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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, and welcome to the program that gets you

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Speaker 1: inside the building NRG Stadium. Yeah, we're here doing shows

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Speaker 1: from now until the end of time on your Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans players on a break, rookies here, players still working out.

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Speaker 1: Of course, training camp gets underway in late July. We

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Speaker 1: can't wait. Mark Vandermer and John Harris with you. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna do numerous things today, including going over Johnny's article

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Speaker 1: about five things to watch during training camp. We'll also

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Speaker 1: pick two divisions that the Texans are playing against, the

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Speaker 1: NFC East and the AFC West, and we'll go around

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Speaker 1: the league as well. I know there's other news breaking today,

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Speaker 1: but what do you want us to say about that.

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Speaker 1: We're all waiting for the same thing here. It does

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Speaker 1: affect the Texans because draft choices are coming back based

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Speaker 1: on the finish of the team they traded with in

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Speaker 1: the blockbuster deal this offseason. That would be the Cleveland Browns.

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Speaker 1: But that's all I can say about that right now.

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Speaker 1: How are you doing, Johnny, Yeah, that's essentially it. That's

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Speaker 1: it acually the rest of its legal situation. We just

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Speaker 1: wait to see how many how many games we'll Deshaun

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Speaker 1: wants to be suspended, and how does it impact the

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Speaker 1: Browns in twenty twenty two and twenty three. Right, for

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Speaker 1: the drafts of twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 1: that's all that matters, okay, really all that matters. So

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Speaker 1: that so when the Browns come in here, that could

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Speaker 1: be a double whammy for us. That could be a

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Speaker 1: double win for us because we win, we beat them,

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Speaker 1: knocked them down. Well, I mean I shouldn't say knock

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Speaker 1: them down, move them up the draft order, just might

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Speaker 1: beat them. So it's a double wammy for us. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we can do that. Very cool. All right, We're gonna

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Speaker 1: go around the league later. But is there anything less

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Speaker 1: believable in the world than Rob Gronkowski's latest retirement? Oh boy?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure there are some things. I am

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Speaker 1: not gonna say anything about politicians. I'm not gonna say that.

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Speaker 1: I saw somebody's tweet. I think it was Tom Pellisaros

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Speaker 1: tweeted it. It said retirement scoreboard, Rob Gronkowski two, Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady one. Yeah, I mean, that's it. It's like a

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Speaker 1: boxer now, when it got so comical with the boxers

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Speaker 1: it with the boxers, oh absolutely, and I get it

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Speaker 1: with the football players too. It's in a sense because

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Speaker 1: in September. So it's not going to shock anybody if

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Speaker 1: Gronk comes back, including his agent, who pointed out that, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it could happen. Brady could call him. He can see

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Speaker 1: it plausible. Sure, Why not? Did you? And have you

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Speaker 1: watched Man in the Arena? I haven't watched that, and

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Speaker 1: I'm really upset at myself as I say that right now,

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Speaker 1: because I keep forgetting to It's one of those things

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Speaker 1: where it's like when you used to go to the

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Speaker 1: the video store. This is back in the day, kids,

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Speaker 1: and remember these things. But yeah, I need to watch

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Speaker 1: Man in the Arena. One of the things that comes

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Speaker 1: up in Man in the Arena, and I think it's

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Speaker 1: something that you and I have talked about. But it

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Speaker 1: was interesting to hear an NFL player and a player

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Speaker 1: of Rob gron Gronkowski's stature talk about how beat up

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Speaker 1: he was he went into and I think it may

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Speaker 1: have been the last. So they did every single super

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Speaker 1: Bowl year, not winning, just Super Bowl year of Tom Brady,

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Speaker 1: and they hadn't done year ten when he went with

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Speaker 1: the Buccaneers. I thought that one was fairly enlightening. So

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Speaker 1: they talked to Grock during now when I believe it

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Speaker 1: was during that one, and he went through why he

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Speaker 1: ninth the eighteen season when he won a Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: and he makes that catch down the seam and then

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Speaker 1: I can't do this. My body is just beat to

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Speaker 1: you know what. He sits out twenty nineteen, and then

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Speaker 1: That's it seems logical, But that's the one thing that

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Speaker 1: you get through a seventeen game season and you tack

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Speaker 1: on playoffs. You don't want you don't want to go

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Speaker 1: that stuff. Well, yeah, you want me down to stretch,

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Speaker 1: can get beat up just as much as playing ten games.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know about timing or whatever, but it

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Speaker 1: doesn't have to go through training camp. He's sitting out there.

