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Speaker 1: Hello, Texans. Add welcome to the program that keeps you

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Speaker 1: up to date with your Houston Texans. Texans All Access

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Speaker 1: here from the Hyundai Texans Radio Studio at NRG Stadium,

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Speaker 1: which in a couple of nights will be buzzing with

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Speaker 1: Texans and Cowboys preseason finale right here on the field

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Speaker 1: at NRG, and then a couple of days after that,

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Speaker 1: the Advocate of Texas Kickoff with Texas Tech at All Miss.

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Speaker 1: I'm Mark vandermer Joy tonight by Drew Doherty. How's it going, Drew?

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Speaker 1: It's great, Mark, How you been I've been very good.

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Speaker 1: You know. We had the Texans kickoff lunch and yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and we MC. Yeah, I was the MC and Vander

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Speaker 1: Kid actually helped out with Kid Reporter Live, which was

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say I was a little nervous about it,

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Speaker 1: but he did very well. I thought, I know. I

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Speaker 1: asked him, I said, were you nervous? He's like no.

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Speaker 1: So it makes me wonder, like, does he have something awfully?

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Speaker 1: Is there a screwlers? No, No, he's I don't know

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Speaker 1: what it is, man, because he's done a lot of

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Speaker 1: stip reporter things on video. But that's a very different

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Speaker 1: totally different dynamic. It's funny. I was thinking about this

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Speaker 1: because if you say something, I don't care for your

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Speaker 1: I'm seeing something for twenty people or two hundred or

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Speaker 1: and I know you have this right and you get

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Speaker 1: a laugh in a room, it's so great, right, and

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Speaker 1: the feeling you understand what comedians must feel like the

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Speaker 1: good part, yeah, and the bad parts sometimes too, But

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Speaker 1: you understand what they must feel when you get a laugh.

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Speaker 1: And then you know, when you're doing a line on

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Speaker 1: like was it good? Was it not good? Somebody might

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Speaker 1: be giggling in their car. You don't know it, ye,

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Speaker 1: So you just have to have faith that hopefully it

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Speaker 1: went overwhelm. There's people out there right now that'll giggle

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Speaker 1: at some of the stuff we do. There's other people

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Speaker 1: hit the dial. There are other people that don't do that.

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Speaker 1: Who are these morons? So yeah, you know it goes well,

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Speaker 1: that's that's just it. And uh. And so he got

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Speaker 1: up there and asked the questions to Watson, DJ Reader

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Speaker 1: and Bruce Ellington and did a nice job. And I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: I'm worried about my career now. Actually now that my

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Speaker 1: twelve year old is doing these stuff. He got these

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Speaker 1: guys singing. He got Zach Cunningham, Christian Cumington singing. Those

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Speaker 1: guys have good singing voices. That was Cunningham especially. I

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Speaker 1: and yeah, acapella. It was very impressive. Yeah, the players

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Speaker 1: to get those guys to sing acapella. So that worked

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Speaker 1: out really well for them. And we saw Get to

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Speaker 1: Know compilation. As you mentioned, just shot Get to Know

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Speaker 1: this offseason. You're gonna continue to shoot those in the

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Speaker 1: during the regular season, I think. So we loaded up,

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Speaker 1: got a bunch of them done in May. They're very bizarre. Um,

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Speaker 1: well that's what they are. A bunch of food cooked

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Speaker 1: for a bunch of desserts, cooked for JJ Watt. We

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Speaker 1: did that aired on Texans Buzzes past weekend and um,

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Speaker 1: it'll be up in a little bit the next few

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Speaker 1: weeks on our social and digital media that Okay buzz

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Speaker 1: is gonna premiere the night before the Patriots game September eighth.

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Speaker 1: Had a taste of it last Saturday. Yeah, a little taste,

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Speaker 1: a little fall preview, if you will, of different Texans programming. Actually,

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Speaker 1: and now you have the Cowboys and the Texans on

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Speaker 1: Thursday night to wrap up the preseason. All right, I

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Speaker 1: has talked about this every single year he's been in charge.

