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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, and welcome into NRG Stadium. Here in the

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Speaker 1: Hunday Texans Radio studio right across the hall from the

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Speaker 1: locker room, it's Texans All Access. Mark Vandermaer with you

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Speaker 1: and tonight Thursday night. That means John McClean is with us.

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Speaker 1: Last week we had him when he was in his

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Speaker 1: rowboat and we had all the flooding last week. But general,

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Speaker 1: it's great to have you here. It's good to be here.

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Speaker 1: Nothing like winning to get everybody fired up. Between the

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Speaker 1: Texans being two and one, Astro's about to have the

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Speaker 1: best record in the American League and people are pumped

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Speaker 1: about the Rockets starting next week. Continues to be the

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Speaker 1: greatest time in the history of Houston sports. Is that

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Speaker 1: what you're calling it? Well? Is there's no debate. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you have these three teams, you got big stars, You've

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Speaker 1: got guys making plays. It's kind of fun to watch,

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Speaker 1: you right. I'm eager to watch the Rockets with Westbrook.

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Speaker 1: I've always liked him and I love that move and

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Speaker 1: I look, I don't know if they're gonna win a championship.

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Speaker 1: I think it'll be entertaining. And obviously the Astros are

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Speaker 1: the astros. They're really great. It's funny you talk about

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Speaker 1: that because Daryl Morey always gets a lot of credit

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Speaker 1: as or general manager for making big deals, taking chances,

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Speaker 1: and like Russell Westbrook, James Arden, Dwight Howard, Chris Paul

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Speaker 1: and people have always fans the media. The Texans need

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Speaker 1: somebody like that. They need a general manager who's gonna

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Speaker 1: be aggressive. Well, boy, they got one, even though he

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Speaker 1: doesn't have the title. I wrote about Trader Bill this

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Speaker 1: week and looking back at August thirty first, and Tunsil's

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Speaker 1: at left tackle, established and he'll keep getting better and better.

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Speaker 1: And I'm writing about a Tunsil for Friday because he

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Speaker 1: comes in on September first and starts working. Didn't have

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Speaker 1: the luxury offseason program, trading camp, preseason boom. He's thrust

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Speaker 1: into that role. Then he's got next to him, he

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Speaker 1: gets first Sail Kellamette, then he gets Titus Howard. Now

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Speaker 1: he's got Max Sharping. So he's trying to learn the system,

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Speaker 1: what Mike Devlin, Tim Kelly, and Bill O'Brien want from him.

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Speaker 1: And he's got to work with a new left guard

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Speaker 1: every game, two of them rookies. So now it looks

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Speaker 1: like they got the same starting five of Phil for

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Speaker 1: the second time in two games, and it's the ones

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Speaker 1: they want to roll with. And and Sharping is going

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Speaker 1: to benefit from having Larmie Tonsl next to him. We

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Speaker 1: talk about Tonsl like he's been in the league ten years.

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Speaker 1: This is the fourth season. He turned twenty five two

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Speaker 1: days after the trade. But watching those guys, and when

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Speaker 1: you think about that deal, you think about the Clowney deal.

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Speaker 1: I get to ask about the Clowney deal on talk

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Speaker 1: shows and I read wrote about that this week. Whitney

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Speaker 1: Merciless has replaced to Devon Clowney and Merciless is off

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Speaker 1: to one of the best starts in team history. That

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Speaker 1: great stat unearthed by the Texans media relations staff about

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Speaker 1: only Khalil Mack and Whitney Merciless since nineteen ninety three

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Speaker 1: in the first three games have had four sacks, three

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Speaker 1: fours fumbles, an interception. Whinney also has course eleven solo tackles,

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Speaker 1: three tackles for loss, while Clowney has two solos, one

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Speaker 1: like he need three games like he did last year

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Speaker 1: since he missed off season program and you know, Clowney's

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Speaker 1: gonna be better, but you're looking at it. If Clowney

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Speaker 1: and he's taking full advantage of it. JJ Wat picks

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Speaker 1: at Angelo Blackson. What Charles de Meno has been able

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Speaker 1: to do so collective effort up front and John I

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Speaker 1: pointed this out about the nutrition, sports performance, everything they're

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Speaker 1: doing behind the scenes, how that has really helped this

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Speaker 1: football team. Late in the game, they didn't run out

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Speaker 1: on the field at the end of the game, and

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Speaker 1: I love that stadium. You know, you were closer and

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Speaker 1: and it was it was great. I'm glad I got

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Speaker 1: the end of the game and we're where the sun

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Speaker 1: And so they keep it closed. And up there it

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Speaker 1: was hot. Hannah and I were talking about, man, we're

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Speaker 1: A lot of teams have a lot of injuries right now.

