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Speaker 1: Oh, what's up? Everybody?

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Speaker 2: Welcome into a Friday editione at Texans All Ax. I'm

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Speaker 2: your host, John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter for your

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Speaker 2: Houston Texans, and man, do we have a fun show

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Speaker 2: for you this evening. Antonio Smith the Ninja sits down

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Speaker 2: with nd Kolu. All right, listening to this thing, I

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Speaker 2: had to because well, ninja can get loose, if you

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Speaker 2: know what I mean, and on the radio that sometimes

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Speaker 2: isn't great, but it is fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Get his great stuff.

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Speaker 2: He talks about his time getting drafted, He talks about

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Speaker 2: cultivating's relationship with teammates and coaches, which is really really good,

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Speaker 2: and he talks about his time here in Houston, but

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Speaker 2: he starts off kind of how he gets into the NFL. Indeed,

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Speaker 2: does a great job of this interview. Take a list

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Speaker 2: in Texans OG podcast Indie Kalu with Antonio Smith.

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Speaker 3: I am Indi Kalu sitting here with one of my

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Speaker 3: favorite Texans. I'm not just saying that because he's on

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Speaker 3: the OG podcast, but it's because he wore my number

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Speaker 3: were a little bit better than I did, and he

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Speaker 3: was a guy that I just really enjoyed watching when

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Speaker 3: I retired. Loved the way he played the game, his

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Speaker 3: attitude and everything he brought to it. Antonio Smith defensive

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Speaker 3: end d lineman because he could play all five positions,

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Speaker 3: joined us of the OG podcast.

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Speaker 4: What's going on, Ninja?

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Speaker 5: Hey man? What's going on out there?

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Speaker 3: Same old same here in Houston? All right, let the

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Speaker 3: people know where are you? Where's home? I see the

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Speaker 3: beautiful backdrop with all the awarded footballs and trophies, and

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Speaker 3: I see that. So where's home right now?

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Speaker 6: Still back in Oklahoma? You know, as soon as I

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Speaker 6: left Houston, I came back home.

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Speaker 5: What is it about I always had my rancher, but

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Speaker 5: I just went back.

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Speaker 4: To my Okay, why not in Texas?

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Speaker 3: Like you were one of the few guys I was

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Speaker 3: hoping would have retired to Texas.

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Speaker 4: So what is it about Oklahoma that stole your heart?

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Speaker 6: I would say, it's just home, you know, fam.

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Speaker 5: But it was really close, Like it was really close.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 6: I love Houston and I was really really fighting back

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Speaker 6: and forth with where I was gonna stay. And then

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Speaker 6: you know, family and my kids and had to get

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Speaker 3: Makes sense, makes sense to talk about your playing this

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Speaker 3: because one thing I talked about your intensity, you know,

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Speaker 3: not just getting after the passer, but the way you

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Speaker 3: played the run, the passion. I'll never forget when you

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Speaker 3: got after what's that guy's name, He made a name

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Speaker 3: for himself being a bully. Yes, like I actually wanted

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Speaker 3: to jump out of the scenes and have your back, but

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Speaker 3: just kind of talk about what was your approach going

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Speaker 5: It kind of changed throughout the years, you know.

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Speaker 6: When I first started off in Arizona, we had like

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Speaker 6: a little crew that that kind of made a name

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Speaker 6: for ourself as being you know, old school grid iron,

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Speaker 6: and it kind of just stuck. It kind of stuck

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Speaker 6: with me, you know, just being aggressive, let my personality

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Speaker 6: same time having fun and smiling. You know that the

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Speaker 6: fun is smiling kind of came out more in Houston,

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Speaker 6: you know, but it was a bit of a mixture there.

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Speaker 6: It's just part of my personality. I would say.

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Speaker 3: I think one of the reasons why I felt like

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Speaker 3: you had and I was a fifth round pick. You

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Speaker 3: were a fifth round pick. And did you kind of

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Speaker 3: have that chip on your shoulder coming into the league, like,

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Speaker 3: hold on, I know I'm better than this guy and

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Speaker 3: he went before me. Or what was kind of like

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Speaker 3: prove some some of the people that passed on you wrong.

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Speaker 6: Oh, definitely, definitely I had a chip on my shoulder

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Speaker 6: when I first came in the league. I think Arizona

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Speaker 5: You know, here in the next round, so be by

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Speaker 6: There waiting, you know, and the whole day went by.

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Speaker 5: Now? When I first got his first call, it was excitement.

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Speaker 6: By the time he called me that second time, I

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Speaker 6: to me, you know, it's still a tremendous opportunity, but

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Speaker 6: I was kind of like, yeah, whatever, man, okay, you know,

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Speaker 6: When I got down there, it was kind of still

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Speaker 5: Man, I had that chip on my.

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Speaker 6: Shoulder really really carried a lot of weight in my heart.

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Speaker 6: And it was one time Denny Green kind of noticed it.

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Speaker 6: You know, hats out to Denny Green. Man.

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Speaker 5: He really went to bat for me.

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Speaker 6: He kind of noticed him coming in late, not carring

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Speaker 6: fighting coaches us and coaches everything, you know, and and he, uh,

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Speaker 6: he asked me this question about how do I feel

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Speaker 6: now about you know, where I was drafted at.

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Speaker 5: You know that I think that I deserve, you.

