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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, Welcome to the show, Welcome to the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Great to have you with us as we talk Combine

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Speaker 1: once again. This is kind of our final Combine show,

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Speaker 1: but Monday we'll have plenty of Combine content to sink

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Speaker 1: our teeth into again and Johnny Harris will evaluate the

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Speaker 1: entirety of the workouts see over the course of the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Plenty of the measurables delivered this weekend, but you still

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Speaker 1: have pro days to come, and of course the most

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Speaker 1: important thing is film evaluation. But many guests on the

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Speaker 1: show today, including but not limited to Nick Cassio. We

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Speaker 1: caught up with him the other day, but Drew Doherty

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Speaker 1: visits with him on the interview process. Andrew Siciliano also

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Speaker 1: will join us from NFL Network. You know his work

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Speaker 1: Once upon a Time fielded on the Roam shown offul lot,

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Speaker 1: but he's been on NFL Network for years. Scharene Williams

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Speaker 1: from Pro Football Talk worked with John McClain here at

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Speaker 1: the Combine for many years. But Sharene is awesome. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna hear from her out of the shoot and also

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Speaker 1: well after our Nick Cassario interview. I want to be

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Speaker 1: specific about this. Jeff Joniac voice of the Bears. If

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Speaker 1: we have time, we'll have him on as well, because

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Speaker 1: the Bears are on the text and scheduled, and there's

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Speaker 1: a lot going on with them having the number one

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Speaker 1: pick in this draft. Let's get to it here. Drew

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Speaker 1: visits a brief visit off to the side with Nick

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Speaker 1: Cassario of the interview process.

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Speaker 2: Nick, the combine interview. How important process is it for

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Speaker 2: you what you do as as general manager secuty vice president.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, it's a huge part of what we do.

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Speaker 4: And the number of players that you can actually in

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Speaker 4: is just kind of get an initial interaction with the player. Say,

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Speaker 4: there's a number of players that our staff is visited

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Speaker 4: with at the All Star Game, So this is an

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Speaker 4: opportunity for myself or Demiko.

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Speaker 3: Or some of the coaches to really get a chance

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Speaker 4: But we try to make it conversational and really just

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Speaker 4: to some degree, understanding that we're likely going to visit

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Speaker 4: with these players at a future point. Throughout the course

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Speaker 4: of the spring well, but it's a great starting point.

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Speaker 4: You learn a lot, even in a short period of

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Speaker 3: It's really eye opening and honestly inspiring in some respects.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you've talked about that. You've also talked about how

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Speaker 2: we're having a bad day, et cetera, et cetera. Piece

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Speaker 2: of the pie when you're picking a player on Draft

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Speaker 2: night or on Draft Day when it's Saturday, how big

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Speaker 2: a piece of the pie is that interviewer.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll have our interview notes, so we'll go back

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Speaker 4: and by the end of the process and we'll have

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Speaker 3: We'll have a number of write ups from our scouts.

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Speaker 4: You could have six or seven evaluations of the player

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Speaker 4: And you're just looking for consistency at kind of every

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Speaker 3: You learn quite a bit.

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Speaker 2: But I imagine you feel pretty well armed when you

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Speaker 2: Hay and your scouts everyone else's contributed. What sort of

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Speaker 5: It's huge.

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Speaker 4: We talk about who we're going to interview, what we're

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Speaker 4: There's a lot of dialogue with a lot of communication

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Speaker 2: TAGA with Texans GM Nick Cassario at the Combine in Indianapolis.

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Speaker 3: Nick, guys, ever leave.

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Speaker 4: So sometimes player walks out and you kind of say, well,

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Speaker 4: So before you go back to the drawing worth little

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Speaker 2: Do you have a question that you ask every single guy,

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, everybody kind of has their own little niche

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Speaker 3: So the answer is yes.

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Speaker 4: So there's secretive for not necessarily, but you know, we'll

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Speaker 2: Reps right now, fair enough, the last thing, you're interviewing

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Speaker 3: All the time? Often?

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Speaker 4: I mean, who knows another player a team ain't better?

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Speaker 4: we do. So any information is useful, Any information is beneficial,

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Speaker 4: could be even they're working out with a certain group

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Speaker 4: trying to get a perspective that's maybe different than what

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Speaker 2: Nick Happy interviewing Bessel Luck.

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Speaker 3: Thanks, true, All.

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Speaker 1: Right, there's Drew with Nick Cassario. Now Sharene Williams Pro

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Speaker 1: football Talk dot Com or pro Football Talk on Twitter,

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Speaker 1: however you want to describe it. Cover the Cowboys for

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Speaker 1: many years, but she covers the entire league now and

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Speaker 1: very much into the AFC South, as she will tell

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Speaker 1: you as we visited with her. Sharene Williams joining us

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Speaker 1: at the Combine Radio row. How's it going, Scherene, It's

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Speaker 6: Thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 5: I'm sorry John McLean isn't here to say.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's as you know, he's no longer with the Chronicle,

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Speaker 5: It's very nice.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's exciting to have him doing some stuff for

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Speaker 1: What does it mean to you Peter King retiring after

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Speaker 5: In the business.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, coworker for me over the last several years, and

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 6: We were talking about at dinner the first night with

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Speaker 6: And I think mondays aren't going to be the same

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Speaker 7: You're you're probably that person for a lot of people

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Speaker 7: get Peter King. You're probably that person for a lot

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Speaker 5: What's that kind have been like for you?

