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Speaker 1: The newest member of the Houston Texans is safety Jalen

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Speaker 1: Read from Penn State. Jalen, First things first, congratulations you're

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Speaker 1: a Houston Texan. What was it like hearing that news.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it, thank you. It was feeling, it was

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Speaker 2: feeling felt amazing, you know, just a team that I

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Speaker 2: always wanted to go through since I started the process.

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Speaker 2: I said something about the team at the combine, you know,

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Speaker 2: I told the coach when I was at the combine, like,

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Speaker 2: feel me it'd be a blessing just to had an

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Speaker 2: opportunity to play for that team, you know. And it

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Speaker 2: was just a great feeling. You know. I felt like

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Speaker 2: this draft, it was a little crazy to this draft.

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Speaker 2: I felt like I was slept on and all I

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Speaker 2: needed was one opportunity and I feel like the opportunity

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Speaker 2: came and now I'm gonna do it. I gotta do

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Speaker 2: with it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And once you get here, what do you think

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Speaker 1: you can do on the field for the Houston.

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Speaker 2: And I feel I can do it everything, you know,

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Speaker 2: But I just feel like I'm just gonna contribute to

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Speaker 2: everything that the huge detections provide, you know, if they

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Speaker 2: need me to do whatever, they gotta do. I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: do it.

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Speaker 1: Safety is the position. So what type of safety are you?

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Speaker 2: And I'm versustile safety. I'm an aggressive safety, you know.

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Speaker 2: And it's a lot of safeties in that room that

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Speaker 2: I really didn't learn that and learn from. You know,

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Speaker 2: I'm ready to learn from these safety that's in the

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Speaker 2: room and all the guys that's there. So I'm ready

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Speaker 2: this he what was about?

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Speaker 1: You're part of one of the better Penn State teams

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Speaker 1: of all time. They win thirteen games, they go all

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Speaker 1: the way to the States or excuse me, the National

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Speaker 1: semifinals and play in sixteen games. That's a lot of

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Speaker 1: football experience for you. That's got to be a good thing.

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Speaker 1: As far as what you've seen, what you've been through,

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Speaker 1: I would imagine, right, yeah, for sure. So what's next

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Speaker 1: for you today? How do you celebrate?

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Speaker 2: I'm about to literally go with my family, you know,

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Speaker 2: Chill my family and make sure I got good enough

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Speaker 2: a lot of people around me, and make sure I

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Speaker 2: have a good talent. And you know, it's been a

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Speaker 2: long day, long three days, and it's been a long time,

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Speaker 2: so chill my family, have fun.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit more about Tamiko Ryans in

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Speaker 1: this defense. What impresses you most about the head coach?

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Speaker 2: I just it's not pacifically just a head coaches, specifically

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Speaker 2: the whole team. You know, the head coaching does a

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Speaker 2: great job. I feel like they got a young talented

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Speaker 2: team and that's what they doing a lot of you know,

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Speaker 2: I feel like they got a lot of young talented

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Speaker 2: players ready to develop, you know, a lot of them

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Speaker 2: starting to get paid, you know, And I feel like

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Speaker 2: that's just a great that's a great view as a

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Speaker 2: player trying to come into the NFL and see a

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Speaker 2: young team as a young player, you know it, just

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Speaker 2: give me, give me hope, the opportunity, you know that

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Speaker 2: I can blend in well and do whatever I gotta

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Speaker 2: do for the team.

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Speaker 1: So, yeah, you talk about a lot of young talented players,

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Speaker 1: there's also a lot of young talented rookies whose name

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Speaker 1: starts with j a Y. You got Jayden Higgins, Jalen Knowle,

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Speaker 1: Jalen Smith, and now you Jalen Reed. What's going on

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Speaker 1: with that? What do you think?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Jalens must be the best thing going

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Speaker 2: right now.

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Speaker 1: It's a great name. It's a great name for the Houston,

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Speaker 1: Texans in twenty twenty five. Well, Jalen, we can't wait

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Speaker 1: to see you down here in Houston. Go celebrate with

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Speaker 1: your family, have a great time and best of luck,

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Speaker 1: but sure appreciate it