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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 2: Such a pleasure to have you board tonight as we

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Speaker 2: get ever so closer to training camp. And I've said

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Speaker 2: that for weeks now, but it's really true now. I

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Speaker 2: mean when we are three and a half weeks away.

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Speaker 2: It was three and a half weeks away. That's one thing.

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Speaker 2: But it's Wednesday morning and we're all very excited about it.

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Speaker 2: Mark Vandermin and John Harris with you, and we're on

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Speaker 2: the hun Day Texans Radio studio where we camp out

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Speaker 2: talk Texans, get you ready for the twenty twenty six campaign,

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Speaker 2: and the General John McLain, the Hall of Famer joining

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Speaker 2: us as well.

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Speaker 1: In general.

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Speaker 2: Before we go anywhere, I want to say that your

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Speaker 2: piece on Missus McNair on Houston Texans dot com was awesome,

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Speaker 2: is awesome. People should go on read it. It's terrific.

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Speaker 2: I know the mcnairs love it. Tremendous job. General, Thank

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Speaker 2: you very much for doing that.

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you. When they asked me about being interested

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Speaker 3: in doing it, of course I said yes because I'm Luy,

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Speaker 3: Jens and Bob since go over thirty years when I

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Speaker 3: for the chronicle about how serious they were about getting

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Speaker 3: the franchise. I determined they were, and I was so

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Speaker 3: impressed right away, and as I got to know them

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Speaker 3: through the decades, I was even more impressed. I never

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Speaker 3: known someone like Janice who had no ego whatsoever. And

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Speaker 3: one of the things I learned I did not know

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Speaker 3: is what a great athlete she was. In high school

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Speaker 3: in Orangeburg, South Carolina, and I have a class had

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Speaker 3: with the prettiest in school. And then cal told me

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Speaker 3: I didn't know this, and she played plank football. I

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Speaker 3: and she wanted to be the quarterback, but they thought

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Speaker 3: she'd be a better middle linebacker and all of us

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Speaker 3: and I know that is hard to envision, and I

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Speaker 3: don't care how young Janis was thinking that Jana's McNair

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Speaker 3: in the Dick Bufest type role. It just doesn't It's

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Speaker 3: hard to envision. But she was something else. Gentle but boys,

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Speaker 3: she could be tough when she needed to be. I remember,

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Speaker 3: and I've never seen this anywhere, I've never written it,

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Speaker 3: her said it, but I'll say it now. One of

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Speaker 3: the first things that she told Bob was about the

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Speaker 3: cheerleaders that when they had formed the Houston Texas Cheerleaders,

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Speaker 3: she didn't want their outfits to be like some teams,

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Speaker 3: and she was adamant about that, and of course they've

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Speaker 3: fact that Flag Football, through her and now Hannah, is

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Speaker 3: so important to this organization. I understand why. I knew

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Speaker 3: any idea that that would have generated when jan is

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Speaker 3: going back when she was in South Carolina. So it's

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Speaker 3: a huge loss for the Jagsons. It's a huge loss

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Speaker 3: for Houston that they've given away about as much as

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Speaker 3: just lost a great lady. And you guys know all

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Speaker 3: those tributes that came in last last week. She would

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Speaker 3: And she was just so humble that way that she

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Speaker 4: It general she was I mean, she's all the things

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Speaker 4: know we all want to say going to the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 4: winning a super Bowl, But in your heart of hearts,

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Speaker 4: what would have made Janie proud of this in particular

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Speaker 4: you think would have made Janis very proud of what

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Speaker 3: Well, her personality in which she's like Bob. They were

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Speaker 3: Jamiico like everybody does. She was particularly close with Andre

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Speaker 3: course she would have loved the Super Bowl, and she'd

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Speaker 3: Dimiko will dedicate this season to her like they did

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Speaker 3: So we wanted to surprise her before game, and uh,

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Speaker 3: Janie always asking people how they were doing. One time

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Speaker 3: and she said, well, last time she asked me, I said, Jannis,

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Speaker 3: And I said, please do. But she was interested in

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Speaker 3: that's just one of the many great things about Janis McNair.

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Speaker 2: Well services for Missus McNair are tomorrow, and we can't

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Speaker 2: say enough about her what she's meant to this team.

