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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, and we welcome you to the program that

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Speaker 1: plugs you into NRG Stadium, where the rodeo is still cooking,

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Speaker 1: by the way, for a few more days. George Straight

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. Huh, I might have to check that out.

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Speaker 1: Mark Vandermer with you tonight, joined by, among others, Bradley

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Speaker 1: Roby and John Harris. They're going one on one Drew

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Speaker 1: Jordy's gonna be along Andre Ware in just a few moments.

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Speaker 1: And also Stanford head coach David Shaw. What is he

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Speaker 1: doing well? We have some comments from him as we

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Speaker 1: did a special feature on Justin Reid, so you want

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Speaker 1: to hear what he has to say about Justin Reid

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Speaker 1: and the other Stanford nights on the Houston Texans roster

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Speaker 1: that's coming up a bit later. I want to begin

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Speaker 1: with this because it's free agency time and many people

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Speaker 1: pretty much the number one freak out in free agency season,

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Speaker 1: isn't it. It's never, oh, I'm freaking out because you

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Speaker 1: didn't sign a certain player. And I'm not saying it

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Speaker 1: always works out where if you don't sign a guy,

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Speaker 1: it's all gonna play out in your favor. And we've

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Speaker 1: all seen here that often when you get the big

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Speaker 1: sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. But let's go here,

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Speaker 1: and it's hard to evaluate offensive linemen. For me, I've

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Speaker 1: watched a ton of football. I've called every snap at

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Speaker 1: the history of this franchise. I've called national championships in

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Speaker 1: college football. It is hard for me, So I would

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Speaker 1: imagine it's hard for you to evaluate offensive lineman. You're

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Speaker 1: you this Trent Brown, who everyone feels like, Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: I can't believe we missed out on Trent Brown. All right,

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Speaker 1: let me tell you about Trent Brown, who I think

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Speaker 1: is a good player. There's no question about that. And

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Speaker 1: it's a free market, and I never begrudge anybody for

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Speaker 1: getting the money on the market. That's the American way,

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Speaker 1: it's capitalism. Brown is the highest paid offensive lineman in

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Speaker 1: the history of professional football. Let that sink in for

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Speaker 1: a moment, ladies and gentlemen. So Bill O'Brien and Brian

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Speaker 1: we gonna name and make Trent Brown the highest paid

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Speaker 1: And I don't know how to evaluate him. Let me

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Speaker 1: just go down this road. I don't We played for

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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl champion, so good for him. But let's

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Speaker 1: look at this Pro Football Focus. You all love this website.

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Speaker 1: I think it's part of things. It's a tool. It

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Speaker 1: helps you sort of gauge things a little bit. But

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Speaker 1: him as above average, not even good. He doesn't even

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Speaker 1: get their good rating. They call him above average, So

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Speaker 1: an above average guy. And this is all the teams seen.

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Speaker 1: This becomes the highest paid player at his position in

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Speaker 1: he's also rated as above average. Who's good according to

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Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus. Well, David Baktiari is good. Well, he's

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Speaker 1: actually one of the best offensive linemen in the league today.

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Speaker 1: He might be the best tackle in the league. They

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Speaker 1: rate him as good. Trent Williams rated as good Washington Redskins.

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Speaker 1: It's very Dwayne Brown. I know you're thinking of that. Well,

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Speaker 1: we know Dwayne. Dwayne's rated as good according to Pro

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Speaker 1: Football Focus. They rate things pretty tough, don't they. And

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Speaker 1: I know that Julio Davenport struggled at times last year

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Speaker 1: Salam and it was not smooth sailing. In fact, a

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Speaker 1: that Dwayne was a shaky first round pick. After that

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Speaker 1: process here, Boy, did I just do Sam Hanky thing?

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Speaker 1: Trust the process here and see how it goes. Not

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Speaker 1: with him for seventeen years for this franchise. Oh my goodness, Dre,

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Speaker 1: how's it going. How are you doing? I'm good man.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of been a whirlwind watching all this free

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Speaker 1: going from team to team. It's almost like they've got

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of it is just market driven

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Speaker 1: what's going on? Because you know you're guaranteed is you

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Speaker 1: know you've got a like Odell Beckham Juniord just got

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Speaker 1: I want to start with some teams that aren't in Houston,

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Speaker 1: and let's start right there. You mentioned OBJ going to Cleveland.

