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Speaker 1: We are live tonight, Mark Vandamarin, John Harris, Johnny on

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Speaker 1: we make announcements. We have all this wonderful content we

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Speaker 1: You know, it's funny. We talked about this one, Mark

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Speaker 1: and we talked about it for a while, what they

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Speaker 1: would do, how they would go about it, anything they

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Speaker 1: really did with full I felt like jackson there was

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Speaker 1: no way Jacksonville could really win in this thing because

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Speaker 1: if they if they got rid of him, then they

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Speaker 1: were gonna have a huge cap hit, which they're going to.

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Speaker 1: I think it's like nineteen or twenty million on a

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Speaker 1: cap hit. They were then going to entrust Gardner Minshew,

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Speaker 1: who I think did some good things as a rookie,

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Speaker 1: and I know Jacksonville people want to get excited about him,

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Speaker 1: and I think they should get excited about him. But

435
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Speaker 1: we saw in London Gardner Minshew's gonna have some trouble

436
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Speaker 1: once teams really focused on keeping him in the pocket,

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Speaker 1: because that's what we did in London. We focused on

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Speaker 1: keeping him in the pocket. He couldn't throw over all

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Speaker 1: our guys, and when he did, the ball sailed, it

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Speaker 1: was interceptions and it became very difficult for him to

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Speaker 1: move to football against US, and they obviously only put

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Speaker 1: up three points that day. So I do think Gardner

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Speaker 1: Minshew it's I don't think that Jacksonville is going to

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Speaker 1: be out of the quarterback business. I think Gardner Minshew

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Speaker 1: will be their starter. But I wouldn't be surprised to

446
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Speaker 1: see Backsonville, especially with what David Caldwell did in twenty fourteen,

447
00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:05,520
Speaker 1: gonna get in Blake Bortles with kick number three, and

448
00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:07,720
Speaker 1: we didn't see that one coming. So I think they're

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Speaker 1: probably gonna stand the quarterback business. But I think getting

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Speaker 1: a force if you can, if you can withstand the

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Speaker 1: cap hit, which I don't know how much the Jacks

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Speaker 1: could withstand the cap hit because they had to move

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Speaker 1: a j Boyer, they had to move Kalis Campbell. You know,

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Speaker 1: they had to get more salary out the books. And

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Speaker 1: now remember that twenty seventeen defense more. Remember that week

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Speaker 1: one game where we played him at home and we

457
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Speaker 1: were coming off with Harvey and we're like, look, we'll

458
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Speaker 1: be fine Jacksonville. We'll just show up. We'll play off

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Speaker 1: the emotion that crowd. And they brought that defense out

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Speaker 1: with Kalais and Janick and Miles Jack and the secondary

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Speaker 1: they had with Jalen Rams and aj Boyer in Church

462
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Speaker 1: and Gibson. It was like, these guys are nasty. What's

463
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Speaker 1: left nothing, No, nothing's left of that defense in three years.

464
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Speaker 1: In three years, so they hadn't tear it all down.

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Speaker 1: And part of it is because they didn't get it

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Speaker 1: right at quarterback and because of that cap hit is

467
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Speaker 1: signing falls last year cost them players on defense. The

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Speaker 1: cap hit they're taking this year because the foals is

469
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Speaker 1: also impacting their defense. They had to get They had

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Speaker 1: to trade away two key pieces to the defense in

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Speaker 1: Clay's Campbell and a j boyish. So the full signing

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Speaker 1: is really set them back. But if they feel like

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Speaker 1: Minshew is at least a guy they can rely on

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Speaker 1: and feel good about them, fine, go for it. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that I'm all the way there and Minshew,

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Speaker 1: but they had to get where they could for Foles.

