland, he helped transform

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Speaker 3: their culture up front. I remember reading the Browns coaches

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Speaker 3: he played and now it was contagious. And remember when

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Speaker 3: that line they had Potonio and they had Callahad coaching.

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Speaker 3: They may had the best line in the league. And

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Speaker 3: the Texans know that because they went up against them.

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Speaker 3: So Braden Smith is is a really good run blocker

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Speaker 3: who's blocked for a thousand yard runner who's been at

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Speaker 3: Texans nemesis in Johnathan Taylor. So I think overall the

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Speaker 3: run blocking will improve, and I think the offensive line,

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Speaker 3: with Montgomery and Woody marks showing the way, it'll be

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Speaker 3: a much better and more consistent than ours scoring offense general.

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Speaker 4: I don't I don't know if handicapped is the right

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Speaker 3: Well, they shouldn't have too much Coults because Daniel Jones

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Speaker 2: By the way, the Jacks have three prime time games,

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Speaker 1: They've played their The Jaguars have played.

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Speaker 3: I'll bet you what we'll hear every week? Is he

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Speaker 2: When the story when did it break yesterday that Rogers

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Speaker 3: Thoughts, You're exactly right. It should have, said Rogers, says.

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Speaker 4: THEFC North is pretty damn interesting. We just you mentioned

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Speaker 3: First of all, by him saying that every time they lose,

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Speaker 2: General, you're the perfect man to settle this. Lawrence Taylor

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Speaker 2: He also points out the playoff game where the Giants

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Speaker 2: I know the eras are different, the rules are different. Yes,

438
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Speaker 2: it was tougher in many ways when Montana played. What

439
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Speaker 2: do you think of Montana over Brady as the goat

440
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Speaker 2: like Larrence Taylor.

441
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Speaker 3: Says Brady is the greatest quarterback INFL history. Montana to

442
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Speaker 3: be on my list is number two, but Brady is

443
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Speaker 3: number one. Montana at Jerry Rice, Brady had had.

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Speaker 1: A ready a minute, yeah for a minute.

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Speaker 3: And then also Montana had let's say, he had a

446
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Speaker 3: Hall of Fame running back, he had a Hall of

447
00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 3: Fame pass rusher, had a Hall of Fame safety slash cornerback.

448
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,000
Speaker 3: He had more Hall of famers than Brady did. And

449
00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:38,840
Speaker 3: he had Bill Walsh and offensive genius. Brady had Belichick

450
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Speaker 3: and defensive genius. Although Montana didn't do anything with our walls,

451
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:48,600
Speaker 3: and he won with let's see, he won one with Seafert.

452
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:53,200
Speaker 3: The talents was with Walsh's players and Brady. They ran

453
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Speaker 3: players in and out of Foxborough constantly. At Brady was

454
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Speaker 3: always the one thing you could count on. Nobody to

455
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Speaker 3: me is in the rarefy there with Tom Brady, and

456
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Speaker 3: that clues.

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Speaker 2: I will point out that Montana won two Super Bowls

458
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Speaker 2: without Jerry Rice. He wins to before Jerry gets there,

459
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Speaker 2: So there's that. But I'm with you general, it's so

460
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,680
Speaker 2: hard to measure these things. And Brady probably would have

461
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 2: done pretty well in that era with great coaching and

462
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:24,320
Speaker 2: a great team around him, But Montana was super cool,

463
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Speaker 2: Joe cool, no question.

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Speaker 4: So I sent this tweet to Mark Mark and I

465
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Speaker 4: are going to do this either today tomorrow general, but

466
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Speaker 4: I want to get your answer on this because I

467
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:35,480
Speaker 4: got a feeling you've seen a few What very simple question,

468
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Speaker 4: maybe a complex answer. What's the best sporting event you've

469
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Speaker 4: ever been to in person, whether you covered it, just

470
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:48,200
Speaker 4: watched it, what's the best sporting event you've ever been

471
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Speaker 4: to in person.

