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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, Welcome to the show. It's a big one tonight.

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Speaker 1: Mark Vandermare and John Harris with you. We have plenty

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Speaker 1: to talk about. It's been roster overhaul week, well not

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Speaker 1: really overhaul, but get it down to fifty three, get

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Speaker 1: the practice squad set up, that kind of week in

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Speaker 1: advance of the Texans and Rams September seventh, huge weekend

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Speaker 1: in college football coming up. We'll get to all of it,

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Speaker 1: and we'll start off the show with the General, the

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Speaker 1: Pro Football Hall of Famer John McClain. All right, General,

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Speaker 1: we haven't had a chance to talk since the roster

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Speaker 1: was constructed. Your thoughts on the initial fifty three, the

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Speaker 2: What are you thinking?

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Speaker 3: Well, of course, we know that's an ongoing process. As

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Speaker 3: Nick Cassario pointed out at his news conference on Wednesday,

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Speaker 3: and I thought Graham Mertz as a third quarterback was unusual.

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Speaker 3: He played really well in that last game. Obviously they

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Speaker 3: were worried somebody might claim him keeping two tight ends.

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Speaker 3: And remember, and the listeners got to remember today can

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Speaker 3: elevate practice squad guys like Harrison Brian, he can maybe

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Speaker 3: added to the roster. Miles Briant. He's gonna be added

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Speaker 3: to the roster because they only have what two slot.

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Speaker 3: They don't even have a backup Miles Bryant backup slot

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Speaker 3: corner right now. So things will change on game day,

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Speaker 3: and boy, game day can't get here quick enough because

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Speaker 3: we're all so fired up about the season.

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Speaker 4: We are definitely fired up about the season. I think

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Speaker 4: quarterback one was a little surprising in fact today, earlier today,

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Speaker 4: it was noted Keaton Slovas is going to sign with

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Speaker 4: the Arizona Cardinals practice squad.

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Speaker 5: So good for him.

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Speaker 4: He returns back home where he was a high school

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Speaker 4: star there in the state of Arizona. But general, it's

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Speaker 4: talking about those two tight ends for a little bit,

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Speaker 4: Dalton Schultz cased over and that's it. Now they brought

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Speaker 4: Harrison Bryant back on the practice squad. Would imagine he

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Speaker 4: would be one of the elevations. But your level surprise

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Speaker 4: in the sense that the only kept two tight ends

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Speaker 4: at this point, Kate Stover adult Schultz.

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Speaker 3: Well, considering they traded for Brian he's on the practice squad,

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Speaker 3: it'll be a moot point on game day. But they

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Speaker 3: need Dalton shows to play the way did two years ago,

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Speaker 3: and Cat Stover loves to knock people on their butt,

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Speaker 3: and and since most players make their biggest improvement between

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Speaker 3: the first and second season, I expect a lot of

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Speaker 3: improvement from him as a receiver. He's learning Nick Cayley's

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Speaker 3: offense just like everybody else for the first time. And

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Speaker 3: I think that I love watching Stover block and that

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Speaker 3: he may never have a better block. And what was

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Speaker 3: it in the practice in the joint practice against Carolina

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Speaker 3: which patters blind?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, ants it was Derek Brown.

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Speaker 3: Dereck Brown knocked him on his tail. I'll guarantee you

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Speaker 3: Brown got a lot of grief from his teammates when

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Speaker 3: they watch Tapa that. But I think tidy ends not

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Speaker 3: a worrisome position. The biggest worry, of course, is running back.

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Speaker 3: I like the fact they kept British Brooks. I love

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Speaker 3: Can't wait to see. I love the fact that Nick

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Speaker 3: Chubb is healthy. How that translates on the field, we

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Speaker 3: don't know. But he averaged five yards of Carrie Damian Peers.

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Speaker 3: If he stays healthy last year of his contract, this

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Speaker 3: is a great opportunity for him, and I can't wait

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Speaker 3: to see what he marks, see what Woody Marx can

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Speaker 3: do as a rookie, not just as a runner, but

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Speaker 3: as a receiver and arguing. But while he's one of

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Speaker 3: their most versatile players and a good special teams player.

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Speaker 3: So they got a lot of options at running back,

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Speaker 3: but it's still going to be a questionable, questionable position

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Speaker 3: until they prove they can produce at a level close

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Speaker 1: General, I'm going to ask John Harris this question in

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Speaker 1: the next segment. So Johnny, no spilling the candy and

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Speaker 1: the lobby right here, but John, you tell me, John McLean,

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Speaker 1: who the third leading receiver on this team is going

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Speaker 1: to be. It's gonna be n Neico Collins, Christian Kirk

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Speaker 3: Considering Jalen Knowle's coming off the bench. You'd say Jay

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Speaker 3: Niggins would be because he's the starter. But no, Man,

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Speaker 3: when I looked at what the draft experts, I expect

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Speaker 3: the pick that they were most impressed with was not

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Speaker 3: Jay Niggins in the second round, that Jalen Nole in

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Speaker 3: and be right there behind Nico. You hope Jay Naked

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Speaker 3: think we all are really eager to see Noel Noel

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Speaker 3: when he gets the ball, because he's so elusive and quick,

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Speaker 3: and he was great in college.

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Speaker 5: General.

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Speaker 4: Along those lines are the receivers. There are seven of

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Speaker 4: them on the fifty three man roster. Were you surprised

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Speaker 4: they kept seven? A few days ago, I said, man,

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Speaker 4: after John Metchu was traded, I thought I could see five,

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Speaker 4: make jaln Noel, U punt returner, mag Justin Watson expendable.

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Speaker 5: There you got five, and then you can.

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Speaker 4: Pick up at other positions, namely maybe an extra tight end,

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Speaker 4: et cetera.

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Speaker 5: But they went with seven. They did it last year too.

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Speaker 4: Now, Stephen Simms only lasted a certain amount of time

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Speaker 4: with the team, but they went with seven for the

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Speaker 4: first six or seven weeks. Your thoughts about keeping seven

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Speaker 3: I was surprised. I thought it would be six. But

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Speaker 3: last season is a great example of why he needs seven.

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Speaker 3: Nico missed five games, what digs miss eight? How many

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Speaker 3: receivers missed significant time, you better have guys ready to

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Speaker 3: go another system. They've got Jared Wayne. Do they have

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Speaker 4: But when you sign they signed Josh Kelly out of

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Speaker 3: Okay, Well, Jared Wayne knows the system, so he can

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Speaker 3: be elevated if somebody gets hurt. But you've got to

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Speaker 3: have multiple receivers. It'd be a great problem to have

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Speaker 3: if nobody ever got hurt and they didn't need any

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Speaker 3: of those backups. If Nico Collins stays healthy and plays

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Speaker 3: a full season for the first time, I'll bet he

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Speaker 3: has one hundred catches for over fifteen hundred yards and

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Speaker 1: General, I want you to think about this one. Is

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Speaker 1: this the most loaded the Texans have been going into

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Speaker 1: a season ever? Or is it second place to twenty

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Speaker 1: twelve team. Now, I'm not talking about how they ultimately

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Speaker 2: I'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: How you felt about the team's talent heading into the campaign.

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Speaker 1: At this very moment, what do you think? Where does

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Speaker 3: This team has more depth on defense, and I wasn't

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Speaker 3: surprised they kept so many defensive alignment. Those guys earned it,

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Speaker 3: trade him. I thought Nick Cassio with trade alignment, maybe

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Speaker 3: and then you know the Nico Audrey has been seems

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Speaker 3: he's still a dangerous player at his age. It's a

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Speaker 3: good problem to have now. Offensively, twenty twelve, they didn't

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Speaker 3: have they had a better offensive line, you know, they don't.

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Speaker 3: As much as we think about Nico Collins, he wasn't

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Speaker 3: Andre Johnson, and so I think defensively this team has

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Speaker 3: more offensive league that team had more because they had

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Speaker 4: General, what's your general sense of the running back room

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Speaker 4: been a little bit of a point of contention in

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Speaker 4: with Nick Chubb, with Daria Goomblewala, with what he marks

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Speaker 4: with Damian Pearson and keeping British Brooks. What's your level

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Speaker 3: Well, before Chubb had his knee injury and then broke

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Speaker 3: he's one of the best backs in the NFL. But

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Speaker 3: he and people say he's got a lot of mileage. No,

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Speaker 3: he doesn't. He's been rehabbing a lot. Joe Maxon has

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Speaker 3: NFL over I can't remember having the last five years

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Speaker 3: to Derrick Henry, And you know, there's no guarantee Joe

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Speaker 3: this season, he said, we'll see, We'll take it one

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Speaker 3: really forget about Joe Mixon, and I think if Chubb

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Speaker 3: this is really going to be a running back by committee.

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Speaker 3: Can't see Nick Chubb coming out and filling the role

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Speaker 3: that Mixing held last year when Cassario stolen from the Bengals.

