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Speaker 1: What's happened to everybody? Welcome into a Tuesday edition of

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Speaker 1: Texas All Access. I'm your host, John Harris, football analy

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Speaker 1: a sideline reporter, and we are flying so low this

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Speaker 1: week as Mark is out on the vacation.

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Speaker 2: But I am here and we got plenty for you.

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Speaker 1: And it's actually probably better that I'm here than anybody

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Speaker 1: else because I'm from Houston, and I've labeled tonight Houston Night.

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Speaker 1: And here's how I came up with that. When we

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Speaker 1: were doing media days with our players last the twelfth,

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Speaker 1: so that was last Monday, I think eight days ago.

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Speaker 1: And as we were doing that, I realized, Man, we

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Speaker 1: got We've got some guys from Houston.

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Speaker 2: I mean plenty of them.

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Speaker 1: I mean obviously Jalen Peatree is very well known from Stafford.

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Speaker 1: Kenny Green to task a seat and I started going

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Speaker 1: through the list and the guy would walk in and go, hey, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you played you played here in high school? Okay, oh man, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I remember you were from Katie oh Man, you got

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Speaker 1: same birthday as me, and you're from a congrove kind

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Speaker 1: of so we'll here from Steven Sims. So I found

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Speaker 1: five guys that have a connection to Houston. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I grew up in Richard Rosenberg. I say I'm from Houston,

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Speaker 1: because nobody outside Houston's gonna know Richard Rosenberg unless you're

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Speaker 1: from Richard Rosenberg or you're from Houston.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm from Houston. These five guys, I looked

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Speaker 2: at it, said, yeah, you know close enough.

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Speaker 1: They're in the Greater Houston area growing up, went the

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Speaker 1: high school in the Greater Hoaston area, and I figured,

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Speaker 1: why not, let's do Houston night.

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Speaker 2: And we had a good time talking to each in.

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Speaker 1: Every one of these guys, well, Jacob Martin on who

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Speaker 1: was in as family and Katie trying to remember if

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Speaker 1: that's where he went high school. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: that'shere he went to high school, but either way he's

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Speaker 1: got connections to Katie thought that, yeah, that's a good

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Speaker 1: one to have.

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Speaker 2: We haven't heard from Jacob Martin since he's been back.

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Speaker 1: A little Texans boomerang, Kendall Sheffield Fort Ben Marshall Baby

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Speaker 1: Fort Ben Independent School District. My mom taught there, Kemnaron

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Speaker 1: clements over the years, Austin Deculus Sie fair So brought

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Speaker 1: him in. Now Austin's interesting because he looks at he

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Speaker 1: grew up and spent most of his life in Louisiana,

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Speaker 1: just went to high school in Houston, so he considers

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Speaker 1: Louisiana home, if you will, but Houston obviously, just like

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Speaker 1: I consider Jacksonville, you know, someplace that's very very near

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Speaker 1: and dear to his heart. And obviously he's now he's

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Speaker 1: a Texan, so he's got a lot of friends and

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Speaker 1: family in the stands each other week. Stephen Simms Travis

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Speaker 1: High School out near Pecan Grove where I grew up.

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Speaker 1: Travis didn't exist when I was going to high school.

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Speaker 1: Shows how old I am. But Steven Simms at Travis

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Speaker 1: and we were done with an interview. We start talking

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Speaker 1: about all players that have played at Travis and one

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Speaker 1: of them just got drafted, Parker Washington. I think it

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Speaker 1: was by the Jaguars. So Steven Simms will join us,

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Speaker 1: but we will kick it off with the big man himself.

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Speaker 1: A task to seat to high school Texas A and

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Speaker 1: M Houston Texans. I mean you talk about staying close.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's a that's a family that's like, hey man,

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Speaker 1: we love this. We haven't had to travel all that

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Speaker 1: far to go watch our sun play ball. And that's

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Speaker 1: Kenyan Green not a man of many words, but when

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Speaker 1: he speaks, he speaks with wisdom and he knows he's

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Speaker 1: got a lot to prove this year after last year,

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Speaker 1: and he's been working on that. So here we go

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Speaker 1: on Houston Night. We kick it off with former first

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Speaker 1: rounder Kenyon Green.

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Speaker 3: You know, we've talked to a lot of guys Kenyan

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Speaker 3: about being in Houston and adjusting to Houston and everything.

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Speaker 3: No adjustment for you to Houston, but the NFL. It's

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Speaker 3: year two. So how has it been going through this

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Speaker 3: offseason getting ready for your second campaign.

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Speaker 4: It's been good, very excited about this year. Worked on

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Speaker 4: a lot of new things, just you know, getting my

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Speaker 4: So I'm just excited for you know, the new offense

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Speaker 4: and what we can do this year.

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Speaker 1: How do you feel physically compared to last year at

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Speaker 1: this point, because I know, come out of college there

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Speaker 5: How do you feel physically and mentally like stronger?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I'm like I said, I'm ready to just

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Speaker 4: the place I can, you know, prove it and show it.

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Speaker 3: How will this system be different for you playing your position?

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Speaker 3: Because we hear a lot of different things. It's a

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Speaker 5: How is it different just the speed that we play with.

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Speaker 4: It's gonna be more just constant running, you know, moving

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Speaker 4: it's gonna be a different type of Look at the Texans,

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Speaker 4: you know this year coming up, you know, more fast

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Speaker 4: we can.

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Speaker 1: Ken growing up here in Houston, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you're a Texas fan or not, but I would imagine

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Speaker 1: whether you were or you weren't, it was hard not

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Speaker 1: to hear the name J. J.

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Speaker 1: News comes out on Monday that JJ is going to

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Speaker 2: What as a kid that grew up here, what did

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Speaker 2: JJ kind of mean to you? Did you watch him?

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Speaker 5: Like?

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Speaker 1: What kind of what kind of inspiration was JJ for you?