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Speaker 3: I've been to a lot of sporting events in person, right,

473
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Speaker 3: But to me, there's nothing that compares to a great

474
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,879
Speaker 3: super Bowl like the last one we add and he Is,

475
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Speaker 3: in which we witnessed the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history,

476
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Speaker 3: or you can call it the greatest choke job in

477
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Speaker 3: super Bowl history, engineered by Tom great plays and catches

478
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:17,760
Speaker 3: about Brady and Matt Ryan, who are the greatest catches

479
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 3: in super Bowl history. And I've seen so many great

480
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:25,479
Speaker 3: super Bowls playoff games, but to me, because of the

481
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Speaker 3: magnitude of Super Bowl, you just you can't beat it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, great game, no doubt about it. I left on

483
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Speaker 2: the fourth quarter. It's my fault. It's my fault, Johnny,

484
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 2: I left lead. I wanted to beat the traffic I

485
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 2: parked way out in the neighborhoods here near the stadium,

486
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 2: and I left and then the Patriots came back. So

487
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 2: it's my fault, folks that they won that Super Bowl.

488
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 2: I apologize.

489
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Speaker 3: I was there for the catch, Oh City miracle to

490
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 3: fumble and then Geeze red right thirty eight. I've been

491
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 3: to a lot of big games and a lot of

492
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 3: incredible moments. But to me, whether playoffs or regular season,

493
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:12,680
Speaker 3: you can't be the greatest spectacle in the world outside

494
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 3: the World Cup of the super Bowl, especially with two

495
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 3: great teams, great players and great players and it goes

496
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 3: to overtime.

497
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Speaker 2: Wait while you think about the answer to this question,

498
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Speaker 2: I'll share one more thing about that horrible super Bowl

499
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,679
Speaker 2: that the Patriots won. Here they're second one that they

500
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 2: won in this fricking billboard. I mean, my gosh, General,

501
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 2: tell us the best boarding event you've been to as

502
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Speaker 2: a fan. All Right, while you think about that, I

503
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,679
Speaker 2: will tell you this that Super Bowl. I go up

504
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 2: to the press box and I go into our radio booth. Yeah,

505
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 2: but it's not already a booth because we're not playing

506
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 2: that day. They use it for the Super Bowl, fair enough,

507
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 2: and the Patriots are in there, and let me tell

508
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 2: you something that is like going into your house. And

509
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 2: you can imagine the rest of this metaphor. I don't

510
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 2: even have to tell you going upstairs and the Patriots

511
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 2: are in my bedroom.

512
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:05,200
Speaker 1: No, the Patriots are in my booth.

513
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 4: That's right, and my.

514
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 2: Gosh, I couldn't take it. Luckily I got into a

515
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 2: suite somehow. I watched some of the game that I

516
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:14,119
Speaker 2: left on the fourth quarter. But the Patriots what it

517
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,119
Speaker 2: was horrible? All right, General, best sporting event you've been

518
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 2: to as a fan, not an employee of the Chronicle

519
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 2: or anybody else.

520
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 3: What File fours? I've been to street and fourth final

521
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 3: fours as a fan. Love it. I've been to hockey

522
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,320
Speaker 3: games in Canada while I was working then with Gordia

523
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:35,359
Speaker 3: how seeing mister Hockey revered in Canada, any in the US,

524
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 3: but especially in Canada for at that time being the

525
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 3: greatest evor. But I love the final fours because I

526
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 3: love March's madness, and so I would have to say

527
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:45,959
Speaker 3: final fours.

528
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 2: All right, General, Hey, thanks a lot for joining us.

529
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Speaker 2: Have a great time in Port Arthur with that bum

530
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 2: Phillips award and Wade Phillips there.

531
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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for being with us.

532
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 4: Guys.

533
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 3: It is my pleasure Hotel Wade tonight that you said

534
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Speaker 3: some grad.

535
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 2: Tell him congrats and we love them. What are the

536
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 2: greatest defensive coordinators in the history of the game, No

537
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 2: doubt about it. Coming up, Johnny and I who's better?

538
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 2: We've got stuff from the AFC South, from around the league.

539
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 2: We're gonna do that next here on Texans Radio. Here

540
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 2: we go right back to it here in the hun

541
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Speaker 2: Day Texans Radio studio. Mark Vandermere and John Harris with

542
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 2: you and Johnny. You're ready for some questions and news

543
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 2: and notes and things and whatever the whatever this segment

544
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 2: is called.

545
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:25,800
Speaker 4: You ready for it?

546
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 1: Be yes, I've got some stuff for you.

547
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 2: In fact, I'm gonna call it this questions questions for Johnny.

548
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 4: Let's do it all right?

549
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 1: Here we go, all right? Is it going to happen

550
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 1: or not?