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Speaker 6: Know more, And I asked him and I answered, I said, yeah,

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Speaker 6: I'm looking at the guys, you know, I'm on the

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Speaker 6: I'm on the practice squad, and I'm getting down through

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Speaker 6: that with the starters, you know, and I'm saying some

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Speaker 5: Know, wasn't no, wasn't wasn't.

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Speaker 6: Doing at the same time, you know, at the same

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Speaker 6: you know, holding that position of being a starter all

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Speaker 6: start in the league, and as I looked at it,

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Speaker 6: I knew it was a lot of work I had

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Speaker 6: I kind of let the chip on my shoulder go

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Speaker 6: and I just went in the grind mode.

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Speaker 5: At that time.

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Speaker 6: It was all just I'm gonna fight anybody, just out

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Speaker 6: on deserve to be here.

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Speaker 5: Ain't nobody finna punk me? You know it was, it was.

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Speaker 5: It was on that kind of level.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to Antonio Smith with Indy klu on the

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Speaker 2: Texans og.

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Speaker 1: PODCAS and Texans All Access.

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Speaker 3: Man, I love that story, and you know what, I've

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Speaker 3: heard that story and I kind of went through something similar.

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Speaker 3: And to this day, Antonio, I don't know why they

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Speaker 3: call us, why they called you during the draft, because

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Speaker 3: it's not like you have to choose them because I

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Speaker 3: win the fifth round also, and Cincinnati called me and said, hey,

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Speaker 3: we don't think you're going past the third round, but

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Speaker 3: if for some reason you're there, we're gonna take you

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Speaker 3: and kind of like you. But I kept it to

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Speaker 3: myself because something I was like, we'll see, so third

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Speaker 3: round comes and goes then I'm like, Okay, well maybe

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Speaker 3: it's the fourth round. Fourth round comes and goes. Then

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Speaker 3: late in the fifth round, I'm starting to think about

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Speaker 3: going to grad school and going to the military. Then

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Speaker 3: I finally got that call from Ray Roads in Philadelphia.

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Speaker 3: But and I've had other guests on and they tell

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Speaker 3: me that other people will teams will call players, and

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Speaker 3: I just don't know why they do it, Like, can

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Speaker 3: you explain to me why would you call a player

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Speaker 3: that you don't have to convince him because if you

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Speaker 3: draft him, he has to go there anyway.

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 6: I think it's our for show, you know, That's what

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Speaker 6: it kind of feels like, you know, it's all for

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Speaker 6: show because if.

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Speaker 5: Another team did draft me, ain't nothing I could do

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Speaker 5: a show?

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Speaker 6: Why call to uh to reassure me other than you know,

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Speaker 6: like maybe cameras or maybe maybe for show.

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I don't know for the life that Yeah, I still

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Speaker 3: don't know. But it sounds like that was a pivotal

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Speaker 3: part of your career when it was coach Green right,

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Speaker 3: Dennis Green all right, when he when he had that

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Speaker 3: conversation with you, Is that kind of when you when

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Speaker 3: you turned it around mentally.

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Speaker 5: Oh, definitely, because I mean I was I was then

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Speaker 5: late in this. I would be in the wrong and

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Speaker 5: still go off trying to call me out of it.

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Speaker 6: When he took when he took me to side, he

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Speaker 6: put me to the side that day, you know, because

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Speaker 6: they went and got a peppy Zeller. We had fred

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Speaker 6: up to tools, They moved me up to toos and

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Speaker 5: That same day.

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Speaker 6: Now I don't know if it was on purpose or not,

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Speaker 5: Block recognition and the snap counts on two.

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Speaker 6: The ball ain't even snapping and he's the offense which

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Speaker 6: as far as into my shoulder while my arm is

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Speaker 6: still in the ground, separating my shoulder. Oh.

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Speaker 1: I still to this day don't know like man on.

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Speaker 5: Purpose, you know, it was kind of.

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Speaker 6: It had me thinking that for a split second, I

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Speaker 5: So my whole first training camp.

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Speaker 6: I didn't get back to practicing for like that that

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Speaker 6: last preseason game week, and so that's all I had

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Speaker 6: by that time they had already you know, prepared for

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Speaker 6: the worst winning and got Peppy.

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Speaker 5: You know, they went on to still move Fred to

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Speaker 6: End and then they started Peppy over Calvin Page, which

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Speaker 6: I don't understand that either, but I think it was

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Speaker 6: more or less one of them things. With Denny Green

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Speaker 6: in here? It is who gonna make all was here

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Speaker 6: before you pretty much on the chopcolate block. I never

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Speaker 6: seen nobody cut people like Denny Green did, Like he'll

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he had everybody afraid. Only one stuff the only

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Speaker 5: one I see ste up to him with Dexter Jackson.

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Speaker 4: That's awesome. No wonder you were mad they were here.

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Speaker 3: First of all, they drafting you late, then they taking

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Speaker 3: chief shots on you. But that anger, I feel like

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Speaker 3: that helps a lot of the grades. I mean, you

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Speaker 3: had a great career. You don't have forty seven plus

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Speaker 3: sacks in the NFL if you're just an average player.

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Speaker 3: So did that chip help because it sounds like you

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Speaker 3: said you got rid of it when you came to

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Speaker 3: Houston and you bought out in Houston. But did it

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Speaker 3: help you kind of with that nastiness.

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Speaker 4: You have to have.

