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Speaker 1: Hello, Texans. We keep it rolling here since ten am.

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Speaker 1: Johnny and Ivan.

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Speaker 2: Just waiting, waiting, chomping at the.

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Speaker 1: Bit to get back on the air and talk about

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Speaker 1: your Texans A training camp.

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Speaker 2: Today.

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Speaker 1: Another eventful, productive day at practice. Day five in the books,

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Speaker 1: now day six tomorrow. We'll be out there eight to

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Speaker 1: ten am, shot and seth six to eight am and

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Speaker 1: in the loop at ten in the loop today, caught

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Speaker 1: up with who'd they catch up with?

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Speaker 2: Johnny?

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Speaker 1: They caught up with it was as easy yesterday. Don't

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Speaker 1: tell me, oh, listenermar Les very good. All right, that's

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Speaker 1: on the Odyssey app. And we're on the Odyssey app.

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Speaker 1: Everything's on the Odyssey app. But we've got to recap

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Speaker 1: some of the things that happened later on a conversation

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Speaker 1: with Travis Johnson. We visited with him this morning. It

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Speaker 1: was so much fun. You got to hear that. It

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Speaker 1: was electric. I got a ton of positive feedback on

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Speaker 1: that one. I know you did as well, my friend.

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Speaker 1: But biggest two takeaways. Give me two that really stood

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Speaker 1: out to you. I know Harris Hits is out there,

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Speaker 1: but we need the quickie audio version right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It was a shorter practice, so only ninety minutes. But

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Speaker 3: the team sessions that they did were all low red zone. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and you remember your story about walking back over defense

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Speaker 3: having a good day. Can they say, oh, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: seven was dialed in. Yeah, they said seven. Seven was

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Speaker 3: dialed in.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday, they said it's coming, it's coming tomorrow. Meeting today, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and today. Yes, the thunderbolt arm of C. J. Stroud

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Speaker 1: was on display. Yeah, he was throwing it.

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Speaker 3: First two throws right out of the shoot were just

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Speaker 3: where they were gems, and the third one ended up

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Speaker 3: being a touchdown. The first one he throws a fade

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Speaker 3: route to Digs on the far side.

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Speaker 2: It's beautiful.

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Speaker 3: Now, the left side did jump, but it was one

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Speaker 3: of those where it wouldn't. I mean, it would have

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Speaker 3: been a penalty, but the ball was so perfectly placed.

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Speaker 3: Next throw, quick out to Brev, Next ball, touchdown to Brevin.

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Speaker 3: Three throws bang, bang, bang, just like that. I mean,

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Speaker 3: you can tell, Okay, he's dialed in. But Kate Stover

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Speaker 3: had a tremendous catch, kind of going over the back

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Speaker 2: I don't remember who that was.

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Speaker 3: But Davis put a ball basically at the top of

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Speaker 3: the linebacker's helmet and Cade went up and snatched it,

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Speaker 3: and then as the linebackers kind of pulling tugging at it,

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Speaker 3: Cage just hanging out for dear life touchdown. I thought

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Speaker 3: the quarterbacks threw it pretty well today, especially in the

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Speaker 3: first part of the team period one.

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Speaker 2: A couple of bad throws.

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Speaker 3: After that, defense started gett after a little bit, but

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Speaker 3: then a number of controversial plays. Over on his sideline,

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Speaker 3: Stefan had a catch he was trying to get in.

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Speaker 3: He kind of extended the ball out a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Looked like it may have been a fumble out of

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Speaker 2: Wait was that the one on the left side of

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: On my on my side where I was with the

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Speaker 2: You thought that was questionable.

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Speaker 1: I thought I wasn't close enough to it to see

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Speaker 1: if I thought it was questionable.

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Speaker 2: I thought it was a hell of a throw. It

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Speaker 2: was a great throw. It was really good.

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Speaker 3: I feel like, you know, the the quarterbacks have really

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Speaker 3: thrown it pretty well. I feel like Davis has really improved.

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Speaker 3: But the one thing that stood out in a low

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Speaker 3: red zone and we sat here years ago, and we

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Speaker 3: heard Bill O'Brien tell us that Tom Brady has said

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Speaker 3: red zone low, red zone the hardest area of the

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Speaker 3: field to master. Yeah, and it took him the longest

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Speaker 3: right now. And I felt like the quarterbacks were all

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Speaker 3: doing that. They didn't get back in the pocket and wait. Look,

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Speaker 3: it was make your decision, throw the ball now, and

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Speaker 3: every single throat they made was on time. They didn't

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Speaker 3: hold it back there and wait for five seconds, let's scramble,

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Speaker 3: drill start. They just they were singing it. And I

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Speaker 3: thought that CJ was definitely downed. I thought Davis made

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Speaker 3: some nice throws. I thought the offense had their day,

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Speaker 3: But I thought the defense made a couple of nice plays,

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Speaker 3: in particular on that sideline close to me, kind of

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Speaker 2: Controversial where they were catches or.

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Speaker 3: Fumbles or out of back, I don't know, but it

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Speaker 3: was just fun to see them get competitive with the

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Speaker 2: But again, ninety minutes, short, quickie and out. Yeah, why

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Speaker 2: do you think that is? Now?

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Speaker 1: The rain, I don't think that was a factor, by

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Speaker 1: the way. I think it was because it was the

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Speaker 1: first day in pads, right. As they continue to go

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Speaker 1: on pads, he'll probably go longer. Yeah, that's my guess anyway.

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Speaker 1: But there was one element that I wanted to get to.

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Speaker 1: And we've talked about this from the get go in

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Speaker 1: last year too. No seven on seven right, and no

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Speaker 1: individual O line D line drills. That's coming. It's coming,

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Speaker 1: but it didn't happen today. It's fascinating. Why do they

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Speaker 1: start in team. You'd think you might do it the

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Speaker 1: other way around, but they want to start in team.

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Speaker 1: Get everybody used to playing as a unit.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting you say that because now they do a.

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Speaker 2: Really long individual period and I like that.

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Speaker 3: So they spend a lot of time in their individual

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Speaker 3: groups doing you know, various drills depending on what they are.

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Speaker 3: I like the fact that I think this goes back

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Speaker 3: to having, as you said, the seven weeks of training camp.

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Speaker 3: Everything is just going to ramp up until you get

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Speaker 3: to this kind of lather later after maybe played a

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Speaker 2: But I like it.

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Speaker 3: You ramp everything up, guys, stay a little bit fresher.

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Speaker 3: Even though the rain cooled it off relatively speaking, you

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Speaker 3: still you're still gonna you're still gonna go through it.

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Speaker 3: It's still humid. Those guys are still getting used to

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Speaker 3: being together.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: If the the the using team is a little lesser

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Maybe there's some things that they had planned to work on.

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Speaker 3: Maybe we'll see a little less over the next few days.

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Speaker 3: Maybe there'll be some one on ones, maybe they'll be

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Speaker 3: some seven on seven. I know one thing, there is

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Speaker 3: always a couple periods of special teams.

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Speaker 1: Allways, Oh yeah, and kickoff turn practice today was really

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Speaker 1: interesting to watch. Yeah, it was really cool to watch Sehn,

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Speaker 1: who was always talking to Josh. Josh, a videographer who's

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Speaker 1: tremendous any of us for a couple years now. He goes, hey,

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Speaker 1: it's the new kickoff and I said yeah, and so

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Speaker 1: he really hadn't seen it, and I.

