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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, and welcome to the program. Coming your way

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Speaker 1: from Palm Beach, Florida. Absolutely gorgeous day. Not a cloud

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Speaker 1: What songs? Some of you have been watching Incanto and

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Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. We don't talk about Bruno,

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Speaker 1: but we do talk about the NFL on this particular program.

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Speaker 1: Nick Casserio is going to join us in a couple

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Speaker 1: of minutes here. Also we will catch up with the

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Speaker 1: President of the Texans, Greg Grissom. He's here in Palm

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Speaker 1: Beach at these NFL meetings, And we're gonna have also

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Speaker 1: a little two minute crash course on sports NFTs. Everything

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Speaker 1: you always wanted to know about NFTs, but we're afraid

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Speaker 1: to ask. It's gonna be quick, it's gonna be painless,

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Speaker 1: I think, and we'll find out more within the next

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Speaker 1: half hour. Then my buddy Alex Marvez sirius XM NFL Radio.

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Speaker 1: He knows everything there is to know about this league,

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Speaker 1: does a great job on the air. He also knows

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Speaker 1: a thing or two about wrestling, all elite wrestling. Have

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Speaker 1: you heard of that. He's involved with them and they're

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Speaker 1: coming to Houston. So that I just mentioned that because

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Speaker 1: so many people that I respect, like Sean Pendergast, really

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Speaker 1: are huge wrestling fans for some reason. So we'll find

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Speaker 1: out why. We'll get to the bottom of that mystery.

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Speaker 1: But let's get to the bottom of this. Today it

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Speaker 1: was announced that the league is changing adjusting, modifying the

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Speaker 1: overtime policy. So the overtime rule in the playoffs now

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Speaker 1: will feature each team guaranteed to get a possession. So

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Speaker 1: Bill's Chiefs need I take you there again, Chiefs score

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Speaker 1: end of game, right, they score a touchdown, Bills would

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Speaker 1: get the ball in this scenario. They're not going to

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Speaker 1: do it for the regular season, not yet anyway. I

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Speaker 1: think eventually we get this in the regular season, but

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Speaker 1: it's still a ten minute overtime period. In the regular season,

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Speaker 1: field goal doesn't end it on the first possession, touchdown does.

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Speaker 1: But in the playoffs, each team guaranteed a possession, and

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Speaker 1: that's the way they're going to roll. And I think

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Speaker 1: we can all agree it's pretty good. It's not perfect,

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Speaker 1: but it's pretty good. Some of you wanted the wacko

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Speaker 1: best of three two point conversions modification. Some of you

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Speaker 1: wanted have to go for two. What was it at

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Speaker 1: the end of the second possession. Now there's a thought

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Speaker 1: that whoever scores at the end of the second possession

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Speaker 1: would automatically go for two to end the game. Really, really,

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Speaker 1: that's going to happen. I think they're going to kick

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Speaker 1: the extra point to keep playing. Now, the thought around

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Speaker 1: that was whoever scores first would go for two out

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Speaker 1: I don't know. You could go round and round with

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Speaker 1: this thing all day, and I'm sure they have been

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Speaker 1: all day on Sports Radio six ten. I've been in Florida,

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Speaker 1: so I can't help you there. Also in Florida. General

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Speaker 1: manager of your Texans, Nick Casserio. We caught up with

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Speaker 1: Nick to ask him how it is here at the

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Speaker 1: NFL meetings. Yeah, it's always good to come down here.

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Speaker 1: The big thing is from our perspective, is anything new

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Speaker 1: So just understanding what the rules, what the changes are,

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Speaker 1: you know, Outside of that, you know, you try to

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Speaker 1: the college scouting scene here a little bit. So, but

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Speaker 1: it's always good. It's good to see some familiar faces.

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Speaker 1: So good to see people that you've worked with, that

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Speaker 1: head dinner with Josh last night McDaniels. So it's always

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Speaker 1: the football stuff. Absolutely, absolutely, it's good for everybody, really

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Speaker 1: is all right, So just to take people behind the

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Speaker 1: the idea is to try to continually grow the game.

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Speaker 1: I think the media press into the many relationships are important.

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Speaker 1: It's important for everybody. So when you have everybody together,

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Speaker 1: it just creates an overall understanding from a league's perspective,

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Speaker 1: So you look at it from a big picture league perspective,

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Speaker 1: you know. So it's good to kind of just hear

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Speaker 1: kind of what they've view is important. From your perspective,

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Speaker 1: being in the league for over two decades, what's your

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Speaker 1: it's really amazing. The growth of the game. There's still

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Speaker 1: grow it. But ultimately we have to focus on, you know,

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Speaker 1: what's best for the Houston Texans within the scope of

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Speaker 1: is best for the Houston Texans. The draft is coming up,

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Speaker 1: but how many mock drafts or can you take us

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Speaker 1: So it'll continually evolve and we can get more information

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Speaker 1: But oh, we just almost had this guy, But there

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Speaker 1: So there's a group of players if they've worked out

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Speaker 1: Are they in condition? So those are the types of

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Speaker 1: Mark VanderMeer with you at the NFL annual meeting and

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Speaker 1: it is meeting singular, but lots of sessions inside the building.