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Speaker 1: Tom needs him. I think for the Buccaneers it kind

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Speaker 1: gonna be interesting now Gronkt retires. He loves to have

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Speaker 1: and I think as far as the guys that retire young,

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Speaker 1: been around for a while now Rob Gronkowski, but guys

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Speaker 1: Man to have to do that over and over again,

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Speaker 1: I think it wears on you. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: do you think JJ plays? It wouldn't have shocked me

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Speaker 1: had he retired this year this offseason. Yeah, I was

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Speaker 1: he understands life very well, right. You know, I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying other guys don't necessarily, but you know that JJ does,

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Speaker 1: and he knows that when it's over, it's over. You're

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Speaker 1: the sack total, maybe get a ring. Possibly possibly. No

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Speaker 1: one's picking the Cardinals to do that this year, but hey,

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Speaker 1: you never know. No one picked the Bengals to go

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Speaker 1: All right, here's what I want to do today. Let's

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Speaker 1: go over first your article. It's way too early for

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Speaker 1: training camp, but you wrote this on Houston Texans dot

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Speaker 1: Five things to watch during Texans Camp. And I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go in reverse order because I liked this question a lot.

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Speaker 1: You know, who is the breakout player we didn't see

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Speaker 1: coming last year? It was Roy Lopez. Later around Draft choice,

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Speaker 1: I had him in a vandermock as we all know

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Speaker 1: you and I saw him his first day on campus

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Speaker 1: and we're like that dude, is big. I don't know

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Speaker 1: That was cool. Twenty sixteen, A J. Boyer broke out big.

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Speaker 1: That was really cool. He was around here before, but

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Speaker 1: he had a great camp. Marking DeAndre Hopkins I use

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Speaker 1: the soccer terminology marking DeAndre Hopkins very well in camp

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Speaker 1: and then guarding. I'll use the basketball term this time.

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Speaker 1: How about that Travis Kelsey in Week two and the

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Speaker 1: Texans beat the Chiefs here in a really hard fought,

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Speaker 1: hard hitting game at NRG Stadium. Of course, Thursday night

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Speaker 1: they lost in the Patriots twenty seven and nothing in

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Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissette. We can get to him later. But AJ

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Speaker 1: boy A once upon a time was that guy. Another

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Speaker 1: once upon a time guy was Dylan Cole. So, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: you didn't predict to the breakout guy was, but you

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Speaker 1: said that's something to watch for. Who's gonna be the

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Speaker 1: breakout player in the twenty twenty two Texans camp. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you can think about this a couple of ways in

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Speaker 1: that you know, could it be somebody that's been here

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Speaker 1: the bean Powder just hasn't yet the one name that

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Speaker 1: I really would like for this to be very clearly

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Speaker 1: the thing when people like, well, you know Ross has started.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's played the last couple of years. But

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Speaker 1: I mean I'm talking break out. Like we're watching games

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Speaker 1: and ninety is making plays consistently hard to take him

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Speaker 1: that we noticed that the both Nick and love you

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Speaker 1: reason for that because dude, for four Pink County can fly.

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Speaker 1: So maybe he's a breakout guy, a guy that's off

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Speaker 1: different ways. The breakout player i'd like for it to

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Speaker 1: we were watching camp last year the running backs. We

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Speaker 1: Dontrell Hilliard's pretty dumb good Like he's making some plays,

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Speaker 1: like he's doing some really good things in camp. And

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Speaker 1: He's playing with Tennessee Titans, doing some good things. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you would say he'd broke out, but

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Speaker 1: I did a zoom with him with some people who

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Speaker 1: won an auction with the number one Oh what, the

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Speaker 1: number one pick for the Texans, number three overall. It

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Speaker 1: was Stingley and they were LSU fans and it was

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Speaker 1: Pamela Irby and her husband Thomas, and Pamela was out

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Speaker 1: in Vegas and got to go on stage with Goddell

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Speaker 1: and announce a pick. Yeah, yeah, that was cool. And

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Speaker 1: she was out there with a bunch of diehard Texans fans,

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Speaker 1: and Stingley was in Vegas but not at the draft party,

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Speaker 1: so it's just kind of interesting. And Stingley could not

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Speaker 1: have been better. Yeah, and he was fun at this

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans YMCA thing, which I know these two things

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Speaker 1: are the most important things to everyone listening. No, they're not.

