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Speaker 1: Welcome into Texans All Access. I am your host from

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Speaker 1: you know what, they went fifteen and won his rookie

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Speaker 1: year when he did win the Super Bowl, and so

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Speaker 1: you felt like a star is born. And that was

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Speaker 1: the second year he's into Super Bowl. You felt like

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Speaker 1: a lot of super Bowls are coming and it is

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Speaker 1: the Steelers, Johnny the Eagles, I mean Nick Foles taking

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Speaker 1: the Eagles. That's a very unsung kind of team, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean ten years from now, not too many people

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Speaker 1: are gonna be able to name too many Eagles from

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Speaker 1: the REQUA. That's a good The Eagles is a good one,

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Speaker 1: maybe less than maybe less than any team in the

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Speaker 1: last twenty years. As far as like what is the

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Speaker 1: lasting brand name recognition as far as the athletes who

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Speaker 1: won this Super Bowl, they're gonna be right in the

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Speaker 1: they'll probably lead the way. Yeah, that's true. That's that's

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Speaker 1: a good point. Now that oh five Steelers team barely

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Speaker 1: made the playoffs, barely, but because in O four they

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Speaker 1: were so good and then again they won it oh eight,

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Speaker 1: and because the quarterback is Roethlisberger, the long held story

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Speaker 1: will be, well, you know, Roethlisberger. No, Roethlisberger actually sort

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Speaker 1: of held them back. He had a horrible Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: against the Seattle Seahawks, and of course they got they

447
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Speaker 1: got a little bit of a gift in that. But uh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know what that eiels that's a that's a really

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Speaker 1: that's a really good one, especially when Wentz goes down

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Speaker 1: and I was watching that the other day. There was

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Speaker 1: like a thirty minute I think it was kind of

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Speaker 1: the the do your Job Philadelphia Eagles version where they

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Speaker 1: talked to the coaches about key plays and key moments

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Speaker 1: in the season and things that they did, and it

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Speaker 1: was it was really really good. So it was going

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Speaker 1: back and reliving all that you forget when Wentz went out,

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Speaker 1: they were an underdog the entire rest of the way.

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Speaker 1: The entire rest of the way and ended up winning

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Speaker 1: that Super Bowl. So I think it definitely definitely goes

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Speaker 1: to your point. Okay, we get back. It's gut reaction.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw some NFL possible, possible NFL rules changes,

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Speaker 1: whether I agree with it or not, I'm gonna throw

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Speaker 1: at Mark and see what his gut reaction will be

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Speaker 1: able to do that extra here in Texas All Access.

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Speaker 1: whatever device you use, and you'll be all set. John

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Speaker 1: Harris here, Mark Vandimer there, and Mark and I have

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Speaker 1: done this segment called gut Reaction for a while. It's

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Speaker 1: pretty simple. I just have a statement, I put it

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Speaker 1: in front of Marc and I get his reaction to it. Well,

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Speaker 1: I thought today as I was as I was having

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Speaker 1: my run, I got to thinking about I don't know why,

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Speaker 1: I got to thinking about the two minute warning and

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Speaker 1: how the NFL has it but the colleges didn't. And

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Speaker 1: then I start thinking about different things that the NFL

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Speaker 1: has a college doesn't. College has, the NFL doesn't, and

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Speaker 1: it's got to go back and forth. Done all that,

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Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, I know what I want to

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Speaker 1: do tonight. We call it gut reaction NFL rules changes,

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Speaker 1: Mark Vanimer, are you ready? I'm ready? Okay, So here's

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Speaker 1: number one. Now, this one. I am a staunch, staunch

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Speaker 1: believer in your gut reaction to this rule change. Now,

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Speaker 1: I will say that not all these have been proposed

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Speaker 1: by the by NFL teams. These are that have I

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Speaker 1: have proposed. I think this one solves a lot of issues.