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Speaker 5: And that chip on my shoulder. It was just automatically

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Speaker 5: To start when Kareem hurt, and that was it. I

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Speaker 6: He came back off for injury and I was just

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Speaker 5: He went off on me. Don't think just because I

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Speaker 6: Yeah, And so we waited till the game comes Saturday.

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Speaker 6: He was hot, and it was kind of like the

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Speaker 5: His name was our call true Luck. He told me

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Speaker 6: So he could he was gonna start because that's how

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Speaker 6: The only ones that ended up still being healthy to

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Speaker 5: That was it.

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Speaker 6: We had one extra guy. We had h extra guy

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Speaker 6: there with us, and we went to the game. I meant,

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Speaker 5: Coach done, it was done. It was done.

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Speaker 6: I mean I'm chasing it down everything, I'm chasing down

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Speaker 6: stuff from the back, you know, I'm I'm trying to

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Speaker 6: make sure that you never don't take me off this

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Speaker 3: Really, that's big. So after that game, you started for

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Speaker 6: I ain't looked back since I've been a start. I

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Speaker 3: That's strong, brother, So tell me this, Yeah, when did

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Speaker 3: I could already tell. When did you tell one of

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Speaker 5: To be honest, I do it every play.

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Speaker 6: So if I make a play, oh, y'all, what I

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Speaker 6: all the time, So I thank you pretty much every play,

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Speaker 6: every play, I did it with my play, you know.

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Speaker 5: And after I make a play, I'm letting you know

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Speaker 4: All right?

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Speaker 2: You've been listening to Antonio Smith along with nd klu

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Speaker 1: Well more for you after the break.

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Speaker 2: But I wanted to go back to something Antonio said

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Speaker 1: Now, before the collective party agreement, you.

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Speaker 2: we got a chance to see this team. They're doing

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Speaker 2: Colar just he's fuming. The first couple of them, he

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Speaker 2: Antonio where he said something and we couldn't hear what

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Speaker 2: I'll show you the dog. I'll let the dog out.

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Speaker 2: And they're having a whole back of Antonio from Bill

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Speaker 2: It did work out well, but Antonio lost it. Now

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Speaker 2: and it's great, but that him talking about releasing the

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Speaker 1: It was, I mean, I was scared to death.

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Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god, the Texas signed this

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Speaker 2: the great free agent signs. He's one we talk about

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Speaker 2: and say that see free ag seeking work. Look at

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Speaker 2: with a chip on his shoulder. As you heard him

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Speaker 2: with Antonio Smith, the Ninja, one of all of our

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Speaker 2: a really important question that I think drove Antonio Smith throughout.

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Speaker 1: His entire career.

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Speaker 3: Do you think they know what they had in you,

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Speaker 6: I think Danny Green, did you know? Because no matter

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Speaker 6: You know, he he kept me.

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Speaker 5: You know, he did.

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Speaker 5: And my hat's off to him, you know. He he

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Speaker 6: Brought me to Houston, and it was like a different feel.

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Speaker 6: He showed me a place that wanted you to be there.

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Speaker 6: You know, this is a place to shout after to

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Speaker 5: Know I'm good, but we're kind of looking for something else,

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Speaker 3: So when you got to Houston, was that the first

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Speaker 3: You're a free agent and they came and got.

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Speaker 5: You a free agent, you know. Okay, So I stayed.

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Speaker 5: I stayed five years of Arizona.

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Speaker 6: I did my exclusive rights tender and stayed that fifth

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Speaker 5: I told him to you.

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Speaker 6: I said, hey, listen, man, I'm finna go here and

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna see what they tell me. And when they

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Speaker 6: I'm a call and tell y'all and you just tell

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Speaker 5: This office until until we work. Gotta did so. I said, okay, yeah, yeah, ye.

445
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Speaker 5: As soon as he walked out the door, I text you, hey, Drew,

446
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,240
Speaker 5: see what Rod Greg just saying. You know, this is

447
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:11,640
Speaker 5: what they say they gonna give us.

448
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:15,880
Speaker 6: I text Drew that Drew texted Ride and Ride gave

449
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Speaker 6: me a college.

450
00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:18,800
Speaker 5: Just started giving me congratulations.

451
00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,520
Speaker 6: And the whole time he was giving me congratulations, I

452
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:25,600
Speaker 6: was like, like this angle was just swelling up in me,

453
00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:30,359
Speaker 6: like you ain't gonna even you ain't gonna even try.

454
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,399
Speaker 6: He was like, Antonio, I'm so proud of you. You know,

455
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Speaker 6: I think I thank you for all you did for

456
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:39,480
Speaker 6: the Cardinal's organization. He said, just look at where you'd

457
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,800
Speaker 6: have made it how far you even came, you know,

458
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,160
Speaker 6: And he said, let me tell you something. Don't ever

459
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:50,840
Speaker 6: try to piss away an opportunity over you know, sentimental emotions.

460
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Speaker 6: This is a great thing for you. This is a

461
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:57,959
Speaker 6: great opportunity for you, you know. And it kind of

462
00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:00,480
Speaker 6: it kind of rained all that in and it brought

463
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:04,040
Speaker 6: it into perspective and I was like, okay. And then

464
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:08,440
Speaker 6: after that, you know, we left, I signed, we left

465
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:13,199
Speaker 6: a dinner, and I mean from day one that I

466
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 6: was at Houston, I was like, this is heaven, Like.