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Speaker 1: What's most important everyone listening is how's he gonna look

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Speaker 1: on the field. We want to see it. But Johnny,

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Speaker 1: he said things in this call I don't mind sharing

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Speaker 1: this that really intrigued me, the way his process works,

442
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Speaker 1: looking at the quarterback. He described some of the nuances

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Speaker 1: of the way he handled things in college, and I

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Speaker 1: just thought, this guy's gonna sharp mind, he's gonna be

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Speaker 1: and he's obviously outstanding athletically, he's gonna be good. He's

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Speaker 1: gonna be good. He's gonna put the time in the

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Speaker 1: work in just gotta get healthy and let's see him

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Speaker 1: in camp. I'm about to say something that I know,

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Speaker 1: I know exactly what you're gonna say. Okay, do you

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Speaker 1: want to read the last sentence of what I wrote,

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Speaker 1: The very very last sentence of what I wrote about

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Speaker 1: Derek Stingley. Basically Number two is Derek Stingory playing football.

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Speaker 1: I love watching this guy play. I love him at LSU.

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Speaker 1: Do you have that last sentence? Yes, it says all

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Speaker 1: eyes will be on him due to his draft slot,

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Speaker 1: but I just love to watch him match and mirror

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Speaker 1: and compete for the Rock. I wonder if there it

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Speaker 1: is read that last one. I wonder if nah, I'll

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Speaker 1: stop there for now. Well, you know what the plan

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Speaker 1: was in twenty twenty one, right, the plan in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one when he was at LSU before the foot injury.

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Speaker 1: What was the plan? Well, I mean there's Justin Jefferson,

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Speaker 1: There's Jamar Chase, there's uh Terris Marshall. I mean they

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Speaker 1: did have ke seam Boote, but I thought that maybe

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Speaker 1: Derek Stingley might play some offense said LSU. I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying that's happening. Oh boy, I'm not saying that's happen.

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Speaker 1: But could you imagine, Yeah, could you imagine what happened

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Speaker 1: a lot of things if that If they pulled that

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Speaker 1: out now, I don't think they would do it as

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Speaker 1: a rookie, especially coming off the foot injury. I think

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Speaker 1: they would want him, like you focus here, But as

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Speaker 1: the year goes on, if he's making some plays, or

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Speaker 1: maybe teams aren't thrown at him, going you know what,

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Speaker 1: we don't want to throw at this guy, and they

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Speaker 1: want to get him involved in some way, shape or form.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not I'm not opposed to it. I

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Speaker 1: really am not. I'll tell if he checks into the

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Speaker 1: game on offense, he's attracting a lot of attention. Wait

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Speaker 1: a minute, right, what's he gonna do? They must be

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Speaker 1: going to him, right if they bring him into the game.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot there's a lot that could there's a

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Speaker 1: lot that could be there. But that was that was

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Speaker 1: the talk. In fact, he alluded to it. I think

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Speaker 1: it was at SEC media Days in twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: He was wearing number seven, and the thought was, you know,

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Speaker 1: wearing number seven. A lot of guys at LSU warned

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Speaker 1: that's a big that's a big number. You know. Leonard Fournette,

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Speaker 1: Warrett Tyrn, Warrett, Patrick Peterson I think was the first

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Speaker 1: one to go to number seven and wear it. So

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Speaker 1: it became a big number to wear. And so he's

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Speaker 1: gonna wear number seven. And there was like, yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe can flop over in the offensive side and go

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Speaker 1: run some routes and do some things on the offensive

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Speaker 1: side of the ball, and I thought, wow, yeah, Now

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Speaker 1: again it's a rookie, so I would my I think

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Speaker 1: my heart would feel better if you just defense master it,

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Speaker 1: get it down. Year two. I think Lovey's heart will

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Speaker 1: feel better too. Let's play around. And that's the other

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Speaker 1: part of this too, was head coaches defense a play caller,

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Speaker 1: so when he looks out there in offense and he

501
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Speaker 1: sees his star corner like, oh man, but when's the

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Speaker 1: last time we had a player in the NFL. No,

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Speaker 1: we've had players that could do it. When's the last

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Speaker 1: time we saw a player in the NFL that actually

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Speaker 1: did plays, even like a handful of plays both ways.

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Speaker 1: I remember them trying to figure out what to do

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Speaker 1: with Devin Hester and yeah, I was there during that time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so that's pretty interesting. Well, the one guy I can

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Speaker 1: think of, well, there's two guys I can think of.

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Speaker 1: I remember Hot playing defense and hail Mary situation here.