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Speaker 1: since the first two seasons of Texans history, that's right.

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Speaker 1: And and so I mean there's been a lot of

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Speaker 1: talk here at these meetings about the draft nationally and

432
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Speaker 1: what it's going to be held in Las Vegas, which

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Speaker 1: is going to be absolutely you know, insane and exciting

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Speaker 1: in a different way to engage that. And we know

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Speaker 1: a lot of our fans will go there and we'll

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Speaker 1: be there covering the event live as we identify and

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Speaker 1: welcome new Texans to Houston. And I think, uh, but

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Speaker 1: in Houston, we're we're we're just we're looking at a

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Speaker 1: lot of different things, and you know, we're to place

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Speaker 1: in our organization's um you know, journey is to to

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Speaker 1: reevaluate everything, give ourselves permission to reconsider how we do

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Speaker 1: some things, and so we're looking at some stuff. You know,

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Speaker 1: maybe stay tuned for the next few days about some

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Speaker 1: announcements about how we look at the draft party and

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Speaker 1: maybe maybe look at it a little differently. And most importantly,

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Speaker 1: you know, we want our fans to be excited to

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Speaker 1: welcome new Texans to Houston. We you know, it's I know, uh,

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Speaker 1: we're we're kind of building a new team and we

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Speaker 1: want our fans to get to know these guys and

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Speaker 1: the entire team and how how we're going to all

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Speaker 1: work together to be successful over the next few years.

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Speaker 1: All right, We're excited about the plans, whatever they may be.

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Speaker 1: And too early to talk about training camp probably, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I think training camp, we did a lot

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Speaker 1: of new things last year, and I think we would

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Speaker 1: be only looking to build on that, um you know,

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Speaker 1: with some of the covered seating and some of the

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Speaker 1: things that we had. I know, uh, you know, the

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Speaker 1: schedule hopefully will come out sometime in early to mid May,

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Speaker 1: and then that'll give us an opportunity to kind of

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Speaker 1: lay in the rest of the summer as we build

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Speaker 1: towards the preseason. But um, I can just tell you

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Speaker 1: being around all the other teams in the league and

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Speaker 1: everybody down here first, it's great to be in person

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Speaker 1: and it just gets me ready for some football. Mark,

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Speaker 1: I don't know about you. Yeah, absolutely fired up. Lovey

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Speaker 1: Smith was in the seat you're sitting in and he

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Speaker 1: was fired up, ready to go back on the roads

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Speaker 1: soon enough to go to protas well. Yeah, they've been busy.

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Speaker 1: We you know, I think we've you guys have been

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Speaker 1: kind of sharing where they've been in the work that

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Speaker 1: they're doing and can't wait to see all all the

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Speaker 1: hard work that he and Nick and both their teams

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Speaker 1: are putting together to again to identify some new Texans

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Speaker 1: as we're building the team on a daily basis. I

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Speaker 1: won't ask you about over. I know you have opinions

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Speaker 1: on everything, Greg, but big emphasis here on diversity and

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Speaker 1: inclusion and the Rooney families here, the Rooney rule. We're

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Speaker 1: all familiar with it, but we're taking it to another

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Speaker 1: level now right Well, it's important to the league and

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Speaker 1: I think there were some announcements to adjustments of that

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Speaker 1: and both and it affects both the business side and

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Speaker 1: the football side, and we're proud of the progress that

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Speaker 1: we've made as an organization that the league's made. It's

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Speaker 1: never enough. You know, you always can do better. But

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Speaker 1: you know, I know, I think on the football side,

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Speaker 1: one of the changes that they made was that offensive assistant,

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Speaker 1: which is where most head coaches are identified from. There's

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Speaker 1: a trend in that way, and you know that the

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Speaker 1: league's requiring to have someone of color to be on

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Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball is an offensive assistant,

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Speaker 1: and we're proud that with what the work that love

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Speaker 1: He's done, I know it's really important to him. We've

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Speaker 1: already got a strong group. I think we've already had

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Speaker 1: five offensive assistants on that side of the ball of

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Speaker 1: people of color. Both of our play callers with Lovey

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Speaker 1: and Pep Hamilton are represented in that way. So, you know,

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Speaker 1: more work to do as a league. You know, we

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Speaker 1: can always do better, and just excited to see about

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Speaker 1: the progress that we can all make. While we're all excited,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two season will be here soon enough. Final thoughts,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you have a golf course on one side,

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Speaker 1: you have the beach on the other side, but you're

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Speaker 1: buried in meetings. All that's right, you know. I think

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Speaker 1: after we'll leave here, go to another meeting, but we'll

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Speaker 1: enjoy the view from afar. And you know, I'm not

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Speaker 1: afraid to chase the golf ball around, but it may

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Speaker 1: have to wait for a few days. All right, Thanks

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Speaker 1: a lot, Greg, Thanks Mark. All right, there's Texans President

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Speaker 1: Greg Grisom. Now let's get to this. I promise this.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to deliver and I'm not going to just

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Speaker 1: drone on about NFTs because geez, that's going to break

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Speaker 1: format dramatically and lose listeners. But this is two minutes

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Speaker 1: on sports NFTs to help you understand them better. My

515
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Speaker 1: head was still spinning after this conversation with Dior Guineyard

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Speaker 1: from NFL All Day. But an NFT in sports could

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Speaker 1: be a video highlight, could be a lot of things.