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Speaker 2: Said, this is going to be wild.

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Speaker 3: And so we watched the first couple of kicks together

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Speaker 3: and he just looked at me wide eyed, like, WHOA,

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Speaker 3: this is going to be crazy, And I think it is.

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Speaker 3: It's got a lot, it's got a lot of possibilities.

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Speaker 3: And we were talking about what was it our one

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Speaker 3: of was it our our playoff game against the Ravens?

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Speaker 2: There were no kickoff returns? Was that was that? I

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Speaker 2: know in the Super Bowl there were no kick there's.

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Speaker 3: No kickoff returns. I mean you just you know, watch

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Speaker 3: the ball blasted in the end zone and.

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Speaker 2: Then the ceremonial play at that point. Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 3: And now when that played, like, okay, buckle up because

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Speaker 3: you have no idea what's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: They had one where Dell and I'm not revealing anything

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Speaker 1: because the entire world who was there saw it where

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Speaker 1: Dell gets the ball flipped to him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was Miles Bryant who caught it, ran to

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Speaker 3: Tank ran behind him.

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Speaker 2: He just flipped it to him and away you go.

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Speaker 3: I just think there are going to be so many

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Speaker 3: possibilities that teams are going to kind of push the

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Speaker 3: boundaries of all right, let's do a little throwback here,

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Speaker 3: Let's do a throwback pass, Let's let's do some let's

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Speaker 3: do an option, let's run a reverse, let's run a

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Speaker 3: double reverse. Let's there's so many different things that they

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Speaker 3: can end up doing with it. I think it's gonna

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Speaker 3: be really interesting to watch. You won't see all this

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Speaker 3: in the preseason. I think you'll see just kind of

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Speaker 3: scratching the surface. But once you get into the season,

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Speaker 3: I think the teams that have devoted their time to it,

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Speaker 3: and that's gonna be the key. Because I've talked to

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Speaker 3: Eric Galca. Like I said, he told me there's at

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Speaker 3: least one team that he knows of and probably more

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Speaker 3: that are just now, we're not gonna mess with this thing.

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Speaker 3: We're just gonna whatever you gotta do, kick it out

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Speaker 3: of the end zone. Whatever, we don't care. Give them

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Speaker 3: bout thirty or thirty five, doesn't matter. It's like, wow, Wow,

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Speaker 3: that matters in the NFL five yards of field position

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Speaker 1: I got a feeling after watching today that you're gonna

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Speaker 2: A lot, a lot, more and more a lot. As

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Speaker 1: This is gonna really put a lot of pressure on

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Speaker 1: the kick coverage unit.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and that's why they're doing it.

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Speaker 1: They're not only making it a play, they're making it

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Speaker 1: an exciting play that benefits the offense because the drive

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Speaker 1: starts are gonna dramatically improve in this league. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: have some manic stuff. We get a deep stuffed yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, kick return team or a kick coverage team

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Speaker 1: comes up with a big play.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that will happen.

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Speaker 1: But you're gonna get a lot of positive yardage out

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Speaker 1: of this great field position, drive start and obviously that

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Speaker 1: helps the offense and that's what the league likes.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely. But also there were some punt special teams. And

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Speaker 3: I want people to make sure they're tuned in tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: I know they've been listening. It's cool, but I want

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Speaker 3: you to definitely tune in tomorrow. Texas Training Camp Live.

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Speaker 3: At some point you'll have my one on one with

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Speaker 3: Tommy Townsend.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I got to hear this. Awesome.

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Speaker 3: It is so good. He nerds out in a sense, okay,

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Speaker 3: like we should have done this like in the lap.

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Speaker 3: You know, we kind of geek out and it's perfect.

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Speaker 3: It's so good because I asked him the question that

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Speaker 3: really kind of got him kind of geeking out a

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Speaker 3: little bit, was, you know, I asked about kicking in

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Speaker 3: that cold game, the Miami Dolphins game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, freezing.

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Speaker 3: He went into the best physics science explanation you've ever

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Speaker 3: heard that kind of led to his thoughts about punting

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Speaker 3: and punning in different places. It's it's really cool, I

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Speaker 3: told him. After we got done. I told him my

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Speaker 3: first year in the building was twenty fourteen. I was

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Speaker 3: getting to know Shane Leckler, and so we were out

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Speaker 3: in Oakland and that obviously was where he had punted before,

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Speaker 2: Hit that at eight thirty tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Why not Tommy Towns a new punter All Pro punter

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Speaker 1: And he got it for the Kansas City Chiefs. He's

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Speaker 3: And you know, he had the hair kind of I

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Speaker 2: So he told me. He caught me right away because

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Speaker 2: That's what I would tell everybody. That's what I will tell.

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Speaker 1: Everybody, Johnny, when I get mine, Yeah, when I get

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Speaker 2: That can put it around your like a chain around

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Speaker 1: And it probably should just walk around and walk around

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Speaker 1: So I've got one from the University of Miami, right,

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Speaker 2: Gotta go left handed. Gotta go left handed. You to

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Speaker 2: Bang hits out. Yep.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, And I find myself watching the quarterbacks in any camp,

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Speaker 1: They're doing pretty well too. They get paid to as

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Speaker 3: I think Davis has made a lot of strides, a

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Speaker 2: This is the best I've seen him throw the ball

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he needs to because you have to have reliable

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Speaker 1: if for some reason, God forbid, knock wood knocks knock

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Speaker 1: You need Mills to come through or if it's gonna

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Speaker 3: Oh, I can't remember who it was he threw a

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Speaker 1: It's oh, by the way, okay, you want to talk depth.

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Speaker 1: So what's the deepest position grew.

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Speaker 2: Up on the team.

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Speaker 1: Maybe receivers, Right, Nico wasn't practicing for whatever reason.

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Speaker 2: He's fine.

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Speaker 1: He's in a cap along the side line. Mechi wasn't

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Speaker 2: And Scornic out. Now you got plenty of guys left.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, But it shows you how quickly problems can occur.

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Speaker 1: And I don't want to see problems. No problems, please.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly right.

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Speaker 1: You know, we often get these camp within a position group,

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Speaker 2: To not start that.

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Speaker 3: Up, can't if there is one that could absorb it, though,

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Speaker 3: And I'm like, oh, man, uh, there's there's Jane Yank

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Speaker 2: So just cause guys a look, and you just never

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Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, coming up our conversation with Travis Johnson.

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Speaker 1: Awesome stuff got to here with Trap. Jay has to

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Speaker 2: He didn't know. Andre had to keep it a secret

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Speaker 1: Funny stuff there, his thoughts on the twenty twenty four Texans,

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Speaker 1: and also Johnny breaks down the running backs.

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Speaker 2: It's all happening in this program. It's Texans Radio.

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Speaker 1: All right, back to it, and as promised, we visited

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Speaker 1: with Travis Johnson field side Texans Training Camp, day five,

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Speaker 1: and here's the introduction. Legends Community Member two thousand and

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Speaker 1: five first round DRAP choice Travis Johnson, Seminole, Texan all around,

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Speaker 1: great America.

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Speaker 2: What's up? Travis's what's happening to fellas? Y'all doing all right? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we're doing great. It's great to see you here, my friend.

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Speaker 2: It's great to be here, brother, great to be here.

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Speaker 4: All right?

