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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, and welcome. We are back in Houston. Mark

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Speaker 1: Vandermar John Harris with you on the program, keeping you

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Speaker 1: in touch with your Houston Texans Texans All Access here

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Speaker 1: in the Hunday Texans Radio studio across the hall from

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans locker room, which is not exactly bustling

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Speaker 1: with activity right now, John, No kind of quiet right now.

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Speaker 1: Rodeo time. Although DJ Reader riding a horse. You know,

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Speaker 1: we've got other things going on. Jordan Thomas doing stuff

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Speaker 1: at the rodeo. Videos you will see soon on Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans dot com and other places. You know, NFL players

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Speaker 1: and future NFL players on a horse. A big storyline

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Speaker 1: this weekend really Devin White, who we got talking about

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Speaker 1: the combine too. I know we got news and we'll

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Speaker 1: talk about talking about that. But Devin White, linebacker from LSU,

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Speaker 1: when he declared for the draft, he rode Daisy May,

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Speaker 1: his horse. I think it's his horse, may not be

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Speaker 1: his horse, but it's the one of the rides in

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Speaker 1: Baton Rouge and he rode Daisy May into Tiger Stadium

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Speaker 1: and rode her around own Tiger Stadium. They showed the video.

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Speaker 1: It's fantastic I mean, it's great stuff declared. Otherwise that

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Speaker 1: horses all the rage. So DJ Reader getting on a horse,

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Speaker 1: good for him, that's good stuff. I've never been on

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Speaker 1: a horse. I don't know if Jevion Clowney has been

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Speaker 1: on a horse lately or ever, but he's been franchise

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Speaker 1: tagged by this franchise. So he is. And let's explain

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Speaker 1: to everybody what this means for Clowney, for your Texans.

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Speaker 1: And we don't know how it's all going to end up,

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Speaker 1: but we know the beginning of it. Yes, And so

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Speaker 1: there are number of steps in this process. Number one

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Speaker 1: is the Texans placing the franchise tag on jeeveon Clowney.

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Speaker 1: Now it's a non exclusive tag, which means that other

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Speaker 1: teams can they can send an offer sheet, right and

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Speaker 1: the Texans can look at that and match that and

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Speaker 1: up for that, and that team would then have to

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Speaker 1: kick over two first round picks to the Texans. The

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Speaker 1: exclusive tag is just it's you and that player and

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Speaker 1: that's it. Yeah, everybody else, you just you two figure

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Speaker 1: things with this non exclusive tag. Number one, other teams

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Speaker 1: long term in a long term situation. So a team

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Speaker 1: long term situation for jev And look, they've got until

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Speaker 1: July fifteenth to negotiate a long term deal. Now, the

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Speaker 1: second part of this is that Jadevion, as far as

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Speaker 1: the tag has just been placed on him. Now Levion Bell,

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Speaker 1: and that's probably the comparison point here with the franchise tag.

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Speaker 1: Levon Bell never signed his franchise tag. So when there

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Speaker 1: didn't want to be franchise the second year. He played

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Speaker 1: So that's where all that came from. Now, I don't

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Speaker 1: I don't believe that JD has signed it, and he

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Speaker 1: may not. But they can renegotiate, or they can negotiate

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Speaker 1: all the way up until July fifteenth. So that's your

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Speaker 1: next deadline with Devion Clowney. So franchise tag placed on

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Speaker 1: you don't want Clowney hitting the market without any thing

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're gonna get that money if you're beyond

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Speaker 1: with his team. Absolutely, as soon as JD signs that

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Speaker 1: soon as he signs it today, he could do it.

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Speaker 1: He could sign it today, he sign it tonight. Done,

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Speaker 1: it's guaranteed. It's guaranteed money. Negotiate the long term deal, yes,

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Speaker 1: And you can still negotiate the long term deal up

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Speaker 1: until July fifteenth. So the question for JD. Is he

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Speaker 1: The team actually paid him an additional million dollars because

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Speaker 1: so we'll see what happens there. Clowney very valuable part

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Speaker 1: What do I always say the worst two things about

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Speaker 1: That's what makes him that type of player. So having

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Speaker 1: want the speed, but you also want the ability to

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Speaker 1: turn some of the other drills do come in handy

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Speaker 1: when you're evaluating them and trying to put them all

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Speaker 1: on the same group and figure out who's best from

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Speaker 1: that group. Well, I think it depends. I think the

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Speaker 1: days of two hundred and fifty five pound Bernardrick McKinney's

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Speaker 1: in the NFL at least for the time being. I

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Speaker 1: don't say they're gone, but I don't remember seeing a

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Speaker 1: linebacker at two hundred and fifty pounds in this draft

433
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Speaker 1: inside an inside guy. I don't think you're gonna find that.