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Speaker 3: And Joe's an underrated receiver besides being a really good runner,

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Speaker 3: he's been a double digit touchdown guy. Cincinnati got rid

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Speaker 3: going to be hard to replace him. And it would

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Speaker 3: really help if Damian Peers could stay healthy and capitalize

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Speaker 3: have maybe Woody Marx, if not Dorri Goombawally as the

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Speaker 1: All right, General, I don't want to open up a

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Speaker 1: can of injury here, but let's do a little bit

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Speaker 1: of that, because you've been covering this game for a

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Speaker 2: So what are your thoughts.

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Speaker 1: On teams and how they handle injuries overall? Because this league,

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Speaker 1: once you get into the regular season, you do have

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Speaker 1: an injury report every week and you've got guys put

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Speaker 1: on IR and very often you see what the injury is.

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Speaker 1: I think you always see what the injury is when

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Speaker 1: they go on IR. I believe I might be wrong

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Speaker 1: about that. But what are your thoughts on offseason, preseason,

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Speaker 1: that kind of thing And what went down this week

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Speaker 1: with the Miko Ryans and Nick Assario with the media.

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Speaker 3: Well, first of all, the media's job is to ask

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Speaker 3: of your best players who you're being counted on so much,

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Speaker 3: you have to ask. You know, they don't have to answer,

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Speaker 3: to ask. You know, Nick Assario and Nmiko Ryans are

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Speaker 3: do it. You know, you're asking for the fans that

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Speaker 3: to know. People are constantly talking, well, what's up with

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Speaker 3: Joe Mixing? And in almost every case that I know of,

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Speaker 3: teams are reactive instead of proactive. You could come out

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Speaker 3: he re injured his foot and he's undergoing rehab and

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Speaker 3: we'll talk to it next time right before he's eligible

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Speaker 3: to come off not football injury less, and then the

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Speaker 3: story that's it but most teams are reactive. And I

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Speaker 3: remember one time O'Brien told me I'm looking for any

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Speaker 4: Defensive Player of the Year is one Will Anderson Junior.

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Speaker 3: It means the Texans had a great defense. And remember

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Speaker 2: General.

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Speaker 5: I'd like to see them starting Labor Day, but that's okay.

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Speaker 5: Would normally expect.

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Speaker 4: You know, you don't have a ton of great games,

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Speaker 5: So I mean, I'm okay with that. General.

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Speaker 4: If you haven't heard Mike Tannenbaum when asked who was

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Speaker 4: Now you may not want or may see the Texans

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Speaker 3: It's the first time I've agreed with Steven A. Smith

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Speaker 3: They will never say this publicly, but they would love

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they're gonna be It's gonna be tough for them

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Speaker 3: I think that Mike Grabel wouldn't have taken the job

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Speaker 3: But Brabel's basically starting over, except for Drake May could

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Speaker 3: But that was a significant loss for that franchise when

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Speaker 1: General, let's continue talking about things going on around the

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Speaker 3: Thoughts, No, you said the Horseshoe. I thought you were

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll talk about that Baylor. Sure.

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Speaker 3: I think Chris Ballard has to say that. He could

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Speaker 3: You know, the odds are they could be starting over

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Speaker 3: all if they don't have We're not talking about the

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Speaker 1: High general before I get to college football. Taylor Swift

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Speaker 3: Well, she's the most popular and her popularity is worldwide.

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Speaker 5: Oh boy, God, that's gonna be large.

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Speaker 4: General, how excited are you for a Baylor Bear football

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Speaker 3: And so I haven't been this excited about a Baylor

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Speaker 3: about the Longhorns. All my friends hate the Longhorns, want

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Speaker 3: them to lose. I want them to win now that

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Speaker 3: they're not in the Big twelve. I want to see

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Speaker 3: him win. I want to see the Ages win. I

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Speaker 3: want to see all our schools win. The Baylor started

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Speaker 3: one in one. I'd rather beat Auburn on TV and

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Speaker 3: then lose at SMU, then lose to Auburn and beat SMU.

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Speaker 3: But if they start over too, Baylor people are going

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Speaker 3: to be crushed.

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Speaker 2: All right, General, great stuff.

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Speaker 1: As always great to visit with you, and we will

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Speaker 1: check in next week prior to the Texans taking on

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Speaker 1: the Rams in the twenty twenty five season opener.

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Speaker 3: Thanks so much, Mark and John, Thank you guys very much.

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Speaker 3: As always, is the best time of.

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Speaker 1: The year, the best time of the year, and it's

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Speaker 1: the best segment when we get to other than the

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Speaker 1: general segment, when we get to more likely to happen,

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Speaker 1: and we'll talk to Texans receivers, running backs, we'll talk

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Speaker 1: AFC South opponents, all of it coming up here on

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio. Here we are on the hun Day Texans

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Speaker 1: Radio studio. Mark Vandermaer and John Harris with you. As

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Speaker 1: it'll be all quiet this weekend in the building.

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Speaker 2: No, it won't.

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Speaker 1: The weekend is playing at NRG Stadium, But as far

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Speaker 1: as the football facilities, yes, it'll be a weekend off

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Speaker 1: of the players before they get back to it on

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Speaker 1: Monday for practice. That'll be a full workday for them

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Speaker 1: getting into game week one. They'll face the Rams September

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Speaker 1: seventh in La And very important to note, we were

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Speaker 1: gonna have a show look at regular Tuesday kind of

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Speaker 1: players show to start off the season. We changed our minds.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go to the team Shop Tuesday at six.

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Speaker 1: So Tuesday, September second, six o'clock, Jonathan Joseph will be

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Speaker 1: with us, and we've got specials. We got ticket giveaways.

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Speaker 1: The team Store stays open late, usually closes at six.

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Speaker 1: It'll be open until at least seven, and we'll be

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Speaker 1: hobnobbing with the peeps, giving away stuff, having a great

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Speaker 1: time Tuesday six, right here at NRG Stadium Team Shop

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Speaker 1: be here.

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Speaker 2: Aloha. All right, let's get to this, Johnny.

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Speaker 1: It's a segment that we don't do all the time,

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Speaker 1: but when we do it, it's huge.

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Speaker 2: It's more likely to happen. You ready, let's go all right,

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Speaker 2: here we go.

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Speaker 5: I'm likely to happen.

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Speaker 1: I promised i'd ask you this, So let's do it.

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Speaker 1: And we've done versions of this. But now that we

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Speaker 1: know our initial fifty three and practice squad, let's get

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Speaker 1: into it. Who's going to be the third leading receiver

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Speaker 1: on this team? Now, if you have somebody else in

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Speaker 1: the top two other than Nico Collins and Christian Kirk,

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Speaker 1: let me know.

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Speaker 2: But who's third? What do you think?

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Speaker 4: I think that in touchdowns it will be Jaydan Higgins.

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Speaker 4: I think in yards it will be Jayden Higgins. I

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Speaker 4: think in catches it's going to be.

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Speaker 5: Jalen Knowle. Let's go that way.

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Speaker 4: I think that I think Jayane Higgins is going to

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Speaker 4: create some big, big plays for this team. And I

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Speaker 4: don't know that he'll catch sixty passes, but I do

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Speaker 4: think the thirty five to forty he catches, and I

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Speaker 4: hope it's more, but I think he's gonna average sixteen

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Speaker 4: seventeen yards a catch. You're talking about, say it's forty catches,

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Speaker 4: six hundred and eighty yards and I think he's gonna

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Speaker 4: create a number of big play touchdowns. So I do

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Speaker 4: think Nico's gonna be let's say Nico's healthy.

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Speaker 5: I think it's up near one hundred, if not over.

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Speaker 4: I think Christian Kirk is gonna be seventy five to eighty.

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Speaker 4: I don't think the yards per average is gonna be high,

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Speaker 4: but it doesn't need to be. It just needs to

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Speaker 4: be a bunch of first downs and replace kind of

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Speaker 4: what Robert Woods gave you as kind of a third

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Speaker 4: down go to guy. And then I think Jaydon Higgins

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Speaker 4: ends up being the next guy. And I do think

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Speaker 4: that Dalton Schultz probably fits in between there. But I

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Speaker 4: think Dalton's gonna kind of be similar to Christian. It's

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Speaker 4: gonna be probably a higher reception rate, lower yardage, maybe

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Speaker 4: lower in touchdowns. But I think Jayden's gonna have the

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Speaker 4: sixty five yard bomb. I think he's gonna have the

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Speaker 4: fifty yard catch. I think he's gonna end up making

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Speaker 4: some of those plays, and a number of them that

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Speaker 4: come off of takeaways. Last year we'd have a takeaway.

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Speaker 4: It's like, all right, Dre talks about this all the time.

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Speaker 4: What do you want to do? Go deep right after

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Speaker 4: a takeaway. We didn't go deep a lot. Last year.

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Speaker 4: We would run outside zone, and the way we go

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Speaker 4: I think this year there's gonna be, hey, we gotta

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Speaker 4: turn over.

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Speaker 5: We got the ball on midfield. Let's take a shot here.