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Speaker 1: Growing up as you were you were a kid, you.

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Speaker 4: Think of the Texans, You're thinking of you know, JJ,

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Speaker 4: Andre Johnson, you know people that play here, d Hot

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Speaker 4: you know why everybody so just him getting his flowers

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Speaker 4: you know, he deserves it, and yeah I never got

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Speaker 4: I never met him or anything, but I know he

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Speaker 4: everybody talked about him, you know, hard worker, great person.

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Speaker 4: So I'm excited for him, you know, to be able

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Speaker 2: Would you wanted a piece up on the field.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, of course, I'm I'm a competitor. Yeah, I go

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Speaker 3: So you've met Andre Johnson since being drafted, being a

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Speaker 6: What was that like for you to be able to

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Speaker 6: It was cool.

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Speaker 4: He's so laid back and everything. He's mommy and myself

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Speaker 4: a little bit, you know, just chill, laid back. So

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Speaker 4: talking to him is just, you know, just a normal

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Speaker 4: conversation when I mean like, i mean, I'm like, dang

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Speaker 4: like that Andre Johnson. But I'm like still at the

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Speaker 2: So the inside the outside a little different.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, way different, way different.

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Speaker 6: What do we not know?

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Speaker 3: We meaning everybody about Laramie. Tell us something about Laramie,

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Speaker 3: because Laramie seems to be a very private person. We've

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Speaker 4: I've probably seen him like gigging and laughing, or he's funny,

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Speaker 4: real funny. He cracked jokes all the time and all that.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, he real smooth, just laid back type of person.

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Speaker 4: So it's cool to hang out with him, you know,

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Speaker 4: pick his brain about you know, the game, just how

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Speaker 4: just where his mindset at. So he's a great mentor

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Speaker 4: to me, him and Titus.

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Speaker 2: When it comes to that, Kenyon, you know, having mentors.

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Speaker 1: You know a lot of people talk about the people

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Speaker 5: You spend the most time with people in their position group.

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Speaker 1: But is there somebody on the team that you also

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know there's some vets that have been

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Speaker 4: Elik Jerry and I try to talk to them as

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Speaker 4: much as I can just asking him picking their brains. Uh,

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Speaker 4: Robert Woods. I talked to him, spoke to him about

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Speaker 4: that makes him you know him? So I just you know,

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Speaker 4: I like talking to him picking their brain, just seeing

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Speaker 4: what I can get from it and what can make me,

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Speaker 4: you know, a better player on the field and off

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Speaker 6: At the same time.

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Speaker 3: somebody from Maggie Land, They're gonna be a senior NFL

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Speaker 3: Price Robinson, Okay, comes to you and says, tell me

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Speaker 3: something about the NFL to get me ready. What what

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Speaker 4: Treat everything like a business like starting that that last year.

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Speaker 4: Like treat all the workouts everything like be there, be present,

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Speaker 4: on it, Like if you're playing offense or defense, whoever,

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Speaker 4: best you can.

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Speaker 5: All right.

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Speaker 2: So I gotta know and and am gonna turn it

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Speaker 2: around this year?

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Speaker 1: Or is it gonna be another five wins season of

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Speaker 1: Texas is ready to burn everything down?

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Speaker 4: Nah, it ain't gonna be that. I feel like it's

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Speaker 4: gonna be, you know, a better year.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I ain't gonna say all that, but what I'm saying,

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Speaker 4: it's gonna be a good year.

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Speaker 5: They gonna battle, you know how.

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Speaker 2: You know how it is when a m starts going sideways.

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Speaker 5: A little bit.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know it can go that way. Yeah, But

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Speaker 4: I don't feel like I don't feel like that. I

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Speaker 4: feel like everything gonna you know, come out together.

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Speaker 5: All right.

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Speaker 3: So you played at a task of seedough and lived

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Speaker 3: up there obviously, all right, So how do you handle

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Speaker 3: where you live as a pro? Do you live closer

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Speaker 3: of a commute it if you if.

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Speaker 5: You're stay more you know, closer to the stadium.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's got to be strange you're in the

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Speaker 3: same area, but you're not really in your home.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's crazy because it's if you're not from Houston,

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Speaker 4: like you think Houston just Houston, but it's so many

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Speaker 4: like each part is different. So yeah, it's kind of cool.

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Speaker 3: I live in Sugarland. I have to take a flight

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Speaker 1: I mean then there's certain times of the day you

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Speaker 1: want no part of it at that point, no part

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Speaker 1: Actually, and you didn't do bowling. Would you rather do

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Speaker 5: Mm hmm, I mean the go cart? Like, if I

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Speaker 2: Go cart, you know, that's you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you got to think about that's a big dude.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Like you're not fitting in that one car,

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Speaker 1: no fense, dude, you're tiny that one car.

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Speaker 6: It's not going to be a jockey either.

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Speaker 5: Cart. But yeah, I like paintball too. I'm in before

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Speaker 1: Yeah, paintballs. That could be pretty cool. You're a big

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Speaker 5: If I'm playing, were playing like the it's like you

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Speaker 5: gotta do you know too much?

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Speaker 3: That's good, you got that, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: You think you think great stuff there with Kenyan Green

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Speaker 1: hopefully he protects the quarterback this year, and I think

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Speaker 2: I think he's bounce back.

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Speaker 1: I think we're start seeing it in training camp and

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Speaker 1: you're gonna see a rejuvenated Kenyon Green with his Texans

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Speaker 1: squad here in twenty twenty three. Now, a guy you'll

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Speaker 1: see for the first time as a Texan is Steven Simms,

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Speaker 1: and that man will bring electricity to the building.

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Speaker 2: There's no question.

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Speaker 1: Same birthday as me, same area as we grew up,

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Speaker 1: Stephn Simms has some thoughts on that. He's Steven Simms

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Speaker 1: Travis High School now with the Texans on Houston Night.