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Speaker 1: Guess who doesn't, right, And look it's early, it's week three,

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Speaker 1: and you know we've seen situations where a week, five,

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Speaker 1: week thing in the National Football League. Okay, they didn't

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Speaker 1: and I'm assuming they want to get back to that

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Speaker 1: but they're going to seek to create those situations. Same

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Speaker 1: stop both when you don't have a good players on

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Speaker 1: the back end and in the front. Seven Chargers. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the Panthers have a different kind of defense than Chargers.

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Speaker 1: They got big guys up front, you know, their power people.

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Speaker 1: They do a lot of bull rushing where the Chargers

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Speaker 1: Joey Bosa and Melvin Ingram the third come on the outside,

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Speaker 1: and I thought Titus Howard and Laramy Tunsil and other

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Speaker 1: pass protectors did a great job. Bos had half a sack.

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Speaker 1: Ingram got shut out two overall, and this one they'll

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Speaker 1: they'll try to overpower him. And while we're talking about

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Speaker 1: the offensive line, we have to give credit where credits do.

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Speaker 1: Nick Martin and missed most of the preseason and was

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Speaker 1: Mark and I watched all the games twice and I

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Speaker 1: slow mow everything. Maybe he's getting an eleven million a year.

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Speaker 1: He is playing really well, and you know the line's

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Speaker 1: going to continue to get better and better. And of

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Speaker 1: the twelve sacks, four have been Watson's fault and then

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Speaker 1: two where other players other positions fall. So really, the

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Speaker 1: when they've been shoveled around and haven't played, hadn't had

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Speaker 1: Walt Watson throwing the ball, running back there making a

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Speaker 1: kind of plays. He's got so many weapons. John, let

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Speaker 1: me ask you this. If you had drafted Kenny Stills

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Speaker 1: late in the first round, just any team garden, variety

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Speaker 1: of NFL team drafts, Kenny Stills with pick number twenty five,

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Speaker 1: you're happy, right, You're happy with that choice. My point

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Speaker 1: we're only three weeks in, but so far, so good,

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Speaker 1: because you got Tonsil and Stills for the two ones

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Speaker 1: well for you right now. Be here a while too.

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Speaker 1: It's not like they're coming in for one or two years.

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Speaker 1: And the uncertainty that you do have with late first

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Speaker 1: a Whitney Merciless, often you don't. Most often you don't.

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Speaker 1: So you have these sure things, And yeah, you had

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Speaker 1: to double up those two first rounders to make it

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Speaker 1: good here because Stills has made every catch Stills has

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Speaker 1: and he is He's averaging eighteen point two yards of catch.

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Speaker 1: four catches of at least thirty yards. That's tied for

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Speaker 1: the most in the NFL. That is miraculous considering he's

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Speaker 1: the third receiver mind DeAndre Hopkins and Will Fuller, and

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Speaker 1: Stills has been a good receiver, a good route runner,

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Speaker 1: Jordan Nakin's fifty three yard touchdown catch and run. And

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Speaker 1: so he is the entire package. And for the Dolphins,

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Speaker 1: they knew what they were doing and knowing how they

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Speaker 1: want to tank, maybe instead of O'Brien saying we want

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Speaker 1: Kenny still as they said, here, take Kenny Stills. O'Brian

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Speaker 1: should have said, well, if we're gonna give you two

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Speaker 1: the last great player they have, and Stills. I know

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Speaker 1: people Texans fans don't want to hear this, but if

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Speaker 1: Will Fuller gets hurt, which he's been prone to do,

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Speaker 1: you got Kenny Steals to step in, not Vincent Smith.

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Speaker 1: But now you have Fuller making plays anyway, had the

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Speaker 1: and I think it was before Stills was here, obviously

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Speaker 1: will be enough footballs to go around. When you looked

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Speaker 1: say DeAndre Hopkins. You know sometimes you're used to nine

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Speaker 1: you still do have DeAndre, who's the money man when

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Speaker 1: you need a big play. So it's all working out

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Speaker 1: so far. I get it's early. Think about what it's

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Speaker 1: like for defenses when you gotta worry about Hopkins, and

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Speaker 1: then of course you gotta worry about Fuller in his speed,

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Speaker 1: and then here comes Kenny Steals with his speed play

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Speaker 1: moving those guys around. I think Duke Johnson his nine

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Speaker 1: point three yards per catch, so he's doing what he's

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Speaker 1: always done with Cleveland. Now the backfield, and then Aikins.