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Speaker 2: And thanks so much for writing that story in Houston

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Speaker 2: Texans dot Com General and we love catching up with

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Speaker 1: I know you know the history of all of it.

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio six ten you've been I'm from the get

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Speaker 3: It's great. Number one still going to be on sixteen

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Speaker 4: Yes, definitely, And remember I tell you yesterday, Mark, one

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Speaker 3: And I still can't believe they're leaving Kansas City. But

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Speaker 4: General training camps coming up, and I know all of

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm not just gonna look at the weak parts

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Speaker 3: But David Montgomery's going to be the starter unless we

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Speaker 2: I agree with the general. I was going to say that, Johnny,

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Speaker 4: He definitely was general one of the teams of Texas

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Speaker 5: This softseason, they'll hold out signed his franchise tag and

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Speaker 2: Jong defense general Daniel Jones is good to go apparently

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Speaker 4: General, you had a little function you did at Texas

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Speaker 4: I still think that Richmond Webb could probably still play today.

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Speaker 3: coaches here from high school. I always loved being around

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Speaker 3: these guys, Chris Mansey, Dick Olin, Keith Kilgore, and then

437
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:45,199
Speaker 3: Wade Phillips and Wade having him around always makes it

438
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Speaker 3: more impressive. So I got to interview him for about

439
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Speaker 3: an hour in front of hundreds of coaches, and it's

440
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:51,359
Speaker 3: always an honor.

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Speaker 2: I was at that convention, Johnny because the volleyball coaches

442
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,720
Speaker 2: were there and I was doing a situation like a

443
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 2: kind of a dogged pony on love Volleyball Houston with

444
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,840
Speaker 2: Lisa Walker or CBO and I was blown away how

445
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 2: many coaches that were in the building at the GRB.

446
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,440
Speaker 2: It was wild how many people Taxans.

447
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:14,920
Speaker 3: Texans also sponsored flag football. So the Texans are heavily involved,

448
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,040
Speaker 3: and they have been. They were heavily involved. When is

449
00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:21,359
Speaker 3: when San Antonio and I like that they are sponsoring

450
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:25,680
Speaker 3: the hid Cowboys sponsoring the d isd on flag football,

451
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 3: which everybody, including the NFL, are hoping it gets to

452
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 3: be big. And one of the things that was brought

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Speaker 3: up by these coaches that I asked about it was, okay,

454
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Speaker 3: if you have it in high schools flag football, do

455
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Speaker 3: you have it during football season or do you have

456
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:48,960
Speaker 3: it in the spring when flag football might take away

457
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:53,159
Speaker 3: girls from other sports spring sports. So that's something they

458
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:55,920
Speaker 3: would have to figure out. And they're all worried about,

459
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:59,159
Speaker 3: you know, where where the money comes from, you know,

460
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:03,360
Speaker 3: into cowboy and the Texans eventually are not sponsoring them.

461
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,119
Speaker 3: Where does the money come from, who pays for all

462
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 3: the equipment? And when do they play? Because you know football,

463
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Speaker 3: I'm Gatinson. Football coaches in high school rule the roost,

464
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Speaker 3: and I don't know if they want flag football, but

465
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 3: it's here. I guess that's going to be here to

466
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,920
Speaker 3: stay is seven on seven. We had Dick Olan Nick

467
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 3: came bought seven on seven from Iowa down here coaching

468
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:32,399
Speaker 3: in Baytown. He talked about seven on seven and people

469
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:35,720
Speaker 3: are real fired up about flag football and the Texans

470
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Speaker 3: led by Hannah McNair at the front of the line.

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Speaker 2: Well, I can tell you this. One of the models

472
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Speaker 2: has the flag teams playing on the same fields as

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Speaker 2: the football teams. Maybe an hour and a half to

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Speaker 2: two hours prior to each football game, because you'll play

475
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Speaker 2: If Dulles plays High Tower, they'll play the flag football

476
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,720
Speaker 2: teams ninety to two hours before. That's one of the models.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if that happens, we'll see. You're right

478
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 2: about the spring. I mean, I coach Clements this past year,

479
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 2: co coached it, and there are a lot of challenges,

480
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 2: but it's going to happen at some point.

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Speaker 1: In general.