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Speaker 6: Steven Simms joining us on the Hunday Texans Radio studio.

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Speaker 5: Steven welcome, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 3: All right, So you're here in Houston Travis High School.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's definitely. It's definitely crazy, crazy experience. Blessed to

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Speaker 7: It's like something I never thought of. Actually, it's crazy.

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Speaker 2: When you were growing up. But the Texans the team

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Speaker 1: Because I know a lot of guys have said this before, like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: For their you know, they weren't great at the beginning.

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Speaker 2: Were the Texas a team you followed growing up?

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Speaker 5: Not?

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Speaker 7: Not too much my family, my popsy stuff. Definitely Louisiana.

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Speaker 7: So I was a big Saints fan. There it is,

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Speaker 3: All right, Steven Simms joining us, So what are you

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Speaker 6: How do you fit in?

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Speaker 3: How do you feel it the fit is between you

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Speaker 3: and this Bobby Slower offense.

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Speaker 7: I feel like it's a great fit it for me,

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Speaker 7: a guy that can kind of do a lot of things.

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Speaker 7: Jet sweep screen, run routes, just you know, all of

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Speaker 7: those things, and I think this is a great offense

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Speaker 7: that that brings a lot of that to the table

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Speaker 7: So I think I fit very well in Bobby's offense.

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Speaker 1: So, Stephen, how much of your decision to come back

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Speaker 1: or come to the Texans. Was Bobby Slucks offense that

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Speaker 1: How much would you kind of say or is it

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Speaker 1: What was kind of decision to come back to Houston

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Speaker 7: I mean it was it was a little bit of both,

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Speaker 5: And also the offense.

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Speaker 7: The forty nine ers guys, they put up a lot

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Speaker 7: So I think that is gonna come here to Houston.

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Speaker 3: You mentioned the Jets sweep when you get one of those,

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Speaker 6: All Right, you know you're gonna get hit either way.

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Speaker 3: When you're catching the ball downfield, you don't really know

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Speaker 6: Jet sweep you can sweep.

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Speaker 7: You gotta kind of it's kind of like kickle turn

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Speaker 7: pro return. Yeah, you get the ball and now you

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Speaker 7: gotta weave your way, figure out, you know, set it

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Speaker 6: Become a running back, so right.

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Speaker 6: But it's gotta be nice because you know you're getting it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's fun, right, it's fun.

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Speaker 7: Just only the only bad part is when sometimes that

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Speaker 7: It's kind of nerve wuckings.

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Speaker 1: It's like, oh no, I just don't step up field.

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Speaker 1: I can beat you if you hesitate for a second.

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Speaker 1: But those guys, I've said this. Stephen played the game

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Speaker 7: Your response, for sure, for sure, it's definitely a tough job.

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Speaker 7: But we all have tough jobs, honestly, So I just

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Speaker 3: What about making the decision whether the fair catch or not?

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Speaker 3: That's gotta be tough.

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Speaker 7: I mean, it's all on job. It's all about judging

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Speaker 7: If the punter backs me up, nine times out of ten,

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Speaker 5: They're now got time.

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Speaker 7: I got time. So it's just all about judging the ball.

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Speaker 7: If it's a high one, it's hanging and I'm not

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Speaker 7: moving back. Those are the ones kind of you know,

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Speaker 3: So new players come in, they're not from here, you are.

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Speaker 3: What do you tell them about Houston? Hey, what's Houston like?

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Speaker 3: Am I gonna like it here?

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Speaker 5: What do you say you're gonna love it? Most?

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Speaker 7: Most diverse city in America, great food, diverse food. I

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Speaker 2: You can get the Gauton rutive.

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Speaker 5: Ye, we don't really want to go there.

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Speaker 1: He sounds like my wife. Oh she does. She's gotten

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Speaker 2: Now, I know you, and I know a lot of

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Speaker 1: Of like, nah, man, if I'm running back, I don't

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Speaker 2: I'm running that thing out.

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Speaker 1: But it feels like that could be a strategic decision

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Speaker 1: as well with that rule. How does that change things

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Speaker 1: I trust my offense. Maybe I should just fair catch

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Speaker 7: For me, I don't think I'll ever be in a

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Speaker 7: If I if it's kicked to me and I'm catching it,

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Speaker 7: I'm going to return it. I think that's kind of

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Speaker 7: But if it comes to me, I'm protically not gonna Yeah,

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Speaker 7: I'm the only time I've waved my hand fair catch

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Speaker 6: Interesting.

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Speaker 3: So you catch it at the eight or the seven,

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Speaker 3: that's perfect.

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Speaker 7: Perfect, that's a good kick. Make it to it's bad

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Speaker 3: So if you don't make it to the twenty five,

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Speaker 6: All right?

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Speaker 3: So, Kansas, were you taking some pride in what they

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 7: I definitely felt like, you know, I was kind of

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Speaker 7: But I'm happy for those guys. They asked me when

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Speaker 7: I think I was only to be able to catch

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Speaker 7: It was a good game. They actually won, so it

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Speaker 7: I'm glad to see the program on the up and up,

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Speaker 6: What about making it back to Travis High School? Ever

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Speaker 7: on what you know, what I was doing when I

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Speaker 7: was in high school and life. Dang, I wanted to

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Speaker 7: get there, you know what I was feeling in those moments,

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Speaker 7: kind of bring those moments back to life when I'm

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Speaker 7: on that.

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Speaker 2: Hill when you go back there, And.

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Speaker 7: Sorry to cut you off, I actually am going back

448
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Speaker 7: on June twenty fourth, so I have a camp coming

449
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Speaker 7: up there. You go on June twenty fourth, I have

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Speaker 7: a kids camp tim ages ten to sixteen is free.

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Speaker 7: They can sign up on my Instagram Steven Simms Junior.

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Speaker 7: They can sign up on my page and get.