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Speaker 6: Well, it's different obviously covering thirty two teams. Now. I

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Speaker 6: I mean, the AFC South better than anything else other

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Speaker 5: I saw all.

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Speaker 6: I had all the Texans games this year except the

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Speaker 6: Stroud fifth on my MVP vote. I thought he was

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Speaker 6: So back to your original question, it's it's different covering

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Speaker 1: However you want to define it various platforms. So you're

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Speaker 1: talking about CJ Stroud, What about the Texans moving into

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Speaker 1: the future year two in this regime with Demiko Ryan's

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Speaker 6: Well, nobody and including the Texans, expecting them to have

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Speaker 6: the season that they had this year. And uh so,

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Speaker 6: a lot of those guys were supposed to be bridge guys.

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Speaker 6: always key. Are you gonna rest on your laurels and

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Speaker 6: know not. He doesn't seem like the type that's going

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Speaker 6: to do that. But you've got to get to work

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Speaker 6: and pretend that none of that happened last year. And

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Speaker 6: it's a new season. And one GM from another team

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Speaker 6: told me this, really he's he's got to show it

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Speaker 6: this offseason that he can do this repeatedly and it's

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Speaker 6: Well, the only thing that's been common is Jerry Jones

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Speaker 6: And you're right, it's been different things for different reasons

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Speaker 7: It's like that allergy ended up going up to Philadelphia

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Speaker 6: And you look at eleven games in last season, the

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Speaker 7: Overall, you know the movie Toy story, The screams fed

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Speaker 7: Every time that somebody sits down sheren and says something

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Speaker 6: I think it's fantastic.

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Speaker 6: Just the fact that he didn't didn't play with great quarterbacks.

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Speaker 6: Oh it's fantastic.

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Speaker 5: Bawling, Yeah you will. I just get the tear.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for the visit. Can I book you

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Speaker 1: for the owners meetings in Aeron?

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Speaker 6: Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: I'm pressure while we're on here, the pressures on all right, Charene,

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Speaker 1: thanks a lot.

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Speaker 6: Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: All right, there's our visit with Sharene, Williams coming up,

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Speaker 1: Andrews Sociliano, NFL Network. Many other things happening on the

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Speaker 1: program tonight. Stick around, It's Texans Radio, all right, Moving

448
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Speaker 1: right along here. Plenty of reports out there about the

449
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Speaker 1: Houston Texans and Laramie Tunsel had knee surgery that was

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Speaker 1: reported other players wanting to come here. We don't know

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Speaker 1: until we know. The league year does not begin for

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Speaker 1: another week and a half, and it is going to

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Speaker 1: be hot and heavy. In fact, the week from Monday

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Speaker 1: is when the legal tampering thing begins and will leak out,

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Speaker 1: and we'll be all over that here on this program

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Speaker 1: and Monday, Johnny Harris evaluates the entire combine, every workout,

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Speaker 1: every second of footage will be dissected by Johnny the Guru,

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Speaker 1: and Johnny and I are going to catch up with

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Speaker 1: andrews cciliana. We visited with him on Media Row, Radio Row.

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Speaker 1: What is it, andrews Siliano, NFL Network, how's it going on?

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Speaker 5: I'm doing well. Mark, It's I don't know what I

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Speaker 5: would call this now.

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Speaker 9: I feel like with the way they dropped this curtain here,

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Speaker 9: we're trying to paint a picture for radio.

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Speaker 5: Do very well.

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Speaker 9: But like they used to have the bench press in

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Speaker 9: this room, like it's just right, it feels different this year.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they were stuck in an airline hangers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no activity. We had fans. At one point later

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Speaker 1: in the week they brought and they had the Lombardi

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Speaker 1: Trophy in the middle of the room of fake one.

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Speaker 1: Probably you know effects there are multiple Lombardes.

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Speaker 5: Yes, been coming to the combine this twelve thirteen years.

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Speaker 7: I bring that question up because Mark and I were

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Speaker 7: talking about this that my first combine was over in

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Speaker 7: Luca Soil, the West Club over in Lucas Oil. It

477
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Speaker 7: took all of this and jammed everybody inside, and they

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Speaker 7: took whatever NFL teams had a table radio table outside,

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Speaker 7: like eight or nine tables, and now you look in

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Speaker 7: there's fifty four tables around this place, not all NFL teams,

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Speaker 7: but for the time you've been going to the time

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Speaker 7: now it's hard to kind of constantly. You can see

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Speaker 7: the growth in this particular event where really nothing's going

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Speaker 7: on other than guys running and lifting.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, it's fans have and this is good for all

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Speaker 9: of us and good for the entire business.

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Speaker 5: And I'm a fan as well.

