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Speaker 1: of Texans All Access. At least I think it's Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: All the days they're sort of running together, and I

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Speaker 1: feel like I just got off a zoom afternoon with

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Speaker 1: about thirty Texans. With our annual media days going on,

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Speaker 1: I was kind of cool to catch up with the

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Speaker 1: still in my computer screen, so it just feels like

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Speaker 1: they're somewhere else. But they were in the building today.

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Speaker 1: I was at the crib, so we had a chance

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Speaker 1: to do that and I was really really fun. In fact,

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Speaker 1: had a chance to catch up with a couple of

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Speaker 1: new Texans. One in particular, it was one of my

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Speaker 1: we'll get through that after a little bit. Amongst other things,

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris Football House, a silent reporter,

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Speaker 1: and I am joined as always by the voice of

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Speaker 1: the Texans, Mark Vanimir Mark, good afternoon. How are you.

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Speaker 1: Did you build your arc yet to make it through

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Speaker 1: all this water we have been having. Yeah, I was

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Speaker 1: arking it today a little bit. Johnny. By the way,

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Speaker 1: before any media members who are listening freak out when

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Speaker 1: we say Media Days, it wasn't really media days for

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Speaker 1: the media. Yeah, right, today it was in forms of media,

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Speaker 1: not like our media for the most part, you know,

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Speaker 1: and we didn't really get what we usually get because

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Speaker 1: of the can We usually do this back in May,

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Speaker 1: but obviously not this year and this year, this time

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Speaker 1: but this was an NBC shoot that we actually did

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Speaker 1: for them, and all the team media people are doing

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Speaker 1: NBC's actually doing it for the other networks as well,

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Speaker 1: for ESPN, CBS and Fox, and they get stuff for

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Speaker 1: everybody because everyone's condensed now. So it was only a

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Speaker 1: few hours and you got to visit with some guys

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Speaker 1: I know, very quickly, and we only had double box

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Speaker 1: I know it must have been fun for you. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: We talked to some of the guys and I first

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Speaker 1: remind them to look, this is not like our radio interviews,

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Speaker 1: and they were like, oh man, they were a little

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Speaker 1: bit sad they missed that they missed they were you

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Speaker 1: think they were faking You think, yeah, of course, I

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Speaker 1: a guy I loved. I told him that. I was like, look,

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Speaker 1: I just take this for what it is. He was

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Speaker 1: with Gary A. Conley, and I think he could play

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Speaker 1: a very, very significant role for this team in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: and a few other guys. Now it is Wednesday, so

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Speaker 1: that means it is a what you remember when in

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Speaker 1: mark this one is all draft picks. Okay, draft draft

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Speaker 1: picks are the thing, Yeah, because a lot of times

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Speaker 1: so we'll do that. What you remember when then we'll

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Speaker 1: he's continued to play in the NFL and did a really,

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Speaker 1: to make judgments of It's their call. But we can

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Speaker 1: discuss the football ramifications as we do with the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: no doubt. I mean it's not like Mahomes opting out

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Speaker 1: to be an issue for them, Well that yeah, and

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Speaker 1: that's good for the Houston Texans right now. It's bad

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Speaker 1: and it's good because they can they can package him

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Speaker 1: in ways that could really be damaging. And yeah, he

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Speaker 1: going to be out. In fact, you know you should.

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Speaker 1: full strength. I don't care. I'm very honest about this.

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Speaker 1: best best of luck to Williams. You know you could.

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Speaker 1: You could bend in a lot of different ways here,

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Speaker 1: them to not have Damian Williams week one against the

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans. National television, the nation watching as they get

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Speaker 1: their Super Bowl rings. Now, as we have gone through

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Speaker 1: you first. Houston's sports leader sports Radio six ten. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to this Wedesday initiation of Texas All Access. I'm

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Speaker 1: John High, Hello, greetings and salutations, and that is my partner,

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Speaker 1: the voice of Texans. Mark. You know him as Mark Vandomir.

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Speaker 1: He is on the other side, and it's time for

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Speaker 1: what you remember when Wednesday? No one. No one has

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Speaker 1: been here for every single play, every single draft pick.

