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Speaker 1: Welcome into Texans All Access from inside the Hunday Texans

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Speaker 1: Radio studio. Hi, I'm your host, DBC do along with

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Speaker 1: Drew Doherty. Mark vander Murer will join us later on

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Speaker 1: and also John Harris. But first, welcome Drew to the studio.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, dep that's nice to be welcomed. It's good

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Speaker 1: to be here. He's probably already been in here like

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Speaker 1: twelve times today. I've been in here a little bit,

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Speaker 1: but not with you, and it's good to be in here.

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Speaker 1: You're doing all right, I'm doing okay. It's free agency. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: lots of news every single day, but just one transaction

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Speaker 1: that is official as far as the team is concerned,

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Speaker 1: and that is the Texans signed tight end Darren Fells. Yes,

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Speaker 1: so I know that news broke a little bit about

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Speaker 1: him yesterday. A team makes an official, but what do

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Speaker 1: you expect to see out of him? I know you're

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Speaker 1: probably gonna write a little something about him as well.

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Speaker 1: It's an interesting acquisition because you have the three already

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Speaker 1: here in Ryan Griffin, the three most notable. There's other

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Speaker 1: guys in the rush, but Ryan Griffin, who's been here

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Speaker 1: since thirteen, and then the two rookies from last year,

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Speaker 1: Jordan Thomas, Jordan Aikins Thomas of course for touch downs

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Speaker 1: Aikins both of them. Aikins and Thomas were receivers at

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Speaker 1: the start of their college careers, and then Thomas didn't

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Speaker 1: become a tight end till last year when when you

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Speaker 1: drafted him. So this is a guy who has played

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Speaker 1: and started, started about twenty three combined games over the

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Speaker 1: last two years, had three touchdowns a piece in each

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Speaker 1: of the last two seasons. Detroit two years ago, Cleveland

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Speaker 1: last year. Really solid blocker, very very athletic guy, six

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Speaker 1: foot seven, two hundred and seventy five pounds, played college

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Speaker 1: basketball Calorvine and then played for about four to five

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Speaker 1: years internationally in places like Finland and Belgium and Argentina

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Speaker 1: and Mexico. So he's he's got a very good life experience.

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Speaker 1: But this is somebody who you now have four guys

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Speaker 1: with significant tight end experience on the roster. Do you

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Speaker 1: remember the last time the Texans had four tight ends

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Speaker 1: on the roster on the active roster? Probably it was

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Speaker 1: probably Kubiak's time when you had Owen Daniels and Anthony

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Speaker 1: of full back a little bit of time. Those guys

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Speaker 1: weren't always active at the same time, but they were

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Speaker 1: kind of on the roster at the same time, so

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Speaker 1: that that would probably be And then you mix in

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Speaker 1: Gay Graham. So yeah, I think they've done it before,

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Speaker 1: and they might have done it since, but that's when

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Speaker 1: I remember it better off, just off the top of

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Speaker 1: my head, all right, free agency is still underway, so

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Speaker 1: I expect that, you know, with all the free agents

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Speaker 1: may hear some more news later on in the weekend. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're you're gunna, there's gonna be some more movement. There's

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Speaker 1: you know, there's gonna be a flurry of movement coming

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Speaker 1: throughout the next few days. I don't know that it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be huge, huge names, but you're gonna see some things.

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Speaker 1: But back to Fells, I don't want to short change

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Speaker 1: this guy, of course. I mean, this guy can play,

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Speaker 1: and this is a very quiet move that the roster's

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Speaker 1: getting better with him in the fold. So at the

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Speaker 1: very minimum, it's it's raised the level of competition. Between

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Speaker 1: those four guys. So U this is a move for

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Speaker 1: the Texans. I think people are gonna be excited about

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Speaker 1: what they see. I think Deshaun Watson is going to

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Speaker 1: be excited about what he can do. And you've got

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Speaker 1: guys now six foot seven in Fells, a big six

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Speaker 1: I mean, massive human beings, massive problems matchup wise to

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Speaker 1: go along with matchup problems, and a guy like DeAndre

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Speaker 1: Hopkins who outmatches everyone, doesn't matter who he plays. Again, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: are ways. So yeah, this is good. You're giving more weapons.

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Speaker 1: What have we heard Brian Gaines say? I want to

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Speaker 1: surround to Shaun Watson with the best weapons and best

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Speaker 1: protection as possible. He's doing the weapons part, he's working

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Speaker 1: on the protection part as well. Just promise, just be patient.

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Speaker 1: It's coming. It's coming to just be patient. That's coming.

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Speaker 1: I'll like it. Drew. I know you. We talk about

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Speaker 1: free agent signings a lot. You and John Harris. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you guys were discussing the best free agent signings on

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Speaker 1: your podcast. Is that up now or will be up soon?

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Speaker 1: It is in the lab went up earlier a day

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Speaker 1: And is it like a bracketology or did you I

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Speaker 1: almost wish you had done that well with this one.

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Speaker 1: You can't because the franchise hasn't been around a long enough.

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Speaker 1: brock Oswiler didn't really work out when they signed him,

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Speaker 1: week end freege, and he was good. He definitely wasn't.