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Speaker 2: Would you practice out in this rain right now?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 5: I got I got I got, I got a little

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Speaker 5: know it is. It's okay, man. It's a good weather man,

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Speaker 5: And have you have a great.

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Speaker 2: Practice, trav.

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Speaker 3: What was the first day of pads like at any level,

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Speaker 5: Well, I think the biggest thing is like you didn't

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 5: So first day pads is always an interesting day, you know,

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Speaker 5: let me thull them. I'm not trying to hurt him,

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So you're all teammates, but in camp you're facing the

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Speaker 5: Go to each other's throat. You know that that happens

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Speaker 5: And I mean, you respect each other, but you just

441
00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:15,159
Speaker 5: want to be you want to get the most out

442
00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:15,879
Speaker 5: out of yourself.

443
00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:18,240
Speaker 2: Wait till you get along with this person. Now I

444
00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:19,280
Speaker 2: don't even know this person.

445
00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:26,840
Speaker 3: Now, No, they didn't make the team, okay, but just

446
00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:30,240
Speaker 3: still that the college robberies, though they do take over,

447
00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:34,440
Speaker 3: they do linger a little bit. And your mind is long, yes,

448
00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:36,919
Speaker 3: because if something happened in the game, you'd see a

449
00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:40,320
Speaker 3: guy later down the road, like maybe not exact revenge.

450
00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:41,080
Speaker 2: But you were looking forward to seeing that.

451
00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:44,480
Speaker 5: It'd be it'd be Joey Porter and and Levi and

452
00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,640
Speaker 5: the Casino all over again. You know, if I've seen

453
00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,720
Speaker 5: the right guys from college yes, it would be. It

454
00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:53,440
Speaker 5: wouldn't be like that out here in the NFL as much,

455
00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:56,360
Speaker 5: you know, because now you know the guys are you're

456
00:18:56,359 --> 00:18:59,040
Speaker 5: more business partners. You know, when it's all said and done,

457
00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:00,800
Speaker 5: you want to get the best. You know, we want

458
00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:02,400
Speaker 5: to get the best out of each other. You want

459
00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:04,119
Speaker 5: to stay up, you want to stay uninjured, and you

460
00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:05,080
Speaker 5: want to be able to make it.

461
00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:05,760
Speaker 2: Throughout the season.

462
00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:09,920
Speaker 1: Travis Johnson with us well their arrival of the University

463
00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:11,880
Speaker 1: of Miami being a seven ole. But you and Andre

464
00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,359
Speaker 1: Johnson are very close, Yes, all right. He told us

465
00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:19,000
Speaker 1: the story of you not knowing and trying to find

466
00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,920
Speaker 1: out and he knows he's gonna get in and you

467
00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:23,360
Speaker 1: don't and you're bugging him.

468
00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:25,520
Speaker 2: What was that like? Me to Vegas and leading up.

469
00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:27,440
Speaker 5: To that, It was the most nerve wracking thing because

470
00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:30,080
Speaker 5: I could feel it like it was gonna happen, you know,

471
00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:33,159
Speaker 5: because uh, previous years, you know, he had called me

472
00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:35,679
Speaker 5: and we talked when he hadn't got in, you know,

473
00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:37,879
Speaker 5: because I had found out the weekends he hadn't got in.

474
00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:39,760
Speaker 5: I called him, checked on him, go by the house,

475
00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:40,760
Speaker 5: make sure he's doing all right.

476
00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:42,399
Speaker 2: Not that much. It meant to him to get in

477
00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:43,439
Speaker 2: to get his gold jacket.

478
00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:46,199
Speaker 5: And then so around that same time, you know, I

479
00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:47,760
Speaker 5: go back, I look at our text.

480
00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:49,800
Speaker 2: Messages from the year before. I'm like, hold on, that's

481
00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:51,600
Speaker 2: when he found out he didn't get in last year.

482
00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:52,440
Speaker 2: It's about time.

483
00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:54,880
Speaker 5: So I called him and they're like, no, we haven't

484
00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:57,760
Speaker 5: heard anything. No, we haven't heard anything. And so we

485
00:19:57,840 --> 00:19:59,600
Speaker 5: get to Vegas and I'm like, I'm going to Vegas

486
00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:02,160
Speaker 5: because I'm if he gets in, it's the weekend we want.

487
00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:03,280
Speaker 2: I need to be in Vegas.

488
00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:06,440
Speaker 5: And I'm calling him, call him, calling him, I call him,

489
00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:09,399
Speaker 5: I call miscaring his mother, I call Willie, his brother,

490
00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:11,960
Speaker 5: I'm calling I'm calling everybody like I'm calling.

491
00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,399
Speaker 2: Him, calling hand and I'm like, did he get it?

492
00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:15,879
Speaker 2: Did he get it? Have you heard anything yet? Have

493
00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:16,760
Speaker 2: you heard anything yet?

494
00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,280
Speaker 5: Then he comes out on stage and I sent him

495
00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:21,240
Speaker 5: a text me and says, you mother, you know what

496
00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:21,600
Speaker 5: I mean.

497
00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:24,280
Speaker 2: I can't believe you been holding from him.

498
00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:26,479
Speaker 5: So when we get a dinner that night, he's like, man,

499
00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:28,080
Speaker 5: I wanted to tell you, but man I wanted to

500
00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:30,480
Speaker 5: see I really wanted you to wait because I knew

501
00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:32,040
Speaker 5: how happy you would be, and I knew how much

502
00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:35,399
Speaker 5: and it literally it brought me to tears because I

503
00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:37,320
Speaker 5: love the guy man, you know, and it's you know,

504
00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:39,520
Speaker 5: even when we were rivals, I still love you guy. He's

505
00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:40,880
Speaker 5: always been a great dude, you know what I mean.

506
00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:44,959
Speaker 5: And uh, it was a nerve wracking day because I

507
00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:45,880
Speaker 5: was in the hotel room.

508
00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:47,320
Speaker 2: No, I wouldn't go out, like I was like, no,

509
00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:49,200
Speaker 2: I'm waiting to find out. I'm waiting to find wait.

510
00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:50,919
Speaker 5: To buy nothing, and he makes me wait till like

511
00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:52,280
Speaker 5: whatever o'clock at night.

512
00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:54,439
Speaker 2: It was, and I'm like it still was. It was.

513
00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:57,240
Speaker 5: It was just as exciting as it would have been

514
00:20:57,640 --> 00:20:59,720
Speaker 5: as if I would have found out months before when

515
00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:01,600
Speaker 5: he was at his house. But I asked him the question,

516
00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:04,960
Speaker 5: what about a drove by that day? It's seen and

517
00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:07,000
Speaker 5: seen Chris Carter outside.

518
00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:08,560
Speaker 2: Than what camera crew.

519
00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:12,480
Speaker 1: Alright, so Travis, had you found out earlier, how hard

520
00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:14,439
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been to keep.

521
00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:16,760
Speaker 2: His sock up? He knows it had been I mean,

522
00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:17,840
Speaker 2: have been a hell of a secret.

523
00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:19,800
Speaker 5: But I mean, at the same time, I would have

524
00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:21,480
Speaker 5: kept it because I know he wouldn't have wanted to me.

525
00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:24,040
Speaker 5: I wouldn't allowed to say anything, you know, but it

526
00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:26,320
Speaker 5: still would have been hard. I'd have been like Robert,

527
00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:28,320
Speaker 5: my brother in law, How do I not tell Robert?