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Speaker 1: No one other than Mark Vandomir. So I like to

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Speaker 1: throw these questions at him and we call it what

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Speaker 1: you remember when Mark? Tonight is all about transactions. That's

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Speaker 1: our theme tonight. I think a couple weeks ago we

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Speaker 1: had the theme was the Colts, and they were all

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Speaker 1: wins against the Colts. These are all transactions, are not

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Speaker 1: things that happened in game. These are all your thoughts.

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Speaker 1: What you remember when certain draft picks were made, trades

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Speaker 1: were made, signings were made. There's one that's not a

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Speaker 1: Texan signing, which you'll understand why I put it on

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Speaker 1: here in a second. Okay, you're ready. Now. We may

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Speaker 1: have we may have done this one before, but I

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Speaker 1: know there's not always a repeat audience. So I think

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Speaker 1: it's always good to go back and figure out and

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Speaker 1: listen to what you remember when the Texans drafted J. J.

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Speaker 1: Watt in twenty eleven, what was you know? I think

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Speaker 1: I've said it before but urban legend was what got

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Speaker 1: booed when he was drafted. He wasn't widely booed. There

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Speaker 1: were some booze. There were some booze because everyone thought

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Speaker 1: you needed this dynamic edge rusher, which you were getting one,

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Speaker 1: but you didn't really know that dynamic edge rusher because

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Speaker 1: the Wade Phillips three four was coming in and the

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Speaker 1: team got bludgeoned on defense the previous year it was

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Speaker 1: twenty ten. Remember we were coming off that Wade Phillips

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Speaker 1: comes in. You gotta get a pass rusher, and we

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Speaker 1: didn't get a pass rusher. We got this big, corn fed,

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Speaker 1: big ten guy who's not going to be able to

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Speaker 1: get after the quarterback. Little did we know. Three Defensive

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Speaker 1: Player of the Year awards later. J. J. Watt is

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Speaker 1: a legend and one of the greatest players in league history.

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Speaker 1: In fact, my kid was asking me, is he a

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Speaker 1: top five all time defensive player? I thought, geez, that's

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Speaker 1: that's putting a lot. You know the numbers, all right,

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Speaker 1: So the longevity isn't there yet because if you look

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Speaker 1: at the total sack numbers, they are not there, right,

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Speaker 1: total sack numbers, sacks per game, sacks per whatever, absolutely

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Speaker 1: there absolute defensive Player of the Year. Only two guys

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Speaker 1: have wanted three times, so uh, you know, if if

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Speaker 1: you were gonna put him there, it would be more.

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Speaker 1: It's not Gail Sayers exactly, but it's a shorter career

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Speaker 1: than say a Bruce Smith or Reggie White or whatever.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, Reggie White's certainly a top five player,

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Speaker 1: maybe Smith too, but I think it's a tough a

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Speaker 1: tough thing to slice right now. You know, JJ's gotta

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Speaker 1: play a little longer. Yeah, it was interesting. I did

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Speaker 1: media day today with Brandon Dunn hopped in the room.

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Speaker 1: It was good to see Donny and I was asking

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Speaker 1: one of the questions was who's your favorite player growing up?

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Speaker 1: And he was just like, you know, my dad and

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Speaker 1: I watched Reggie White, and I looked at his jersey numbers,

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Speaker 1: like two. Oh man, Okay, this this kind of makes sense.

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Speaker 1: And he just went on about how Reggie was such

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Speaker 1: an impactful player for him. You know, his dad was

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Speaker 1: just you know, so in awe of watching Reggie White

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Speaker 1: used that hump move where he would get a guy going,

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Speaker 1: you know, one way, and then literally take one arm

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Speaker 1: and just shove that three hundred pound Lineman out of

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Speaker 1: the way with it. And Reggie White had had a

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Speaker 1: pretty big influence on JJ Watt too, having moved to

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Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers in nineteen ninety three. You know, as

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Speaker 1: JJ was growing up, that was a it was a

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Speaker 1: guy that he followed. There's no doubt about it. Reggie

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Speaker 1: White one of the man could top five defensive players ever.