467
00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 5: This is amazing. I go to the grocery store. I

468
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:27,359
Speaker 5: ain't never seen things look like that. I was like,

469
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Speaker 5: this is home.

470
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Speaker 6: This was amazing, man. And I ain't looked back since.

471
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Speaker 6: I still love Ittown come back every year.

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Speaker 4: That's big. That's big.

473
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Speaker 3: It sounds like at least two people, Dennis Green and

474
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Speaker 3: Rock Graves, they gave you some advice that.

475
00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 4: You know that superseded football. Just some that's real talk.

476
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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Don't let the emotion allow

477
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,040
Speaker 3: you to piss away a good deal like that.

478
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Speaker 4: That's pretty impressive.

479
00:24:52,880 --> 00:25:00,679
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, oh yeah, Rod Graves, Denny Green, Frank Bush,

480
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:07,640
Speaker 6: Chad the chaplain at Arizona, you know, Chap the chaplain

481
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:12,399
Speaker 6: in Houston. You know, really really pivotal in my life,

482
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 6: you know, really really pivot on my NFL.

483
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 5: Like before then it was called Dunbar.

484
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,640
Speaker 6: It was my d line coach at OSU, you know,

485
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Speaker 6: who I think is one of the best coaches ever,

486
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:27,600
Speaker 6: the coach, you know. And then once I got to Houston.

487
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,840
Speaker 6: Once I got to Houston, I had this file out

488
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:36,080
Speaker 6: with coach Kohlar, and then coach Cohlar becomes like.

489
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Speaker 5: Pivotal, like like one.

490
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Speaker 6: Of the top guys. I still communicate with him to

491
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Speaker 6: this day.

492
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Speaker 5: You know, I love him. You know, I love all

493
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Speaker 5: my coaches that was down there Houston.

494
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 6: It's like a personal love, you know, a personal relationship.

495
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Speaker 5: You know.

496
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:55,360
Speaker 6: When I went to Denver, that's everybody who was up there.

497
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,960
Speaker 6: And it's just when you find guys like that in

498
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Speaker 6: the NFL.

499
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 5: Who you bond with, it becomes to be more than football.

500
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 6: It was more than football with Denny, it was more

501
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 6: than football with the advice Ride gave me. It's more

502
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:13,119
Speaker 6: than football. With Rick Smith. You know, still communicate Rick Smith.

503
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,440
Speaker 6: It was more than football with all of those guys.

504
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,919
Speaker 6: And I think that if you can find some guys

505
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 6: like that when you're in the league, man, it's it's

506
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:24,679
Speaker 6: its relationships is gonna last you for life.

507
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Speaker 1: You're listening to Antonio Smith with ND Clue on the

508
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Speaker 1: Texans OG podcast right here in Texans All Access.

509
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Speaker 3: Even with those relationships lasting for life, it's still not

510
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:37,159
Speaker 3: the same as when you're playing. How tough was it

511
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,160
Speaker 3: for you to accept when you decided to retire that

512
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,359
Speaker 3: you're not gonna suit up anymore, You're not gonna be

513
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Speaker 3: in that locker room anymore.

514
00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 4: What was that a tough transition for you?

515
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 5: It's more tough now. It wasn't tough then. I was

516
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:50,520
Speaker 5: kind of like.

517
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:56,880
Speaker 6: I was kind of already drifting, like I was checking out,

518
00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 6: you know, my mind was checking out, body hurting.

519
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 5: I never been a guy who be in the training room.

520
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 5: I used to talk about guys.

521
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 6: And that man, why y'all always y'all get here at

522
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 6: five in the morning just to get some ice, just to.

523
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:15,919
Speaker 5: Getting the train. I used to give him hell. But

524
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:19,479
Speaker 5: uh that come the Twust the end of my career,

525
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 5: I was like, man, I gotta get in the hot

526
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 5: tug warm up. I gotta do this, I gotta do that.

527
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 6: So when them you know, something, them pages kind of

528
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 6: getting to me, you know. So, and it was getting

529
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,879
Speaker 6: to me that that I had to spend that time

530
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:44,119
Speaker 6: away from my kids, you know. And I gave those

531
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 6: earlier years all the way dedicated to to football, you know.

532
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:52,920
Speaker 6: So I was kind of I had my mindset and

533
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,400
Speaker 6: I was like, I'm tired. You know. I even told

534
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 6: people maybe two two years before I retire, man, I'm

535
00:27:58,520 --> 00:27:59,160
Speaker 6: getting tired.

536
00:27:59,760 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 5: Yeah.

537
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 6: After I had that long break, after I won the

538
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:06,400
Speaker 6: Super Bowl with the Broncos. You know, it just got

539
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 6: me in that like like I'm done, I'm rested. And

540
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 6: then JJ got hurt and asked me to come back

541
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 6: with the Texan. I ain't had no thought about player,

542
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 6: no football. I was totally checked out. I was totally

543
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,919
Speaker 6: checked out of football. But Rick caught me and asked me,

544
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,360
Speaker 6: and what he did. You know, I was like, all right,

545
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:33,399
Speaker 6: I got you. You know, I come back. I surprised myself,

546
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 6: you know.

547
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, man, I don't know if I'm gonna

548
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 5: get out here.