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Speaker 1: not gonna say the players don't matter, but they don't

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Speaker 1: tell you, I'm not putting him in this class. But

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Speaker 1: I think Hopkins came into the league with more polished hands,

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Speaker 1: for me, the most impressive guy earliest on. Yeah, he really.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's the very first practice he was he

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Speaker 1: Are you watching Hard Knocks at all? Because clips the

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Speaker 1: but it's just one of the things he does. And

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Speaker 1: please don't play on Thursday. He won't. He'll be ready

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Speaker 1: for New England September ninth. That'll be good stuff. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so we're looking forward to Thursday first and then preparing

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Speaker 1: for the Patriots. Now the roster will be cut down

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Speaker 1: on Friday, as you said. And that luncheon, by the way,

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Speaker 1: today great luncheon presented by Amagy Bank of Texas benefiting

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans Foundation, and since it's inception, thirty million

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Speaker 1: dollars raised. I mean, just really amazing stuff. But let

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Speaker 1: me talk about this for a moment. It's a little

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Speaker 1: bit of an awkward situation. And Bill O'Brien is definitely

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Speaker 1: keyed into this. You hinted on it. Sure, he's up

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Speaker 1: they work it out and then you have thirty seven

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Speaker 1: him and for this team and for a chance at

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Speaker 1: the NFL. And you know, ten guys make the practice squad,

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Speaker 1: never know how many guys you've missed out on because

424
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Speaker 1: they never got a chance to play only in the preseason,

425
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Speaker 1: and maybe that's not enough to show your stuff. I'm

426
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Speaker 1: not saying Brady never makes it, but what happens if

427
00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:39,640
Speaker 1: Drew bled so it doesn't get hurt do they move

428
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Speaker 1: on from Brady at some point he goes to another team,

429
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Speaker 1: and he goes to a bad team where he doesn't

430
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Speaker 1: really care fire. I've long said that Brady, and I'm

431
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Speaker 1: not I'm not the only one sayings Brady's was in

432
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Speaker 1: the perfect situation, being with Belichick getting that injury. If

433
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Speaker 1: Brady had been drafted in two thousand by those Dallas Cowboys,

434
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Speaker 1: I think Tom Brady might be selling in church right now,

435
00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:02,679
Speaker 1: you know, because think about well think about it two thousand,

436
00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:04,440
Speaker 1: two thousand and one, two thousand and two, they're five

437
00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:07,440
Speaker 1: and eleven, they go through they go from Troy Aegman

438
00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:11,600
Speaker 1: to Randall Cunningham coach. Yeah, Dave Campo's the head coach.

439
00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:13,880
Speaker 1: You see Anthony Wright in there at times, you see

440
00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:18,000
Speaker 1: uh Chat Hutchinson, Drew Henson. I mean Ryan Leaf even

441
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Speaker 1: played a little bit. I mean he probably would have

442
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Speaker 1: been the fodder in all of that. And he's not

443
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Speaker 1: around a good team at that point. I mean, it's

444
00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:28,439
Speaker 1: it's all about situation. And then he's changed too. But

445
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Speaker 1: also think about this, just two or three years ago,

446
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Speaker 1: you and I John Harris Deepie, We're at the Texans

447
00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:37,840
Speaker 1: house during the Super Bowl week, Dick vermil came in

448
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Speaker 1: and talked, and he talked at length about how if

449
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Speaker 1: Kurt Warner had come along now instead of back then

450
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Speaker 1: in ninety ninety eight, we wouldn't know who Kurt Warner

451
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Speaker 1: was because he got to do and got to practice

452
00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,520
Speaker 1: so much more and get so many more reps and

453
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Speaker 1: get the opportunity. The CBA has kind of changed things

454
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Speaker 1: and now, and that's and I'm not knocking the CBA.

455
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying the opportunities would not be there now

456
00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:05,520
Speaker 1: like they were then, so you're missing out on there's

457
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Speaker 1: guys out there that were missing out on. That is

458
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Speaker 1: a powerful statement. I forgot about that too with Dick

459
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Speaker 1: Vermeil saying that because Kurt Warner played in the Arena

460
00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:16,720
Speaker 1: League and NFL Europe, he was all over the place.

461
00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:18,720
Speaker 1: He's like Brian Peters, you know, he's all over the place.

462
00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:21,359
Speaker 1: And he finally makes it to the NFL. And what

463
00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:23,520
Speaker 1: if Trent Green doesn't get hurt, I don't know. But

464
00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:26,679
Speaker 1: Warner comes in and he's the MVP. So it just

465
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Speaker 1: shows you that. But Vermial was in emphasizing that, you know,

466
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Speaker 1: the Green injury aside the stuff that they got to

467
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Speaker 1: do with him in the offseason. Yeah, it was. There

468
00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:36,920
Speaker 1: was so much more they could do with him, and

469
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Speaker 1: they saw it and they're like, oh, wait, this guy

470
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Speaker 1: has something. Let's keep him on the roster and see

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Speaker 1: what he does. And then the green injury did happen,

472
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Speaker 1: and yeah, it's just that little spark you need sometimes.