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Speaker 1: I mean when you look at them at their best,

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Speaker 1: I think, I mean, he's definitely have a conversation. You'd

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Speaker 1: have to be three times defensive Player of the Year

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Speaker 1: and it's hard to keep him out. Like all right,

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Speaker 1: So I don't know if we put out a video

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Speaker 1: or if it was put up of the league, but

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Speaker 1: all the touchdowns in twenty fourteen, right, and just looking

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Speaker 1: back at that and the memory the one against the Colts.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's because we weren't able to get that win,

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Speaker 1: but the one that brings it to within a touchdown,

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Speaker 1: the fumble recovery, it was you know, that was after

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Speaker 1: he had the pick six against Buffalo, after he had

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Speaker 1: the touchdown catch against the Raiders, and then he does

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Speaker 1: that and on a Thursday night prime time and the

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Speaker 1: lid blew off the building. Man, it was unbelievable. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this guy is magical, and he's magical still. Looking what

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Speaker 1: he did in the Buffalo playoff game turned the whole

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Speaker 1: game around with one play. Everyone fed off of that,

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Speaker 1: and obviously Watson did the rest. But he's still got it, Johnny.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I don't want to have these conversations yet.

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Speaker 1: I want to keep going with the career as long

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Speaker 1: as possible. Yeah, I'm with you. You know, it's interesting

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Speaker 1: with that play against the Colts. That was my first

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Speaker 1: year down on the sidelines, and obviously i'd seen j

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Speaker 1: I'd watched JJ when he he was at Central Michigan.

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Speaker 1: But my dad, being from Wisconsin, as always, the Badgers

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Speaker 1: always kind of tugging his heartstrings. And I just remember

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Speaker 1: him always saying to me because he would talk to

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Speaker 1: his Wisconsin buddies and they would say, Hey, you know,

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Speaker 1: we have to get this JJ wat kid. You need

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Speaker 1: to watch him. So my dad would be it would

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Speaker 1: tell me about JJ Watt, he Hey, I watched watch

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Speaker 1: this Wat kid from from Wisconsin. Okay, So I watched

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Speaker 1: him and I was like, wow, boy, really really good player.

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Speaker 1: And when he got to the league, I thought, man,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be excellent. So I've been watching him for

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Speaker 1: a long time. But what I remember about that play

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Speaker 1: in particular, was you implored him. You didn't say Texas Defense.

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Speaker 1: You didn't say, hey, you know boys, it's time to

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Speaker 1: make a play. You said it's time. You said I

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Speaker 1: turn about exact words, but you were like, it's time

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Speaker 1: for JJ to make a play, and he did it

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Speaker 1: on call. That's the part I remember more than any Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, like you you release the what cracking in

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Speaker 1: some sense with your words, but the way you did

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Speaker 1: it was like March just said for him to go

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Speaker 1: make a play, and then he just made the biggest

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Speaker 1: play that we've had all night. It was it was

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Speaker 1: it was phenomenal. Okay, somebody's got to nickname their defense

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Speaker 1: the Cracking. Yeah, well it's gonna be h. It's just

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Speaker 1: just gonna be plagiarism now that Seattle name. But I

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Speaker 1: love come up with I'd love the Cracking. That's such

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Speaker 1: a good name. Okay. Number two. This one's not as

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Speaker 1: high profile, and in fact, it happened on the second night,

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Speaker 1: but he was the Texans first draft pick of that

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Speaker 1: draft because of Deshaun Watson and one of the player

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you about a little bit. What you

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Speaker 1: remember when in twenty eighteen the Texans drafted a safety

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Speaker 1: from Stanford named Justin Reid. I was just so happy

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Speaker 1: that he was there because he was so highly regarded,

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Speaker 1: and I thought, this is just the best case scenario

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Speaker 1: for this, for this particular moment. You know, here we

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Speaker 1: are going all the way into the third round till

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Speaker 1: the first selection for the Houston Texans and they get reading.

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Speaker 1: It just felt like you won. It felt like a

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Speaker 1: winning you know, look, you never know how these things

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Speaker 1: are gonna play out, these draft choices. But the crowd

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Speaker 1: cheered as if it was a first round pick, right,

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Speaker 1: and maybe they would have cheered the Texans drafting me

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Speaker 1: in the third round. I don't know. The crowd gets

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Speaker 1: very well prepared for these moments, if you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. You know, the draft party sponsored by Miller,

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Speaker 1: let all right, whatever, But it did feel like, based

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Speaker 1: on the credentials of Justin Reid that a lot of

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Speaker 1: people had him picked in the first round, projected, you know,

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Speaker 1: projected to be It just felt like a win. I thought, Oh,

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Speaker 1: the rest of the night is gonna be gravy. You know.