528
00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:29,720
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Like, how do I not?

529
00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:31,680
Speaker 5: You know? But I'm like I would have had to

530
00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:34,640
Speaker 5: keep his in the bucket and not telling anybody.

531
00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:36,560
Speaker 2: So I'm glad he didn't tell me, but I'm still

532
00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:37,600
Speaker 2: kind of pissed. Trap.

533
00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:38,040
Speaker 1: Uh.

534
00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:39,400
Speaker 2: We talked to David Anderson.

535
00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:41,280
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's probably a couple of weeks ago,

536
00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:43,280
Speaker 3: and he was in the six draft class, so he

537
00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:46,600
Speaker 3: was right there with Dray. It feels like more people

538
00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:50,399
Speaker 3: I talked to are more excited for Dranno. Dre's excited

539
00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:51,919
Speaker 3: to go into Hall of Fame, I know, but it

540
00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:55,520
Speaker 3: feels like his teammates, guys like you, David Anderson, are

541
00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:58,080
Speaker 3: even that much more excited for him to go into

542
00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:01,240
Speaker 3: the Hall of Fame because of the teammate that wassing or.

543
00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:04,920
Speaker 5: Correct, I mean, this is technically is not my first

544
00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:06,240
Speaker 5: teammate to go in the Hall of Fame, you know

545
00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:08,600
Speaker 5: what I mean? But uh, you know, it's my first

546
00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,000
Speaker 5: Texas teammate, and it was you know, you know I

547
00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:13,840
Speaker 5: was telling I was telling Doug earlier. Uh, you know,

548
00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:15,600
Speaker 5: when I first got drafted here one of the things.

549
00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:17,439
Speaker 5: It was like, I'm such a fan of the NFL.

550
00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:19,159
Speaker 5: You're like, man, I wish I'd have went to a

551
00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:21,200
Speaker 5: story franchise with all this history and all.

552
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:21,760
Speaker 2: This other stuff.

553
00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:23,800
Speaker 5: But then when you got here, you realize, hold on,

554
00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,080
Speaker 5: we are the history. We are, we are the timeline,

555
00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:28,919
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, Like everything's gonna be judged

556
00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:31,639
Speaker 5: by what we do, and everybody's gonna remember what we do,

557
00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:34,600
Speaker 5: whether good or bad. And the fact is that he's

558
00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:36,600
Speaker 5: the first to do it. The fact is he's the

559
00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,399
Speaker 5: teammate he was. The fact is when we were all young.

560
00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:41,280
Speaker 5: You know, I'm telling people the other day, like we

561
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:44,280
Speaker 5: were young out here, Like we were all babies. Nobody

562
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:46,960
Speaker 5: was married with kids. It was the majority of the

563
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:48,600
Speaker 5: team was twenty six.

564
00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:51,360
Speaker 2: Years old and younger. And we all had a great time.

565
00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:53,439
Speaker 5: We all wanted to see each other succeed, and we

566
00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:55,480
Speaker 5: all loved each other and love being around each other.

567
00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:58,879
Speaker 5: And it's it hadn't changed, even though now you know

568
00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:01,640
Speaker 5: he you know, I'm forty two, he's forty three.

569
00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:03,920
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, it hadn't changed a bit. Hey,

570
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:09,960
Speaker 2: you did that show with McClean. Yes, it probably won't.

571
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:12,399
Speaker 2: ESPN O me, I'm trying to figure out who I

572
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 2: send the bill to. It was old school news school.

573
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,679
Speaker 1: But the twist was you at the old school, so

574
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,240
Speaker 1: you always embraced the history of sports.

575
00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 5: I've always not just history, like really, for me, history

576
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,399
Speaker 5: of baseball because I'm the first generation of America. My

577
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,280
Speaker 5: parents were Panama, and it was always baseball, baseball, baseball

578
00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 5: growing up, but then football because you know, when I

579
00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:36,400
Speaker 5: was a young kid, the first guy was talking about

580
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,680
Speaker 5: to playball outlets. When I was nine ten years old,

581
00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:43,320
Speaker 5: Al gave me a VHS of NFL films and I'm

582
00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:45,720
Speaker 5: listening to I'm listening to Mississable talking is.

583
00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:47,960
Speaker 2: Old in the Frozen Tundra, you know what I mean.

584
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,679
Speaker 5: Like I enjoyed, like I watched those on repeat. You know,

585
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,879
Speaker 5: Deacon Jones was my favorite player of all time. I

586
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:56,520
Speaker 5: got to do a show with Deacon Jones when I

587
00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:59,560
Speaker 5: was seventeen years old. You remember Hardcore Football. He's being

588
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 5: foxb Me. Deacon Jones were on that show and we

589
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:05,840
Speaker 5: were together and and really just got to chop it

590
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 5: up with for hours, just trying to get a thirty

591
00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:10,639
Speaker 5: minute show finished because it kept cursing Kevin having to

592
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:11,440
Speaker 5: take a smoke break.

593
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 2: It just was. It was great.

594
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 5: So like part of the reason I'm excited too, is

595
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 5: because like I can't wait to talk to Andre about

596
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:23,560
Speaker 5: that that private that private dinner, that private talk that

597
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 5: they have with the Hall of Famers before they actually.

598
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:27,920
Speaker 2: Get the sayers. Yeah.

599
00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, because like for people out there in radio land

600
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,080
Speaker 5: who don't know Hall of Famers, the week of their

601
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:34,640
Speaker 5: Hall of Fame, they aren't allowed to speak to the media,

602
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 5: they aren't allowed to speak really to to anybody until

603
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,360
Speaker 5: their speech. But I think the night before a couple

604
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:42,879
Speaker 5: ninety four and they always have Uh, we're all the

605
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,119
Speaker 5: old timer Hall of Famers where Deacon Jones used to

606
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,679
Speaker 5: lead this back in the day before he passed away. Uh,

607
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:49,399
Speaker 5: used to sit there and talk and talk about the

608
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:50,920
Speaker 5: history of the game and everything.

609
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:51,879
Speaker 2: I'm waiting to hear.

610
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 5: What comes out of that room because it's like it's

611
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:57,040
Speaker 5: like food for my soul when it comes to the

612
00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 5: game of football.

613
00:24:58,160 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 2: So are you gonna be there and can't no to match?

614
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,520
Speaker 2: You're gonna You're not missing that. I'm not. I'm gonna

615
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 2: be there.

616
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,240
Speaker 3: Teammates, teammates that you know they are gonna be there.

617
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just it's gonna be a pretty big everybody.

618
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:10,440
Speaker 2: Everybody. I mean, have you ever been to camp before?

619
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:10,719
Speaker 3: No?

620
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,880
Speaker 2: I have not. I regret it because I didn't want

621
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 2: to go until he got in.

622
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:16,200
Speaker 5: You know, when Eltie I was, I was in body

623
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:19,119
Speaker 5: lt you know when when when Amy got in and

624
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 5: I didn't want to go. I said, I'm not going

625
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,239
Speaker 5: into Dragons, I'm not going into Drake gos In And

626
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:24,920
Speaker 5: he was like, well, I can understand that, I said,

627
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 5: because I don't want to spoil what it is for me,

628
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. I don't want to say, oh, yeah,

629
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 5: this is another time I've been, another time I've been,

630
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:34,639
Speaker 5: you know, but uh, you know, Junior say, I was

631
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,440
Speaker 5: good friend of mine, enjoyed you know, drinking buddies, hanging

632
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,399
Speaker 5: out buddies. And then I got invited when Junior went,

633
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:41,359
Speaker 5: but I just didn't want to go until I figure

634
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 5: Dre was gonna get in. And so now it's it's it's.