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Speaker 1: It all worked out for Kurt Warner going to the

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, My goodness. All right, So eighteen game schedule, right,

475
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Speaker 1: and a lot of talk about well, if you go

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Speaker 1: to eighteen games, you reduce the preseason to two games,

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Speaker 1: got it? Now? The preseason right now means every team

478
00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:05,439
Speaker 1: gets two home games, so he gets to fill your

479
00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:11,119
Speaker 1: building hypothetically twice in the preseason. Right now, If you

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Speaker 1: go to eighteen games, well that solves that. Mike Florio

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Speaker 1: and this is not his idea. This is an idea

482
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Speaker 1: that's been around for a while. Yeah, I've heard this

483
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Speaker 1: around Houston even and that would be to sit every

484
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Speaker 1: player twice. But you play teas you played teen games. Yeah,

485
00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,760
Speaker 1: but of the fifty three man roster, every one of

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Speaker 1: those guys can only play sixteen games, right, so nobody

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Speaker 1: plays more than sixteen games. You'd have to expan the

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Speaker 1: roster first of all, and I just I totally believe

489
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Speaker 1: this because I'm not gonna do the math right now.

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Speaker 1: But it's gonna be really hard to you know, sit

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Speaker 1: everybody as you need to. Now, you don't sit them

492
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Speaker 1: all at the same time, obviously, but you know you

493
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Speaker 1: have to go on a rotational basis. Can you imagine this?

494
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Speaker 1: You'll have to buy special software, subbing software, sitting software. Yeah,

495
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Speaker 1: you would. But if you're like the Patriots, you say, hey,

496
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Speaker 1: let's just play these first sixteen with Brady and he'll

497
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Speaker 1: sit the last two because we're gonna be in the playoffs,

498
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Speaker 1: We're gonna be getting ready for you know, or all

499
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Speaker 1: of a sudden coming down the stretch like, oh my gosh,

500
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Speaker 1: we're not gonna be able to sit them. So it

501
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:18,600
Speaker 1: is an incredibly intriguing idea. It is gonna make. It's

502
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Speaker 1: what's already a chess match. It's just nuked to the

503
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Speaker 1: uh the nth degree. As far as that goes all

504
00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,040
Speaker 1: right back to some of the nuances of it in

505
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Speaker 1: a moment here, But when would you start if you

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Speaker 1: were playing eighteen games? Yeah, would you start Labor day

507
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Speaker 1: and go a week later? Would you start the week

508
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Speaker 1: before Labor Day because they don't play Labor Day weekend

509
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Speaker 1: now they have no, no, no, stay stay the exact

510
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Speaker 1: same starting time. Oh my god, weekend after Labor Day.

511
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Speaker 1: That gets you. That gets you to Valentine's Day. That

512
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Speaker 1: gets your season to Valentine's Super Bowls. It extends the schedule, Yeah,

513
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Speaker 1: because you'd still have preseason. Well, you're gonna be playing.

514
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Speaker 1: You're already playing in the winter in these buildings anyway.

515
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Speaker 1: So you're saying that you'd play late January, you play

516
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Speaker 1: the AFC Championship game, or let's just say the Championship

517
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Speaker 1: game in late January at lambeau Field potentially, So you

518
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Speaker 1: gotta be willing to deal with that. You know, when

519
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:10,320
Speaker 1: they played the Super Bowl at the Meadowlands, they got

520
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Speaker 1: a good weather day. The next day it was bad,

521
00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:17,800
Speaker 1: massive monster snowstorm that would have engulfed the Super Bowl,

522
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 1: probably would have moved it potentially anyway. Well, but that

523
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Speaker 1: they all you always hear about weather makes better ratings.

524
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Speaker 1: Whenever you see snow on TV, like football games on

525
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,239
Speaker 1: TV and snow, Yeah, they just get a jump from

526
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:33,840
Speaker 1: the casual viewers stop and say like oh right, right,

527
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 1: so everybody watching would have really enjoyed seeing us. But

528
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Speaker 1: can you imagine my sloppy super Bowl? Like, yeah, you know,

529
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Speaker 1: she keep them in, keep them in domes or in

530
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Speaker 1: the Miami. Super Bowl's gotta be a warm weather game, sure,

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Speaker 1: you know, especially when you're covering one, you're like, why

532
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,120
Speaker 1: am I in Minnesota right now? This year in Atlanta?

533
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Speaker 1: Not too bad? Thank you, We'll take it. Look, I

534
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Speaker 1: would go to Siberia to play the super Bowl if

535
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Speaker 1: the Texans are in it, So I don't really care

536
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Speaker 1: from that standpoint, But we're just speaking in broad terms here.

537
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Speaker 1: I do like an eighteen game schedule if you're able

538
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Speaker 1: to rest players or do something like that. If I

539
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Speaker 1: would think, I would say, I'm gonna do that. Yeah,

540
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Speaker 1: if you're gonna do that, that sixteen with the two off,

541
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Speaker 1: that's intriguing. But then I think you probably ought to

542
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,640
Speaker 1: also build in a second bye week too. If you're

543
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,479
Speaker 1: gonna do it, well, now you're playing like Easter or something.