434
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Speaker 1: Saying something right, it really is. I mean, the colleges

435
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Speaker 1: are taking these safety sized players that might be in

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Speaker 1: some sense, you know, a little heavier than safety, saying

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Speaker 1: just put them out this a linebacker. I mean, you're

438
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Speaker 1: doing the same thing, right, You run all these spread stuff.

439
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Speaker 1: You gotta run guys down sideline to sideline. Yeah, put

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Speaker 1: these guys in line. And so that's what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: They're taking these fast, what would have been strong safety

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Speaker 1: types way back in the day, and they're making them

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Speaker 1: inside linebackers. And so that's why you're seeing these guys

444
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Speaker 1: two hundred, two hundred and thirty something pounds, two hundred

445
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Speaker 1: and thirty five pounds. I mean two hundred and forty

446
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Speaker 1: pounds now is is almost an aberration. I mean, I'm

447
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Speaker 1: just looking at the Devin bush Is two thirty four,

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Speaker 1: Devin White two thirty seven, Tavont Conny Coney from order

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Speaker 1: Name two thirty four, two thirty four, two thirty three,

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Speaker 1: two forty two from Wisconsin was big and slow. I mean,

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Speaker 1: relatively speaking, at four to six six is pretty good.

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Speaker 1: But just looking at the guys to combine, hardly any

453
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Speaker 1: of them are beyond two forty. Bernardrick eats dad for breakfast. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, My gosh, So when you're

455
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Speaker 1: looking at this, you're thinking, Okay, i've got a guy.

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Speaker 1: If I'm if I'm looking at Bernardrick, I'm looking at

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Speaker 1: a guy that goes forward. He doesn't go back all

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Speaker 1: that often. Now he's done a little bit more of that.

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Speaker 1: But you're thinking about a guy that plays first and

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Speaker 1: second down in the middle and then maybe it rushes

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Speaker 1: from the edge, so he's always going forward. A lot

462
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Speaker 1: of these guys are gonna go back. They're gonna be

463
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Speaker 1: Tampa two droppers, They're gonna run down the middle of

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Speaker 1: the field. They're gonna do those kind of things. So

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Speaker 1: you want to see the speed. You want to see

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Speaker 1: the four four. You want to see him going sideline.

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Speaker 1: The sideline, you know, Tyreek Hill is running with the

468
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Speaker 1: football on a jet sweep and your linebacker can have

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Speaker 1: any chance of running him down from behind. I mean

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Speaker 1: it's incredible. You know, quarterback like de Sean, everybody in

471
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Speaker 1: the world's faked out, and that that linebacker can go

472
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Speaker 1: run him down like that. I mean, it's it's amazing

473
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Speaker 1: to see the fact that they've gotten smaller, but they've

474
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Speaker 1: gotten so much faster. You're just you're basically taking glorified

475
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Speaker 1: safeties and playing in our game. Now you're not gonna

476
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Speaker 1: see I don't think any longer the two down linebacker,

477
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Speaker 1: the big you know, this guy could stop the run

478
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Speaker 1: on first and second out, at least not for a while,

479
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Speaker 1: until teams start to see it getting too small. Like

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Speaker 1: the Patriots, they saw the Rams going too small against them.

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Speaker 1: What they do. They put Devlin in the game. They

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Speaker 1: put two tight ends in the game, and they hammered.

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Speaker 1: They went power, and they went power. So you might

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Speaker 1: see some teams before it back to that, but it

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Speaker 1: won't be for a while. It won't be for a

486
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Speaker 1: while because there's enough spread that's going on that you're

487
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Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna need two hundred and forty pounds that

488
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Speaker 1: can run like these guys out on the field. The

489
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Speaker 1: whole Roger Banister thing is always in play. And for

490
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Speaker 1: those who don't know, Roger Banister was the one who

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Speaker 1: broke the four minute bile right right, and they thought

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Speaker 1: it couldn't be done. Once he did it, everybody started

493
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Speaker 1: to do it. So that says to me, athletes get bigger, stronger, faster.