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Speaker 1: But he was released a little bit late. That was

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a surprise when I got released,

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Speaker 1: But it didn't take long for the Texans to sort

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Speaker 1: of snatch him up. Yes, and it was a surprise.

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Speaker 1: It was a surprise when the Texans signed him. It

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Speaker 1: thought out there they wouldn't do it anyways, but they did.

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Speaker 1: But I still think and John agrees, best free agent

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Speaker 1: signing in team history at this time of year, I'm

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Speaker 1: not talking about undrafted rookies. Okay, this time of year

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Speaker 1: you gotta go. And it really wasn't even this time year.

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Speaker 1: It was July because of the lockout. Gotta go with

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Joseph because of course the year before you had

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Speaker 1: the worst past defense since the NFL AFL merger. I

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Speaker 1: That was that was a strong, strong free agent signing.

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Speaker 1: They were, they were signed together, say great double dip

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Speaker 1: that day. And then what do they do in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and eleven with Wade Phillips and with JJ Watt

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Speaker 1: out for five games at outside linebacker. Defense played great,

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Speaker 1: Brian Cushing had the best year of his career, and

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Speaker 1: Johnathan Joseph was a big reason for that, that huge turnaround.

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Speaker 1: And then he's been such a stable force there on

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Speaker 1: it's played in multiple Pro Bowls. He's been the best

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Speaker 1: freedom signing in team history, I think, followed up by

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Speaker 1: Antonio Smith back in O nine. He was a good

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Speaker 1: next runner ups? It was Antonio Smith. And then after that,

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Speaker 1: you can throw in Wade Smith. I mean, Wade Smith

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Speaker 1: lines in team history. You know they're at left guard. Excellent,

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Speaker 1: you sort of forget that he was ever anywhere else

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Speaker 1: was a great signing. And um, it wasn't a coincidence

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Speaker 1: that Arian Foster had had his greatest years once Wade

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Speaker 1: agree with all those. I think Jonathan Joseph and Tonio

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Speaker 1: Totally to great, A lot of fun that we've found

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Speaker 1: about this. We added an addendum onto the podcast too,

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Speaker 1: the greatest collective personality class all over that, oh nine,

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Speaker 1: because you signed Antonio, you signed Sean Cody, you signed

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Speaker 1: and that's that's the great great personality free signings there.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, the nine class they coming strong. Yeah, Antonio

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Speaker 1: Cody on the Nose. I watched all those episodes. Of course,

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Speaker 1: Kareem Jackson off to Denver, so you know, we gotta

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Speaker 1: do some tryouts or something the way you did with

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Speaker 1: on the news for kjack TV. We obviously changed the name,

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Speaker 1: all right. You also answer a lot of questions every

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Speaker 1: week on Dear Drew would have been the popular questions

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Speaker 1: the offensive line. Now, might they signed Donald Pence? A

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Speaker 1: possibility makes sense. You don't know him any You would

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Speaker 1: him just a season ago, he was a pro bowler. Um,

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Speaker 1: improved weapons. Yeah, the more bodies the better, especially you

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Speaker 1: We obviously saw what happened last year with the old line. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: sixteen games. Nasty. I mean, he's he's everything you want

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Speaker 1: could you could throw him in there as a goal

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Speaker 1: they got to get better there. Nobody's denying that. Nobody

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Speaker 1: see that. I think that's gonna go just fine for them,

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Speaker 1: But I don't twelve hundreds, not that much. But don't

426
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Speaker 1: you think they'll rely more on Levon Bell than maybe

427
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Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger did in Pittsburgh, Because yeah, they'll try, but

428
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's gonna work so well because

429
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Speaker 1: everyone's gonna know that Pittsburgh has a lot of other

430
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Speaker 1: guys you gotta pay attention to, like Juju and Antonio

431
00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:12,680
Speaker 1: Brown and good too. Yeah, and it's Ben Roethlisberger throwing

432
00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:14,520
Speaker 1: you the rocket. You can spread it around and Darnold.

433
00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:16,080
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a good quarterback. But I

434
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Speaker 1: think it's a little early, so I'm gonna say no,

435
00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:20,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna gamble on the low side of that. Maybe

436
00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:22,840
Speaker 1: I'm taking too many risks today, but that's the way

437
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Speaker 1: I feel. dB. Do you think he's gonna have a

438
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Speaker 1: career high in attempts? I feel like they're going to

439
00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:29,080
Speaker 1: hand the ball off. Yeah, that could happen, But health

440
00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:31,520
Speaker 1: has sometimes been a concern with him as well, and

441
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Speaker 1: coming off a year off, I'm not so sure it's

442
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Speaker 1: gonna all go swimmingly. We'll see, We'll see, all right.

443
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Speaker 1: I'm surprised about your Odell Beckham junior take. I feel

444
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Speaker 1: like you're the only one that's not excited about that.

445
00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:44,720
Speaker 1: Oh really, Oh I'm not. I think for the Giants

446
00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,960
Speaker 1: that's a tremendous deal. I think for the Browns. Why

447
00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,920
Speaker 1: are you doing this? You don't need to do it.