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Speaker 2: One more for you because you did the documentary the

483
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Speaker 2: PVIL Story. You've been at the forefront of a lot

484
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Speaker 2: of different Texas storytelling about high school football or maybe

485
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 2: football in the state of Texas in general, and you know,

486
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 2: worked with Dave Campbell and all of it. What is

487
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 2: the quintessential either documentary, movie, or book? Friday Night Lights.

488
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 2: It's one of the first books I read when I

489
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,200
Speaker 2: got this job here in two thousand and two. What

490
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,040
Speaker 2: do you point to somebody asks, Hey, I want to

491
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Speaker 2: sample Texas football.

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Speaker 1: However you want to define it.

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Speaker 2: What's one of the best ways, whether it be through movie, biopick, documentary,

494
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Speaker 2: even if it's a fictional pick, but documentary or book.

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Speaker 1: What do you got for me?

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Speaker 3: First? Of all, you have to talk about white and

497
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 3: black because they were divided for decades. So when I

498
00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:00,359
Speaker 3: think about white high school football, I think about Friday Lights,

499
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 3: Bud Messenger's great book about Odess. So let's talk so

500
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 3: much about high school football in Texas, Texas, and then

501
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Speaker 3: when you talk about black football. The preview enter Scholastical League,

502
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 3: which is what our documentary is at. It's Thursday Night

503
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Speaker 3: likes by Michael Hurt, who has a big part in

504
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 3: our documentary, and when we show it, Michael comes with us,

505
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,439
Speaker 3: signs copies of his books. And at the end of

506
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,120
Speaker 3: all our screenings, I do a Q and A where

507
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:32,639
Speaker 3: I interview people associated with the documentary those two and

508
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 3: people know more about the University Interscholastical League than they

509
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 3: do the PBIL, which was nineteen twenty to nineteen seventy.

510
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 3: And everywhere we go. We're headed to the Bush Library

511
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 3: and College station. Next month, We've got museums all over

512
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 3: the state asking us to come, high schools, churches, everybody

513
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 3: tells us that comes. Well, I didn't know that, and

514
00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 3: I especially like it when we see young kids, like

515
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 3: high school kids. We're going to TSU. Chris Dishman is

516
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 3: having has come to TSU. He's inviting all their athletes,

517
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 3: all their coaches, some professors to come see the PBIL story.

518
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 3: Separate but equal because they're learning a lot about it.

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00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 3: And I think Michael's book and our documentary tells a

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Speaker 3: part of Texas history that extends beyond high school football,

521
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Speaker 3: but that is the liveblood of sports in Texas.

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Speaker 2: Outstanding, General, thanks so much for the time as always

523
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 2: right question.

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Speaker 3: Yes, really much, Mark, I appreciate.

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Speaker 2: It all right, thank you, John, John McLean joining us

526
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 2: on Texans Radio and coming up. Paper graded too high?

527
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 2: Are too low for the following teams and our players.

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Speaker 2: It's next here on Texans Radio. Here we are on

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Speaker 2: the Honday Texans Radio studio. So great to have your

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Speaker 2: board here on the Thursday night program, Mark vandermir John

531
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Speaker 2: Harris with you, and training camp opens Wednesday morning. Will

532
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,719
Speaker 2: be out there live eight to ten am with Nick Cassario,

533
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 2: among other things happening that day. Players every day in

534
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 2: the loop will be out there after US, Sean and

535
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 2: Seth before us. And can't wait for all that to

536
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 2: get started. So Johnny, the off season it's dragging along here.

537
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 2: Please can we get to some football? But paper graded

538
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 2: too high or too low the consensus, media and fan

539
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 2: understanding of these entities. You tell me if the paper

540
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 2: is graded too high or too low. Andre Ware talks

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Speaker 2: about people's paper being graded too high or too low,

542
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 2: So I thought i'd okhurt it that way, okay, instead

543
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 2: of overrated under perfect?

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Speaker 1: Okay, gotcha?

545
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 2: Let me first go here the Texans paper graded too

546
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 2: high or too low?

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Speaker 1: What do you think? I think it's about right.

548
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 4: I actually don't think it's too higher too low, because

549
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 4: I can see situations where this team, like last year,

550
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 4: could get on a run, even if even in difficult

551
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 4: scheduled situations, I could see them getting on a run.

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Speaker 1: It's a very talented roster we all know.