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Speaker 1: The other two picks in the third round, and they

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Speaker 1: were Martinez Rankin and also Jordan Right. So Aikin's still

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Speaker 1: playing well for you, ranking you traded him for Carlos

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Speaker 1: Hid who had a thousand yards for you. And Justin

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Speaker 1: Reid I think is on his way Johnny to be

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Speaker 1: one of the all time most beloved Texans and greatest Texans. Now,

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Speaker 1: that might be a lot to put on him after

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Speaker 1: two years. The beloved part. Take it to the bank, greatest.

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Speaker 1: He's got to continue to shine, to rise, to improve,

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Speaker 1: like every NFL player going into year three and be odd.

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Speaker 1: But I love the start he's off too. Okay, let

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Speaker 1: me ask you this. This is gonna sound like this

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Speaker 1: is gonna sound from like way out left field, But

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Speaker 1: if you think about it, it speaks to two things.

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Speaker 1: One how good Reid is, but to the lack of

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Speaker 1: safeties in the past. Is Justin Reid right now the

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Speaker 1: best safety the Texans have ever had. Oh my gosh. Look,

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Speaker 1: they've had guys who have had moments, you know, great moments,

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Speaker 1: great runs for them, putting Damps in twenty fifteen, Damps

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Speaker 1: had seven picks led the team. You have it. Look,

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Speaker 1: I could go back, you know, Bernard Pollard and had

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Speaker 1: a good run for them, and oh nine and Glover

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Speaker 1: Quinn was a good safety for this team, you know,

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Speaker 1: for for a bit. Uh, you know, I'm gonna forget

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Speaker 1: some guys here. You know, when they drafted Ed Reid,

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Speaker 1: never mind, I rafted every when they when they signed

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Speaker 1: Ed Reid, never mind Marcus Coleman. Marcus Coleman played safety early,

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Speaker 1: moved to safety. He was a corner and moved to safety.

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Speaker 1: You know, they they've all not they've all but a

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Speaker 1: lot of them have had their moments. But you know,

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Speaker 1: he's on his way to be being the guy. There's

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Speaker 1: no question like that. I remember about seeing his name.

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Speaker 1: We got texts from different people letting us know ahead

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Speaker 1: of time who the pick was, and I just remember

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Speaker 1: thinking my first thought because I had him in mid

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Speaker 1: in the mid forties on the Harris Wonder I think

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Speaker 1: it was forty three or forty four, and I just

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Speaker 1: remember thinking, oh my god, he hasn't been taken yet.

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Speaker 1: He felt us. I mean, I was floored because all

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Speaker 1: the talk was who are you gonna get at number

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Speaker 1: sixty eight? You traded away this pick, your trade away,

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Speaker 1: You're not pick until number sixty eight how are you

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Speaker 1: gonna end up getting a good solid p only you've

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Speaker 1: gotten a good solid player, You've got a foundation piece

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Speaker 1: in the third round, first round talent. And here's the

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Speaker 1: other thing. And maybe there have been times in the

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Speaker 1: because I really felt like there was some bad luck

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Speaker 1: history just littered with examples of bad luck. You know,

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Speaker 1: he was at forty four. You dirty year where you

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Speaker 1: Ross Blacklock. If he turns out to be something, you know,

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Speaker 1: you'll look back at this and say, all right, this

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Speaker 1: things are changing. Speak the third rounders. The Texans had

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Speaker 1: Jevion Clowney trade. The Texans and traded Clowney, They got

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Speaker 1: Jacob Martin, they got Barquebus Mingo, and they got Seattle's

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Speaker 1: remember when the Texans traded for former Raider and current

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Speaker 1: corner Garyon Conley. All Right, it's a good question because

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Speaker 1: And I like that, you know, and then eventually they

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Speaker 1: obviously these guys wouldn't have been available at all if

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Speaker 1: And I know Hardgraves is different because he was just

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Speaker 1: But you know, I love the idea of it, and

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Speaker 1: I thought, well, look, I know they wouldn't be bring

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Speaker 1: all those things. And you know, I know there were

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Speaker 1: Clearly they had intel that Conley could be a good

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Speaker 1: not because there's not some talent there. You know, their

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Speaker 1: you could see the character, all of that. It just

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Speaker 1: it as quickly as he needs it, whatever their case is,

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Speaker 1: And I think, you know, like you said, you have

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Speaker 1: Let's see if they can do this in twenty twenty. Well,

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Speaker 1: his name? Who was in Girls? What's his name? Kylo Wren?