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Speaker 1: You know, we saw Aikins have a great offseason program

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Speaker 1: camp in preseason, we expected something like this that game,

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Speaker 1: he was tremendous fails too. Do you think the Panthers

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Speaker 1: Ron Rivera and their defensive coaches are not staying awake

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Speaker 1: at night trying to figure out how do we stop

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Speaker 1: all these guys? All right, let's look at the secondary

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Speaker 1: here for a moment. You know, it's funny with Jonathan

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Speaker 1: Joseph and I've been listening to sports talk radio obviously,

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Speaker 1: and you know, so the guys are talking about callers

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Speaker 1: look it's Keenan Allen from time to time, so I

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Speaker 1: get it. And Allen's gonna have is He's gonna get

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Speaker 1: his quote against anybody. I found it interesting that late

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Speaker 1: in the game J Joe had a chance to make

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Speaker 1: He's he has owned the Bills, and so is Bellichack.

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Speaker 1: And remember when greg Ciano left and Bellichick said he

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Speaker 1: coach the defense and everybody said, man, you're spreading yourself

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Speaker 1: too thin. I don't think their defense is given up

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Speaker 1: a touchdown. Yeah, they're playing really well, and that's why

429
00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:05,040
Speaker 1: if they were not, I would say, ooh, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: how can you ever pick against New England anytime? I

431
00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:11,280
Speaker 1: would never pick against New England anytime any place now

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Speaker 1: that Peyton Mannings retired. Okay, the Browns at the Ravens

433
00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,480
Speaker 1: and the Ravens after that hot start, but they fell

434
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Speaker 1: short at Kansas City last week. Still put up a

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Speaker 1: bunch of points, and we just talked about the Browns

436
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Speaker 1: and losing or actually, yeah, losing to Tennessee. They beat

437
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Speaker 1: the Jets, but they're off to a very shaky start.

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Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield under a lot of pressure literally and figuratively.

439
00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 1: It's some more interesting coaching in that game. John Arball

440
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:37,000
Speaker 1: goes for two points three times, none of them worked,

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Speaker 1: and he get beat by five. So yeah, I'm not

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Speaker 1: picking the Browns to win. The Browns are playing a

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Speaker 1: really tough stretch right now. Something that bothers me about

444
00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:53,359
Speaker 1: the Browns Mayfield is always taking shots at the media

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00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:55,840
Speaker 1: when he's standing up there in front of him and

446
00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:59,400
Speaker 1: he's mad. Freddy Kitchens was taking shots at the media.

447
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,720
Speaker 1: There were worried way too much about the media instead

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Speaker 1: of the opponent. You know, once a head coach starts

449
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 1: taking shots at the media, like, well, you're gonna write

450
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Speaker 1: what you want. Didn't players see that and they start

451
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 1: wondering what are they writing? You can't focus on the media.

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00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:19,240
Speaker 1: Baltimore is gonna win this game. Their defense is still good.

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, he is fun to watch. Any surprises to you,

454
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Speaker 1: like Seattle not looking good against the Saints at home,

455
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Speaker 1: or it was a big surprise, Well maybe the look

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Speaker 1: the Bengals looked really good against the Seahawks on opening weekend,

457
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Speaker 1: and we thought, wow, that's got so many bad teams

458
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Speaker 1: right now? Or is the team? It's just dawned on me,

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00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:41,560
Speaker 1: and I know you'll get a big kick out of this.

460
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:47,160
Speaker 1: The three best teams in AFC right now, New England,

461
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Speaker 1: Kansas City, and Baltimore. Where are they have in common?

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Speaker 1: New England, Kansas City and play the Texas? Oh, thank

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Speaker 1: you very much. Well you're gonna have like that. But

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Speaker 1: there are two of them. Why are the ray better? No,

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00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,119
Speaker 1: they're two and one two one Kansas City and the

466
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:08,119
Speaker 1: Texans lost to the Drew Brees and the Saints and

467
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 1: had a late lead. So I don't know. It's odd

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Speaker 1: as good as where you put the Texans in your

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Speaker 1: power Kings. I moved them up to I think number

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Speaker 1: ten levels something like no, maybe I can't remember. I'm

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Speaker 1: moving up three or four spots. If anybody doesn't have

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Speaker 1: them in the top twelve right now, not that it matters,

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Speaker 1: we don't have from twenty three to thirteen. I think, well,

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Speaker 1: he actually picked them to win. It's funny though, because

