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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, and welcome. We are at the Greenbriar. Mark

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Speaker 1: Vandamarin John Harris with you tonight as we were with

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Speaker 1: you this morning, but we're in a different location now.

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Speaker 1: Is it's the Evening Show, Johnny? This the Evening It

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Speaker 1: reminds me of like the Golf Channel when they do

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Speaker 1: the show from Butler Cabin or wherever they are stuff.

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Speaker 1: You're saying that almost literally, I know, because that's just

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Speaker 1: because look where we are. We are looking at the

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Speaker 1: eighteenth Green of Old White, which is the premier course

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Speaker 1: here at the Greenbriar, and this layout is utterly fantastic.

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Speaker 1: They're still taking down some of the stands that they

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Speaker 1: had here for the tournament, which was a few weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: And I guess they're moving this baby to the fall,

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Speaker 1: just like they're moving to Houston Open to the Fall.

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Speaker 1: So a lot of tournaments moving to the fall. I

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Speaker 1: wonder what's filling the gaps there? Well, I think that

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Speaker 1: water right there, I think I probably hit a couple

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Speaker 1: of walls last time we were here at that water.

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Speaker 1: So played with Jamie Roots and he made me give

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Speaker 1: them strokes. You know that's not fair because he's my boss.

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Speaker 1: What am I gonna do? Is saying no, Well, no

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Speaker 1: where is I hit him with the golf cards? So

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Speaker 1: what are you going to do? Hey? Yes you did.

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Speaker 1: There was not much hitting going on today at the

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Speaker 1: Houston batter this practice fields because no pads yet until Saturday.

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Speaker 1: But what it is is the first day of practice

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Speaker 1: in the books, Johnny, And give me your biggest takeaway

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Speaker 1: right now, right off the bat what stood out to

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Speaker 1: you more than anything else? Maybe well, as a coach,

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Speaker 1: the one thing as a former coach, the one thing

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Speaker 1: that I always look at practice is pace and tempo.

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Speaker 1: With the practice, it was clean, it was crisp. It

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Speaker 1: was as if they hadn't missed a beat. It was

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Speaker 1: the first practice that they had been together in what

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Speaker 1: six weeks, and it was boom boom. I mean it

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Speaker 1: was I'm sure Bill O'Brien didn't see it that way,

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Speaker 1: but just watching the practice and knowing how they practice,

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Speaker 1: it felt like it could have been a midseason practice

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Speaker 1: because it was just everybody knew where they were going,

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Speaker 1: knew what they needed to do. They got through, They

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Speaker 1: got the reps they need to get to get through.

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Speaker 1: They didn't look sloppy. There were only a couple of

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Speaker 1: times where guys had to go around. It was a

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Speaker 1: very clean, crisp practice on a lot of different levels.

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Speaker 1: You know. One of the things that I wrote about

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Speaker 1: in the Harris Hurry Up Today was how guys caught

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Speaker 1: the football. You remember in twenty fifteen it was DeAndre

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Speaker 1: Hopkins and there was Nate Washington and Cecil Shorts in

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Speaker 1: that group at wide receiver, and there were a ton

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Speaker 1: of drops that year, a bunch of drops, and we

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Speaker 1: kept waiting, Man, oh my gosh, they're gonna you know,

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Speaker 1: when is this gonna stop? Right? You watch this group

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Speaker 1: of wide receivers and tight ends catching football and running

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Speaker 1: backs and there aren't many balls hitting the ground. It's

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Speaker 1: pretty phenomenal to watch. It's not just DeAndre Hopkins. It

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Speaker 1: is a really fun group to watch catch the football.

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Speaker 1: And the young guys in particular, there's two tight ends

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Speaker 1: and Kiki Qt they catch a pee in the dark.

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Speaker 1: Many They are fun to watch and they have great hands.

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Speaker 1: I know we're gonna get into this tomorrow on Texas

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Speaker 1: Training Camp Live eight to ten am, by the way

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Speaker 1: from the practice fields here at the Greenbrier. But I

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Speaker 1: thought that there were more explosive plays than I've seen

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Speaker 1: in a day one practice maybe ever. I think ever.

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Speaker 1: DeShawn Watson is just so adept at throwing the football

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Speaker 1: and he likes to throw it deep, and it's fun

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Speaker 1: to watch seven on seven was thrilling to watch today. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there was one time at a team situation where Deshaun

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Speaker 1: was wanting to throw the ball somewhere to his left

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Speaker 1: and he looked and he kind of cocked it throw

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Speaker 1: and he didn't like it, and he pulled it back

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Speaker 1: and he looked and there was fuller behind everybody. It's launched.

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Speaker 1: But that was one of about six or seven throws

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Speaker 1: the Texans quarterbacks made deep, I mean true bomb throws.

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Speaker 1: And I think the last one of the day. I

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Speaker 1: think it may have been the last play of the

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Speaker 1: can't remember, but he laid one down the right side

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Speaker 1: and Bruce Ellington goes over the shoulder kind of basket beautiful.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was gorgeous and Bruce made it look easy,

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Speaker 1: I mean easy. So you're right, they threw the ball

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Speaker 1: down the field. But I think they threw the ball

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Speaker 1: down the field mark more than any other Texans practice

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Speaker 1: I've ever seen training camp or otherwise. I agree. I

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Speaker 1: didn't want to say it, but it's true. They've been

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Speaker 1: fun to watch with Watson. He's so aggressive, why not

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Speaker 1: just do it? And Fuller got wide acre open several times.