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00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 4: Uh. I can't remember who I was listening to yesterday,

554
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 4: may have been sewn at SETH and they were talking

555
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 4: about seven NFL dot com riders, including our buddy Lanzerline,

556
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 4: who all picked the Texans over nine and a half,

557
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 4: and they had three people pick ten and seven. Lance

558
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 4: was one of two that picked eleven and six. Bucky Brooks,

559
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 4: sideline reporter for the Jaguars, picked twelve and five, and

560
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 4: then somebody had him at thirteen and four. So it's

561
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 4: kind of about where a lot of people have put it,

562
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Speaker 4: so I think they're probably about right. I've seen a

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00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 4: couple here there. Well, they're the seventeenth rated team, they're

564
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 4: the eighteenth rated power rankings, but most of the power

565
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 4: rankings having between you know, seven and twelve ish. That's

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Speaker 4: probably about right for right now. Until this team proves

567
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 4: it can run the ball. The offensive line has been

568
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Speaker 4: a true improvement, and CJ as well on his way

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Speaker 4: to making strides in twenty twenty six, then we could say, okay, yeah.

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Speaker 1: That's a top five team in the league.

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Speaker 2: I think that it's a good point you make, and

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Speaker 2: I'm going to add another entity.

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Speaker 1: CJ.

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Speaker 2: Stroud paper graded too high, too low coming into the season.

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Speaker 2: I think this is a pretty easy one because it's

576
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 2: easy to say it's too low. He's getting hammered on

577
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 2: on ESPN the other day they had quarterbacks under twenty

578
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 2: six or twenty six in under who could win the

579
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 2: Super Bowl? Is the green list? Mike Greenberg And there

580
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 2: were five of them and CJ wasn't one of them,

581
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Speaker 2: And I thought, are you guys crazy not to put

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Speaker 2: them on this list? They had Daniels and Trevor Lawrence,

583
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 2: and the usual suspects here, obviously Caleb Williams. But how

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Speaker 2: do you not have CJ on that list? He could now,

585
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 2: I know, we know what happened to the playoffs, but

586
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 2: they act like CJ completely flamed out and threw twenty

587
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 2: six interceptions last year. He did not. He had a

588
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 2: solid year. We won twelve games here in Houston. Why

589
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 2: is this a problem? Look, I know the postseason, but

590
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 2: they assume that's going to carry over into this regular season.

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Speaker 1: I don't think so.

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00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 2: When we get back to the postseason, we'll see what happened.

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Speaker 4: I mean, isn't that what happens? Hashtag sarcasm font isn't

594
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:02,479
Speaker 4: that what happens the last you saw of a player?

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Speaker 4: And I go back to this and look, it was

596
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 4: twenty some odd years ago, But go back and look

597
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Speaker 4: at the numbers of Peyton Manning the first time he

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00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 4: played in Foxboro in a playoff game. Go look at

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00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 4: his numbers, Go see what he did. And he struggled

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Speaker 4: in Foxborough for a few years before he got it right.

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00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 4: Before he got it right in the playoffs, he struggled

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Speaker 4: even in the game that they won the AFC Championship

603
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 4: in two thousand and six Peyton Manning struggled. Look, I've

604
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 4: said this a number of times as it bertains to

605
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Speaker 4: quarterbacks are on this league. I think the defenses in

606
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 4: this league have gotten so much better than what they

607
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 4: used to be eight to ten years ago. So much

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00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:43,480
Speaker 4: better you think about just go through the AFC. I

609
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 4: think the Patriots defense is solid, really solid, really good.

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00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 4: Not at Texas level, but really good. We saw the

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00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 4: playoff game. He got the Texans, you got the Broncos.

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00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 4: The Chargers defense is very sound, fundamentally, very very good.

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Speaker 1: That's just off.

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00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 2: Top of my head. When they get everybody healthy. Ravens, yeah, yeah, absolutely,

615
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 2: when the Ravens are fully healthy, the Steelers have got parts.

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Speaker 4: Look, i just think that that defenses now make things

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00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 4: so much more difficult on quarterbacks. And I'm not going

618
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 4: to sit here and tell you that, you know, a

619
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Speaker 4: quarterback throwing four interceptions in the first half.

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Speaker 1: Ah, nothing to see here.