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00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,440
Speaker 1: they're three feet away from oh and three or three

476
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Speaker 1: and oh it's the NFL. It's like this every week

477
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 1: and they're close to being oh and three because a

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Speaker 1: big place too. Ah, that's why details it was. I

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Speaker 1: believe the seventh game, the Jacksonville game last year when

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Speaker 1: de Seaun Watson had his collapsed, long and broken rib,

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Speaker 1: in which the Texans had a game decided by more

482
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Speaker 1: than seven points. Seventh game, So all this is something

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Speaker 1: that we should be used to. They're certainly used to

484
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 1: these kind of frantic finishes, fantastic finishes. You'd love for

485
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 1: him to have Miami games where it's over early and

486
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Speaker 1: you don't have to bite your fingernails. But I too

487
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Speaker 1: enjoy the drama. I just want them to come. You

488
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:14,639
Speaker 1: don't You love the drama as long as it's not

489
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Speaker 1: a fifty eight year field goal with no time left.

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Speaker 1: And how about this? Bill O'Brien said, yeah, they left

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Speaker 1: yards on the field against Jacksonville, and we all know

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Speaker 1: against the Chargers that well, they put themselves in an

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Speaker 1: early hole with the turnover, and they could do a

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Speaker 1: little bit better. And I think that they're working on that. John.

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Speaker 1: What do you have going out on the chronicle? Aaron

496
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:38,199
Speaker 1: Wilson has a story Sunday about Deshaun Watson in his progress.

497
00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:42,359
Speaker 1: I have a column for Friday about Laramie Tunsel and

498
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:46,399
Speaker 1: now Bill O'Brien pursued him. The only person o brian

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00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:50,160
Speaker 1: pursued more vigorously in his life was his wife Colleen.

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Speaker 1: And how he ended up, you know, kept sweetening the

501
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:58,119
Speaker 1: pot because the Dolphins told him no, no, and no again.

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00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:00,719
Speaker 1: And then when he got Stills rown in there and

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00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:04,679
Speaker 1: right now that trade looks really good, and thank you

504
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:06,640
Speaker 1: very much. I look forward to the game, and I'll

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Speaker 1: see you in the press box when I'm in there

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00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,919
Speaker 1: before the game. Looking forward to that. All right? Coming up,

507
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,680
Speaker 1: Doctor Kenneth Padel Huston Methodist Concussion Center on this injury

508
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 1: and latest developments in treating, diagnosing and how I got

509
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,680
Speaker 1: mine because the general demanded that I tell my story

510
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 1: in the third segment about getting a concussion recently. Also

511
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Speaker 1: Patti Smith, who's going into the Houston Sports Hall of Fame. Hey,

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00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 1: if the Texans score two or more touchdowns, head to

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00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,440
Speaker 1: your closest Jack in the Box the next day for

514
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:38,400
Speaker 1: your free Texans jumbo Jack with a large drink purchase.

515
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Speaker 1: People were flocking into Jack in the Boxes past Monday.

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00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 1: It's Texans Radio second home game of the year coming

517
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:47,720
Speaker 1: up as the Texans play the Carolina Pathers at NRG

518
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,440
Speaker 1: Stadium Sunday at noon. It's kids Day, so if you're

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00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 1: lucky enough to go to the game, there's gonna be

520
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 1: all sorts of great stuff for kids there and special

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00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 1: programming on the video board. It's gonna be a lot

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00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 1: of fun, all right. And the Texans don't see them

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00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 1: very often an NFC team. The last time he saw

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00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: them was twenty fifteen Ryan Mallett started for the Texans.

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00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 1: The time before that was the weird game here at

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Speaker 1: NRG Stadium where the Panthers beat the Texans the week

527
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Speaker 1: after the Texans clinched their first AFC championship AFC South Championship. Boy,

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00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 1: I'd love to clinch ANFC championship. Please do that this year.

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00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 1: And it's also interesting because we always talk about the

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Speaker 1: Justin Reid Eric Read thing that's been big this week.

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Speaker 1: But Dom Capers was the first head coach in franchise

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Speaker 1: history for both franchises, Carolina and ninety five and the

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Speaker 1: Texans in o'two. And you have David Carr. His first

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Speaker 1: place of employment after leaving here was the Panthers and

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Speaker 1: Jake Delham who until Cam Newton was the best quarterback

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Speaker 1: the Panthers ever had, well, the most successful anyway, because

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Speaker 1: he led them to a Super Bowl and oh three.