635
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 2: I'm so excited.

636
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 5: I think, you know, losing Ja Kobe kind of put

637
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 5: a damper on, you know, for us. You know, uh,

638
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:55,360
Speaker 5: these these last you know, just upcoming weeks. But I think,

639
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 5: you know, it'd be great that one we'll go from

640
00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 5: Jacoby's funeral to celebration, So it be, it'd be, it'd

641
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 5: be a kind of mixed bag. But I think everybody

642
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 5: is gonna be super excited for, you know, to see

643
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,240
Speaker 5: our brother Andrey Lamon Johnson get into the Hall of Fame.

644
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,480
Speaker 1: Well, Travis, uh, when you look at this, Dimiko is

645
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:16,640
Speaker 1: gonna bring the whole team to the induct show and

646
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 1: going back to Demico for a moment. There are a

647
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 1: lot of guys that I point this out, There are

648
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 1: a lot of guys who I think would be good coaches,

649
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 1: but a lot of guys just start willing to do

650
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 1: it right, And He's certainly willing to do it. And

651
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,880
Speaker 1: you always think he would be willing to do it

652
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 1: because I feel like most people believe that, Yeah, when

653
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 1: they were around Hi as a player who's.

654
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:36,600
Speaker 2: Gonna be a good coach if he wanted to do it,

655
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:37,080
Speaker 2: no question.

656
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 5: I think I think for him it was he was

657
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:41,880
Speaker 5: gonna need the game the way the game needed him,

658
00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 5: you know what I mean? Like I think he loved

659
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 5: the game so much to put so much into it.

660
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,359
Speaker 5: If you remember his workie year he comes in he's

661
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 5: sec defensive player, a year he goes the second round

662
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 5: only because he ran a four six four seven forty,

663
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 5: which was garbage, you know when you think about it

664
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Speaker 5: as a whole, because you're like, he was sec defensi

665
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 5: player to the year. It's just spoke for itself. But

666
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,920
Speaker 5: I'm glad he fell to us. But you remember who

667
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 5: was starting a training camp, Sam Coward. Sam kyr was

668
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,440
Speaker 5: starting middle linebacker at the time. He just signed Sam Kyrr,

669
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 5: gave him a million dollars a side came here, was

670
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:15,360
Speaker 5: expected to play, and by week three it.

671
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Speaker 2: Was yeah, we're gonna get it to me. Go to job.

672
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 2: You keep that million dollars. We're gonna send you a home,

673
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:20,639
Speaker 2: you know.

674
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:24,080
Speaker 5: And that was that was when you realize when he

675
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,919
Speaker 5: came in that huddle and he was took charge, he

676
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 5: did everything you wanted him to do. You realize he

677
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 5: was you know, he was exactly what we thought he was.

678
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 5: You know, he was he was a great leader. The

679
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,640
Speaker 5: game respects him. Everybody who played with him respects him.

680
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,199
Speaker 5: Everybody who played against some respects and they knew what

681
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 5: type of guy he was, so you knew he would

682
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 5: want to be You knew he'd be a great coach

683
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:45,119
Speaker 5: and like you said what he want to be, but

684
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,639
Speaker 5: I think he wanted to be because there's another challenge

685
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 5: for him to see can I do it the same

686
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 5: level I did it as a player, and I think.

687
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:53,159
Speaker 2: He's doing that.

688
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,919
Speaker 3: Trap You're excitement about this team twenty twenty four. I know,

689
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 3: going into twenty twenty three, everybody's kind of like a

690
00:27:57,920 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 3: I don't know him. He got some young dudes I

691
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 3: don't know. But now you've got this squad. Your thoughts

692
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 3: about twenty twenty four team. Man, I'm so I'm listening.

693
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 3: I'm so excited the expectations. I don't even want to

694
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:09,399
Speaker 3: mention it because I don't want to.

695
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 5: I don't want to put it out there right now

696
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 5: and be, you know, and be like what you crazy.

697
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 5: But at the same time, I think this might be

698
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 5: outside of that team that lost Matt Shob you know

699
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,560
Speaker 5: what I mean. This is the best team we've ever had,

700
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 5: and this is our best quarterback this franchise ever seen,

701
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, And I think that the

702
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 5: sky is the limits. I mean, for us to have

703
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,719
Speaker 5: sold our game we got and we've always sold our

704
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 5: games in here, you know, I mean, but to start

705
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 5: the season sold out last year I did.

706
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 2: I want to say, I did seven.

707
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 5: Season ticket STM Get Together's upstairs on the on the

708
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 5: the the West Club, you know, for a season.

709
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 2: I've done zero this year because I'm pretty sure all

710
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 2: seene tickets are gone.

711
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're gone exactly, So there was no reason for

712
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 5: me to work last year.

713
00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 2: I did seven. You before that, I think I did ten.

714
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, that we're paid off? Trap

715
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 2: that work paid off? Yeah, you know it was great work.

716
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 5: And I don't get me wrong, I truly enjoyed it,

717
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, And it was I'm a

718
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 5: people person, so I got to interact with a bunch

719
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 5: of people. But the fact that all of them are gone,

720
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 5: and I remember how many people were quarreling a couple

721
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 5: of years ago, Like, man, I don't know, man, like

722
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 5: what you think is gonna really be? I'm like, listen,

723
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 5: you better get out hey, like any stock by a

724
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 5: buy cheat right now?

725
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 2: We're down. But it ain't it ain't gonna it ain't

726
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 2: gonna stay. It ain't gonna stay like this.

727
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 5: Call Hannah put too much work into this franchise to

728
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 5: to first to stay like this, you know what I mean?

729
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 2: From the now, from.

730
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 5: Everything you see from the rebrand that everything has been phenomenal.

731
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 5: So it's it's you know, I really believe this team

732
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 5: is a super Bowl contender, and nobody wants to hear it.

733
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 5: Nobody wants somebody wanted them to say it. But I

734
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 5: think if if it.

735
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 2: For us for the first time history is super Bowler

736
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 2: Bus Travis Johnson joining us. All right, Florida State, what's

737
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 2: gonna happen? What should happen? Wow?

738
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 5: One, we should leave this acc you know, uh and

739
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 5: Joe in that Big ten probably you know what I mean,

740
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 5: which I think, you know, probably make us the most money. Uh.

741
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 2: Two, I mean right now, I believe we're gonna win

742
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 2: a lot of games. Again.

743
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 5: You know, the fact is is what they let us

744
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 5: in the playoffs? Well, I mean it's eight It's gonna

745
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 5: be eight teams this year, right, twelve twelve teams, which

746
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 5: you know, it's you dilute the process again again because

747
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 5: everybody has a right to say, oh yeah, we would

748
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 5: we would have done this, we would have done this.

749
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 5: But we all know Florida State. If Florisdatate gets in

750
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 5: the playoffs, they armor full team in that playoff game.

751
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 2: And I think Michigan.