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Speaker 1: Nick Chubb provides more than enough in terms of a

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Speaker 1: What about Antonio Brown going to the Raider and how

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Speaker 1: but it seemed to be now that the price of

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Speaker 1: And I almost feel like Buffalo had to have offered

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Speaker 1: I think it's it's an upgrade certainly over having lost

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Speaker 1: I think when you when you lose Kareem to Denver

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Speaker 1: give you obviously a playmaker on the back end. He's

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Speaker 1: and Brian Body. Calhoun and Calhound can play special teams

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Speaker 1: for a lot of bodies. Not to use Brian Body

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Speaker 1: But that I thought that was a good signing on

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Speaker 1: that's gonna bode well for them all right now, offensive line,

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Speaker 1: we're talking about the Raiders. They get Trent Brown, it's

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Speaker 1: for huge money. Do you think that Nate Soldier lack

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Speaker 1: free agent left tackle. How do you think that might

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Speaker 1: have played out? Yeah, it could have u But you know,

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Speaker 1: certain systems fit certain guys. So you know, it's a

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Speaker 1: totally different offensive system for Nate Soldier than it was

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Speaker 1: productions has gone down from the player, But that shouldn't

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Speaker 1: Andre nick Foles in Jacksonville, Blake Bortles gift to let go.

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Speaker 1: So what do you think? Yeah, it's scary, because you know,

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Speaker 1: all they needed was a guy that could manage the game.

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Speaker 1: And that's the one thing you love about him, as

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Speaker 1: he pours himself into things and gives it everything he's got.

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Speaker 1: Shaw is really happy to see Justin Reid and other

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Speaker 1: Stanford Nfler's back on campus this offseason and many off seasons.

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Speaker 1: First of all, I take so much pride in playing

432
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Speaker 1: a part of these guys stories as they come through

433
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Speaker 1: Stanford and move on, whether it's in the NFL or

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Speaker 1: the places. So we all watch a lot of pride

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Speaker 1: all of our NFL guys. And Justin was great this

436
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Speaker 1: year down in Houston and made so many plays and

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Speaker 1: you just see that passion and energy and fire and

438
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Speaker 1: competitive juice in every single game. And have him come

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Speaker 1: back really shows all of us and for all the

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Speaker 1: guys that do come back, which we have a lot

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Speaker 1: of guys coming back taking classes that recruited the right

442
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Speaker 1: guys that they want to be great in football, and

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Speaker 1: they want to be great in school, and they want

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Speaker 1: to be great beyond and because that's what this place

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Speaker 1: is about. This place is about achievement, and you don't

446
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Speaker 1: have to choose football over schools. One of the biggest

447
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Speaker 1: misnomers some people don't understand is you can excel in

448
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Speaker 1: football and excel in school if that's just who you are.

449
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Speaker 1: And that's why the way Justin is he wants to

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Speaker 1: be great in everything he does. Now here's Stanford Head

451
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Speaker 1: coach David Shaw on Reid's future in the NFL, lots

452
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Speaker 1: of potential there, he says, there's not much he can't

453
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Speaker 1: do from his position. He can cover, he can blitz,

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Speaker 1: He's a great tackler. He's going to continue to emerge

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Speaker 1: as a leader. That's just who he is. I anticipated

456
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Speaker 1: him being one of those Pro Bowl guys, a multi

457
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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl guy and loving every minute of it because

458
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Speaker 1: he's one of those guys that every single day you

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Speaker 1: get the same guy. You get passion, you get energy,

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Speaker 1: you get fire. He wants to do everything right. He

461
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Speaker 1: wants to know what to do. He's gonna bug the

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Speaker 1: coaches constantly because he knows he can do more. Hey

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Speaker 1: let me cover that guy. Hey, let me go do this,

464
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,119
Speaker 1: Hey let me let me kick field goals. You know,

465
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Speaker 1: that's just the way that he is. But that energy

466
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Speaker 1: is positive energy that are the guy's feed off of

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Speaker 1: Of course, Jeffin Reid is not the only Stafford Cardinal

468
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Speaker 1: player on the Houston Texans. You have Brennan Scarlett, who

469
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Speaker 1: transferred him from Cal. I mean, that's like the McCoy's

470
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Speaker 1: joining the Hatfields, right, and Johnson Balamossi, who came over

471
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Speaker 1: from the Patriots in the offseason, and Peter Calumby, who

472
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Speaker 1: was drafted by the Houston Texans. They all made contributions.

473
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Speaker 1: Last reason, here's sew On watching his Stanford NFL players

474
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:06,160
Speaker 1: my Sunday evenings once I get through our game, etc.