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00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 1: He actually was signed to be TJ. Yates backup late

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Speaker 1: in twenty eleven. So there's some connections for you. I

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00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: have a connection with Patti Smith. Let's bring her in

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Speaker 1: here to the Hyundai Texans Radio studio. Patty, it's great

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Speaker 1: to see you. How are you. I am great. I'm

543
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 1: even better now, I see I'm much better because this

544
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: is this is the day when we'd normally do our show,

545
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 1: Texans Huddle back in the day on Fox Sports Southwest,

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00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 1: which still has Texans shows. But it's just kind of

547
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 1: different now because it's not really with you and me.

548
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 1: I'm on some of them sometime. I don't know how

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00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: I'm not even on my own shows. I mean, how

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00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 1: did this happen? Well, the first thing that happened was

551
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 1: we got our divorce, and I don't know, it all

552
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 1: went to hell from there. We got our TV divorce. Yes,

553
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: somebodys asking me, yes, I know she's your TV wife.

554
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 1: I said, yes, but we have we've gotten a TV divorce.

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00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 1: It's no, it's just a separation and we just get

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00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 1: back together once a month or so. Is that you know?

557
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 1: That's pretty unhealthy. This could go south, really unhealthy. Actually

558
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 1: we should just talk sports. Of course, you're with the

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00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 1: Harris kind of Houston sports authority, and I love the

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Speaker 1: work you do. The first two Houston Sports Awards shows

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Speaker 1: were magnificent, I mean rave reviews. I didn't know how

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Speaker 1: you're going to top the first one, and you did,

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Speaker 1: although I don't want to say it topped it. It

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Speaker 1: was just equally good in a different kind of way.

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Speaker 1: And now this year, First of all, the theme, What

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Speaker 1: is the theme this year? Tell me what it is? Well,

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Speaker 1: I am here to announce the theme, and I'm Mark.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you realize this, but not only

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Speaker 1: am I here to do the theme. Usually these are

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Speaker 1: separate announcements, but I'm gonna give you the theme, and

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Speaker 1: then I'm also going to announce the this year's Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame inductees. You watch usually kind of coincide a

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Speaker 1: little bit with the theme. I've been shielding myself from

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Speaker 1: social media all day so I would have this surprise

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Speaker 1: announcement from you right now, and I've been locked up

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Speaker 1: in a building. It's like I'm in a tower Umber

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Speaker 1: Punzel anyway, go on. Okay, So it's twenty twenty, right,

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Speaker 1: we're rolling into twenty twenty. It will be twenty January

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Speaker 1: January twenty first. That's our first announcement. The date January

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Speaker 1: twenty first. We moved it back into that kind of

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Speaker 1: dead week after the Championship Games, Pro Bowl week. We

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Speaker 1: had to do some schedule changing, which I'll get to

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Speaker 1: in a minute. But yeah, so it's in kind of

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Speaker 1: a really cool week. We're looking forward to that. But

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Speaker 1: because it is twenty twenty, we're going to kind of

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Speaker 1: have a Roaring twenties theme, right. It is the twenties.

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00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 1: It is the twenties that makes me feel ancient, so

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00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 1: you can. It's not like I remember the Roaring twenties,

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00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 1: but I know about them, so going you know about them?

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Speaker 1: So what do you think of I think of the

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00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: little hats, you know, put another nickel, then the jazz hats, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the flapper girls flappers, yeah, is that what they're calling flappers? Okay,

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Speaker 1: and the twenties. It was the Roaring twenties. It was

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Speaker 1: a great time in American history, right before the Great Depression.

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Speaker 1: It's Gatsby and Gamester and jazz, jazz, al capol, all

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Speaker 1: that gold glids and glamour and the untouchable. It's a

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Speaker 1: golden era. There's the theme, a golden era. It is

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Speaker 1: a golden era in Houston sports right now. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we'll look back on this with the three teams doing well,

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Speaker 1: having great dynamite mega athletes. It's great. Yes, we're entering

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Speaker 1: the twenties um a century later, another golden era in

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Speaker 1: Houston sports. So that brings us full circle to our

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame inductees. We've got three that will somehow

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Speaker 1: fit in to a Golden era theme. I'm doing air

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Speaker 1: quotes radio people in case you can't hear me. And

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Speaker 1: he guesses a golden era gold medals, a golden era. Oh,

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Speaker 1: it is an Olympic year two. By the way, Carl

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Speaker 1: lewis number one, bot number two, our first female ever

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Speaker 1: in the Houston Sports Hall of Fame. That's very great. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And so we do this thing if you remember it sportswards.