549
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 6: And I'm like, dang, you can still be guys. You know,

550
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 6: I've been out football this long and long still Okay,

551
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 6: I don't know if it's been a center live. It

552
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 6: probably could block me, but you know it was still fun.

553
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 6: It was still fun whooping up on some of them youngsters.

554
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 6: But when that season was all, I was all the

555
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 6: way done. I was like, all right, yeah, I'm going

556
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 6: home by job a couple of years.

557
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 3: But you said it's tougher now. That's interesting. It's because

558
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 3: your body feels better. So you're like, I could be

559
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 3: out there, or why is it tougher now.

560
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 6: I think it's tougher now because I hit that point

561
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 6: to where competition, you know, that camaraderie, you know, the

562
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 6: brotherhood is missed. You know it's missed. I messed around

563
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 6: and start I work out it this gym called fit.

564
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 6: You know, it's like some stuff I ain't never did before.

565
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 6: It's like that cross fit cardio, live music, jumping around

566
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 6: and you know, I enjoy it just to use it

567
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 6: as a way to do cardio because I can't just

568
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 6: walk on the tread man.

569
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Speaker 5: It's just boring. I didn't do it. And they they

570
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 5: did this competition thing.

571
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Speaker 6: You know, it's like a fit challenge, but it's the

572
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 6: competition and I joined it.

573
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Speaker 5: You know the whole time that just knowing me is

574
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 5: oh todyo. So y'all smiling sweet it is and that, and.

575
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Speaker 6: I got to compete and I realized, like, I missed, man,

576
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 6: I miss compete, you know, I missed testing you know,

577
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 6: my strength. I missed that competition, you know, because these

578
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 6: are regular like small people, and I'm getting aimed because

579
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 6: y'all cheap.

580
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 7: You know, he coming back up, it's coming back. I

581
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 7: ain't never seen me get like that. I'm like, oh, okay,

582
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 7: let me calm down. This is just friendly competition. This

583
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:51,200
Speaker 7: ain't competition competition. Yeah, that's hilarious. So what place did

584
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Speaker 7: you get?

585
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Speaker 5: The first one I ever did? Me and my brother

586
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 5: David Hunter, we wonted. We just kind of compete.

587
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 6: We just kind of compete, didn't each other, you know,

588
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 6: and then for some reason we end up losing the

589
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 6: same amount of weight, and so they gave us like

590
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,479
Speaker 6: cold winners, I guess whatever you call them.

591
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 5: But this last one, I think we took second.

592
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:19,959
Speaker 6: It was a team one, you know, I think it

593
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 6: was three teams, red team, blue, team white teams.

594
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 5: I think we took second.

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Speaker 3: Well that's tough because you already lost the weight from

596
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 3: the first competition, so now you got it, you know,

597
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 3: what I'm saying, So you can only lose so much.

598
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 4: But no, I appreciate that.

599
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 3: When people ask me what I miss most, I probably

600
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 3: get a little too specific, but I want to get

601
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 3: your feel on this. I really miss flying home from

602
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 3: an away game after a victory, just kind of that

603
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 3: all the work we put in, you know, came to realization,

604
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 3: your body's still a little sore, but you actually won.

605
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 3: And back then when I played, we could still you know,

606
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 3: sneak a little drinking drink on the plane, so it

607
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 3: was like a party coming back. But that for some reason,

608
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 3: like I really missed that known.

609
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Speaker 6: As you bring that up that that is some of

610
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 6: the best time time in the league.

611
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 5: It is.

612
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 4: Yep, it is.

613
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 5: Matter of fact.

614
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 6: I had some of the best debates in conversations on them,

615
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 6: playing on them, playing ride back after victory.

616
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 5: Yes, and everybody saw stuff.

617
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 6: Now we still was doing it, okay, hey, you know

618
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 6: it was people was figuring out clever ways to pull

619
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Speaker 6: that one off.

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Speaker 5: Boy.

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Speaker 3: Oh, we had the gatorade bottles full of the clear

622
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 3: drinks and we just told them it was the frost,

623
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 3: the frost flavored gatorade. So but they didn't really I

624
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 3: think back because My last year was two thousand and eight,

625
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 3: so back then I think the coaches knew, but they

626
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 3: just had to make the speech that it wasn't allowed.

627
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 3: But now you got I don't know if you heard

628
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 3: the story some punter, out of all the positions in

629
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 3: the world, punters messing it up for everybody in Jacksonville.

630
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 3: He got drunk and started filling up the flight attendant.

631
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 3: So I think the NFL is about to really cracked down.

632
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Speaker 5: Oh man, this is new. This is something that just

633
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 5: came up.

634
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 4: Yeah.

635
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 3: I just read about it maybe a week or two ago,

636
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 3: and I remember just shaking my head saying, it's one

637
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 3: thing that a defensive end messes it up for everybody,

638
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 3: but a freaking punter, like you know, punter getting too drunk.

639
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 4: And now they're really gonna crack down on it.

640
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 5: Now, I'm gonna tell you they get damn.

641
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 4: The kickers and punters.

642
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 5: Kickers and punters get damn. I'm not gonna say what.

643
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna say who, but I've seen I've seen

644
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Speaker 6: instance whatever.

645
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Speaker 1: You know.

646
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 6: You know, the kickers and punters and long snappers carry

647
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 6: that big old bag supposed to have a whole bunch

648
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 6: of different types of footballs in it, the kicks and all.