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Speaker 6: It rolling Steven Simms junior with a V Steven with

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Speaker 6: a V.

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Speaker 5: Yes, sir, Yes.

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Speaker 1: When you go back and you're going to work out,

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Speaker 1: I'd imagine there are probably some of the high school

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Speaker 1: kids that are working out the right do they Hey man,

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Speaker 1: they're Steven Simms.

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Speaker 5: He plays in you.

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Speaker 2: He's been in the NFL, you know, for five years

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Speaker 2: like you.

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Speaker 1: Do you ever have that kind of moment when they

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Speaker 1: come up to you or coaches walk up to you

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Speaker 1: with a player and say, hey, man, will you talk

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Speaker 1: to my guy? You know, we wanted to be like

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Speaker 1: you you made the NFL. Do you ever have kind

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Speaker 1: of those moments when you're back there working out?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? I have some no moments.

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Speaker 7: Sometimes it's like they're scared to come up and say

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Speaker 7: sharm you know, But I try to say something to

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Speaker 7: them like, man, don't be afraid.

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Speaker 5: Talk to me, you know.

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Speaker 7: I just give them any any tips that I can,

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Speaker 7: you know, any knowledge that I feel like I didn't

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Speaker 7: have at that age, right and that I do have

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Speaker 7: now that I can give back to them.

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Speaker 5: I think that's big.

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Speaker 7: I had some cousins, actually, I had a couple of

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Speaker 7: cousins ended up going to Travis as well. So they

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Speaker 7: know who I am and there, so yeah, it is that.

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Speaker 7: Sometimes I get those those moments, but not all the time.

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Speaker 6: Steven, great to visit with your good luck.

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Speaker 5: For sure. I appreciate you guys having me think you.

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Speaker 2: Of course, I got to get the handshake in on

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Speaker 2: the way out.

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Speaker 1: Steven Simms, great stuff there, and I love the fact

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Speaker 1: I'm not fair catching that thing, not at all. I

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Speaker 1: do think there's a situational element to it, and we'll

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Speaker 1: find that out.

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Speaker 5: But I love it.

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Speaker 1: I love to see kick returners saying, no, man, you

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Speaker 1: kick it to me, i'mnna make you pay. There he is,

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Speaker 1: Steven Simms. We get back. How about Jacob Martin. Little

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Speaker 1: Texans boomerang is back. The pass rusher extraordinary sits down

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Speaker 1: marking I next right here a Texans All Access Welcome

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Speaker 1: back this Tuesday edition of Texas All Access from the

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harris, and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna stretch Houston Knight just a little bit with this one.

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Speaker 1: Because Jacob Martin was born in Colorado, ended up going

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Speaker 1: back to Colorado to play his high school ball, but

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Speaker 1: he does have family here in the area, and I

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Speaker 1: remember that from when he first got here, like he

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Speaker 1: was really excited. You know, he's got family living in

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Speaker 1: the Katy area, so he counts, he counts. It's always

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Speaker 1: fun to talk with Jacob Martin talking about pass rushing,

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Speaker 1: being back in Houston, how he's a different player from

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Speaker 1: when he left a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 2: He's Jacob Martin with Mark and myself on Houston Night.

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Speaker 2: Texas All Access Back where you belong.

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Speaker 6: It's great to see you. What's it like to be back.

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Speaker 8: It's been amazing, honestly, you know, I'm really excited to

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Speaker 8: be back in the building, you know, and there's a

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Speaker 8: lot of new pieces, you know, and uh, there's like

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Speaker 8: a revamped energy, you know, and I'm.

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Speaker 5: Excited to be a part of that.

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Speaker 8: I'm excited to see the Texas get back to doing

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Speaker 8: Texans things.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: You walked into in the studio and we're like, we've

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Speaker 2: done this before. I mean they've done this before.

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Speaker 1: I mean kind of a smile on our face, kind

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Speaker 1: of like it's doing right now to think about all

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Speaker 1: the great things you did before and then coming back

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Speaker 1: here to do it again. So I'll ask you this,

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Speaker 1: and maybe it's been introspective in some sense. But how

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Speaker 1: is Jacob Martin different from when you left until now?

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Speaker 5: How are you different?

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Speaker 8: Well, you know, a lot has happened, you know, from

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Speaker 8: from the the year I was away. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 8: so I'm feeling really good. I'm feeling honestly better than

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Speaker 8: I've ever felt before.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 8: Unfortunately last year I did have to finish year on

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Speaker 8: eye are required some surgery. So I'm really just happy

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Speaker 8: to be back and be back healthy and to be

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Speaker 8: able to do the things I was able to do here.

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Speaker 6: So what was it like to be with the Jets

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Speaker 6: the short time you were there?

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Speaker 5: It was cool?

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Speaker 8: You know, I got to learn a lot from some

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Speaker 8: cool people. You know, it's a similar system defensively, and

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Speaker 8: I love that, you know, just what this defense has

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Speaker 8: been able to do, uh proven has been able to

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Speaker 8: do around the league, you know. So I'm just excited to,

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Speaker 8: you know, bring that down here. You've been in a

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Speaker 8: number of different roles.

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously when when you're here, Romeo ran more

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Speaker 1: three four look and then ran a little bit more

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Speaker 1: for three and so there's always talk about a linebacker

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Speaker 1: versus defensive end and all that. You probably not you

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Speaker 1: probably you do know the differences in all those because

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Speaker 1: you're the one that's experienced them. So in this defense, Jacob,

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Speaker 1: how do you kind of see your role evolving more

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Speaker 1: handed to.

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Speaker 2: Dirt, that's the way you're play one hundred percent of

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Speaker 2: the time.