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Speaker 4: Let's take Jayane Higgins and send him on the post

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Speaker 4: route and see if we can't get him open. As

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Speaker 4: they all focus on Nico Collins, I think that's where

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Speaker 4: Jayden comes in. But I do think they're gonna find

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Speaker 4: ways to get the ball to Jalen Knowle, whether it's

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Speaker 4: quick screens, push passes. Remember if Jaye Nole goes in

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Speaker 4: motion and CJ takes the ball, just pushes it forward

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Speaker 4: just a little bit, that's a reception for Nol. He

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Speaker 4: could have won every game that way. That's seventeen catches

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Speaker 4: right there. So I think that Jade Nole produced in

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Speaker 4: that way. But I think Higgins is gonna be the

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Speaker 4: one with yards and touchdowns to come in third.

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Speaker 2: Okay, gotcha.

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Speaker 1: I understand it's a little confusing, but I understand because yeah, yards,

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Speaker 1: you have touchdowns, you have receptions, you have all of it. Okay,

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Speaker 1: next one. As we continue on this segment.

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Speaker 2: More likely to happen more likely to be the team's

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Speaker 2: second leading rusher.

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Speaker 1: Now Joe Mixon unable to participate in this question even

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Speaker 1: if he comes back. So, if Mixing comes back week five,

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Speaker 1: for instance, and your guy is bumped a third, because

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Speaker 1: Mixing's gonna get a lion's share of the carriers, or

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Speaker 1: at least enough of them to bump your guy out

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Speaker 1: of second, it sucks to be You give me the

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Speaker 1: second leading rusher on this team not named Joe Mixon

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Speaker 1: if he comes back week five or early enough to

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Speaker 1: affect these statistical standings, if that makes sense.

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Speaker 4: Joe Quavius Woody marks, Oh, okay, here we go. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: you know it's funny. You know me, I don't like

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Speaker 4: to be a hot take guy. I I'm not hot

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Speaker 4: take guy, but I get kind of stuck in my

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Speaker 4: convictions at and there have been times throughout this training

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Speaker 4: camp I'm watching, I'm like, man, you should have gone

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Speaker 4: with it before training camp. And that was that Woody

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Speaker 4: Marx was gonna be the second leading rusher on this team,

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Speaker 4: maybe even the first. That guys dinged up. Not sure

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Speaker 4: when they're coming back, not sure the longevity of you know,

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Speaker 4: how much is Nick got left in the tank. Now

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Speaker 4: Nick is shown to have a lot more left in

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Speaker 4: the tank than maybe any of us thought. So that

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Speaker 4: was good, But I kind of started playing that game

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Speaker 4: of well, we don't know what Damien's coming back, eh,

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Speaker 4: we don't know about Joe, So okay, what happens if

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Speaker 4: Nick gets a little dinged up?

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Speaker 5: Who do you go to next?

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm pretty I'm pretty convinced that you would go

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Speaker 4: to next, Woody Marx. I think Woody is gonna end

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Speaker 4: up being that number two guy because I think he's

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Speaker 4: gonna end up getting a lot of touches. Now, I

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Speaker 4: do think that Woody if if the question were second

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Speaker 4: in all purpose yards, I would absolutely, without a question.

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Speaker 5: Say Woody the second back.

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Speaker 4: Now as it sits and Damian's a little bit healthier,

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Speaker 4: it makes me lean Damien. But I'm gonna stick with

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Speaker 4: Woody on this because I think that Woody is I

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Speaker 4: think this offense is gonna be made for Woody. I

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Speaker 4: think they're gonna have some zone elements in it. He's

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Speaker 4: very good at that. I think he's gonna have some

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Speaker 4: power game and some gap power stuff. I think he's

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Speaker 4: gonna be good for that. I think he's gonna be

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Speaker 4: great in receiving game, so I'm confident absolutely that he'll

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Speaker 4: have be second all purpose yards. But I'm I'm at

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Speaker 4: a point now where I feel like he's gonna be second.

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Speaker 5: In rushing yards too, And it would be awesome if.

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Speaker 4: He ends up being that guy, because it makes the

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Speaker 4: future of that position that much more interesting. And you

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Speaker 4: know me, I look ahead, and I'm always looking ahead

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Speaker 4: because I'm always looking at the draft. I don't know

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Speaker 4: if there are a ton of guys in this draft

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Speaker 4: where I'm like, yeah, I'd like to see that guy

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Speaker 4: here over the guys we have. I like the guys

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Speaker 4: that we have. Last year, I looked at the running

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Speaker 4: backs and went, there are a lot of that I liked,

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Speaker 4: and Woody Marks was, you know, near the top of

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Speaker 4: the guys that I like. I don't know that I

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Speaker 4: look at the running backs this year and go, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I gotta have one.

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Speaker 5: Of these guys.

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Speaker 4: I like a few, but I love the guys like

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Speaker 4: I did last year, and we ended up getting one

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Speaker 4: of those guys that I loved. So I want to

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Speaker 4: ride that Woody Marks train for as long as possible,

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Speaker 4: and hopefully when he scores his first touchdown, You will say,

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Speaker 4: Joe Quavius Woody Marx has just scored his first touchdown

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Speaker 4: in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Oh, you're putting me up to that, Okay, man, I

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Speaker 1: will take it under consideration. Let's see how this plays out. Yes, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: all right. Let's get to the next one here and

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Speaker 1: go around the AFC South a little bit more likely

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Speaker 1: to have more yards. Daniel Jones with the Colts or

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Speaker 1: cam Ward with the Titans. Who's gonna throw for more

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Speaker 1: yards this year? Daniel Jones aka the new Alex Smith,

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Speaker 1: according to Chris Ballard, or cam Ward the number one

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Speaker 1: overall picking the draft playing for the Titans, who sparked

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Speaker 1: Mike Lombardi to say that the Titans would win the

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Speaker 1: AFCAST South. And I don't know what they're smoking in

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Speaker 1: North Carolina, but it must be really good.

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Speaker 2: But maybe he's right. Who knows. I mean, stranger things

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Speaker 2: have happened. The Texans went from worse to first.

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Speaker 4: I think this one is pretty simple. I think it's

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Speaker 4: gonna be cam Ward. I think you're a couple of things.

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Speaker 5: Number one.

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Speaker 4: I think the Colts are going to during games, they're

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Speaker 4: going to ride Jonathan Taylor and their run game for

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Speaker 4: as long as they possibly can until they have to

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Speaker 4: if they get behind, have to throw. But they're even

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Speaker 4: if they're down in the second half within one score,

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Speaker 4: they're gonna stick to the running game. I think in

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Speaker 4: Tennessee it is gonna be they get behind early, they've

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Speaker 4: got to throw a bunch late, and that to me

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Speaker 4: ends up getting a lot of I don't say hollow

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Speaker 4: yards for cam Ward, but I do think there're gonna

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Speaker 4: be some games where you look up and go, hey man,

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Speaker 4: cam Ward through for four hundred.

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Speaker 5: And seventy five. Yeah, they got beat thirty eight to ten.

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Speaker 4: So I think you're gonna get a number of those

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Speaker 4: kind of games, and I think cam Ward's gonna rack

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Speaker 4: up a bunch of yards, kind of like Cam Newton

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Speaker 4: did with the Panthers at twenty eleven. Is not a

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Speaker 4: very good team, but I remember Cam threw four hundred

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Speaker 4: the first two games of the year because they got

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Speaker 4: behind against both the Cardinals and the Packers, and to

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Speaker 4: get back in it.

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Speaker 5: Cam had to throw.

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Speaker 4: And what we ended up finding out later is that

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Speaker 4: wasn't the way the Panthers wanted to play, but that

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Speaker 4: was the way they had to play in twenty eleven,

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Speaker 4: I think that the Titans will have to do the

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Speaker 4: same with cam Ward and that will put him in

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Speaker 4: the thirty eight hundred, four thousand yard category because they're

655
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Speaker 4: trying to come back from behind in games as oppose

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Speaker 4: the Colts staying close and then staying close. They'll continue

657
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Speaker 4: to run Jonathan Taylor and get that run game going.

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Speaker 1: I'm old enough to remember ten years ago when Blake

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Speaker 1: Bortles threw for nearly forty five hundred yards, thirty five touchdowns,

660
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Speaker 1: eighteen interceptions. It's the eighteen interceptions that'll get you every time.

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Speaker 1: That's the problem there. I mean, those other numbers are big,

662
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Speaker 1: but those were carbohydrates. I mean that was that was

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Speaker 1: not exactly a successful season, now was it?

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Speaker 2: The next year? Yeah, the next year they'd make.

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Speaker 1: It to the AFC Championship Game, and yeah, twenty seventeen

666
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Speaker 1: because they were loaded up with those free agents, and

667
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,800
Speaker 1: you know, they took their revenge out on the Texans.

668
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: They had that great opening day win here following Hurricane Harvey,

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Speaker 1: and they had that demolish of the Houston Texans later

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Speaker 1: on in the season. And you got to give one

671
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 1: of those to the Jags every once in a while,

672
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:25,920
Speaker 1: just to keep them happy, but I don't want to

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Speaker 1: do that this year.