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Speaker 1: I mean we're not talking like in the middle of

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Speaker 1: everybody bites. He just got open, Yeah, and deep, and

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Speaker 1: Watson likes throwing it to him. So this is gonna

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Speaker 1: be really enjoyable in twenty eighteen to watch those two

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Speaker 1: hook up because they had seven touchdowns in the four

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Speaker 1: games they played together. And it goes back to the

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Speaker 1: Highland video we had for Texas Theory the day and

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Speaker 1: you and I talked about this after watching it again. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's that moment and I think it's in the Kansas

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Speaker 1: Deshaun is just animated and he's like, just go to

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Speaker 1: the end zone. And he's looking at floors, like, just

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Speaker 1: about will is as a defensive back, you can feel

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Speaker 1: like you have leverage on him, you can feel that way.

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Speaker 1: And then he puts it into a different gear that

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Speaker 1: forget it. You can't you can't stay with him. And

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Speaker 1: then he he tracks the ball so well, still maintaining

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Speaker 1: that speed, and it's just a matter of he's got

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Speaker 1: to make sure that he catches everything. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: know last year he did catch everything. He's got to

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Speaker 1: make sure he catches There's one deep ball that was

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Speaker 1: a little bit out there and he just barely missed

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Speaker 1: that one. But the one that he caught for a touchdown,

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Speaker 1: I mean, he I can't remember who he got behind,

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Speaker 1: but he was just he was not even maybe the

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Speaker 1: just got to a point where he was kind of

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Speaker 1: kind of hanging around and then ooom, he just took off.

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Speaker 1: Well you can't, you can't hang with him, You can't

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Speaker 1: stay with him. As a dB is so tough because

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Speaker 1: you feel like, well he's right here, I got oh no,

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Speaker 1: I don't, He's gone, all right, you mentioned tight ends briefly,

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Speaker 1: and tight ends are a big subject of I don't

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Speaker 1: because he drafted two of them, Jordan Nakins in the

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Speaker 1: Jordan Thomas, my goodness, is a large human being two eighty.

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Speaker 1: He had a one handed grabbing individuals today. I thought,

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Speaker 1: oh boy, you're right. You know you said it the

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Speaker 1: night they drafted him. This guy's an athlete. Looks like

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Speaker 1: a receiver. Even though he really looks like an offensive lineman,

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Speaker 1: the way he plays makes them look like a receiver.

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Speaker 1: He is going to be really interesting to watch develop

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Speaker 1: and you just hope it happens very quickly. Yeah, no question.

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Speaker 1: And I think one thing that stood out to me

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Speaker 1: I thought, he's motoring, he's moving, And then you see

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Speaker 1: somebody down the seam, goes up over him plucks it

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Speaker 1: the trades. Aikins can get down the seam. His speed

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Speaker 1: his receiver acumen. They both have tremendous hands. Yeah, wrote

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Speaker 1: down I was impressed by Thomas's hands, you know, especially

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Speaker 1: for such a big guy. And speaking of tight ends,

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Speaker 1: the elder statesman, the old guy, the OG would be

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Speaker 1: Ryan Griffin. That's right, drafted in twenty thirteen. I had

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Speaker 1: a chance to catch up with Ryan after practice. Today

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Speaker 1: it's two minutes with a Texan with Ryan Griffin. So

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Speaker 1: what's that tight end room like? Now? You got some

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Speaker 1: you know, youth breeds, you know, fun, you know those

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Speaker 1: but also you know, it's a learning experience for those

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Speaker 1: offensive lineman. He kind of looks like one a little bit. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he runs well and you know, catches the ball really clean.

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited to see, you know, what you can

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Speaker 1: elder statesman, the veteran of the group. It's been fun.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm learning, you know a lot about myself

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Speaker 1: and how to convey information to other people, and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's a fun thing that I'm learning as

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Speaker 1: we go. What was the offseason like for you coming

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Speaker 1: off the frustrating campaign last year. Yeah, it was really

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Speaker 1: was before the injury and hopefully even better. Ryan's second

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Speaker 1: Richardson and the routine is already appearing to be different

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Speaker 1: from our eyes. What's it like for you? Yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: day one totally switched up. You know, we're in the

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Speaker 1: same spots last year, but I would say completely different team,

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Speaker 1: you know, and with the with the coaches, and even

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Speaker 1: the food has been great so far, and everybody has

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Speaker 1: been treating us so well here at the Green Briar

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Speaker 1: as usual, and I'm just ready to get to work.

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Speaker 1: And it's been a lot of fun so far. What'd

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Speaker 1: you do with your break between OTAs and training camp?

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Speaker 1: I got to reconnect the family, you know, go back

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Speaker 1: up north and from you know, the New England area.

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Speaker 1: Sou got to see the whole family and you know,

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Speaker 1: here at the Green Briars. All right, Ryan, thanks love

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Speaker 1: for joining us. Thanks. Oh he just sounds so polished.