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Speaker 1: Offensive fumble goes either to the defense or back to

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Speaker 1: the offense at the spot of the fumble. No advancement

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Speaker 1: of a fumble by the offense. The offense should not

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Speaker 1: benefit from a forward fumble. Likewise, no touch back on

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Speaker 1: a fumble through the end zone. The defense must recover

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Speaker 1: it to take over your gut reaction to that, all right,

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Speaker 1: So but let's say I'm on the five yard line

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Speaker 1: and and it's first to go from the five, and

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Speaker 1: I'm running in and a fumble at the four and

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Speaker 1: it goes out of the back of the end zone.

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Speaker 1: Where am I getting the ball? I get the ball

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Speaker 1: back at the four at the spot of the fumble,

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Speaker 1: at the spot of the fumble. I'll take it. That's

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Speaker 1: a good one. But but so I can't advance a fumble.

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Speaker 1: It is a weird rule. The back of the end

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Speaker 1: of something is weird because you're not allowed to advance

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Speaker 1: a fumble, right, so you know, there's no holy roller

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Speaker 1: that Kenny Stable Charger's neck. So people are like, what,

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Speaker 1: I'll get you where this I'll tell you where this

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Speaker 1: one comes from. I'll tell you where if you people

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Speaker 1: don't know where this comes from. My theory on this.

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Speaker 1: First of all, I think the fumble through the the

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Speaker 1: the back of the end zone or the sideline in

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Speaker 1: the end zone being a touch back, I think it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: And I played defense, and I think that rule is

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Speaker 1: ridiculous when it comes from his back. In twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 1: we were at Seattle and Russell Wilson went back to pass.

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Speaker 1: There's a third down play and Clowney hit Russell Wilson's

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Speaker 1: arm and when he hit his arm, the ball actually

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Speaker 1: came out of his hand and he came out like

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Speaker 1: kind of a pseudo spiral. So it hit the ground

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Speaker 1: and it bounced forward. Well, everybody saw Wilson's arm go forward,

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Speaker 1: and all but two players stopped. And it was Andre

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Speaker 1: Howe and it was Luke Wilson, the tight end. Well,

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Speaker 1: Wilson ran over and got on top of it. The

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Speaker 1: officials initially ruled incomplete pass. They came out to kick

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Speaker 1: a field goal. Pete Carroll challenged it and won the

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Speaker 1: challenge that it was a fumble, and when Wilson got

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Speaker 1: on it, it made it a first down. They scored

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Speaker 1: a touchdown a few plays later. There's no way that

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Speaker 1: a fumble should benefit the offense. Yeah, I'm never should

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Speaker 1: happen with you. But let's say this though, Johnny. Let's

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Speaker 1: say a Texan fell on it. So it's that it

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Speaker 1: went forward. You just get it where you recover. You

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Speaker 1: get it where you recovered, Okay, get it where you recovered.

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Speaker 1: I remember that play because I was and I think

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Speaker 1: I talked about because it was a year before. At

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Speaker 1: that time, the thrumble from Osmiler and dead bod. I

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Speaker 1: was saying, if that was a fumble, how is this

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Speaker 1: not one? Right? I don't know. I felt that way

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Speaker 1: at the time, and you're right, and I was right,

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Speaker 1: and I was right, yeah, because I wanted it to

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Speaker 1: be an incomplete pass. But if we had okay, we

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Speaker 1: all did. It cost us four points. It cost us

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Speaker 1: four points. But under this rule, the Seahawks did recover it,

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Speaker 1: so the Seahawks would maintain possession, but it would go

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Speaker 1: back to where the ball was fumbled, where the ball

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Speaker 1: was initially fumbled, So the Seahawks still at the ball,

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Speaker 1: but it would go back to where Russell Wilson was

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Speaker 1: initially hit and fumbled. The defense should not lose out

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Speaker 1: in y'all, fence should not benefit. So that's my first one. Okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: you remember week seventeen, late in a game, Titans I

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Speaker 1: think had a seven point lead and it was in

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter and they were trying to run clocks,

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Speaker 1: so they did that garbage thing with Wesley Woodyard where

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Speaker 1: he jumped off side purposely and then they ran at

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Speaker 1: lay a game and they were able to do it.

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Speaker 1: I call that the Rabel slash Belichick rule. Yea, that

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Speaker 1: is completely and totally illegal. It's a fifteen yard penalty

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Speaker 1: if you are caught because it is a sort of

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Speaker 1: what's tamanship. Yeah, it's gainsmanship, but it needs to go away.