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Speaker 1: We get on a party bus with cameras and balloons

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Speaker 1: and all this stuff. Yeah, we load up because it's

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Speaker 1: the Houston Sports Hall of Fame presented by PNCS who

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Speaker 1: got this big PNC Bank party bus, we go out,

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Speaker 1: we show it. We surprise these guys and let them know.

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Speaker 1: So we showed up at Mary lou Retton's house yesterday.

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Speaker 1: She had no idea and she was just blown away.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's literally. I love her, by the way. I

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Speaker 1: once did an event with her and I'll never forget it.

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Speaker 1: It was terrific. And her daughter worked here for us

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Speaker 1: for a little while here with Houston, Texas. Chanla is

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Speaker 1: getting married like two weeks before the event. Absolutely wow.

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Speaker 1: All right, So Carl Lewis, Mary lou Retton, and and

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Speaker 1: the third one, Simone Biles. No, it's because she's too

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Speaker 1: young to get in. Yeah, and they're not all like,

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Speaker 1: she's not golden yet. I mean she's golden. So let

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Speaker 1: me just preface this by saying the selection committee picked

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Speaker 1: these three people not because they were Olympians by any stretch.

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Speaker 1: The third one really is not. But the irony is

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Speaker 1: he's not an Olympian, but he does have a gold medal.

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Speaker 1: Rudy tom Janovic. Rudy t has a gold medal and

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Speaker 1: he should get into the Houston Sports Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 1: And yes, that is awesome. And what's cool about Rudy

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Speaker 1: is the selection committee chose Rudy not so much because

635
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,200
Speaker 1: he has a gold medal that was that just worked

636
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 1: into That's where the theme came from. But you know,

637
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 1: this year he kind of got snubbed in the Basketball

638
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame and kind of it's trying to be nice,

639
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 1: but this was Houston's way of making it right. It's like,

640
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: are you kidding me? He'll get it. He'll easily get

641
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 1: in because Lewis eventually got in, Rudy'll get in. It's

642
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 1: just Houston. People don't understand. But he's going into the

643
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 1: Houston Sports Hall of Fame right now. This is our

644
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: way of saying, you know what, Yeah, I just did

645
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: another just yeah, you did adjusture. That was not as

646
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 1: bad as you might think, but it was still something

647
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 1: you wouldn't want to do on TV, I guess. But

648
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,760
Speaker 1: Rudy's getting in, Carl Lewis is getting in Merrily, Retten's

649
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:11,839
Speaker 1: getting in. That is awesome. All right, Thanks a lot

650
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Speaker 1: Patty Houston Sports Awards dot Com for information on that

651
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,919
Speaker 1: great event. January twenty first, Patti Smith does a terrific job.

652
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 1: I always enjoy visiting with her. All right, let's get

653
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Speaker 1: to doctor Kenneth Padel now, John McClain made me swear

654
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Speaker 1: I would tell my concussion story. Some of you heard

655
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 1: it before. I think, see, that's what a concussion doesn't know.

656
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 1: That's just an excuse. Really, I had a concussion the

657
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: morning of the Detroit Lions preseason game. I was playing

658
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:39,280
Speaker 1: hoops and actually took an elbow to the right temple

659
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:43,800
Speaker 1: really hard, like the elbow, just the sharp elbow, right

660
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: in the sweet spot of the temple where there's as

661
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:50,320
Speaker 1: little bone as possible, I guess, and I just kept playing.

662
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 1: You know, I definitely felt the butterflies are just birds

663
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 1: tweeting around like an old bugs Bunny cartoon kind of thing.

664
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Speaker 1: But I kept going because you know, I've just felt

665
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 1: indestructible at the time, and haven't we all been there anyway.

666
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: I felt some pain in my jaw chewing, and I thought, man,

667
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: I got a root canal problem. Got to go to

668
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Speaker 1: the dentist. Later that night. I'm doing the game, and

669
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,319
Speaker 1: the game goes okay, as far as the play by

670
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 1: play goes. I did say a couple of things that

671
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 1: made me say that didn't come out right, and I

672
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,239
Speaker 1: really need to say that again. I had to make

673
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 1: a couple of corrections and things like that, which is

674
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,240
Speaker 1: not totally unusual, but it was happening a couple of times,

675
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:30,800
Speaker 1: and in situations where it wouldn't normally happen. I was

676
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: driving home that night and I realized I got hit

677
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 1: in the head this morning because the jaw was hurting,

678
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:39,280
Speaker 1: my teeth were hurting. And then I realized, oh my gosh,

679
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 1: it's the same side as where I got hit. And

680
00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 1: then later I found out doctor Padell told me, yeah,

