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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, let's rock this place. It's Friday night football

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Speaker 1: game tomorrow and welcome to the program originating from Detroit

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Speaker 1: the Greater Detroit Area team Hotel Texans and Lions Tomorrow

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Speaker 1: at noon on ABC thirteen on television with Johnny Harris

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Speaker 1: and de Kalou Shelby Coppage on the sideline and Kevin

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Speaker 1: Coogler on play by play and live right here nine

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Speaker 1: am Texans Countdown presented by Medelo Especial and Noonkick Andre

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Speaker 1: and I have the call for you. It is going

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Speaker 1: to be a blast to do the final preseason game

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Speaker 1: as we get ready for the opener September seventh at

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Speaker 1: LA and plenty to discuss tonight on the program. In

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Speaker 1: just a few moments, the head coach Dimigo Ryans pregame

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Speaker 1: interview for tomorrow's affair, and Christian Kirk player we caught

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Speaker 1: up with in a pregame setting to talk about tomorrow's

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Speaker 1: matchup and other stuff along the way, like the voice

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Speaker 1: of the Detroit Lions, Dan Miller, plus we painstaf achingly

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Speaker 1: went through some of our best choice cuts from training

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Speaker 1: camp and you're gonna hear them on the back end

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Speaker 1: of the show. So you don't want to do anything.

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Speaker 1: Tonight we are in the lobby, Mark and John Good evening, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: Here we go, preseason finale.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I love our little setup here, by the way. I

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Speaker 3: wish this is a nice little you know, we're up

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Speaker 3: on a little raised platform.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Very We've got fans, you know, over in the bar.

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Speaker 2: They're fastening.

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Speaker 3: Of course, i'd like to think they're fans. Anybody is

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Speaker 3: fan at this point. But it's interesting when you see

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Speaker 3: the preseason schedule and you see it come out, you're like,

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Speaker 3: July twenty third.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go kicking it off day one. And then

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Speaker 2: you look up and you're like, holy cow, preseason game

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Speaker 2: number three. The last one is tomorrow. They were flying home.

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Speaker 3: I mean, holy cow, forty eight hours from now, we're

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Speaker 3: gonna be sitting there wondering who makes the fifty three. Yep,

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Speaker 3: all of a sudden, it's the Rams. It's week one.

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Speaker 3: All the focus changes, it's it just goes so fast. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and so I want to obviously, you know. So it's

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Speaker 3: been a great training camp. It's been really fun. It's

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Speaker 3: been Houston, it's been at the Greenbrier, it's been here.

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Speaker 3: Detroit was a great joint practice day on Thursday and

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Speaker 3: hopefully have a good game.

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Speaker 2: And the best game you can have tomorrow is one in.

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Speaker 1: Which everybody stays healthy.

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Speaker 2: There good, very good. That's it. Everybody stay healthy. And look,

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Speaker 2: you want to put good products.

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Speaker 3: You know, you want to put good tape on for

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Speaker 3: anybody in that game, whether it's Lions Texans, You're putting

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Speaker 3: good tape for thirty other teams to watch when they

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Speaker 3: sit out of the weekend. And hey, do we want

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Speaker 3: to make a waiver claim on that guy? Do we

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Speaker 3: think that guy's going to make the roster? Hey, maybe

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Speaker 3: we trade for that guy. You never you just you

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Speaker 3: never know what a good close to preseason can.

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Speaker 2: Mean for you.

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Speaker 3: So I'm excited about seeing what tomorrow's got. And then

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Speaker 3: you know, about three fifteen, three thirty, get on a bus,

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Speaker 3: get home, start thinking about the Rams.

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Speaker 1: Start thinking about the Rams, and really think about who's

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Speaker 1: going to make this team, Like you said, Shohnny, because

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Speaker 1: there's still some position groups where the back end of

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Speaker 1: another group affects that group tight end. For instance, Harrison

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Speaker 1: it and say, all right, Luke Lache I think he

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Speaker 1: that's a big game for him. If Luke Lach balls

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Speaker 1: a sudden, maybe we keep Lache over Brian, I don't

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Speaker 2: Irv Smith looks good.

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Speaker 1: He made plays in the joint practice mate plays last

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Speaker 1: But he can help you, and after Stover and Dalton Schultz,

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Speaker 1: talked about the running backs since the beginning of time.

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Speaker 1: There are other instances where I think there are some

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Speaker 1: this preseason finale that are going to determine some fates.

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Speaker 1: And then you think, well, we can always bring so

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you saw the Commanders in the forty nine

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Speaker 3: going out to San Francisco. San Francisco ends up getting

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Speaker 3: And you're gonna have some of those those moments as

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Speaker 3: well as there a player you might need to trade

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Speaker 3: or trade four I mean the infamous twenty nineteen into

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Speaker 3: the preseason. Yep, there's a Clowney trade. There's a Laromie

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Speaker 3: Martinez Rankin. And that all happened that week after that

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Speaker 3: playing four of them and it really, you know, Laramie,

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Speaker 3: it had ripple effects. It not only for that year

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Speaker 3: Martinez Rankin trade, you get a back in. Carlos Hide.

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Speaker 3: He runs for over one thousand yards and for five

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Speaker 3: years he was the one back to have run for

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Speaker 3: over a thousand yards, and you basically just traded I

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Speaker 3: don't want to say trash for trash in a bad way,

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Speaker 3: but it's basically Rankin was gonna get cut, Carlos Hide

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Speaker 3: can you make a trade here? And maybe rank gets ranking,

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Speaker 3: gets an opportunity there, and Carlos gets one here. And

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Speaker 3: Carlos took off and ran with his opportunity, and that

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Speaker 2: I don't know if it's to that level.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if there's a Laramie tunsel trade that

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Speaker 3: they're making over the weekend. I don't think this team

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Speaker 3: is in that position to make that trade or would

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Speaker 3: want to or need to make that trade. But that

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Speaker 3: weekend it gets really important. It's interesting to see what

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Speaker 3: Nikossaria is gonna do. But I always think about that

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Speaker 3: weekend at twenty nineteen because we all sit here and

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Speaker 3: we all do fifty three man roster projections and all that,

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Speaker 3: and I think if we've learned anything over the years,

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Speaker 3: spots for moves that are that are made because you

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Speaker 3: make a waiverclaim, that guy goes running a fifty three

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Speaker 3: it always makes this weekend for me equal parts exciting

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Speaker 3: and then I hate it because there are guys that

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Speaker 2: They're ever gonna play. Yeah, like that's it, it's over.