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Speaker 9: We all are an insatiable, insatiable appetite for information.

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Speaker 5: We all want the season to.

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Speaker 9: Begin tomorrow, right, and this event is an example of that.

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Speaker 9: It is I think it's I mean, it's great made

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Speaker 9: for TV event. The workouts have now been moved to

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Speaker 9: primetime and fans want to see guys run, jump, throw,

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Speaker 9: because you are selling hope, selling the future, and honestly

495
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Speaker 9: it's great for them as well, obviously. And yeah, it's

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Speaker 9: an industry in and of itself, this event.

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Speaker 1: Andrew, what's the most fun thing that you get to

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Speaker 1: do in broadcasting? What is the one thing?

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Speaker 5: I know you enjoy it all.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but if you have to pick one or two things,

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Speaker 1: what do you enjoy the most? And I know you

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Speaker 1: filled in on Brown's Radio a little bit for our

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Speaker 1: buddy Jim Donno.

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Speaker 9: And then I was there week sixteen obviously the Christmas

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Speaker 9: Eve game. Sorry about that one for you guys. Well

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Speaker 9: it turned out okay, it turned out okay. I think

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Speaker 9: he got the revenge a couple of weeks later.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, wait, hold on, you were there for week sixteen.

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Speaker 7: I weren't there for the playoff game, correct, There's a

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Speaker 7: certain math that needs to be done and considered by

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Speaker 7: Cleveland at that point.

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Speaker 9: Well, I was just keeping the chair warm for a legend.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: He came back and was there when the Browns clinched

515
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Speaker 9: it four days later on TNF against the Jets, that's true.

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Speaker 9: And was there for the unfortunate outcome as I watched

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Speaker 9: that game at home, and it was an annual reminder

518
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Speaker 9: alcohol is a depressant as you watch football, and please

519
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Speaker 9: use sparingly.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, what's the most fun? I had fun doing those games? Yeah.

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Speaker 9: I have a lot of fun doing that. I mean

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Speaker 9: I've done We've done crazy wacky stuff here, Like I've

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Speaker 9: been on stage multiple times here doing an official coin

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Speaker 9: toss between two teams to determine draft position. We have

525
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Speaker 9: we have aired that live on NFL Network here at

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Speaker 9: the Combine where it's like me and John Gruden and

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Speaker 9: John Lynch and Rod Woodson. We've done it twice once

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Speaker 9: with I can't remember the other teams, like the Eagles

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Speaker 9: and the colt Sets. Yeah, where we're like you're flipping

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Speaker 9: a coin live on TV to determine who's picking where

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Speaker 9: it kind of felt like the circus. What is the

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Speaker 9: most I don't you know what? Easy one? I love

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Speaker 9: doing Red Zone for eighteen years. I mean that job

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Speaker 9: on Sunday was unlike any other job. And our great

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Speaker 9: crew direct TV. I will give them all the credit

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Speaker 9: in the world. They they kind of change the face

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Speaker 9: of sports television and every every sport now has a

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Speaker 9: show in which you jump around and whip around and

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Speaker 9: go from game to game, and that was as fun

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Speaker 9: and cool a job as I think I could ever

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Speaker 9: possibly have.

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Speaker 7: Andrew, excuse me if I if I have this right,

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Speaker 7: but I want to say.

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Speaker 5: That you grew up as a Browns fan. I did.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, so when you're calling the games, I mean, it's

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Speaker 7: obviously easier to call a Browns game because you you,

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Speaker 7: you know, the fans listening want to feel your excitement,

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Speaker 7: your passion. That's your team as well. Same for us.

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Speaker 7: I mean, that's it's our team, and so people I

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Speaker 7: think get that. But was it kind of hard in

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Speaker 7: some sense to call the game as you're going through?

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Speaker 7: Now you had some successful games when you did it,

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Speaker 7: but it was kind of hard, like being a Browns

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Speaker 7: fan but yet trying to stay kind of as even

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Speaker 7: keel as you kind of need to call a game.

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Speaker 5: It wasn't at first.

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Speaker 9: Actually, I would almost say I was as nervous as

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Speaker 9: I've ever been, like as but I knew it. Like

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Speaker 9: I didn't like I did a chart because you always

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Speaker 9: do a board, but like I didn't need to look

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Speaker 9: down the entire game right, but I also wanted to

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Speaker 9: get it right, you know more than I've ever wanted

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Speaker 9: to get anything right. My fandom John came out at

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Speaker 9: the very end because they won. The first game they

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Speaker 9: did was Week six when they beat the Niners, previously

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Speaker 9: undefeated forty nine ers when Jake Moody missed the kick

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Speaker 9: and when I listened back to the call, I lost

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Speaker 9: it a bit and the fandom came out a little bit.

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Speaker 9: But that said, being in that building that day, because

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Speaker 9: they came in with PJ. Walker, they were starting their

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Speaker 9: third quarterback already at that point, the Niners were undefeated.

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Speaker 9: The Niners were this juggernaut. They weren't going to lose.