475
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Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of time to watch the

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Speaker 1: NFL games during the day. I record some of them

477
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Speaker 1: and sometimes I get on NFL dot Com and I'll

478
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Speaker 1: just go through. You know, I have one of those

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Speaker 1: NFL passes, so I can go through games and watch

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Speaker 1: guys play and watch Brennan Scarlett cover kick or cause

481
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Speaker 1: a fumble like he did last year, pick up a fumble,

482
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Speaker 1: watching Johs about a mostly cover kicks with Peter Columby.

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Speaker 1: So I do that kind of throughout our guys. We

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Speaker 1: got over thirty guys in the NFL, So sometimes by

485
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Speaker 1: Sunday evening see it a little bit long, But like

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Speaker 1: I said, I take a lot of pride in knowing

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Speaker 1: that we provide an environment for these guys to find

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Speaker 1: out what they're passionate about, earn the ability to play

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Speaker 1: on Sundays and go out and make place. Well. I

490
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Speaker 1: think we all agree there's something about that school and

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Speaker 1: I hate to remind everybody that Andrew Luck went there,

492
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Speaker 1: but I saw some of the advanced footage of what

493
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Speaker 1: Tyler Sutarth in our video department is working on. And

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Speaker 1: you see this mural at Stanford with a budge of

495
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Speaker 1: the former Cardinal players and in their current NFL uniforms,

496
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Speaker 1: and Luck is there along with Reid, which is great.

497
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Speaker 1: But Luck is there, and you're just thinking, oh my gosh,

498
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Speaker 1: the enemy, the villain, the nemesis. All right, let's talk

499
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Speaker 1: about free agency once more with Drew Doherty up next.

500
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Speaker 1: What does he think of what's been happening so far

501
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Speaker 1: with your Houston Texans, some of the signings that have

502
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Speaker 1: taken place, some of the possibilities down the road, the

503
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Speaker 1: upcoming draft, which is not that far away really. I

504
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Speaker 1: mean we're inside a month and a half from the draft,

505
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Speaker 1: which is going to be huge for this team, huge

506
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Speaker 1: for all teams every year. I mean, that's what it's

507
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Speaker 1: all about, building your team through the draft. I know

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Speaker 1: I can hear it right now. You're saying that just

509
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Speaker 1: because free agent. No, I'm saying that because it's the truth,

510
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Speaker 1: and you know it. All right, let's talk to Drew

511
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Speaker 1: next on Texans radio. The weekend is here and you

512
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Speaker 1: are with us. That. I always appreciate that you listened

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Speaker 1: Detections All Access every night on Sports Radio six ten

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Speaker 1: every weeknight and wherever you can online because it's on

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Speaker 1: the Texans. By the way, if you don't have the app,

516
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Speaker 1: download the app. It's got everything on there. Diehard Texans

517
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 1: fans know this already. You scroll the app, you get

518
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Speaker 1: all the videos, you stay in touch with the team.

519
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 1: You feel like you're connected all year long. We try

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00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 1: to give it a game day feel. We try to

521
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 1: give this show sometimes a game day feel. We do

522
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:20,639
Speaker 1: because we know it's all about you hearing about your

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Speaker 1: favorite football team, even when you don't like some of

524
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 1: the things going on, like a loss. Right, I still

525
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:31,480
Speaker 1: equate the free agency stuff to trailing at halftime in

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Speaker 1: a game. It's just very hard to quantify this though,

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Speaker 1: that you can quantify. Oh my gosh, you're down fourteen points.

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Speaker 1: You don't know you're down in free agency. You don't

529
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Speaker 1: know until you see how the guys play out with

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Speaker 1: the other teams. Maybe you had no shot at them

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Speaker 1: in the first place. Maybe it did did want to

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Speaker 1: pay that much money. It's just like the draft. You

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Speaker 1: know it takes a year two three to evaluate a draft.