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Speaker 3: They've been playing this game for however long, and all

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Speaker 3: of a sudden they're just told, Okay, you don't make

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Speaker 3: this team, then they can't make another team, and then

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Speaker 3: you look up and they've been out of the game

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Speaker 3: for two years and Okay, I guess it's done and

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Speaker 3: that's it. I won't ever play another down. So I

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Speaker 3: always think about that when we're going into these games,

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Speaker 3: and you know what guys are trying to trying to

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Speaker 3: other teams to look at if it's not good enough

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Speaker 3: for the Texans. But there's always that practice squad, and

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Speaker 3: being that the practice squad has been increased over the

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Speaker 3: with a guy. That's a great opportunity to because we

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Speaker 3: see those guys in a practice squad position, gets banged up,

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Speaker 3: you're gonna practice squad boom, You're coming up and you're

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Speaker 3: jumping right into the lineup, ready to go. And Nick

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Speaker 3: always says that he talks about how he and Demico

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Speaker 3: look at the roster is not fifty three. They look

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Speaker 3: at it as sixty nine or seventy if they keep

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Speaker 3: if you end up on I practice squad, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's great. It's so different from the days of old,

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Speaker 1: and I still talk to people who are not up

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Speaker 1: with the current rules. You don't have to know every

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Speaker 1: single thing. You just have to know that the practice

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Speaker 1: squad eligibility rules are completely different than they were ten

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Speaker 1: years ago. COVID changed everything and it gives you a

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Speaker 1: lot of flexibility that you didn't have before. And the

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Speaker 1: IR rules, my goodness, I remember when the designated to

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Speaker 1: return thing actually happened with one or two players, and

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Speaker 1: now it's so many. And back in the day it

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Speaker 1: was just we'll see you next year, and that was

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Speaker 1: a tough call you had to make, and a man

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Speaker 1: who has to make a lot of those tough decisions

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Speaker 1: along with general manager and executive vice president, Nick Cassario

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Speaker 1: is the head coach of the Texans Demiko Ryans and

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Speaker 1: here's your pre Detroit Lions preseason finale game interview. Coach.

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Speaker 1: Before we talk about the game, what about the joint practice,

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Speaker 1: because I know we look at these things as back

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Speaker 4: Our joint practice was an excellent showcase of two really

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Speaker 4: two really good competitive teams, had a lot of nice

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Speaker 4: plays being made offense, defense, special teams. It was just

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Speaker 4: it was a fun experience and for all one people

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Speaker 4: in Houston, it was outstanding weather. It was We were

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Speaker 4: able to get a ton of reps in a lot

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Speaker 4: of competitive periods, a lot of competitive situational football, REDZ

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Speaker 4: one two minute third down. We covered a lot of

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Speaker 4: different areas in our team definitely grew and got better.

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Speaker 1: What do you make of the final preseason game? A

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Speaker 1: lot of players trying to put their best stuff on

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Speaker 1: tape because you never know what the future is going

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Speaker 1: to be.

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Speaker 4: For this last preseason game. It's really about our young players,

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Speaker 4: giving them the opportunity to go, shine, go showcase their talents,

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Speaker 4: not only to us we know what they can do,

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Speaker 4: but to the other thirty one teams knowing that we

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Speaker 4: can't keep everyone. We will love to, but it doesn't

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Speaker 4: happen that way. But I want our guys to go

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Speaker 4: out and put out great film for the entire league,

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Speaker 4: and our guys are preparing that way. Our coach has

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Speaker 4: done a great job this week preparing the young guys

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Speaker 4: so they're ready to go.

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Speaker 1: And not everybody got reps in the joint practice, right

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Speaker 1: because you go heavy ones and some twos, but some

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Speaker 1: other guys didn't get in there as much.

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Speaker 4: Correct, our joint practices were solely geared toward our starters

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Speaker 4: getting the bulk of the reps. And now we had

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Speaker 4: our third group. Some of our younger guys who were

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Speaker 4: But here on game day they'll get as many as

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Speaker 4: they can ask for. They'll have a ton of reps,

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Speaker 4: a ton of opportunities to show you know how good

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Speaker 4: they are, how much they've improved through our training camp.

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Speaker 1: The kicking game coach, what I notice is the ball

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Speaker 5: It's huge work for us.

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Speaker 1: How is it for you? This is the last one

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's very unique. It's hard for me knowing that

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Speaker 5: So it's on.

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Speaker 4: One hand it's a sad moment, but it's also it's

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Speaker 1: Coach, thanks a lot, good luck. Thanks Mark all right,

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Speaker 2: And it's got to be very tough.

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Speaker 2: For the time being, no doubt, but I think what

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Speaker 3: And sometimes we get so into what this team is

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Speaker 2: So you just never know where it's all gonna lead.

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Speaker 3: I think one of the things to take out of

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Speaker 3: You're not gonna have somebody just napalming a bridge going

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Speaker 2: And you just never know.

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Speaker 3: Like you said, Tremont coming back, Treymont is the ultimate professional.

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Speaker 1: As Christian Kirk new wide receiver this season on this team,

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Speaker 6: Detroit's a great football team, great great organization that does

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Speaker 1: What do you think of their defense? How hard was

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Speaker 7: The other great defense?

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Speaker 6: You know, they play fast, they played physical, something that

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Speaker 7: So I thought we got some good work done today.

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Speaker 1: How has the adjustment been to the Texans overall for you?

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Speaker 7: I thought it's been great.

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Speaker 6: You know, everybody's welcomed me with open arms, and Demiko

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Speaker 7: Enjoyed every second of it and looking forward to the season.

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Speaker 1: Tell me your thoughts on the offense and how it

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I just like the dynamic part of it.

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Speaker 1: Here we are approaching the end of camp. How has

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I don't think it's changed too much.

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Speaker 1: Okay, how's your golf game going. We saw you out

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Speaker 1: Are you two the best golfers on the team right now?

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Speaker 2: Ali one more.

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Speaker 1: Is there an Aggie tradition that you miss? What Aggie

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Speaker 6: Sawing them off after a win. I think there's nothing

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Speaker 1: You want to talk about a guy who did not

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Speaker 3: And again, we don't know injury situations, what things pop up.

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Speaker 2: Something and they're out for a while.

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Speaker 3: And quintesiphis man. You see the way that he closed

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Speaker 2: But yep, I'll tell you.

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Speaker 3: really cool to kind of pick Kirby's brain, one of

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Speaker 3: the better safeties in this league, arguing might be the

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Speaker 3: best safety in this league for making that play. What

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Speaker 3: did he see? What did we give away? Was there

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Speaker 3: something there? And if three of them are having that

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Speaker 3: conversation because Christian was the intended receiver, it was just

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Speaker 3: really cool that you have some of those moments with

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Speaker 3: the other team.

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Speaker 2: And that was really cool with those three.

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Speaker 1: That is awesome, great observation by you, and great stuff

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Speaker 1: coming up. Dan Miller, the Voice of the Lions. Frank Ross,

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Speaker 1: we go into our training camp, choice cuts, hurry up offense,

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Speaker 1: got some good stuff with tay Erceri, Justin Watson, a

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Speaker 1: whole lot of players coming up here on Texans Radio.