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Speaker 1: How do you kind of look at the change for you,

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Speaker 1: if at all, from what you've done before in the past.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, No, I don't think. I don't think there will

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Speaker 8: be much change, uh, in terms of what I'm being

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Speaker 8: asked to do. I am excited to be able to

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Speaker 8: you know, have my hand in the ground and be

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Speaker 8: able to to set you know, physical edges and things

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Speaker 8: like that and rest of the past, you know, other

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Speaker 8: things that you ask the defensive indust sure you know, so, yeah,

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Speaker 8: I guess that that answers the question.

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Speaker 5: There you go.

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Speaker 3: All right, So we have a lot of new guys

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Speaker 3: who haven't been in Houston, you know, and you have

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Speaker 3: you have experience in the city, no question about that.

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Speaker 3: So when they ask, hey, am I gonna like it here?

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Speaker 5: What is it like?

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Speaker 6: What do you tell them?

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Speaker 5: Man? Houston is it's a wonderful place man, you know.

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Speaker 8: Just like the the Southern hospitality, you know, the fans

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Speaker 8: and just the people that work around this organization and

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Speaker 8: have anything to do with it. You know, they've always

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Speaker 8: been good people, you know, they've always and it just

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Speaker 8: every time, you know, a different year, just more people,

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Speaker 8: more good people get added and added and added. And

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Speaker 8: that's just a huge accomplishment. I think, you know, it's

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Speaker 8: hard to do and such a big business like this

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Speaker 8: to to cultivate that kind of culture, which I think

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Speaker 8: is dope.

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Speaker 2: Take away.

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Speaker 1: It was announced as you were coming back to the Texans.

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Speaker 1: I felt like the fan response to that was a

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Speaker 1: collective hell yeah. What was kind of your response to seeing?

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Speaker 1: What I thought was you know, I don't know how

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Speaker 1: you saw it, but I felt like what I was

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Speaker 1: reading was really positive vibes about you coming back to

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Speaker 1: the Texans. When you see that, what does that make

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Speaker 1: you think? How does that make you feel about that situation?

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Speaker 8: I think it's awesome. You know, I've always enjoyed playing

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Speaker 8: down here. I've always loved the fans. I've always loved,

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Speaker 8: you know, being able to come and play and this

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Speaker 8: experience you know, in our on on game day, you know,

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Speaker 8: so it was it was I was super happy, you know,

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Speaker 8: So it was it was dope.

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Speaker 5: It was cool.

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Speaker 3: So tell me You've been around the league long enough

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Speaker 3: where I can ask questions like this, Now.

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Speaker 2: What's worry what's coming?

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Speaker 5: When I hear what.

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Speaker 3: Road environment is the most? Maybe stimulating fires you up

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Speaker 3: the most. Maybe it's the most hostile, but I know

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Speaker 3: you guys get fired up when it's a hostile environment.

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Speaker 3: It kind of brings out more adrenaline. What has really

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Speaker 3: stood out to you in your career so far?

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Speaker 8: Oh man, that's a that's a tough one, man. I

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Speaker 8: would say playing in Arrowheads always is always interesting. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: I didn't want to bring that one up. That one's

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Speaker 8: always interesting. Yeah, I would say Baltimore, that's another fun one.

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Speaker 6: They go crazy there.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm trying to think what else?

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Speaker 6: How sweet is it when you make a play and

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Speaker 6: everybody crowds up?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the opposite of that.

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Speaker 1: Because I was going to ask you, like, what moment

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Speaker 1: do you remember most from the Texans? And I know

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Speaker 1: the one that I remember and I was chasing out

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen in the playoff game because I thought the

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Speaker 1: place was going to fall down, and I I mean,

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Speaker 1: I just remember Markin making that call and I was

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Speaker 1: all the way down at the end zone because it

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Speaker 1: was like fourth and twenty two or whatever, and I

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00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 1: just stayed down there as they were moving back and

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Speaker 1: then you make the sack, and I mean, the place

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Speaker 1: is going berserk when you created that moment. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I know you're celebrating and you're having that moment, but

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Speaker 1: to feel the vibe of the of energy at that point,

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00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: what was that moment like? And is that the moment

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Speaker 1: that stands out the most to you from your years here?

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Speaker 8: Oh, without a doubt, you know, that was probably the

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00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:44,480
Speaker 8: loudest I've ever heard this place. Yeah, you know, And

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Speaker 8: just to be a part of a game like that,

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Speaker 8: you know, like if you guyn't remember that game, I

639
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 8: was a battle now, that wasn't Oh yeah, that was

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00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 8: a note like cake with those boys.

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Speaker 6: That certainly was not down sixteen nothing.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, so it was. It was, that's for sure. Probably.

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Speaker 8: Uh, that's that's my number one Texans moment for sure.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So you're out there on the field with Will Anderson

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Speaker 3: right now, you've played with JJ Watt and it was

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Speaker 3: announced that JJ is going to go into the Ring

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00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 3: of Honor, and in that game, JJ had a big

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Speaker 3: sack against the Buffalo Bills in that playoff game, What

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Speaker 3: do you make of JJ wrapping up the career, going

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Speaker 3: into the Ring of Honor as a former teammate.

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Speaker 8: Man, I don't think there's there can be enough like

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Speaker 8: good things said about that guy. Man Like, just from

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Speaker 8: my time when I first got traded down here from Seattle,

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Speaker 8: through the through the years I played with Jay down

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00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 8: here just like a tremendous teammate, tremendous like leader, you know, friend,

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Speaker 8: like like just an overall good dude, you know, And

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Speaker 8: it was it was it was cool to experience that

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Speaker 8: as a young player, you get to, you know, pick

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Speaker 8: his mind and really just watch how he you know,

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Speaker 8: studies the game and approaches the game and try to

662
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 8: pick up those little nuances for yourself, you know. So

663
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 8: I applought him, you know, hell of a career, you know,

664
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 8: thank you for being the teammate you were for sure.