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Speaker 2: That's when the Texans are having a down year.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, Jags, have your little win, and then we'll

676
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 1: go on with the streak that never dies. The overall,

677
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: it's not really the streak that never dies, but it's

678
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 1: it's a run that never dies. Against the Jacksonville Jaguars,

679
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 1: the team you first beat on the road in the

680
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Speaker 1: history of the franchise in two thousand and two set

681
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Speaker 1: the tone for this series moving forward forever and ever.

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Speaker 2: That's how I feel for I love it.

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Speaker 4: And I hope it stays the matter where we play

684
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Speaker 4: them in Wembley or we play them in dow A exactly.

685
00:34:57,640 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 1: And you say it right as opposed to the head

686
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: coach duringory press conference, we're that's more likely to happen. Now,

687
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: stay with me on this more likely to be a

688
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 1: tougher quarterback to deal with right now? Matthew Stafford or

689
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,360
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield. Who's tougher to deal with right now for

690
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 1: this defense Matthew Stafford with the bad back I'm hurting,

691
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 1: or Baker Mayfield I'm gonna light it up. I don't

692
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 1: know if he's gonna light it up or not. I'm

693
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 1: just painting a picture here. What do you think, Well,

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Speaker 1: the two.

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Speaker 4: Things that impact you I think in week one are

696
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:36,359
Speaker 4: incorporating or learning a new offense and an injury coming in. Well,

697
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 4: one has one and one has the other. I'd lean

698
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:44,839
Speaker 4: more towards Baker Mayfield because Mayfield is healthy, and I

699
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 4: think a lot of what they'll do they've already did

700
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Speaker 4: under Liam Cohen. They'll just continue it there in Tampa,

701
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 4: I think, and just kind of keep that machine rolling.

702
00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 4: So I think it's new and a new offensive coordinator,

703
00:35:58,080 --> 00:35:59,799
Speaker 4: but I think I thinks they're gonna be similar enough

704
00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 4: to is gonna be really really tough to deal with.

705
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,439
Speaker 4: Kate Odden's hurt. You send me that text. I woke

706
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,879
Speaker 4: up to that on Thursday morning, Like, Yo, Kate odten Man.

707
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Speaker 4: I hope he doesn't play. They already could be without

708
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Speaker 4: Tristan Wurfs. That's a big loss. If they're without Kate Odden. Well,

709
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Speaker 4: that helps out because I think Baker is coming in

710
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:21,440
Speaker 4: firing forty one and fifteen last year. I think Baker's

711
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 4: gonna be tougher that back. For Matt Stafford, I mean,

712
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 4: he might live in his little cryo chamber or whatever

713
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 4: he's got. But man, if he gets hit a couple

714
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 4: times by these animals rushing him, oooh, buddy, that is

715
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 4: going to be tough. Now he's got his offense, he

716
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:39,320
Speaker 4: knows it backwards and forwards. But they got to incorporate

717
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 4: Devonte Adams into it. They got to deal with life

718
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:45,399
Speaker 4: without Cooper cup That I think is gonna be tough.

719
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Speaker 4: So I think with all the weapons that Tampa Bay has,

720
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Speaker 4: the offense sting relatively similar, and Baker being healthy, I

721
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Speaker 4: think Mayfield is a tougher nut to crack, if you will.

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Speaker 5: In the first two weeks of the year.

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Speaker 2: I got another one for you. This is a college sorry, sorry,

724
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Speaker 2: dear college.

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Speaker 1: Football one more likely to happen, more likely to be

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Speaker 1: the number one pick in the draft in twenty twenty six.

727
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a choice here, Arch Manning slash

728
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Speaker 1: Garrett Nussmeyer or the field. You pick one of those

729
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Speaker 1: two qbs or the field for the number one pick

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Speaker 1: in the draft twenty twenty six, Johnny the field.

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Speaker 5: First of all, I'm not totally sure arch will come

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Speaker 5: out now.

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Speaker 4: He's kind of refuted what Archie, his grandfather said about

734
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Speaker 4: coming out. But I feel like Arch has a lot

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Speaker 4: to prove, and I don't know if he'll prove at all,

736
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Speaker 4: even though he'd been the number one pick. And there's

737
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,920
Speaker 4: also that Manning family trait of We're gonna hang on

738
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Speaker 4: as long as we possibly can to see who's gonna

739
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Speaker 4: end up with a number one pick, and then we'll decide.

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Speaker 4: Nuss Meyer is too yolo for me. I said that

741
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Speaker 4: to somebody who asked me the other day in the office.

742
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Speaker 5: Yolo.

743
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you only live once. He is firing, he's ready

744
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 4: fire aim like. He shoots it a lot of different

745
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 4: places now. He is gutsy, he is tough, he has

746
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 4: been well coached. He's a coach's son. I like him

747
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:04,879
Speaker 4: down to stretch of games. But there's just a little

748
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,439
Speaker 4: bit too much yolo in his game. My QB one

749
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Speaker 4: going into this year, write this name down South Carolina

750
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Speaker 4: quarterback with North Sellers.

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Speaker 5: My cop for.

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Speaker 4: Him is Andrew luck Oh on many levels, Oh, North Sellers,

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Speaker 4: South Carolina, that's my guy.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's your guy. So you went with another quarterback.

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Speaker 1: How about Arch making six point eight million dollars this year?

756
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Speaker 5: How about that? How about that? What a six point

757
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 5: eight million?

758
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Speaker 4: That's what second round picks make, right now, that's what second.

759
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Speaker 5: Round picks are making.

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Speaker 2: It's just crazy stuff. Oh my god, that.

761
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Speaker 5: Mean, it's ridiculous.

762
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Speaker 4: Mark He's he started twice in his career. This game

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Speaker 4: on Saturday with Ohio State. Julian Saying is the new

764
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Speaker 4: quarterback of Ohio State. Zero career starts. Arch has two

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Speaker 4: and these are teams one and three in the country.

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Speaker 4: Now there is some serious talent, serious talent. I got

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Speaker 4: my keys of the game up at football taker dot

768
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Speaker 4: com and I'm gonna have a draft article coming up.

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Speaker 5: Later this weekend as well. Before you get to that game.

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Speaker 4: With all the draft talent you need to be watching

771
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Speaker 4: in Texas out of state, they are loaded with dudes.

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Speaker 1: Loaded indeed. And that'll be Saturday at eleven o'clock. That's

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Speaker 1: an eleven am game Texas at Ohio State. Can't wait

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Speaker 1: for that, can't wait for the Hurricanes taking on the

775
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 1: fighting Irish Sean pendergast so Alma Mater, Catholics and convicts revisited.

776
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Speaker 2: Really did I go there? I did?

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Speaker 5: So?

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Speaker 1: What who cares? We're having fun. Let's do the final

779
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:32,280
Speaker 1: segment next. Johnny Away in on one of the McClean, topics,

780
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 1: and everything else we could squeeze in before the close

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Speaker 1: of business tonight here on Texans All Access. Hello Texans,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. It's a big one tonight. Mark

783
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 1: Vandermare and John Harris with you. We have plenty to

784
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 1: talk about. It's been roster overhaul week, well not really overhaul,

785
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 1: but get it down to fifty three, get the practice

786
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 1: squad set up, that kind of week in advance of

787
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Speaker 1: the Texans and Rams September seventh, huge weekend in college

788
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Speaker 1: football coming up. We'll get to all of it, and

789
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Speaker 1: we'll start off the show with the general. Oh Football

790
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Speaker 1: Hall of Famer John McLean. All right, General, we haven't

791
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Speaker 1: had a chance to talk since the roster was constructed.

792
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Speaker 1: Your thoughts on the initial fifty three, the practice squad,

793
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Speaker 1: some of the developments.

794
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 2: What are you thinking?

795
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 3: Well, of course, we know that's an ongoing process, as

796
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Speaker 3: net Tosario pointed out at his news conference on Wednesday,

797
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:25,719
Speaker 3: and I thought Graham Mertz as a third quarterback was unusual.

798
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 3: He played really well in that last game. Obviously they

799
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Speaker 3: were worried somebody might claim him keeping two tight ends.

800
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Speaker 3: And remember and the listeners got to remember that they

801
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 3: can elevate practice squad guys like Harris and Brian. He

802
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 3: can may be added to the roster, Miles Brian, He's

803
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 3: going to be added to the roster because they only

804
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 3: have what two slot. They don't even have a backup

805
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 3: Miles Brian backup slight corner right now. So things will

806
00:40:57,239 --> 00:40:59,839
Speaker 3: change on game day, and boy, game day can't get

807
00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:04,240
Speaker 3: it quick enough because we're all so fired up about

808
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Speaker 3: the season.

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00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:07,839
Speaker 4: We are definitely fired up about the season. I think

810
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 4: quarterback one was a little surprising in fact today, earlier

811
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Speaker 4: today it was noted Keaton Slovas is going to sign

812
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Speaker 4: with the Arizona Cardinals practice.

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Speaker 5: Squad, So good for him.