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Speaker 1: I was just I guess Mark. I was surprised that

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Speaker 1: Foles had a little bit more of a market than

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Speaker 1: than I originally thought. And the one thing I saw today,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know how much truth there is to this,

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Speaker 1: but apparently the Colts were diving into the Nick Coles

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Speaker 1: business before the Colts ended up going with Philip Rivers. Now,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if the DA get said, look, we're

484
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Speaker 1: not trading in division, We're not gonna trade in division

485
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Speaker 1: and anyone. Okay, let's go for Philip Rivers. But the

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Speaker 1: Colts had gone out and got Nick Foles, that would

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Speaker 1: have gotten all kinds of interesting in the division. But

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Speaker 1: I think with the Bears, and who's your starting quarterback now, Chicago,

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Speaker 1: to me, it's still Mitch Trubisky. But I think that's

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Speaker 1: not gonna be very long. I think it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: kind of a Tannehill situation. Trubisky struggles, can't show they

492
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Speaker 1: turned the corner, and then all of a sudden, you

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Speaker 1: end up going with Nick Foles with Chicago Bears, and

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Speaker 1: I think he ends up being the guy for a

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Speaker 1: while there once Trubisky doesn't make it. But man, that

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Speaker 1: to me to see that there was such a market

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Speaker 1: for Nick Foles for how much is on his contract,

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Speaker 1: I just I'm sort of floored that they were able

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Speaker 1: to get a market and create a market for him

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Speaker 1: with a number of teams being involved, including the colt

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Speaker 1: in the division. You know a lot to that, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: And I don't know if I'm a Bears fan, if

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Speaker 1: I'm really excited about this one. I don't monitor Chicago

504
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Speaker 1: sports talk radio. I've got other things to do like

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Speaker 1: many of us. But it's not a it's not a

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Speaker 1: game breaker for me. It's not a game changer necessarily.

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Speaker 1: I think it's better potentially than Trubisky, don't doubt, I mean,

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Speaker 1: based on what he's done. But again you always point

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Speaker 1: out you need the talent around him to make it work,

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Speaker 1: and maybe they have an the other part of this,

511
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Speaker 1: or two other parts of this. You brought up the

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Speaker 1: cap figure and had foals even been a success for them,

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Speaker 1: they still have cap problems because of the falls deal,

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Speaker 1: right if he's still down there slinging it, they still

515
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Speaker 1: have cap problems. They knew it, and that's why, you know,

516
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Speaker 1: everyone got excited for them building through free agency the

517
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Speaker 1: way they did. And look, give them credit because they

518
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Speaker 1: went to the AFC Championship Game, they had a chance

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Speaker 1: to beat New England, could not close the deal. And

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Speaker 1: I think, you know a lot of people would say

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Speaker 1: that's worth it. You know, that's worth it. Not necessarily

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Speaker 1: the way it edd for them, but had they made

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Speaker 1: it to the Super Bowl and won the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: it's worth it when you're making the run with free agents,

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Speaker 1: if you got to tear it down ultimately and rebuild somehow,

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Speaker 1: so I think many people would have said that, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you took your shot and now you gotta rebuild. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna pay the price. I don't know if they could

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Speaker 1: afford to do that. That AFC Championship Game spike campaign

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Speaker 1: that they had, I don't know if that's enough to

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Speaker 1: sustain them for the next three years. In other words,

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Speaker 1: because look at the three, four, five, seven years before that,

533
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Speaker 1: but the Jaguars also, I was texted by a member

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Speaker 1: of the media, why why don't you guys do what

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Speaker 1: some of the other NFL team websites are doing, like

536
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Speaker 1: the Bears who are announcing that NFL Network reported that

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Speaker 1: Falls is acquired by them in a trade, And I'm thinking,

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Speaker 1: we're not doing that. You know, Jay McDevitt, who runs

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Speaker 1: our digital media, and I and a bunch of other people,

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Speaker 1: we always talk about this kind of stuff, and we

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Speaker 1: decided back in twenty thirteen that as a team we

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Speaker 1: would stop doing that kind of stuff where we'd put

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Speaker 1: on our website report the Texans acquire like, I don't

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Speaker 1: want to do that. We have to wait till let's official.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna wait till it's official. I'm you know, I

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Speaker 1: know that'd be great to have those those page views,

547
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Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna do it like that. I just

548
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Speaker 1: think it looks silly. So with you on that. And

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Speaker 1: by the way, Mark, whatever happened to Saxonsville? Is it closed? Now?