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Speaker 1: Um remember Trey Brown wide receiver? Yeah, oh yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: You know who also played defense for a little while too,

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Speaker 1: was Julian Edelman. That's right, Well, we know who was

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Speaker 1: there during that time, and we have him here. So

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Speaker 1: there's that. Yeah, you said that, and quickly the number

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Speaker 1: one thing here that you want to see or that

517
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Speaker 1: is a thing to watch during training camp in your

518
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Speaker 1: article in Houston Texans dot com offensive line physicality. Yes,

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Speaker 1: this is going to tell you a whole lot how

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Speaker 1: that D line really does look, how the linebackers look,

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Speaker 1: and of course which running back can take charge because

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Speaker 1: something happens, There's an electricity, there's a chemistry, something happens

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Speaker 1: when you get the pads on and you see these

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Speaker 1: running plays, when they go full on, let's go go

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Speaker 1: line here, this is gonna be smash math. We want

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Speaker 1: to see who's more physical. And yes, with George Warhop

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Speaker 1: in the building, this is definitely something to watch, maybe

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Speaker 1: the thing to watch, and obviously everything feeds into that. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And I think with again going back to Lovey Smith

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Speaker 1: being a head coach, defensive minded, plank physical on outside

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Speaker 1: of the ball, being disruptive, I mean matching that on offense.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, you gotta you gotta run and throw

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Speaker 1: for as many yards as you possibly can. So however

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Speaker 1: you do it, I don't really care. I don't care

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Speaker 1: if this is the most finesse offense we've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: I just a don't think it's going to be in

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Speaker 1: b I don't think that offensive line will have finesse

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Speaker 1: in them. I think there's an opportunity to with some

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Speaker 1: of the things they're doing. Just watching what they were doing,

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Speaker 1: I think they're gonna have to bring up their physicality

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Speaker 1: to be able to run the ball the way that

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Speaker 1: they want to be as diverse in the run game.

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Speaker 1: But I think they have the pieces of front to

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Speaker 1: do that. They just gotta do it. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: one of those things, well, yeah, they're there now, they

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Speaker 1: just gotta do it. Well, Okay, let's do it, and

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Speaker 1: this is that time. And those running backs, I think

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Speaker 1: obviously we'll appreciate that, but those five upfront, and we

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Speaker 1: don't know that five are gonna be. I think we

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Speaker 1: know that Laramie and Titus will be any outside. I

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Speaker 1: think we have that down justin Brittt Center. More than likely.

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Speaker 1: We think Kenyan Green, hopefully he's gonna be fully healthy

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Speaker 1: for training camp and he will step into one of

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Speaker 1: those guard spots. We think AJ can the other one.

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Speaker 1: I guess I don't know so, but it's not set

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Speaker 1: in stone yet. And don't forget about don't forget about

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Speaker 1: me guy. Yeah, and that would be Max Sharp Mack sharping,

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Speaker 1: absolutely no doubt. Justin mccraie, don't forget about Justin mccraieus.

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Speaker 1: There are guys would have lost snaps. You know. Charlie

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Speaker 1: Hack has started thirteen. He wants to play too, all right.

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Speaker 1: Check out Johnny's article Houston Texans dot Com and the

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Speaker 1: Texans app coming up. We're gonna go full on Athlon, Lindy's,

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Speaker 1: Dave Campbell. Let's pick two divisions. The Texans are playing

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Speaker 1: NFC East and AFC West. We'll do that next here

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Speaker 1: on Texans Radio. Keeping your company on a Tuesday drive

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Speaker 1: home or wherever you're going or listening. Great to have

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Speaker 1: you with us on Texans Radio, Mark Van Dramaer and

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Speaker 1: John Harris with you, Johnny. The Texans will play the

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Speaker 1: AFC West and the NFC East this year, and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna go Lyndy's Athlons maybe Dave Campbell. We're gonna go

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Speaker 1: preseason mag style here and pick the divisions. By the way,

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Speaker 1: pre internet, I used to inhale these magazines. I still

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Speaker 1: get them Athlons and Lindy's you do. It's kind of cool.

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Speaker 1: Because they summarize everything. You have them in the written

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Speaker 1: form in your hands. It's just different than looking things

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Speaker 1: up online. I kind of like that. But here we go,

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Speaker 1: all right, which shall we start with? First? Let's just

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Speaker 1: go with the NFC East, which might be the weirdest

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Speaker 1: division in football. Yeah, I'm gonna go weirdest, and I

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Speaker 1: think leading the way in the weird ishness is the

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Speaker 1: Washington Commanders having Carson Wentz as their quarterback. This is

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Speaker 1: a team that went seven and ten last year. Yea,

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Speaker 1: with Wentz playing as well as he did last year.

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Speaker 1: At times, I know that's a lot to ask for.