814
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Speaker 4: He returns back home where he was a high school

815
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 4: star there in the state of Arizona. But general's talk

816
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 4: about those two tight ends for a little bit. Dalton

817
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 4: Schultz cased over and that's it now. They brought Harrison

818
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 4: Bryant back on the practice squad. Would imagine he would

819
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 4: be one of the elevations. But your level surprise in

820
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Speaker 4: the sense that they only kept two tight ends at

821
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Speaker 4: this point catched over adult Schultz.

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Speaker 3: Well, considering they traded for Briant, he's on the practice squad.

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Speaker 3: It'll be a moot point on game day, but they

824
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 3: need Dalton shows play the way did two years go.

825
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 3: And Cage Sedover loves to knock people on their butt.

826
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Speaker 3: And since most players make their biggest and movement between

827
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,799
Speaker 3: the first and second season, I expect a lot of

828
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 3: improvement from him as a receiver. He's learning Nick Cayley's

829
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 3: offense just like everybody else for the first time. And uh,

830
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Speaker 3: I think that I love watching Stover block and that

831
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 3: he may never have a better block. And what was

832
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Speaker 3: it in the practice in the UH joint practice against

833
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Speaker 3: Carolina which.

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Speaker 5: Patsy blind Man, it was Derek Brown.

835
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Speaker 3: Dereck Brown knocked him on his tail. I'll guarantee you

836
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Speaker 3: Brown got a lot of grief from his teammates when

837
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Speaker 3: they watch tape of that. But I think tight ends

838
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 3: not a worrisome position. The biggest worry, of course, is

839
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Speaker 3: running back. I like the fact they kept British Brooks.

840
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 3: I love to see what he can do in short

841
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Speaker 3: yardage situations. Can't wait to see. I love the fact

842
00:42:56,200 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 3: that Nick Chubb is healthy. How that translates on the field,

843
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 3: we don't know. But he averaged five yards of Carrie

844
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Speaker 3: Damian Pierce. If he stays healthy last year of his contract,

845
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Speaker 3: this is a great opportunity for him, and I can't

846
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Speaker 3: wait to see what he marks, see what Woody Marx

847
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:16,320
Speaker 3: can do as a rookie, not just as a runner,

848
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 3: but as a receiver and dargue. But Wally's one of

849
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 3: their most versatile players and good special teams player. So

850
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:26,640
Speaker 3: they got a lot of options at running back, but

851
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:32,280
Speaker 3: it's still going to be a questionable, questionable position until

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Speaker 3: they prove they can produce at a level close to

853
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 3: the way Joe Mixon produced last season.

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Speaker 1: General I'm going to ask John Harris this question in

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Speaker 1: the next segment. So Johnny knows spilling the candy in

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Speaker 1: the lobby right here. But John, you tell me, John McClain,

857
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Speaker 1: who the third leading receiver on this team is going

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Speaker 1: to be. It's gonna be Nico Collins, Christian Kirk one two.

859
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 1: But what do you think about the third leading receiver

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Speaker 1: who you got.

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Speaker 3: Considered Jalen Knowles coming off the bench. You'd say Jay

862
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:07,839
Speaker 3: Niggins would be because he's the starter. But Noel Man,

863
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Speaker 3: when I looked at what the draft experts, I expect

864
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Speaker 3: the pick that they were most impressed with was not

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Speaker 3: Jay Niggins in the second round, that Jalen Nole in

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Speaker 3: the third round, and they thought that was a steal

867
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:25,799
Speaker 3: by the Texans. So I'm gonna say of the whiteouts

868
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 3: because I think there's good chance Dalton Schultz could be

869
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:33,720
Speaker 3: number three, But I'm going to say that that Noel

870
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:35,640
Speaker 3: at the end of the year will end up being

871
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:39,799
Speaker 3: the third third in catches. You old Christian Kirk can

872
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 3: stay healthy and be right there behind Nico. You hope

873
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 3: Jay Niggins steps up and against the ball a lot,

874
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 3: but I think we all are really eager to see

875
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:54,360
Speaker 3: Noel Noel when he gets the ball, because he's so

876
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 3: elusive and quick, and he was great in college.

877
00:44:58,080 --> 00:44:58,319
Speaker 5: General.

878
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:01,839
Speaker 4: Along those lines are the receivers. There are seven of

879
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:05,880
Speaker 4: them on the fifty three man roster. Were you surprised

880
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:08,439
Speaker 4: they kept seven? A few days ago, I said, man,

881
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:10,800
Speaker 4: after John Metchu's trade, I thought I could see five,

882
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:15,879
Speaker 4: make jaln Nola punt returner, make Justin Watson expendable. There

883
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:17,799
Speaker 4: you got five, and then you can pick up at

884
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 4: other positions, namely maybe an extra tight end, et cetera.

885
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 5: But they went with seven. They did it last year too.

886
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 4: Now, Steven Simms only lasted a certain amount of time

887
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 4: with the team, but they went with seven for the

888
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 4: first six or seven weeks. Your thoughts about keeping seven

889
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:32,200
Speaker 4: wide receivers.

890
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 3: I was surprised. I thought it would be six. But

891
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:38,240
Speaker 3: last season's a great example of Wayne needs seven. Nico

892
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:42,439
Speaker 3: missed five games, what digs miss eight? How many did

893
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 3: Tank Dell end up missing five? So your top three

894
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:49,719
Speaker 3: receivers missed significant time. You better have guys ready to

895
00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 3: go another system. They've got Jared Wayne. Do they have

896
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:55,920
Speaker 3: another receiver on the practice squad?

897
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 4: But when you signed they assigned Josh Kelly out of

898
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 4: Texas Tech.

899
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:00,960
Speaker 5: Today.

900
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 3: Okay, well, Jared Wayne knows the system, so he can

901
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:08,239
Speaker 3: be elevated if somebody gets hurt. But you've got to

902
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:11,799
Speaker 3: have multiple receivers. It'd be a great problem to have

903
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:14,839
Speaker 3: if nobody ever got hurt and they didn't need any

904
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:18,360
Speaker 3: of those backups. If Nicocillin stays healthy and plays a

905
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 3: full season for the first time, I'll bet you has

906
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 3: one hundred catches for over fifteen hundred yards and fifteen touchdowns.

907
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 2: General, I want you to think about this one.

908
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:31,320
Speaker 1: Is this the most loaded the Texans have been going

909
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:34,759
Speaker 1: into a season ever? Or is it second place to

910
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 1: twenty twelve team. Now, I'm not talking about how they

911
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:40,120
Speaker 1: ultimately ended up that particular campaign or any particular campaign.

912
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:42,920
Speaker 1: I'm talking about how you felt about the team's talent

913
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 1: heading into the campaign at this very moment, what do

914
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 1: you think?

915
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:48,719
Speaker 2: Where does this rank for you?

916
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 3: This team has more depth on defense, and I wasn't

917
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:56,759
Speaker 3: surprised they kept so many defensive linemen. Those guys earned it,

918
00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 3: and I'm glad they didn't let somebody get away trade him.

919
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 3: I thought Nick Cassio would trade alignment, maybe a tackle

920
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 3: for a sixth round pick, and they get hurt, and

921
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:11,360
Speaker 3: then you know the Nico Audrey has been seems like

922
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 3: suspended most of the time he's been here, or on

923
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 3: a list like he is now when he comes back,

924
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:21,879
Speaker 3: he's still a dangerous player at his age. They it's

925
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 3: a good problem to have now. Offensively, twenty twelve they

926
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 3: didn't have. They had a better offensive line, you know,

927
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:33,920
Speaker 3: they don't. As much as we think about Nico Collins,

928
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 3: he wasn't Andre Johnason, and so I think defensively this

929
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 3: team has more. Offensively, that team had more because they

930
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 3: had a great running back, one of the best in

931
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 3: the league, and so I would say is offensive twelve,

932
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:53,320
Speaker 3: defense twenty five general?

933
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:57,480
Speaker 4: What's your general sense of the running back room right now?

934
00:47:57,520 --> 00:47:58,880
Speaker 5: We don't know about Joe Mixon.

935
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 4: Obviously that's been uh he's going to be out four

936
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 4: weeks and that's been a little bit of a point

937
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 4: of contention in the media lately. But your thoughts about

938
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:11,040
Speaker 4: what they have with Nick Chubb, with Daria goomblewal A,

939
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:13,840
Speaker 4: with what he marks with Damian Pearson and keeping British Brooks.

940
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:16,439
Speaker 4: What's your level of confidence in that running back group?

941
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 4: How do you feel about that running back group?

942
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 3: Well before Chubb had his knee injury and then broke

943
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 3: his foot last year, and he's one hundred percent, you know,

944
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 3: he's one of the best backs in the NFL. But

945
00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 3: he and he and people say he's got a lot

946
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 3: of mileage. No, he doesn't. He's been rehabbing a lot.