752
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 5: Michigan's the last team that would have beat us, you

753
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 5: know what I mean, And they were a team to

754
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 5: win that championship. I think they had to. If anything,

755
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 5: we'd have lost to other people, you know. And I

756
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 5: think that we're gonna be a better team than most

757
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 5: people in this league. I mean, I know these people

758
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:42,959
Speaker 5: in Texas don't want to hear, but Texas didn't deserve it,

759
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 5: you know, last year, to even be there. But I think,

760
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 5: you know, of course, think about they jump you jump Georgia,

761
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 5: you jumped out, like.

762
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 3: How if Jordan Travis is healthy last year Florida States,

763
00:30:58,520 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 3: that's a tough enough to cry.

764
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 2: You can't you can't beat us, You can't beat us.

765
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 2: He just had to stay healthy.

766
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, but I think but here's the thing is,

767
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 5: you shouldn't have to always stay healthy. If your team

768
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 5: does what you asked them to do, they should be

769
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 5: able to get through and be and be there. Who

770
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 5: won't be I think we'll be better than Miami. That's

771
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 5: all I care about. Miami in Florida.

772
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 3: So MIA's gonna be pretty good to We need Miami

773
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 3: in Florida state to come back to be that ribbery

774
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 3: because I will I will say this that makes all better.

775
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 5: When Miami, Florida State, and Florida are are in the

776
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 5: top ten, top fifteen, college football is like no other

777
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,719
Speaker 5: because then it's almost like we pull up USC, we

778
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 5: pull up U C l A, we pull up we

779
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 5: pull up the true blue blood programs because now they

780
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 5: realize they have to bring this stuff otherwise the South

781
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 5: is gonna keep winning.

782
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 1: This thing so much tradition. Travis Dyke's a lot for joining,

783
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 1: having always a pleasure. That's a beautiful thing to visit with.

784
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 1: Travis Johnson coming up, another beautiful thing. John Harris breaking

785
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: down position groups, and today it's the running backs. Johnny

786
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: has it all. Let's get to it next. I'm Tech's

787
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Speaker 1: All Access. Great to have you joining us tonight, and

788
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 1: it's also great to have you joining us in the

789
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 1: morning if you don't well some of the things we

790
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: redo here do a little best of in the evening

791
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 1: as we are covering training camp top to bottom on

792
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 1: Sports Radio six ten and on Texans Radio of course

793
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 1: eight to ten in the mornings first couple of weeks

794
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 1: of camp, and right here every night at six until

795
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 1: the end of time. Well, John Harris today broke down

796
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Speaker 1: the running back position.

797
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 2: How did that go?

798
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go down on the depth chart here, But

799
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: guys definitely noticeable. Rookie from North Carolina, and I love

800
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 1: the name British Brooks.

801
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 2: Hello, British Brooks.

802
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, big undrafted free agent. You know, Marion Hampton

803
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 3: is a guy that you're gonna.

804
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 2: Hear a name. You're gonna hear that name this year

805
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 2: with North Carolina.

806
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 3: Ironically, when I did my comp for mari and Hampton,

807
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 3: in my comp was Joe Mixon, but British Brooks was

808
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 3: his backup. But you know, in those situations we've talked

809
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 3: about before where guys have to play different positions, I

810
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 3: wouldn't be surprised if they teach British Brooks a little

811
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 3: bit of pullback, just so we had that in his arsenal.

812
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 3: Good good hands out of the backfield to twenty five, big,

813
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 3: big guy, really big. I thought he was a heasa

814
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 3: el Shire when he's going across the field the other day,

815
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 3: so good size. It's he's gonna have preseason opportunities. They're

816
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 3: gonna throw him screens, let him see what he can

817
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 3: do out space. But man, he is a big back.

818
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 3: He is gonna be really tough when guys had the

819
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 3: pads on today, he's gonna be a guy that he

820
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 3: I guarantee you there's gonna be a.

821
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 2: Defensive player that feels his pain today. Oh nice, all right.

822
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 1: JJ Taylor, who is five six five on the roster

823
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: from Arizona year three, shows up during the season last year.

824
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 1: You really don't know much about him at the time,

825
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:43,480
Speaker 1: but I mean you do, but the average person like

826
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: me does not know much about him at the time.

827
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 2: But he's noticeable out here as well. There's no no question.

828
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 3: Yesterday I thought was a tremendous day for JJ that

829
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 3: and maybe Saturday canmember which day one of the days

830
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 3: it was really good.

831
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 2: He caught a screen. He's he lives out in space.

832
00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 3: But what's interesting is you would think, okay, you just

833
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 3: gave dimensions. Okay, that guy's not gonna be a guy

834
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 3: that can run between the tackles. Actually, he's very good

835
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 3: running between the tackles. He's loaded the ground, he gets

836
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 3: tucked in behind his offensive lineman and def defenders can't

837
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 3: see him.

838
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:13,800
Speaker 2: And I hated those guys. I hated hated.

839
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 3: Playing against smaller, quick, thick running backs because you're kind

840
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 3: of standing up looking for him, and all of a

841
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 3: sudden he pops out of the pile and bang he

842
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 3: runs through you.

843
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:22,800
Speaker 2: Now you gotta get J. J.

844
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 3: Taylord space though, because that's where he can be electric,

845
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 3: massive thighs, he's thick, he's strong. I think of these

846
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 3: preseason games, he is going to make people go, hey, hey, hey,

847
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 3: don't forget about thirty eight. Yeah, do not forget about

848
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 3: JJ Taylor. That guy is gonna end.

849
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,400
Speaker 2: Up being a player, and I don't.

850
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,800
Speaker 3: Know how it relates to getting on the field.

851
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 2: I don't know, but he is fun to watch.

852
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 3: These four preseason games are gonna be a pretty good

853
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 3: spotlight for him.

854
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 1: All right, just acquired cam Akers coming off Achilles, his

855
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 1: second Achilles recovery, and he's out here.

856
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 2: We're in number twenty two.

857
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: By the way, we have a double number situation. And

858
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 1: you know, I don't like the place season or any

859
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 1: time of year. Obviously it happens in the preseason with

860
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 1: Jacob Phillips also wearing the number twenty two. It's no

861
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: problem in camp with the different color jerseys.

862
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,320
Speaker 2: But this is my world, folks. Join play by play.

863
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 1: Anyway, cam Akers, what are you seeing he did practice yesterday.

864
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was.

865
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 3: One play where he was in in a game of

866
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,360
Speaker 3: toss play out to the right, and he got to

867
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage so fast. Blocks hadn't even developed.

868
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 3: Like he's got that twitch, that quickness. He definitely has that,

869
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 3: and I was a little worried about that after the Achilles.

870
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 3: But he's got to learn everything now. The good thing

871
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 3: is he comes from a rams in Viking schemes that

872
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 3: some of this is gonna be familiar, not all of it.

873
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:38,920
Speaker 3: Some of it is gonna end up being familiar for

874
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 3: him from an offensive perspective. He's gonna hear some things that,

875
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 3: oh yeah, I remember that call with the Rams, I

876
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 3: remember that with the Vikings. But it really, honestly, is

877
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 3: just a matter of cam Acer staying healthy.

878
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 2: He is a physical dude. I showed you a state

879
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 2: championship game back in high school. He likes to.

880
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 3: Run through guys. He can run away from them as well,

881
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 3: which is pretty impressive. So if he's healthy, he becomes

882
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 3: a really interesting piece amongst all the chess pieces in

883
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 3: the room.

884
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 2: So I'm curious to see how healthy he actually is.