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Speaker 1: I can evaluate this though. Drew Doherty on Texans three

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Speaker 1: sixties Saturday nights at eleven o'clock is superb on Dear Drew,

536
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Speaker 1: on everything he does, and he joins us now here

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Speaker 1: in the hun Day Texans Radio studio. So, Drew, I

538
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Speaker 1: know you had a chance to go one on one

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Speaker 1: with Deshaun Gibson and he's a super interesting guy. So

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Speaker 1: tell me how that went. Well. We bonded over Dallas

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Speaker 1: and not that I'm from there anything, but I lived there,

542
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Speaker 1: I worked there, went school there. And you know, he

543
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:17,879
Speaker 1: went to the same high school as Stevie ray Vaughan

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Speaker 1: and Stephen Tablowski from Groundhog Day, the ned Ryerson being

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Speaker 1: that guy. He's in a lot of movies that a

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Speaker 1: lot of guys. Yeah, and then the lady who created

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Speaker 1: Barney anyways, the lady who created Barney with the same

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Speaker 1: high school as Tshaun Gibson. Listen, folks, you cannot get

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Speaker 1: this information anywhere else but here, this kind of valuable

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Speaker 1: football information. Where would we be without Barney? I like

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Speaker 1: his journey though, this guy, Let's think about it. So

552
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Speaker 1: you go to school in Dallas and you're pretty good,

553
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Speaker 1: but you wind up going to college in Wyoming and

554
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Speaker 1: playing for the University of Wyoming. I played started three

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Speaker 1: whole years with his brother, every single game, and then

556
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Speaker 1: once his brother left, he started that final year, started

557
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Speaker 1: every game of his college crew. But he had to

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Speaker 1: go to Wyoming to do that. Wyoming is an outpost.

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Speaker 1: No offense to Wyoming. It's beautiful. I've been there. I

560
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Speaker 1: love it. But to go from Dallas to Wyoming not

561
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Speaker 1: a typical journey culture major culture shock. Then from there

562
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Speaker 1: plays pretty well and he's productive in a different conference,

563
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Speaker 1: and he's not drafted. So Signs is an undrafted free agent.

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00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,719
Speaker 1: He gets time as a rookie in Cleveland next year,

565
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 1: picks off five passes. Two years later, picks off six

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Speaker 1: passes in eleven games and goes to the Pro Bowl.

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Speaker 1: So this guy, he's got a hunger there, he's got

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Speaker 1: a mental fortitude. And then he goes to Jacksonville and

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Speaker 1: he's kind of pushed down the depth chart a little bit,

570
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Speaker 1: or not the depth chart, but the star chart because

571
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Speaker 1: he starts all three games there. But you got guys

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Speaker 1: like Jalen Ramsey at corner, and you got guys like

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Speaker 1: Klai's Campbell up front, Mollie, all those guys, and he's

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Speaker 1: more of a not a role player, but not one

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Speaker 1: of the stars on that defense. But he's very, very important.

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Speaker 1: And two years ago when they're really really good, picks

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Speaker 1: off four passes, helps take him to the AFC title game.

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00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 1: And he's very good against tight ends. And one last thing,

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Speaker 1: he's got twenty career interceptions since twenty twelve. The guy

580
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 1: that late leads his franchise and interceptions just left the building.

581
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 1: He's going to Denver and Kareem Jackson he's got sixteen.

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Speaker 1: So the guy has to Sean Gibson has picked off passes.

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Speaker 1: Can you keep doing that? We'll see. But he had

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Speaker 1: his hands on a few last year, had one pulled

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Speaker 1: back because of a penalty away from the play by

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Speaker 1: a joy A j boy wound up giving him a

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Speaker 1: pair of Air Jordan's because he nullified a Seaun Gibson

588
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Speaker 1: penalty interception on a hold. And so I think this

589
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Speaker 1: guy is gonna be good the tight end aspect alone.

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Speaker 1: How he can kind of make things a little tougher

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Speaker 1: on tight ends and what we've seen around here at

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Speaker 1: the safety spot, it's very very attractive for this defense. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I think about covering tight ends. I mean we

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Speaker 1: saw a j Boyer when he was here as a corner. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And you need something who can do a good job

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Speaker 1: on these guys, because you're gonna see Kelsey, You're gonna

597
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: see Rob run Kelsi, You're gonna see Ebron at least twice.

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Speaker 1: It's four guys, right, A quarter of your season next

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Speaker 1: year is going to be spent against great tight ends.

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Speaker 1: About I'm leaving people out, I wandering people out? What

601
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 1: about the Titans building a ten the Monday night game?

602
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 1: And you overcame it big time obviously, but big past

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Speaker 1: to the tight end. He took it down the middle.