649
00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I've seen I've seen it where that bag

650
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 5: was full of birds the whole practice. They over there

651
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 5: getting drunk, kicking.

652
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 6: Trick shots and making them at practice, at practice, you know. So,

653
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 6: and then on the planes, man, you'll be surprised at

654
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 6: how cool and how fun and how much those kickers

655
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Speaker 6: and punters get.

656
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 5: Down because they, to be honest, all you gotta do.

657
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 6: Is is a few times out of the game, kick the ball,

658
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 6: snap the ball. But the snapper dude gotta run down

659
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:42,319
Speaker 6: to make tackle sometimes and sometimes a punterter. But other

660
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 6: than that, you don't really need to be and tip top,

661
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 6: tip top shape. You can get drunk every day if

662
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 6: you want to still be able to still be able

663
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Speaker 6: to do your job.

664
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Speaker 3: You know, I'm a team player, but for some reason,

665
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 3: maybe it's the hater of me. In my twelve years,

666
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 3: I don't think I ever got close to a punter

667
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 3: or a kicker. And it was mainly because when we

668
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 3: was out there grinding during two a days and the

669
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 3: hot sun, you look over to their field and they're

670
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,399
Speaker 3: practicing their golf swing, and you know, kick a few

671
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 3: field goals. To me if you're a field goal kicker

672
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 3: if it's fifty and then you better be one hundred

673
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:27,280
Speaker 3: percent automatic. Like, We've had a couple quote unquote win games,

674
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 3: and I wasn't high five of them. I was like, man,

675
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 3: you're supposed to do that, So I probably should have

676
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 3: done like you and got to know some of them

677
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:35,399
Speaker 3: if they partying like that.

678
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, man, I got to know a lot of

679
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 6: them throughout the years.

680
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 5: You know, hey, that's some of the best guys to

681
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 5: party with.

682
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 3: I'm gonna lie, I'm gonna take your word on that

683
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:50,880
Speaker 3: all right here in Houston, some of the man, we

684
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 3: had some special seasons when you were here. Can't you

685
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 3: talk about that D line? What was the D line

686
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 3: group that you really felt like, this is the best

687
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 3: for guys to put their in the dirt together.

688
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:04,280
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be honest.

689
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:11,840
Speaker 6: That year a Wade came and we had a healthy Mario,

690
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 6: we would have shredded through the league. I mean it

691
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 6: was them first five games, it was like no contest.

692
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 6: All it took was for shap and Andre to make

693
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 6: that little long connection two times and get us up by.

694
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 5: Ten points and it was it was done. You know

695
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:37,319
Speaker 5: what I mean?

696
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 6: It was done for us to get the pass. Rest

697
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 6: of the rest of the game, it was done. It

698
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 6: was me, JJ, Mario, Sean, Cody, and Nose and he rotated.

699
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 4: With ear Mitchell.

700
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:55,799
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's rotated with Earth. I called him Earl.

701
00:36:55,560 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 6: The goat many a big girl girl, big girl. But yeah,

702
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 6: I'm telling you, I don't know. I don't He just

703
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:08,760
Speaker 6: had wages, had that magic.

704
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 5: You know.

705
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,919
Speaker 6: How I felt about it was is that the one

706
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:16,400
Speaker 6: thing I knew he did that I had not experienced

707
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 6: before then is he would kind of see the attributes

708
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:23,799
Speaker 6: that we all had and then make the defense fit

709
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 6: around it.

710
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 5: He didn't make.

711
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 6: Players have to fit into a certain box, you know,

712
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,399
Speaker 6: to play the defense, and it might take them out

713
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 6: of the way they play the game.

714
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 4: You know.

715
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,760
Speaker 6: So when he wanted Mario to stand up, which Mario

716
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,799
Speaker 6: never stood up before, he let Mario do it in

717
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 6: a unique way. You know, when JJ first started off rushing,

718
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 6: he was when you put him at that five technique,

719
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 6: even in the run, you know, he was dangerous. So

720
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 6: Wade changed the defense up a little bit to to

721
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 6: form a four hour into a five, you know, to

722
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 6: give JJ that pass rush ability on rundowns and pass downs,

723
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 6: you know, so that type of freedom and ways defense

724
00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 6: just it just let us off the change.

725
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 3: I can't believe. I don't remember. I didn't realize so

726
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 3: at one point, you, JJ, and Mario, we're all on.

727
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,280
Speaker 4: The yeah, in the same meeting room.

728
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 5: Mm hmm.

729
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 4: I did not.

730
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 3: Realize that how many years were y'all together, the three

731
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 3: of y'all together, that it was.

732
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 5: That one year because Mario got hurt game five, week

733
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 5: five and after that he went to Buffalo.

734
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 4: That's right, that's right.

735
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 3: And the deal that Buffalo gave him he could look

736
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 3: similar to what Graves told you, Mario could he couldn't

737
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 3: turn that deal down. That was one of the first

738
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 3: one hundred million dollar deals going to a d lineman

739
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:57,800
Speaker 3: you know at that time. But man, could you imagine

740
00:38:57,840 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 3: if y'all had a chance to play two three years

741
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 3: to get growing together with you leaders.

742
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 5: With Mark Me, Mario and JJ and Wade's defense.

743
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 4: That'd have been a dynasty on that side.

744
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:15,439
Speaker 5: Of the ball.