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Speaker 1: What is it? NFT is a digital actable where you

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Speaker 1: track ownership and with NFL All Day we call them moments.

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Speaker 1: It's actually a video highlights. So it's your favorite no

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Speaker 1: more static images, it's your favorite plays, your favorite moments,

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Speaker 1: your favorite players stored in the blockchain which you now own. Now,

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Speaker 1: can you have old highlights like the catch Joe Montana

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Speaker 1: to Dwight Clark or do they have to be things

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Speaker 1: that are shot now and put directly into the blockchain.

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Speaker 1: That's a great question. We're actually launching our first historical

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Speaker 1: drop later this week. Brett Farve is a feature of us,

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Speaker 1: so we'll be able to highlight some of those historic plays.

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Speaker 1: Think about that three touchdown game that Bret had as

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Speaker 1: his father passed away. Think about that Marshaw Lynch rumble

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Speaker 1: against the Saints of him, Stiff Arm and Tracy Porter.

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Speaker 1: So we'll be able to highlight historical plays as well.

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Speaker 1: So you can own the highlight. But what's the difference

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Speaker 1: between a recording which this basically is, which is authenticated

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Speaker 1: and a copy YEP with that recording though, because you'll

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Speaker 1: see people say, like with video highlights, I can go

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Speaker 1: to YouTube and get that touchdown pass with that sack,

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Speaker 1: but you don't own it, so it's nothing you can

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Speaker 1: do with it. With our product NFL all Day, you

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Speaker 1: can get a moment in a pack because you can

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Speaker 1: participate in the pack drop. You don't know what moment

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Speaker 1: you end up with. You may end up with a

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes touchdown pass. Now you can take that to

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Speaker 1: the marketplace, you can show it off on Instagram. It's

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Speaker 1: proven authenticity in it. All right, I'm gonna cut that

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Speaker 1: right there. Everybody got that. We're going to have a

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Speaker 1: quiz on this later. I get it, but I still

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Speaker 1: don't get it. A Da Vinci painting the Mona Lisa.

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Speaker 1: He painted it himself with the brushstrokes. The video is

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Speaker 1: an image of somebody else doing something. I know I

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Speaker 1: could have the original video. I get that. If it's authenticated,

552
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Speaker 1: it's the original, and maybe it's worth something. It's all perception.

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00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:38,960
Speaker 1: It's like the tulips from hundreds of years ago in

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Speaker 1: the Netherlands. You saw Wall Street two. Oh you didn't. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: I'm going off on another tangent. That's all I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: say about NFTs today. Maybe we will revisit this topic

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Speaker 1: some other time. Let's visit with Alex Marvez next from

558
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Speaker 1: Sirius XM NFL Radio. We'll talk about the league, We'll

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Speaker 1: talk about the AFC South a lot, and of course

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Speaker 1: you're Texans. It's all coming up here on Texans Radio.

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Speaker 1: Mark Vandamer with you from Palm Beach, Florida, site of

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Speaker 1: the NFL Annual Meeting, which is going to wind down

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Speaker 1: very quickly here this afternoon, and have some stuff tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: but I really think very little. A lot of the

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Speaker 1: families hanging out with those who elect to stay, some

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Speaker 1: of the coaches and gms hitting the road to get

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Speaker 1: back out to Pro days and draft prep within a month.

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Speaker 1: My gosh, it is coming fast and furious. This is

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Speaker 1: the fastest offseason I can remember so far. Maybe because

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Speaker 1: the regular season went a week longer, pushed everything back,

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Speaker 1: including the Super Bowl, and then the Combine felt like

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Speaker 1: it was fifteen minutes after that, and then all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden you were into the trade scenario, with the

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Speaker 1: free agency starting up, the league year beginning, and now

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Speaker 1: these NFL annual meetings, soon the draft, and you know

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Speaker 1: the rest of the story. Can't wait for training camp

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Speaker 1: and the season now. Alex Marvez is an interesting guest.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I checked out as Wikipedia page because

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to be sure about something, and I

580
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Speaker 1: stumbled on something that I didn't get to ask him,

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Speaker 1: and it's breaking my heart. He was in the movie

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Speaker 1: Draft Day with Kevin Costner and apparently played himself. You're

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Speaker 1: infringing on my territory now playing yourself as a sportscaster

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Speaker 1: in a movie, said John McLean. Not really, that was

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Speaker 1: just me. But it's probably a good thing that I

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Speaker 1: didn't get to talk to him about Draft Day, because

587
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Speaker 1: Drew Doherty and dB City would be eye rolling incessantly

588
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Speaker 1: at me talking about a sports movie with a guest.