551
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 2: Brevin Jordan fifth on the team in receiving, second among

552
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 2: tight ends.

553
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: What's the likelihood of this happening?

554
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 4: Man? I wish I were a doctor to know to

555
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 4: see where he is in his rehab. The injury happened

556
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 4: in in August, right because it was training camp, so

557
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 4: it was it was mid to late August when it happened,

558
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 4: So he got nine months. So it's nine plus months

559
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 4: and we're just in May, so you still got June

560
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 4: in July, so you still have two months for the season.

561
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Speaker 4: I would think Bred coming back. I'll tell you one

562
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Speaker 4: thing that's definitely stood out about him. He is bigger.

563
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 4: He is He's put on some upper body way. Yeah,

564
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 4: he's put on some upper body weight. I really want

565
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 4: to see it happening because I just think going back

566
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 4: to that playoff game, I think you call it one

567
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 4: pass in that game and he went for seventy six

568
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Speaker 4: yards in a touchdown. It was just a little flat route.

569
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Speaker 4: CJ hit him and he just outran everybody to the

570
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Speaker 4: end zone. Since when we had somebody at that position

571
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Speaker 4: that could do that, right, So the likelyhood of that happening,

572
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Speaker 4: I'll probably put it at I'll put it at thirty eight.

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Speaker 2: Point six percent thirty eight point six percent on so

574
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Speaker 2: more likely than not happen, more likely not happen.

575
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Speaker 4: Because you're talking about two years of ACL tears. I

576
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Speaker 4: mark off the top of my head. I can't think

577
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 4: anybody that has come back from consecutive ACL tears. It's

578
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 4: probably happened and I'm just missing somebody, right, But we

579
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 4: know how rare it is. But given that, I think

580
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 4: Brev can be that kind of kind of weapon if

581
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Speaker 4: he can get healthy. It's just kind of a I

582
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 4: don't say a logjam now. But you added Marlon Klein,

583
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 4: you added Foster Moreau. It's become a pretty dense, tight

584
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 4: end room. It's gonna be tough. And so that's why

585
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Speaker 4: I'll put up thirty eight point six because I believe

586
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Speaker 4: in Brev if healthy, But what's working against him? Has

587
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 4: it ever happened for somebody to have two consecutive ACL

588
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 4: tears come back from that, and then obviously it's become

589
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 4: a more crowded room.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'll buy it. I'd love to see it. Yeah,

591
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Speaker 2: because Dalton second leading receiver on the team. In fact,

592
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 2: we'll get to him. Why did I do this right?

593
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 4: Now? Do it right now?

594
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 2: Okay, what's the likelihood of this happening? I'm going to

595
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 2: give you two things as far as our top two

596
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 2: receivers from last year, Nico Collins and Dalton Schultz. And

597
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Speaker 2: this is kind of a semi trick question. Oh, no,

598
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Speaker 2: semi trick Okay, Nico Collins finishes second in the AFC

599
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Speaker 2: in receiving yards. Dalton Schultz finishes third in the AFC

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Speaker 2: in tight end no in receptions period, third in the

601
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Speaker 2: AFC in receptions. Now as I say that, people are listening,

602
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 2: like vandermir are you freaking crazy? Schultz finishing What did

603
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 2: I say? Second or third? Third in the AFC in receptions. Well,

604
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you children, here's what happened last year. Schultz said,

605
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 2: what eighty two catches? So I look at the AFC

606
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 2: receivers in front of him, and I see Stefan Diggs,

607
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 2: Zey Flowers, and let's just keep going up and Jamar Chase.

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Speaker 1: He finished fourth.

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Speaker 4: Wait, hold on, Dalton Schultz finished fourth in total receptions

610
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Speaker 4: in the AFC.

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Speaker 2: Holy cow, Yes, because it was loaded with NFC studs

612
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 2: Trey McBride, Jackson Smith and Jigbut I'm on Ross Saint Brown.

613
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 2: The list goes ONTFC Pickins. Yeah, we're just talking at AFC.

614
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 2: Schultz is fourth in receptions. Kenny finished his highest second Diggs. Okay, right,

615
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 2: Flowers had a hell of a year, but that might

616
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Speaker 2: even out because you had Rashad Bateman missing games and

617
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 2: Isaiah likely is he still there missing games.