745
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:22,439
Speaker 6: Because I think starting off that year, Mario first five games,

746
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:24,799
Speaker 6: to think he had first four games, think he had

747
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 6: five sacks.

748
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:27,439
Speaker 5: To the fifth game he got hurt and he didn't

749
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 5: have no sack. JJ had like four.

750
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:33,399
Speaker 6: I had like twenty half three, you know, just kind

751
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:36,319
Speaker 6: of starting the season off, and it was almost like

752
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:40,239
Speaker 6: just a free fall. It's like it was almost like

753
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:41,839
Speaker 6: who's gonna be the first one to get there?

754
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:45,919
Speaker 5: Right if a team go to pass? It was done

755
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:47,760
Speaker 5: that year, you know, it was done.

756
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:49,839
Speaker 4: That's awesome. That's awesome right there.

757
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:54,319
Speaker 3: You know, I played obviously with Mario his rookie year,

758
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 3: so I was there from six to eight. I always

759
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 3: felt like the fans did you get the sense of

760
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 3: he didn't really give him his credit or or people

761
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 3: around Houston didn't really appreciate him as much as they

762
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 3: could ever should have.

763
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 5: I think that's the reason why he left, you know.

764
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 6: To me, when I got there, Mario became me and

765
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 6: Mario like this family, like this, he's still my brother

766
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:20,239
Speaker 6: for this day.

767
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 5: And I was sitting I would talk to him.

768
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,440
Speaker 6: He kind of expressed him kind of how he felt

769
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 6: about how they treated him earlier on, you know, in

770
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 6: Houston and Michael Irvin's comments, you know, to the media

771
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 6: and people kind of piggybacking off of that and never

772
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 6: giving him a chance to heal, and because he was

773
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 6: a first round pick.

774
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:52,120
Speaker 5: Over you know, which everybody in Houston wanted, you know, it.

775
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 6: Just it just made it to where, you know, they

776
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:57,480
Speaker 6: kind of had that bad taste name oft and I

777
00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 6: think right that year I came to the year he

778
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,319
Speaker 6: first went to the Pro Bowl. Right before I got there,

779
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 6: he went to the Pro Bowl. And then at that

780
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 6: next year, you know, it was even more expectation. It

781
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,759
Speaker 6: was like, finally he is paid off this first round

782
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 6: draft pick. And then they put even more expectations on

783
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 6: them that next day and we had like.

784
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:21,320
Speaker 5: A down year.

785
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:25,359
Speaker 6: But then when Wade came, I've seen Mario kind of

786
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 6: open up, you know, and blossom, and he started to

787
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 6: gain that confidence in that and that fearlessness and that aggression.

788
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 5: You know that you know, being free, you know you

789
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:38,880
Speaker 5: can be free.

790
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 6: You ain't gotta worry about the fans and the people

791
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 6: outside of football. You know, it started to come out

792
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:45,799
Speaker 6: that year.

793
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 2: Man, that was awesome stuff in d Clue and Antonio Smith,

794
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 2: I love ding just talking about that twenty eleven defense

795
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:56,799
Speaker 2: and what they felt like at the time they had

796
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 2: before Mario Williams got hurt.

797
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 1: And then when he came back in twenty sixteen, Man,

798
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 1: he was really fun to be around. That year.

799
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:04,839
Speaker 2: That was my first year near and around him on

800
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 2: the sidelines. He was He was tremendous that year and

801
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 2: I wish it could have had more years down in

802
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:12,239
Speaker 2: the sideline with him. But it's been good to know

803
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 2: Ninja and appreciate him stopping by in Adi Klu doing

804
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 2: a great, great job with Ninja on that interview and

805
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 2: all the interviews we get from Indie Clue.

806
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 1: All right on Friday, let's close it down.

807
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:26,280
Speaker 2: A lot of news happening throughout the league and otherwise

808
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 2: let's hit that next on Texantal Access.

809
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Speaker 1: What is happening everybody? Welcome back to this.

810
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Speaker 2: Final segment of Texans All Access from Undead Texans Radio Studio.

811
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Speaker 2: I'm your host, John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter for

812
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 2: your Houston Texans. And a reminder, this All Access episode,

813
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814
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815
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818
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 2: yesterday we were talking, I think it was yesterday maybe

819
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:06,239
Speaker 2: the day before the Jacksonville Jaguars had gotten a a

820
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 2: city approval. The city of Jacksonville approved about one point

821
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 2: four somewhere there one point two one point four billion

822
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:20,240
Speaker 2: dollars for renovations to TIAA Bank Stadium.

823
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:22,239
Speaker 1: I think that's what they call now EverBank Stadium. I

824
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 1: think maybe. I don't know.

825
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 2: There's been so many iterations of it, but there were

826
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 2: a lot of talk about the Jaguars moving to London

827
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 2: and all these different things, and the obviously the Jags

828
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 2: had struggled up until twenty twenty two. They ended up

829
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,799
Speaker 2: having this rousing end of the season. Duval County was

830
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:39,359
Speaker 2: hot again. They win a playoff game at home after

831
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:41,479
Speaker 2: coming back from like twenty seven to twenty eight down,

832
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 2: and they get the division round. They lose to the Chiefs,

833
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 2: but man also well met him. They got this former

834
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:50,280
Speaker 2: number one overall quarterback who's hitting Trevor Lawrence.

835
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: What are they gonna do? Man, It's gonna be awesome.