544
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,000
Speaker 1: I think you gotta started a week earlier. I don't

545
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Speaker 1: have to wait. You know, everybody says February is the

546
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:28,399
Speaker 1: worst month of sports, mark and this kills that. This

547
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:30,840
Speaker 1: makes it one of the best months of sport. Can

548
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 1: you still have playoff football? I hate February really, Yeah,

549
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,400
Speaker 1: you have a college basketball guy, but I know there's

550
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 1: no intensity yet in February. Mark. You know, I know

551
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 1: pitchers and catchers have reported at that point, but you

552
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 1: know it's catchers. It's yeah, we have the combine and Indy.

553
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 1: We have so much fun. That's when it starts. Yeah,

554
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 1: that's what it starts going. Now you have to move

555
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 1: everything back. That would be cool. Look, that would be

556
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,920
Speaker 1: fine with me in many ways. But I still say

557
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:55,639
Speaker 1: you could play on Labor Day because now you have

558
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Speaker 1: eighteen games. Like you said, double buys. But if you

559
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 1: do double buys and you start that weekend after Labor Day,

560
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:04,159
Speaker 1: you're chewing up February. Somebody once said, go seventeen games

561
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 1: and go to two buys. Go seventeen games, go two buys.

562
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 1: Now even an odd number of games. I don't know

563
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Speaker 1: if that's any good or not. You know, then you

564
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,920
Speaker 1: can institute rivalry games every year, so you can play

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys every year. See. I like that. Although I've

566
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 1: always said this about scheduling, if you're gonna do the

567
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 1: rivalry game thing, you have to be able to do

568
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,560
Speaker 1: two because too many teams have the same team as

569
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Speaker 1: their rival. For instance, to do England Patriots, who's their

570
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,879
Speaker 1: NFC rival the Giants, But the Jets have to have

571
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Speaker 1: the Giants as their NFC rival as well, so you

572
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,159
Speaker 1: need two rivals. So the Giants would just have the

573
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Speaker 1: Jets and the Patriots. Done. The Jets would have the Patriots,

574
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Speaker 1: and I mean the Jets would have the Giants and

575
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:46,440
Speaker 1: pick another one the Eagles maybe, you know, yeah, the

576
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 1: Redskins would have the Ravens obviously and pick an AFC team.

577
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 1: Now we're you know, see, we're running out of teams,

578
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Speaker 1: so you'd have one that doesn't make as much sense, right,

579
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Speaker 1: But for the Texans, I would love the Saints and

580
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys please and I'm done. Yeah, And I think

581
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 1: the Saints would agree with that. Like, let's get the

582
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 1: Texans and the Saints. I don't know who they are.

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00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 1: Other one would be it have to be an AFC team, Yeah,

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00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:12,400
Speaker 1: it's an opposite conference rival, I know. If it's yeah,

585
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 1: it have to be an opposite conference. If it's Saints

586
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:21,160
Speaker 1: with Dolphins maybe, well, see the Dolphins would be obviously

587
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,959
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers, right, and then I don't know what else

588
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:27,119
Speaker 1: you do with them the Falcons maybe, yeah, could be

589
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,640
Speaker 1: the Jaguars would be okay, the Buccaneers, So the Buccaneers

590
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:32,239
Speaker 1: would have Dolphins and Jagers. So you can get all

591
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:34,680
Speaker 1: the Florida teams playing each other. So I think two

592
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 1: extra games and those two are your designated rivals in

593
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 1: the opposite conference. You just made me think of it

594
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 1: in the lab. But I can do with John Harris.

595
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:48,679
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this is where you contract the NFL by half.

596
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:52,560
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, can you join the rival teams together? So

597
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and are joined together right now? With the rosters. Oh,

598
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 1: I see, so you have do you have to go

599
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: down to fifty three and cut people? I don't know.

600
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 1: This is a whole new We're gonna bring this up.

601
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring this up with him, maybe the office.

602
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,119
Speaker 1: This is a good March fodder. Yeah, yeah, this really is.

603
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:11,399
Speaker 1: That's gonna be the first off season one. But I

604
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:15,119
Speaker 1: like the designated rival thing. I think that could actually work. Uh.