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Speaker 1: That dude, he's not a threat, that guy. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's very emotional. He's not Darth. I know, Darth ultimately

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Speaker 1: for Darth Vader aka Tom Brady is gonna be very tough.

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Speaker 1: So I was thrilled that Brady left to the NFC.

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Speaker 1: love to see that. But no, it was the relative,

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Speaker 1: second part was, oh please God be to an NFC team,

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Speaker 1: and then both of them happened. I'm like, yes, and

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Speaker 1: I've This is a very interesting thought brought up by

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Speaker 1: Tom Curran, who has covered the Patriots NBC. NBC. I'm sorry, essence, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: any n up in Boston no time for a long time.

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Speaker 1: He is excellent. You should ride for the Province Journal

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Speaker 1: And he said do you think he was asked the question,

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Speaker 1: do you think these players in New England would be

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Speaker 1: opting out if Brady were still there? And he said, no,

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Speaker 1: maybe has been sort of a trickle down effect of

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady not being in New England. In twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: now mark the NFL. The NFL Network puts together the

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Speaker 1: They take the players who vote and they put it together.

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Speaker 1: The Texans, they're all finished. They have unveiled ninety of

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady, if you're wondering who just talked about him,

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Speaker 1: he came in at number fourteen. Tonight they unveil the

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Speaker 1: Derek Henry, somebody named DeAndre Hopkins, Lamar Jackson, It's Kittle,

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Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, Patrick Mahomes, Michael Thomas Russell Wilson. It got

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Speaker 1: me thinking, yeah, who, this is a two part question.

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Speaker 1: Who was the best quarterback you saw last year? Who

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Speaker 1: not Texans, no Texans? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I got you.

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Speaker 1: Who's the top quarterback you saw? And it doesn't have

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Speaker 1: to be one of these ten guys you may disagree with, Sam,

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Speaker 1: I understand, top quarterback, top non quarterback. The best quarterback

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Speaker 1: performance I saw against US was Lamar Jackson. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's no question. I mean, like I've said, the guy

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Speaker 1: his threat to run freeze his people, and he's able

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Speaker 1: to throw passes to wide open guys downfield because the

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Speaker 1: defense is terrified of what he's gonna do with his legs.

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Speaker 1: It's really a run first kind of fear. I believe

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Speaker 1: that the defense has with Lamar Jackson, not that he's

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Speaker 1: not going to turn into a good passer. And I know,

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Speaker 1: I know the past numbers are good. People flashed them

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Speaker 1: you know, yards per cash whatever. I get it. But

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Speaker 1: I think that you know, the Titans were onto something.

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Speaker 1: That was a bad night for him in the postseason,

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Speaker 1: the Titans were onto something and he's got to continue

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Speaker 1: much as anybody will, But I just think that day, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, that was a bludgeoning that the Texans took.

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Speaker 1: And Mahomes to me against the Texans in the regular

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Speaker 1: got to him and they played well. They were down

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Speaker 1: seventeen to three in that game. People forget they came

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Speaker 1: back to win it in the playoffs. I don't even think. Look,

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Speaker 1: he was good, don't get me wrong, but it wasn't

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Speaker 1: like he was amazing. You know, they just they as

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Speaker 1: looked back. Now, in the second half, he had some

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Speaker 1: and it's just terrifying. It's terrible for everybody else. So

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Speaker 1: as we celebrate Brady leave in the AFC, you got

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Speaker 1: these two guys to deal with. Thanks a lot, and

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to deal with them for a long time.

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Speaker 1: But look, it's gonna be fun. This is the arrow

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Speaker 1: I mean from a sheer outsider looking in perspective, and

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't have one that's jumping out to

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943
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Speaker 1: That's a good one. Just incredible. I mean it's just incredible.

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Speaker 1: I mean Hill was pretty good too, coming back from

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Speaker 1: You know. So a year where we were worried about

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Speaker 1: you lose to Allen and Drew Luck. Weird. The NFL

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Speaker 1: season starts right here in Houston. With the Texas kickoff,

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Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin and the Old Miss Rebels are set to

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Speaker 1: Stadium Sunday, September sixth, experienced the season debut for both

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Speaker 1: the year with a bang. Start your falloff right head

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