665
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: Were you surprised at all, Jacob, I note you talked

666
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 1: about having the injury and rehabbing from the injury and

667
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 1: getting yourself back, and then we talked to a lot

668
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 1: of players have done that, and that's training both physically

669
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 1: and mentally, and Jaj just had to do that a

670
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 1: few times started his career. But even felt like last

671
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 1: year with Arizona, it felt like he was playing some

672
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 1: of the best ball of his career. Are you surprised

673
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 1: at all that he decided to to retire and to

674
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 1: hang him up?

675
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 2: Uh?

676
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 8: No, Man, to be honest, Uh, you know, he's he's

677
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 8: he's accomplished.

678
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 5: He's a that's a Hall of Fame career man. Yeah. Yeah,

679
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 5: you know, he's done it.

680
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 8: Yeah, like he's he's done it, you know, and he's

681
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 8: I think I think his perspective was, you know, he

682
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 8: gave all he could to the game, you know what

683
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 8: I mean. And once you don't love the game or anymore,

684
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 8: you don't have interest in doing that anymore, then time

685
00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 8: to go.

686
00:29:57,520 --> 00:29:57,959
Speaker 5: Time to go.

687
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 3: It takes a lot just to get to the start line, right,

688
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 3: just to get out there. One more for you, What

689
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 3: are you seeing in this offense? You're across the line

690
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 3: of scrimmage, You're looking at them. What are you seeing

691
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 3: from them so far?

692
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:11,479
Speaker 5: I'm excited, man, I'm gonna leave it at that.

693
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, that's it.

694
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 3: Ziplock Jacob, thanks a lot for being with us, Good luck,

695
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 3: Thank you.

696
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 1: Man certainly has got something to prove as he returns

697
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 1: back to the Texans. That's Jacob Martin. All right, we

698
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,479
Speaker 1: gotta double dip on the way out. In our final segment,

699
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 1: We're gonna go though Fort Ben Marshall, cy Fair High

700
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 1: School with Kendall Sheffield and Austin.

701
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:36,719
Speaker 2: Deculous next right here at Texans AUXSS.

702
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 1: Let's get a roll on this final segment of Texans

703
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 1: All Access and we're to start over in fourth Ben isd.

704
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 2: Yes, Kendall Sheffield, Jodan's show right now.

705
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 3: So what has it been like so far? Learning this

706
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 3: new system out there? Kind of warm, but it's no

707
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 3: stranger to you. How's it going, Kendall?

708
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 9: Now, it's been going great. The system is good.

709
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 10: It's different, but I like it though, so I believe

710
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:01,680
Speaker 10: we're gonna have an amazing year.

711
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 9: Defense gonna be good, So I'm excited.

712
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: I mean, you know this heat, but do you laugh

713
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: at some of the guys that are kind of like, man,

714
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: it's hot. You look down, it's eighty one. You're like, man,

715
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 1: wait till August. You ever had those situations where guys, it's.

716
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 10: Always funny because it's not even hot yet. Yeah, late

717
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 10: July August when it really get high. Yeah, Ron Camp,

718
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 10: that's when it really get high.

719
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 1: But I can't even imagine I did it so long ago, Kennell,

720
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: I don't really want to think about it. But how

721
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 1: do you get through those moments when it is ninety

722
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 1: five ninety seven you're still out there?

723
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 5: What's I mean?

724
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 2: What's that kind of like going through nowadays?

725
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 9: I mean, honestly, you just don't have a choice.

726
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 10: You gotta be mentally strong, just go by a play

727
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 10: by play and just keep going.

728
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 2: I saw this. We should ask Austin Decklus about this.

729
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 1: I saw this video of a guy from LSU, one

730
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: of the defensive lineman. He put on a helmet, it

731
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: was air conditioned. Would you want that?

732
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 2: I would?

733
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would.

734
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 9: I've seen it. Hope it goes around the lead.

735
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 5: Yeah. I hope so too.

736
00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 3: Eventually everything will be air uniforms, all of it be

737
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 3: a factor anymore.

738
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 6: So what has it been like?

739
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 3: You're with the Falcons, Texans, Cowboys a little bit back here?

740
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 3: How do you navigate through that candle and try to

741
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 3: find your way find that perfect fit.

742
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 9: I always want to be a Texan. So that's why

743
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 9: I came back.

744
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 10: And I had a conversation with Nick at the season

745
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 10: and he said that he wanted me back and I

746
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 10: also want to be back too, so we made it happen.

747
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 9: I'm here now.

748
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 1: This defensive back room a little different from when you're

749
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: not too much, but they're obviously going to be year

750
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 1: over year, different faces. But what's that defensive back room like,

751
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: Kendell to go into some young guys so vets like yourself,

752
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: some guys that have been around for a.

753
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 2: Little bit and seen some things. What's that defensive backroom like?

754
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 10: It's amazing. I mean I was here last year and

755
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 10: it was some of the same DB's I was here.

756
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 10: So we all connected, all growing right now. But like

757
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 10: you said, we have some bits. We all learned from

758
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 10: each other, even the young guys learning from them as well.

759
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 10: So it's been good so far.

760
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 3: All right, And give us some best high school memory?

761
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 6: Best high school memory playing for Marshall? How was it?

762
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 3: What stands out to you when you look back? Because

763
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 3: I talked to so many NFL players who say, man,

764
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 3: high school NFL is great, it's the best thing ever.

765
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 3: But those high school memories are so special. Football at track?

766
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 6: Oh well, all right, let's go track, because I know

767
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 6: you're awesome at track.

768
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 10: I would say track would be my senior year we

769
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 10: want to stay tracked me as a team, and it

770
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:28,240
Speaker 10: was the most points for high school track history as

771
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 10: a team. I think you had ninety four points that

772
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 10: year and also won the one teams at four x

773
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 10: two first time won into four box two. It was

774
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 10: just an amazing feeling, amazing feeling to go out like

775
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 10: that and just be dominating as a as a team

776
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 10: and as a group.