605
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,399
Speaker 1: And I like going to extra games. I mean, I

606
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: love football. I want to see more. But I after

607
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 1: being after going through what we went through last year

608
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,960
Speaker 1: with seventy eight players used on a fifty three man roster,

609
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 1: an NFL record. I always feel like when I'm in

610
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 1: this building and I see what these guys go through

611
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,680
Speaker 1: in a sixteen game schedule, good or bad or indifferent,

612
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 1: whether it's a winning season or non winning season, I

613
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: always think, this is enough. This is really enough. It's

614
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 1: a lot of yea for these guys. I don't know

615
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: that there before we started this whole conversation, like it

616
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 1: it's so taxing, It is so taxic on these guys.

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Speaker 1: I think that's why we brought up the you can't

618
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 1: play more than sixteen that's why that comes. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that idea works in this palatable Yeah. Well, I go

620
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 1: back to the NBA. Right, the NBA basically admitted that

621
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 1: eighty two games is too much, and NBA purist will

622
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 1: say to me, well, how are they doing that. I'm like, well,

623
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Speaker 1: because you're resting players. Yeah, if you're resting guys, you're

624
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 1: telling me that the schedules too long. Yeah, well, no,

625
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 1: second out of a back to back again, schedules too long?

626
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 1: What that it's eighty two games is too many. That's

627
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: what you're saying by resting players. Good point, because in

628
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 1: the NFL you do not rest guys unless you've clinched

629
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 1: in the NBA, and even then there's still debate about

630
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 1: whether you should yeah, because you want to lose timing,

631
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 1: do you. I mean, there's a lot of times we've

632
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 1: seen some of these teams that rested how to buy

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Speaker 1: to come out and they lay an egg. You know,

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Speaker 1: they're it's tough. I mean, I think I think about

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Speaker 1: the Cults in two thousand and nine. They did go

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Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl, but they lost to the Saints,

637
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 1: and they wouldn't have had they tried to go for undefeated.

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00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: I still say that because had they done that, the

639
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 1: Texans would have been the Playoffs that year and win

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Speaker 1: or lose. I would have taken a playoff appearance two

641
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Speaker 1: years before they got there for the first time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'd love that, you know. I mean that that was

643
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,480
Speaker 1: that was really tough to take. I get into the

644
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 1: bus in Miami. The Texans just beat the Dolphins, and

645
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 1: this is your first year with the Texans, and then

646
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 1: we're watching the Colts and the Jets. Wasn't Yeah the Jets,

647
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 1: and the Colts decide they're going to rest guys six yeah,

648
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 1: not seventeen sixteen. Week seventeen, the Colts are at Buffalo

649
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 1: and the snow. They decided to start the starters, just

650
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: start them so they could get all sorts of records

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Speaker 1: for starts and markets. Yeah, Dallas markets a reception for

652
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 1: whatever consecutive amount of games with a catch, stuff like that,

653
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 1: and then they set them down in the snow, and

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking that's great, thank you very much. And Jets

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00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:46,719
Speaker 1: played the Bengals, and the Jets played, and we needed

656
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Speaker 1: the Bengals to win, but the Bengals already clinched everything

657
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 1: they needed to clinch, so they were like, man, we're good.

658
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 1: And the Jets go out and beat them and they

659
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Speaker 1: take the spot. Otherwise the Texans would have had the spot.

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Speaker 1: How about that? I remember it. I remember very painful. Indeed,

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Speaker 1: all right, true, Well, thanks a lot for joining us anytime.

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Speaker 1: Great to have you listening tonight to Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: Here from the Hyundai Texans Radio studio. Mark vander Meer

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Speaker 1: with you, and let's get to some things that Bill

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Speaker 1: O'Brien had to say after the Texans kick off lunch

666
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: and today. Well, he was asked about making the cuts

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00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: and special teams, as you always hear the coach say,

668
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 1: is a big factor in determining who makes the final

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Speaker 1: fifty three. For instance, if you're the number one receiver,

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00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 1: the number two receiver, that's one thing. But receivers three

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00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 1: through who however many you decide to keep, they need

672
00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 1: to contribute on special teams in some way, shape or form.

673
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: And you can say that about outside linebacker, inside any position, corner,

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Speaker 1: any position, with the exception of maybe OH line and

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Speaker 1: D line. You know, so I think special teams is

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Speaker 1: one of the biggest considerations when it comes to you know, basically,

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Speaker 1: let's just say player twenty through fifty three, I say

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00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 1: final fifty three before that cut. There's no such thing.

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Speaker 1: We know. It's like an amba. It's always changing. Like

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Speaker 1: we said earlier in the show, last year they had

681
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Speaker 1: seventy eight players filed through the fifty three. So it's

682
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Speaker 1: always a fluid thing. And here's Bill O'Brien with more

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Speaker 1: on the process behind the roster. It's by position, you know,

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Speaker 1: it really is. If you look at the offensive line,

685
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: a lot of it has to do with versatility, you know.