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Speaker 9: They're not coming to Cleveland and losing this game. And

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Speaker 9: that was maybe the first moment where I think collectively

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Speaker 9: that fan base realized, Okay, we got something here, even

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Speaker 9: with PJ. Walker, and that building shook that day. It shook,

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Speaker 9: and that came.

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Speaker 1: Out andrews cciliano joining us on the row here at

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Speaker 1: the NFL scouting combine, what do you think are the

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Speaker 1: two biggest stories here?

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Speaker 9: Caleb Williams and what the Bears are going to do

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Speaker 9: at number one? Clearly, and then I think where the

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Speaker 9: other quarterbacks go? I think there is this idea that

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Speaker 9: it could be one, two, three, but I think the

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Speaker 9: two could be actually tied together. Like, for example, what

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Speaker 9: if New England were to flip the bears of.

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Speaker 5: Two for Justin Fields.

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Speaker 9: I'm just saying hypothetically, right, and then New England sitting

589
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Speaker 9: at three could either trade out right for anyone who

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Speaker 9: wants to come up and get another quarterback, or they

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Speaker 9: could go wide receiver, or they could go on line,

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Speaker 9: they go anywhere, and that would shake up the top

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Speaker 9: of the draft if one of those quarterbacks falls out

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Speaker 9: of the top three and then Arizona sitting pretty at

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Speaker 9: four to trade out, or La the Chargers sitting pretty

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Speaker 9: at five to trade out. I think those two the

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Speaker 9: quarterback story in general, and the fact that you're gonna

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Speaker 9: have only blue chip positions really in the first round.

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Speaker 9: Like if you tell me it's maybe two centers get

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Speaker 9: in there, maybe Oregon and West Virginia get in there.

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Speaker 9: But if you tell me it's gonna be quarterback, wide receiver, tackle, edge, corner,

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Speaker 9: those are the only five positions taken to the first round.

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Speaker 9: I believe you, and there is that those five positions

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Speaker 9: are stacked and those guys are all gonna go the

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Speaker 9: premium big second contract positions are the guys that are

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Speaker 9: gonna go night.

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Speaker 7: Number one the ones that intrigue me because I think

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Speaker 7: brock Bowers is as good a talent you've had at

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Speaker 7: tight end, But when you look at the money that

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Speaker 7: gets paid for tight End, right, it's do you make

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Speaker 7: him a top five pick? Because I've seen a lot

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Speaker 7: of people with the Chargers sitting next to us, they're

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Speaker 7: for the Chargers of the top five, Like, well, he

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Speaker 7: gets to his fourth or.

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Speaker 5: Fifth year, he's gonna get more than what the franchise tag.

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Speaker 7: Is, correct, I mean it's you can't bet the mathematically

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Speaker 7: that doesn't even work.

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Speaker 5: So where does brock Bowers go?

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Speaker 7: Does brock Bowers end up in the eighteen nineteen twenty

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Speaker 7: range where we take a look and think about brock

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Speaker 7: Bowers at that particular point, the guy throwing the ball

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Speaker 7: to brock Bowers.

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Speaker 5: If he does end up in Houston a CJ.

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Speaker 7: Stroud and that was a big story last year, Bright

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Speaker 7: Young probably gonna be number one. CJ and everything that

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Speaker 7: went with CJ. He ends up in Houston, he has

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Speaker 7: this incredible football year. A your thoughts on CJ be

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Speaker 7: the national thought on CJ. Going in versus what they

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Speaker 7: ended up seeing.

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Speaker 5: Last year is amazing.

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Speaker 9: Like, I mean, he is Like I have a nine

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Speaker 9: year old nephew who obviously roots for the Browns. You know,

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Speaker 9: kids these days, they root for players more than they

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Speaker 9: root for teams.

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Speaker 5: Every little kid wants to be c J. Strout right

636
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Speaker 5: and watch CJ.

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Speaker 9: Stroud highlights the way he led that team, you way

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Speaker 9: he led that locker room. I mean I've asked a

639
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Speaker 9: bunch of Texans during the season or or you know, during.

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Speaker 5: The Super Bowl, when did you know?

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Speaker 9: And you guys saw it firsthand, like you knew immediately right,

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Speaker 9: like to have that ability to walk in and have

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Speaker 9: every one of the building respect your process, your attitude,

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Speaker 9: your maturity, and then immediately once you started throwing the football,

645
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Speaker 9: you went, oh wow, okay, that that's different, and he

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Speaker 9: is different. I still have high hopes for Bryce Young.

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Speaker 9: I hope it's gonna happen. I think it will. I

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Speaker 9: don't know that he could ever, though, hit the bar

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Speaker 9: that that CJ put up there.

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Speaker 5: I mean, the kids amazing set.

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Speaker 1: The bar high going into the sophomore season. Andrew Siciliano

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Speaker 1: with us. You started in radio, right, Yeah, did you

653
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Speaker 1: fill in for Rome. I did a lot. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I was so.