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Speaker 1: All right, Texans, continuing on the program, originating from the

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Speaker 1: Motor City the Team Hotel, where the Houston Texans are

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Speaker 1: gearing up to wrap up the preseason schedule against the

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Speaker 1: Lions at Ford Field tomorrow at noon. Now, we've got

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Speaker 1: a lot of good content here, content packed, couple of

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Speaker 1: segments heading your way with some best of training camp

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Speaker 1: interviews that have been cut down to the best of

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Speaker 1: those pieces. And to kick things off, Dan Miller, He's

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Speaker 1: the voice of the Lions. A couple of minutes with

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Speaker 1: Dan at practice at the Joint practice on Thursday, talking

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Speaker 1: about the Lions getting a little preview of what they

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Speaker 1: have to offer against the Texans. Dan, tell me what's

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Speaker 1: this ride been like with the Lions. You've been doing

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Speaker 1: this for a long time in this era, Dan Campbell,

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Speaker 1: the way up being here as one of the greatest

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Speaker 1: teams in the NFL. Right, now.

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Speaker 8: Well, I think what it's been is just watching a

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Speaker 8: group do it the right way.

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Speaker 5: We had had a lot of people come through here.

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Speaker 8: We had had fits and starts, and we had had,

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Speaker 8: you know, some success, but these guys really tore this

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Speaker 8: thing down and then built it back up, and they've

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Speaker 8: done it through the You can look at this roster

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Speaker 8: now and see it as loaded with young talent.

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Speaker 5: So it's been.

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Speaker 8: Fun and seeing it work. But it's also been fun

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Speaker 8: and seeing it done the right way. Drafting and developing.

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Speaker 8: If you don't have those two things in this league,

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Speaker 8: you're gonna have a hard time surviving.

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Speaker 5: And these guys have really done it well.

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Speaker 8: Brad Holmes with the drafting that Dan Campbell and his

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Speaker 8: staff developing these young players.

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Speaker 1: The biggest story for us in camp is replacing members

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Speaker 1: of the offensive line and developing the line. What's the

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Speaker 1: biggest story for the Lions. Is it replacing the coordinators?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 5: I think that's part of it certainly.

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Speaker 8: I mean when you lose guys like Ben Johnson and

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Speaker 8: Aaron Glenn who have been a part of the turnaround

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Speaker 8: and the.

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Speaker 5: Success here, that's huge.

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Speaker 8: And we can't answer the question as to how good

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Speaker 8: these replacements are gonna be. We don't know how John

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Speaker 8: Morton's gonna call a game. We don't know what's gonna

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Speaker 8: happen when they get in there and they need to

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Speaker 8: make a critical third and seven call. And that's one

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Speaker 8: thing Dan Campbell said. He said, look, we got to

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Speaker 8: find out what they do when they need to make

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Speaker 8: the right play call.

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Speaker 5: So that's certainly part of it.

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Speaker 8: But to your point, this offensive line has been the

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Speaker 8: face of this team for a while.

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Speaker 5: It's been one of the best in the league.

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Speaker 8: Frank rag Now one of the best players in this league, retires,

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Speaker 8: and then Zeitler leaves and as a free agent, and

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Speaker 8: they've got to replace those guys. So we have some

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Speaker 8: questions in the middle of our offensive line that have

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Speaker 8: to be answered. And again, Mark Donald, I think you

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Speaker 8: can answer those questions until the regular season when you

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Speaker 8: see these guys playing.

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Speaker 5: In real games.

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Speaker 1: Dan, thanks a lot for being with us.

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Speaker 5: Hey, my pleasure. Thanks Mark.

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Speaker 1: There's our visit with Dan Miller, Voice of the Lions

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Speaker 1: in full disclosure here broadcast tip always have a wind

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Speaker 1: screen with you because it got windy and I had

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Speaker 1: to cut out a couple of minutes of that interview.

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Speaker 1: And there was some other stuff that we got into

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Speaker 1: about Jared Goff and everything, but we'll do that at

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Speaker 1: another time. Let's continue now. Arion tay Urseri just call

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Speaker 1: him Tay. How's it going for him so far? We

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Speaker 1: had a good conversation at a training camp practice in

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Speaker 1: Houston and I got into his background. Let's pull some

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Speaker 1: of the highlights of that conversation as we check in

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Speaker 1: with his progress so far.

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Speaker 9: Man, I feel like as a unit were getting better

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Speaker 9: and better each and every day. And this is all

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Speaker 9: about attacking us all details and carrying that over to

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Speaker 9: the team and then carrying that over to the meeting

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Speaker 9: room to attacking everything. It's like a pro and as

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Speaker 9: a unit coming together talking talking to the defense will

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Speaker 9: be giving away you know what some things they see,

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Speaker 9: what some things that we see from them. So it's

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Speaker 9: just all family and we all trying to get each

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Speaker 9: other better. And we always talk about iron, shopper and

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Speaker 9: iron and that's what we out there doing.

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Speaker 1: So you started out with a love for basketball, right

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Speaker 1: and switch to football or were you doing both? How

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Speaker 1: did all that go for you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Basketball my first love.

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Speaker 9: I started playing around fifth grade all the way up

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Speaker 9: to like seventh or eighth grade. Then I kind of

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Speaker 9: took a break from sports because I kind of kicked

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Speaker 9: back to one to see what I wanted to do

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Speaker 9: with my life, whether it was academics or athletically. And

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Speaker 9: then sophomore year of high school that's when I started

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Speaker 9: playing football, track, wrestling.

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Speaker 5: You know, I try to play it all.

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Speaker 1: How do wrestling and basketball help as an offensive lineman?

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Speaker 9: Any good offensive lineman to tell you, just go out

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Speaker 9: there and play basketball, stay in front of the god.

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Speaker 9: You know, but it's not as easy as people think

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Speaker 9: it is.

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Speaker 1: You know, Will Ederson's over there.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, well you got a guy like Will Edison, you know,

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Speaker 9: who's all muscle, pure and muscle, and who comes off

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Speaker 9: the rock. And you got Danil Hunter, who's crafty you

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Speaker 9: as an older guy, so it's definitely been exciting.

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Speaker 1: Well, what about facing some of these guys You've got

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Speaker 1: Will d'aneil. You got really good players on the defensive line,

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Speaker 1: so it's got to really help you iron sharpens iron wise.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, big difference from college to the pros. You can

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Speaker 9: tell these guys been doing it for a minute and

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Speaker 9: they've been doing that.

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Speaker 5: At a high level.

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Speaker 9: Right, So just being me being able to even go

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Speaker 9: against them is it's just only gonna make me better

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Speaker 9: because I haven't seen it so many times and I'm

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Speaker 9: able to go after and you know, play play at

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Speaker 9: my best.

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Speaker 1: One thing about being a rookie in this league, it

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Speaker 1: must be interesting. Now it's all football. You don't have

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Speaker 1: to worry about school or anything else on campus. This

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Speaker 1: is your campus. What's that like for you? Personally?