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Speaker 1: It was bad enough when we had Pat O'Hara in

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Speaker 1: the building, who was in movies like The Water Boy

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Speaker 1: and any given Sunday, and that's all I really wanted

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Speaker 1: to talk to him about. Never mind the business of

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Speaker 1: coaching professional football. Pat is with the Tennessee Titans. Right now,

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Speaker 1: I could name drop here from the NFL Annual Meeting

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Speaker 1: all day long. The amount of NFL exacts, coaches, GMS,

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00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 1: people in the media that you see here just amazing.

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Speaker 1: But I'm gonna stop myself for once from name dropping.

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Speaker 1: I might write a book someday just called name dropping.

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Speaker 1: It just dropped names throughout the entire book. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if it'll be interesting or not, but this is interesting.

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Speaker 1: Al Barvez serious XM NFL Radio. I've known Alex for

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Speaker 1: a long time. He used to be with the Miami Herald,

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Speaker 1: so I've known him from my days down in South

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Speaker 1: Florida one hundred years ago. He's younger than I am

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Speaker 1: and He's also with All Elite Wrestling, which is a

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Speaker 1: different wrestling group, and they're coming to Houston in about

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00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 1: a month and a half. So let's check in with Alex,

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Speaker 1: who's always doing well. Mark, I'm doing great, and you

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Speaker 1: know what, I am excited about your Houston Texans team

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00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 1: beginning a new chapter. And listen, I'm serious XM. I

611
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,720
Speaker 1: consider all thirty two teams my children, right. I want

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Speaker 1: everyone to do well because you'd love to have a

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Speaker 1: fan base get invigorated to talk about positive things. It's

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00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:39,400
Speaker 1: been a tough go of it for the Texans, obviously,

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00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 1: but now you know the Deshaun Watson situation behind this

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Speaker 1: team moving forward with Davis Mills, moving forward with the

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Speaker 1: bevy a draft picks, moving forward with a new head coach.

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Speaker 1: I just think there's light at the end of the

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Speaker 1: tunnel and it is not the proverbial oncoming train. That's

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Speaker 1: how we feel about it. What was your reaction to

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Speaker 1: the trade. It took a long time to get done, obviously. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so I'm gonna to do this. I'm going to leave

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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns part of it out. I'm try to

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00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 1: leave passing judgment on Deshaun Watson. Seeing that we have

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Speaker 1: a whole lot of social media attorneys out there that

626
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 1: apparently are very familiar with this case. I had no

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00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 1: idea so many people intimately knew everything that was going on. Amazing.

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Speaker 1: I recommend that you base all of your life's knowledge.

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Speaker 1: If you need to know about the Ukraine, go on

630
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 1: social media, right. If you need to know about politicis,

631
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 1: go on social media. You'll get quite the education. Right.

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna base this upon what the Houston Texans did.

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Speaker 1: Had Nick Kissario, I guess, I don't want to say

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00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,719
Speaker 1: pressed the panic button, but had he not been prudent

635
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:36,680
Speaker 1: last year, you're not getting this draft haul with DeShawn Watson.

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Speaker 1: I simply don't think that there was any team at

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Speaker 1: that time that I'd be willing to give up three

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Speaker 1: first round draft picks. Let's look at this in perspective.

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00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 1: Since the modern era drafts began in nineteen seventy the

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00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 1: AFL NFL merger, there's only been two other trades that

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Speaker 1: involve three first round picks. So think about how rare

642
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 1: this is. We're talking a span of fifty two years

643
00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:00,160
Speaker 1: and Nickissario pulled this off. I mean he has now

644
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 1: of course, something has to happen with these draft picks.

645
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 1: You have to hit home runs with them, and that's

646
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 1: an uncertain science. And I get where the Cleveland Browns

647
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 1: are coming from because they've been trying to address a

648
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 1: quarterback position since nineteen ninety nine. But the fact that

649
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 1: you were able to get this draft haul for him

650
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 1: was so incredible. And then the fact that you've got

651
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 1: a year now for Davis Mills. This is a pivotal year.

652
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 1: You know. You think about what happened with Gardner Minshew

653
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 1: right and how he was given a year with the

654
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars didn't work out. They go in another direction

655
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 1: with Trevor Lawrence. This is now going to be Davis

656
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 1: Mills time to show that he can build upon the

657
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 1: great things that he did in the month of December

658
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 1: and January and show that he is the long term

659
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 1: answer at quarterback. And if he is not that answer,

660
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: well you are still armed with a flotilla, if you will,

661
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: of first round draft picks to be able to try

662
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 1: to find an answer at the game's most important position.