686
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Speaker 1: If you look at other positions, like you know, wide receiver, corner, linebacker,

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Speaker 1: it has a lot to do with special teams. You know,

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Speaker 1: where are they on special teams. Can they be a

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Speaker 1: core special teams or at least three out of four

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Speaker 1: you know special teams units. Are they contributing on three

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Speaker 1: out of four? I think I think that that it's

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Speaker 1: by position, and you and you try to look, you

693
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: really look at the at the player and how the

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00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 1: players improved and how they've been able to perform on

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00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 1: the practice field and in the games, and you try

696
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 1: to make the best decision for the team. One thing

697
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 1: that's going to be going on Friday in the National

698
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 1: Football League is sort of a mini draft off the

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Speaker 1: waiver wire. A lot of players are going to be available.

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Speaker 1: If the Texans are cutting thirty six, thirty seven players,

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Speaker 1: whatever the number is, all these guys are available to

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00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 1: other teams, and the Texans are fourth on that waiver wire,

703
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 1: so you know they're looking for opportunities as well to

704
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: strengthen their team. They have, you know, a projected list

705
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: like hey, this may and they've been looking at guys

706
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 1: and watching, you know, you know, thousands of guys to

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Speaker 1: be honest with you, to see what may happen relative

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Speaker 1: to what teams may do. You. That's where you know,

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Speaker 1: I could be up here all day because it is

710
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: a great question. That's where your knowledge of each team

711
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: is very important. You know, what is that team's strength,

712
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 1: where where they where are they overloaded at a position

713
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 1: relative to you know, where maybe they need somebody at

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Speaker 1: a position, So who might be released from that team?

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Speaker 1: You know that, you know, we may want to take

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Speaker 1: a look at that. That that takes a real comprehensive

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Speaker 1: knowledge of thirty one other teams in the league. Also,

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Speaker 1: after the Texans kickoff luncheon today, Bill O'Brien talked about

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Speaker 1: what he's learned about this squad during the preseason. I

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Speaker 1: think that there's good chemistry. I think that they're a

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Speaker 1: team that, uh seems to get along pretty well, if

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Speaker 1: that makes sense. Um. I think they work hard. I

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Speaker 1: think they work very hard. Um, they do everything we

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Speaker 1: asked them to do. I mean they they they don't

725
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 1: go into it with blinders. They ask good questions about

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Speaker 1: why we're doing things, and as coaches we do a

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Speaker 1: good job I believe of telling them why. But I

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Speaker 1: think that they work very hard, and I think that

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Speaker 1: you know, it's a it's a it's a locker room

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Speaker 1: of high character guys. And the Texans will wrap up

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Speaker 1: the preseason on Thursday, night against the Dallas How boys

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Speaker 1: will the starters play? It depends on what you qualify

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Speaker 1: as a starter, you know, I think, yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think you'll see some guys in there that could

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Speaker 1: end up the potentially starting games for us in a

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Speaker 1: regular season. Is all right, let me get out the

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Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien translator here. That last one especially, that says

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Speaker 1: to me, potentially starting some games. Yeah, there are certainly

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Speaker 1: some guys who could potentially start some games. That's the

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Speaker 1: whole idea of this fourth preseason game. You want to

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Speaker 1: find some diamonds in the rough or whatever. Certainly second

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Speaker 1: level guys will play. Guys on the second line of

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Speaker 1: that depth chart, maybe even some starters. Maybe Martinez Rankin

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Speaker 1: plays and maybe he ends up starting for the Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans at some point even this season. We'll see the

746
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 1: cream's gonna float to the top if Rankin's really that

747
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 1: good at tackle. And Johnny said he saw some good stuff,

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00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: and the coaches were very happy with what they saw

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Speaker 1: last week in practice. I made this point last week

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Speaker 1: they were happy with what they saw in practice, and

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00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:54,719
Speaker 1: there were no padded practices, and then they haven't played

752
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 1: in the game, and it wasn't perfect, but what do

753
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:58,759
Speaker 1: you expect. I mean, the guy's getting his first taste

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Speaker 1: of NFL action with his teammates. He was in rookie camp,

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00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 1: he got hurt. This is his first taste over the

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00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,359
Speaker 1: last seven, eight, nine days, and now you have him

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Speaker 1: in the Cowboys game. I assume I'll play in that game,

758
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 1: but we'll see. And that's part of the drama. And

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00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 1: I do say drama for a reason. It's gonna be

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Speaker 1: fun to be in the booth on Thursday night. Now.