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Speaker 1: So I like this aspect of his game. And talk

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Speaker 1: to me about culture too, because the honey Badger Tyron

606
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Speaker 1: Matthew goes to Kansas City, good culture guy. Clearly, it

607
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 1: would have been nice to have him back. But it's

608
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Speaker 1: a business and the highest bidder wins very often. But

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Speaker 1: I don't think Gibson's any kind of drop off here.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I think it's just fine, thank you in

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Speaker 1: the locker room, at least the projections that way. Sure,

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Speaker 1: there's there's trade off sir, you know, I think he

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Speaker 1: I think Gibson's probably a little bit better covering tight

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Speaker 1: ends than Tyron Matthew. Now, Tyron Matthews probably better in

615
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Speaker 1: some areas as well as you know, coming up against

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Speaker 1: the run and disguising things. But I think it's like

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Speaker 1: you're saying you're gonna be just fine with Deshaun Gibson

618
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Speaker 1: there at safety because you gotta remember who you're pairing

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Speaker 1: him up with back there, right justin Reid. That guy's

620
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Speaker 1: a player and he's only going to get better, I think.

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Speaker 1: And I'm really really excited about the few and Andre

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Speaker 1: How still around. Absolutely, Yeah, we haven't talked anything about

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Speaker 1: Andrea How. He's got a full off season of health

624
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Speaker 1: behind him. He's not going through cancer treatment. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's can you like, just it's mind boggling to even

626
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Speaker 1: say that he's not going through cancer treatment after a

627
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Speaker 1: season in which he still played half the year. I

628
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Speaker 1: think it's phenomenal what he was able to do just

629
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Speaker 1: making it back onto the football field. And I know

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Speaker 1: that he didn't take the physical beating that he could

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Speaker 1: have with cancer, But what kind of sentences that that

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Speaker 1: I just said, And he made sure of that because

633
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Speaker 1: he took unconventional treatment and it all worked out for him.

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Speaker 1: I think you're right. With a full season of health

635
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Speaker 1: for Andre Howe, it's only going to get better. This

636
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Speaker 1: is a player you give a second contract or you

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Speaker 1: think highly of, so he'll be in the mix there

638
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Speaker 1: as well. And they continue to add at corner Bradley

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Speaker 1: Rode this week, Brian Body Calhoun and it is Body Calhoun.

640
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Speaker 1: I'll get into that a little bit more later. You know,

641
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 1: as a by play man, I have to pay attention

642
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 1: to these pronunciations big time. But I like what they're

643
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 1: doing here. They're getting bodies in the stable at cornerback. Yeah,

644
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: and they're getting guys that are that have been pretty

645
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 1: healthy too. They've got a history of health as far

646
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 1: as playing the bulk of or full season. So that's

647
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 1: something I mean, you knew you had to. I don't

648
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 1: think anyone's saying that they've put nineteen ninety three Dion

649
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: Sanders in a cornerback, but you're you're at it. It's

650
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: like you're saying you got to replace these numbers because

651
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 1: you're gonna do it in the draft as well. You're

652
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: going to draft a corner very very high. If not

653
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: the first round, one of those second round picks. I mean,

654
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be a corner in an offensive tackle,

655
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 1: very very very high in the draft, in no particular order.

656
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 1: What do you say to the fans who say you

657
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 1: haven't done enough on the offensive line? You understand, I

658
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: mean you understand that you you try to the reports

659
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: have been out there, You try to make the move

660
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 1: to get Roger staffled in here. You understand that that

661
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 1: fans are are anxious because you see these big names

662
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 1: come off the board. But you gotta remember, Okay, let's

663
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 1: think about take mini history lesson when of the Texans

664
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 1: made big splashes in free agency and you got eliminate

665
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 1: two thousand and eleven because that was a like two

666
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: day window before training get started. Because you did that

667
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 1: year you got John the Joseph Danielnny, one of you

668
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 1: made big splashes. Twenty sixteen. First day you signed Brock

669
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: Oswiler and we were all excited. We're very excited. But

670
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 1: I thought this was gonna be great. How did that

671
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 1: turn out? Yeah? Oh, I'll go back deeper with you

672
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 1: and Todd Wade, Warland Greenwood. Yeah, I'm on green in

673
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 1: between those guys, and Brockostler ed Reid twenty thirteen. Big

674
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 1: splash there. Now, what happened last year? Oh, well, you

675
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,480
Speaker 1: signed Honey Badger. You didn't sign Honey Badger until the

676
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 1: week after the start of free agency, and Honey Badger

677
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 1: worked out great. So I understand, I understand what you know.