663
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 1: It is hard to be patient, Mark vanderber It is

664
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 1: hard to dutation in the NFL. We only have seventeen games,

665
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: you know, and what do we do the other six months?

666
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 1: We're not playing football. We're talking about football, right, This

667
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 1: is how this works. But to this extent, I think

668
00:29:58,360 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 1: that it's going to take a little more time. Nobody

669
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: wants to hear that, but the Texans are moving in

670
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: the right direction, and I don't I think you just

671
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 1: have to give Nickossario high marks for holding out and

672
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 1: opening up the bidding a lot more on Deshaun Watson

673
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 1: as a quarterback, and it obviously pay dividends for this

674
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 1: Texas franchise. Alex Marvez, Sirius XM, NFL Radio and all

675
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 1: Elite Wrestling joining us on Texans Radio. Okay, the competition

676
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: in the AFC South, the Cults acquire Matt Ryan, how

677
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: do you think that's going to work out swimmingly? I

678
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 1: think it's great. And listen, I'm a Matt Ryan fan personally.

679
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: I just I love him as a human being, but

680
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 1: I also like him a lot as a quarterback. What

681
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: I saw last year was a player who simply was

682
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 1: outmanned in terms of the offensive line protection, especially in

683
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 1: the interior, and also just a lack of targets. I mean,

684
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 1: you had Cordarol Patterson. You had Kyle Pitts, and you

685
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 1: had Cordariol Patterson, and Kyle Pitts and Cordariol Patterson. The compets.

686
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:50,720
Speaker 1: You get my point, you know, and Matt Ryan's play

687
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 1: dipped a little bit. But you know, Frank Reich said

688
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 1: that he did not see visibly a drop in from

689
00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,719
Speaker 1: a physical standpoint, And that's the big thing that you're

690
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,760
Speaker 1: looking for, is a quarterback. Maybe the reaction time a

691
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 1: little bit slower, is the ball not getting there as quickly.

692
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: Those things were not affecting Matt Ryan. So I feel

693
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 1: for what the cults are looking for, which is essentially

694
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: a two year marriage here based upon how his contract

695
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: was restructured. This is a perfect fit for them because

696
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: they are so close. Of course, they got to get

697
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 1: over the Jacksonville hump. They ultimately have to win a game,

698
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 1: probably on the road there to get to where they

699
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 1: want to be. There is a significant change on defense.

700
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:26,719
Speaker 1: We do have a question at the left tackle position.

701
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 1: Can Matt tryor really manned that effectively wide receiver? You know,

702
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: it's Michael Pittman and Dot dot So there's still some

703
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 1: work to be done there. But I just I like

704
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:37,959
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan. I think for what the cults are looking for,

705
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: he's a good short term fix. Is they continue to

706
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: try to find a long term franchise answer. He's gonna

707
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 1: be thirty seven when the season is played. Does it

708
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: blow your mind that thirty seven, thirty seven? It's young?

709
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 1: Look thirty seven, you got your whole life ahead of

710
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: you in football, even because Brady's forty five and we

711
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 1: had all these guys play into their forties or at

712
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 1: least close to it. Well, I think what's happened is,

713
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 1: and we didn't necessarily always see this in previous years,

714
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 1: the training of these athletes, the diet, the year round

715
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 1: commitment to football has allowed career longevity, especially at the

716
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 1: quarterback position, where you're not taking the type of physical

717
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 1: beating necessarily that you would, although if you play for

718
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 1: the Falcons you did. But you get my point. I

719
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: just think that things have changed as time has gone on,

720
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: and athletes now are cognizant of that. You know it

721
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 1: is it's a three sixty five type job, you know,

722
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 1: and then when you see players retire early, maybe you

723
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:29,239
Speaker 1: understand why there's some mental burnout that's involved in this

724
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 1: as well. Players they reach a certain point of wealth,

725
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 1: twenty nine, thirty years old, they figure, listen, I've had enough.

726
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: Ali Marpet would be a perfect example of that. This offseason.

727
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 1: Guys just reached his first Pro Bowl, probably has two

728
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 1: three good years left at a very healthy wage. But

729
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 1: he figures, I've made enough money in my lifetime. I'm

730
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: gonna leave with a Super Bowl ring. I'm gonna leave

731
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: healthy and let's get on with the next part of

732
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 1: my life. It's just very different with these athletes now

733
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 1: and age being Yes, it is an important number, but

734
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 1: I think you have to watch the tape in a commitment.

735
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 1: Like Matt Ryan. You've never seen Matt Ryan out of shape,

736
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 1: for example. The guy trained hard. I don't know if

737
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 1: he's going to be Tom Brady and play till he's

738
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 1: forty five years old, but I think I think that

739
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, though, does have some really good football left.