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Speaker 5: It's it's definitely fun.

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Speaker 9: I mean I get I just get to focus on

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Speaker 9: what I love to do and that's football every day.

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Speaker 9: Get around the guys and get to know more of

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Speaker 9: their life on a personal level.

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Speaker 5: They get to know more about me.

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Speaker 9: So it's like I said, it's been fun.

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Speaker 1: One more, give me a couple of guys who've been

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Speaker 1: really helpful to you, just mentoring you whatever, with advice,

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Speaker 1: whether it's your position or not along the old line

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Speaker 1: or maybe another position. I don't know.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I would say Jake Andrews, JP Lakelan Thomason. I

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Speaker 9: don't know if I say that, Titus Howard, Cam Robinson.

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Speaker 9: They all been kind of helping me. And uh, you

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Speaker 9: know all I'm taking on the little road serious trying

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Speaker 9: to be a good rookie. Yeah, do everything they asked

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Speaker 9: me to do. So so far it's been good.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, good luck to you.

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Speaker 5: Thanks a lot, yes, sir, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: There's arianta Urser after a training camp practice in Houston.

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Speaker 1: Also another rookie doing a lot of great things in camp,

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Speaker 1: Jalen Smith. He'll play tomorrow against the Lions. He's a

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Speaker 1: good looking rookie corner back and it was really fun

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Speaker 1: to catch up with him as he was signing autographs

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Speaker 1: for the fans and he spent a long time interacting

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Speaker 1: with the Texans. Faithful, I saw you signing autographs. How

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Speaker 1: is that interacting with the fans as a new jection.

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Speaker 2: It's great, man. People are great. They're great here man.

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Speaker 10: They treated it so good and it's just a blessing

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Speaker 10: to be a part of this family.

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Speaker 2: It's just great.

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Speaker 1: How about the camaraderie in the defensive backs room. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you guys are really tight.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Man, it's it's started.

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Speaker 10: It's starting the off season, you know, just yelling together.

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Speaker 10: I'm learning to play book together, you know, asking questions.

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Speaker 10: You know, young guys being sponges to the older guys

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Speaker 10: and it's all working out.

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Speaker 1: How thrilling it is. Is it to make plays out here?

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Speaker 1: I see you working, I see you making some plays already.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's great.

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Speaker 10: It's a great feeling. You know, it's just a bust

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Speaker 10: of confidence. You know, it's my first couple months out

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Speaker 10: here and you know, starting to fit in really well.

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Speaker 1: What was the draft process a draft day like for you?

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Speaker 1: Draft weekend?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? It was. It was surreal, man.

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Speaker 10: It's just you know, going through that whole process. You

626
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Speaker 10: watch it on TV a lot, and you you know,

627
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Speaker 10: you see some of your buddies, you know, making their

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Speaker 10: dreams come to reality.

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Speaker 7: So you know it being me was just great.

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Speaker 10: You know, had all my family there and you know,

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Speaker 10: the process was a little long, but you know it's

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Speaker 10: how you how you manage it. And I felt like,

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Speaker 10: you know, just being in that situation just kind of

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Speaker 10: helped my mindset going into it, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: No question, training campus are grind. Do you have a

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Speaker 1: favorite part of practice? Is it the eleven on eleven,

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Speaker 1: the individual something else?

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Speaker 2: I would definitely say eleven on eleven.

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Speaker 10: You know, you're going out there and competing against you know,

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Speaker 10: the best of the best, with Nico, see Kirk and

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Speaker 10: all those great guys.

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Speaker 1: And c J. Of course, you were part of that

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Speaker 1: Snoop Dogg TV show. I'm sure everyone has asked you

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Speaker 1: about this, but what was that like for you? What

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Speaker 1: can you tell us about that?

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Speaker 10: It was great, It was a great experience. You know,

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Speaker 10: it taught me a lot about life beyond football.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 10: Coach Snoop was was a pivotal role for me, just

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Speaker 10: you know, always constantly being in my ear, you know,

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Speaker 10: telling me the rights and the wrongs, you know what

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Speaker 10: I'm saying. You know, if there's anything that I could

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Speaker 10: work on, he was always on it, and at a

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Speaker 10: young age, so it just kind of helped me grow

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Speaker 10: up and you know, just you know, be prepared for

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Speaker 10: every moment.

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Speaker 1: I said, did people ask you a lot about that

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Speaker 1: in college? Oh?

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Speaker 10: Man, tons Man, tons tons in La tons Man.

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Speaker 1: All right, So I'm semi contractually obligated to ask you

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Speaker 1: about the weather because it's a little different from southern California.

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Speaker 10: God, so far, it's a little different from southern California,

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Speaker 10: I'll tell you that. But does it takes them getting

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Speaker 10: used to It's been hot up for pretty well, a

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Speaker 10: lot of sweat and a lot of humidity. But it's

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Speaker 10: how you take it man. It's how you hydrate and

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Speaker 10: all that, so it's the preparation.

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Speaker 1: Cool. Thanks a lot for joining us. Appreciation my guy,

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Speaker 1: Jalen Smith rookie corner. Now, some highlights of this conversation

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Speaker 1: with not a rookie Justin Watson, veteran Super Bowl ring holder,

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Speaker 1: multi Super Bowls and we're going to see him play

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Speaker 1: against the Lions in all likelihood. How's it going for

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Speaker 1: Justin Watson at Texans training camp? Some highlights of a

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Speaker 1: good conversation with him. We're talking a little bit with

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Speaker 1: Texans team president Mike Toman before this interview. You said

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Speaker 1: you don't think the heat's that bad relatively.

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Speaker 11: Well, like you said, I know what it can be here.

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Speaker 11: I think we've been getting lucky so far. And like

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Speaker 11: I said, hey, we're standing up right. We're doing a

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Speaker 11: great job. So no complaints.

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Speaker 1: How is it in Kansas City because that can get

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Speaker 1: hot too, It.

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Speaker 11: Can get hot, but nothing's like Houston. But this has

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Speaker 11: just been really cool. Just the energy of these last

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Speaker 11: three days with the pads on, the fans have been

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Speaker 11: bringing it. So if this is what it looks like

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Speaker 11: at training camp, I can't wait to see what energy looks.

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Speaker 1: Like as you've progressed through your career, you must do

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Speaker 1: a lot of extra stuff to get ready for camp,

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Speaker 1: just to get ready for games in general.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I think the longer you stay in this business,

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Speaker 11: you know what you need. So each day after practice,

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Speaker 11: if there's a rep that I didn't get a throw on,

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Speaker 11: or something that I saw another receiver run, I thought, hey, man,

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Speaker 11: that's a good route I could work on that.

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Speaker 5: I'm pulling one of the young quarterbacks and.

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Speaker 11: Kind of teaching him at the same time while sharpening myself.