678
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 1: The consternation is. I understand the frustration. But I'm gonna

679
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: go back to this man, and you and I have

680
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 1: talked about it multiple times with John Deep. We've seen

681
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 1: Brian Gaine in this building for the last five or

682
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,160
Speaker 1: six years, take out that one year the he was

683
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. We've been around him. We saw what he

684
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 1: did in the draft last year, we saw what he

685
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: did in free agency waiver wire. Some of the names

686
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: in season he's picked up, like DeAndre Carter, very very

687
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:12,399
Speaker 1: productive guy he picked up in season. I'm gonna defer

688
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 1: to him, and I think this guy has this franchise

689
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: on the right track. Yeah, I agree. When you look

690
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 1: at Brian Gaines track record, it's interesting to me, and

691
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's because of him, no, but it's

692
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:24,320
Speaker 1: interesting to me that he goes to Buffalo for that

693
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 1: one year and they make the playoffs. For the first

694
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: time and forever since Wade Phillips was there. And then

695
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 1: he leaves and they're back out of the playoffs, and

696
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 1: this team is back in the playoffs. And I'm not

697
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,719
Speaker 1: saying that there's a correlation there, but it is sort

698
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 1: of eye opening. It's one of those things that make

699
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: you say, so we'll see how he does there, all right,

700
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,320
Speaker 1: guys who have left the building, Just quick note on

701
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 1: Kareem Jackson here, because you've interviewed him many times. He

702
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:50,320
Speaker 1: meant a lot to this franchise and he meant a

703
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:52,560
Speaker 1: lot to us in our department as well doing kjack TV.

704
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: Look a great guy. I picked him up. He's the

705
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 1: first player that I you met at the airport the

706
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: morning after they drafted him. I got here right before

707
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 1: the two thousand and nine season started and then the

708
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,320
Speaker 1: Texans used their first round pick on Kareem Jackson and

709
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 1: ten so that was the first draft I covered with

710
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:12,759
Speaker 1: the Texans. And you know, he he had as bad

711
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 1: a rookie year, uh as it gets people have people

712
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 1: had worst rookie years, but people have not caught the

713
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 1: fire that he caught as a rookie. He was the

714
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,439
Speaker 1: magnet of the attention for a defense that was really

715
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 1: and not good at all that year, and it was

716
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 1: it was the worst past defense since the AFL NFL

717
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 1: merger at that point, I just bad. There might have

718
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: been worse since two ten, but at that point it

719
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 1: was the worst. And you got to give him credit.

720
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: He turned it around steadily, got better, wound up. You know,

721
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:45,360
Speaker 1: he's the franchise leader in interceptions and U he was

722
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:47,239
Speaker 1: he He was a fun guy to deal with. He

723
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,880
Speaker 1: was always even keel, always a good guy. He always

724
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: faced the music and talked to the press after some

725
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: pretty bad, bad performances and um, he got to be

726
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 1: become a good player. At the end, he's a cooking

727
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 1: gratulations to him. We're gonna miss him. So the under

728
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: the radar position group this offseason has sort of been

729
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 1: defensive line because there were some things to do there

730
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: and they've gotten a couple of them done. With the

731
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,840
Speaker 1: tenders to Brandon don and Joel Heath, Covington leaves Angela

732
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 1: Blackson too. They signed. They signed blacks in and that's

733
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 1: pretty good because he was a player who every time

734
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 1: he made a play, I'd say his name. I could

735
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: just feel people saying who. But he would make plays

736
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:25,919
Speaker 1: and there's a reason why they liked him. A former

737
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 1: fourth round draft choice of the Tennessee Titans, no doubt. Yeah,

738
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 1: Blacks and nice addition, solid influencer in the middle. Tough

739
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:35,319
Speaker 1: to see Covington go. He's another one of those those

740
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:37,800
Speaker 1: favorites to talk with. Has a cool story, going to

741
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 1: go to Rice, coming from Canada Hall of Fame. I'll

742
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 1: miss this. I know we'll miss him. We'll definitely see

743
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 1: him in August when the Texans will most likely play

744
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. And again that that's pretty much a given.

745
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 1: We always play them, so it's not hasn't been released

746
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: officially or unofficially for that matter, but we always wind

747
00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 1: up playing the Cowboys in the preseason. How about it

748
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 1: a month the schedule comes out. I can't wait. And

749
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: we were talking about Gibson, his ability to cover tight ends.