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Speaker 1: He always has and you know he plays well. You know,

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Speaker 1: when he's healthy. He can really do a lot of

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Speaker 1: good things for this football team, Johnny. And you know

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Speaker 1: he's one of the guys you talked about Ellington making

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Speaker 1: a big catch today and Ellington getting the memo that, oh,

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Speaker 1: by the way, they drafted a guy in the third

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Speaker 1: round it was to take your job. And Griffin knows

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Speaker 1: that they drafted two tight ends and a lot of

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Speaker 1: this is insurance because Ryan's got the concussion issues just

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Speaker 1: like c J. F Doorwitz did. But when you're Ryan Griffin,

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Speaker 1: you see that and you're gonna step up even more. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: room and upgrades to the facility in the training room,

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Speaker 1: obviously it's been spoken about the commitment to the Sports

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Speaker 1: Performance Center, the overhaul and changes to the weight room

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Speaker 1: and the sports performance element of what we do. Areas

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Speaker 1: in the locker room. The cafeteria is going to be

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Speaker 1: a brand new cafeteria for our players, and I thought

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Speaker 1: what was important for us was to carry forward a

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Speaker 1: symbolic message to our players as we branded our facility,

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Speaker 1: to show our players that when they walk in our

436
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Speaker 1: building every day, this is the Houston Texans facility and

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Speaker 1: we want them to have a personal investment in that.

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Speaker 1: So all those changes that we made, some are externally visible,

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Speaker 1: others are internally, but we feel like it's positioning our

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Speaker 1: players and our staff to have the resources to be successful. Brian,

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Speaker 1: when we would have players come into our media days

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Speaker 1: or during many camps OTAs and talk to them and

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Speaker 1: we would mention the sports Performance Center or the nutrition aspect,

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Speaker 1: their faces would just light up like WHOA, have you

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Speaker 1: seen a significant change, And not all the players bodies,

446
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Speaker 1: but just compositions of the players having gone through sports

447
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Speaker 1: performance center training with Luke and then obviously with Lad's

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Speaker 1: new with nutrition, I have definitely been impactful changes as

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Speaker 1: it relates to how we train the players and the

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Speaker 1: results that we've gotten, the attention to detail that we

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Speaker 1: put into the preparation for individualized performance for players. As

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Speaker 1: it relates to weight loss, weight gains, strength gains from

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Speaker 1: rest recovery to wellness, hydration. The nutritional element has been

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Speaker 1: a huge commitment from the McNair's here for us to

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Speaker 1: make that as great as it can be. So I

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Speaker 1: feel like some of those benefits have come to fruition

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Speaker 1: through the off season program. Feedback from the players has

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Speaker 1: been very positive and we're hoping those that the impact

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Speaker 1: is and carry forward here into the season. Texans general

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Speaker 1: manager Brian Gaine with us field side here at the Greenbrier.

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Speaker 1: All right, quarterbacks, you have a great one and Deshaun

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Speaker 1: Watson obviously a great six and a half game stretched

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Speaker 1: last year. So how are you looking to build on that?

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Speaker 1: What are you looking for as an organization here from

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Speaker 1: DeShawn year two? Well, what I would say about Deshaun

466
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Speaker 1: is he's a good young prospect and the arrows up

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Speaker 1: with a high ceiling and a lot of ascending potential.

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Speaker 1: But he only played six games, so there's there's a

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Speaker 1: lot yet to be determined at about his future. But

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Speaker 1: we're all excited about that. That's that's number one. Number two,

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Speaker 1: My experience being around him from studying him pre draft

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Speaker 1: and now being on the same team with him is

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Speaker 1: the intangible profile, and I've said this a few other times,

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Speaker 1: is just just how he's wired his leadership ability, his poise,

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Speaker 1: his presence, his work ethic, how he operates in the classroom,

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Speaker 1: his chemistry with his teammates. And that's a part of

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Speaker 1: scouting a quarterback when you when you go visit schools

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Speaker 1: and you watch guys at games. It's it's easy to

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Speaker 1: watch the physical traits on the tape, but when you

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Speaker 1: descend on the school and you visit the school and

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Speaker 1: now the more time I'm around Deshaun, the intangible profile

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Speaker 1: is something never done to score with Deshaun, and I

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Speaker 1: think that's a critical part to quarterback success in the

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Speaker 1: National Football League as it relates to the room. We

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Speaker 1: like the room. You know, Brandon Weedon offers us a

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Speaker 1: good level of experience. We have familiarity with Brandon and

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Speaker 1: he has a background from being here in a working

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Speaker 1: relationship with coach O'Brien. He's won a game or two

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Speaker 1: for us when he's had to go play. He's had

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Speaker 1: starts under his belt, understands his role. He's a good

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Speaker 1: resource for the starter and then the competition will play

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Speaker 1: out thereafter. With with Joe Webb and with Steven Morris.

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Speaker 1: So we like the room. It's a good room. It's

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Speaker 1: a good group of guys. They work hard, and we're

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Speaker 1: excited about the promise and potential of Deshan, but there's

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of football ahead of him. He only

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Speaker 1: played six games, so we just think the arrows up

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Speaker 1: and he's got a good ceiling. Brian, I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: if we should talk about Joe Webb today or a

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Speaker 1: different day, because a lot of people ask us, you know,

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Speaker 1: is Joe Webb a quarterback? How do we look at

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Speaker 1: Joe Webb because he's done so many different things in

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Speaker 1: his career. How valuable is that? But on the flip side,

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Speaker 1: how tricky can that be that he does play some

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Speaker 1: other positions as well? Yeah, Joe Webb is a football player.