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Speaker 4: Look, and i know people get all over CJ about

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Speaker 4: the Steelers game, and I'm like, yeah, there were a

623
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 4: couple of times he probably should have eaten it, But

624
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 4: I still think he played pretty well in that game

625
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 4: and making throws at times. But you know how it

626
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 4: is national people in particular. They saw that last performance,

627
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 4: they saw that performance against the Patriots, and they're like, so, yeah,

628
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 4: I think that people are done at you know what,

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Speaker 4: That's fine. CJ had proven people wrong throughout his whole

630
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Speaker 4: career and so now it's time to prove himself right.

631
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Speaker 4: And by doing that, this team goes too different levels.

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00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 4: So yeah, I think people are definitely would you say

633
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:00,799
Speaker 4: buying low? Yeah, buying low?

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00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:01,359
Speaker 1: All right?

635
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,759
Speaker 2: Buying low? Well, paper graded too high?

636
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly?

637
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 2: Okay, same question, paper graded too high or paper graded

638
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,759
Speaker 2: too low? Coming into the season, I'll go here the

639
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys. They're here week four, too high, too high,

640
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 2: called super Bowl contenders.

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00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: Yeah?

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00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 3: Is this?

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Speaker 4: That's why I asked the question of the general because

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Speaker 4: I just I see where they're going.

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00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: I mean, the pieces they added.

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00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 4: I think they did a nice job with the pieces

647
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 4: they added, bringing in Rashan Garry, good solid pass rush,

648
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 4: and I know he's not Michael Parsons, nobody is.

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00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: Uh. They brought in Obonia.

650
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:42,280
Speaker 4: Who is a solid player, but they lost to Diggi Zula.

651
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 4: That was a big one for them. I mean Kenny

652
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 4: Clark and credit Quentin Williams should be to the best.

653
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:50,439
Speaker 4: That should be the best interior duo in the league.

654
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,439
Speaker 4: I mean, that's gonna be a good one. The key

655
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 4: is Caleb Bownce coming in to help that secondary. That

656
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 4: secondary was just got awful last year. But I just

657
00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:00,839
Speaker 4: don't know that all of that is enough. I mean,

658
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 4: that's a lot of new starters, are relying on some

659
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:06,360
Speaker 4: rookies like the Malchi Lawrence picked go along with Caleb downs.

660
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:07,879
Speaker 1: But look, the offense is gonna be good.

661
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 4: We know that, But when it comes to nut cutting time,

662
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,760
Speaker 4: do we really know what that offense is gonna do?

663
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:16,399
Speaker 1: Are do we really know that they're gonna come through

664
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 1: in the clutch?

665
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 4: We put up a lot of points because they get

666
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 4: in shootouts with teams because the defense stung. I think

667
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 4: the defense will be better. I'm not sitting here thinking

668
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 4: that's a super Bowl caliber team.

669
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 2: Now and the division. Who knows, We'll get to the

670
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 2: Giants later. How about this paper graded too high or

671
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,799
Speaker 2: too low? The Cincinnati Bengals here, they come into the

672
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:40,280
Speaker 2: season being labeled as contenders by many. They've got Joe Burrow.

673
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 2: How many games did he play last year? Half the season?

674
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:43,879
Speaker 1: The season? I mean, that's it.

675
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we don't really have a half because it's

676
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 2: seventeen games. I think it was eight games that Burrow played.

677
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, so roughly that, Jeff, we assume fifteen healthy games

678
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:54,280
Speaker 4: out of Burrow?

679
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 2: Is that what we assume here? I'm not sure about that,

680
00:36:57,520 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 2: but anyway, go on, Bengals too high or too low?

681
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:04,839
Speaker 4: I think it's a tad too high. Okay, if Joe

682
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 4: Burrows healthy. Now, Joe Flacco I think could do some

683
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 4: things with this team, but Joe Burrow takes it to

684
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 4: a different level obviously, and they've made a significant investment

685
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 4: in the line of scrimmage, especially defensively, going out and

686
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 4: get Jonathan Allen and Boy and Mafey. Now a lot

687
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 4: of people are high and Boy and Mafay and I

688
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 4: wass too coming on of the draft. Very good athlete

689
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 4: turning himself into a really good pass rusher. I think

690
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 4: that's gonna definitely help him. I think Jonathan Allen's on

691
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 4: his last legs. I think that's why he was available

692
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 4: as a cap casually come out of Minnesota, and then

693
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 4: they signed Dexter Lawrence, and Dexter Lawrence can change everything. Yeah,

694
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 4: but if Mafey doesn't do anything really good off the edge.