750
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: You're gonna see ebron twice with the Colts, maybe three

751
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 1: times because of what happened last year. I saw him

752
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 1: three times. You're also gonna see Travis Kelcey up there

753
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 1: in Kansas City, and you're also going to see Gronkowski,

754
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 1: assuming he plays for the Patriots. Do you think he

755
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,760
Speaker 1: plays for the Patriots. Oh, I think so. Yeah. If

756
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 1: I think if Brady's back, he's back. Yeah, I kind

757
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:26,799
Speaker 1: of think whenever I think they're both gonna be gone

758
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: at the same time. So it's funny because a lot

759
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: of people think Brady and Belichick go out at the

760
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 1: same time, which yeah, yeah, Then all of a sudden,

761
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 1: Cronks says, I'm here to crash the retirement party. Does

762
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 1: he want to be at the same press conference as

763
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 1: Brady and Belichick? Boy, I just want to see this

764
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 1: all happen. I want to see Gronk up there with Yeah,

765
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 1: I guess he is. Yess he is. I think he's

766
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:53,360
Speaker 1: the greatest tight end never. You know, it's funny because

767
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 1: to me, he gets hurt a lot. I don't care.

768
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 1: But when he plays, he's amazing, phenomenal. All he does

769
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 1: a score, Yeah, he's ridiculously difficult. And you know last

770
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 1: year he made a lot of plays and you know

771
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:07,239
Speaker 1: he wasn't feeling that well, you know, he wasn't feeling one.

772
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:10,760
Speaker 1: Talk to me about this for a moment, Jordan Thomas,

773
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 1: you're at the rodeo with him. Yeah, this is a

774
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 1: big tight end. Sometimes as played by play announcer as

775
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:18,279
Speaker 1: I say, or we're guilty of saying the big tight

776
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 1: end with him. You're absolutely right. He's a big tight end.

777
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 1: I've said it so many times you're probably sick of it.

778
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: But I can't forget sitting up on that top row

779
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 1: at the Greenbrier and the bleachers and the end zone

780
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 1: and looking down when they were doing these end zone

781
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: one on one drills and he ate these defensive backs alive,

782
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:40,799
Speaker 1: and he looked like an aircraft carrier getting guarded by

783
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 1: a mosquito. I mean, he's just enormous. But everything about

784
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,400
Speaker 1: the guy's big. He plays big, his body's big, big personality.

785
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 1: We were out at the rodeo with him. At the carnival,

786
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 1: he was riding a horse. He made the horse look

787
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: small and he had his hand on his head. I

788
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:57,400
Speaker 1: was I was really feeling badly for the horse. Horston

789
00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:00,319
Speaker 1: Worston reacts kind of rode It's like somebody else horse

790
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 1: experts know that it's okay to put Jordan Thomas on

791
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 1: a horse. Oh yeah, yeah, this was all organized by

792
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 1: the rodeo. We didn't like sneak in or do anything.

793
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:10,320
Speaker 1: This is all above board. Yeah, he took care, but

794
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,240
Speaker 1: he was It was fun being around him. He's excited

795
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:15,399
Speaker 1: about next year and excited about the prospects of what's

796
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 1: to come. And I think he's going to be a

797
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 1: big part and Jordan Nakins and Griffin big part of

798
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:21,959
Speaker 1: this offense. It kind of irritates me how the national media,

799
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 1: many members of the national media say the Texans are

800
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:26,319
Speaker 1: gonna be looking at tight end very early in the draft,

801
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,399
Speaker 1: which you know, I understand why they're saying it because

802
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 1: he didn't see the numbers production. You know, they look, well,

803
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 1: where do they get their production? Oh? DeAndre Hopkins, Oh,

804
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 1: they need a tight end. So that's I think they're

805
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: their line of thinking. But they're just looking at numbers, right,

806
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 1: that's my guess. Yeah, because I think with Aikens and Thomas,

807
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:44,440
Speaker 1: give me another year there, and I know Griffin's solid

808
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 1: at the very least, So let's go. Let's see what

809
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 1: these guys can do this group in year two. I

810
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: know in twenty sixteen they had the best tight end

811
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:53,760
Speaker 1: season as a position group with the history of the franchise,

812
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:56,120
Speaker 1: But a lot of other factors went into that, most

813
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:59,840
Speaker 1: notably the quarterback electing to find them early in a

814
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 1: instead of wide receivers. Yeah, it was pretty ugly that

815
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 1: year because I mean that's that's the only year DeAndre

816
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 1: Hopkins has kind of been checked. I mean, he came

817
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:11,839
Speaker 1: off a Pro Bowl year the year before his first

818
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:14,320
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl year, and then he gets dips under a

819
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 1: thousand and then since then, Yeah, it's been amazing. And

820
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 1: he wasn't checked. He was self checked by the offer.