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Speaker 1: It's completely gone if you're caught doing Its fifteen yeard

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Speaker 1: penalty for you. Not the spirit of competition yet. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's what I'm looking for. Did he do it against

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Speaker 1: the Patriots too? And he did it against Patriots? The

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Speaker 1: Patriots or the first one to do it, and then

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Speaker 1: Rabel did it against us. He had done it, I

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Speaker 1: think the week before, but then he did it against

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Speaker 1: the Patriots and Belichick lost his mind. Was actually within

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Speaker 1: the rules. He made Belichick lose his mind. I do

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Speaker 1: like that. That was pretty good. Okay, Number four we

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Speaker 1: are adding a sky judge. Sky judge has ten seconds

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Speaker 1: to report and egregious foul, no replay. If it's missed

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Speaker 1: then and he catches it or she catches it, they

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Speaker 1: they rule down. Hey you missed a face mask. It's

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Speaker 1: a fifteen yard penalty. Boom, there's no review whatever, the

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Speaker 1: sky judge says, goes your gut reaction, Wait a minute, though,

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Speaker 1: he has ten seconds to stop the game and then

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Speaker 1: look at it correct. Nope, you're not. No, you gotta

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Speaker 1: make the decision in tense. And this is why I

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Speaker 1: say that. This is why I say that because the

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Speaker 1: word egregious, because when we have had situations like, first

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Speaker 1: of all, go back to the playoff game against the

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Speaker 1: Colts after the eighteen season, Dashan's face mask. It's so

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Speaker 1: evident everybody but somebody in a striped shirt. It was

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Speaker 1: so obvious when Deshan got up, he's going. He goes

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Speaker 1: over to him, he gives him the signal a face mask. Well,

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Speaker 1: in those ten seconds, the sky judge ought to be

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Speaker 1: able to figure out, oh yeah, that was a penalty,

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Speaker 1: beeps him down, says, yeah, that was a fifteen yard

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Speaker 1: face mask. You guys missed it. Okay, let's give him

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Speaker 1: the fifteen yard face mask. So no review, no challenge.

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Speaker 1: The sky judge has ten seconds to come up with that.

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Speaker 1: Your thoughts, gut reaction. I think he still needs a

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Speaker 1: chance to look at a replay and determine whether he's right,

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Speaker 1: because sometimes things look a certain way to the naked eye.

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Speaker 1: What if he says, up, agree, just foul, and then

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Speaker 1: he looks at it like Ooh, as I look at this,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't quite look as bad as I thought. You

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Speaker 1: have to have an escape for him if he actually

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Speaker 1: did make a bad call, if he stopped the game

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Speaker 1: incorrectly and made a bad call, and look, I hate

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Speaker 1: the sky judge for this. I don't want the game

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Speaker 1: stopped every other play right because he's gonna feel like

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Speaker 1: I gotta correct this. I gotta correct that. That's why

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Speaker 1: I didn't mind the challenge so much, because at least

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Speaker 1: it puts the onus on the coaches. They're gonna be

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Speaker 1: very conservative with it in all likelihood, and it's not

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Speaker 1: gonna stop the game is often now. As it turned out,

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Speaker 1: the rule didn't work because with passive afference, because they

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Speaker 1: weren't overturning anything. No calls were just not getting overturned

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Speaker 1: as we saw. I don't know what the solution is.

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Speaker 1: I'm not here to say I have a solution right now.