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Speaker 1: That's the best way to catch that. He's a football

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Speaker 1: player who happens for us to play quarterback. And the

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Speaker 1: one year I spent in Buffalo, he actually repped for

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Speaker 1: US a wide receiver, knowing that Hay in an emergency situation,

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Speaker 1: he could go play quarterback. He could be a package player,

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Speaker 1: he could be a situational player. He can be a

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Speaker 1: role player, and equally add some value on fourth now

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Speaker 1: special team. So he's kind of a Swiss army knife,

514
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Speaker 1: a jack of ultraides. He happens to be playing quarterback

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Speaker 1: for us right now, and we're excited to evaluate him

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Speaker 1: and see how it goes. But he offers a lot

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Speaker 1: of versatility. You've heard me talk about versatility and utility

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Speaker 1: ability from the players, and equally on fourth down, so

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Speaker 1: as a released offense quarterback roleplay situations, wide receiver potential,

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Speaker 1: but also the ability to help Brad Seeley on special teams.

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Speaker 1: Give us a little snapshot of Stephen Morris out of

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Speaker 1: the University of Miami, and he's been around the block

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Speaker 1: a little bit. Stephen is a cerebral guy, smart, instinctive player,

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Speaker 1: knows where to go with the football. What I would

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Speaker 1: say about Stephen for us like he's been a quick study.

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Speaker 1: You know, if you think about playing the quarterback position.

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Speaker 1: We claimed him here, I think I don't think it

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Speaker 1: was post draft. A few weeks after the post draft,

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Speaker 1: so we really only had a few weeks with us

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Speaker 1: into our system and to play the quarterback position, to

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Speaker 1: play fast, you got to know the playbook. Well. What

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Speaker 1: I can say about him he's positioned himself to saturate

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Speaker 1: himself and of knowledge and the intelligence that he needs

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Speaker 1: to go out and try to play fast and earn

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Speaker 1: a job. So it compliments the steam and that he's

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Speaker 1: put the time and effort in to learn in the

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Speaker 1: playbook Fast Brian with Deshaun, we've talked about all offseason

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Speaker 1: how much is he gonna be able to do? What's

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Speaker 1: he gonna be able to do at the time you

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Speaker 1: get to training camp. Obviously he's not on pup. We

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Speaker 1: saw him at OTA's do certain things and there's certain

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Speaker 1: things he didn't do. And I'm sure you guys have

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Speaker 1: gone through what he's gonna be able to do in

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Speaker 1: practice and whatnot. How tricky was that to go through, Well,

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Speaker 1: he can be able to do this, but he's not

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Speaker 1: gonna be able to do How tough was that to

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Speaker 1: kind of put together with coaching the rest of the staff,

548
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Speaker 1: you know, not very tough because we have monitored his development,

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Speaker 1: his rehabilitation daily, so we you know, it's not just

550
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden we roll him out there and

551
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:44,320
Speaker 1: he goes and does everything at a high level. We've

552
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Speaker 1: kind of amped him up through the off season and

553
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Speaker 1: he's worked up to this point right now. So he's

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Speaker 1: full go. He's cleared. But you heard me say this yesterday.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be smart, we're gonna be efficient, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: be productive, We're gonna get our work done. But we

557
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Speaker 1: also have to understand and he's coming off a major

558
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Speaker 1: in But it's very complimentary to him that he's positioned

559
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:05,399
Speaker 1: himself to be ready for this only nine months removed

560
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Speaker 1: from it from his injury. You said yesterday your brother

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Speaker 1: went to West Virginia. Did wow? Oregontown, West Virginia. So

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00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,440
Speaker 1: I may have been in high school or younger years

563
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Speaker 1: when we would make our trips here from New York

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Speaker 1: up through the mountains and spend the weekends with them.

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Speaker 1: So we've always enjoyed our time here in West Virginia

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Speaker 1: as a family. Ryan, thanks so much for joining us today.

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Speaker 1: We'll catch up tomorrow. Thank you. Brian Gaine joining us

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Speaker 1: at Texans training camp. Next up, James Palmer. We visited

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Speaker 1: with him. What's he doing here so early on in camp?

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Speaker 1: Let's find out. It's Texans All Access. It's the show

571
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Speaker 1: that keeps you in touch with your Houston Texans. Texans

572
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Speaker 1: All Access originating from the Greenbrier here and we are

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Speaker 1: above the eighteenth Green and Old White, which is the

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Speaker 1: course where they have their PGA tournament. So they have

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Speaker 1: the PGA tournament here. They have the Houston Texans and

576
00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 1: training camp. They have a tennis thing here as well.

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00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 1: It's usually an exhibition of sorts. I think they changed

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Speaker 1: it around every year. I think they had the Williams

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Speaker 1: sisters here. Maybe it was last year. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: They've had a lot of different pros here over the years.

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Speaker 1: Pete Sam France has been around. I can't even give

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Speaker 1: you all the names. It's been so many. Well, as

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Speaker 1: you walk in to the where we are in the

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Speaker 1: Samsteed Slam and Sammy's if you will, there's a line

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00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 1: of parking spots and it just gives you the names

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Speaker 1: of people that live here in this area and it'll

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Speaker 1: say open for parking or it'll say reserved in residence.