448
00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:53,640
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been very outspoken about Juice Landry. Yeah,

449
00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:55,879
Speaker 1: so what I feel? You know, you gave up a

450
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Speaker 1: one and a three go draft some people that can

451
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Speaker 1: help you win for a few years. And I know

452
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Speaker 1: Odell oh Odell can do that. Mark, Yeah, I guess so.

453
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Speaker 1: But I'm looking at a guy who I think might

454
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Speaker 1: not be so happy if the ball's not coming his

455
00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:10,640
Speaker 1: way enough, or you know, Mayfield's only in his second year.

456
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Speaker 1: Is he ready to take on that kind of personality?

457
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Speaker 1: I don't like it. I don't like it. It's a

458
00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,280
Speaker 1: lot of strong personalities, but maybe they're all neutral. Yeah,

459
00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:21,040
Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see, all right. The New York Giants

460
00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:24,520
Speaker 1: starting quarterback in Week one is not on the roster.

461
00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:29,240
Speaker 1: It's Eli. Eli is starting still. This is a smoke

462
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Speaker 1: screen for what drafted guy playing him and letting Eli

463
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Speaker 1: be the mentor. Now. I think Eli starting a job

464
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Speaker 1: in camp. Look, we had Deshaun Watson here and Tom

465
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Speaker 1: Savage started week one. I think Eli is going to

466
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Speaker 1: start Week one no matter who the Giants draft, no

467
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Speaker 1: matter what they do with those picks, I think Eli

468
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Speaker 1: is still gonna be the Week one starter. So I

469
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Speaker 1: think a better question is who started? We follow up

470
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Speaker 1: true and false? Eli Manning starts in week seventeen. If false,

471
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Speaker 1: somebody else is going to start that game. So we're

472
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Speaker 1: gonna start with elite and questions. All right, let's give

473
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Speaker 1: him his final start in the Big Apple area or

474
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Speaker 1: something like that. The Giant season is completely imploded. I

475
00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:14,080
Speaker 1: think they have some talent on that roster, not a ton,

476
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Speaker 1: but they do obviously. You know, everyone knows about the

477
00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:21,000
Speaker 1: big names like Sequon Barkley, But to me, I don't

478
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Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a good year for that. Okay,

479
00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins starting QB will be Ryan Fitzpatrick in

480
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Speaker 1: Week one. Now they let Tannehill go, all right, now

481
00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:33,320
Speaker 1: they've got Fitzy. They may draft somebody Fitzy, But did

482
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Speaker 1: they just go with my point about the last question

483
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Speaker 1: with Savage week one? Not that that's an automatic that

484
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Speaker 1: the veteran starts. But they signed Fitzy for a reason.

485
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Speaker 1: I think Fitzy will hold it down until whoever is ready.

486
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Speaker 1: And how many times has Fitzy been in this position

487
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Speaker 1: he has made Don't forget his rookie season was two

488
00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:58,439
Speaker 1: thousand and five, two thousand and five. That is the

489
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Speaker 1: Alex Smith class. You know, that was a long a

490
00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:06,680
Speaker 1: long time. But players love him. Players love the guys

491
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Speaker 1: love him. He's a great in the locker room. I

492
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:10,600
Speaker 1: feel like even if he has to step in or

493
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Speaker 1: in week one or has to step in later for

494
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Speaker 1: whatever reason, people rally around him. He's had quite the career,

495
00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:20,920
Speaker 1: a ton of team until the turnover bug. Oh yeah, No,

496
00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:24,640
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's been awesome, but he is capable

497
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Speaker 1: of putting up some big numbers, all right, final true

498
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Speaker 1: or false? The Jacksonville Jaguars will win more than eight

499
00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:36,520
Speaker 1: games in twenty nineteen. That's a good one. No, they're false.

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Speaker 1: They know they will not win more than I don't

501
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,480
Speaker 1: think so. I think what people don't understand. We got

502
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Speaker 1: nick fo. I understand why people think eight and eight

503
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Speaker 1: is bad. Eight eight is not bad. It's just not good,

504
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,720
Speaker 1: but it's not bad. It's right in the middle. It's hard,

505
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,119
Speaker 1: we see it. It's hard, Bill O'Brien. It's an eight.

506
00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 1: It's hard to win eight games. Forget about the eight losses.

507
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 1: You have to win eight games if you are able

508
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,680
Speaker 1: to win two more than that you're a real good team.

509
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Speaker 1: You're ten and six, You're probably in the postseason. You

510
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,320
Speaker 1: might even win your division with ten and six. That's

511
00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 1: a good squad right there. Every win, every game is

512
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:16,920
Speaker 1: a gigantic building block. Eight games is a lot. That's

513
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,480
Speaker 1: a big improvement for them. I think they can get there,

514
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:20,920
Speaker 1: and I think this will be the kind of season

515
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Speaker 1: for the AFC South where the last place team could

516
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Speaker 1: have eight wins. That's right. I actually think that it'll

517
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:28,360
Speaker 1: be right around there at eight and which is why

518
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Speaker 1: I think that's a tough question to answer. All right, Mark,

519
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:32,879
Speaker 1: thanks so much. We're gonna have John Harris come in

520
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,520
Speaker 1: and break down the new tight end signing. Where does

521
00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:37,600
Speaker 1: he fit in? And is John Harris happy with what

522
00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 1: the skill position players look like on this roster. Where

523
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 1: could the Texans possibly make some additions through the draft.