550
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Speaker 1: That's what happened to Saxonsville. Well, unfortunately, there's a way

551
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Speaker 1: you can sort of manipulate the vowel and make it

552
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Speaker 1: funny in a bad way for them. And I think

553
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Speaker 1: that some people have done that, and that's what I think.

554
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,680
Speaker 1: They went two nuts with that. Look. On one hand,

555
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 1: I give them credit for the creativity and we go.

556
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 1: I go back to and this is again a dated reference,

557
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Speaker 1: but the New York sack exchange, remember that with Mark

558
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 1: Gasteau and Joe Cleco with the Jets. Look, they never

559
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Speaker 1: won a Super Bowl. Did they make it to an

560
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Speaker 1: AFC Championship game? I think they played the Dolphins maybe,

561
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, so all right, great they made it

562
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Speaker 1: to an AFC championship game with Richard Todd as their quarterback,

563
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 1: the Joe Namath's replacement. But you know, look, cute nicknames

564
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 1: are great. I love them, but that one, it just

565
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 1: couldn't stick long enough. You know. They just weren't racking

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Speaker 1: up enough sacks. And they would put it as their

567
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Speaker 1: Twitter handle or their Twitter avy and then they would

568
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Speaker 1: have to take it off if they had a bad

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Speaker 1: game and with no sacks, and then they had they'd

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00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:49,679
Speaker 1: have another game with four sacks, and boom, it's right

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Speaker 1: back up there. So I don't know, it's tough. It's

572
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Speaker 1: a tough world in social medium, Okay, but let me

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Speaker 1: ask you this, Foals or Rivers in Indy, who do

574
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Speaker 1: you fear more as a Texan fear I hate that word.

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Speaker 1: Who are you more concerned about playing quarterbacks? Of the

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Speaker 1: calls Falls or Rivers, It's obviously Rivers now, but Falls

577
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Speaker 1: was an option for them. Yeah, I think I would

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Speaker 1: have probably, man considering what false when Foles had the

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Speaker 1: weapons around him in Philly and what he did to

580
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Speaker 1: us that Week sixteen game up in Philly in twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 1: I probably would have to say Foles now. Rivers has

582
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Speaker 1: had his way with us at various points throughout his career.

583
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Speaker 1: But you always could rely on Philip Rivers to throw

584
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Speaker 1: you one. You always you could rely on him to

585
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Speaker 1: give you one. I mean, think about the game in

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Speaker 1: LA in Week three. You know they're going down, you know,

587
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Speaker 1: I think we had cut it to seventeen fourteen and

588
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 1: they're going down. They're gonna put some points in the board.

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Speaker 1: And he fumbled, you know, after w Whitney didn't even

590
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 1: hit him all that hard, but he fumbled the ball.

591
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Speaker 1: He gave it right to us. He was good for

592
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Speaker 1: one of those or two of those in a game.

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Speaker 1: So I think Rivers is going to be that kind

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Speaker 1: of guy with a coach talent. He gonna pushing the

595
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Speaker 1: envelope even more. So. I think there's gonna be opportunities

596
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 1: there when you face the Colts that, yeah, they're gonna

597
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 1: put some points up on the board, but Rivers is

598
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Speaker 1: gonna end up keeping you in the game. I think

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Speaker 1: Nick Foles would be more of a controlled to the

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Speaker 1: right way of putting this, Nick Foles would be more

601
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Speaker 1: of a controlled guy in the for that offense. Can't

602
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Speaker 1: take the check down. He knows he's got Marlon Mack,

603
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 1: he knows he's got ninety behind. He would lose those guys.