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Speaker 1: And I mean just the names that you end up seeing.

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00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 1: Bubba Watson, Phil Mickelson, Jerry Well. You can park in

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Speaker 1: Keegan Bradley's spot because he's not here. He's playing in

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Speaker 1: the Canadian Thing this weekend. Yeah, well he misses the cut.

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Speaker 1: He might be back I don't know. Well, it's it

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Speaker 1: says on there in residence obviously meaning dope park there,

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Speaker 1: or it says open for parking and what was the name? Oh,

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00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 1: Drew Brees has a spot? Yeah, what is he still

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Speaker 1: doing with a spot? Maybe he has a place here.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't I would imagine after coming here for a

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Speaker 1: couple of years that they were here for three years.

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Speaker 1: I don't imagine after coming here for three years that

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Speaker 1: you might fall in love with the place. Brought his family.

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Speaker 1: At some point they stayed in a place here at

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Speaker 1: the Greenbriar, and they went, we're buying a place here. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and your can afford to do that, So that's pretty

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Speaker 1: good kazillion bucks. James Palmer does not have a place here,

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Speaker 1: but he's visiting training camp and we caught up with

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Speaker 1: him this morning. It's always fun to visit with James

607
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Speaker 1: Palmer from NFL Network first time or here at the Greenbriar.

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Speaker 1: You were here last year. Here last year, I was

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Speaker 1: not privileged enough to come. It's a little upset. I

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Speaker 1: asked to come and I this is beautiful now and

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Speaker 1: this is what does the Sports Performance Center do? The

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Speaker 1: other forty eight out because last year. I toured it

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Speaker 1: in May prior to camp, and there was still all

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Speaker 1: this Saints stuff in there. But they had that weird

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Speaker 1: spring league here, four teams and they play a couple

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Speaker 1: of games in front of nobody. Don't ever refer to

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Speaker 1: a football league as weird. Oh sorry, sorry, but it's

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Speaker 1: not a league really, it's like a it's like a

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Speaker 1: tournament or something. It's just a showcase. Yeah, yeah, all right, sorry,

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Speaker 1: China's all offended that. But what I do like what

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Speaker 1: I do like, or maybe just like, I don't have

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Speaker 1: a car, right and I needed to get somewhere the

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Speaker 1: other day and I called the cab company. They told

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Speaker 1: me to call. I think it's like Cosmo Cabs. And

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00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 1: the guy picked up and he goes, I don't have

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Speaker 1: any drivers. Were closed. And then and then the guy

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Speaker 1: at the hotel does, here's the cell phone number for

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Speaker 1: the Uber driver that's in the areas. Like, what do

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Speaker 1: you mean the Uber? He's like, he's the only one.

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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I texted him. He goes, I

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Speaker 1: can't talk right now. Apparently he's in medical school. He

632
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Speaker 1: doesn't have a lot of availability. So a car is

633
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Speaker 1: a necessity here, for sure. You're staying at the roo.

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Speaker 1: You biked, all right, Yeah, I biked. I do a

635
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Speaker 1: Green Bay packer style. I like fun. It's fun to

636
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Speaker 1: do that around here. I mean it's a beautiful area,

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Speaker 1: as you can see. I did see your tweet about

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Speaker 1: going through a drive through and you ordered ice coffee

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Speaker 1: and the guy said, uh, well, I mean I I

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Speaker 1: could fill a cup with ice, but your coffee's gonna

641
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Speaker 1: melt all of it. I like, I'll get something else.

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Speaker 1: All right, there's a you haven't been to Louisbourg that

643
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Speaker 1: Lewisburg is like a cute college. Now try to trying

644
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Speaker 1: to hit it on my way. I can I jog

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Speaker 1: down the street too, No, you could jog if you

646
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Speaker 1: can jog far, because it's what like eight seven eight

647
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Speaker 1: five k he'll jog that were first dainty legs? No way,

648
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Speaker 1: where'd you go before this? We're at Ravens or something. No,

649
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Speaker 1: this kicked me. This kicked me off for the season

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Speaker 1: starting off with you guys rappiports here too, Like we're

651
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Speaker 1: so popular, guys are big, and we're gonna be hosting

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Speaker 1: from here. I don't want to misspeak, but I think

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Speaker 1: it's like the third or the fourth I mean, we're

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Speaker 1: coming full tilt with half the day will be from

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Speaker 1: here on NFL Network. I think it's the fourth, but yeah,

656
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Speaker 1: I will, we'll pretty much. I mean, we'll half of

657
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Speaker 1: our coverage for the day will be from the Greenbrier

658
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Speaker 1: with the Texans. We're excited, man at the network. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is a question. I mean, this is gonna be

660
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Speaker 1: the simplest question. Why why host here? Know? Why? Yeah?

661
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Speaker 1: Why are we? Yeah? Why are we popular? Yes? Well,

662
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Speaker 1: I want you guys listen. I would like to come

663
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:06,839
Speaker 1: and cover you guys a lot this year for all

664
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Speaker 1: the opposite reasons. I covered you guys last year and

665
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: spent so much time with you two. When I was

666
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:13,479
Speaker 1: with you guys for I think it was about three

667
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 1: weeks straight at the beginning of the season after Harvey.

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Speaker 1: Then I came for Deshaun, I was there for JJ

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Speaker 1: and I mean I was like the kiss of death.