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Speaker 1: I do think a sky judge is a solution, but

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Speaker 1: you have to limit the amount of times he can

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Speaker 1: stop the game, and you have to give him a

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Speaker 1: chance to at least look it over, not for a

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Speaker 1: long time. Sometimes in the NBA, they're looking at the

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Speaker 1: stuff forever if a guy's toe is on the line

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00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 1: or not in the third quarter and like, oh, by

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00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: the way, that happened five minutes ago, so it's a

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Speaker 1: three and not a two. Wait a minute, or two

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Speaker 1: and not a three, whatever the case is, like or

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Speaker 1: the Rockets protest when what was it, Oh, the hardened

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Speaker 1: gold dunk call? Yeah, didn't a dunk go through and

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Speaker 1: then come back out and went down and came back

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00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: out something that something? Yeah, And they were like, you know,

633
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Speaker 1: we lost a game because of that. Wait a minute.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, anyway, I don't like changing history, okay, and

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Speaker 1: I've been vocal about that in the NBA games, But

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, Johnny, I know, I say no to

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Speaker 1: that proposal. I need more tweaking to it than that. Sorry,

638
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: don't have all the questions right now. Okay, So here's

639
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 1: a wild one. Okay, we are taking away the two

640
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: minute warning, but in the final two minutes, the NFL

641
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 1: will go to college clock rules in that the clock

642
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: will stop for five seconds like it did in the

643
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: XFL for a first down, Well, I like that a lot.

644
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 1: And I've actually talked to Bill O'Brien about would you

645
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Speaker 1: go for in the final two minutes of a game

646
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 1: the clock stopping on first down until the changer set right? Yeah,

647
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 1: he said yes, he would go for that, and I

648
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 1: think a lot of coaches would because here's the thing.

649
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 1: If you're trying to kill clock, well you just wait,

650
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:08,919
Speaker 1: you know, and snamp it. You'll wait till the clock

651
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: fires up, and you know it's not going to hurt

652
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 1: you from killing the clock. If you're behind and you're

653
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: trying to catch up, it will help you for sure.

654
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. Getting rid of the two

655
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,360
Speaker 1: minute warning. The networks will never go for that because

656
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: you need that commercial So you can leave the two

657
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 1: minute warning in see I always take it back to business, Johnny.

658
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: You leave the two minute warning and you do your

659
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 1: clock idea anyway, and I'm down with it. I know

660
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: it makes the game a little bit longer, but it

661
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 1: makes it more exciting. And by the way, are we

662
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 1: going to talk about the fourth and fifteen or no? Oh,

663
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 1: it's it's coming up next. You're good, But I have

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Speaker 1: a quick one before that. Okay, third quarterback on the

665
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:53,840
Speaker 1: team is active at all times, suits up, but cannot

666
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: play in the game in any way, form or fashion

667
00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:00,800
Speaker 1: unless there are documented injuries to the first two quarterbacks.

668
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 1: Doesn't count against your forty six man or whatever it's

669
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: going to be. I know we're eventually gonna go to

670
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,880
Speaker 1: where we have the eighth lineman active. I say we

671
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:15,240
Speaker 1: do it for quarterbacks. Third quarterback active at all times,

672
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 1: but only can get on the field and play if

673
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 1: there are documented injuries to the first two quarterbacks. All right,

674
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 1: so my third quarterbacks in the game. My first quarterback

675
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 1: could possibly play if he has a walker. So if

676
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 1: the third quarterback gets hurt, can the first one come back?

677
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 1: Or is it like baseball where the pitchers are done

678
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:34,839
Speaker 1: for the tame once you get to the third third,

679
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 1: once you get to the third quarterback, it's the third quarterback.

680
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 1: Once you put that third quarterback in the game, that

681
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:42,879
Speaker 1: third quarterbacks playing the rest of the game. Yeah, I'll

682
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 1: say fine, Look, I think everybody should be active, you

683
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:47,360
Speaker 1: know how I feel. Yeah, if you have a fifty

684
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 1: three man roster, let everybody be active. If you have

685
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 1: a fifty five man roster, everybody's active. What's the problem here, Oh,

686
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,439
Speaker 1: some teams have injuries. Okay, you have injuries. Work it out,

687
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: you know. I would I would prefer a little bit

688
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: more ability with the practice squad. We can bring somebody up,

689
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: a player two for a week, like you know, it's

690
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 1: an NBA ten day kind of thing. You bring them

691
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 1: up for a week. Do they still have those in

692
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:12,880
Speaker 1: the NBA? But you bring them up and then you

693
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,799
Speaker 1: can send them back down. I would prefer a more

694
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 1: protected practice squad. Not totally protected, but a little bit

695
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 1: more protection on the practice squad and the ability to

696
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 1: bring guys up on game day if you need them.