524
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Speaker 1: That's all coming up in the final segment of Texans

525
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Speaker 1: All Access. Welcome back for the final segment of Texans

526
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Speaker 1: All Access. Joining me now my good friend John Harris. Johnny,

527
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Speaker 1: welcome and thanks for having me in DP. I really

528
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Speaker 1: appreciate being here. This is kind of where I've gone

529
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 1: lately the last couple of days to get away from

530
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Speaker 1: all the issues I've got at home. I talked about

531
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:08,160
Speaker 1: on into Labwa Drew earlier today that you're still without power,

532
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,399
Speaker 1: still without power. This is still I'm just hoping to

533
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 1: get it before the night turns dark so I can

534
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Speaker 1: get back in the house. But either way, I appreciate

535
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:20,240
Speaker 1: the guys working on my tire. Backyard looks like it

536
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:23,119
Speaker 1: looks like a maze because they've had to dig this

537
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 1: trench in my yard because I got un around power lines.

538
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,080
Speaker 1: It's just a mass. And your house, your house is

539
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:29,920
Speaker 1: the only one that had power cut to it, right, Yeah,

540
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 1: just the accidentally my line. So let let me this this, Yeah,

541
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Speaker 1: this will be definitely without power. Yeah, tell you just

542
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 1: a quick story, the power of the Texans. So this

543
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:47,359
Speaker 1: group comes by yesterday and the four minutes from Rosenberg.

544
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Speaker 1: He's like, he tells me he's seventy four years old.

545
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Speaker 1: He's just a sweetheart. He's a really nice guy. And

546
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,880
Speaker 1: so he's got to go down and get the permits

547
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 1: from the city. And so he's got the address already

548
00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:59,119
Speaker 1: and he comes by says, oh, I need I need

549
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Speaker 1: your name, and so I tell him John at first,

550
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 1: and then something kind of happens and takes my attention away.

551
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 1: So I say John, and then I kind of have

552
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 1: to deal with something else real fast. And then he goes,

553
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Speaker 1: what's your last name? And I said Harris and he

554
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 1: starts to write h R and he looks at me

555
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,480
Speaker 1: and then I could see I look him recognition that

556
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:20,119
Speaker 1: was that, and he looked at me. He kind of

557
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 1: pointed in this oldermating thing, I know you, and he

558
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 1: kind of points at me, and I'm just like, I

559
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 1: don't really know what to say. I'm like, yeah, did

560
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 1: you should have cashed? Well? I sort of d I

561
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,240
Speaker 1: kind of did in some sense because the way that

562
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 1: they had to dig the trench, they wanted to dig

563
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 1: into my neighbor's yard, so it was a little bit easier.

564
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Speaker 1: And so I was kind of like, yeah, I can't

565
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Speaker 1: get ahold of my neighbor. I don't know where she is.

566
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Speaker 1: And the foreman, that guy, the seventy four year old,

567
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 1: was like, no, no, you used to do hard work

568
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 1: in his yard. You just do it in his yard.

569
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Speaker 1: You used to do that, and so I was like

570
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 1: all right. He kind of he was kind of making

571
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Speaker 1: sure that everything, you know, stay the way they need

572
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 1: to be. He's like, you guys just work hard and

573
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 1: put it in the right yard, it'll be good. So

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Speaker 1: shout out to the guys that have done the work.

575
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 1: It's taken a while, but hopefully we'll get back up

576
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,919
Speaker 1: and running tonight. Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully by time I get home.

577
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Speaker 1: It's hopefully you have power by the time you get

578
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,200
Speaker 1: home tonight. I hope. So for you, Johnny, you're a

579
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,120
Speaker 1: good sport about it all right. Free agency still underway.

580
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,120
Speaker 1: It seems like so much is changing day to day.

581
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,359
Speaker 1: But I wanted to get your thoughts on tight end

582
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:27,200
Speaker 1: Darren Fells. Texans just added him. How do you think

583
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 1: this affects the tight end group as a whole? We

584
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 1: saw what happened last year with the two rookies and

585
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,680
Speaker 1: two jordans. It's some nice things in the passing and

586
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,439
Speaker 1: the receiving game. You know, what does this mean for

587
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 1: Ryan Griffin or will it just be a bigger tight

588
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,880
Speaker 1: end room that we've seen well, and it's gonna be interesting. Yeah,

589
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 1: they go about it because you know, last year they

590
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 1: had Matt Lengle they brought to training camp and I

591
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:48,640
Speaker 1: thought Matt had a pretty good study, looked really good

592
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 1: in camp and it funny because the one thing I

593
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: expected Matt Okay, they brought Matt Lengle there to block,

594
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 1: like that's what he's gonna do. But then he got

595
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 1: the ball pretty well during training camp, and I thought, man,

596
00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,880
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a really tough cut if they

597
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 1: end up cutting legal. But they decided at that point

598
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:06,200
Speaker 1: that they wanted to go with just with three tight ends,

599
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: and that's been what they've gone with on the fifty three.