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Speaker 1: That's why I always say that any NFL team now

495
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Speaker 1: would crush the Pittsburgh Steelers of the nineteen seventies. It

496
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Speaker 1: would not even be It wouldn't even be a game.

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Speaker 1: It would be one hundred to ten, it would be.

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Speaker 1: It would be ridiculous because of the weight differential. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you could beam those guys up today, maybe they

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Speaker 1: you know, they have the weight training whatever else we

501
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Speaker 1: have going on today, and things are different, although body

502
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Speaker 1: types might not accommodate that. Well. Mean Joe Green was

503
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Speaker 1: two seventy five. Just to give you an example, folks, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: now you could probably play today because now now it's

505
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Speaker 1: maybe coming back a little bit. Yeah, I mean, mean

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Speaker 1: Joe hey make a comeback. Yeah, I mean Joe mean

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Speaker 1: Joe would be you know, he'd be at Oliver. I

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Speaker 1: guess m and Ed about him. You know Ed? Ed?

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Speaker 1: How do I say this? And I want to make

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Speaker 1: sure I said this properly. Ed maybe game the system

511
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Speaker 1: a little bit, if that makes sense. And here's what

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Speaker 1: I mean by that. Ed knew all eyes were on

513
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Speaker 1: what he weighed, right, right, So he goes in any

514
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Speaker 1: ways two eighty seven, You're like, whoa, Okay, that's heavier

515
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Speaker 1: than Aaron Donald at the combine. But then Ed didn't

516
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Speaker 1: run the combine and didn't do on field drills at

517
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Speaker 1: the combine. Oh, but Ed did his vertical jump and

518
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Speaker 1: he did his broad jump because he's that explosive, so

519
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Speaker 1: he knows he could do it with the extra weight.

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Speaker 1: He didn't want to run with the extra weight. So

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Speaker 1: when he comes back for his pro day which is

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Speaker 1: late March, and they're not gonna weigh him at the

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Speaker 1: pro day, right, they will, they they will, But is

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Speaker 1: that gonna be Is that gonna Is that gonna matter

525
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Speaker 1: as much or people are gonna be paying as much

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Speaker 1: attention to that? Probably not? Well, if he goes to

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Speaker 1: seventy eight to seventy five and then he runs fast.

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Speaker 1: It's like, hey, we can work with it. You think

529
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Speaker 1: you'd think, but he went two eighty seven and decided,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm not gonna run or work out or anything

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Speaker 1: like that. I'm not gonna do any of that stuff.

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna do my explosive, my explosives, which we

533
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Speaker 1: already know that he is. It's just a at what

534
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 1: level he benched two twenty five thirty two times, He

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Speaker 1: had a thirty six inch vertical and he had a

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Speaker 1: ten foot broad jump. Those are sick numbers for a

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Speaker 1: defensive line. What's the latest two seven? Uh, that's a

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Speaker 1: great question. I don't think he gets out of the

539
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Speaker 1: top ten, but I think Sweat goes into top ten

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Speaker 1: now for sure. Greedy Williams crushed it today on the forty,

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Speaker 1: so I think he's in the top ten pick and

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Speaker 1: then you're and then then your quarterbacks Threedio were supposed

543
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Speaker 1: to run slows. The Texans could get you at twenty three. Quinnin, Williams,

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Speaker 1: Nick Bosa locked in top ten picks. I think Josh

545
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Speaker 1: Allen's locked in is a top ten pick um. I

546
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Speaker 1: think those guys Sweat and Williams are top ten picks.

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Speaker 1: Kyler is gonna be the I think he's gonna be

548
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Speaker 1: number one overall, just no matter whether it's the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: or not. And I think Haskins ends up going into

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Speaker 1: top ten because he's a quarterback. All right, Johnny's final

551
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Speaker 1: thoughts from the Combine Final. We're gonna be talking about

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Speaker 1: the Combine until next millennium. So there, and that thing

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Speaker 1: about the Cowboys that I'm kind of jealous of, the

554
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Speaker 1: only thing I'm jealous of regarding the Cowboys post nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety six. We'll have that for you as well. On

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio if you joined us late, we've been talking

557
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Speaker 1: about how Jadeveon Clowney has been franchise tagged by the

558
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Speaker 1: Hughes in Texans. They're gonna try to work out a deal.