697
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 1: I like that. I like that. I like the way

698
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 1: you're thinking on that. Okay, last one, you just hit

699
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:36,239
Speaker 1: it on sidekick alternative fourth and fifteen from your own

700
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 1: twenty five yard line. You can use it once, only

701
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:44,360
Speaker 1: once in the fourth quarter. Surprise on side or planned

702
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 1: late game on side still exists, but you get one

703
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 1: opportunity fourth and fifteen from your own twenty five yard line.

704
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:57,839
Speaker 1: What's your gut reaction. I don't like this. I'm gonna

705
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 1: lose this battle. I don't like it at all. You

706
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 1: know they tried it in the Pro Bowl. I think

707
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 1: it's unfair. It's an unfair advantage for a trailing offense

708
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: and a gas to defense. How many times have you

709
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:14,919
Speaker 1: seen a team up two three touchdowns the other team

710
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 1: is roaring back in so called garbage time, or maybe

711
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 1: it's not quite garbage time, but it's starting to reek

712
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 1: a little bit. You know, it's getting a little stale.

713
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 1: But they score touchdown, maybe they get an onside, they

714
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: score another time. You know, all of a sudden, the

715
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 1: defense is gassed, right, your defense that's worked so hard

716
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 1: to protect the lead, and now you're gonna give the

717
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: opposing offense a free down on their twenty five after

718
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 1: they just scored a touchdown to keep things going. I

719
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: got pat my Homes, I got Lamar Jackson. I got

720
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:45,760
Speaker 1: to Sean Watson if I'm going against him. These guys

721
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 1: can convert this. It's not a high percentage play. I

722
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 1: get it. It's a lot higher percentage than an onside kick,

723
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 1: and I know an onside kick is it's gotten crazy.

724
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 1: Maybe they do it, need to come up with something else,

725
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 1: but it's it's too much to give them the ball

726
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:03,840
Speaker 1: for another player. I think I'm shooting it down. Johnny

727
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 1: I'm going get off my lawn on the fourth and fifteen.

728
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 1: I mean, I could see if you were shooting that

729
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:13,360
Speaker 1: down if your quarterback was Mitch Trubisky. But your quarterback

730
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 1: is DeShawn Watson. You have an up, you have an opportunity.

731
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:20,760
Speaker 1: It's exciting. So it's gonna happen. So it's exciting. It's exciting,

732
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 1: and I know the league wants it. I know a

733
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:26,439
Speaker 1: lot of people want this. Really yeah, I would be fine.

734
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 1: I can't wait for that. I cannot wait for that.

735
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,439
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna go around the league. We're gonna

736
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: go bad happens. We're gonna go round the league. Next,

737
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 1: there is an adaptation to the Rooney rule that Mark

738
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,759
Speaker 1: and I will discuss next. Right here in Texas, All

739
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:46,879
Speaker 1: Access can't get enough Texans Radio. We've got shows, We've

740
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 1: got podcasts, we've got interviews. It's all on Houston Texans

741
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:59,840
Speaker 1: dot com. I'm Witney Merciless, starting outside linebacker for you

742
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 1: Houston Texans. For the latest on your favorite team in mind,

743
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 1: go to Houston Texans dot com. Yes, sir, listen to

744
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:11,319
Speaker 1: the man. Whitney Merciless. Pretty excited about seeing him come

745
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:15,320
Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty after signing late in the twenty

746
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 1: nineteen season and extension to stay with the Texans, I

747
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 1: believe for the next four years. So looking forward to

748
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 1: having went back in twenty twenty. John Harris here, Mark

749
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 1: van Emir there, Mark, don't I don't know about you

750
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 1: grown up watching NFL today, but the NFL today was

751
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 1: such a great great shows, the first of its kind,

752
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:39,280
Speaker 1: Jimmy the Greek Brand, Musburger earth Cross and Phillis George

753
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 1: who was part of that crew. And it was interesting

754
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 1: because growing up I didn't even think anything of it

755
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: at the time. I mean, I was a kid. I

756
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:49,799
Speaker 1: was just watching this show. I thought she was really good.