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Speaker 1: And I tried to think of a time when they

601
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Speaker 1: went with more than that, and there may be sometime

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00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:16,719
Speaker 1: I can't I don't remember was the only I mean,

603
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,920
Speaker 1: they've had c J. Griffin, Ryan Uh, Steven Anderson for

604
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,159
Speaker 1: a while and then last year had the three. So

605
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,120
Speaker 1: in signing Fells kind of like in bringing in Lego

606
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 1: last year. It doesn't mean that Fells automatically makes the roster,

607
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 1: but my guess is in signing him that they have

608
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,679
Speaker 1: a thought of what they want to do. The one

609
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 1: thing about free agency that has really struck me a

610
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 1: dp is that they've gone after free agents that fulfill

611
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 1: a distinct need. And you know, for Tshaun Gibson, it

612
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: was covering tight ends. For Bradley, Robio was to play

613
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 1: man to man with Brian Buddy Calhoun. It was uh

614
00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: to play inside and to cover inside. And what the

615
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 1: football one on one I drew up was from a

616
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: play in which the Browns played the Broncos and they

617
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 1: in the the Broncos tried to run on almost exact

618
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 1: similar plays with the Eagles ran against us, and the

619
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 1: Eagles ran all kinds of pick routes, and it was

620
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 1: like that play I found it was like, oh man,

621
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 1: he could beat the pick route. I don't know that

622
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,479
Speaker 1: was maybe a little bit too grand neither. But they

623
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 1: seem like they brought They've brought guys here for specific reasons,

624
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 1: and I know that's what teams doing free agency, but

625
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 1: you know some guys you signed just well, we need

626
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 1: a left tackle. But it felt like they're like, we

627
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 1: need a safety, but we want the safe. And it

628
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 1: feels like with Fells, we want to tight end that

629
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 1: is going to be able to hold his own in

630
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 1: the in the run game, but also be a pass blocker.

631
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Speaker 1: And so I was. I watched that same Broncos Browns

632
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,600
Speaker 1: game because I'd already watched it with Body Calhoun, so

633
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: I figured, all right, let me go and let me

634
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: watch it with with Fells and see what I see

635
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: what I can find. It was so funny because I

636
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Speaker 1: was driving around in my car yesterday trying to take

637
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 1: care of one thing after another, and I was listening

638
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 1: to Triple Threat and Sean and Rich were talking about

639
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 1: they were talking about Fells, and they were they were

640
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 1: half joking and obviously being half serious at the same time.

641
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 1: They were like, yeah, Fells isn't a tackle, but he

642
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 1: can come in and help the pass protection. And they

643
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 1: both kind of laughed and like, yeah, but he's a

644
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 1: tight end. They were kind of joking and laughing about it.

645
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 1: So as I'm going through the game, I get to

646
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 1: the second or third quarter and the Browns. The Browns

647
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 1: have Nick Chubb and Fells on the field, which is

648
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 1: which is a distinct run set. They got chubbed, they

649
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 1: got Fells. Fells is the run got. You know, they've

650
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,239
Speaker 1: been moving Fells. Fells was in like almost every other

651
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 1: play because then Joker would be in, the Fells would

652
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 1: be in, and then they both would be in. But

653
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,720
Speaker 1: when Fells on the field, it was it was a

654
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 1: definitive run key to the Broncos. So They're like, we're

655
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 1: putting our base defense on the field, but then the

656
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 1: Browns came out of shotgun and spread them out. So

657
00:30:57,520 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 1: that's great for the Browns because now they're all one

658
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,400
Speaker 1: on one one against the Broncos secondary. And this is great,

659
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 1: but what it means is Fells with the Broncos based defense,

660
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 1: Fells is going to end up more than likely being

661
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: one on one against Von Miller. And he was and

662
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: he stoned him. Von Miller, it was I watched it

663
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: like ten times. He's six seven to seventy and so

664
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: he so Miller tried to rush her from the outside,

665
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 1: and Fells, having played a lot of basketball, played basketball

666
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: in college and did play football in college, just kind

667
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 1: of slid over like he was guarding his man of basketball.

668
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 1: Von got shut down, so he tried to go back inside.

669
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: Fells just kind of slid right back over and stayed

670
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: in front of him. I don't know that I've seen

671
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: tackles that have done that against Von Miller that well.

672
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 1: And so what happened was is when Miller went inside,

673
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 1: Todd Davis inside linebacker, tried to loop outside. Well, Miller

674
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 1: was trying to still get free, so he went back

675
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 1: outside after his first attempt, and they ran kind of

676
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 1: into Davis and so Fells is basically blocking both of them.

677
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfields got all the time in the world, throws

678
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: it down the field, take him fleet, but it thought

679
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: it got me thinking back to what Sean and rich

680
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,960
Speaker 1: we're talking about and sort of half joking, half serious

681
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: about him helping in pass protection. I think that's one

682
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: thing that goes we talk about the front five when

683
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: it's pass protection because the tight ends are a lot

684
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: of times are out in the route. But how many

685
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 1: times have we seen the tight ends and running backs

686
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 1: have to be on a guy and on an outside

687
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: edge rusher. I mean we've seen it plenty of times.