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Speaker 1: I think Philip would do it, but Philip would get

605
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Speaker 1: greedy because he's like parents Campbell going deep pe Why Hilton,

606
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Speaker 1: I'm going to him. I think that's where he's gonna

607
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Speaker 1: fall into some trouble if he doesn't take some of

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Speaker 1: what the defense is giving them. And I think that's

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Speaker 1: where Rivers kind of fell into some trouble with the

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Speaker 1: charges at the end. He kept trying to push that

611
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Speaker 1: thing down the field and just wasn't there for him,

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Speaker 1: and there were the things he didn't see. So I

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Speaker 1: actually I don't mind facing Rivers for the next couple

614
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Speaker 1: of years. And the other part of it is too,

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Speaker 1: if Folds ended up being a success, we'd have probably

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Speaker 1: seen Foles for what five, six seven years maybe if

617
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Speaker 1: he's a success in any how much Bill pavlet a

618
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Speaker 1: year two. Yeah, they're going to be this whole quarterback

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Speaker 1: thing again next year. I'm fine. I'm fine with that.

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Speaker 1: And the biggest thing I'm fine with is we're not

621
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Speaker 1: facing number twelve. Thank god, we're not facing Andrew. Look,

622
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Speaker 1: I'm fine with whatever else Inniapolis coltswamp throw out there,

623
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Speaker 1: because it's not that guy. Yeah, he and the Misses

624
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 1: have a place in northern California and in Indy, and

625
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 1: it just seems like they're they're done. They're not going

626
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Speaker 1: to come back. So that's a good thing for everybody

627
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Speaker 1: in the AFC South other than the Indianapolis Colts fans

628
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Speaker 1: and Johnny with the Houston Texans. AJ mccaron coming back reportedly,

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Speaker 1: So you look at the backup quarterback situation. Solid. He

630
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Speaker 1: played well in that Week seventeen game. Uh you know,

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Speaker 1: I was about to say, you'd like to see more

632
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Speaker 1: of them, No, you don't. You don't want to see

633
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Speaker 1: more of them. But in August. I'd like to see

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Speaker 1: more of them in August, because he didn't play at

635
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Speaker 1: all in the preseason last year, so you'd like to

636
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Speaker 1: get him. Let him get his feet wet in the

637
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Speaker 1: preseason a lot, and play a bunch justin ki as

638
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 1: your insurance policy. He's ready. Yeah, That's the one thing

639
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 1: to me when I saw that signing, I was like,

640
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: first of all, good, I think, you know, I think

641
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 1: AJ did a really nice job in that week's seventeen game.

642
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: But those interesting After the game, I was asking him

643
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: because he had taken a shot in that game. He

644
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 1: had taken like a knee to the thigh when he

645
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,200
Speaker 1: dove on a run, and so I was asking him

646
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 1: or knee to the rib kidge of me and I

647
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 1: asked him. I was said, you okay, and you took

648
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 1: a pretty hard show goes, Oh man, yeah, he goause

649
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 1: I felt it on the other side of my body.

650
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 1: It's like, oh man, he goes, But you know what,

651
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 1: I don't even feel it. And I kind of looked

652
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 1: at him. He goes, I'm just so happy to be

653
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,720
Speaker 1: back out there playing and competing. And I thought that

654
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 1: was awesome to hear. I thought I was so cool

655
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 1: to hear how he loves competing, and when he hit

656
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 1: his hand on a Green Bay packer helmet up in

657
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 1: Green Bay and we realized, oh man, we might miss

658
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 1: this guy for a lot longer than just the preseason,

659
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 1: thought what are we gonna do? But now, in fact

660
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 1: we get to see him in the preseason. Hopefully that

661
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 1: won't happen again, and he's gonna get extended. I'm the preseason.

662
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 1: I think that is going to help him tremendously, especially

663
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: with you know what the Texans you're gonna have received.

664
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 1: I think that's really gonna help a. J. Mccarren. So

665
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 1: I'm glad he's back. I think he is the right

666
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 1: fit as a backup quarterback. I was really excited to

667
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: see him back, so I think it's gonna be a

668
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 1: good fit. Mark all right, coming up, we had a

669
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Speaker 1: lot of questions about this last year. We really don't

670
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 1: have too many this year. But if there are any,

671
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 1: what are they? And also Johnny mentioned the preseason that's

672
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: about to change pretty darn soon. That's kind of the

673
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,240
Speaker 1: hidden story we haven't gotten to because there's been so

674
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 1: much other stuff going on. But over the weekends something

675
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 1: huge happened in this league and let's get to it next.