695
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 4: Then you relyn on two Aggie's and cash is how

696
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 4: Rookie and Shamar Stewart a secondary guy to come in

697
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 4: and give them pass rush, and that's gonna be the

698
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 4: key They've got to produce pass rush. But I don't

699
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 4: trust the secondary at all. I don't trust the secondary

700
00:37:58,440 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 4: at all. I still think you're gonna be able to

701
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:02,399
Speaker 4: get the ball off and have success against them, which

702
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 4: puts Joe Burrow, if healthy, in a position to win

703
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 4: a bunch of shootouts.

704
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:06,240
Speaker 1: Again.

705
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 4: Defense will be better better, Dexha Lawrence will help make

706
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 4: it better.

707
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:14,319
Speaker 2: I still don't trust that secondary. Okay, let's go here.

708
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:18,359
Speaker 2: The Baltimore Ravens paper graded too high or too low?

709
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:18,919
Speaker 1: Too low?

710
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 2: I agree with this one.

711
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 1: Too low.

712
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 4: I For some reason, each year, I just feel like

713
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 4: the Ravens are that team that man. I know they

714
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:29,719
Speaker 4: they added Jesse Minter as head coach, but they also

715
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:31,360
Speaker 4: went out and got our buddy Anthony Weaver to be

716
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 4: defensive coordinator. And I think he's got pieces. This is

717
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 4: really the first year that we've had pieces, you know,

718
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 4: because he was here in twenty twenty. Is a defensive coordinator. Yeah, pieces,

719
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 4: No way in Miami. In Miami, you know, everybody get

720
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,359
Speaker 4: hurt all the time. Now he's got Roquan and look,

721
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 4: gro Kwan's up in years a little bit. But still

722
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 4: he's got ro qwand he's got Kyle Hamilton. They went

723
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 4: out and they got Trey Hendrickson. They've got some pieces

724
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 4: on that defense. I mean, Malchi Starks was good as

725
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 4: a rookie. W'll being better his second year. Marlon Humphrey

726
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 4: is back and he's a key as long as he's healthy.

727
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:03,399
Speaker 4: So I think that's I think it's too lo Now

728
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:06,360
Speaker 4: Lamar gonna be a new offense.

729
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 1: Things are gonna be new.

730
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 4: Sometimes Lamar is a little resistant to do things the

731
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:13,319
Speaker 4: way the coaches want him to do it, but he's

732
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:18,280
Speaker 4: Lamar and sometimes the off script, off balance sheet stuff

733
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 4: that he does is magical.

734
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 1: But this is now year what nine?

735
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 2: Mm hmm, it's year nine for Lamar.

736
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:27,399
Speaker 1: The music starts slowing down at some point.

737
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 2: Oh he's hungry, right, this is it?

738
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:29,359
Speaker 3: Right?

739
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,399
Speaker 2: You got to make your move. That's otherwise you start

740
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 2: becoming you know, John Elway trying to do it that

741
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 2: way and you need way too much help.

742
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:39,319
Speaker 4: Now that said, I believe in Lamar have been, have

743
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 4: been for a long time. I just think there are

744
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 4: very few players now that I still look at it

745
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 4: with this defense and go, God, dang it. They scare me,

746
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 4: even Josh Josh. Josh scares me because we know what

747
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:53,880
Speaker 4: he can be scary. He just hasn't done it against

748
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 4: the Texans in this building. Lamar has. Lamar's done it here, there,

749
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 4: everywhere against this team. So every time he's lined up

750
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 4: under center, I just, oh God, what's next.

751
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 2: I'm way more frightened of Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson

752
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 2: than I am of Joe Burrow for this defense, because Burrow,

753
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:14,839
Speaker 2: you feel like, look, Chase amazing, t Higgins amazing, but

754
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 2: you feel like our cover guys, we can get some pressure.

755
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 2: You know, Burrow is a little more conventional, a lot

756
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:26,320
Speaker 2: more than those guys. Those guys unconventional can blow your mind.