821
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:22,279
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It

822
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: really wasn't totally. It's funny with receivers sometimes we say, well,

823
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: they have to be more productive, Well, somebody has to

824
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: throw them the football. Yeah, so they get an opportunity.

825
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:30,960
Speaker 1: It was DeAndre Hopkins is fun I'm not saying that

826
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,320
Speaker 1: absolutely not. All right, thank you, Drew, you got it.

827
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Speaker 1: Drew Doherty ABC thirteen Saturday Nights eleven o'clock, Texans three

828
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:40,439
Speaker 1: sixty and all the other stuff online with dear Drew

829
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 1: and everything else he does for this organization. A couple

830
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 1: of things on the way out of here, AFC South

831
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 1: News with Ryan Tannehill going to the Tennessee Titans. This

832
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:51,359
Speaker 1: makes them stronger, I believe. I think he's a better

833
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:54,320
Speaker 1: backup than playing Gabbert. Blaying Gabert did beat the Texans,

834
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:56,400
Speaker 1: although you can't say he did it. They had a

835
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 1: good game plan that day and the Texans were not

836
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 1: on their game in the week two lost. But the

837
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: point is Tannehill taking the pay cut going to Tennessee

838
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 1: probably a good deal for him, knowing that he has

839
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:12,800
Speaker 1: a chance to start. Mariota's injury concerns, Mariota's on field

840
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:14,760
Speaker 1: play now, you know the Titans are going to exhaust

841
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,879
Speaker 1: every possible thing they can out of Marcus Mariota before

842
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 1: they had to go to Ryan Tannehill. But maybe Tannehill

843
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 1: does really well in the offseason and opened some eyes

844
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 1: there in Nashville. I don't know how that's gonna work out,

845
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:28,880
Speaker 1: but I certainly think it's notable news. Considering the division,

846
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,840
Speaker 1: and we talked about it a bit last night. This

847
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,880
Speaker 1: is the strongest division in football top to bottom. It

848
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 1: was the best division in football last year. Some of

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Speaker 1: you are rolling your eyes right now, don't. It's the

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Speaker 1: only division with three winning teams last year. Go check

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Speaker 1: the schedule. It was pretty tough for some of these teams,

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Speaker 1: and the Texans won it with an eleven and five record.

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Speaker 1: You had three winning teams, Like I said, and Jacksonville

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Speaker 1: last year was able to beat the New England Patriots.

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Speaker 1: You know, they had some decent wins in the limited

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Speaker 1: amount of wins that they had. And I think everybody agrees,

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Speaker 1: even though they've taken some losses this offseason. With Nick Foles,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be a tough team to beat. I still

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Speaker 1: think Tennessee might be in last, but that doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: that they are that bad. The Texans once upon a

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Speaker 1: time finished eight and eight and that was last in

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Speaker 1: the Division. Eight and eight and that was ten twelve

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Speaker 1: years ago. That was a year where you had Tennessee

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Speaker 1: still going to the playoffs. Well, that era of Tennessee

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Speaker 1: Titans football, you had Peyton Manning and the Colts, and

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Speaker 1: the Jags were doing pretty well with David Gerard at

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Speaker 1: the helm. Remember that year at oh seven they beat

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh in the regular season and in the postseason. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: let's wrap it up here with another plug for the

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Speaker 1: sport of flag football. The spring leagues are starting up.

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Speaker 1: You know, we support flag football all around the Greater

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Speaker 1: Houston area, mostly through the YMCA I coach in a

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Speaker 1: league in Fort Band County, Texan flag football dot Com.

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Speaker 1: They're starting up in a couple of weeks. So go

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Speaker 1: take a look at Texan Flag Football dot Com for

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Speaker 1: that Place sixty league where every team don't simulate an

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Speaker 1: NFL team. I was about to say simulate, but you

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Speaker 1: wear the uniforms of another NFL team, and there are

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Speaker 1: a lot of Texans out there. There are some gag

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Speaker 1: cowboys out there, but that's just the way it goes. Anyway.

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Speaker 1: Texan Flag Football dot Com for my buddy Mancastle's league

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Speaker 1: that I happen to be a part of. And vander

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Speaker 1: Kid too is going to participate this year. Pray for us.

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Speaker 1: He's six years old. All right, that's it for the

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Speaker 1: show tonight. Check out three sixty Saturday night, eleven o'clock

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Speaker 1: ABC thirteen. Go to Houston Texans dot com for all

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Speaker 1: the videos, articles, everything to do with your Houston Texans.

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Speaker 1: Have a great night and go Texans.