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Speaker 1: I felt. I kept coming in for all the negative things.

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Speaker 1: I would love to come for all the positive stuff.

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Speaker 1: I used to be there every single day. I'd like

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Speaker 1: to be there for all the you know, all the rewards.

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Speaker 1: But I think coming here for sure, it's it's it's

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Speaker 1: it's Deshaun Watson is a big part of it, and

676
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Speaker 1: I think we've got a small sample size of what

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Speaker 1: he can do. And I think that super small sample

678
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Speaker 1: size of what he can do was that four games

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Speaker 1: with with Will Fuller and Hopkins at the same time,

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Speaker 1: I mean, sixteen touchdown passes and that stretch with what

681
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Speaker 1: I think Fuller at seven, hop at six. Like I mean,

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

683
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Speaker 1: think you get a chance to see somebody, you know,

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

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Speaker 1: the other guys do it. And I think this league,

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Speaker 1: you know, we're in kind of a transition period. You know,

687
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Speaker 1: Drew Brees, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers still all playing at

688
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Speaker 1: super high levels. But you gotta know that there's gonna

689
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Speaker 1: be another group of guys that are going to be

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Speaker 1: the face of the league coming in. And that's Carson Wentz,

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Speaker 1: that's Deshaun Watson, that's you know, Jared Goff, you know.

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Speaker 1: So it's it's fun to get excited about these guys

693
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Speaker 1: early in their career, and that's that's probably that's a

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Speaker 1: big reason why we're coming here. James Palmer of NFL

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Speaker 1: Network with us, all right, what about the rest of

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Speaker 1: the AFC not named New England? What are you thinking

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Speaker 1: about this? Well, I think, I mean Bill maybe said

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Speaker 1: it best when I first sat down at his table

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Speaker 1: at the I believe it's at the owners meetings and

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Speaker 1: I sat down with them, and the first thing he

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Speaker 1: said is you can put it in your article. You

702
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Speaker 1: can put it in bold. We're chasing the Jags. I mean,

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Speaker 1: everybody has division's chasing the Jackson. So I think I mean,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I want to see how they all handle

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Speaker 1: it because it's such a you know, a massive jump

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Speaker 1: that they took last year. You know, how do you

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Speaker 1: handle now expectations you're not sneaking up on anybody. Is

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Speaker 1: Blake going to be able to not turn the football over?

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Speaker 1: I think the defense still is going to be able

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Speaker 1: to play at a really high level. But I mean

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Speaker 1: calais what he did last year at his age, I'd

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Speaker 1: like to see it happen again. He's a great guy.

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Speaker 1: But you always there's there's a couple of things on

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Speaker 1: how they handle it. And I think the AFC West

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Speaker 1: is completely up for grabs. If if I think, if

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Speaker 1: the Chargers stay healthy, they're the ones to take that

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Speaker 1: division for sure. I've spent a lot of time with

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Speaker 1: the Raiders. There is about two thousand question marks surrounding

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Speaker 1: that team. Denver's got a bunch of offensive line issues.

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Speaker 1: You expect Keenam to or you want to expect Kingham

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Speaker 1: that he's gonna play the way he played last year.

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Speaker 1: Don't know if that's gonna have been in Kansas City

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Speaker 1: as a rookie quarterback. So that division outside of the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: I think the Jags here and then I don't think

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Speaker 1: anybody in that division is doing anything with the Patriots

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Speaker 1: because everybody else is trying to see what they have

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Speaker 1: at the quarterback position. James, I've said the DFC South,

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Speaker 1: I haven't said could be. I think the AFC South

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Speaker 1: is the best division in football on paper. I think

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Speaker 1: it's the best division in football. Why am I right?

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Speaker 1: Why am I wrong? Well? I would? I think the

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Speaker 1: reason you're right is, I do think you know everybody,

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Speaker 1: and we spend a ton of time with the Colts,

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Speaker 1: because everybody's waiting to see and wants to see and

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Speaker 1: expects to see Andrew Luck play the way everybody you

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Speaker 1: know knows he can play and saw him play when

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Speaker 1: he didn't have anybody around him. I think now when

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Speaker 1: you see the front office moves they made in the

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Speaker 1: slight moves that they made this offseason in a couple

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Speaker 1: of things, that they're headed in a really good direction.

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Speaker 1: And Andrew Luckin just he's one of those guys I

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Speaker 1: mentioned the big three they're getting older. He's one of

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Speaker 1: those guys that can win you games by himself, and

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Speaker 1: I want to see how he plays like, you know,

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Speaker 1: the way he extended plays before. Does he still continue

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Speaker 1: to do that. The arm looks pretty decent, honestly, and

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Speaker 1: we mentioned the Jagson and I think Marcus Mariotte is

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Speaker 1: just taking a little longer than some people probably would

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Speaker 1: have expected. And I think he's gone through some growing

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Speaker 1: pains and I still think he's going to be better

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Speaker 1: than what we've seen out of the two with him

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Speaker 1: and Jamis. I think he's definitely the one out of

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Speaker 1: the two. But I wouldn't sleep on really. I think

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Speaker 1: the Eagles are great, but I think I think the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys are are all right. And I do like the Giants. Actually,

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Speaker 1: I do like the Giants a lot. I was going

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Speaker 1: to ask you about that the other division that I

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Speaker 1: kind of jumps out to me. Yeah, that's what we

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Speaker 1: play across over this year. Yeah, exactly, this, Yeah, so exactly.