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Speaker 1: What about the development of this offense, I know it's

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Speaker 1: a bit of a work in progress. What are you

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Speaker 1: seeing justin I.

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Speaker 5: Just seen it improving each day.

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Speaker 11: We just keep finding new answers through each install that

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Speaker 11: we put in. Obviously, it's a great challenge going against

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Speaker 11: maybe the best defense in the NFL that's been together

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Speaker 11: for a long time.

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Speaker 5: They have all their calls in.

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Speaker 11: So, like I said, for us, having some success with

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Speaker 11: how early on we are in our install process has

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Speaker 11: been exciting to.

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Speaker 1: See preseason games As a veteran, how do you approach those?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, just like any other week, Just like

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Speaker 11: any other game, it's a chance just to get all

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Speaker 11: your processes going. You know what time do I have

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Speaker 11: to start getting ready pregame? You know what am I

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Speaker 11: eating before the game? Everything leading up to the game.

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Speaker 11: And then obviously you're gonna play, you know, some portion

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Speaker 11: of the game. That's football. That's the easy part. But

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Speaker 11: I think it's just you know, getting your cadence for

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Speaker 11: prepping yourself so that week one you're ready at the

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Speaker 11: ground roll and want to.

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Speaker 1: Know, you set so many records at Penn are you

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Speaker 1: still aware of them? Do you watch the Quakers play

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Speaker 1: or their progress online or however you can do that.

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Speaker 11: I do watch them play, and you know I always say,

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Speaker 11: I mean, I hope the next guy breaks it, But

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Speaker 11: you know whatever, in week nine, Week ten comes and

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Speaker 11: there's a receiver that's pretty close to some of my.

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Speaker 5: Single season stuff.

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Speaker 11: You know, I'm hoping for the win more than I'm

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Speaker 11: hoping for the record to get broken.

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Speaker 1: How many people mistakenly think you went to Penn State.

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Speaker 2: All the time.

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Speaker 11: We used to have shirts that said not Penn State

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Speaker 11: right on them, even in the city of Philadelphia.

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Speaker 2: Man, that's great.

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Speaker 11: Those who know about, you know, the great University of

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Speaker 11: Pennsylvania and the Morton school business.

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Speaker 1: They know. I'm in the group that thinks the Palestra

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Speaker 1: is the most underrated building for college basketball.

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Speaker 2: Your thoughts.

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Speaker 11: I've seen some great games in there, you know, I

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Speaker 11: Villo has come through. It's just it's a neat piece

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Speaker 11: of history. I was blessed in in college. That's where

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Speaker 11: we played our pickup basketball game. So just to play,

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Speaker 11: you know, in one of the monuments of basketball was

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Speaker 11: really neat college.

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Speaker 1: Nice justin thanks for joining us, good luck, Thanks so much.

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Speaker 1: There's some best of training camp stuff and we're going

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Speaker 1: to wrap it up in the next segment with some

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Speaker 1: really great stuff from Frank Ross, special teams coordinator, also

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Speaker 1: the dad of one of the rookies who happened to

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Speaker 1: play a long time in the NFL and is a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion. That's next here on Texans Radio. Final

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Speaker 1: set of downs here tonight on Texans Radio. And you

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Speaker 1: know what, it's really the final segment of training camp.

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Speaker 1: It's going to break after the final preseason game against

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Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. Next week is going to be very

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Speaker 1: different because players will start to get released cuts come

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Speaker 1: no later than Tuesday. At three of the initial fifty

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Speaker 1: three man roster that is like an amba. It is

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Speaker 1: going to change quickly over the next few days after that,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll get set for the RAM September seventh.

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Speaker 1: But before we say goodbye to the preseason and training

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Speaker 1: camp and all of it. How about this from a

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Speaker 1: visit with Frank Ross after a tech's practice, And as

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Speaker 1: you will hear, Frank Ross never stops coaching no matter

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Speaker 1: what the situation. It feels like you coach everything. I

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Speaker 1: saw you over here with Higgins on the jugs machine

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Speaker 1: helping a map catching passes, and that doesn't seem too special,

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Speaker 1: team ish tell me.

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Speaker 12: Been always big fan of the post practice extra hands

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Speaker 12: work for the wide receiver or any group.

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Speaker 5: Big part of transition from the NFL for.

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Speaker 12: Young guys especially is windows are small contact catching, you know,

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Speaker 12: versus catching wide open in college.

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Speaker 5: So slapping the hands. Been doing that my whole life.

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Speaker 12: Love doing that with the young guys, and I'll do

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Speaker 12: that as much as humanly possible. Shultzy is usually my

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Speaker 12: primary target right there. But Higgins needs that work and

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Speaker 12: he was getting it today. Was it's always fun and.

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Speaker 1: Pre practice you'd like to throw the ball a little

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Speaker 1: bit too.

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Speaker 12: I notice always man as many touch as you get

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Speaker 12: it's football. The guys who are going to touch the

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Speaker 12: ball on Sundays, they gotta protect it or take it away.

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Speaker 12: So I love to just be an extra volume source

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Speaker 12: of that and as long as the shoulders holding up

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Speaker 12: to be doing that.

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Speaker 1: How hard is it to take advantage of the periods

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Speaker 1: you do have here in trading camp? I notice sometimes

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Speaker 1: you get eight minutes, sometimes you only get five. How

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Speaker 1: do you handle that?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 13: Man?

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Speaker 12: To me, that's where my assistant will burn him. Sean

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Speaker 12: Baker working with Jay Colson and the head coach, Like,

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Speaker 12: how in diligent how intentional can we be with every

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Speaker 12: scripted ounce of time that we get? And for us,

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Speaker 12: you know, special teams you gotta cram it all into

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Speaker 12: a paper bag that's small, So for us, how efficient

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Speaker 12: can that be?

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Speaker 2: To me?

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Speaker 12: Like, what needs focused on at different points of the

804
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Speaker 12: year is where you're gonna chop up and dive you

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Speaker 12: that time as you get later into the season, it's

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Speaker 12: not hitting, you know, in practice, it's not hitting, it's

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Speaker 12: it's mental.

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Speaker 2: So it might be more team periods.

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Speaker 12: Right now fundamentals, we're gonna break those up and really

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Speaker 12: gonna work on our foundation of how much fundamentally better.

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Speaker 1: Can we get right now we talk about leaders on

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Speaker 1: offense and defense? Who are your leaders to be great

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Speaker 1: exams for the young players might not have been drafted

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Speaker 1: as high as some of the others, a power of

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Speaker 1: example that this is their ticket into the league.

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Speaker 5: Yep.

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Speaker 12: So I've got a two part answer. First is man,

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Speaker 12: I'm so impressed with fair Baron. You know, the mental

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Speaker 12: growth for him was such a focus for him, being

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Speaker 12: now the senior captain of the room, got a rookie snapper.

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Speaker 12: He's definitely improved use of his voice for the room.