688
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 1: I think of hopspins. You know, Rady Gregory's coming off

689
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 1: the edge and Ryan Griffin and Alfred Blue I have

690
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 1: to go over and block him. Well, if you're one

691
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: tight end, can take that one guy. Now Alfred can

692
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 1: for your running back and go out into flat and

693
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 1: go be a pass receiver. And so that just frees

694
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 1: you up. And also to what the Browns did. The

695
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 1: Browns new, hey, wait a second, we can We can

696
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: show them a run set and get them to scheme

697
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 1: up for a run. But then we can spread them

698
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 1: out and throw it, but we gotta have a tight

699
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 1: end of von Miller were okay with that? Well, the

700
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: Fells handled it like a champ. So it just kind

701
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 1: of made me chuckle and I saw I was like,

702
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 1: I gotta do my football one on one on this

703
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 1: and so you can read it and see what I

704
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 1: was just talking about. So from that perspective, you bring

705
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 1: in a guy that may not catch a ton of passes,

706
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: but if he ends up helping other guys catch passes

707
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 1: just because of pass protection, which is weird because you're

708
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: like tight end pass protection. But at two hundred and

709
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: seventy pounds, if he's holding his own against von Miller,

710
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a great asset to have for your offense.

711
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 1: But he could catch passes if needed, if he needs to. Absolutely,

712
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: he only had one incompletion last year, right he was

713
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: He was eleven of twelve, one hundred and seventeen yards

714
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 1: in a touchdown. They didn't throw it him a lot,

715
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: but twelve times had eleven reception. He only had one incompletion.

716
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: So it's it's almost like a dual threat, like you

717
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 1: have to you have to worry about the fact that

718
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: he couldn't go out there and catch a pass. Well

719
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 1: in that same game a little while later, I can't

720
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: remember this before the way in that same theme may

721
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 1: have been on the same drive, he flexed out a

722
00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 1: little bit and he got matched up on Todd day

723
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 1: of us the inside linebacker, and he ran basically a

724
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: little angle route. And so on the angle route, you

725
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: try and sell the flat that you're going into the flat,

726
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 1: get that defender to bite, and then boom, you cut

727
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:13,839
Speaker 1: back underneath. And the Bronze did a really nice job

728
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 1: of isolating the defenders and getting everybody out of the

729
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 1: middle of the field, and so everybody was working outside

730
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,880
Speaker 1: the numbers and Fells was working in the middle and

731
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 1: he was wide open and Davis literally just had to

732
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 1: grab him, and so it ended up being a defensive holding.

733
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:28,800
Speaker 1: So we know he can catch. We can catch the

734
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,080
Speaker 1: football too, and that's that's always helpful if you have

735
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 1: a guy that can kind of lay the wood up

736
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: front and block and put a helmet on somebody. Oh yeah,

737
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 1: by the way, he can slip on and catch a pass.

738
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:39,360
Speaker 1: You're talking about a you know, a guy that was

739
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 1: a you know, All Big West second team All Big

740
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 1: West basketball player, So he's got athletic ability and you

741
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 1: know that, and so it's sort of ironic that the

742
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:52,800
Speaker 1: basketball player can block and block pretty well, and especially

743
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:56,279
Speaker 1: in pass protection. So that to me, you've got you've

744
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 1: you've got a very intreating player. And I know people think,

745
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 1: we'll wait a second, the Browns keep him. The Browns

746
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: wanted to meet yours Harris from the Kansas City Chiefs,

747
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,239
Speaker 1: who who's a pretty dark good athlete. Now I don't

748
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:09,320
Speaker 1: think Harris is quite the blocker that Fells is, but

749
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: I think they probably wanted to use Harris a little

750
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: bit more in a passing game. That's why they ended

751
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 1: up going different skill set. Yeah, this one maybe a

752
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: little bit different, maybe a little different kind of player.

753
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:22,719
Speaker 1: Harris is not as bulky as Fells is, Fells being

754
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 1: two seventy. So either way, Browns ended up releasing him,

755
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 1: waiving him, whatever the case might be, and the Texans

756
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 1: ended up with him. I like what you said about

757
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 1: filling a certain skill set, because was it two weeks

758
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 1: ago Daniel Jeremiah had his mock draft. Yeah, and he

759
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 1: had the Texans taking t. J. Hawkinson from Iowa, who

760
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 1: kind of does the same thing. Obviously, Now with Brennan Fells,

761
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 1: maybe you know, that become I didn't really, I don't.

762
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 1: I don't know how many people locally agreed with that pick.

763
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 1: As far as the media, I know John McLean said

764
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 1: definitely not they're not taking a tight end in the

765
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 1: first round. But with that being said, now you got

766
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,560
Speaker 1: fells probably not going to take another tight end in

767
00:35:57,560 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 1: the first round. I'm guessing I didn't think they were anyway.

768
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 1: But where does that leave the rest of the skill

769
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 1: skill position? Yeah, I know you don't like calling them skills.