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Speaker 1: I don't think anybody in the AFC South is gonna

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Speaker 1: go thirteen and three. I just don't think it's going

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Speaker 1: to happen because the schedule is too tough. But tell

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Speaker 1: me this this time last year, were you think of

764
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Speaker 1: the Eagles could do what they did well? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I spend a lot of time with those guys, and

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Speaker 1: one of the things that I knew was that was

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Speaker 1: one of the better locker rooms in football. And after

768
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Speaker 1: I covered, I was with them throughout the entire playoffs

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Speaker 1: and was on him for the Super Bowl. So I

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Speaker 1: was with him for about four weeks at the end.

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Speaker 1: Then at that stretch, I was going, there's no better

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Speaker 1: locker room in football by far. I mean, to put

773
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Speaker 1: up with everything they went through, the things that I

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Speaker 1: heard about Carson Wentz in the draft process, we're just

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Speaker 1: we're almost like mythical, you know. I mean, there was

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Speaker 1: a situation with the Cowboys. I'll tell you a little

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Speaker 1: story where he went in and during his visit and

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Speaker 1: they drew a play on the board and then later

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Speaker 1: they called it one thing. About twenty minutes later, they

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Speaker 1: do the same play and called it something else just

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Speaker 1: to see if you would notice. And he's like, wait

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Speaker 1: a minute, you guys drew that play twenty minutes ago.

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Speaker 1: You called it you know, exze wag or whatever. And

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Speaker 1: they were like, are you kidding me? Nobody's ever picked

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Speaker 1: that up before. Like in the first time seeing these plays,

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Speaker 1: he notices it right away. I mean, there was these

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Speaker 1: you know, he was in such a small group of

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Speaker 1: players coming out the quarterback position that have been raided

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Speaker 1: the way he's raided over the last twenty five years

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Speaker 1: that I knew that he played great and I do

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Speaker 1: think and that's why I want to know what happens

792
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Speaker 1: with the offensive line. With the Texans, they were arguably

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Speaker 1: the best team in football on both sides of the

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Speaker 1: ball in the trenches, and I think that does a

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Speaker 1: lot for you throughout a season. They had a great

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Speaker 1: offensive line and they had a really deep, deep, talented

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Speaker 1: defensive line, and I think that's what held him together

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Speaker 1: as it went through injury after injury. James. There's been

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Speaker 1: so much talk in this offseason. A lot of it

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Speaker 1: came from Philadelphia about Doug Peterson and the style with

801
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Speaker 1: which he does things and for so long in the

802
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 1: NFL's but a copycat league. You try and do things

803
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Speaker 1: like the way the Champs do him and of course

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Speaker 1: that was the Patriots for so long. And then you

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Speaker 1: see these seemingly diametrically opposed teams, the Patriots and the Eagles,

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Speaker 1: doing things very differently. Do you think more teams and

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Speaker 1: you go around and see different teams, do you think

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Speaker 1: more teams will start to follow maybe the way the

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Speaker 1: Eagles do it, and maybe the way Pete Carroll did

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Speaker 1: it in Seattle, kind of letting his players be free

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Speaker 1: and saying more and being themselves a little bit more

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Speaker 1: than some of the other teams in the league. How

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Speaker 1: do you see the Eagles impact throughout the rest of

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Speaker 1: the teams in the league? I think the way Doug

815
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 1: handled things was what's up rap that we're doing? I

816
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: think I think the way that Doug handled that locker room. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you need a the right type of guy to really

818
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Speaker 1: let players be players. But at the same time, Gary

819
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Speaker 1: was really good at that when when he was in

820
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Speaker 1: Denver and when he was in Houston. But at the

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Speaker 1: same time, you need the right type of guys as

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Speaker 1: well that you know, you need those couple veteran leaders

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Speaker 1: like Malcolm Jakins, like a Fletcher Cox. You know Brent,

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Speaker 1: you know Brent Sellick was like a guy that nobody

825
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:02,239
Speaker 1: talked about that holds a team together players tremendously. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think that guy is one of the best pros

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Speaker 1: I've ever been around. And they have a ton of

828
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:08,839
Speaker 1: great guys, which helps them. But I think in terms

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Speaker 1: of x's and o's you look at defensively, it wasn't

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Speaker 1: that they went out and played and offensively the way

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Speaker 1: the way Doug calls a game, and Frank Wright said

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Speaker 1: this to me best, The way Doug calls a game

833
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Speaker 1: is I'm with this guy every single day, and then

834
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Speaker 1: through the headset when I get to play, call I go.