681
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 1: it's all connected there. I taught to Jeff Kaplin, the

682
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,359
Speaker 1: athletic trainer for the Houston Texans, and he said at

683
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 1: the time, he said, well, let me know if it

684
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 1: gets better in a few days. And I said, why

685
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 1: because then I have a concussion if it does, and

686
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 1: he goes, no, you have a concussion. You just have

687
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: to let me know if he gets better. So I

688
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 1: really thought it was getting a lot better than it is,

689
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: and was, but I could still feel it. It's funny

690
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:06,359
Speaker 1: because I can still feel it. It's still kind of hurts,

691
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: and it's been weeks. I mean, this was week two

692
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Speaker 1: of the preseason, so it's kind of strange. The point

693
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,800
Speaker 1: here is I kind of understand too, A very microad

694
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Speaker 1: degree what the players might experience, and some of you

695
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,800
Speaker 1: have had, many of you listening, I've had concussions, and

696
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 1: I think I had one once before as a youngster.

697
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 1: But this is really bizarre to me because I can

698
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,320
Speaker 1: I'm very much in tune with how my brain works

699
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 1: doing play by play every week in the way I

700
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: remember things and describe things, and seeing numbers on the

701
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 1: field and saying numbers and adding and subtracting in your

702
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 1: head while you're saying other numbers, things like that, and

703
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,279
Speaker 1: I'm used to this sort of thing, but I can

704
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:43,719
Speaker 1: tell that it's a little off, and it's interesting to

705
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 1: me how a concussion works or disables your brain from

706
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 1: working the way it usually does. So I'm just monitoring it.

707
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Speaker 1: And it's funny because coincidentally, we're going to talk concussions

708
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Speaker 1: today with doctor Kenneth Paddell, So let's get them aboard

709
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Speaker 1: from the Houston Methodist Concussion Center and doctor great having

710
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 1: you on the We talk every year about this kind

711
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 1: of stuff, So share with me, if you could, some

712
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 1: advancements maybe over the past year or so, what is

713
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: going on in the world of concussion and Houston Methodist. Hey, Mark,

714
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 1: there's a lot has gone on in the last twelve months.

715
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Speaker 1: A couple of real interesting things that we're starting to

716
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 1: pick up on are a little bit different ways of

717
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: assessing for concussion. So we're adding some new tools to

718
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 1: the toolbox to make it a little bit easier, a

719
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 1: little bit more exact and sensitive and detecting concussions. A

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00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 1: lot of that has to do with measuring eye movements

721
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 1: and balance and how the eyes are involved with balance

722
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 1: makes big, big difference for some of the athletes and

723
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 1: helping us diagnose concussions more objectively and accurately. Another big

724
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,799
Speaker 1: thing that's kind of transpired in the last year that

725
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 1: we noticed is some of the research showing that individuals

726
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 1: who continue to play their sport after getting a concussion,

727
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 1: even for fifteen minutes, usually take at least twice as

728
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 1: long to recover from a concussion than if they kind

729
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 1: of come out as soon as they get the concussion.

730
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,799
Speaker 1: So actually, if athletes want to get back into the

731
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:12,760
Speaker 1: game quicker after a concussion, they're better off getting out faster.

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Speaker 1: I'm curious to know a concussion it's a wound, right,

733
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 1: It needs to heal, just like a broken bone might

734
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 1: need to heal. So is that just time? And then

735
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 1: how do you tell that it's healed. It's a very

736
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: very good question. Yeah, a concussion is an injury to

737
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:32,799
Speaker 1: the brain. There's some physical damage to the brain, there's

738
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Speaker 1: some inflammation, chemical imbalances that all are created when the

739
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: brain moves around inside the skull. Rest is a critical

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00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,439
Speaker 1: part of treatment, but it is not the only thing.

741
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: In fact, too much rest is bad for recovery from concussions.

742
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 1: They are treatable and by knowing exactly what's going on.

743
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 1: Is it a brain as sometimes it's a whiplash, sometimes

744
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: it's an inner earlence that causes some of the concussion symptoms.