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Speaker 1: Other teams can make an offer that the Texans could match.

560
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,880
Speaker 1: They could also get two number ones if another team

561
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Speaker 1: wants to sign Clowney. A lot of different things can happen.

562
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Speaker 1: They have until July fifteenth to work out in agreement. Otherwise,

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00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:17,720
Speaker 1: the tag is him play. He can play with the

564
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:20,159
Speaker 1: one year deal and hope for better things for him

565
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 1: next year. Now that it's a bad thing to make

566
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,639
Speaker 1: fourteen fifteen million dollars a year. A lot of varying

567
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 1: opinions about this sort of stuff, but we've been talking

568
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 1: about it. Also a lot about the Combine and up

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Speaker 1: on Houston Texans dot com we have our Combine shows

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Speaker 1: from Wednesday, Thursday, Friday last week broadcasting from Indianapolis. Hey

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Speaker 1: also here in studio right now. You know, I'm big

572
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 1: involved with Junior Achievement, big involved. That's grammatically incorrect, but

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Speaker 1: bear with me here and the Hall of Achievements coming up.

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Speaker 1: I also have my Mark Vandomir Golf Classic coming up,

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Speaker 1: presented by Inspirity and SNH Manufacturing, and thank you Ron

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Speaker 1: Carter for being the car sponsor to that. But Evan

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Speaker 1: Goods it is here from Deer Park Junior High. How's

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Speaker 1: it going, Evan good So we're gonna be co m

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Speaker 1: seeing the Hall of Achievement in a couple of weeks,

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Speaker 1: all right, So do you have do you have any

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Speaker 1: idea what we're gonna do here? Do you have any

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Speaker 1: idea what we're supposed to say? We just introduce a people,

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Speaker 1: all right, That's it. That's what I always say. That's

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Speaker 1: I'm seeing, right, Johnny, it's not hard. Just introduced a

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Speaker 1: bunch of Yeah, it's introduced a bunch of people say

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Speaker 1: what they do and where you go, you'll be better

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Speaker 1: than he is. I'll tell you. Yeah, I know, I

588
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:25,359
Speaker 1: know you're gonna have to carry me. You're ready for that?

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Speaker 1: All right? Cool? All right? So Evans observing us. Today's

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Speaker 1: doing a junior achievement job shadow thing and you can

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Speaker 1: get involved in the junior achievement website Google Junior Achievement

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Speaker 1: Southeast Texas. All right, Johnny Combine, let's wrap it up here. Corners.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned Greedy Williams crushing it in Monday's activity at Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: Who else did well? And what? What's uh? Give me

595
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Speaker 1: a name or two that could be attractive to the

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Speaker 1: Texans in the second round since the mocked draft consensus,

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Speaker 1: which is up on Houston Texans dot com. By the way,

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Speaker 1: Drew Doherty's like eighth one or something like that. Everybody

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Speaker 1: has the Texas taken a tackle? Yeah, and the tackles

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Speaker 1: I thought performed pretty well. We've talked about Andre Dillar

601
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Speaker 1: and how he did. I thought the corners were a

602
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Speaker 1: little slower than I expected. There were there was something

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Speaker 1: that I was keeping my fingers crossed, like, YO, be faster.

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Speaker 1: But I don't know if you remember this mark when

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Speaker 1: we went to Nashville and took on the Titans. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we went to our one of our favorite places, the

607
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Speaker 1: Southern and we were watching Alabama just whitewashing SEC team.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember who that was? It was Old Miss?

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Speaker 1: Remember that that was week two? Yeah, I remember that,

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Speaker 1: and they just I mean it was brutal. They just

611
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Speaker 1: hammered him, and you're like, man Ole Miss is bad

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Speaker 1: defensively guests who had two of the fastest defensive back

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Speaker 1: times for all two Old Miss guys, and the fastest

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Speaker 1: ended up being a four two nine by Cedric Wood's

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Speaker 1: safety at Old Miss. That is flying, I mean that's flying.