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Speaker 9: I started with you were talking to jeffjoniact back the

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Speaker 9: voice of the Bears. Jeff hired me my first real

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Speaker 9: job out of school, hired me to be a reporter

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Speaker 9: in Chicago. Jeff was not you the voice of the

659
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Speaker 9: of the Bears, but the station we're on WMQ Radio

660
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Speaker 9: in Chicago soon got the Bears and Jeff well didn't

661
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Speaker 9: immediately do the games, but Jeff and I worked together.

662
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Speaker 9: I did some sidelines. I was the reporter every day

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Speaker 9: in the building. Jeff was the pregame host, and that

664
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Speaker 9: was my first real job and my introduction to the NFL.

665
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Speaker 9: Then I moved to chicam sorry to Los Angeles in

666
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Speaker 9: two thousand when Fox Sports Radio first started and Jim Rome,

667
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Speaker 9: to your point, Mark was in our building as well.

668
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Speaker 9: It was all a clear channel Premiere Radio Networks operation.

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Speaker 9: And one day Jim something happened and he had to

670
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Speaker 9: run home some kind of emergency, and they said he

671
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Speaker 9: need you do the show. And I ended up doing

672
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Speaker 9: the show a lot consistently when when Jim would step

673
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Speaker 9: away and.

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Speaker 1: The show was the radio the sports radio show.

675
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Speaker 9: Was at that point, and I am forever grateful to

676
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Speaker 9: both Jeff and Jim for for taking a shot on

677
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Speaker 9: me and and thank god I didn't I screwed up

678
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Speaker 9: too badly.

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Speaker 1: Did you use a lot of the jungleisms?

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Speaker 9: I know, because like you don't like, you don't wanna

681
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Speaker 9: that's Jim's thing, and it's like, I it's it's like

682
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Speaker 9: when you visit someone's house, right, It's like when you leave.

683
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Speaker 9: Let's say you're staying at your buddy's house and they're

684
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Speaker 9: out of town. It's like you're gonna make the bed

685
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Speaker 9: and you're gonna make sure you're you know, every like

686
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Speaker 9: you do the dishes.

687
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Speaker 5: You just want to keep the house.

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Speaker 9: Just as they but you're not making his favorite drink, right,

689
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Speaker 9: Like you want to make sure that when he comes

690
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Speaker 9: back to the house everything was in place. But Jim

691
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Speaker 9: was amazing and still is amazing. And I was always

692
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Speaker 9: very very happy to do that, and.

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Speaker 1: You've been It's been great for you in your career

694
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Speaker 1: because a lot of the TV you've done has been

695
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Speaker 1: fun TV, and it's been expanded formats. It's not always

696
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Speaker 1: two minutes and you're out right, You've got shows where

697
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Speaker 1: you can go a little bit.

698
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Speaker 9: Look the NFL network is great because they give us

699
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Speaker 9: a lot of leeway. It's not it's not always script

700
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Speaker 9: script script go go go. Like when we did NFL

701
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Speaker 9: Now for years on the network in the middle of

702
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Speaker 9: the afternoon. It gave our reporters a place to empty

703
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Speaker 9: the notebook and to have to talk stuff out unscripted.

704
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Speaker 9: And I think it's better for the fan because you're

705
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Speaker 9: not just doing a sixty second report wrapping around a SoundBite.

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Speaker 9: And and you know, now in today's day and age,

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Speaker 9: as you guys know, that's sometimes what people need to

708
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Speaker 9: and all that's all the time they have, like they

709
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Speaker 9: need it fast and faster. You know, we live hold

710
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Speaker 9: on our phones and everything is onto the next one,

711
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Speaker 9: on to the next one. But NFL Network has been

712
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Speaker 9: great giving us as much time usually to unload.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Andrew, last one from me.

714
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Speaker 7: You mentioned earlier about being in Super Bowl talking to

715
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Speaker 7: Texas players, Super Rowls and Las Vegas.

716
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Speaker 5: A lot of people know you were on site. What

717
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Speaker 5: was it like first time in Vegas?

718
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Speaker 7: Already knows what kind of city Vegas is and all

719
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Speaker 7: that they kind of live up to it for you,

720
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Speaker 7: I mean, were you working too much to kind of

721
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Speaker 7: experience it? What was it like in Vegas. So I

722
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Speaker 7: think it's great. And Mark and I were talking off

723
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Speaker 7: there before.

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Speaker 9: It's not a question of if, but when Vegas will

725
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Speaker 9: get another Super Bowl, and not not in two or

726
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Speaker 9: three years because that's already set up, but they're going

727
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Speaker 9: to get another one.

728
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Speaker 5: It's the perfect space, as you know, if.

729
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Speaker 9: You can get over the gambling thing, and we've already

730
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Speaker 9: crossed that rubicon, I think, with so much events space

731
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Speaker 9: and so many hotel rooms and so many restaurants and

732
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Speaker 9: everyone's condensed, Oh you got a meeting over there, Oh

733
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Speaker 9: you got to go meet, Like you could just walk

734
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Speaker 9: from a hotel to hotel to hotel, much like this.