740
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: Alice Marvez joining US Serious XM, NFL radio and all

741
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 1: Elite wrestling. That Tennessee Titans had the top seed in

742
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 1: the AFC last year. They didn't have a healthy Derek Henry.

743
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 1: He came back for the playoffs, but he didn't look

744
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: like Derrick Henry to me. But what do you think

745
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 1: of them coming into this season? The cults of forty five,

746
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: the Texans and Jags are gonna get better. What about

747
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 1: the Titans, Well, never mind the rest of the AFC.

748
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:30,479
Speaker 1: Alex No, but a weird year, right, I mean, they

749
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 1: were the number one seed, they were the kings of

750
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 1: the AFCA with five losses. Now, think about how rare

751
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: that is to have a team at twelve and five.

752
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 1: And I know that's a different it's a different year,

753
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 1: but it would almost be like twelve and four is

754
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 1: good enough to win the conference and usually it's thirteen

755
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: and three to fourteen and two, fifteen and one or

756
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 1: dare I say that there were sixteen and oh new

757
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,480
Speaker 1: England styles, So that to me was interesting and then

758
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 1: squandering and Ryan Tanney who obviously struggling, And I think

759
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 1: this is what is the different dynamic right now for

760
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. They've gotten you know, listen, Julio Jones

761
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 1: unfortunately could just not shake the injury bug during the

762
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 1: time there. I believe it was four games in total

763
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: played by AJ Brown, Derek Henry and Julio Jones all

764
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 1: on the field together. Just four games. I mean, that's

765
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 1: so scant and you know, they did not get the

766
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:16,240
Speaker 1: return on Julio. They cut bait, traded for Robert Woods,

767
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,319
Speaker 1: hoping that he'll recover from his torn ACLB A nice

768
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,840
Speaker 1: number two receiver, you know, really what they wanted Julio

769
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 1: to be with AJ Brown being the number one guy.

770
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 1: But what's different is the past couple off seasons, Ryan

771
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:29,399
Speaker 1: tanney Hill went into them all positivity, right. It was like,

772
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 1: you know, oh my gosh, it's not Ryan tanney Hill's

773
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:33,279
Speaker 1: fault that we're not able to get to a super Bowl.

774
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:35,879
Speaker 1: That narrative has changed the way that he played against

775
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals. Now the heat is clearly on him,

776
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 1: and one has to wonder, Okay, the Titans financially are

777
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: committed to him, and also they're committed to a lot

778
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 1: of other players. They're not in position to really move

779
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: on from him. But will they draft a quarterback? And

780
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 1: you know, have that developmental prospect waiting in the wings

781
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 1: just in case what happens to Ryan tanney Hill follows

782
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 1: what happened to Marcus Mariota when Ryan tanney Hill replaced

783
00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 1: him midway through his season. Would you consider going and

784
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 1: a wrestling this position, because if Ryan Tannehill isn't able

785
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,240
Speaker 1: to get back to form. If that, if the mistakes

786
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:07,360
Speaker 1: that he made last year linger, then this is a

787
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 1: Titans team that's good enough to make the playoffs. We

788
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 1: all know that, but they're INNA. They should be in

789
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: it to win it. And sometimes we see teams a

790
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: year after year, Yeah they're in the postseason, but then

791
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: they lose and they fall short of a Super Bowl.

792
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 1: Is Ryan Tannehill a super Bowl caliber quarterback? If he

793
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: does not answer that this season, then I think you're

794
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 1: going to see some major changes of foot in Tennessee.

795
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: Thoughts on Doug Peterson coaching the Jags and they acquired

796
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 1: a lot of talent as well. Now this is an

797
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 1: unbiased football opinion because, as you mentioned, I do work

798
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,319
Speaker 1: for Ollili Wrestling, owned by the Khan family, and I'm

799
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: around Tommy Khan quite a bit. So, you know, and

800
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:40,879
Speaker 1: we could talk to aw in a minute. We're coming

801
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,280
Speaker 1: back to Houston, but you know, so I'm just telling

802
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 1: you there's someone there who I think number one hit

803
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 1: it off with the quarterback. And I can tell you

804
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: Urban Meyer and Trevor Lawrence never on the same page.

805
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 1: I think Trevor tried to be understanding about some of

806
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 1: the quirks that urban Meyer had. But it was such

807
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,879
Speaker 1: a toxic environment and such a terrible hire maid by

808
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 1: the Khan family that they wash their hands of it.

809
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 1: And they have someone who's in who's a communicator. That's

810
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: one of Doug Peterson's strengths. He's a good human being

811
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:08,800
Speaker 1: as well. And you already you talk to people in

812
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 1: the Jags organization. They can just tell you one hundred

813
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 1: eighty degree difference, just the atmosphere of players wanting to

814
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: be their coaches wanting to be there. It's so different

815
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 1: than what it was. So I think there's that one

816
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: hundred fifty five million dollars and guaranteed contracts, not even

817
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 1: talking the overall value of what these contracts may end

818
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,280
Speaker 1: up being, but one hundred and fifty five million dollars

819
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 1: and guaranteed money to seven players in free agency by

820
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 1: the Khan family. That shows you a commitment to trying

821
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: to get this thing turned around. Quickly they realized, Trevor Lawrence,

822
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 1: the clock is ticking. Just like with any rookie quarterback.