947
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 3: Joe Mexon has a lot of mileage, is stacking and

948
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 3: carries in the NFL over I can't remember him the

949
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:43,200
Speaker 3: last five years to Derrick Henry and uh, you know,

950
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:46,120
Speaker 3: there's no guarantee Joe Mixon's going to be ready after

951
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 3: four games, and we don't even know what Nicker Serio's

952
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:51,839
Speaker 3: asked if he played this season, he said, we'll see.

953
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:54,359
Speaker 3: We'll take it one day at a time. So right

954
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 3: now you have to really forget about Joe Mixon and

955
00:48:58,080 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 3: I think if Chubb this is really going to be

956
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 3: a running back by committee. Can't see Nick Chubb coming

957
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 3: out and filling the role that makes in the held

958
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:14,040
Speaker 3: last year when Casario stolen from the Bengals, and Jo's

959
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:18,480
Speaker 3: an underrated receiver. Besides being a really good runner, he's

960
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:21,920
Speaker 3: been a double digit touchdown guy. Cincinnati got rid of

961
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:24,799
Speaker 3: him when he scored double digit touchdowns, so it's going

962
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:27,800
Speaker 3: to be hard to replace him. And it would really

963
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 3: help if Damian Piers could stay healthy and capitalize on

964
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 3: this system and come in and back up, do a

965
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,239
Speaker 3: good job as a backup to Chubb, and then have

966
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:43,120
Speaker 3: maybe Woody Marx, if not dry Gwali as the third

967
00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:43,800
Speaker 3: down receiver.

968
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 1: All right, General, I don't want to open up a

969
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:49,239
Speaker 1: can of injury here, but let's do a little bit

970
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:52,400
Speaker 1: of that. Because you've been covering this game for a

971
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:56,719
Speaker 1: little while, So what are your thoughts on teams and

972
00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 1: how they handle injuries overall? Because this league, once you

973
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:02,480
Speaker 1: get into the regular season, you do have an injury

974
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 1: report every week and you've got guys put on IR,

975
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:07,160
Speaker 1: and very often you see what the injury is.

976
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:08,960
Speaker 2: I think you always see what the injury is when

977
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:10,719
Speaker 2: they go on IR. I believe I might be wrong

978
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 2: about that. But what are your.

979
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:16,839
Speaker 1: Thoughts on off season, preseason, that kind of thing and

980
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 1: what went down this week with Themiko Ryans and Nick

981
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 1: Assario with the media.

982
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:22,799
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, the media's job is to ask

983
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:24,799
Speaker 3: about players who are not there, and when it's one

984
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:27,840
Speaker 3: of your best players who you're being counted on so much,

985
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:30,440
Speaker 3: you have to ask. You know, they don't have to answer,

986
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:33,200
Speaker 3: but you have to ask, and your bosses tell you

987
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 3: to ask. You know, if Nick Casario and Amiko Ryans

988
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 3: are told to do something about kel McNair, they're going

989
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:41,280
Speaker 3: to do it. You know, you're asking for the fans

990
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:44,360
Speaker 3: that pay the freight, You're asking for the listeners people

991
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:47,040
Speaker 3: want to know. People are constantly talking, well, what's up

992
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:50,880
Speaker 3: with Joe Mixon? And in almost every case that I

993
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:54,799
Speaker 3: know of, teams are reactive instead of proactive. You could

994
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:57,239
Speaker 3: come out and say, well, Joe was working out in

995
00:50:57,239 --> 00:51:00,920
Speaker 3: Florida and he re injured his foot and he's undergoing rehab,

996
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:04,719
Speaker 3: and we'll talk to it next time, right before he's

997
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:08,359
Speaker 3: eligible to come off, not football injury less, and then

998
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:12,200
Speaker 3: the story. That's it. But most teams are reactive. And

999
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 3: I remember one time O'Brien told me I'm looking for

1000
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:21,480
Speaker 3: any little morsel we can find about our opponent because

1001
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:25,799
Speaker 3: every little morsel can help us win. And I said, well,

1002
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:30,319
Speaker 3: you need more morsels, and Bill I thought about that

1003
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:32,279
Speaker 3: at the time. I asked him, one time, have you

1004
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:34,399
Speaker 3: ever seen a media person win or lose a game?

1005
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:37,080
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen a media person affect the game?

1006
00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 3: Including those of us who watched practice, talk to assistant

1007
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:44,239
Speaker 3: coaches and wrote what the team has said about an

1008
00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 3: honest injury, not a nagging one where a guy could

1009
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 3: be there next week or the next week, but if

1010
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 3: it was a legitimate one keeping him around a long time.

1011
00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:54,759
Speaker 3: I said, do you ever hear about a coach, I mean,

1012
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:57,719
Speaker 3: a media person affecting a game? Well, of course, he

1013
00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:01,399
Speaker 3: said no. One time. I'll tell y'all this, Brown's made

1014
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:04,360
Speaker 3: the playoffs for the only time under Bill Belichick, and

1015
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 3: he decided the media couldn't watch practice. Well, now, nobody.

1016
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 3: I don't think it's to watch practice sep in training camp,

1017
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 3: you had to go out stretching. And so that was

1018
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 3: a big deal in the NFL that this Bell Belichick,

1019
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:19,840
Speaker 3: who was not popular, telling the media all of a sudden,

1020
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:23,280
Speaker 3: you can't watch practice. Jack Pardee was the head coach

1021
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:25,400
Speaker 3: of the Oilers and they were in the playoffs, and

1022
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:27,680
Speaker 3: I said, if you thought about doing what that Belichick

1023
00:52:27,719 --> 00:52:31,520
Speaker 3: guy is doing in Cleveland, Jack said, I've played fifteen years,

1024
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 3: and I've coached the Redskins, and I've coached the Bears,

1025
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:36,919
Speaker 3: and I've coached the Oilers, and I've never seen one

1026
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:39,680
Speaker 3: time a person in the media have any kind of

1027
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:43,279
Speaker 3: effect on any game. And if I ever do, I'll

1028
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:44,359
Speaker 3: close practice too.

1029
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:49,480
Speaker 4: General was footing around the interwebs and social media, and

1030
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:52,319
Speaker 4: I went to the NFL Game Day account and they

1031
00:52:52,640 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 4: NFL dot Com made some award predictions. If this were

1032
00:52:57,600 --> 00:53:00,640
Speaker 4: to come true, tell me what do you think that

1033
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:04,799
Speaker 4: says about both the player and the defense and the

1034
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:08,280
Speaker 4: team of the Texans If this comes true. Their prediction

1035
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:12,360
Speaker 4: for Defensive Player of the Year is one Will Anderson Junior.

1036
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:15,040
Speaker 4: If he is Defensive Player of the Year, what do

1037
00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:17,319
Speaker 4: you think it says about what this team could do

1038
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:18,279
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty five.

1039
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:21,320
Speaker 3: It means the Texans had a great defense. And remember

1040
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 3: these awards were only being done for regular season, but

1041
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:27,360
Speaker 3: you know who's going on in the playoffs. It means

1042
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 3: he would add fifteen to twenty sacks, and it means

1043
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 3: the Texans would have won the division and be a

1044
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:37,239
Speaker 3: team to be reckoned with, especially the defense led by

1045
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:42,240
Speaker 3: Will Anderson Junior, a serious candidate for NFL Defensive Player.

1046
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:43,600
Speaker 2: Of the Year general.

1047
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 1: I'm in the oppressed minority of people who missed the

1048
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:50,839
Speaker 1: fourth preseason game, but I suppose I like the seventeenth game.

1049
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:53,879
Speaker 1: I like more games to count, but I still miss

1050
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 1: this one Thursday night before Labor Day.

1051
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:57,040
Speaker 2: I kind of enjoyed it.

1052
00:53:56,960 --> 00:54:01,120
Speaker 1: With the reserves playing the rookie, that kind of thing.

1053
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 1: Are you ready to give it up now that when

1054
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:06,160
Speaker 1: they go to eighteen games, and it's pretty much when

1055
00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:08,960
Speaker 1: and not if, that they will play on Labor Day

1056
00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:11,800
Speaker 1: weekend eventually, and they used to play on Labor Day weekend.

1057
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:14,920
Speaker 1: I know that you think they're dead set against it,

1058
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:17,320
Speaker 1: but if they go to eighteen. When they go to eighteen,

1059
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 1: they'll probably have two buys. They're just going to run

1060
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:22,839
Speaker 1: out of calendar at some point, don't you think they'll

1061
00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 1: play on Labor Day.

1062
00:54:25,239 --> 00:54:28,640
Speaker 3: No, there's no need to play on Labor Day because

1063
00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:31,920
Speaker 3: you can move the super Bowl whenever you want. Every

1064
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:34,200
Speaker 3: seat gets super Bowl has to keep all the rooms

1065
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:37,439
Speaker 3: and everything available for February, so you can move it back.

1066
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:40,839
Speaker 3: Eighteen games to two games off when they got out

1067
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:43,840
Speaker 3: of Labor Day is because TV ratings always started poorly.

1068
00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:46,960
Speaker 3: Now maybe the NFL so big right now it wouldn't matter.