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Speaker 1: And then Ken Webster ran a four three seven. So

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Speaker 1: Zedric Woods ran the fastest time of anybody at to

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Speaker 1: combine Jamal Dean from Auburn who started at Ohio State,

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Speaker 1: he ran a four three zero and he's very intriguing.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I was texting our buddy Lands Airline and

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Speaker 1: I just said six one two h six ran four

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Speaker 1: three one. What does that sound like to you? It

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Speaker 1: sounds like our second game. It sounds like our second

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Speaker 1: rounder's what it sounds like, sounds exactly exactly like that.

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Speaker 1: I actually thought the safeties ran better the safeties. Darius

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Speaker 1: Western Kentucky ran four three nine, which is a shocker.

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Speaker 1: Will Harris from BC four for one, one of my favorites.

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Speaker 1: Wan Thornhill from Virginia and four four two sheltered, Red

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Speaker 1: Wine ran four four four, Jonathan Abram four four five,

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Speaker 1: Armani Hooker four eight h Darniell Savage ran four three.

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Speaker 1: The safeties were flying. I thought the corners just I

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Speaker 1: didn't think the corners ran exceptionally well. Now, there were

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Speaker 1: some guys that decided not to run um at safety

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Speaker 1: in particular, and this year adderly who I really want

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00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 1: to see run. And the reason I say that is

636
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 1: I think if this year runs well at his pro day,

637
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: I think some teams might say, hey, wait a second,

638
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 1: maybe we should think about this guy's a corner instead

639
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 1: of a safety. And he didn't run today, so I

640
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 1: don't know what that was. On the way he runs, yeah,

641
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: just on just on how he's five eleven and a half,

642
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 1: so he's kind of in that mix. I mean, he'll

643
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 1: he'll knock your lights out. So he could play a

644
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 1: really good safety position too. If Tyron Matthew and Kareem

645
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 1: Jackson are both on other teams next year, hey, you

646
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 1: could see drafting a safety at least somewhere, if not

647
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 1: relatively high, No doubt, not with the first three picks,

648
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 1: unless somebody dropped that you absolutely loved. You know, I

649
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 1: think a lot of us would feel pretty good with

650
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 1: Andrea hal and Justin Reid as you're starting too, But

651
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: we saw how many guys you needed last year just

652
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 1: to get through the season, so no knows how that

653
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,479
Speaker 1: plays out. I mean a guy like Darnell Savage from

654
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 1: Maryland is maybe the perfect example, a guy that could

655
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 1: drop down and play the nickel. I mean he could

656
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 1: play with those two guys. You leave Justin and Andrea

657
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 1: in the back, and you let and you let Darnell

658
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: Savage play the nickel role and play that role that

659
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: Kareem Jackson plays at four three six, I mean, that's

660
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: moving and then if you need him at safety, he

661
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: plays safety. So I do think there are some options

662
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: at safety. The corners I don't. I don't think they

663
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 1: ran exceptionally well, but a couple of guys I mentioned

664
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 1: one earlier WHI Jamel Dean from Auburn. I thought he

665
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,479
Speaker 1: ran really well. The two guys Whood Clemson ran pretty well.

666
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 1: Mark Fields ran four three seven, and Trayvon Mullin ran

667
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: four four six. Now, I think Mulin's a much better

668
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 1: player overall, but they're both of the height, weight speed

669
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: that I think the Texans would be looking for. The

670
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 1: Other guy who was really intriguing to me that I

671
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 1: love is Jordan Brown from South Dakota State ran four

672
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 1: five one, but he's also six foot almost sixty one

673
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 1: two hundred pounds. That's a pretty good time for a

674
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: guy that size. But the guy from Penn State, Amani Rouire,

675
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 1: is a guy I didn't put it in in the

676
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 1: Harris one hundred, and I really I struggled with that

677
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 1: because he's got everything you're looking for, but when I

678
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 1: watched him on the field, it just it just doesn't

679
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 1: come together for some reason. But he ran four four seven.

680
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 1: It's six one almost two hundred and ten pounds, so

681
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 1: I think he's definitely gonna be a guy in the

682
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 1: mix for the Texans. So I'm gonna go back and

683
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 1: study him this week and see if I can match

684
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 1: up that four four seven with how he plays on

685
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 1: the field. I don't know that I see that, but

686
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: he ran really well. And then a local guy, Chris Boyd,

687
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 1: ran really well four four five. Now I think he

688
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 1: should go to safety, but I think he'd be a

689
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 1: way over safety. I just think at corner it's gonna

690
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: be really tough for him. But four four five for

691
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 1: Chris Boyd was very very good. Amani aru wire. I

692
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 1: don't like that, as I played by Fay Guy oru wire.