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Speaker 12: But in the core, you know, we look at guys

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Speaker 12: like dar A MJ. Jake Hanson, Nick Neeman's done a

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Speaker 12: good job of stepping in. I know Henry's playing a

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Speaker 12: lot of defense toe, but like he comes in, he's

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Speaker 12: asking questions that you know, Ca c o Ci or

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Speaker 12: Jalen Reid might just osmosis learning in the room, be

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Speaker 12: answering in his own head when those guys speak up.

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Speaker 5: But dar A MJ.

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Speaker 12: I mean, I'm on having Treymond back to teach the

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Speaker 12: young gunners. Dangelo Ross is the consummate professional. But like

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Speaker 12: when it is game on the line and it's week

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Speaker 12: thirteen and week fifteen, and like the guys that have

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Speaker 12: showed up yesterday, today and tomorrow in training camp are

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Speaker 12: those guys d MJJ Like I couldn't be lucky as

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Speaker 12: a coach to be working with guys.

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Speaker 1: Like another year of dynamic kickoff now the touchback to

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Speaker 1: the thirty five? How does that affect you here in practice?

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Speaker 1: If at all?

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Speaker 12: We just got to be prepared to play more ball.

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Speaker 12: We're gonna get more opportunities. So for us, we have

842
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Speaker 12: to be smart with depth because more people are gonna play. Like,

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Speaker 12: there's five kickoffs didn't matter last year each side, that's

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Speaker 12: ten extra plays. Well, where are those ten extra plays

845
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Speaker 12: gonna happen? If somebody gets hurt in the game, you're

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Speaker 12: able to cover it up a year ago, no more

847
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Speaker 12: this year. We gotta be on it with all forty

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Speaker 12: eight that are on the roster on Sundays at noon,

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Speaker 12: but also working the whole seventy man Like, everybody's got

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Speaker 12: to be ready to play. So the more training for

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Speaker 12: more people matters, especially now and then you might not

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Speaker 12: rep until week four on Sunday, but you need to

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Speaker 12: be ready now.

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Speaker 1: How do you keep your meetings entertaining? You guys meet

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Speaker 1: a lot, So how do you go about that? Because

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Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but when I get back

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Speaker 1: into the air conditioning, it's tough to keep the focus going.

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Speaker 1: How do you handle it.

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Speaker 2: With your players?

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Speaker 12: Man, I'm gaspittled down until you just until it falls off.

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Speaker 12: So I'm good like I sprint the marathon until as

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Speaker 12: long as I can go, and then I'll find a

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Speaker 12: way to get past the finish line. So you know,

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Speaker 12: whatever it takes. I have a great room that stays engaged.

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Speaker 12: I try to put some humor in there. They probably

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Speaker 12: laugh at me more than the joke, but that's okay,

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Speaker 12: whatever it takes. And yeah, there's an element of keeping

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Speaker 12: it light, keeping it loose, and getting your work done.

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Speaker 12: I like to flirt with that line as much as possible.

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Speaker 1: How did your Coaches Cuts event go? We promoted it

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Speaker 1: prior to How was it?

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Speaker 12: Frank Yep, I'm so proud and thankful for you guys

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Speaker 12: allowed some listeners. Who was a raging success in my opinion,

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Speaker 12: it's grown. We're officially a five oh one c three

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Speaker 12: nonprofit cleared over the summer. The event was unbelievable working

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Speaker 12: to get a young man a scholarship to a welding

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Speaker 12: program at Houston Community College. Right now, it's been unbelievable.

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Speaker 12: And my kiddo's right here. They are a part of it.

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Speaker 12: J say hi, Hies, Celia say hi, okay, and they're

880
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 12: you know, hopefully raising these guys the same way that

881
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 12: our community matters. And we're thankful to be Houstonians. And yeah,

882
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 12: the success of last year's coaches cuts hope. We can

883
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,840
Speaker 12: only continue to grow nice a lot. Coach appreciate it,

884
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 12: thank you.

885
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 1: And there you hear the kiddies in the background. That's

886
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:29,479
Speaker 1: a regular thing at training camp and after the joint

887
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: practice with the Lions families all over the place visiting

888
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,839
Speaker 1: the Lions players and the Texans families. Well, look, we're

889
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 1: in Detroit, so we're not going to get too much

890
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 1: family activity up here. We did see DJ Reader last

891
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: night or yesterday at the joint practice. He was there

892
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: with this five year old boy and his wife, so

893
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:50,359
Speaker 1: that was really cool. Anyway, let's get to this. Our

894
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 1: final guest of the night is the father of one

895
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 1: of the rookies, Luke Lache's dad, Jim, played in the NFL. Now,

896
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 1: we caught up with him at the Greenbrier, And the

897
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,319
Speaker 1: only reason I'm putting this on again is because it

898
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: was so compelling to hear him talk about what makes

899
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,879
Speaker 1: a great offensive line. Yeah, his kid's a tight end

900
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 1: out of Iowa, but Jim Lache was an outstanding member

901
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,319
Speaker 1: of the Hogs for Washington, not the original Hogs, the

902
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 1: second incarnation, and they won a Super Bowl in the

903
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 1: early nineties. You probably know a lot about that if

904
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 1: you're a seasoned NFL fan anyway, what it takes to

905
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 1: make a great offensive lot. I thought that was interesting

906
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:29,280
Speaker 1: stuff out of this interview, and also his thoughts on CJ.

907
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 1: Stroud because he's in the Ohio State Radio broadcast booth

908
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:36,720
Speaker 1: and saw CJ's entire college career and has been following

909
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 1: him closely, and especially now that his kid is in

910
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:43,400
Speaker 1: training camp for the Houston Texans. And also this his

911
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 1: broadcast consecutive games streak was in great jeopardy as he

912
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 1: went to Luke's final game at Iowa, but somebody came

913
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 1: to the rescue for him. Let's hear that story and

914
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 1: the rest of it with Jim Lache. How satisfying is

915
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 1: it to know that your son gets drafted?

916
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 13: It is pretty cool. It's you know, again, it's something

917
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 13: that you don't really ever think about until it kind

918
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:06,360
Speaker 13: of gets to that time because there's so many factors.

919
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 13: I mean, after going through it, you know, you just

920
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:10,839
Speaker 13: you don't know how it's all gonna work out. But

921
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:13,799
Speaker 13: to see him, you know, get on draft Day, get

922
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 13: picked up by the Texans and then you're thinking, heck,

923
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 13: that's a heck of a football team, you know, a

924
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 13: team that's a playoff bound and you know, he's got

925
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,440
Speaker 13: a pretty good quarterback. CJ. Stroud, who I followed at

926
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 13: Ohio State, you know, called a bunch of his games

927
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:26,960
Speaker 13: when he was a quarterback for the Buck guys. And

928
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 13: you know Cage Stover and Xavier Worthy, Tommy Togi and

929
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 13: Damon Arnett. There there's a few Buck guys here that

930
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,359
Speaker 13: I was familiar with. So it is exciting to see

931
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 13: him come to a great organization.