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Speaker 1: They could surprise some people within that division, and then

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Speaker 1: who knows, they really could. This could be the surprise

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Speaker 1: team in the league. Perhaps you flipped that seven and

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Speaker 1: ten to ten and seven. That's the same record that

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Speaker 1: the Bengals had last year and they went to the

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Speaker 1: super Bowl. So I'm picking Washington. No, I'm not. I

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Speaker 1: would not do that, but I think Washington sort of

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Speaker 1: paints the picture of how strange this division can be.

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Speaker 1: Things they've got to focus on. First of all, Wentz

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Speaker 1: has got to play. It's not so much mistake free,

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Speaker 1: but he's got to play idiot free. He can't do

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Speaker 1: idiotic things like throwing left hand interceptions in his own reds.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's got to do smart things with the football. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they've got to get Terry McLaren his contract and get

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Speaker 1: that thing worked out. Chase Young has to be fully healthy,

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Speaker 1: and it sounds like he is, and then they've got

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Speaker 1: to make sure that that secondary is halfway decent. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know if they're all the way there with

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Speaker 1: that secondary. They loaded up offensively with John Dotson because

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Speaker 1: they weren't sure about McLaren and I like Dots and

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Speaker 1: think Dots and McLaren could be a good team, good connection.

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Speaker 1: But this all comes down to wins. Will they protect him?

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Speaker 1: Is that offensive line gonna be good enough? They lost

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Speaker 1: Brandon Sheriff, All Pro guard, so he's finally out of

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Speaker 1: the buildings. So is that offensive line good enough to

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Speaker 1: protect Wins? Well, wentz play idiot free? And are they

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Speaker 1: healthy enough on the front, because that defensive front could

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Speaker 1: be stout. The defensive The defensive front with Montes Sweat

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Speaker 1: and Chase Young and Ron Payne and Jonathan Allen's one

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Speaker 1: of the best ones in the league. But secondary has

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Speaker 1: been great and those guys didn't all play well at

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Speaker 1: the same time last year, so I think they could

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Speaker 1: be a surprise. But it just can Wentz not kill himself. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's a that's a man, that's an issue.

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Speaker 1: Antonio Gibson's running back is one of the better ones

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Speaker 1: in the league. I wanted us to draft him a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago. I think he is a He's

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Speaker 1: a tremendous weapon for them. I think Washington's kind of

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Speaker 1: lyne in the weeds. And if Wentz does play well,

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Speaker 1: that's a division they absolutely can win. So will you

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Speaker 1: pick the Cowboys to finish first in this division? Yes?

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Speaker 1: Or no? They went twelve and five last year. If

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Speaker 1: I remember right, NFC East champion has not repeated year

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Speaker 1: after years since back in the nineties. I think. I

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Speaker 1: think it's always been a different team. That's wild. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let me give you a number from last year. I

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Speaker 1: have a team that in mind that was all right.

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Speaker 1: So the Cowboys were six at ozo in the division.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's huge to get twelve wins. You know,

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Speaker 1: you go four and two and feel pretty decent about

635
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Speaker 1: your divisional record and have ten wins, So there's that

636
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 1: they're not going six and oo in the NFC East

637
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 1: this year, not with Philly doing what they've done. I

638
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 1: don't think with Washington doing what they've done, the Cowboys

639
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 1: are not going six and oz in the division. No,

640
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:00,080
Speaker 1: I don't think so. In fact, the team and I

641
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 1: think he's gonna win it's Philadelphia, okay, And I don't

642
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: I don't have a I don't have a conviction like

643
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pound the table and filled off Eagles. I'm

644
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: not going to Vegas and put one hundred dollars on

645
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 1: the Eagles. IM not gonna do that. But I just

646
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: feel like, what the Cowboys They're always a ticket time mom. Yeah,

647
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 1: they really are. And when it they're really they're really

648
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:25,719
Speaker 1: like a fine tuned Italian sports car that if if

649
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: it's off just a widget, then it could the whole

650
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 1: thing can go to hades. It's got to be everything

651
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 1: in sync perfect and then like whoa. That's the way

652
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: that that Cowboys team feels like a front runner team

653
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: to me, Yes, absolutely, that's absolutely what it is. So

654
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 1: for that reason, I just can't get behind the Cowboys.

655
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 1: It's really hard. But as far as talent in the division,

656
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: holy smokes, yeah, I mean that team is. That team

657
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 1: is loaded. Philly comes here, Washington comes here. Tickets at

658
00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 1: Houston Texans dot Com Ticketmaster. So those two teams come here.