777
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 3: So what's the difference between the camaraderie on a football

778
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 3: team versus a track team. There's togetherness on both teams,

779
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 3: but it's different. So how is that different?

780
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 10: I would say it's more close together for a track

781
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 10: because it's only like maybe twelve of us, so we're

782
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 10: going to each trick me every year with this same

783
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 10: people's yeah, same events. So it's partly more coroaderie on

784
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 10: the track team because.

785
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 1: Some offensive guys, I mean, you may know them, but

786
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: you don't know them because you guys are always in

787
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:13,319
Speaker 1: your you know, your dB room, et cetera, and all that.

788
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 2: All right, you're right for some either ors, he's very simple.

789
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 5: It's a A or B. It's dog or cat. It's

790
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:20,360
Speaker 5: pretty simple. All right, here we go.

791
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: You guys did team activity the other day is bowling.

792
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 1: So I'm giving you an opportunity. You could pick your

793
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 1: team activity. You get to pick it either bowling or

794
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:30,760
Speaker 1: go karts or paintball.

795
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 5: Oh do paintball. Dang, that's getting some love, man.

796
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,919
Speaker 3: I got another one for you, skydiving. Would you ever

797
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 3: do it? No?

798
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:42,760
Speaker 2: Right there, I am right there with you on that one.

799
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 1: Pick a streaming service and that's the one you get forever.

800
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 1: No other, either Netflix or Hulu.

801
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:51,319
Speaker 9: I would say, you.

802
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 2: Get one, but you don't get the other.

803
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:53,720
Speaker 6: One they have this week.

804
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:56,800
Speaker 2: Netflix has all Americans, So I'm going Netflix.

805
00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 5: That's my favorite show.

806
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 9: I'll probably say Netflix.

807
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 10: I just finished a show on Netflix not too long ago,

808
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 10: from Scratch.

809
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,240
Speaker 9: It was good, so I probably fit. Okay, Netflix.

810
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 1: Netflix is good surface either real grass or turf.

811
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 9: Real grass?

812
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,840
Speaker 2: How many players would say that real grass?

813
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 5: Yeah?

814
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 2: You fuel it, You fuel the kind of taxing on

815
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 2: your body and playing on turf.

816
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:24,839
Speaker 10: Yeah, you do, especially like running and jumping. You can

817
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:25,879
Speaker 10: feel the difference from turf.

818
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 6: And isn't that amazing in high school?

819
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:29,239
Speaker 5: Right?

820
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 1: Also in Atlanta, Yeah, turf and NFL players like playing

821
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 1: on grass, no doubt. Now we didn't ask that out

822
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 1: of Austin Deculus but we had plenty to talk about

823
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,319
Speaker 1: with the sci fi grad right here.

824
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 6: Year two.

825
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 3: You got that rookie year under your belt. You've been

826
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 3: through a lot. What has this offseason been like for you?

827
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 3: How you feeling it's been.

828
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 11: It's been really great, just from overall as a standpoint

829
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:53,720
Speaker 11: of meat developing as a person and outside of the football.

830
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 11: I got engaged in this past offseason.

831
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 6: Crash and we have to talk.

832
00:35:58,080 --> 00:35:58,839
Speaker 5: We have to That's the.

833
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 11: First thing I got, you know, I always gott to

834
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 11: bring that up first. I've been with her for going

835
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 11: on six years now, and I proposed.

836
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 6: This, Wait, did this start in high school?

837
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:12,360
Speaker 11: This started my first year at LSU. Met her in Orlando,

838
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:15,799
Speaker 11: then she came to LSU, and then about six months

839
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:16,960
Speaker 11: later we started living together.

840
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 5: So is she so?

841
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 2: Where's she from?

842
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 11: Originally she's from Orlando from It's kind of like me,

843
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:25,320
Speaker 11: like half of my family's Louisiana, half of the familyes Texas,

844
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:28,240
Speaker 11: half her family's Louisiana, and the other half is like Florida.

845
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 5: Okay, so y'all went.

846
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:32,359
Speaker 1: Y'all were at LSU together, And when you said six years,

847
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, no offense.

848
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:34,839
Speaker 2: You were at LSU for a while.

849
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:38,360
Speaker 1: What was your first year at LSU twenty seventeen, twenty seventeen,

850
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 1: and you set a record playing the most games ever

851
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: at LSU?

852
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 5: Is that correct?

853
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 2: How many did you play? Sixty one?

854
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 11: Sixty was my senior night and I broke my own

855
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,319
Speaker 11: record here when we played and they played at the bowl,

856
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 11: the Taxak Bowls, and you started forty six is that right?

857
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:57,240
Speaker 2: Six forty six games?

858
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 5: Okay?

859
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 1: How many quarterbacks did you end up protect at LSU?

860
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,400
Speaker 1: How many quarterbacks did you play in front of? And

861
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: one for sure, once for sure.

862
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 5: Joe Burrow.

863
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 11: I played for him for two years, and then there

864
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:14,720
Speaker 11: was TJ. Finley, and then Miles Brennan.

865
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 2: What was his name, we'll check it out, Max Johnson.

866
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:19,800
Speaker 2: About five or six total.

867
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 1: So, man, So those years the LSU, when you get

868
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 1: to the NFL, you play at the highest level you

869
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: could possibly play at college football.

870
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 5: How prepared did you feel once you got to the NFL?

871
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:30,399
Speaker 5: That's certain.

872
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 2: Next thing.

873
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 11: I felt like I was pretty prepared for just overall,

874
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 11: like the speed of the game. But I feel like

875
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:40,720
Speaker 11: it did help me like a good amount, just dealing

876
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 11: with like the playbook and like we usually had a

877
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 11: pretty big playbook over at LSU, So I feel like

878
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 11: that helped me a lot. So I feel like it

879
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,799
Speaker 11: helped me get a good, like step forward, just being

880
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 11: able not to feel like I was totally being like

881
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 11: drowned out like or overwhelmed by anything.