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Speaker 1: Texans dot Com. Mark Vandermarin, John Harris with you, Johnny

681
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 1: down trying to get us some trying to get up

682
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: some vacation time. I'm at home broadcasting from here, which

683
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: is kind of weird with the kids running around and stuff,

684
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: and um, the phones going off and whatever else. I mean,

685
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Speaker 1: I don't even know what this is. Do you hear this?

686
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: I hear some music playing? Okay, there it is. I mean,

687
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Speaker 1: I've got all these screens on. I'm trying to keep

688
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Speaker 1: track up. Thanks for your agency. By the way, I

689
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Speaker 1: want to point this out, Johnny, that I see a

690
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: few more cases added to the COVID total for Harris

691
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Speaker 1: County today, and uh, maybe that was an AutoPlay on

692
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Speaker 1: one of the pages I went to. Um, still not

693
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: a huge number apparently, but obviously something they're keeping track of.

694
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 1: And with more testing you're gonna get more positives. No doubt.

695
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: But if you think you have symptoms, Houston Methodist has

696
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 1: something that you might want to check out, because as

697
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: you might not want to go in right away. Again,

698
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 1: a lot of people have this and they need to

699
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 1: ride it out. Sometimes it is serious, obviously very serious symptoms.

700
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: But log on to Houston met or log onto your

701
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 1: app store and get the Virtual Urgent Care app through

702
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 1: Houston Methodists. Just find Houston Methodist and you can find

703
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 1: this virtual Urgent Care component that's really going to help

704
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:26,400
Speaker 1: you out as far as getting some diagnosis or some

705
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,839
Speaker 1: over the app diagnosis and maybe give you another set

706
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,360
Speaker 1: of directions as to what to do from where you

707
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Speaker 1: are at. So, if you think you have symptoms, Houston

708
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Speaker 1: Methodist has that virtual Urgent Care app available for you.

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Speaker 1: All right, Johnny, here we go. A couple of things

710
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: that I wanted to hit on here. One was Eric Murray.

711
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 1: We talked about him last night. But special teams. I

712
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 1: got a feeling this guy could factor in in that

713
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: third phase and obviously very important to them. I mean

714
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 1: I see that they played justin read a lot of

715
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 1: special teams last year. Maybe they don't want to do

716
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 1: that as much, and that's something it's going to come

717
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 1: into focus here as the offseason continues. That phase of

718
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:08,840
Speaker 1: the game, no question mark. And I think the signing

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Speaker 1: of Taiwan Jones back to Buffalo opened up one of

720
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,360
Speaker 1: those spots on you know, your core for you know,

721
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Speaker 1: special teamers. You're gonna need guys to be on all

722
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Speaker 1: four special teams, and you know, justin like you said,

723
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Speaker 1: you get into a point where he's too valuable and

724
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: it's to go out on special teams to be out

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00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 1: on special teams, especially on all four. And I think

726
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 1: he was on punt team. But that said, yeah absolutely.

727
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 1: I mean what we see happen with free agents. If

728
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 1: you look at and go, I don't really know that guy,

729
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 1: he could probably assume that special teams are going to

730
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Speaker 1: be a factor for that player. Then once we get

731
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 1: to the draft, you're gonna see players where you go, man,

732
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 1: I don't know how that guy shits. I'm not totally sure.

733
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Speaker 1: And then you go away second special teams. I mean

734
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 1: like last year Colin Glesbia, they get they get Killy

735
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:57,919
Speaker 1: in the seventh round, and what you end up getting

736
00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: out of the seventh rounder he was on every single

737
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 1: special team. He's then helped you at full back over

738
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: the last few weeks of the year and hunts the playoffs.