885
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 1: I want to know what the all time record is

886
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:14,239
Speaker 1: and I'll look it up high school football passing and

887
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:17,760
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns combined for a player, because plenty of quarterbacks

888
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:19,839
Speaker 1: run the ball a ton end throwing a ton at

889
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 1: the high school level, right and at a high level,

890
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 1: and he did it with one hundred and forty nine.

891
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:26,799
Speaker 1: One forty nine.

892
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 3: The number of touchdowns he ended up having unbelievable in

893
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 3: high school.

894
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 2: Now he went to Florida State. I don't know what

895
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 2: we're gonna I mean, we got to start.

896
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 3: We gotta speak well of Florida State because we got

897
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 3: our guests here in a little bit.

898
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm glad to see him here, to be

899
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 2: honest with black cam akers here absolutely.

900
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 5: Uh.

901
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: Let's get to the next guy, which would be a

902
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 1: guy that burst down to.

903
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 2: The scene in twenty twenty two.

904
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 1: Damian Pierce from the University of Florida was outstanding in

905
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 1: twenty two.

906
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,919
Speaker 2: Twenty three didn't quite happen for him the same way.

907
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:59,319
Speaker 1: Of course, Devin Singletary ends up being the bell cow

908
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 1: ball cap on this team. But Pierce still shows you

909
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: the great athletic ability which turns a kickoff for a touchdown.

910
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 3: He's got it, but is it the right it for

911
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 3: this system? John, Yeah, I think you just you broke

912
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 3: it all down. And that ends up being the question

913
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 3: how what's his fit?

914
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:16,760
Speaker 2: What's his fit in this particular system?

915
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 3: And I saw him the other day after practice, and

916
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 3: he is determined to make it right. He is determined

917
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 3: to make everything back to twenty twenty two and better.

918
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 2: He is determined to get there.

919
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 3: He has looked that much better this training camp than

920
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:33,799
Speaker 3: even he did last training camp. So with the pads on,

921
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 3: that's when you start to see a little extra juice

922
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 3: from Damien. So I hope if he finds that level again,

923
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:42,800
Speaker 3: he makes this one two combination with the next guy we'll.

924
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:44,360
Speaker 2: Talk about really really interesting.

925
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:45,799
Speaker 1: All right, Well, the next guy we're going to talk

926
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,280
Speaker 1: about is Joe Mixon, who's missed a couple of practices.

927
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 1: Dimiko Rimes, who played to the cut earlier, said he'll

928
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 1: be fine. He's not worried about him, great competitor, not

929
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 1: worried about Joe Mixon. Doctor Demico declares it okay, And

930
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: what are you seeing from Joe in the time he

931
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 1: has practice?

932
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 2: What are your expectations on this team? The word is decisive.

933
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 2: He is very decisive.

934
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:09,359
Speaker 3: He wants to go now like he sees his cut

935
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 3: within two steps and he goes and he's gonna be

936
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 3: one of those guys with his size that even if

937
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 3: he picks the wrong hole or doesn't quite see the

938
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 3: hole initially, he can get through that first wave of

939
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:23,719
Speaker 3: defensive lineman kind of flailing at him. As you know, Deven'

940
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 3: the limember is stuck on a block. You know, they

941
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 3: stick on an arm out. He's gonna run through that

942
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 3: and then he can make his cut after that. And

943
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 3: I think that's where Joe is a little bit different

944
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 3: from the other backs. He's so decisive, like he's almost

945
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 3: too decisive. But to me, that's that's three big words. Decisive,

946
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 3: get vertical, be decisive where you want to go. I

947
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 3: just I think about this as it pertains to draft stuff,

948
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 3: like it might be wrong, but I'm gonna be strong

949
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 3: in my opinion. I'm not gonna be wishy washing. If

950
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be wrong, I'm be strong about it. You know,

951
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:53,839
Speaker 3: it was like Dwayne when I when I was strong

952
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 3: about my opinion of Dwayne, I was wrong. I think

953
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:57,799
Speaker 3: it's the same with the running back. If you're gonna

954
00:38:57,840 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 3: go go, you might be wrong what hole you pick,

955
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 3: but at least be decisive because they still got to

956
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,359
Speaker 3: tackle you, and that can be really difficult. So Joe

957
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,800
Speaker 3: Mason is able to have that ruboff on Damian Pierce

958
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 3: and all these running backs just get downhill, get vertical.

959
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 2: Right now, It's gonna be a really fun group watch,

960
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 2: for sure.

961
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: You don't need to remind us of the only time

962
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 1: you've ever been wrong about a player.

963
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:17,960
Speaker 2: Oh no, it was the only time. Okay, I've been

964
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 2: wrong plenty.

965
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 1: I think that's the only time he's ever been wrong.

966
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 1: That's my story and I'm sticking to it all right.

967
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,800
Speaker 1: Another story that's going to be told is preseason football

968
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 1: on television. Not the Hall of Fame game that's a

969
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 1: national game, but at Pittsburgh home against the Giants, home

970
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: against the Rams. That's Texans preseason TV this year with

971
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: Kevin Koogler on play by play, Andy Kalou and John

972
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 1: Harris in the booth with him and Shelby Coppage on

973
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 1: the sideline. And there we were at training camp with

974
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 1: our radio engineer, Aaron Raybold, who's near and dear to us,

975
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 1: and Shelby paying us a visit on the radio for

976
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:51,439
Speaker 1: the first time.

977
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:52,279
Speaker 6: Thank you, Mark.

978
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 4: I'm just trying to get on an Aaron's level with

979
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 4: y'all one day. But we're gonna start out strong.

980
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got work to do to get to that lot.

981
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 2: Knock share.

982
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 1: Your work speaks for itself. You're outstanding. So you just

983
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 1: got back from China. You run volleyball in China for

984
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 1: what entity?

985
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 4: So in China it was called the Volleyball Nations League,

986
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 4: and basically that tournament qualifies countries including USA, everyone for

987
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 4: the Olympics. So it was a really really big deal.

988
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 4: China was there, Brazil, Japan, Thailand. It was crazy calling

989
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:27,359
Speaker 4: China in China. These these players are literally six seven

990
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 4: and I have to say their names with emphasis.

991
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 6: I'm like shooting yeah, so oh yeah, I got it?

992
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:33,839
Speaker 6: Got really fun.

993
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:36,399
Speaker 2: How long did that take Shelby to learn to learn

994
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:38,840
Speaker 2: how to say the rosters of each team, not just

995
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,760
Speaker 2: the Chinese team, but yeah, international.

996
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,919
Speaker 3: They're they're different, They're little symbols above each of those

997
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 3: different letters in different countries.

998
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:47,279
Speaker 2: How tough was that?

999
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 4: Well, you both know boards, and so for those listening

1000
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:51,759
Speaker 4: when you're in the booth, you have your board in

1001
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 4: front of you.

1002
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 2: How I do it?

1003
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 4: I write their names like how it sounds so I

1004
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 4: don't even know how you spell their names.

1005
00:40:58,239 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 6: I have no clue.

1006
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,160
Speaker 4: I get with our team book forehand and say it

1007
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 4: out loud, then just spell it how it sounds.

1008
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 6: So it wasn't too hard. The China team was definitely

1009
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 6: the hardest, all right.

1010
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 2: So you played volleyball in college right.

1011
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:12,280
Speaker 6: Where Texas A and M Corpus CHRISTI okay, so small

1012
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:15,919
Speaker 6: d one school. We are undefeated in football. Slow football team.