745
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: Having a real good idea of what is causing the

746
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 1: symptoms allows us to develop treatment programs that we can

747
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,959
Speaker 1: start within days of the concussions to get them over

748
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 1: it a little bit quicker and not less discomfort. I

749
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 1: know what the NFL players, you get all the baseline

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00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 1: measurables so you can tell better if they have a

751
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:25,320
Speaker 1: concussion or not and how they recover. How does this

752
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: work for people where they might be a weekend warrior

753
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:30,880
Speaker 1: athlete and they don't have these baseline tests done. How

754
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 1: do you diagnose and treat very good question, and the

755
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: way it works is baseline testing that you're talking about

756
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 1: with professional athletes, in my opinion, is absolutely a luxury

757
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:46,359
Speaker 1: and not a necessity. For the everyday individual athletes get

758
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 1: all of the top care and as they deserve it,

759
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 1: but for weekend warriors, everyday people, it's not. We don't

760
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:57,400
Speaker 1: always need that baseline. There's a lot of other tools

761
00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:02,319
Speaker 1: that we use to initially diagnose concussion. The testing is

762
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 1: helpful to know when they fully recovered, and we can

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00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 1: still give that because it is compared to normative data

764
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 1: to other individuals like them, So we can still use

765
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 1: those tests plus a lot of other tests to know

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00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 1: when the brain has clinically recovered, and we design an

767
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 1: exercise treatment plan to kind of get them back to themselves.

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Speaker 1: Doctor concussions down almost thirty percent in the NFL last year.

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Speaker 1: Is this attributed to the better helmets, the way they

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00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 1: play it differently now with the safe way to play

771
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 1: and also diagnosis on the sideline spotting things early. What

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00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:39,799
Speaker 1: do you attribute the whole thing too. The number will

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00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: fluctuate from year to year. I'm glad it's down thirty percent.

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00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 1: That's a real great improvement. Every little bit helps. I

775
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 1: think the eye in the sky, the way they treat

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00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 1: concussions on the sideline has improved the sensitivity of the

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00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 1: tests being used. Educating the players. I think what you've

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00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:00,960
Speaker 1: seen a lot in the last few year years in particular,

779
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:04,879
Speaker 1: is the player's point of view. It's no longer I'm

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00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: going to continue to play. A lot of players are

781
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 1: starting to recognize concussions and are willing to come out.

782
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 1: So I think it's a whole bunch of factors that

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00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 1: have significantly reduced the rate of concussions in the NFL. Doctor,

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00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 1: thanks so much for the time. We appreciate it. Oh,

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00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: you're welcome, sir. Have a good one, Doctor Kenneth Padel

786
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Speaker 1: of the Houston Methodist Concussion Center. For the fall sports season,

787
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Speaker 1: Houston Methodist Orthopedics and Sports Medicine is hosting sports injury

788
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 1: clinics on Saturdays for athletes across the Greater Houston area.

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00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,400
Speaker 1: Student athletes of all levels can be evaluated by a

790
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: physician and have X rays and other imaging as needed.

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00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 1: For more information, visit Houston Methodist dot org. Slash Athlete,

792
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 1: the official healthcare provider of the Houston Texans. Houston Methodist

793
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 1: leading medicine. All right, that's going to do it for

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00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 1: the show tonight. Don't forget tomorrow. We'll be on at six.

795
00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien will be with me. We'll have our pregame

796
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 1: player feature with Drew Doherty, and I think Justin Reid's

797
00:41:57,640 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: gonna be on with him. Johnny Harris has a ton

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Speaker 1: of off for you. Tomorrow. I'll be on the show

799
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: as well, so we'll be loaded on a Friday night

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Speaker 1: game weekend. You gotta savor these. Okay. I know it's

801
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 1: only week four, but I start reminding you around this

802
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:12,359
Speaker 1: time of year. We don't take Fridays for granted. Right

803
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 1: during the regular season, during football season, there's nothing like

804
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 1: a Friday when you get all the games ahead of

805
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:19,359
Speaker 1: you and you're really excited, and it just goes back

806
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 1: to my earliest days of rooting for teams and professional

807
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 1: and college football. It's just so special each and every weekend.

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00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 1: Savor it, enjoy it, enjoy yourself. There's nothing like Houston

809
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,720
Speaker 1: Texans football here at n RG Stadium, nothing like football

810
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 1: as a whole, the high school games, all of it.

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Speaker 1: Have fun and savor it. All right, that's my speech

812
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Speaker 1: for it today. Don't forget about Texans extra points on

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00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:43,880
Speaker 1: Saturday Night after the news, which is after the football

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00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:47,799
Speaker 1: game on ABC thirteen this weekend, so you always set

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00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:50,840
Speaker 1: the DVR to record about two hours, record the ABC

816
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 1: thirteen news and the shows after where it's back to

817
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:57,760
Speaker 1: back Texans shows. Enjoy yourself with that and enjoy your evening.

818
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 1: Packers and Eagles next to have a great night and

819
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 1: go Texans.