757
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 1: I didn't understand the impact at the time that she

758
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: had being a woman in a man's business. But unfortunately,

759
00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 1: Phillis George passed away. Yester, yeah, Sunday at the age

760
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 1: of seventy. I don't know how you whether you watch

761
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 1: NFL today growing up, whether that was part of the viewing,

762
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 1: but your thoughts about Philis George as the pioneer that

763
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:16,800
Speaker 1: she was, being one of the first female media types

764
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:20,239
Speaker 1: in a male dominated business, if you will, Well, it's

765
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:23,360
Speaker 1: an unfair world for women sports broadcasting. It really is,

766
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 1: because you have to be extra perfect. For lack of

767
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: a better way of putting it, I mean, seriously, if

768
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:33,800
Speaker 1: you make a mistake unfortunately and it's not fair, I'm

769
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:35,879
Speaker 1: what I'm about to say is I'm not saying it's fair,

770
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 1: but there's extra scrutiny. It's like, oh, she didn't get

771
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 1: that right because like what, like how many guys talk

772
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,360
Speaker 1: about this game on a daily basis who never played it?

773
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 1: Who never played the game, so many, so many experts

774
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 1: have never played football at any level, might have scraped

775
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 1: it a little bit in school or whatever, And how

776
00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: how does that make you more qualified than Ellis George

777
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 1: or anybody else who has a real interest follows it,

778
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: studies it and gets into it and loves it. Right,

779
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 1: So she was a pioneer. Gil Gardner is another one

780
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:13,360
Speaker 1: here in Houston, Anita Martini, You know, you have so

781
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 1: many people who who belong in a group of pioneers

782
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:20,799
Speaker 1: in women's sports broadcasting, and you know, I just think

783
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:24,360
Speaker 1: it's important that you know it continues. And yes, so

784
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 1: so many different ways of getting into this business sideline

785
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 1: reporter or writer or whatever. And you know, I hate

786
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 1: to say it that way. You know, like we have

787
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,360
Speaker 1: female play by play, we have I don't think we

788
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: have female color yet quite but you know, color commentary

789
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 1: tends to be guys who played or coached or whatever.

790
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:45,799
Speaker 1: And I think that's fine. I mean that that does

791
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 1: make sense to me, that part of it. But she

792
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 1: was an original and she was great. That was a

793
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 1: great show, John. I mean that was Brent. You are

794
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:55,760
Speaker 1: looking live. That was Jimmy the Greek IRV Cross highly

795
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 1: underrated as well. It's really watchable show. I mean Jimmy

796
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:02,680
Speaker 1: the Greek talking about point spreads. Think about that Mark

797
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:07,400
Speaker 1: we're talking about the nineteen seventies and he's talking about

798
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 1: point spreads and now it's back, and now you can

799
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 1: do it again, and now you can now you can

800
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 1: do it again because you can actually gamble. I just

801
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:18,360
Speaker 1: was right flem through Twitter during a break and I

802
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 1: saw Sean Pendergast tweeted up a picture I think it

803
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 1: was at the Golden Nugget, but the the plexiglass that's

804
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:30,919
Speaker 1: gone up at blackjack tables in various places, and yeah,

805
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 1: and I just started thinking about, man that this period

806
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: of time with no live sports, how has Sean made it.

807
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:42,800
Speaker 1: That's kind of first thing that came to mind, and

808
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,920
Speaker 1: the second one was, Okay, well good, they've they've found

809
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:50,279
Speaker 1: no way to give people opportunity to do what. I mean,

810
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:52,279
Speaker 1: just look at the blackjack table. I was like, I'll go,

811
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: I'll do it. I don't care. I guess it'd be

812
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 1: a plexiglass. I'll do it. Heck, y'all do it. Plenty

813
00:42:58,040 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: of people are gonna do it. It's not gonna be

814
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:01,879
Speaker 1: as a man, no doubt, but plenty of people will

815
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 1: do it. No plexics, plenty of people would do it right.