757
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 2: And Lauren, Derek Henry and we talked about it earlier

758
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:32,439
Speaker 2: this week. Josh Allen despite the fact that, oh yeah,

759
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:34,839
Speaker 2: you owned Josh Allen, but you know he almost beat

760
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 2: you twice.

761
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 4: In the last two years, so exactly it didn't even

762
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,800
Speaker 4: play well and almost beat you, Yeah, exactly.

763
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 2: The numbers are terrible, scary I mean scary. It's just

764
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:46,320
Speaker 2: bizarre some of the performances here that have been so good,

765
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 2: and yet you lose the game against Detroit two years

766
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 2: ago and you barely win it, but you win it

767
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 2: against the Bills, and hey, I'll take a barely win

768
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:55,839
Speaker 2: on week one.

769
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:58,719
Speaker 1: I don't care. I'll take a three to two two

770
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 1: oh baseball score. I'll take it.

771
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 2: I'll take Kamari Lassiter safety and then a shutout.

772
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 1: Is the last guy?

773
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:08,439
Speaker 4: Is he the last guy that generated safety for US?

774
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:10,240
Speaker 4: Kamorrow last against the Ravens?

775
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 2: A good question, I think it is. That's a good question.

776
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 2: I think I should have that off the top of

777
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 2: my head.

778
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,440
Speaker 4: We're gonna look that up because Will's and against Seattle

779
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 4: was a force fumble touchdown that was not a safety,

780
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 4: so it might be.

781
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 2: All right coming up. John Harbaugh spoke to his team.

782
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:28,920
Speaker 2: It went viral for all the wrong reasons. It's next

783
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:31,840
Speaker 2: on Texans All Access, all right, wrapping up the show

784
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 2: here in the final segment, we try to pick a

785
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 2: quickie topic and Johnny more cringe worthy. John Harbaugh's speech

786
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 2: to the New York Giants who will be here at

787
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 2: Reliance Stadium after the Texans take on the jag So

788
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 2: that's a Week six game on your home schedule. Than

789
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:50,880
Speaker 2: g men, they were here in the very first season

790
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 2: of Texans history, so it's a twenty fifth season kind

791
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 2: of reunion of sorts. The Cowboys here, the Giants here,

792
00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 2: Here they come again. Anyway, the speed it went something like.

793
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 1: This, welcome man, good to see her by here. Excited, yes, sir, nervous, No, nervous,

794
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 1: little nerves man, nervous, excited, nervous, you know, standing up

795
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,879
Speaker 1: here in front of the New York Giants, the New

796
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 1: York Giants. This is the New York Giants sitting in

797
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:22,839
Speaker 1: this room. The New York Giants. Listen, uh, the stand

798
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: in front of this room right now.

799
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 3: I know his coaches, doctor feel the same way hard coaches.

800
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 2: I watched this and I like John harborugh as a coach.

801
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 2: I think John Harbor has done a hell of a

802
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:36,320
Speaker 2: job as a coach. I mean, he's won a Super Bowl,

803
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 2: He's had a lot of success. I know he hasn't

804
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 2: gotten as far as he's one or two lately. He's

805
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 2: one of these guys and last year is shown the door.

806
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:46,839
Speaker 2: But my goodness, I think that he had something in

807
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 2: mind and he was going to go there no matter what.

808
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 1: And it just fell really flat.

809
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 2: That room looked dead when he was saying this to

810
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:55,239
Speaker 2: these kids, who are the New York Giants. You mean

811
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:57,440
Speaker 2: the team that Eli couldn't win enough with. He won

812
00:42:57,480 --> 00:42:59,280
Speaker 2: a couple of Super Bowls, but everything else just seemed

813
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,319
Speaker 2: to go wrong during the Eli era.

814
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 1: And these guys are so young.

815
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, they probably remember those Super Bowls as kids, but

816
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 2: they're not thinking about the New York Giants and Bill

817
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:14,080
Speaker 2: Parcells and Lawrence Taylor And if you want to go

818
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 2: really old time guys, I'm not going to go there.

819
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 2: I'm not going to talk about y a tittle, am I.

820
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 2: I'm not anyway.

821
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 1: Photo of all time Grays photo in NFL history.