1013
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:16,400
Speaker 2: Lol.

1014
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 4: But I work for ESPN as a volleyball analyst, and

1015
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 4: I am surrounded by Olympians or Stanford players and then

1016
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 4: there's me.

1017
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:27,840
Speaker 6: So I really gonna step it up, you know.

1018
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, But you played the game so you can analyze

1019
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 1: the game and that that's cool. And you've done play

1020
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 1: by play and color. All right, So, Shelby Coppage, she'll

1021
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 1: be on the sideline for Texans preseason TV. And our

1022
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 1: three preseason TV broadcasts are Pittsburgh and the two games here,

1023
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:44,719
Speaker 1: the Giants and the Rams, those are the ones that

1024
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:47,360
Speaker 1: we're putting out. The Hall of Fame game is going

1025
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 1: to be a national game. So anyway, Shelby, tell me,

1026
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 1: the difference to you in doing play by.

1027
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 4: Play and color play by play is you are telling

1028
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 4: the viewers what you're seeing, and then once it goes

1029
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:01,879
Speaker 4: to the analyst telling them the how and the why.

1030
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 4: Once example, in volleyball the ball's dead or in football

1031
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 4: when the play's over, that's where the analyst jumps in

1032
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,759
Speaker 4: and really gives you that breakdown. Sometimes you can even

1033
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:12,800
Speaker 4: say what went wrong. It doesn't have to always be

1034
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 4: what went right. It's really anything you want to say

1035
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 4: about it.

1036
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, So being down on the sidelines for a football game, yes,

1037
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:24,240
Speaker 3: is now I treated differently than some other sideline reporters.

1038
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:26,400
Speaker 3: Do they focus more on the reporter aspect. I'm a

1039
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 3: little bit more on the analysts side. But your thoughts

1040
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 3: about being down there for a preseason game, I mean,

1041
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 3: have you done football games before? And how excited are

1042
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 3: you to be being down there, especially the first game

1043
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 3: being Pittsburgh, which, by the way, is the cool stadium

1044
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 3: as you're gonna find.

1045
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 6: I'm so excited to be in Pittsburgh with y'all.

1046
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:43,480
Speaker 4: And I'm really excited because as a reporter, you have

1047
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 4: to tell the stories that you don't hear. You can't google,

1048
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 4: or you can't read those stat sheets, so you to

1049
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:49,840
Speaker 4: really do your digging.

1050
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 6: And also for a preseason.

1051
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:54,359
Speaker 4: This is the time to showcase Texans players who don't

1052
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 4: get that much love during the season, and you have

1053
00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 4: awesome stories tell themselves, whether it's in the community, on

1054
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 4: the field, in the locker room. Sometimes the biggest leaders

1055
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:04,800
Speaker 4: really don't get playing time and people don't even realize

1056
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 4: things like that.

1057
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's well put. And you also do bally like

1058
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 1: high school stuff on Friday nights. I've seen you do that.

1059
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: And let me just tell you something. This is the

1060
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 1: little secret about broadcasting NFL games. If you've done that,

1061
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,479
Speaker 1: if you've done a lot of high school, you're ready

1062
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: because you don't get the information.

1063
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:23,880
Speaker 2: In high school, it's harder to get the information.

1064
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 1: It's not like they have PR departments just spoon feeding

1065
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 1: you lots of stats, facts and figures like the NFL does.

1066
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 2: Or high level college.

1067
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:33,800
Speaker 4: No, only do not get the information. We talked to

1068
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 4: the coaches once, so no players, nothing else. Sometimes I'll

1069
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 4: grab one before the game starts, but during the game, there's,

1070
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 4: like you said, literally no stats. I'm writing down each

1071
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 4: play in my own notebook. I'm having to keep track

1072
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 4: of the stats. So when I talk to the coach

1073
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 4: or player for our interviews, I actually have the correct information.

1074
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 4: But yes, I do have the reps, the background with

1075
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 4: ballet sports as a football reporter, So.

1076
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 6: I'm very excited. You're in good hands, I promise.

1077
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:01,240
Speaker 2: Okay, well, no, we know this, do you weren't scared

1078
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:04,280
Speaker 2: of that, scared anything? Honestly?

1079
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:07,440
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite sideline reporter or two people

1080
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 1: that you look up to that you say, Oh, that

1081
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 1: person's just so good at their craft or whatever.

1082
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 6: Malli McGrath is great. She works for ESPN, and you

1083
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 6: can tell that she really knows her stuff.

1084
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:21,279
Speaker 4: And I think once you're an analyst, you already have

1085
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:23,879
Speaker 4: the respect because you played. But a lot of times

1086
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:27,880
Speaker 4: reporters didn't play sports in college. They're fans and so

1087
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 4: they really have to know their stuff. You can't just

1088
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 4: be a pretty face. That's something that's thrown overund in

1089
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 4: the industry a lot. So Malli McGrath really knows her stuff,

1090
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 4: knows the coaches, the players. I like her cadence, I

1091
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Speaker 4: talk fast personally. I really like watching her and trying

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Speaker 4: to mimic how slow she speaks and things like that.

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Speaker 1: She's great to watch, oh, because you tend to speed

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Speaker 1: up and you try to get it all out Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I stop drinking coffee at one point before games.

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Speaker 6: I've been doing a lot better now, but you do that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I need the coffee.

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Speaker 3: I mean you got I mean that's the I mean,

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Speaker 3: I know with us, like I know, I've got forty

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Speaker 3: five seconds if that for the most part, like okay,

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Speaker 3: getting it. So I get that point where I'm like,

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Speaker 3: at the last ten seconds, I'm gonna go get with

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Speaker 3: you and the last probably three four words or I'll throw.

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Speaker 1: It to him at the worst possible time. You know,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna have a lot of scripage. Let's go down

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Speaker 1: to John Harris and I can just feel him thinking

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Speaker 1: why did he give it to me? Right now?

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Speaker 2: I mean I always, I always take the ball.

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Speaker 3: It's just a matter whether it's a quarterback sneak or

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Speaker 3: I got the opportunity to zone run.

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Speaker 6: But that's a great point.

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Speaker 4: And then being a reporter, if a big like if

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Speaker 4: a pick happens or a big play happens, I have

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Speaker 4: to make sure I can hand it off to YouTube

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Speaker 4: in real time rather than talking over a huge play

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Speaker 4: that the fans want to hear about.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how can people follow you on social media?

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Speaker 4: Shelby at Shelby s h E. L B Y Coppage

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Speaker 4: c O P P E d G E at Shelby Coppage.

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Speaker 2: I really gram or twitter them.

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Speaker 6: I'm really not that entertaining on Twitter. I'll just retweet you. Yes,

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Speaker 6: but I'm very excited.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look forward to it, Looking forward to it.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, it's gonna be at Pittsburgh for our first Texans

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Speaker 1: produced preseason TV game. It'll be Andy Kalou and Johnny

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Speaker 1: in the booth with Kevin Coogler and Shelby Coppage on

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Speaker 1: the sideline.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Shelby, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: All Right, all right, that's Shelby Coppage, sideline reporter for

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Speaker 1: Texans Preseason TV and that is the show.

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Speaker 2: We'll be back at eight am tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: As Johnny mentioned Tommy Townsend on the show among many

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Speaker 1: other things, as Day six gets underway, have a great night.

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Speaker 1: Area forty five coming up, Go Texans.