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Speaker 1: I did mention this, I think with John Harris last

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Speaker 1: night on the show that in two thousand two, David

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00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 1: Carr played in that fourth preseason game against Tampa Bay

764
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 1: got hurt. He tweaked an ankle or something. Obviously he

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Speaker 1: played in the opener a week or so later, but

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Speaker 1: he did play in that final preseason game. And it

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00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:36,359
Speaker 1: brought up another topic because I just had a mini

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Speaker 1: meeting here as we're putting together one of those fifty three,

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Speaker 1: you know, the fifty three we have that video series.

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Speaker 1: Dylan Cole, you've seen a bunch of them so far.

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Speaker 1: Watson Hopkins, we've done him on various guys. Covington in

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Speaker 1: Vancouver Anyway, we're doing one on the inaugural game, and

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00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 1: every once in a while we have to do one

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Speaker 1: on this because it's a big part of the history

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00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,280
Speaker 1: of the franchise, and with Dallas coming in on Thursday,

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00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,479
Speaker 1: it's a good time to talk about it a little bit. Also,

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Speaker 1: Dallas coming in Week five. It's only the third ever

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00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,280
Speaker 1: visit for the Cowboys to NRG Stadium in a regular

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00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 1: season situation. The two teams have met numerous times in

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Speaker 1: the preseason. In fact, they did meet in the preseason

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Speaker 1: prior to the last time the Texans took on the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys and the regular season here at NRG. Of course,

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Speaker 1: there was the twenty fourteen matchup up there in Big

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Speaker 1: Da Jury World. But in two ten was the second

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Speaker 1: ever matchup between the Cowboys and the Texans at NRG Stadium,

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00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:29,880
Speaker 1: and it was a big loss. Right now, earlier it

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00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 1: was in the preseason. The Texans beat the Cowboys in

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Speaker 1: Week three. It was a Week three game, the starters

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00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: play the most blah blah blah, and the Texans beat

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. And it was a rousing night for a

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00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,240
Speaker 1: preseason game. I mean, it really made us feel pretty

792
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: good at the time. Little did we know the Texans

793
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 1: would have a very tough season at six and ten,

794
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 1: and one of the losses early was to the Dallas Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: The other loss early was to the Giants. Those two

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00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 1: teams are coming into NRG back to back this year,

797
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:58,920
Speaker 1: basically back to back with the game sandwiched in between,

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00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 1: just like it wasn't twenty Now. It's gonna be interesting

799
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:03,320
Speaker 1: to see how they deal with it this time. I

800
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 1: think it'll be a whole lot better. But that was

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00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 1: a Texans team in twenty ten that had a lot

802
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,320
Speaker 1: going for them. They were coming off a winning season

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Speaker 1: for the first time in franchise history, a lot of

804
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 1: high hopes going into the year, and then they end

805
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 1: up losing to the Dallas Cowboys and the New York

806
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 1: Giants early. Now, they did go four and two to

807
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:23,360
Speaker 1: start that campaign, but we all know what happened. They

808
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,719
Speaker 1: went six and ten to finish, only won two games

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00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 1: down the stretch. The defense melted down. Cushing missed the

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Speaker 1: first four games with a suspension, Demiko Ryans got hurt

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Speaker 1: in week six. Don't get me started. I don't want

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00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 1: to think about the past. Let's think about the future.

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00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:38,360
Speaker 1: And the future is to Shaun Watson and the Houston

814
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 1: Texans playing good football against the New England Patriots one

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Speaker 1: week from Sunday. Now, a couple of items here National

816
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Speaker 1: Perspective from people who were covering the Texans at the Greenbriar.

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Speaker 1: The first one is from James Palmer from NFL Network.

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00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: John Harris and I caught up with him fieldside at

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Speaker 1: the Greenbriar and he had this to say about why

820
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 1: he was in why the NFL Network really kind of

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Speaker 1: dug an early foothold at training camp, and of course

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson was a big part of the recipe. We've

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Speaker 1: got a small sample size of what he can do.

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Speaker 1: And I think that super small sample size of what

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00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 1: he can do was that four games with with Will

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Speaker 1: Fuller and Hopkins at the same time, I mean, sixteen

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Speaker 1: touchdown passes and that stretch with what I think Fuller

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Speaker 1: at seven, hop at six. Yet, I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: we all got a taste there, and I think you

830
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:29,320
Speaker 1: get a chance to see somebody, you know, playing the

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Speaker 1: position a little bit different than some of the other

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Speaker 1: guys do it. And I think this league, you know,

833
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,800
Speaker 1: we're in kind of a transition period, you know, Drew Brees,

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, still all playing at super high levels.