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Speaker 4: No, Isaiah likely he left. Yeah, I don't remember. I'm

619
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Speaker 4: trying to remember where you look at it. He's gone though, Okay,

620
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Speaker 4: he gone. So here's you're You're not gonna like my answer, Okay.

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Speaker 4: I don't want either one of them to happen. Yeah,

622
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Speaker 4: I know, because when you look at the receiver group,

623
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Speaker 4: when you look at the tight end group, I don't

624
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Speaker 4: want this to be you know, past catching socialism or

625
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 4: anything where everybody gets in little bit here there. But

626
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 4: I think this offense will be that much better if

627
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 4: that's what it is. I'd like for what Hey to

628
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 4: double his catches. I'd like for what He to get

629
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Speaker 4: forty five to fifty. I'd like David Montgomery to have

630
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Speaker 4: twenty five to thirty. I would like for the tight ends.

631
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Speaker 4: I would like for you know, whoever leads them to

632
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 4: lead them. But I think it's gonna be Dalton. You

633
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:19,959
Speaker 4: want to spread it out. I want to spread it out.

634
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 4: And therefore I think something's got to give. And I

635
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:25,799
Speaker 4: think in that case, Dalton can't be at eighty two

636
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Speaker 4: receptions and Nico can't be at you know, I don't know,

637
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 4: second in yards, third yards would put him what second

638
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:37,399
Speaker 4: in yards So Nico last year in the AFC, my friend, Yeah,

639
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,240
Speaker 4: he was ninth in the league, but in the AFC

640
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 4: he was third.

641
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Speaker 1: Chase was ahead of him.

642
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 2: Then it was Flowers, then Nico in yards receiving, that's amazing. Yeah,

643
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 2: what's happening in the day because number of yards eleven

644
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 2: seventeen in fifteen games.

645
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Speaker 4: See, I think eleven seventeen year most years is usually

646
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 4: fifth or sixth in the AFC. Yeah, but I think Nico,

647
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 4: I think Nico. Let's just say, what what were he

648
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:13,279
Speaker 4: Goo's numbers from last year? Nico's numbers from last year?

649
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Speaker 4: Seventy one catches for eleven to seventeen average fifteen point seven.

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00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:18,720
Speaker 4: How many touchdowns?

651
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Speaker 2: That's right up there, six touchdowns. We'd like to increase

652
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 2: that number. Yeah, I mean you'd love to increase that.

653
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Speaker 4: Seventy five seventy five for twelve hundred eight touchdowns.

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Speaker 2: You take it, yes, Yeah, of course I'll take it.

655
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Speaker 2: That means he's playing a full season. But I don't

656
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Speaker 2: think that puts him third.

657
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Speaker 4: Yards. I just my hunch tells me that's that's the.

658
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:44,719
Speaker 2: Guys yards of guys who play a lot average per catch.

659
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,320
Speaker 2: You know, guy, you have some ridiculous. Like, I played

660
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Speaker 2: two games and I have a huge yeaverage guys, but one, two, three, four,

661
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Speaker 2: fifth in yards per catch of guys who play.

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Speaker 4: See, I think he'll be top five in yard league.

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Speaker 2: In the league, in the league, in the league, in

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Speaker 2: the AC it's Pierce's number one.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 2: Fifteen games, twenty one point three yards per catch.

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Speaker 1: That's sick.

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Speaker 4: That's ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: That's sick because the only player ahead of him is

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Speaker 2: THEO Wes from Miami.

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00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, formerly of Oklahoma.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, three games.

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Speaker 2: Pierce played fifteen games, eighty four catches, just over a

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Speaker 2: thousand yards. Wow, wait on, no, eighty four targets? Whoa

675
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Speaker 2: I thought my math? Yeah, forty seven catches, yes, forty seven, Johnny,

676
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Speaker 2: he's gonna have to step that up, big.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna be the number one guy.

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Speaker 4: Can you imagine if he gets the sixty five? Yeah,

679
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Speaker 4: but it's gonna come down. No, No, it's gonna come down. Yeah,

680
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Speaker 4: the average will come down. But I mean every time

681
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Speaker 4: every pass he caught against us ended up being seventeen

682
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Speaker 4: plus yards downfield.

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Speaker 2: So you get an average route, you get an average

684
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Speaker 2: of twenty one point three. But six touchdowns, yeah, No,

685
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Speaker 2: six touchdowns. He's it same number as Nico.