693
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 1: I've got rs and ws and I mean, are that's

694
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 1: gonna be hard for me to spit out. I listened

695
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 1: to Steve Jones. I had a game in Nacodosius that

696
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 1: I was doing, so on the way home, I was

697
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 1: listening to series Sex and Radio and Penn Staves playing

698
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 1: Michigan State. They just call him amani. Yeah, they don't

699
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 1: go because it's very difficult. I always say it is

700
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 1: to young announcers and young Evan is listening to this.

701
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 1: When you have ws and rs and ells and all

702
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: in a row and it just it gets really jumbled up,

703
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 1: very hard to spit that out. Sometimes I have a

704
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: tongue twister that helps for that. Yeah, I'm sure you do.

705
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 1: You might you might have to say it. All right,

706
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it right now for now. It's not

707
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 1: it's not an actual it's I combined a basketball name

708
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,879
Speaker 1: with some WS and rs. In football, Orlando will Ridge

709
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 1: will reportedly require require rewarding work as a wide receiver.

710
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 1: I can't even get through it. Orlando will Ridge will

711
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 1: reportedly require rewarding work as a wide receiver. See if

712
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 1: you say that really fast a bunch of times, you

713
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 1: will be fine. But now I got a new one,

714
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 1: Amani or rue Ware. Yeah, it's tough. I'd be remiss

715
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 1: if I didn't mention the local guy that had the

716
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: best workout ne Versity Houston. And this is a guy

717
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 1: that I noticed in the summer. We've already talked about it, Oliver, Yeah,

718
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:52,319
Speaker 1: we already talked about ed. Isaiah Johnson corner ran four

719
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:57,720
Speaker 1: four flat, which is smoking because Isaiah Johnson's long rangey.

720
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 1: I mean he kind of fits that profile six two

721
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: o eight. It ran four to four flats, so I

722
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 1: would imagine he's definitely gonna be on the Texans radar

723
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,320
Speaker 1: screen as well, with bigger, stronger, faster. I wanted to

724
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 1: see Lonnie Johnson run, well, he didn't run as well

725
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 1: as I wanted him to, but I think he came

726
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: in when do he come in at Lonnie Johnson's four

727
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 1: five two, that's still I mean, look Lonnie Johnson and

728
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:23,839
Speaker 1: four five two, that's pretty darn good at a guy

729
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 1: that's his size too. So I do think stepping back,

730
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: the guys that I liked going in, I think ran okay,

731
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:31,799
Speaker 1: but some of the higher profile guys didn't run as well.

732
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 1: Byra Murphy didn't run as well. Joe One Williams did

733
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 1: not run well at all. He ran four to six four,

734
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 1: but he's also six three and a half two hundred

735
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 1: and ten pounds, so and DeAndre Baker ran into four fives,

736
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 1: which I think some people were like, oh man, just

737
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 1: give him in four fours, even in the first rounder,

738
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:48,880
Speaker 1: for sure, but he ran four five, and I think

739
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:50,840
Speaker 1: teams are gonna be like, oh man, that's exactly what

740
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: we thought, all right. Why am I jealous of the

741
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys? The only thing I'm jealous of regarding them

742
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 1: post nineteen ninety six, because you know, I'd love to

743
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,720
Speaker 1: have five Super Bowl rings, of course, but the Texans

744
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: have more playoff wins than they do after that year,

745
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 1: and This is a thing I'm kind of jelly of,

746
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 1: is that they're reportedly going to play the Rams in

747
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 1: Hawaii in a preseason game. What's Hawaii? Yes? And what

748
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 1: there's talk about practicing in Hawaii prior to the game, Johnny,

749
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 1: I mean of I mean, please can we get that gig? Come?

750
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 1: Please get that gig going to Hawaii and practicing there.

751
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:32,880
Speaker 1: Can you imagine Bill O'Brien in an a lowha shirt

752
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: at practice with a with a lay no I want

753
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 1: to I want to be to get off the plate

754
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: and the hula dancers are there, big kiss like getting

755
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 1: myself into I would pay every dime I have to

756
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 1: see that. Just please see the look on his face.