882
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 3: So what's it like learning the new system here with

883
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 3: Bobby Slok being the offensive coordinator after what you went

884
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 3: through last year coming from college all of that.

885
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Speaker 11: I mean, it's it's awesome because like, over the past

886
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,399
Speaker 11: four years, I really have been dealing with like four

887
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 11: different offenses. So I'm sorry to like just see like

888
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:17,319
Speaker 11: how beautiful like the game is, like truly like starting

889
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 11: to fall in love with it, just seeing how different

890
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 11: like each offense can be, but then in another instance,

891
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 11: how they can all be very similar. So I've been

892
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 11: I've been really liking the new offense. I feel like

893
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Speaker 11: I'm not gonna say much about it because you know,

894
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 11: we all know how these things go, but I feel

895
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:37,760
Speaker 11: like it's it's really gonna be something very fun to watch.

896
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Speaker 1: So as an offensive lineman doing a radio or TV interview,

897
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 1: a do you get fined for that?

898
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 6: I'm not going, Oh, you get fined for saying you're

899
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 6: gonna get.

900
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:52,880
Speaker 2: Fun exactly say good, fine, Okay, So you can't do that.

901
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 1: So when you guys get together for offensive line dinners

902
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:57,919
Speaker 1: and you get the whole group together during the week,

903
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:00,040
Speaker 1: you don't have to give details about that. But what

904
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: does that kind of mean to you and the rest

905
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 1: of the group to be able to kind of step

906
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 1: out of the building or kind of break bread together

907
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: and just be together outside the world of football.

908
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 11: I mean, it's the number one thing with our position

909
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 11: is that you have to have that team chemistry. You

910
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 11: got to be five working as one, be that well

911
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 11: oiled machine. And I feel like doing small dinners like

912
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 11: that just on a weekly basis, it might seem like

913
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:24,319
Speaker 11: something small to other people, but it's just something to

914
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 11: enhance that overall bond the chemistry of the team. I

915
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 11: think it's always been a great thing from because we

916
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 11: did all the way in college. We did my high

917
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 11: school too, so I've always felt like that's always like

918
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 11: a big necessity to have.

919
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 2: So when you were in college, did your quarterbacks take

920
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 2: care of you guys.

921
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 11: Or were you guys on your own sometimes majority of

922
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 11: the time of twenty nineteen, I feel like, yeah, you

923
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 11: got taken care of yeah, and then after that, we

924
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 11: would just split it.

925
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,319
Speaker 2: Some times the quarterback will come sometimes win.

926
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:53,800
Speaker 3: Austin deculous with us. So you're engaged. When's the wedding

927
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 3: next off season? Next off season? You don't want to

928
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:57,839
Speaker 3: say a date?

929
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:00,839
Speaker 6: Huh not yet? You have a date yet?

930
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,879
Speaker 2: I don't have one. I know she probably does.

931
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 6: Are you doing all right?

932
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:05,839
Speaker 5: So?

933
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 3: Are you helping out with the registry and things like

934
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 3: that or are you just letting her handle everything.

935
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 2: I'm just letting her smart dot.

936
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 1: That's the best, the best lesson you can learn right there, exactly.

937
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 1: Now you will be asked the questions, so what do

938
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 1: you think of this? The best answer is, honey, whatever

939
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 1: you think, I'm good with.

940
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:30,360
Speaker 3: But sometimes they want you to give an opinion. Sometimes

941
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 3: just give.

942
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 2: A very vague, vague opinion.

943
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:35,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, just a vague could go either way kind of opinion.

944
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 3: But it's something to show that you're paying attention, Austin.

945
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 1: We're here to help, Yes, absolutely, that's that's that's what

946
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 1: our service is all about.

947
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 2: Rookie year.

948
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 1: Now, I know you haven't gotten into year two, but

949
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 1: having gone through your rookie year much more comfortable, do

950
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 1: you fear feel in year two that you know where

951
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:53,840
Speaker 1: the locker room is, you know where the cafeteria is,

952
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 1: You've been around, you see familiar faces. How important do

953
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:58,839
Speaker 1: you think that is for you, Austin And how much

954
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 1: growth do you think you've seen for me rookie year

955
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 1: until now?

956
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 11: I feel like just overall as my growth, I feel

957
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 11: like my biggest growth would say, just my conditioning. I

958
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 11: feel like whenever I first came in, I wasn't I

959
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 11: was more used to just hulling up every now and again,

960
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 11: just okay, we're gonna hulld up, say the play break.

961
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Speaker 11: And then starting in the NFL, everybody's usually on that

962
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 11: quick tempo. So I feel like that was one of

963
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:26,840
Speaker 11: the big things I had to work on this off season,

964
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 11: is just overall conditioning and just making sure I'm getting

965
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 11: myself into the best game ship that I can. And then,

966
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 11: like you said, like being able like to see the

967
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 11: guys that even like with the guys I came in

968
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 11: with or the guys that I've been around for a

969
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 11: year now, it's starting just to feel more at home

970
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 11: and just feel more of like that like college locker

971
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 11: room vibe to where like you've been together with these guys,

972
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 11: you've been through off season through spring ball, through everything together.

973
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Speaker 2: So I feel like that's always helping a lot too.

974
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Speaker 1: Great stuff there on Houston Night, Can you Green, Kendall Sheffield,

975
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 1: Stephen Simms, Jacob Martin, and Austin Teculus, And that'll do

976
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:10,360
Speaker 1: it for tonight's show. Appreciate those guys, obviously appreciate Mark.

977
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: That media day was really fun. We have more of

978
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:13,759
Speaker 1: those the rest of this week. We'll have and the

979
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: lab tomorrow. You're really gonna like, we'll have all that

980
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:19,320
Speaker 1: tomorrow on a Wednesday right here in Texas all Access

981
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 1: seeing that everybody it was always go Texans