823
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: You've got three years and then all of a sudden,

824
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 1: the agent comes to you. They want a contracts extension

825
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:46,839
Speaker 1: ala Kyler Murray and then your salary cap. You're having

826
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 1: to do a lot of gymnastics here, having to get

827
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 1: that quarterback in under a new contract that it may

828
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 1: make it cost prohibitive to do other things under the

829
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 1: salary cap. So in the case of the Jaguars, they

830
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:58,880
Speaker 1: realize the time is now. I think Tug Peterson the

831
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: right man for the job. And you know, the fact

832
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:03,280
Speaker 1: is too I think we can pencil in Aidan Hutchinson

833
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 1: pretty much for that number one overall pick. With the

834
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 1: decision of franchise tag Cam Robinson for another season. Hopefully

835
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: they can work out a long term deal with him,

836
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: they will be better. I love the hire, even though

837
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 1: a roller coaster of emotions by a lot of folks

838
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:18,919
Speaker 1: because of Trent Bockey's involvement as general manager, the fact

839
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 1: that the Jacks talked to some out of the box

840
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 1: type hires, you know, But at the end of the day,

841
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 1: I think they got the right man for the job

842
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 1: in Doug Peterson. Alex Barvez with us, all right, what

843
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 1: about all Elite Wrestling, So it's owned by the Khan family,

844
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: You're coming back to Houston. Tell us a little bit

845
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,839
Speaker 1: about May eighteenth back at the Fertida Center. We were

846
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 1: there in August and we had a very successful show,

847
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: draw more than five thousand people. Hopen we do at

848
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 1: least that and werethy. You know, maybe you could call

849
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:46,399
Speaker 1: us the Pepsi to Vince McMahon's Coca Colt. Okay, we're

850
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,840
Speaker 1: an alternative brand of wrestling. Really channels more of the

851
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 1: the WCWECW spirit of the nineteen nineties, and we saw

852
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: some of those wrestlers. Sting is still wrestling for us

853
00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: at the tender age of sixty three. So yeah, he's

854
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Speaker 1: a physical marvel. He's the Tom Brady of aw wrestling.

855
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Speaker 1: But already how I had a nice hockey reference there

856
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 1: as well, playing into his fifties. So I arros in Houston. Yeah,

857
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Speaker 1: I like it. I'll like you know your Houston sports history.

858
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Speaker 1: So Mark, I think that it's a It's a lot

859
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 1: of fun to go to a live show. There's really

860
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 1: as much as people watching. We draw more than a

861
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 1: million viewers a week on television just for our Dynamite

862
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 1: Show on TBS every Wednesday night at eight o'clock Eastern.

863
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Speaker 1: The show will be live at the Fartida Center on

864
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Speaker 1: May eighteenth, but just to experience a live show, or

865
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Speaker 1: if you're a parent and you take your kids to

866
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Speaker 1: a live show, don't never look at pro wrestling the

867
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Speaker 1: same way again, because there's so much energy, so much excitement.

868
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Speaker 1: I mean, listen, we know what pro wrestling is. It's

869
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Speaker 1: sports entertainment. To you borrow a phrase from how Vince McMahon,

870
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 1: you know, once put it, we get it. But they're

871
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 1: still incredible athleticism, you still get caught up in the storylines.

872
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 1: It's still it's you know, wrestling, is it fun? And

873
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:54,880
Speaker 1: I think we brought the fun back to pro wrestling,

874
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Speaker 1: all right, So so many intelligent people, I know, really

875
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Speaker 1: intelligent people love wrestling get insanely into it. John Pendergast,

876
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: who works on our flagship station, one of them. Why

877
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 1: is that? I think, Well, it's like a soap opera

878
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 1: for I would say soap opera for men, but then

879
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:13,920
Speaker 1: I would be showing our female audience short, so I

880
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:15,800
Speaker 1: don't want to do that. I just think it is

881
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: soap opera esk in a way. You get involved with

882
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 1: characters and storylines and you want to see the good

883
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 1: guys win and your favorites win, or you find some

884
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:25,319
Speaker 1: sort of amusement. I might just be a character. Maybe

885
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 1: it's someone you love to hate, like Maxwell Jacob Friedman

886
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,720
Speaker 1: and our company MJF. The most despised man in pro wrestling,

887
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 1: you know, and you want to boo him, you know,

888
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 1: you just you want to see him get his come

889
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:36,959
Speaker 1: upans and so that draws you in. P See, pro

890
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,360
Speaker 1: wrestling is whatever you want it to be. That's what

891
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 1: I find so fascinated about pro wrestling, all the different