735
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Speaker 9: India is perfect for the Combine. Vegas laid out perfectly

736
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Speaker 9: for the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: Andrew, thanks a lot for joining us. We appreciate it.

738
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Speaker 5: Don always good to see it both.

739
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Speaker 1: There's andrews Osiliao, NFL Network and former Jim Rum Show

740
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 1: fill in when the Room show was absolutely humongous. Rome

741
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Speaker 1: is still around and doing well, just signed a deal

742
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Speaker 1: with another platform. Anyway, enough about that, Let's get into

743
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Speaker 1: some Texans opponents talk, which we've been doing here at

744
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: the Combine because this is sort of the annual League

745
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 1: convention in addition to the Underwear Olympics, as Bill O'Brien

746
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Speaker 1: used to call it, Jeff Jooniac Voice of the Bears

747
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: is going to join us. They have the number one pick,

748
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Speaker 1: what are they gonna do with it? And they're coming

749
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Speaker 1: to it an RG Stadium this year. Let's rock. It's

750
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Speaker 1: Texans All access final installment on the program here. Like

751
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Speaker 1: I told you before, the combine is sort of an

752
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Speaker 1: NFL convention, so we do focus on Texans opponents for

753
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. And the home slate at NRG Stadium

754
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Speaker 1: is awesome because you have the Baltimore Ravens coming in,

755
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Speaker 1: you have the Detroit Lions coming in, the Miami Dolphins

756
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 1: will be here, the Buffalo Bills, we caught up with

757
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: Sal Capaccio, their sideline reporter plenty on them coming up

758
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: on the program next week, and in addition to that,

759
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Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears, and they have the one picking the draft.

760
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Speaker 1: So Jeff Joniak, this is one of my favorite people

761
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Speaker 1: who does what I do the Voice of the Bears.

762
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Speaker 1: He's going to visit with us and discuss that number

763
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Speaker 1: one selection and a bunch of other things that we

764
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Speaker 1: have on our mind collectively.

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Speaker 8: Love seeing you, my friend. How's it going, rock and

766
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:20,919
Speaker 8: roll buddy? You guys, man, we really are fast friends,

767
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 8: aren't we?

768
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 5: Like we are.

769
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 8: It's a relationship that just picks up where it left off.

770
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Speaker 1: Well, you and I love back in. I think we

771
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:29,280
Speaker 1: met at four when the Texans took on the Bears

772
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Speaker 1: in the Refrigerator game. That was probably an average Bears

773
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 1: December type game, but.

774
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Speaker 8: For the Texans, you got to put your big boy

775
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Speaker 8: pants on.

776
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Speaker 1: It's in Texans lore as the coldest game played in

777
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Speaker 1: franchise history.

778
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Speaker 8: Yes, you bring it up every time we speak.

779
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it left the mark in typical, in typicult

780
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Speaker 1: Houstonian fashion. Remember that really cold day?

781
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Speaker 5: You know.

782
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,719
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, you guys, it's so funny when the Texans play

783
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Speaker 1: a cold weather game. All the questions all week, what

784
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:00,760
Speaker 1: about cold weather even if it's like forty degrees?

785
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 6: You know?

786
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 5: Really?

787
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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, it's crazy. Well, my partner Tom Thayer, he

788
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,800
Speaker 8: gets real serious. There's no this is no jacking around

789
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 8: and no sense of humor going on. Dude, we got

790
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:16,439
Speaker 8: we got Tampa week two. Man, I'm telling you man

791
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 8: that that game's dangerous. I'm a sweater. Jeff I'm a sweater,

792
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Speaker 8: That's what Tom says, and he he I went to

793
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Speaker 8: school to be a meteorologist and I failed calculus, so

794
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 8: I didn't pursue and I fell into this. And he

795
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 8: is into the weather forecast more than I am, because

796
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 8: I'm still an enthusiast of the weather. But he he

797
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Speaker 8: just he equates wins and losses with hot weather games.

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Speaker 2: Wait.

799
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Speaker 1: Wait, you went to school to be a meteorologist, and.

800
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Speaker 8: So from the time I was in second grade, I

801
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Speaker 8: wanted to be a meteorology.

802
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Speaker 1: So you have to know calculus well to be a meteorologist.

803
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Speaker 8: Uh yeah, because that's just the beginning. Then there's differential

804
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,720
Speaker 8: equations and all the stuff. You guys took horse and passed.

805
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Speaker 5: I did. Yeah, this guy, I taught calculus. You did?

806
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Speaker 8: Where were you? You know what?

807
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Speaker 5: I was at Brown University.

808
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Speaker 7: And he's just I have I have a civil engineering

809
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Speaker 7: degree and I have a master's account SERI.

810
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Speaker 5: So I thought when I when I got it.

811
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Speaker 7: A Brown, I taught, I taught, I taught calculus to

812
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Speaker 7: all kinds of math, and I coached football.

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Speaker 8: That's fantastic, That's what I mean. So I don't even

814
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 8: know anymore. I would have been there for you. Well,

815
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Speaker 8: let me tell you my quick story and bore our audience.