835
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't have called that here. And so when a

836
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Speaker 1: guy who spends every moment with you putting together a

837
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Speaker 1: game plan doesn't even know what you're gonna call, that's

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Speaker 1: kind of I think a little something special and be

839
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Speaker 1: something people are gonna try to find a way to

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Speaker 1: emulate in a sense. Texans take on the Eagles, what

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Speaker 1: is it December twenty third, Oh my gosh, and Philadelphia

842
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 1: to do that game at the length, Yeah, we'd like

843
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:49,799
Speaker 1: to see it all for Christmas. That means it's a

844
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Speaker 1: huge game. We need that to be a huge game,

845
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Speaker 1: or we need to have such a great lead that

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00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 1: it means nothing for the last thing. That's That's what

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Speaker 1: I've said, are unlikely to happen that I think you're

848
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 1: likely to need that football game. What are you seeing

849
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: from Bill O'Brien though, because you are around him year

850
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Speaker 1: one when you're still with CSN Houston and now you're

851
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:10,719
Speaker 1: with him occasionally, but you do get some visits with him,

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Speaker 1: So what is your what do you observe about him

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Speaker 1: as he's gone on through his career here? You know,

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Speaker 1: I think it took him. You know, I think johny

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Speaker 1: are talking about this little before. I think it took

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Speaker 1: him a little bit of time to kind of everybody

857
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Speaker 1: has to find how they're gonna do it as a

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Speaker 1: head coach when especially when you're doing it for the

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Speaker 1: first time in the National Football League. So I think

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Speaker 1: it takes a little bit of time to go all right.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I learned from all of these guys

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Speaker 1: I'm from. Everybody says you know you're from this tree,

863
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Speaker 1: you know you're from the Parcels tree or the whatever

864
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Speaker 1: but you eventually have to learn how to do it

865
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Speaker 1: on your own, and I think he has found his

866
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Speaker 1: way on how he's gonna do it on his own.

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Speaker 1: What I like the mostes and we've had some conversations

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Speaker 1: this offseason, is is I want to see how this

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Speaker 1: organization moves forward with him and Brian gained together, just

870
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Speaker 1: because of the way he's talked about that relationship with

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Speaker 1: the two of them, in the way he told me that,

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Speaker 1: you know, I can just jump into his office, we'll

873
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Speaker 1: throw on the film. We have a great friendship, but

874
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Speaker 1: at the same time we can disagree with each other

875
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Speaker 1: about players in our evaluation with players, and it's just

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Speaker 1: he just raved out how productive the evaluation processes when

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Speaker 1: the two of them get together. So I'm excited to

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Speaker 1: see the long term and now that they're both going

879
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Speaker 1: to be here the long term on how they put

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Speaker 1: this team together. But I also think what he talked

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Speaker 1: about to me this offseason about this offense and kind

882
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Speaker 1: of a way they kind of tweaked things and went

883
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Speaker 1: out and looked at tape from a variety different spots,

884
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Speaker 1: different quarterbacks, from different skill sets and different schemes, and

885
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Speaker 1: really put a ton of research into how they're going

886
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Speaker 1: to do this. I'm excited to see you know how

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Speaker 1: that comes together with a guy like Deshan. How do

888
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Speaker 1: you like doing this for NFL network scrap? You know,

889
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Speaker 1: I'm on the road. I miss the family, but you know,

890
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Speaker 1: I do get to I do get to go. I

891
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Speaker 1: think my next couple stops I leave for New England tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna jump in and see Little Taylor Swift show

893
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Speaker 1: at Jillette Stadium tomorrow. Nike Patriots on Saturday, Eagles Sunday.

894
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Speaker 1: Back to Denver. Yeah, hey, Patriots PR hooked me up

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Speaker 1: with a cop ticket and just a shout out to

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Speaker 1: the Texans PR staff. I just want to say, not

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Speaker 1: the Greenbrier, but maybe during the season. I know they goes.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna have something. They got monster truck rallies and stuff.

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Speaker 1: Maybe like to catch at n RG. Maybe a little

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Speaker 1: rook up to the rodeo. I always like going to

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Speaker 1: the rodeo. You know, maybe a show there, but come

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Speaker 1: on by the rodeo. Take okay, I'd love like you

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Speaker 1: haven't been a d rodeo. Cheyenne Frontier Days, a little

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Speaker 1: north of Denver is a pretty good stop. Well you

905
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Speaker 1: need the Broncos to get good, don't you. My wife

906
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Speaker 1: needs the Broncos to get good. And then I don't

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Speaker 1: think I spent any time in Denver after Week three

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Speaker 1: last year. Now with Jase Keenam, hopefully they can. How's

909
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:36,120
Speaker 1: that going to go? Something? Them big on the offensive line?

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Speaker 1: That's really it. But they got a couple of young

911
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Speaker 1: guys Courtland. Look even on Courtland Sutton out of SMU

912
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Speaker 1: he is I've heard unbelievable things about him. Is it

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Speaker 1: there was a comparison actually to Hopkins early in his career.

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Speaker 1: I was told about Courtland su is it a bit

915
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Speaker 1: of a hot seat out of the gate for Vance?

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Speaker 1: Joseph extremely hot and you know Vance well, you guys

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Speaker 1: know Dants from his time in Houston. So yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be it's gonna be a tough one for

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Speaker 1: him early on. If he gets through and they get

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Speaker 1: hot earlier, I think you'll be all right. James, always

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Speaker 1: a pleasure, Thanks so much for loving guys. There's James

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Speaker 1: Palmer from NFL Network. And tomorrow you never know who's

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Speaker 1: going to appear, but we know Brian Game will be

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Speaker 1: on the show once again at nine am. As we

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Speaker 1: go on at eight from the Houston Methodist Practice Fields.

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Speaker 1: I want to thank John Harris for being on the

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Speaker 1: program tonight. Of course, as always, have a great evening everyone,

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Speaker 1: and go Texans.