659
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: You're on the road against the Giants, So you're gonna

660
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 1: pick the Eagles to win it. Eagles Giants last? Are

661
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 1: we safe to say? Giants last? So Daniel Jones, they

662
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 1: don't pick up the fifth year option and they still

663
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: believe in him. Wait what Yeah, that doesn't make sense

664
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 1: to me. Well, we've talked about this a lot. I've

665
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: heard a lot of people talk about from a from

666
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: a Texas perspective, why did the Texas not draft a

667
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: quarterback this year? First of all, you saw what happened.

668
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 1: There was one first rounder and there were a bunch

669
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 1: of third rounders. There's no sense in doing that. And

670
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 1: as we've talked about, and I've said this before, Look,

671
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 1: if if this Texas team has a really if they

672
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:42,479
Speaker 1: struggle in twenty twenty two, then more than likely Davis

673
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 1: has struggled, and then the twenty twenty three Classic Quarterbacks

674
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: is really, really good. You can go get a rookie.

675
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: Then I think the Giants looked at it that way.

676
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: We're gonna do this for a year with Daniel Jones,

677
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 1: and we'll get some other picks. We've got two top

678
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 1: ten picks, we'll get Thibodeau, we'll get Neal. That'll be

679
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 1: the foundation to start along with Andrew Thomas, Leonard Williams, etc.

680
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 1: And if Jones doesn't get it done, we're gonna finish

681
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 1: top four again and we're gonna get one of these quarterbacks.

682
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 1: In a way we go, well, don't you want to

683
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 1: know what Brian Dable said in the room when they

684
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 1: interviewed him and what he's saying now about Daniel joneson

685
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 1: I want to know that behind closed doors, I can

686
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 1: fix him. So it's Gary Kubiak with David Carr in

687
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 1: two thousand and six kind of thing. I have a

688
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: feeling that's the first thing that popped into my head

689
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 1: when you ask me about it. Yeah, because you can't.

690
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,239
Speaker 1: It's a it's kind of a no lose situation, right,

691
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying this is the way Gary in

692
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 1: a way that Brian Dabele look at it, but they go,

693
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 1: I can fix him, and if I can't, I can't,

694
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 1: it's his fault. But if I do, then look right,

695
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 1: So it's really kind of a no lose situation to

696
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 1: say this, as long as the Giant's ownership is patient

697
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 1: with Dabel and allows him to well get another shot

698
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 1: with somebody else, at least for a few years, because

699
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 1: if you draft somebody, we all know it's not gonna

700
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 1: be year one in all likelihood, you're gonna have to

701
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: wait it out. Daniel Jones, we seen him make some players.

702
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 1: We've also seen him turn it over a ton I

703
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: mentioned this before, if Barkley can turn into the Barkley

704
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 1: that everyone thought that would be something that it would be.

705
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 1: I don't know. Outside of Barkley, I mean, I've always

706
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 1: been a Sterling Shepherd fan. I remember interviewing him at

707
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl and just fell in love with the guy.

708
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 1: I was hoping that we were gonna end up with

709
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: him here in Houston. So I cheer for him. But

710
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: outside of that, you know, look, Cadarius Tony could be special,

711
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 1: but man, off the field, you just never know what

712
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 1: that guy and so you just kind of you're always

713
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 1: kind of like on edge. I feel like if they

714
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 1: can get Tony on board this year and they could

715
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 1: find something with Barkley, give him another two year extension

716
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 1: to keep him there, that if things don't go well

717
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 1: with Jones bringing a young quarterback with Barkley and Kadarius

718
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 1: Tony and Sterling Shepherd, at least to start, you've got

719
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,280
Speaker 1: something and then day Bowl can start, you know, building

720
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,440
Speaker 1: around him. And look, Joe Shane's GM. They came from

721
00:34:56,480 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 1: Buffalo together. They're a package deal like Gary crew Back

722
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: and Rick were in some sense many many years ago.

723
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 1: So and I think the Giants, I think it was

724
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: John Merrill who said, you know what, I don't know

725
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: that we we have done this right at the head

726
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:14,839
Speaker 1: coach GM position. So I think they've got a little

727
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,720
Speaker 1: bit of latitude. So I think even if it doesn't work, Okay,

728
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:21,240
Speaker 1: you guys knew it. We found out Daniel Jones wasn't fixable.