816
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:33,359
Speaker 8: But I handpicked Iowa State. I get on, I'm so

817
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,399
Speaker 8: excited to get this weather office and I'm looking at

818
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 8: maps and you know, yeah, I took Advanced Algier bro

819
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Speaker 8: my first we were on quarters when I first out,

820
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Speaker 8: I got a D. But I arrogantly went to kolk

821
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Speaker 8: one on one. The next quarter. What am I doing?

822
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Speaker 8: F third quarter? F we took it again. So then

823
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Speaker 8: they went to semesters, first semester, sophomore year. I'm taking

824
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Speaker 8: it a third time and I can't new story problems.

825
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Speaker 8: So going into the final, I had to see the

826
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Speaker 8: final was twenty story problems. I turned it in blank,

827
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Speaker 8: went back to my dorm, got a garbage can, burned

828
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Speaker 8: the book in the garbage can, went to my physics exam,

829
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Speaker 8: just filled in the blanks and I knew I was done,

830
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Speaker 8: and my dad was furious that I bought. You know,

831
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Speaker 8: you're not listen. I just I cannot do story problems.

832
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Speaker 8: So I literally have nightmares that I have one class

833
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Speaker 8: left to graduate and I skipped the entire and it's calculus,

834
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Speaker 8: and I think I'm going to pass the final and

835
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Speaker 8: I think I'm not going to graduate.

836
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Speaker 5: I have this dream often.

837
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Speaker 7: Well, there's a former NFL coach who owes his degree

838
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Speaker 7: to me because I tutored him through ECO one eleven

839
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Speaker 7: and we started at calculus. We had to do calculus

840
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Speaker 7: so we could get further along with econ one eleven,

841
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Speaker 7: and then we got that and ended up getting his

842
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Speaker 7: degree because it was his third time taken at and so.

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Speaker 8: We got a name through. We'll leave it. We'll leave

844
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Speaker 8: it there.

845
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Speaker 5: People in.

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Speaker 1: Wye Words William, Yeah, Obrien Rhymes was Brian, but he's

847
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,359
Speaker 1: O'Brien has talked about this. Yeah the year, So we're

848
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Speaker 1: not revealing anything that's fantastic. Jeff Jodiac, Voice of the Bears,

849
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Speaker 1: Well tell me that is unbelievable. Yeah, that's that's good.

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Speaker 1: That's further conversation off the air. Yeah, well you should

851
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: have him on your podcast exactly. But Jeff, how did

852
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Speaker 1: you go from being a meteorologist want to be to

853
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Speaker 1: being a sports broadcaster and voice.

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Speaker 8: I mean, I love sports, and honestly, when I was

855
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 8: a kid growing up, I was I had a tape

856
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Speaker 8: recorder and I was running around the house pretending I

857
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Speaker 8: was all these announcers. But I never once thought I

858
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Speaker 8: was gonna do this for a career. And uh, I

859
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 8: remember I went to the Iowa State Journalism Department set

860
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Speaker 8: out and they looked at my transcripts, say, what makes

861
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Speaker 8: you think you're gonna be any better at this? Sense?

862
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 8: You got trust me. So But less than a week later,

863
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Speaker 8: I'm on the student radio station breaking down the the

864
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 8: Dwight Clark touchdown catch in the NFC Championship game on

865
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Speaker 8: of the Men, the famous Montana that we see year

866
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Speaker 8: after year, and I'm like, God, this is cool. And

867
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Speaker 8: then I tried to walk out of the baseball team

868
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Speaker 8: my freshman year. I knew the baseball coach, Hey, can

869
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 8: we call your game? So I sat behind home played

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Speaker 8: with my roommate, who's an landscape architect, had no interest

871
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 8: in that, and I'm calling balls and strikes and I

872
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 8: just fell in love with the play by a play part,

873
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Speaker 8: and yeah, the rest is history. Man, that's a wild start,

874
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 8: but here we are.

875
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 7: Absolutely that's an incredible start. So you just did the

876
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:29,839
Speaker 7: games and then that you got the bug and away

877
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 7: you go.

878
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 8: Yeah, I found in love with play by play.

879
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 5: I really did. What was your first paid play by

880
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:35,919
Speaker 5: play job?

881
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 8: I did not have many. I mean, I'm a unique

882
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 8: story here.

883
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:41,759
Speaker 2: Now.

884
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 8: It's going to make a lot of play by play

885
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 8: guys mad because I had no experience outside of college.

886
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 8: And I did some color analysts work for Loyola basketball

887
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,759
Speaker 8: in town, but I didn't get paid. And then I

888
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 8: filled in for a Northern Illinois football game against Central

889
00:39:56,680 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 8: Michigan in two thousand and the game was like fifty

890
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,760
Speaker 8: six justin McCarron's. You remember, justin mccarren's had a couple.