739
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:06,959
Speaker 1: So yes, every one of these guys that are gonna

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Speaker 1: get drafted more than likely, well depending on what position

741
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:12,399
Speaker 1: they ended up doing in the second round, but from

742
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:15,319
Speaker 1: third round on, I would imagine those guys are gonna

743
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 1: have to contribute on special teams because there's gonna be

744
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: there's gonna be players coming and going. Taiwan Jones as

745
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 1: one obviously we know is going. Hopefully we'll get Dylan

746
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 1: Cole back one hundred percent, and that's you know, Dylan

747
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: can step right back in to being a big factor

748
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: in the defense on special teams. But you're right, Mark,

749
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 1: special teams has got to be something that this team

750
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 1: continues at a high rate because the last two years

751
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 1: the special teams have been really, really good. We've they've

752
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 1: got to maintain that level at all times. And you're

753
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:50,879
Speaker 1: specialists with Weeks and Anger and Kaimie, they're all coming back,

754
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 1: so there's continuities there. So hopefully there's not gonna be

755
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,840
Speaker 1: any kind of blips in the field goal operation as

756
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,399
Speaker 1: there were at the beginning of the year. But yeah,

757
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 1: guy like Eric Murray, he's got some He's got some

758
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,799
Speaker 1: playing time out on the defensive side, There's no question

759
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: about it. But I would imagine special teams are gonna

760
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: be a major factor for him and a number of

761
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 1: the guys that they signed that are coming back. Some

762
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:12,759
Speaker 1: of the guys are coming back, and some guys that

763
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,879
Speaker 1: they continue to sign him for the next few days though,

764
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 1: going to Denver for a seventh, Oh thank god, thank god.

765
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 1: Jrell Casey didn't play exceptually well against US this year, Mark,

766
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 1: but he was such a factor for them. I saw

767
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 1: that today and I just went it was one of

768
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 1: those where I did the doghead turn, like, huh wait,

769
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 1: did I read that right? For it? Captain? So I

770
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 1: you know, and I know Denver was was really hot

771
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:46,399
Speaker 1: on DJ Reader and they were gonna have to pay

772
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 1: a significant amount to Reader to get in to come

773
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 1: to Denver, and obviously Reader decides to go to Cincinnati.

774
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 1: So when I saw what they how little Denver game

775
00:37:54,800 --> 00:38:00,760
Speaker 1: up to get Darrell Casey, I'm like, man, I holy smokes,

776
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 1: I just know the sites would have never dealt Darrell

777
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:05,359
Speaker 1: case He does. I know, people, because that was your

778
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 1: first of all, Like, man, I give up a seventh,

779
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,840
Speaker 1: But then again, you're not gonna get that deal inside

780
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 1: the division, and that obviously is what happened. He goes

781
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 1: to Denver. I think he he steps in there. You know,

782
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:18,399
Speaker 1: you don't know what Derek Wolf is gonna have coming back.

783
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,360
Speaker 1: He's coming off an injury, so you don't know exactly

784
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 1: when he's gonna be healthy. So I think it was

785
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 1: a great move for Denver. And thank god John Elway,

786
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 1: thank you. Darrell Casey has been such a thorn in

787
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 1: the side and I'm just really curious what the Titans

788
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:34,239
Speaker 1: do now. But if they got Jeffrey Simmons and they

789
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 1: got de Kuon Jones rather than that up front, they're

790
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 1: they're not big, they're not big, and I don't think

791
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 1: they're very good. So I know Jeffrey Simmons is gonna

792
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:46,800
Speaker 1: be a stud. So I would imagine the draft capital

793
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 1: for Tennessee is gonna be going towards, you know, fixing

794
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 1: that defensive line. And then also are they one hundred

795
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 1: percent certain to Dennis Kelly as they're starting right tackle,

796
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 1: because if they're not, they're also gonna have to look

797
00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 1: in that direction as well, so you know, and then

798
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Speaker 1: the one other one that's out there that I've heard

799
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:07,479
Speaker 1: them linked to Saevion Clowney, and we know JD's gonna

800
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 1: end up getting a pretty penny. So there are a

801
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,320
Speaker 1: lot of things going on with that situation in Tennessee.