1069
00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 3: But I think they like the build up, the hype

1070
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:54,359
Speaker 3: for the extra week. Players like having off. Will have

1071
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 3: two games, starters will play a little bit in one

1072
00:54:57,160 --> 00:55:00,719
Speaker 3: game and the others will not. They may have another practice,

1073
00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:04,400
Speaker 3: a couple of teams at three joint practices. So I

1074
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:07,879
Speaker 3: don't see them playing on Labor Day because if they

1075
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:11,520
Speaker 3: did and the TV ratings were down from last year,

1076
00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:14,359
Speaker 3: that's all they care about, and there's no need that

1077
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:16,600
Speaker 3: you couldn't move the Super Bowl back another week.

1078
00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 5: I'd like to seem started Labor Day, but that's okay.

1079
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:21,240
Speaker 4: I like the fact that Labor Day will be saved

1080
00:55:21,239 --> 00:55:23,720
Speaker 4: for college I know there's a decent number of games

1081
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:27,840
Speaker 4: that are taking place tonight. Nebraska Cincinnati at Arrowhead is

1082
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 4: definitely one of them. But it's a longer Thursday Friday

1083
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:35,520
Speaker 4: slate then you would normally expect. You know, you don't

1084
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:38,000
Speaker 4: have a ton of great games, but you know you've

1085
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:40,560
Speaker 4: got decent ones in that Nebraska Cincinnati game is going

1086
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:41,439
Speaker 4: to be a decent one.

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Speaker 5: So I mean, I'm okay with that. General.

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00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:47,960
Speaker 4: Mike Tannebaum was on First Take City across from Oh,

1089
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:48,920
Speaker 4: you know where I'm going.

1090
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 3: With smoking okay taking.

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00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:56,799
Speaker 4: If you haven't heard Mike Tannenbaum when asked who was

1092
00:55:56,840 --> 00:56:00,000
Speaker 4: going to win the AFC South, he said, with convey

1093
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:02,000
Speaker 4: and then try to argue it.

1094
00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 5: The Tennessee Titans.

1095
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 4: Now you may not want or may see the Texans

1096
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 4: winning the division. That's fine, but his logic was so

1097
00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:17,400
Speaker 4: fast Awkwards it was unbelievable. Your thoughts about Tannebaum saying

1098
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 4: something dumb again and it being the Titans winning the division.

1099
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:24,120
Speaker 3: It's the first time I've agreed with Steven A. Smith

1100
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:27,840
Speaker 3: on anything, because the way he looked at Tannebaum and

1101
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:30,799
Speaker 3: just tore him apart, And there's no way you can

1102
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 3: justify something like that. Now, if it happens, he'll look

1103
00:56:34,280 --> 00:56:37,240
Speaker 3: like one of the all time geniuses. And if it doesn't,

1104
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:40,080
Speaker 3: he'll look like a former GM can get a job

1105
00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:45,080
Speaker 3: in football. Again. I thought that was of all people

1106
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:50,120
Speaker 3: are always looking for something different, but that one was

1107
00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:53,000
Speaker 3: so out of left field. It wasn't in the ballpark,

1108
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:56,640
Speaker 3: and I thought Mike looked like such a dumb ass.

1109
00:56:56,920 --> 00:56:59,439
Speaker 1: How are they feeling about that defense? Because total yards

1110
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:01,640
Speaker 1: they look pretty good last year, but they were getting

1111
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:04,759
Speaker 1: the ball of the drive. Starts were ridiculously good for

1112
00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:07,840
Speaker 1: the opponents. And we're not talking about a scoring defense.

1113
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:12,160
Speaker 1: We're talking about yardage surrendered. That offense was top two

1114
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:15,799
Speaker 1: in giveaways, so your defense is at the thirty and

1115
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:17,840
Speaker 1: even if they score, you only gave up thirty yards,

1116
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:21,600
Speaker 1: but they scored. I thought those stats were really massed

1117
00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:24,600
Speaker 1: the total yardage defense. What do they think coming into

1118
00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:27,560
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five? How are they feeling in general general

1119
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:30,520
Speaker 1: in Nashville about this team.

1120
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Speaker 3: They will never say this publicly, but they would love

1121
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 3: to double their win total and go from three to six.

1122
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:40,480
Speaker 3: And cam Ward show a lot of promise as a

1123
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:43,600
Speaker 3: quarterback who can get better. Gods are he's not gonna

1124
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:46,400
Speaker 3: play seventeen games. He'll get hurt or he'll go through

1125
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 3: a bad stretch and get managed because he doesn't have

1126
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:51,960
Speaker 3: a lot of talent around him. They're backup running back

1127
00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:55,120
Speaker 3: Kayse Spears is out for at least four games, and

1128
00:57:55,200 --> 00:58:00,000
Speaker 3: they got Pollard. Their wide receivers are not very goods.

1129
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:02,080
Speaker 3: Back to their offensive line to be good the last

1130
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:06,160
Speaker 3: two years and it hasn't been. And yes, their defense

1131
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:08,640
Speaker 3: is good, but man, they're gonna be involved in a

1132
00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:09,800
Speaker 3: lot of love scoring games.

1133
00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:12,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're gonna be. It's gonna be tough for them

1134
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:13,560
Speaker 5: to do much.

1135
00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:16,480
Speaker 4: I think offensively, I think, if you're right, General, if

1136
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:17,880
Speaker 4: they can get the five or six wins, I think

1137
00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:19,880
Speaker 4: they're gonna be feel good about it. What I find

1138
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:23,080
Speaker 4: interesting with them is what happens to Brian Callahan. If

1139
00:58:23,120 --> 00:58:25,240
Speaker 4: they win five or six, they're showing enough that they

1140
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:29,280
Speaker 4: keep him around, et cetera. Because they've changed GMS. General,

1141
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:34,320
Speaker 4: the New England Patriots have one player from a nine

1142
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:35,760
Speaker 4: player draft.

1143
00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:36,640
Speaker 5: In twenty twenty four.

1144
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:40,480
Speaker 4: The GM or whoever pick those players is still the

1145
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:43,880
Speaker 4: guy picking those players, but it's a new head coach.

1146
00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:47,320
Speaker 4: What do you think this means with Elliott Wolf and

1147
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:49,920
Speaker 4: Mike Vrabel there in New England is as simple as

1148
00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:53,320
Speaker 4: Vrabel is just gonna work his magic until he has

1149
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:55,680
Speaker 4: that personal department the way he wants or do you

1150
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:58,640
Speaker 4: think Vrabel and Wolf will eventually kind of work together

1151
00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:01,160
Speaker 4: the way they want to and have a relationship called

1152
00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:02,600
Speaker 4: Nick and Imiko Iven Houston.

1153
00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:05,560
Speaker 3: I think that Mike Grabel wouldn't have taken the job

1154
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 3: if he didn't have final sale on personnel and might

1155
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:11,440
Speaker 3: not say it in his contract. But Elliot will's going

1156
00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 3: to draft who he wants. And the previous regime, you know,

1157
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:19,960
Speaker 3: they were bad all around, and so some of those

1158
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:22,440
Speaker 3: guys might have stayed if they had kept the same coach.

1159
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:26,800
Speaker 3: But Brabel's basically starting over except for Drake May could

1160
00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:30,040
Speaker 3: be a great young quarterback. But that roster you talk

1161
00:59:30,120 --> 00:59:34,560
Speaker 3: about being churned, that is embarrassing. You know, they started

1162
00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:39,720
Speaker 3: going down draft wise when Cassio came here. That was

1163
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:42,680
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty one. If you go back and look

1164
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:46,200
Speaker 3: at their draft, they were not good. I always was

1165
00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 3: told there. Nick would tell Belichick, Okay, I think we

1166
00:59:50,200 --> 00:59:54,160
Speaker 3: should do this this, and Belichick would do whatever he wanted.

1167
00:59:54,280 --> 00:59:57,440
Speaker 3: Sometimes he agreed with Nick, sometimes he didn't. But that

1168
00:59:57,600 --> 01:00:02,160
Speaker 3: was a significant loss for that franchise. When the Texans

1169
01:00:02,240 --> 01:00:04,280
Speaker 3: stole Nick Cassario from.

1170
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Speaker 1: Them, general, let's continue talking about things going on around

1171
01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:13,200
Speaker 1: the league and go to the Horseshoe because Daniel Jones

1172
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:16,120
Speaker 1: is the starting quarterback, Chris Ballard said, and do we

1173
01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:19,400
Speaker 1: believe him about this? He reminds me of Alex Smith

1174
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:20,480
Speaker 1: in Kansas City.

1175
01:00:21,080 --> 01:00:24,920
Speaker 3: Thoughts, No, you said the Horseshoe. I thought you were

1176
01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:29,200
Speaker 3: talking about Columbus in the second biggest game of the weekend.

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01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:31,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll talk about that Baylor. Sure.