686
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Oh, and you know I feel about that. I

687
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 4: think Nico could be top five in all those categories,

688
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 4: even even a league. Yeah, but I feel like in

689
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 4: the AFC you're talking about Chase, you mentioned Flowers, I

690
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 4: know there's gonna be you know, a couple couple guys,

691
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Speaker 4: you know, maybe maybe one of the Jaguars. Okay, maybe

692
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Speaker 4: not Travis Hunter. I don't think at that point, but

693
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Speaker 4: I would take I would take for Nicos seventy five

694
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Speaker 4: twelve hundred and eight touchdowns, and I think twelve hundred

695
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Speaker 4: probably puts him fourth or fifth.

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Speaker 2: Okay, now let's get to this next one. David Montgomery.

697
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 2: You've heard of him running back for your Texans. Will

698
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 2: He finished second in rushing in the AFC South. In

699
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Speaker 2: the AFC South, Jonathan Taylor lives in the AFC South,

700
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Speaker 2: so I'm gonna give the title to him should he

701
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Speaker 2: stay healthy. Jonathan Taylor, with all the Colts problems second

702
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 2: half of the season, still ran for fifteen hundred and

703
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Speaker 2: eighty five yards four point nine per Carrie had a

704
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:58,280
Speaker 2: hell of a year. Another great year for him. Eighteen

705
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 2: touchdowns for the tail Geez, that's healthy. My friends, Let's

706
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Speaker 2: see who is next to the AFC South. You'd have

707
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Speaker 2: to think it's Travis Itchin, who had eleven O seven

708
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 2: and he's out of the division now right, Thank goodness,

709
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Speaker 2: I think you got a legit shot here. Now Tony Pollard,

710
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 2: Tony Pollard Tennessee, who is still with Tennessee. So you're

711
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:26,280
Speaker 2: saying second South, will he finished second? That means, okay,

712
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Speaker 2: this is a good one. This means Pollard gets back

713
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Speaker 2: to a G. Note does Montgomery pass him? Does Montgomery

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Speaker 2: get over one thousand yards?

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Speaker 4: I think in Tennessee they drafted Nicolas Singleton for Penn State.

716
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Speaker 4: I think he's gonna take some of that. I think

717
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 4: ty J. Spears is gonna take some of that. So

718
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Speaker 4: I could see I could see Pollard having a good

719
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Speaker 4: year right and being eight hundred nine hundred. I think

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Speaker 4: for this Texas team to get where he wants to go,

721
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Speaker 4: I think Demo's got to be a thousand. Okay, now

722
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Speaker 4: he's got to be a thousand.

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Speaker 2: Next up on Texans Radio here we have to finish

724
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Speaker 2: something we started with McClain late on the all time

725
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Speaker 2: Greatest Quarterback plus I had one more from this involving

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Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers, and I want to get your take on

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Speaker 2: it next here on Texans All Access. Here we are

728
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Speaker 2: wrapping it up tonight on Texans Radio. Mark VanderMeer and

729
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Speaker 2: John Harris with you from the Hunday Texans Radio Studio. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I promised this the Aaron Rodgers question, which was going

731
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Speaker 2: to be flat out. Can the Steelers win the AFC

732
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Speaker 2: North with Aaron Rodgers again? They won it last year?

733
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Speaker 2: Can they do it again? He's back final season, he says,

734
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Speaker 2: like we discussed with McClain, you gotta be very specific

735
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Speaker 2: on this. He claims that that it's his last season.

736
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Speaker 2: We'll see, But does it change your prediction or affect

737
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 2: it at all in the AFC North with Rogers back

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Speaker 2: with the Steelers.

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Speaker 4: No, still the Ravens. Okay, I think it's still the Ravens.

740
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Speaker 4: I don't think the Ravens like I thought the Ravens

741
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Speaker 4: a couple of years ago were so far ahead of

742
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 4: everybody else in the AFC North. I don't think it's that.

743
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Speaker 4: I think the Ravens have come back to the pack

744
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 4: a little bit. They've had a lot of personnel losses.