757
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:55,360
Speaker 1: But they're going to way. You know this is I

758
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 1: mean that that's reported, so it's not official, and who knows,

759
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 1: but I just the thought of it. I know Aloha

760
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: Stadium is it total dump? Like if who cares? I

761
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,399
Speaker 1: know who cares? But they won't play the Pro Bowl there?

762
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: If I'm the people of Hawaii, I don't. Whoever runs

763
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 1: Aloha Stadium put some money into Alha Stadium so the

764
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 1: NFL comes back there for the Pro Bowl. You know

765
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:18,319
Speaker 1: they want to, but they can't go back there because

766
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: the stadiums are total dump. The players want to go

767
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: back there because it's Hawaii. It's exotic, it's fun, it's Hawaii.

768
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:26,839
Speaker 1: Help out the University of Hawaii. At the same time, Yes,

769
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:29,360
Speaker 1: this is it's so funny. You brought this up because

770
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 1: earlier today and this is I was strolling I was

771
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: going through my my Twitter timeline and I happened to

772
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:41,800
Speaker 1: see this beautiful picture and somebody tweeted a picture in it.

773
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 1: I was like, immediately, I thought, that's Hawaii. And my

774
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,800
Speaker 1: immediate thought was, you know, we're going to the Greenbrier.

775
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 1: Why don't we do trading camp in Hawaii? Why don't

776
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 1: we go there? I had this thought, tell me this, Yeah, yeah,

777
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: I'm sure that that doesn't cost too many bucks to go.

778
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,319
Speaker 1: Just a little bit, just the just the little bit

779
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 1: on the age. You don't even need, you don't even

780
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:04,399
Speaker 1: need rooms for the guys sleep on it. I'm sure

781
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: that'll go fine. It'll be fine. Let him sleep on

782
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 1: the beach. Nothing battle happened. How about the AAF using

783
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 1: the official in the sky this weekend to overturn, not

784
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 1: even overturn now to call a penalty that wasn't called

785
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 1: on the field. That's where we're going. That's where the

786
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 1: NFL is going. I mean, that's that's what these these leagues,

787
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,879
Speaker 1: whether they know it or not, that's what they're doing. Yeah,

788
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 1: they're essentially acting as a testing ground for the NFL

789
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 1: to look at and go, you know what the af

790
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,280
Speaker 1: that works, All right, let's go with it. That's essentially

791
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: what this is. The USFL gave you the red challenge flag.

792
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 1: The USFL did not give you a point conversion, but

793
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 1: they you were using it. They were usually college obviously

794
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 1: had it then, and the NFL is like, all right,

795
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 1: we gotta go to it. I think the NFL had it,

796
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 1: and you know, eons ago, like back in the dark ages.

797
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe I'm talking like pre well, you know, you

798
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,320
Speaker 1: know who had it, you know who the first you know,

799
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:57,800
Speaker 1: the first league that had it was the AFL. The

800
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: ALDFL had AFL used it. Now. I don't know if

801
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:03,799
Speaker 1: they used it all the time. I don't know if

802
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:05,800
Speaker 1: every year they had it. I'm trying to remember, but

803
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that they had they had the two

804
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 1: point play. They were the first to bring it into existence.

805
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 1: In any case, these leagues, these spring leagues whatever, these

806
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 1: other leagues, they can experiment with some stuff and you

807
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:17,120
Speaker 1: can see if it works or not. This is one

808
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 1: of those things that could work. What happened between the

809
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 1: Rams and the Saints might not have happened with an

810
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:24,360
Speaker 1: official in the sky able to call that penalty. I

811
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,759
Speaker 1: just I think that's where we're going. I want to

812
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: say that when we were at the Combine, I heard

813
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 1: some rumblings about that happening them looking at something like that,

814
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: and I thought it was funny because one of the

815
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: one of the nights that we went out to dinner,

816
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:38,800
Speaker 1: I happen to see a good friend of mine that

817
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 1: played college ball with who is a senior VP for

818
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 1: the NFL, and I just asked him how things were

819
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:46,319
Speaker 1: going when I ran into him a few years ago

820
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 1: and we were out to eat. I saw him and

821
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 1: he was with three other people at the table and