1178
01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:35,680
Speaker 3: I think Chris Ballard has to say that he could

1179
01:00:35,720 --> 01:00:38,520
Speaker 3: be out of a job. You know, new owner and

1180
01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:42,320
Speaker 3: Jim Mersey's oldest daughter is heavily involved and has been

1181
01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:45,080
Speaker 3: heavily involved. You know, the odds are they could be

1182
01:00:45,120 --> 01:00:48,840
Speaker 3: starting over at this season. They need Daniel Jones to

1183
01:00:48,840 --> 01:00:52,560
Speaker 3: bail the mouth, or they need Anthony Richardson when he

1184
01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:55,720
Speaker 3: gets a chance to play the way they hoped he

1185
01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:58,200
Speaker 3: would when they drafted him. Right now, he's one of

1186
01:00:58,240 --> 01:01:01,919
Speaker 3: the biggest buss in history, and I think that would

1187
01:01:02,080 --> 01:01:04,640
Speaker 3: surprise me at all if they don't have We're not

1188
01:01:04,760 --> 01:01:08,280
Speaker 3: talking about the new coach regime next year with a

1189
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:11,400
Speaker 3: new GA and a new head coach and a rookie

1190
01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:12,920
Speaker 3: quarterback drafted.

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01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:16,680
Speaker 4: High Okay, General, I saw this earlier today and I

1192
01:01:16,800 --> 01:01:20,240
Speaker 4: just want to read you the first paragraph of this

1193
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:24,000
Speaker 4: because it is so incredibly juicy. It might be the

1194
01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:26,800
Speaker 4: biggest story in the NFL, not even on the field.

1195
01:01:27,800 --> 01:01:31,000
Speaker 4: Written by Todd Archer, Adam Schefter, and Dan Graziano ESPN.

1196
01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:32,120
Speaker 5: Several teams have.

1197
01:01:32,120 --> 01:01:37,040
Speaker 4: Spoken to the Dallas Cowboys about a potential Micah Parsons trade,

1198
01:01:37,240 --> 01:01:40,720
Speaker 4: and for the first time, the Cowboys appear willing to

1199
01:01:40,880 --> 01:01:47,240
Speaker 4: at least listen, according to multiple sources, your thoughts about

1200
01:01:47,280 --> 01:01:50,560
Speaker 4: everything going on in Dallas with Michah Parsons, David Mulage,

1201
01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:52,120
Speaker 4: Jerry Jones, and the Cowboys.

1202
01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:55,040
Speaker 3: With all due respect, John, that's not the biggest story

1203
01:01:55,040 --> 01:01:57,600
Speaker 3: in the NFL. The biggest story in the NFL's Kansas

1204
01:01:57,600 --> 01:02:04,120
Speaker 3: City Travis Kelcey and Taylor swept Turners worldwide story. Now

1205
01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:08,280
Speaker 3: there's a low Cowboys story. You know, they'd be stupid

1206
01:02:08,320 --> 01:02:10,760
Speaker 3: not to listen to teams to call. But one of

1207
01:02:10,760 --> 01:02:13,480
Speaker 3: the problems is before you can make a trade, they

1208
01:02:13,520 --> 01:02:16,720
Speaker 3: got to sign you to a contract. Obviously, he wants

1209
01:02:16,760 --> 01:02:19,400
Speaker 3: a lot of money. He wants to be the highest

1210
01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:22,840
Speaker 3: paid non quarterback in the NFL, and if he can

1211
01:02:22,880 --> 01:02:26,480
Speaker 3: get it more power to him. I still don't think

1212
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:30,040
Speaker 3: he's going to be traded. Jerry Jones does not lose players.

1213
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:33,360
Speaker 3: He wants to keep over money and he's been able

1214
01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:36,760
Speaker 3: to do that throughout his history. But he has one

1215
01:02:36,800 --> 01:02:41,160
Speaker 3: contract issue after another, and I'm thinking people say, well,

1216
01:02:41,960 --> 01:02:44,280
Speaker 3: green Bay would give them two ones, Well, they could

1217
01:02:44,280 --> 01:02:47,480
Speaker 3: possibly be low to ones. I wouldn't trade with a

1218
01:02:47,600 --> 01:02:50,400
Speaker 3: team that's good that your number one picks are going

1219
01:02:50,480 --> 01:02:53,240
Speaker 3: to get every year are going to be low. I

1220
01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:55,720
Speaker 3: want to trade him to a bad team where you

1221
01:02:55,760 --> 01:02:57,440
Speaker 3: can get high picks.

1222
01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:03,600
Speaker 1: Interesting, well, before I get to college football. Taylor Swift

1223
01:03:03,920 --> 01:03:07,280
Speaker 1: is no way the greatest female pop vocalist ever. But

1224
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:11,040
Speaker 1: who is, in your opinion, the greatest female pop vocalist,

1225
01:03:11,080 --> 01:03:13,800
Speaker 1: not writer, pop vocalist ever.

1226
01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:18,320
Speaker 3: Well, she's the most popular and her popularity is worldwide.

1227
01:03:19,040 --> 01:03:23,280
Speaker 3: But I think when it comes to singing, Diana Ross

1228
01:03:24,280 --> 01:03:26,760
Speaker 3: and Lady Gaga, off the top of my head, both

1229
01:03:26,800 --> 01:03:30,240
Speaker 3: of them were outstanding. They can hit any notes, sing

1230
01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:34,360
Speaker 3: any kind of music. Diana Ross was in a class

1231
01:03:34,400 --> 01:03:38,000
Speaker 3: by herself. Whitney Houston. Even though she had all of

1232
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:41,840
Speaker 3: her drug issues and everything, she was incredible when she

1233
01:03:42,120 --> 01:03:44,720
Speaker 3: was healthy and at the top of her game, so

1234
01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:48,640
Speaker 3: to speak. But those would be three great ones. There

1235
01:03:48,640 --> 01:03:53,000
Speaker 3: are many others, but as far as entertainers, you can't

1236
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:57,400
Speaker 3: beat Taylor Swift and her popularity very popular. How much

1237
01:03:57,440 --> 01:03:59,479
Speaker 3: of a pre nap do you think he has to sign?

1238
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:04,000
Speaker 4: Oh, boy, that is gonna be large general, How excited

1239
01:04:04,040 --> 01:04:06,880
Speaker 4: are you for a Baylor Bear football this year?

1240
01:04:07,200 --> 01:04:08,480
Speaker 5: And b Baylor v.

1241
01:04:08,560 --> 01:04:10,600
Speaker 4: Auburn, which is one of the better openers of the

1242
01:04:10,640 --> 01:04:11,920
Speaker 4: college football season.

1243
01:04:12,840 --> 01:04:15,080
Speaker 3: And so I haven't been this excited about a Baylor

1244
01:04:15,120 --> 01:04:17,440
Speaker 3: game a long time. Last year, I thought David Randa

1245
01:04:17,520 --> 01:04:20,040
Speaker 3: was on his way out. They started that way. They

1246
01:04:20,160 --> 01:04:23,480
Speaker 3: won their last six and average forty point three parts

1247
01:04:23,920 --> 01:04:26,520
Speaker 3: a game, and Sawyer Robertson became one of the best

1248
01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:31,000
Speaker 3: quarterbacks in college football. I'm pumped about that one. I'm

1249
01:04:31,040 --> 01:04:34,560
Speaker 3: pumped about the Longhorns. All my friends hate the Longhorns,

1250
01:04:35,040 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 3: want them to lose. I want them to win now

1251
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:39,120
Speaker 3: that they're not in the Big twelve. I want to

1252
01:04:39,120 --> 01:04:40,960
Speaker 3: see him win. I want to see the Hages win.

1253
01:04:41,320 --> 01:04:45,160
Speaker 3: I want to see all our schools win, and Baylor

1254
01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:49,000
Speaker 3: started one and one. I'd rather beat Auburn on on

1255
01:04:49,080 --> 01:04:52,920
Speaker 3: TV and then lose at SMU then lose to Auburn

1256
01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:57,320
Speaker 3: and beat SMU, but if they start over to Baylor,

1257
01:04:57,400 --> 01:04:58,760
Speaker 3: people are going to be.

1258
01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:02,600
Speaker 1: Rushed, all right, General, great stuff. As always great to

1259
01:05:02,680 --> 01:05:05,160
Speaker 1: visit with you, and we will check in next week

1260
01:05:05,240 --> 01:05:07,640
Speaker 1: prior to the Texans taking on the Rams in the

1261
01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:09,160
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five season openers.

1262
01:05:09,160 --> 01:05:12,840
Speaker 3: Thanks so much, Mark and John, Thank you guys very much.

1263
01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:14,720
Speaker 3: As always, is the best time of the

1264
01:05:14,800 --> 01:05:17,960
Speaker 1: Year, the best time of the year, and it's the

1265
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:20,480
Speaker 1: best segment when we get to other than the general segment,

1266
01:05:20,520 --> 01:05:22,600
Speaker 1: when we get to more likely to happen, and we'll

1267
01:05:22,600 --> 01:05:27,000
Speaker 1: talk to Texans receivers, running backs, we'll talk AFC South opponents,

1268
01:05:27,240 --> 01:05:29,480
Speaker 1: all of it coming up here on Texans Radio.