729
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: We gotta get our quarterback, and they'll be drafting the

730
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:24,800
Speaker 1: top three or four and they get their quarterback. You

731
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 1: mentioned the whole Mills thing and why the Texans didn't

732
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 1: draft a quarterback or weren't going to this year. Let

733
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: me tell this one about you. What if Mills this

734
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:36,440
Speaker 1: past draft, having done what he did last year, was

735
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:41,239
Speaker 1: thrown into the draft miraculously, where's he going? I think

736
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:42,919
Speaker 1: he would have gone ahead to Picket. I think you're

737
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 1: doing QB one. Okay, I think you would do in

738
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 1: Q one. Based on that alone, you're on the right track, right,

739
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: but it's also based on things. You're a you're ahead

740
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:54,400
Speaker 1: of you, you really are. You've played him in the NFL, right,

741
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:56,359
Speaker 1: he was gonna go in the first round this year,

742
00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 1: and if even if he went in the second round,

743
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 1: you would have been excused for not drafting Picket at

744
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 1: number three overall. Right, if Bills it stayed at Stanford

745
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,320
Speaker 1: and the rest is history. Okay, all right, we have

746
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 1: to do the AFC West. We'll do that next here

747
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,879
Speaker 1: on Texans Radio. I final look at things tonight here

748
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 1: on Texans Radio, Mark Vactor May and John Harris with

749
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:20,280
Speaker 1: you as we're picking the divisions the Texans are playing

750
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:23,320
Speaker 1: other than the AFC South, of course, but the NFC

751
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:27,319
Speaker 1: East and the AFC West. Johnny, let's go AFC West now.

752
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: And I just don't want to go one, two, three,

753
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 1: four here. I want to know who you're gonna pick

754
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 1: last in this division? Who will be the last place

755
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: team in the AFC West. The Chargers, as we don't

756
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 1: missed the playoffs, they couldn't beat the Raiders or tie.

757
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:42,399
Speaker 1: The Raiders in their last game, they went nine and eight,

758
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 1: one of those losses against the Houston Texans. Of course,

759
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:49,280
Speaker 1: the Broncos people look at this team in a variety

760
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 1: of different ways, but they went seven and ten, and

761
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,439
Speaker 1: I'm not saying seven and ten is anything to write about.

762
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,360
Speaker 1: That's what Washington was. We talked about them in our

763
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:59,279
Speaker 1: last segment with Russell Wilson, and I know there are

764
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,720
Speaker 1: other changes and including a coaching change, but with Russell

765
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 1: Wilson on a seven and ten team, that could flip.

766
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:07,320
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it will, but it could flip to

767
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 1: ten and seven. Chiefs come back to Earth a little bit.

768
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 1: Note Tyreek Hill, what does that do? Oh? My gosh,

769
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 1: Kelsey's not a younger guy anymore. Does that affect things? Oh?

770
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,480
Speaker 1: Is the enemy feud? Is that for real? Or is

771
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 1: that just an article that we all read and was

772
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 1: quickly dismissed. And the Raiders, with all their improvements, This

773
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:28,880
Speaker 1: is a tough nut to crack the AFC West. It's

774
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 1: a hard one to pick, and to pick last, I

775
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: feel like the Chargers of the most talented overall team

776
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,799
Speaker 1: in the Vision. I feel like the Chiefs. You can

777
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 1: never if They've got Mahomes, Andy Reid and Kelsey. They'll

778
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 1: be fine. So it comes down to the Raiders and

779
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 1: the Broncos. And at that point you look at the

780
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 1: Raiders firepower and they think, wow, you know, defensively they're not.

781
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 1: Oh man, They've got two the better edge rushers in

782
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: the league and Chandler Jones and Max Crosby, so could grief.

783
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 1: But that said, I don't know the Raiders defense at

784
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 1: all three levels is good enough, at least not yet.

785
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,320
Speaker 1: So I think I'm gonna put the Raiders last. That

786
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 1: the Raiders are gonna win some shootouts because their offensive

787
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 1: firepower is just ridiculous, but I don't know defensively if

788
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,839
Speaker 1: they're all the way there yet. The Chargers I think

789
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:18,879
Speaker 1: are good on all three levels on defense. I don't

790
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 1: think the Chiefs are great defensively, but Mahomes carries them

791
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:26,400
Speaker 1: and they've been there. The Broncos. You said it. The

792
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 1: Broncos are the X factor to me. I it's not

793
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,320
Speaker 1: so much that I'm not sold on Russell Wilson, but

794
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 1: I just don't know. It's a new quarterback, it's a

795
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,839
Speaker 1: new head coach. They've never worked together, so how does

796
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 1: that come together. I know they had a good running

797
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 1: game in Javante Williams. Defensively, I feel like they're good

798
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,240
Speaker 1: at all three levels. But there's something about the Broncos

799
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 1: that I just I don't know. I just I worry about.

800
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:53,799
Speaker 1: So I would I'm sorry, I put the Raiders at three.

801
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: I'd put the Broncos at four. I'm going that way.