822
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:52,400
Speaker 1: I went up to him. I'd just seen him at

823
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:53,759
Speaker 1: one of our games and I went up to him

824
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,319
Speaker 1: and he just was like hey, and like that's all

825
00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 1: he said. I was like, okay, I didn't think much

826
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:00,839
Speaker 1: of it, and I was like, well, that was kind

827
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 1: of weird. Usually would stand up and talk to me

828
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:04,839
Speaker 1: a little bit. He told me later he was having

829
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 1: this contentious meeting with the officials, and so when I

830
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 1: saw him, I said, so you having any contentious meetings

831
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 1: with the officials, And he kind of just looked at

832
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,800
Speaker 1: me and smiled, and he goes, you know, competition committee.

833
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 1: Sean Payton's on it. Yeah, He's like Sean Payton can

834
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 1: make a can make a case for whatever needs to

835
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 1: happen to move this along. But I think the sky

836
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:26,359
Speaker 1: raff or what are you're gonna call it sky omp

837
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 1: or whatever it is, I think that I think we're

838
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:30,320
Speaker 1: going there. I think we're absolutely going there. On the

839
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,279
Speaker 1: way out. We could do a longer conversation on this,

840
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,719
Speaker 1: since we just got back from the combine, but Peter

841
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:36,800
Speaker 1: King talked about it, Mike Florial talked about it. The

842
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:38,919
Speaker 1: possibility to move in the combine. It's been talked about

843
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 1: for years. But how about this idea of having the

844
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 1: medical examinations in Indie and having some of the on

845
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,719
Speaker 1: field workouts somewhere else so you can move this thing

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Speaker 1: around like the draft, Like, I don't know if that works.

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Speaker 1: I think maybe that works better than moving the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: The you know, India is such a great working environment

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Speaker 1: for the leagues. Yea, for the league, the coaches, scouts,

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Speaker 1: the GM's, the players, everybody. I don't know if this happens,

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Speaker 1: but I think it's it's bound to happen at some

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Speaker 1: point because there's money in it, and cities will bid

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Speaker 1: and they'll make it attractive and everything else. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think the one thing that'll happen sooner than later. And

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Speaker 1: when I read that they were going to do the

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Speaker 1: medical examinations in the morning, my first thought was, Oh,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna put the workouts at night and put that

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Speaker 1: on prime time. Yeah, that was my first thought. And

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Speaker 1: I think that's probably step one in that process. Hey,

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Speaker 1: let's see how this does in prime time. I think

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Speaker 1: other cities would look at it and say, hey, you're

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Speaker 1: bringing all these heavy hitter NFL types into that city.

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Speaker 1: I think what's happened in Indianapolis. Because it's been there

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Speaker 1: so often, you have more and more people that are

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Speaker 1: accustomed to it. And I like Indie. I've always I've

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Speaker 1: said that I like the location, I'd like the changes

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Speaker 1: they made for us. I just I like it. And

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Speaker 1: a lot of times when you like something, you don't

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Speaker 1: want to see it change. But then again you go

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Speaker 1: and wait a second, what if they move this to Hawaii?

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Speaker 1: What if they put the combine in Hawaii? What if

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Speaker 1: they did it out there? We got a week of

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Speaker 1: going to Combine Hawaii, all right, I'm in. I think

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Speaker 1: we need two weeks of preparation on location just to

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Speaker 1: be sure that we are accurately and totally prepared for

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Speaker 1: those broadcasts. Yes, check your budget. It's all for work.

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Speaker 1: It's really all for the good of work, Thank you, Nyan.

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Speaker 1: John Harris the busiest man in football right now. Okay,

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Speaker 1: maybe that's too much of a claim, but man, he's

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Speaker 1: got the Harris one hundred out, he's got observations from

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Speaker 1: the combine. It's all there in Houston, Texans dot Com

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Speaker 1: and the Texans app download that you can listen to

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Speaker 1: these shows. You can read all that great stuff, see

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Speaker 1: all the great videos from the combine and everything to

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Speaker 1: do with your Texans here in the offseason. And you

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Speaker 1: know the conversation is going to continue. Texans tagging Clowney today.

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Speaker 1: You know they're gonna be talking about it all day

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Speaker 1: and night on Sports Radio six ten. So stick around,

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Speaker 1: thanks for listening, have a great evening, and go Texans.