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Speaker 4: Any think Bengals will be a little bit better. The offense,

746
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Speaker 4: you know, is gonna be good. I think some of

747
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 4: the defensive changes will help. I don't think it makes

748
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:08,359
Speaker 4: them the eighty five Bears or makes them the twenty

749
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Speaker 4: five Texans, but the defense is gonna be a little

750
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:12,919
Speaker 4: bit better with Dexter Lawrence in particular and a couple

751
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Speaker 4: of the other additions. But they also lost tra Henderson,

752
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 4: so they're they lost a big time pass rusher and

753
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 4: that's gonna hurt them a little bit. I don't I

754
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Speaker 4: thought about it going into the draft, thought about after

755
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Speaker 4: the draft, Okay, it's got to be Aaron Rodgers, because

756
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 4: if it's not, they're in a lot of trouble. And

757
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:28,919
Speaker 4: then when you watch the draft, you're like, Okay, they're

758
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:32,959
Speaker 4: drafting as if Rogers is coming back. I still think

759
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 4: it makes them a ninety to eight football team at best.

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Speaker 2: I think that's that's what they are right now, and

761
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Speaker 2: that's what they kind of were last year. They won ten. Yeah,

762
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Speaker 2: but that missfield goal enabled them to beat the Ravens

763
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Speaker 2: win the division, and good for them.

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Speaker 4: Now. The schedule, in fact, we were up eating lunch

765
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Speaker 4: and we're waiting for lunch and things. At lunch, they

766
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Speaker 4: showed the Steelers' schedule up on the up on the TV,

767
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Speaker 4: and it got me thinking, they have the af They

768
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Speaker 4: have the NFC South in the AFC South, So I

769
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Speaker 4: do think THEFC South is better across the board.

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Speaker 1: Tennessee, you got Tennessee.

771
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Speaker 2: You're gonna play Carolina, which okay, fine, they won the division,

772
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Speaker 2: but come on, right, and the Bucks are picked to

773
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Speaker 2: win the division by many people now given no respect.

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Speaker 4: But we know the NFC South is not great.

775
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Speaker 2: It's not great. The bottom line is they can beat you, right,

776
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Speaker 2: but it's not great.

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Speaker 4: It's not great.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 4: The first part of the schedule I think is very manageable. Falcons, Patriots, Bengals, Browns, Colts, Bucks, Saints, Brown's.

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Speaker 4: Then they got a bye week right in the middle.

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Speaker 2: I could see them losing every single one of those games,

782
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:39,280
Speaker 2: not in a row, not all of them, but at

783
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Speaker 2: a time, right any given Sunday.

784
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Speaker 1: Yes, but listen to this flip.

785
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Speaker 4: Listen to this run out of the by, right out

786
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Speaker 4: of the by at Bengals at Eagles home, Broncos home,

787
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Speaker 4: Texans at JAG's home Ravens.

788
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Speaker 2: And it's been I's career. Everybody, welcome back to the darkness.

789
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Speaker 2: How about that Gaune. Yeah, that is rough.

790
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 4: Then they finished with Panthers Titans, and then at the

791
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 4: Ravens at the end. But that is a gauntlet coming

792
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:11,720
Speaker 4: out of the by Okay, it's a gauntlet in one, two, three,

793
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 4: three Prime timers two all right.

794
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 2: So with McClain, we were talking about the Lawrence Taylor

795
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Speaker 2: comments that Joe Montana's the best quarterback ever over Brady

796
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:24,120
Speaker 2: because of the rule differential, the rules being different in

797
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 2: the eighties, bulk of Montana's career in the eighties, and

798
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Speaker 2: versus what Brady's had to deal with, which is a

799
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Speaker 2: lot less in terms of clutching, grabbing, those kinds of

800
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Speaker 2: things protecting the quarterback. Montana hit hard. Taylor brought up

801
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:42,320
Speaker 2: the Meadowlands game where Montaus knocked out in the playoffs.

802
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 2: It was a brutal injury and he felt like the

803
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:47,239
Speaker 2: Niners could have won that game, could have won the

804
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Speaker 2: Super Bowl that year. Anyway, McLean said, no way, no way.

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady's the best quarterback ever.

806
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Speaker 2: And as every New Englander will tell you, Tom Brady's

807
00:42:56,600 --> 00:43:00,080
Speaker 2: the best quarterback ever, no question about it. But do

808
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,920
Speaker 2: you agree with that? And who's number three? If these

809
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 2: guys are one and two.

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Speaker 4: I do think they're one and two. I was always

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Speaker 4: a Montana guy, Brady. And part of it, too, is

812
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 4: seeing Brady up close and just seeing how masterful he is.