816
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 1: The whole thing is just not overtaxing the system, not

817
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:14,080
Speaker 1: overwhelming the medical system. It is not possible to think

818
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 1: that no one's going to get this, that there won't

819
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 1: be some positives throughout all this reopening stuff. But I

820
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: think it's that's nice, that's good. I mean, we need

821
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 1: as many things to open up as possible safely to

822
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 1: get us going again, especially those that tap into the

823
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 1: dark arts in some sense for some people that need it.

824
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 1: We talked earlier about the virtual owners meetings that will

825
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:42,240
Speaker 1: take place starting tomorrow, Tomorrow's nineteenth. This from Tom Pella Sorrow.

826
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Speaker 1: He reported Monday that the league will require clubs to

827
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:50,840
Speaker 1: interview at least two external minority candidates for head coaching

828
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Speaker 1: openings and at least one minority candidate for any coordinator job,

829
00:43:57,040 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 1: per sources informed of the decision. These being adaptations to

830
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:07,239
Speaker 1: the Rooney Rule, which required minority candidates to be interviewed

831
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Speaker 1: for head coaching openings GM openings and also coordinator openings,

832
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 1: and now they are making adjustments to that. There was

833
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 1: there was something floating around that the League. I think

834
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:23,319
Speaker 1: Jim Trotter had said that on Friday at the League

835
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 1: was presenting two resolutions in these meetings that would include

836
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 1: draft picks being added. And I saw that market I went, oh, man,

837
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: I don't know about that aspect. I like more of

838
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 1: what Tom Pellasaro is saying, and that is, hey, let's

839
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:45,360
Speaker 1: make sure that teams are interviewing more candidates. But the

840
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,320
Speaker 1: draft picks, I went, oh, man, I don't know that.

841
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:50,959
Speaker 1: I don't know that. I like that aspect of things.

842
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:53,479
Speaker 1: And a lot of people, you know, people of color,

843
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 1: have said no, and you know, so that they know

844
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 1: there are a lot of people weighing in on that

845
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 1: that proposal or that would be proposal. Look, I love

846
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 1: that you open up your universe, right, you expand the

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Speaker 1: for minorities, obviously, but I would think, all right, great,

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Speaker 1: at least, you know, even if they have their eyes

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Speaker 1: on somebody else who's not a minority. But I get

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Speaker 1: an interview, I get my name out there. Maybe I've

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Speaker 1: changed somebody's thinking about me my qualifications, right, And at

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Speaker 1: least I'm getting you know, I'm getting something here. I'm

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Speaker 1: making some progress. I'm getting an interview. Maybe the next

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Speaker 1: time the interview is it results in a job. So

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Speaker 1: the more you can do, the better. That's how I

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Speaker 1: feel about it. Yeah, no question. Eric Enemy is a

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Speaker 1: guy that a lot of people talked about from a

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Speaker 1: going to get a job. John, he is definitely gonna

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Speaker 1: get a job. I'll give you another one time. I'll

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Speaker 1: give you another one. Who is just a matter of

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Speaker 1: time for getting a job. And look, I hope he's

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Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator here for a very long time. Gosh,

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Speaker 1: don't say it, but get mad, all right, that's fine.

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Speaker 1: He can get mad at me. He's always mad at me.

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Speaker 1: NFL organization looking for a leader of men Anthony Weaver

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Speaker 1: is a guy that can lead men that I know

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Speaker 1: that I know. Now whether he calls a great defensive

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Speaker 1: game or not, we're about to find out. But as

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Speaker 1: a leader of men and a guy that I would

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Speaker 1: want leading the men under my stead, Anthony Weaver would

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Speaker 1: definitely be one of those guys. All Right, Mark, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much again for being part of the show.

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Speaker 1: We'll get back started. I just started. We just got started.

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Speaker 1: But it's the week, it's the week getting started. We'll

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Speaker 1: be back tomorrow. We got plenty tomorrow for you on Tuesday, Mark,

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Speaker 1: and I will definitely be here. Appreciate you guys for listening.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so very much. Thank you all for staying

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Speaker 1: safe and continuing to be safe. We will see it

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Speaker 1: tomorrow and as always, go Texas. This is Texans Radio

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Speaker 1: on Sports Radio six tens.