802
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 1: But Joe Casey going for a seven, I was floored.

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00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 1: You're gonna knock me over with a feather And you

804
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:20,879
Speaker 1: couldn't do that my entire life, I've always been fat,

805
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 1: So you couldn't do that, but you could have today

806
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,280
Speaker 1: because I was totally shocked that happened. Did Devion Clowney

807
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 1: still out there, still on the market. We'll see what

808
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:31,720
Speaker 1: happens there now. Last year, at this time, we hinted

809
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: on this offensive line, who is going to be the

810
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 1: left tackle? What else are you gonna do with guard?

811
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 1: What were you gonna do overall? Well, we saw that

812
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 1: they drafted two guys in Titus Howard Max Sharping. They

813
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: became starters. Titus will be back playing the right side,

814
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 1: Laramie on the left side. Who you acquired Labor Day weekend?

815
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Speaker 1: I mean, you feel pretty good about the old line,

816
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:55,840
Speaker 1: very good maybe going in to the twenty twenty season,

817
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,839
Speaker 1: why not you invested a lot there with A one

818
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 1: A two Nick Martin, who you drafted and then signed

819
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,800
Speaker 1: to an extension, and of course, Laramie, who you acquired

820
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,279
Speaker 1: in that mega deal with Miami. So I like it.

821
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 1: I want to see how else it shapes up, because

822
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:13,880
Speaker 1: you know them, they're unlikely to stay put all across

823
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 1: the board, but maybe they do. Johnny, Yeah, I mean

824
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,360
Speaker 1: when you look at the offensive line, and again we

825
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,800
Speaker 1: go back to health, but you know when they remember

826
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 1: when we went out to LA and heard week three, hey,

827
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,279
Speaker 1: look they might be playing Titus out of tackle and

828
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: moving Sharping into guard, and this is the offensive line

829
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 1: they want to go with. I remember looking around, going, hey,

830
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:35,799
Speaker 1: they know that Ingram and both are over there, right,

831
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 1: They know that that that defensive line is one of

832
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 1: the best in the league, and they virtually shut him down.

833
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:43,839
Speaker 1: And I'm like, maybe they got something with this group.

834
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 1: And whenever that group was together, all together Laramie, Max, Nick, Zack,

835
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:53,239
Speaker 1: and Titus, that group was very very good. I know

836
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 1: some people still pinned well, they gave up forty four sacks. Look,

837
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 1: they gave up a lot of those sacks the first

838
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 1: couple of games, and then after how they ended up

839
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 1: going out, they had to make some serious adjustments. Why

840
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 1: that five is so important is because you want Darren

841
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 1: Fells to stay involved in your passing game. You'd like

842
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 1: for Jordan Nakins and Collie Wearing you involved the passing game.

843
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 1: But if you've got to help your right tackle with

844
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: a tight end, and that's what they were doing here

845
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 1: the end of the year, then it takes Fells, and

846
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:25,320
Speaker 1: it takes Nakins, and it takes Wearing out from those positions,

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Speaker 1: and it puts them as they pass protective. Now, some

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Speaker 1: Darren Fells does really well, but Darren Fells also we

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Speaker 1: saw ends up being a really good receiver. So if

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Speaker 1: you know to use the Rockets terms, you're gonna run

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Speaker 1: it back with that five. I don't really have a

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Speaker 1: problem with that. I feel pretty good about that group. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna if you feel like there's a chance

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Speaker 1: to upgrade somewhere on that line. Sure. Stet ask me

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Speaker 1: this question when I was in with him last week,

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Speaker 1: and he asked me, Okay, this is kind of before

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Speaker 1: all the coronavirus stuff really hid, and we were kind

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Speaker 1: of theoretically diving into different things and doing a sports

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Speaker 1: our show, and he asked me, would you ever take

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Speaker 1: a fire on Trent Williams and then move Titus back