813
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:19,319
Speaker 4: So that's that's hard to turn away from. And I

814
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:21,560
Speaker 4: think the one thing that I would put in Brady's

815
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 4: that was a little different Montana the Niners got in

816
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 4: Super Bowls. They blew everybody out other than the Bengals

817
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Speaker 4: at one.

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Speaker 2: Year, and right, he never threw a pick in the

819
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Speaker 2: postseason or the Super.

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Speaker 4: Super Bowl, Super Bowl because Montana did throw one. He

821
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Speaker 4: threw a pick on the play he got knocked out

822
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Speaker 4: by Jim burt Oh, and he threw two picks in

823
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Speaker 4: the catch game. Yeah, the Super Bowl. So uh, Montana's

824
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 4: teams blue teams out dominant. But Brady's got that comeback.

825
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:53,840
Speaker 4: He's got that comeback in the Super Bowl and that

826
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Speaker 4: and a lot of that was on him, and now

827
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Speaker 4: some of it was on him to put them in

828
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Speaker 4: the deficit. But I just seen Brady up close. I

829
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Speaker 4: put Brady one Montana too, and then to me, there's

830
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Speaker 4: just a big gap, and I probably go L way.

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Speaker 1: Third, lway over Mahomes.

832
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Speaker 4: Right, talk about Mahomes and that right, now right now, Yes,

833
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:20,800
Speaker 4: but I do think that Patrick, they go on another

834
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Speaker 4: little run, get another super Bowl then, and I know,

835
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 4: I know they've got three in l solid two, but

836
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 4: Elwait carried the Broncos for so damn long.

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Speaker 2: I can't stand the hot take shows after Mahomes won

838
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 2: his last one, it was, oh, Mahomes, is he the

839
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Speaker 2: goat now? Even though he only has three? Is he

840
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:40,280
Speaker 2: better than? What are you talking about? Such recency bias.

841
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 2: It's like I was in the cafeteria. They have the

842
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 2: hot take shows on and I don't hear them. I

843
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 2: just see the headline on the bottom what they're talking about. Yeah,

844
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:52,240
Speaker 2: one was did Oklahoma City regain control of the series

845
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:53,120
Speaker 2: with that win last night?

846
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Speaker 1: And I'm thinking they won at home.

847
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:56,960
Speaker 2: It's one in one now and the Spurs did what

848
00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 2: they needed to do. You traditionally say, once you sees

849
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 2: home field, home court advantage in this case, best to

850
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 2: seventh series, you're fine, right, not fine, but you have

851
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 2: the control, you have the advantage. And even though I

852
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 2: don't believe all of that, because it's just as easy

853
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 2: for O case he to go and to get a

854
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 2: split and now it's the best of three and you

855
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 2: take it from there. But another one was who is

856
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 2: more pressure on tonight, Cleveland or New York?

857
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Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, my gosh, it's Game two.

858
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:25,799
Speaker 2: I think there's some pressure here on Cleveland to not

859
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 2: go down two, even though they're going home, and even

860
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:30,399
Speaker 2: though they won the last series when they were down two.

861
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 2: But come on, these are ridiculous setups, just like it's

862
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 2: ridiculous to say Mahomes to mention him as the possible

863
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:39,120
Speaker 2: goat just because he won three super Bowls.

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Speaker 4: Well, half the novel's written. I mean, you're you're like

865
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Speaker 4: looking at half a novel versus you know, the novel

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Speaker 4: Lway put together, that's completely written, it up on the shelf.

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Speaker 4: And I always say that, like how many times have

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Speaker 4: half is really good and the second half is like,

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Speaker 4: I mean, the opposite, so exactly, I mean, Mahomes may

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Speaker 4: take it to a totally different line.

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Speaker 1: Now, Way didn't win his till late ran.

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Speaker 4: It was a very team, but he carried a less

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Speaker 4: talented He carried less talented Broncos teams to a Super

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Speaker 4: Bowl three times to a Super Bowl. Yeah, yeah night.

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Speaker 1: He get a championship, but he got them there very good.

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Speaker 2: Yep, they lost all three with the Three Amigos and

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Speaker 2: all those guys, but it was fun to watch in

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Speaker 2: the day.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's it for the show tonight.

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Speaker 2: Frank Ross Special Teams coordinator joins us tomorrow night, among

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Speaker 2: other things, and Area forty five is coming up next.

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Speaker 2: Check out the guys keep it right here, Go Texans.