836
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 2: They struggled down to stretch I mentioned yesterday Shod Cohn

837
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:59,760
Speaker 2: called the finish last year one in five a organized

838
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 2: say rational disaster, and it was and shot takes uh,

839
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:08,000
Speaker 2: he takes his level of responsibility in that being the

840
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:10,880
Speaker 2: owner of that squad. Well, Jacksonville. I'm bringing all this

841
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:15,839
Speaker 2: up for reason. Jacksonville ends up signing Josh Allen their

842
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 2: star defensive player. They end up signing Trevor Lawrence, their

843
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 2: star quarterback, and then the mayor, Donna Degan, presented a

844
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 2: plan a couple of days later to the city which

845
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 2: was then approved for renovations in Jacksonville to keep the

846
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:35,480
Speaker 2: Jaguars in Jacksonville for I think the next thirty years.

847
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:37,839
Speaker 2: And it's gonna look sweet when that thing's done. One

848
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 2: point two to one point four billion dollars. Now bring

849
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 2: it up because there's talk about the Chiefs moving from

850
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:49,880
Speaker 2: Kansas City, Missouri to Kansas City, Kansas.

851
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 4: Well.

852
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:54,759
Speaker 1: On Thursday, Missouri Governor Mike Parson said he expects the

853
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 1: state to put together an aid plan by the end

854
00:44:57,120 --> 00:44:58,759
Speaker 1: of the year to try to keep the Chiefs and

855
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 1: Royals from be being lured across state lines to new

856
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 1: stadiums in Kansas. Missouri's renewed efforts come after Kansas approved

857
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:09,239
Speaker 1: The state of Kansas approved a plan last week the

858
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 1: finance up to seventy percent of the cost of new

859
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: stadiums for both the Chiefs and the Royals.

860
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:21,360
Speaker 2: Parson said on Thursday, We're gonna make sure that we

861
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 2: put the best business deal we can on the line

862
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 2: for the Chiefs and for the Royals. He said, I

863
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:29,600
Speaker 2: can't blame Kansas for trying. If I was probably sitting there,

864
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 2: I'd be doing the same thing. But at the end

865
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 2: of the day, we're gonna be competitive. So different things

866
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:41,440
Speaker 2: trigger stadium improvements, renovations, builds, whatever the case might be.

867
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 1: In Jacksonville, the people of Jacksonville needed to see.

868
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 2: That the Jaguars worriedly git player a legit NFL competitive

869
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:54,319
Speaker 2: franchise year in and year out. Well, how do you

870
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 2: approve that? Well, you're growing develop one of the better

871
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 2: pass rushers in the league, and Josh Allen you draft.

872
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 2: You have the fortunate opportunity to draft Trevor Lawrence and

873
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 2: he turns into a really solid player, give him a

874
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:08,760
Speaker 2: lot of money, you ensure the future of Jacksonville. Present

875
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 2: the plan for the house that Trevor built, because that's

876
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:13,879
Speaker 2: essentially what it is.

877
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:17,240
Speaker 1: So in Kansas City, it was a little different.

878
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 2: Missouri waited for Kansas City, the state of Kansas to

879
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:21,880
Speaker 2: make a play.

880
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:24,920
Speaker 1: When they did Missouri's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoah, woah,

881
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:26,719
Speaker 1: you're not taking us. They got threatened.

882
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 2: Now Missouri's back on board, So we'll see what ends

883
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Speaker 2: up getting done in Kansas City. Whether it's Kansas City,

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00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:36,360
Speaker 2: Kansas or Kansas City, Missouri, whichever side of the border

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Speaker 2: you're on, everybody gets all confused because they always say, oh,

886
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 2: you're going to Kansas City, Kansas play. No, no, no, it's

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00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 2: Kansas City, Missouri, where the Chiefs and the Broyles both play.

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00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 2: But on the other side of the border, it's Kansasity, Kansas,

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00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 2: where the state of Kansas is now looking to pull

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00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:53,359
Speaker 2: the Chiefs and Royals over there.

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Speaker 1: So both those teams are sitting in a good position.

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00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: Why well, because the Chiefs are winning championships. They're one

893
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:01,800
Speaker 1: of the most well run organizations in the league.

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Speaker 2: And now there is a state that is saying, hey,

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Speaker 2: come to our side of the border, whereas the state

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00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:11,839
Speaker 2: there right now saying no, no, no, no, don't worry, we'll

897
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Speaker 2: take care of you Stan on our side of the border.

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Speaker 2: Interesting stadium build and renovation dynamics happening in the NFL.

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00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 2: That's just the NFL, but all over the place Yeah,

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00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 2: Las Vegas trying to build a stadium for the A's

901
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 2: and baseball and all this stuff.

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Speaker 1: That goes on.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting how sports and politics seem to mix.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of politics, we are talking about it. Ah.

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Speaker 2: We'll see you on Monday, everybody, Mark will be back.

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Speaker 2: A big thanks to Indie Kolu, to our guy Ninja Smith,

907
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 2: he was absolutely awesome. Antonio Smith wish he were still

908
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:44,440
Speaker 2: in Houston, but he makes his trips down here every

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Speaker 2: now and again. But great stuff from those two gentlemen.

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Speaker 2: Really appreciate it. To all you've listened all week and tonight,

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00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 2: thank you so much. We will see you on Monday,

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Speaker 2: as I said, and as always, go Texans