932
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 1: What about c J. Stroud and his development in this league?

933
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 1: What do you think so far?

934
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 13: Jim, Well, he was an unbelievable you know, I saw

935
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 13: him when he threw for five hundred and seventy three

936
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 13: yards against Utah, you know, in that bowl game, in

937
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 13: the Rose Bowl game, and you know, making plays after

938
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:52,239
Speaker 13: play after play, and he was able to do that

939
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 13: throughout his college career and then you saw him as

940
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 13: you know, a rookie year and he picked right up.

941
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 13: Ryan Dad does a great job of developing quarterbacks and CJ.

942
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 13: Stroud certainly one of those guys that got developed well

943
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 13: and now he's taking that to the next level.

944
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 1: Jim Lache with us part of the Buckeye Radio Network. Now,

945
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:10,280
Speaker 1: your streak was almost going to be broken, but Ryan

946
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 1: Day hooked you up with a private plane, the PJA

947
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:15,359
Speaker 1: to get back to the broadcast after Luke's final game.

948
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:15,919
Speaker 1: How did that work?

949
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 2: No?

950
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:16,800
Speaker 5: It was crazy.

951
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 13: Yeah, because on Wednesday we're doing to coach a show,

952
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 13: you know, Thursday's Thanksgiving of that final week against Michigan,

953
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 13: and you know, Coach Day kind of found out that

954
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 13: you're not going to be there and you haven't missed

955
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 13: a game. I go, No, I had three hundred and

956
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 13: fifty eight straight games, and you know, it looks like

957
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 13: the street's going to come the end. And he kind

958
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:34,720
Speaker 13: of looked at me and says, you know, what if

959
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 13: I got you access to a private jet, would you

960
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:39,360
Speaker 13: come back? And I'm like yeah, you know, half joking,

961
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 13: like yeah, yeah, right, coach. Yeah, an hour later he goes,

962
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 13: so you're all set. I we're through net jets. He

963
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 13: was able to work something out and give me back

964
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 13: to Columbus. So my son and I, James, were in

965
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 13: Iowa City, had a five forty five am flight, got

966
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 13: the Clumbus about eight o'clock, was at the stadium by

967
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 13: eight thirty and like, nothing wrong. It's usually the time

968
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,160
Speaker 13: I showed up and got to call the game and

969
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 13: keep the streak alive.

970
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,360
Speaker 1: You mentioned playing for Washington part of the Hogs, and

971
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 1: I know the Hogs had many members and some different configurations,

972
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:11,759
Speaker 1: but what goes into developing a great offensive line on

973
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 1: and off the field. The Texans are in that process.

974
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 13: Right, communication, camaraderie, staying healthy, and then having a great coach.

975
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 13: You know, we had Joe Bugele, who obviously came up

976
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 13: with the Hogs nickname Moncure back in the eighties. And

977
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:26,960
Speaker 13: then yeah, I got there when I got traded from

978
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 13: the where the Chargers got traded to the Raiders. Six

979
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:31,800
Speaker 13: weeks later, I get traded to the Redskins and I

980
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,840
Speaker 13: kind of flying from LA to to DC. The Raiders

981
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 13: were in LA at that time and looking at their

982
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:39,360
Speaker 13: Rod like goll Lee, I'm going to be a backup,

983
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 13: you know what I mean. These guys are all pretty

984
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 13: good end up. I started that week at right tackle,

985
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 13: which a position I never played, played there for three

986
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 13: or four games, and then moved Joe Jacobe and I

987
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 13: switched positions. I went to the left side and played

988
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 13: the next eight years there with the Washington Redskins. But

989
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 13: it all comes back to having a great head coach.

990
00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 13: It believes Joe Gibbs was that guy. Great line coaches,

991
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 13: and then the camaraderie. I mean the Hogs. The offensive

992
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 13: line ran that team.

993
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 2: You know.

994
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 13: Everybody would say, hey, you know, we had the wide

995
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 13: receivers and things like that and different quarterbacks to win

996
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 13: Super Bowls, but the Hogs are the one consistent thing.

997
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:16,319
Speaker 13: So it was great to be in an organization and

998
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 13: in a city that really appreciated offensive line play, you know.

999
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 13: Playing with the Chargers, yeah, you know, you're just another

1000
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 13: big guy out there in California. You get to the

1001
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 13: Washington and you're walking through the grocery store and a

1002
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 13: lady says, you know, I think when you pull on

1003
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 13: that counter trait, you need a little bit more depth

1004
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 13: on your first stuff. And I'm like, wow, they know

1005
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,400
Speaker 13: our plays, they know our technique, they know everything. So

1006
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 13: that's because of what the guys before me, guys like

1007
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 13: Russ Grim, Jeff Bosti, Jo Jacobe, George Stark, Mark May,

1008
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,879
Speaker 13: We're able to bring Jeff Bosty car center. And by

1009
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 13: the time you know, we got there, we can kind

1010
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:50,320
Speaker 13: of consider it's ourselves some piglets, you know, the young hogs,

1011
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 13: and able to you know, get back to Super Bowl

1012
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 13: after the ninety one season and win it in Super

1013
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 13: Bowl twenty six in January of ninety two. Was a

1014
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 13: great feeling because that's you know, I had some roommates

1015
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 13: at Ohio State. You know, Pepper Johnson, he wanted with

1016
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,479
Speaker 13: the New York Giants, Mike Thoms, Thatch, you know, wanted

1017
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:10,239
Speaker 13: with a backup quarterback with the Chicago Bears. John Frank

1018
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 13: was a tight end on our team, and he won

1019
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 13: a couple with the forty nine ers. I'm like, man,

1020
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:16,360
Speaker 13: you know, eight and eighths. You know, it's okay, but

1021
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 13: I want to win the Super Bowl. And finally I

1022
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:20,360
Speaker 13: got to the Redskins and that dream came true.

1023
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:24,319
Speaker 1: Jim Joe Gibbs, we probably don't discuss him enough when

1024
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 1: we're talking about the greatest coaches. What made him so great.

1025
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 13: The way he developed relationships with the players. He had

1026
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:32,359
Speaker 13: everybody bought in, you know, and this is a guy

1027
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 13: that never swore in his life, you know, and he

1028
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 13: just used better words all the time. And if he

1029
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:38,839
Speaker 13: would say buns, we knew that.

1030
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:39,359
Speaker 5: He was mad.

1031
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 13: You know, that was just just the way he was.

1032
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 13: I mean, he was just a great communicator. And you

1033
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 13: never you know, you never really got in our way.