770
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 1: It's an interesting question because and I thought about how

771
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:09,959
Speaker 1: do we feel about it? Yeah, now at this point, well,

772
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,800
Speaker 1: I kind of felt like everything deep was tied in together,

773
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: and that was if they've got they've got three picks

774
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 1: in the top fifty five, and they've got four in

775
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 1: the top eighty six. So that's kind of the way

776
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:26,480
Speaker 1: those those four picks. To me, I think of those four,

777
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: three of them have got to be starters. And I

778
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: don't know exactly what positions will be starters, but I

779
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 1: think the thought is tackle corner would be two of them,

780
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 1: and then you know, maybe a surprise or whatever the

781
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 1: case might be. But when I started thinking about do

782
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 1: the Texans have enough weapons for the Sean because we've

783
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 1: talked about how often deep the offensive lot OFFENSI a

784
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,359
Speaker 1: lot beating the drum and offensive lot. Everybody's talking about

785
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:52,919
Speaker 1: the offensive linte. It's got to get better, and there's

786
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 1: no no question. I mean it's it's got to get better.

787
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:58,319
Speaker 1: Today I watched the I watched the Buffalo game because

788
00:36:58,360 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 1: it was one of the games that they gave up

789
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: seven acts ended up winning, and you watch and you're like,

790
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 1: you can see a lot of needs improvement on the

791
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 1: offensive line. So I think one of those picks ends

792
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 1: up being offensive line. So going into the draft kind

793
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 1: of felt like, hey, if they if they end up

794
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: getting an offensive lineman that could conceivably play left tackle,

795
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 1: and then they resigned Sean trow which everybody forgets about that,

796
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 1: so anybody they signed signed Shantrell Yes should be healthy healthy. Um,

797
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 1: if they showed up all the needs in the offensive

798
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 1: line and they showed up the needs in secondary, then

799
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 1: maybe they could take a guy like t J. Hockenson

800
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 1: because he offers a different skill set at tight end

801
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:43,800
Speaker 1: than any of the other tight ends in this draft.

802
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 1: He's an incredible blocker, sill But no, no, that was

803
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 1: only if they were able to satisfy those needs. Now,

804
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: my thought was, if they satisfied all those needs, then

805
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:58,800
Speaker 1: to me, maybe the next best option was an interior

806
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 1: pass rusher, you know, a guy like Jerry Tillery from

807
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. Somebody like that could get up, which I've

808
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 1: been hearing a lot about this year, which I and

809
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 1: I think that's something that Brian Jane talked about the

810
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:10,760
Speaker 1: combine that would be really helpful. Now, I think Carlos

811
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 1: Watkins can help in that vein, but I felt like

812
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:16,919
Speaker 1: that would be another another way to go. But down deep,

813
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:19,839
Speaker 1: I knew that they probably weren't going to be able

814
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:23,720
Speaker 1: to find the tackle that they would really feel comfortable

815
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 1: just moving over to left tackle and being that's the guy,

816
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 1: because if you didn't get Trent Brown after that, Darryl

817
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 1: Williams was a question mark off an injury and he

818
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:33,879
Speaker 1: kind of feeling he wasn't gonna leave Carolina and Juwan

819
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 1: James has been a mystery and inconsistent his entire career

820
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: with Miami. After that, there's there's not a whole heck

821
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:42,839
Speaker 1: of a lot there on the market that you really

822
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:44,799
Speaker 1: get excited about that you can say, oh, you could

823
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:46,479
Speaker 1: play over left tackle. I know a lot of people

824
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 1: have talked about Donald Penn lately. I'm gonna say it's

825
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 1: gonna put the film on Bro because the film in

826
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen is not kind. And if that and I

827
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:59,240
Speaker 1: went back about twenty seventeen, two and twenty seventeen, I'm like, Okay,

828
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 1: it's good. Oh, but then you watch twenty eighteen and

829
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: you're like, boy, there's a drop off. He still thinks

830
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 1: he can play, and maybe he can, but just watch

831
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 1: the tape and you realize. So my point in all

832
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,879
Speaker 1: that is, I still think there is a distinct need

833
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 1: at tackle be left right, depending how they're gonna put

834
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: the guys, but they I still think they need a

835
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 1: young rookie tackle that they can build with going forward.

836
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 1: I think corner has been addressed, but I still think

837
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:28,839
Speaker 1: they're gonna need a young, long, athletic corner, a guy

838
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 1: that can just fly that you can you know, put

839
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 1: with Roby, you can put with j Joe, you can

840
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 1: put with Body Calhoun, and those guys can kind of

841
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 1: figure it all out, but you need to you need

842
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:41,320
Speaker 1: a young piece at both of those spots. So that

843
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 1: leaves two other pieces of those four picks in the

844
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 1: top eighty six. And I've thought all along that a

845
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 1: running back is a running a dual threat running back,

846
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 1: a guy that you can put out in pass routes

847
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,440
Speaker 1: and you know he's gonna be a pass receiver and

848
00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 1: be effective whether it's in the screen game or line

849
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 1: up in a slot. You know, kind of like Lamar is,

850
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Speaker 1: you know when he's allowed to go out. And that's

851
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Speaker 1: kind of the the domino effect of your offensive line

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Speaker 1: struggling is that you have to use your running backs, yeah,

853
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Speaker 1: for past protection. And Lamar's got one more year left

854
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: on the contract. Alfred Blue is a free agent, so

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Speaker 1: it makes sense that they'd want to add something to

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Speaker 1: the running backs group just for long, long term. And

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Speaker 1: Deonta Foreman obviously he's there right and and hopefully he's healthy.