892
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:44,320
Speaker 1: styles of pro wrestling. We're some Morguese board wrestling is

893
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: what we've been labeled because we have a bunch of

894
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 1: wrestling matches that take on different style. Not every match

895
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:50,760
Speaker 1: is going to look the same. Some may be more hardcore,

896
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:52,880
Speaker 1: so may be more technical, you know, some may be

897
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 1: more striking, you know, all sorts of things. So I

898
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: think there's that component to it. Wrestling appeals to different

899
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,400
Speaker 1: people in a lot of different ways, you know. And

900
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:02,359
Speaker 1: it's also something let's be honest here, It's like if

901
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:04,879
Speaker 1: you open that can of spaghettios after a bad day

902
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 1: of work, you're like, okay, you go back to your childhood, right,

903
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 1: and then those spaghettios taken me back. Maybe they don't

904
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: taste as good as they once did. The sauce is

905
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:13,880
Speaker 1: a little sweet, the pasta isn't all that great. But

906
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: the point is that, you know, you remember, and we're

907
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 1: in a stalgier generation. A lot of us and so

908
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 1: many people grew up watching wrestling when they were kids.

909
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:25,280
Speaker 1: In a way, we tap into that that same spirit,

910
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 1: and we also involved some of the same people who

911
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: were who were in pro wrestling that at that time.

912
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:31,960
Speaker 1: But also we're taking it evolving and we have a

913
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 1: nice young talent roster and it grows by the day,

914
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 1: it seems, and it's just been incredible. You know, it's

915
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Speaker 1: the most successful startup pro wrestling company in the history

916
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:42,919
Speaker 1: of the industry. Elite Wrestling coming back to for Tita

917
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Speaker 1: Center May eighteen to hope y' all can join us.

918
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Speaker 1: All right, we'll look forward to that and look forward

919
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Speaker 1: to hearing you on Serious XM. Thanks a lot, Alex,

920
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 1: thank you, Mark, appreciate it. There he is Alex Marvez,

921
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Speaker 1: sirius XM, NFL Radio at all. Elite Wrestling coming to Houston,

922
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Speaker 1: as he said, and here at the NFL Annual Meeting.

923
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Speaker 1: Things are wrapping up, like I said, and man, the

924
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:03,840
Speaker 1: league it is in such great shape. You know, a

925
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 1: huge reason why the NFL is so competitive is because

926
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Speaker 1: a long time ago, the Mara family and Pete Roselle,

927
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 1: they agreed that the New York teams, and this is

928
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 1: what really matters in sports, The New York teams are

929
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Speaker 1: willing to share the money. The major market teams New York, Chicago, LA,

930
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: especially New York in LA, they're willing to share the

931
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Speaker 1: TV money with the rest of the league. You don't

932
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:30,360
Speaker 1: have a baseball or basketball situation here. Seventy two percent

933
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: of the league revenue is divided among the thirty two teams.

934
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,959
Speaker 1: That gives you some competitive balance, and with the salary cap,

935
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 1: everybody's sort of in the same boat, not completely, but

936
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Speaker 1: mostly in the same boat. Second place American Professional Sports

937
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 1: League divides up fifty percent of the total revenue. So

938
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 1: you see the difference right there, and it's reflected in

939
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: on field play. If the Marats had not agreed to

940
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:56,279
Speaker 1: do that, and they wanted to keep their New York

941
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 1: TV money, then you would never have a Green Bay

942
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:02,359
Speaker 1: Packers or a small market team being as competitive as

943
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 1: they are. It's just one of those basics that applies

944
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:06,359
Speaker 1: to the NFL, and I bring it up every once

945
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 1: in a while just to point out how the league

946
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,879
Speaker 1: does what it does. They're coming off the best postseason,

947
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 1: most entertaining, perhaps in the history of the NFL. I

948
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: don't think there's any question about that, but it's very

949
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 1: often a subjective thing. Look, if your team didn't win

950
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, and I know the Texans obviously didn't,

951
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 1: maybe it's not as entertaining as say being a Rams

952
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:28,320
Speaker 1: fan or a Bengals fan getting back there for the

953
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: first time in a long time. Whatever, But objectively, this

954
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 1: was the greatest postseason ever in National Football League history.

955
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Speaker 1: All right, that's gonna do it for our NFL Annual

956
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:39,919
Speaker 1: Meeting shows. We do have other interviews for you coming

957
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Speaker 1: up later this week, including but not limited to Cal McNair,

958
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 1: and we'll talk more about what happened here. We'll talk

959
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 1: more about the draft because that's coming up fast and

960
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 1: furious cannot wait for the NFL Draft, which is four

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Speaker 1: weeks from Thursday. Let's get it on, all right, Johnny's

962
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Speaker 1: got the show tomorrow, but I'm gonna be on it,

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Speaker 1: you know I will, and we look forward to talking

964
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Speaker 1: with you. Then, thank you everyone for tuning in, Have

965
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Speaker 1: a great day and go Texans,