1034
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 13: He just he developed a leadership team and you know,

1035
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 13: we would meet with him, you know, once or twice

1036
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 13: a month, talk about guys on the team, talk about

1037
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:57,359
Speaker 13: who we need to pull up. And that's the way

1038
00:43:57,400 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 13: he did it. He goes, hey, I'm gonna let you guys,

1039
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:02,280
Speaker 13: And then, you know, our Super Bowl year, we started

1040
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 13: having our own private, you know, team only meetings and

1041
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 13: the coaches would leave, and you know, at first they

1042
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 13: all kind of looked as like, what do you guys

1043
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 13: are doing? Well once he started loving and oh, they

1044
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:11,720
Speaker 13: just got.

1045
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 5: Up and left.

1046
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 13: You're like, you guys would do what you're doing, and

1047
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,799
Speaker 13: he goes, hey, are you guys are running this team?

1048
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:18,359
Speaker 13: And you know that's kind of the way you made

1049
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 13: it feel. It's like, you know, we'll put you in position.

1050
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 13: But people forget. He was a great offensive coordinator, you

1051
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:27,320
Speaker 13: know when he worked for Don Corriel. That's another funny story.

1052
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 13: When I got traded to the to the chart from

1053
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:32,400
Speaker 13: the Chargers to the Raiders and then too the Redskins.

1054
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:34,440
Speaker 13: You know, he threw me the playbook on a Tuesday

1055
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:36,319
Speaker 13: and I started looking through it and I'm like, well,

1056
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 13: these are all the same places that Don Corriel ran.

1057
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 13: So he goes, you know, the next day, he comes thinking,

1058
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 13: what do you think of the playbook? I said, well,

1059
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 13: I think there's a lot of plagiarism in the NFL.

1060
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 13: And he goes, what do you mean. I go, well,

1061
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 13: these are all the same things we run in San Diego.

1062
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:50,360
Speaker 13: And he goes, well, we use different techniques. I go,

1063
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:52,280
Speaker 13: I'm sure you do. You've won a few Super Bowls

1064
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 13: and you know that kind of escaped this there in

1065
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:56,759
Speaker 13: San Diego. But just a great human being, a guy

1066
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:58,239
Speaker 13: that you wanted to work for, the guy that you

1067
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:00,839
Speaker 13: wanted to show up, work hard every day. You know,

1068
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 13: it was full good. We never got to go out

1069
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 13: in shorts and shorter pads like the guys are today.

1070
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 13: It was always full pads two a days. We grinded,

1071
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 13: but if we didn't grind, we fell off. So we

1072
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 13: kind of knew that that had to be our formula,

1073
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 13: you know, go twenty twenty five plays, real hard, and

1074
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,319
Speaker 13: that was a good formula for us. But he put

1075
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 13: us in great positions. You know, he would have two

1076
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 13: three hour offensive install meetings on Wednesday morning and at

1077
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 13: the end he goes, Okay, now, if all this works

1078
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 13: and you work hard on this, this is going to

1079
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:28,840
Speaker 13: be the touchdown play.

1080
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 2: You know.

1081
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:31,279
Speaker 13: In the first week I'm there, I'm like, you know,

1082
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:33,320
Speaker 13: sure enough, on Sunday we'd run the play and it

1083
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:34,280
Speaker 13: scores a touchdown.

1084
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 1: You know.

1085
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 13: The next week, same thing. You know, he calls that

1086
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:38,799
Speaker 13: play that he talked about was going to be it's

1087
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:41,360
Speaker 13: a touchdown, and we're like, just get to the touchdown

1088
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:43,279
Speaker 13: plays right away, you know, don't worry about all this

1089
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:46,880
Speaker 13: stuff setting it up. But great offensive mind. And you know,

1090
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,720
Speaker 13: he worked extremely hard. Like I said, he called the plays.

1091
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Speaker 13: He's on the sideline communicating with quarterback making sure that

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Speaker 13: all that was going to happen. So not only a

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Speaker 13: great coach, but a great offensive line to fight the matchups.

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Speaker 13: You know that he thought that we could expose.

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Speaker 1: One more for you, Jim, you're part of the Buckeye

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Speaker 1: Radio network.

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Speaker 2: Of course.

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Speaker 1: What about college football the way it is right now?

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Speaker 1: How do you make sense of it? Where's it going?

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Speaker 1: Do you think?

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Speaker 13: Well, you knew it, you know the way the TV

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Speaker 13: came in. You know we're radio, but the way the

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Speaker 13: TV came in and started, you know, really throwing all

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Speaker 13: the money. You know, you can only build so many facilities,

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Speaker 13: you can only have so many eight to nine ten million.

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Speaker 1: Dollars a year.

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Speaker 13: Coaches, players started, they needed their share, and finally that

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Speaker 13: came around a few years ago, and I think some

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Speaker 13: teams are kind of slowed to move towards it, you know,

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Speaker 13: but then they got these systems set up, they got

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Speaker 13: the community to buy into it. And now that you're

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Speaker 13: seeing all these players, all these teams are you know,

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Speaker 13: are starting to work it out, and you know, it's

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Speaker 13: it's they still have to get some guardrails up. It's

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Speaker 13: not a perfect system. There's some guys making a lot

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Speaker 13: of money and some guys are making nothing. So you know,

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Speaker 13: with a salary cap, things like that, you know, I

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Speaker 13: think that they can do some things to college football

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Speaker 13: to make it where everybody can get kind of have

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Speaker 13: a piece of the action. But hey, it's a great opportunity.

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Speaker 13: My son Luke had a benefit ed when he was

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Speaker 13: with the Iowahawk guys under Kirk parents. They got a

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Speaker 13: better from Nil and you know, we just kind of smiled.

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Speaker 13: I'm like, you were making more than some of the

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Speaker 13: rookies did, you know when I was playing in the league.

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Speaker 13: But now it's a great thing now, and you know,

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Speaker 13: Ryan Day does a great job of, you know, kind

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Speaker 13: of making sure that the guys that have worked hard.

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Speaker 13: You know, obviously Jeremiah Smith one of the top receivers

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Speaker 13: in the country, he's gonna be one of the highest

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Speaker 13: paid guys. And the guys understand its production. You know,

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Speaker 13: you got to go out there and produce, and if

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Speaker 13: you produce, you're gonna get paid now in the college game,

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Speaker 13: much like the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Outstanding, Jim, thanks so much for your time anytime. Mark,

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Speaker 1: there's Jim Leche, former member of the Hogs for Washington

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Speaker 1: and Luke. Lasche's dad Luke in camp with the Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans should be playing against the Lions tomorrow at noon

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Speaker 1: and we can't wait preseason finale. It's gonna be fun.

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Speaker 1: We'll be on the air at nine AM with Texans

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Speaker 1: thirteen Noonkick with Johnny Harris and Andy Kalou in the

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Speaker 1: booth with Kevin Coogler Shelby Coppage on the sideline. So

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Speaker 1: whichever way you can boom the game, enjoy it. Let's

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Speaker 1: have some fun. Thanks so much for listening to this show. Tonight,

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Speaker 1: Area forty five is coming up. Go Texans.