858
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Speaker 1: And that's two. So you you'd like to be able

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Speaker 1: to have three. And I think that's where they'll go

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Speaker 1: in the in the skill position area in the draft.

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Speaker 1: Is I in running back? Now? I don't know if

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Speaker 1: they're gonna have a number four wide receiver. Well, that's

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Speaker 1: that's another one. You've got Vincent Smith. But is that

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Speaker 1: something that you have the luxury of waiting till after

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Speaker 1: the draft is over because they like the undraft. It's

866
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Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah, there's no question, and they should every

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Speaker 1: year and undrafted has made the team so and Vincent

868
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Speaker 1: was that guy last year. I think Vincent will make

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Speaker 1: a pretty significant jump from year one of year two

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Speaker 1: as you're number four, and I think that's probe to me.

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Speaker 1: I think you could probably get a receiver type in

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00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:09,399
Speaker 1: on Day three and that guy could end up fighting

873
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Speaker 1: for that number four spot. I don't know that you

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Speaker 1: look before that, because if you drafted guy like I said,

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Speaker 1: it was top four, three of them gotta be starters.

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Speaker 1: In the fourth one's gotta be a big contributor. Well,

877
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Speaker 1: if Keiki and Will and DeAndre are all healthy, you're

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00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:26,319
Speaker 1: probably not gonna have a fourth receiver on the field

879
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Speaker 1: a ton, so you've got to be able to get impact.

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Speaker 1: I think you'd probably have a running back out there

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Speaker 1: a little bit more. But I think there's some kind

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Speaker 1: of interesting offensive weapons in this draft that you could

883
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Speaker 1: look at that do a different do different things. And

884
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Speaker 1: I'll give you an example. Guy by the name of

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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurd at Tennessee. He was a running back. He's

886
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Speaker 1: six five, he's two twenty five. He's a big dude,

887
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Speaker 1: played running back. He and Butch Jones didn't always see

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00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 1: eye to eye. Then he had a concussion. He kind

889
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:55,400
Speaker 1: of fell out a favorite with Jones, and then he

890
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Speaker 1: ended up transferring. He went to Baylor and decided I'm

891
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 1: gonna go be a wide receiver at Baylor. So he

892
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:02,680
Speaker 1: went to Baylor, had a pretty good year at wide receiver,

893
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 1: got hurt at the end of the year, so we

894
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:06,320
Speaker 1: didn't see him in the bowl game. But he's a

895
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Speaker 1: guy with running back like skills. He's got f tight

896
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 1: end like size, he runs like a receiver, can play receiver.

897
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Speaker 1: So he's kind of an interesting weapon, Like where do

898
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: you play him? Like where does he go? But oh,

899
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Speaker 1: by the way, when he's on the field, teams are

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Speaker 1: think defenses are thinking the same thing, like what do

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00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,800
Speaker 1: you do with this guy? So I think that Jalen's

902
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:33,920
Speaker 1: probably gone by No. Later in the fourth round. But

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Speaker 1: that's the kind of player you know, got like Jaylen

904
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Speaker 1: Samuels last year, you know for the Pittsburgh Steelers. You know,

905
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Speaker 1: when when Levian doesn't come back and then James Connor

906
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:44,960
Speaker 1: takes over, James Connor gets hurt, then all of a

907
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 1: sudden who steps in his place? Jaylen Samuels, the guy

908
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 1: that played tight end, wide receiver, running back and NC State.

909
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 1: He steps in a running back. It's the position he

910
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:55,360
Speaker 1: played the least and he and off you go. So

911
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:57,880
Speaker 1: he created some different matchups. So I wouldn't be surprised

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Speaker 1: if that kind of guy. I don't know if they

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Speaker 1: look tight end, and I don't know if they look

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Speaker 1: wide receiver you think running back, but I do think

915
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Speaker 1: kind of a different sort of weapons Swiss army knife. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I think the theory of the theory of Braxton Miller

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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, I think was right, and

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Speaker 1: even Tyler Irvin if he would have panned out and

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Speaker 1: stayed healthy. Right, it's just a matter of finding the

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Speaker 1: right something like that. All right, Johnny, that's gonna do

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Speaker 1: it for us. You can check out more from John

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Speaker 1: Harris on the Harris one hundreds up on Houston Texans

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Speaker 1: dot com. He changes it frequently. I'm sure you're gonna

924
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Speaker 1: have another internation coming up. I've just submitted my version

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Speaker 1: two dot O. All right, be looking for that. That's

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Speaker 1: gonna do it for Texans All Access. We'll be back

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Speaker 1: tomorrow night six to seven. PM don't miss us the

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Speaker 1: latest on free agency, and Houston Texans dot com for

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Speaker 1: go Texans.