802
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 1: I just think the firepower for the Raiders will get

803
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 1: them game or two. So Broncos last, Raiders third, Chief second,

804
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 1: Chargers first. That's the way I would hear. Broncos points wise,

805
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: had the best defense in the division, yeah last year,

806
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: and I think the defense the defense. If you put

807
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: the Broncos defense with the Raiders offense, then I think

808
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 1: you're talking about at least one of the top three

809
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: teams in the league, if not the best team. But

810
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: I just don't I don't trust the Broncos offense totally yet.

811
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 1: And maybe that's just a wait and see on Russell

812
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 1: and not so much Russell trust them yet kind of

813
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 1: how it all fits together. Once they find a groove,

814
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 1: which hopefully is after week two, fine, that's great, but

815
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 1: hopefully it happens after week two. And I think that's

816
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,360
Speaker 1: gonna be that to me, is gonna be one of

817
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 1: the national stories this year is teams that have new quarterbacks,

818
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 1: be at rookies or veterans, ones that were traded for

819
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:56,840
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan in Annapolis? How does that merger go? Carson

820
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 1: Wentz with the Commanders, how does that go? Russell Wilson

821
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: with the bron You know, how does that? How do

822
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 1: those how does that all work together with new people?

823
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 1: They're unaccustomed to being with that. They have gone a

824
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:13,319
Speaker 1: decade in the league or a decent amount of time

825
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:14,719
Speaker 1: in the league, and now they've got to deal with

826
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:18,360
Speaker 1: the new play caller, coordinator, new offense. How does that go?

827
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 1: And I think those three teams could be in the mix.

828
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 1: If one of those quarterbacks steps up and they show

829
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 1: it early, then the Broncos could be trouble. But I

830
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 1: just don't. I think it's gonna take them a little

831
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 1: bit longer than the others. That's why this league. Another

832
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 1: reason why this league is so phenomenal, because look at

833
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 1: this division. Look at the storylines. Wilson and the Broncos,

834
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 1: the Raiders with everything they did, McDaniels leading the Raiders,

835
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 1: how does that play in with the Patriot like culture.

836
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 1: If it is indeed like that in Las Vegas with

837
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 1: that team, how's that gonna go? The Chargers are the Chargers,

838
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:54,320
Speaker 1: and Herbert is Electric, and then you have the Chiefs

839
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 1: and they're the Chiefs. There's so much to watch just

840
00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 1: in that division alone, storyline wise. You know, it's interesting

841
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 1: when the NFL was making this decision about what they

842
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:06,319
Speaker 1: were gonna do, where the Raiders are gonna go, where

843
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 1: they gonna put teams in LA and all that, and

844
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 1: I remember thinking, man, you know what, why put teams

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Speaker 1: They don't really, it doesn't really matter. But then you

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Speaker 1: look out on the West coast now and you've got

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Speaker 1: both teams in LA that are outstanding with surefire star power,

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Speaker 1: you know, the teams we just talked about, all in

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Speaker 1: that division. It's like the West is just tremendous. It's

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Speaker 1: a complete opposite then it is in college football. College

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Speaker 1: football is all Southeast and the East. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: all over on the East coast. The NFL. You look

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Speaker 1: at the NFC and AFC West. You could do an

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Speaker 1: NFL one hundred of just those eight teams and come

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Speaker 1: pre daunt close I'm curious to see how many of

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Speaker 1: those teams get players and when the NFL network does

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Speaker 1: it in the NFL one hundred, because they put those

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Speaker 1: two teams in LA and it's like, man, holy smokes.

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Speaker 1: Those divisions are incredible in both the NFC and AFC.

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Speaker 1: So thankfully we're only playing one of them this year,

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Speaker 1: but it's gonna be such a tough not to crack

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Speaker 1: Plan thus fourteen. I like what you said about the

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Speaker 1: West Coast. I just wish the Chargers were still in

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Speaker 1: San Diego. I wish somehow, some way they could get

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Speaker 1: a stadium done in that city, keep that team in

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Speaker 1: that city. I never wish for the Rams to remain

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Speaker 1: in Saint Louis, sorry Saint Louis people, but definitely the

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Speaker 1: Chargers in San Diego. It just seemed right to have

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Speaker 1: them there. Johnny, thanks a lot, Mark, Thank you all right.

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Speaker 1: Read Johnny's articles on Houston Texans dot com and the

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Speaker 1: Texans App, so check it out there. This show is

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Speaker 1: gonna be on the Texans app soon enough. We have

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Speaker 1: podcasts up there as well, ticket information. Everything you need

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Speaker 1: to enjoy to experience your Houston Texans. Will be back

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Speaker 1: on tomorrow of course have a great night everyone and

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Speaker 1: go Texans.