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Speaker 1: into guard. And I was like, I mean, I don't

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Speaker 1: know that I would do that, just because either Trent

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Speaker 1: or Laramie is gonna be playing a position that they

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Speaker 1: have now. Laramy's played guard before, so Larmi's left tackle,

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Speaker 1: Trent Williams left tackle. One of them would have to

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Speaker 1: move to the right tackle as Titus then moved inside.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know if I want to do that,

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Speaker 1: but I get set point, and that is you want

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Speaker 1: to play a little bit of bullyball. You could with

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Speaker 1: that group. You could. I don't know that I want

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Speaker 1: to do that, but you're gonna have to when you

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Speaker 1: face the Colts. You put Buckder in that group. Now

873
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:42,720
Speaker 1: with the Colts, you're gonna have to play some bullyball

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Speaker 1: against those guys. But I'll tell you what about Zach

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Speaker 1: Tolden there's one thing Zach will do. He's got some

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Speaker 1: heavy hands and he's got some pops. So I don't

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Speaker 1: think you lose much at all in that way. Was

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Speaker 1: Zach fold in that guard. So because they run back

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Speaker 1: with the Five Day of God, I feel I feel

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Speaker 1: okay with that considering some of the other needs that

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Speaker 1: they have on this team still heading into the into

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Speaker 1: the instant training camp twenty twenty Trent Williams Easier said

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Speaker 1: than done, Johnny CBA over the weekend, we only got

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Speaker 1: about a minute left here, But your your thoughts on

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Speaker 1: that as seventeen games can't happen any earlier than twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one. Yeah, I've you know, I've come around in

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Speaker 1: the seven playoff teams. I think you you sort of

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00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 1: you sort of got me with that, like, well, wait

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Speaker 1: a second, we could have three playoff games Saturday and

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Speaker 1: three on Sunday. Okay, sign me up. I'm good. I

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Speaker 1: want this to happen. So I think I'm excited about that.

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Speaker 1: Some of the nuanced part of it. I think it's

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00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 1: gonna be kind of cool. You know, the offensive linement

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Speaker 1: that they have to have active on game day, then

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Speaker 1: the emergency offensive linement. I think that's gonna be. I

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00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: think that's gonna be good. And look, I understand where

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Speaker 1: the players are coming from with seventeen games, but that's

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Speaker 1: gonna be that's gonna be rough. Rough. But that won't

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Speaker 1: happen for a couple of years, so we'll see how

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Speaker 1: it goes. But I do think there were some things

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Speaker 1: where they they looked at increasing number of players in

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00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,960
Speaker 1: the roster, increasing the number of practice squad members. I

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00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 1: like some of that stuff. I was pretty happy with that.

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Speaker 1: The finances. Now it's up to the TV contracts and

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Speaker 1: I don't know how what we got going on, Mark,

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00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:11,560
Speaker 1: it's going to impact that, but not get a TV

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00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 1: contract done. And you know, NFL players about to make

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00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 1: a whole lot more money than they've ever made before,

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Speaker 1: so you know, good on them for that. And it

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Speaker 1: was a close vote. I know some players not fully

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Speaker 1: happy with it, but we got football until twenty thirty.

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Speaker 1: Then labor pea site. I suppose until twenty thirty, and

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Speaker 1: I just hope I live to see twenty thirty. Mark, well,

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Speaker 1: I hope we get football sooner rather than later. Johnny

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Speaker 1: and all the rest of the sports as well, thanks

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Speaker 1: a lot for being with us tonight, and we'll be

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Speaker 1: back with everyone till tomorrow night at six. Check out

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Speaker 1: the website for interesting stuff. We can't announce players yet,

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Speaker 1: but we have some interesting stuff in there anyway, because

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Speaker 1: that's how we roll. We're doing our best and again

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Speaker 1: back tomorrow night at six, Friday night at six and

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Speaker 1: Texans three sixty Saturday Night, eleven pm on ABC thirteen.

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Speaker 1: Have a great night. Thank you Joanna for producing Go Texans.

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