822
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Speaker 4: It was I've thought about that, like standing up in

823
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 4: front of your team and kind of giving him that

824
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 4: Not so much raw Ross Beach, but I've kind of

825
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 4: thought about it. I mean, as I was listening to him, like, Okay,

826
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:38,480
Speaker 4: well what I've said? What would I have said to

827
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 4: the New York Football Giants, And it felt like he

828
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 4: was trying to evoke the emotion from them that hey,

829
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 4: and the respect for the New York Giants, like this

830
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 4: is a storied organization.

831
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: I just felt like he could have gone about it

832
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:53,799
Speaker 1: a little bit more.

833
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 4: He could have made it a twenty twenty six speech

834
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,880
Speaker 4: as opposed to a nineteen ninety one speech.

835
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 2: Good point, and I think.

836
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 4: He could have done that. So I think you could

837
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:04,719
Speaker 4: have laid the groundwork a little bit better. But John

838
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 4: Harbond knows how to coach, He knows how to motivate,

839
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 4: he knows how to get the most out of guys.

840
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 1: So I think that will happen.

841
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 4: And look what coach did we make the most fun

842
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 4: of because of a press conference?

843
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:16,759
Speaker 1: Duve All?

844
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 2: And what did Liam Cohene turn into one of the

845
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 2: division last year?

846
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 1: Kill?

847
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 2: What about Nick sirianni opening press conference introductory one? Was awful?

848
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:25,279
Speaker 1: Right?

849
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 4: And so he wins a Super Bowl? That's right, John

850
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,800
Speaker 4: Harball be just fine. It just missed the mark a

851
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:33,200
Speaker 4: little bit with some young guys.

852
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 2: Mike McDaniel in front of a room. We saw that

853
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 2: a lot during that in season Hard Knocks a couple

854
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 2: of years ago, and poor guy was losing player after player,

855
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 2: game after game and having to get up there for

856
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 2: those speeches. It's got to be tough to address the

857
00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 2: entire room. Look everybody's compensated. They're gonna play right, they're

858
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 2: getting paid, and they're gonna pay attention, enough attention, but

859
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:58,279
Speaker 2: it's got to be tough to keep their attention. The

860
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 2: introductory one, though, Johnny, should be a layup ro Let's

861
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 2: go we are gonna kick some butt this year.

862
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 1: Let's go yeah.

863
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 4: I mean, I think there are different ways that you

864
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:10,560
Speaker 4: can you can handle it, but I feel like today

865
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 4: the shorter the better I know that I used to.

866
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 4: It's not surprising I got into radio because I could

867
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 4: go a little long, because as I would get into it,

868
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 4: as I would get into it, I would think about

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Speaker 4: something else, and then I would get into something else.

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Speaker 1: But I would at least.

871
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Speaker 4: Look at my I would look at my kids and go, okay,

872
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 4: I gotta cut this off. Just what's my what's my

873
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:31,959
Speaker 4: exit point here? Harbough didn't seem like he found wrap.

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00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 4: I think the introductory should just be you walk in

875
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 4: with one of the Lombardies from the trophy case and

876
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 4: you put it on the table and you just put

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Speaker 4: it there and you go, gentlemen, that is what we're

878
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 4: playing for. You give everything you've got to play for

879
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 4: that the biggest piece of jewelry that you're ever gonna

880
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 4: own comes with that. It is right here, and you

881
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:55,839
Speaker 4: put the Super Bowl ring. How about gentlemen, you want that,

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Speaker 4: Let's go and do our work.

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Speaker 1: Goodbye.

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00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 2: How about the Bill O'Brien of Hard Knocks talking to

885
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:04,439
Speaker 2: his coaches. Turn on your TV. Nobody is talking about

886
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,879
Speaker 2: the Houston Texans. A lot of that was really good. Yeah,

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00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 2: but then he said these quarterbacks can play. Yeah, they

888
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:11,960
Speaker 2: miss the mark on that one. The Lawyer's become a

889
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 2: pretty good host on Serious XMN. Lawyer's good. I like

890
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 2: by always like Brian Honesty Rady on Serious XM. You

891
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 2: brought it up yesterday that it'd be cool. Okay tomorrow

892
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 2: full show, including some ridiculousness related to the off season

893
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Speaker 2: around the league.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to it all.

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Speaker 2: Have a great night everyone, Area forty five is coming up.

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Speaker 2: Go Texans.