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Speaker 1: But you gotta know that there's gonna be another group

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Speaker 1: of guys that are going to be the face of

837
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Speaker 1: the league coming in, and that's Carson Wentz, that's Deshaun Watson,

838
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 1: that's you know, Jared Goff, you know. So it's it's

839
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Speaker 1: fun to get excited about these guys early in their career,

840
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 1: and that's that's probably that's a big reason why we're

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Speaker 1: coming here. There's James Palmer from NFL Network talking about

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson in the Houston Texans offense. And here's Jenny

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Speaker 1: Brentis MMQB dot Com. She paid a visit to the

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Speaker 1: Greenbrier and she had this to say about the Texans

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Speaker 1: quarterback and the Houston Texans attack. Obviously, what Deshaun Watson

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Speaker 1: So I think that's what everyone's interested to see, you know,

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Speaker 1: have the opportunity now to kind of build the offense

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Speaker 1: I think I'm really going to be interested to see

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Speaker 1: just how the offense changes from with him in it,

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Speaker 1: from year one to year two. There's Jenny Frentis from

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Speaker 1: MMQB dot com, all right, a lot about the Texans

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Speaker 1: offense and Deshaun Watson, a lot of excitement there. But

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Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you that the Texans defense. I

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Speaker 1: think that the defense might be higher ranked in total

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Speaker 1: defense by the end of the year than the offense

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Speaker 1: is in total offense. Does that make sense. I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying they're gonna grab more headlines. They might, though they might,

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Speaker 1: and I don't think everyone should freak out about that.

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Speaker 1: I think that when you look at this defense being

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Speaker 1: Now they want to get way up there and takeaways

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Speaker 1: this year. But if everyone stays healthy. Boy, We've said

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Speaker 1: that on a lot this offseason, they're gonna get a

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Speaker 1: lot of takeaways. They're gonna get a lot of short

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Speaker 1: fields to the offense. And I know offense is gonna

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Speaker 1: grab headlines. Watson's gonna grab headlines. Deshaun Watson, DeAndre Hopkins,

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Speaker 1: Will Fuller, Lamar Miller, whoever. They're gonna grab headlines, no doubt,

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Speaker 1: because they're gonna be scoring the touchdowns, although maybe the

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Speaker 1: defense will find a way to get into the end zone.

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Speaker 1: Should be a lot of fun. Obviously, need everybody to

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Speaker 1: stay out of the hospital. That is step number one.

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Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna be on there tomorrow night on

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Speaker 1: the eve of the Texans preseason finale. A few notes

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Speaker 1: on the preseason though, before this gets away from us,

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Speaker 1: of course, we're live Sports Radio six ten, seven o'clock

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Speaker 1: kick four o'clock Texans Countdown presented by FCL Dental. Andre

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Speaker 1: Wears on assignment. So we're gonna have Deep City on

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Speaker 1: the Seine. He moved Johnny into the booth, which is fun,

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Speaker 1: especially for the fourth game, because Johnny knows all these

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Speaker 1: guys so well. It's gonna be interesting to hear what

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Speaker 1: he has to say in the broadcast booth. On the

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Speaker 1: TV side, ABC thirteen, we've got Kevin Coogler, Spencer Tillman.

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Speaker 1: Gonna be a good show on Thursday night. And in

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Speaker 1: Espanol we are on Mega one oh one. That is

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Speaker 1: so cool to have that station. Enter comp station carrying

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Speaker 1: our games with Enrique Vasquez and Gestavo ran gel in

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Speaker 1: fact an hour before the game. Not only do we

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Speaker 1: do in English Texans Unlimited presented by Verizon on all

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Speaker 1: our social media platforms in Houston Texans dot com, but

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Speaker 1: on the Telemundo Facebook page, and Rika and Gustavo do

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Speaker 1: a show in Espanol one hour before kickoff all season long.

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Speaker 1: So if you don't know English, I don't know how

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Speaker 1: you're understanding me right now, but that's a good place

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Speaker 1: for you to check out and Ricky and Gustavo on

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Speaker 1: the Telemundo Facebook page an hour before kick How about that?

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Speaker 1: How about that for a little promo for those guys. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for the show tonight. Really enjoyed

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Speaker 1: being on talking about things with Drew Doherty. The eighteen

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Speaker 1: game schedule possibility. I don't even know if it's a

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Speaker 1: real possibility, right. I mean, I'd love to see eighteen

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Speaker 1: games of regular season football in many ways, but geez,

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Speaker 1: what a taxing situation. I think we did throw out

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Speaker 1: some good ideas, the one reported by Florio today that

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Speaker 1: a lot of people have had. I think that's a

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Speaker 1: good one to have players sit a couple of games,

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Speaker 1: play eighteen, you play sixteen to the eight team, and

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Speaker 1: the coaches have to figure out how to finesse that,

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Speaker 1: if you will, kind of more like baseball managers sort of.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for the program. Thanks for listening everyone,

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Speaker 1: have a great night and go Texans.