891
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 8: They had four touchdowns, I think, and Michael Turner ran

892
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 8: for like three something for an IU. And I remember

893
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 8: the first call of the game because it was a

894
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 8: late call because the play by play guy had a

895
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 8: medical emergency. And it was a ten thirty game in

896
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 8: the MAC and it was freezing, and I never met

897
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:22,919
Speaker 8: the color guy, and I don't know what I'm doing,

898
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 8: and I didn't have the roster memorize, and hand to god,

899
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:29,759
Speaker 8: the first touchdown, I said, and it's on tape and

900
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 8: I have it somewhere. Some guy just caught a touchdown.

901
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:39,400
Speaker 8: I mean's yoh yeah, I yah.

902
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:40,799
Speaker 1: Bears said, that's our guy.

903
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 8: We wanted to know. I mean, it's it's it's not

904
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:45,760
Speaker 8: like this is this is a miracle.

905
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:47,320
Speaker 5: It is, but that's a two thousand.

906
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,400
Speaker 1: You get the Bears job in one oh one. Correct,

907
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 1: something helped.

908
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 8: But but I did I did a lot the Chicago way, No,

909
00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 8: I I really did a lot of practice games.

910
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 5: Yep.

911
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 8: In fact, I did an entire season before I did

912
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 8: the Bears, and I'd go and I was going to

913
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 8: u of I and practicing and XFL. I was in

914
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 8: the actual mood at Toderfield practicing XFL. That's how you

915
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:15,759
Speaker 8: do it. And and and I had done a lot

916
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 8: of other stuff on the side. But you know, nothing,

917
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 8: nothing that anybody would write home about from that aspect.

918
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 8: So I am. I am a rare a rare uh

919
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 8: higher here put a lot of faith in me.

920
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 1: You just pointed something out though. That's important, and it's

921
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 1: a little inside broadcasting. But you're not young broadcasters. You're

922
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,879
Speaker 1: not going to get enough reps to improve by doing

923
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:40,440
Speaker 1: the games on air. You have to do those things

924
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 1: and practice either off TV, preferably at a stadium, high school,

925
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 1: sit off in a corner and make up names if

926
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 1: you have.

927
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Speaker 8: To do all that too. Yeah, there are a lot

928
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 8: of Jones and Smith's. Yeah, Jones and you know that

929
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 8: I'm making up. My big one was mcgilla cutty. Okay,

930
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 8: my cat so.

931
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 1: But whatever. I was just advising somebody, somebody I know

932
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:03,720
Speaker 1: is about to do some basketball, and I said, you gotta.

933
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:06,600
Speaker 1: And they've never done basketball or much play by play.

934
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 1: I said, you got to do it off TV. You know,

935
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 1: you have now like the next month to just hammer

936
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:14,800
Speaker 1: that off the TV or try to get into an arena.

937
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:16,880
Speaker 1: But you know, now it's high school playoffs or whatever's

938
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: going on in March madness, but watch TV and just

939
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 1: start calling it. It's a motor skill and that's our

940
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 1: broadcasting lesson fortune.

941
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 8: Yeah, it is definitely a skill that you have to

942
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 8: shine up every single day. And it's a different language.

943
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 8: You speak out of nowhere. All of a sudden, you know, you're, you're,

944
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 8: it's and it's immediate. It's there's no time to delay

945
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 8: and you just got to react to it. And it's uh, listen, man.

946
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 8: We have some great play by play guys in Chicago

947
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 8: in all sports, but nationwide, I'm just so in awe

948
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:50,839
Speaker 8: of all of the thirty one other NFL play by

949
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 8: play guys because it's quite the fraternity we're in. We're

950
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:58,279
Speaker 8: very fortunate, lucky. I'm very lucky. And uh it's been

951
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:00,919
Speaker 8: a crazy ride for these two days. Cads plus man.

952
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:03,879
Speaker 7: So, Jeff, when you are calling the games this fall,

953
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 7: one will include the Houston Texans at an Archie Stadium.

954
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,319
Speaker 7: Looking forward to that, we will not open the roof,

955
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 7: so you know, Tom temperature, temperature will be okay, thank you,

956
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:16,720
Speaker 7: controlled seventy two degrees. What name are you calling under

957
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 7: center four? I'm sure you've been asked this. I'm sure

958
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:22,240
Speaker 7: sorry Sex asked me. I refuse to answer.

959
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:23,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I don't know.

960
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 5: I mean, let's get this way.

961
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:25,720
Speaker 8: Yeah.

962
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 7: Is it more about what Justin hasn't been able to

963
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 7: do or what they think Caleb Williams can do.

964
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:37,799
Speaker 8: I think it's probably a combination of both. And I'm

965
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 8: not ruling out the possibility of both being there, and

966
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 8: so I'm not just giving away Justin fields. There's a

967
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,760
Speaker 8: lot of value there. He did improve. He's a dynamic runner,

968
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:50,319
Speaker 8: as we know. We can make a case that he's

969
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 8: the best in the NFL regardless of position at that

970
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 8: you know, and he's he's he's a thick lower half guy,

971
00:43:56,719 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 8: strong breaks tackles. Just that's why he's loved in Chicago,

972
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:04,319
Speaker 8: I think because of his excitement level, and he's the

973
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 8: most exciting player we've had since Devin Okay, knowing that regard,

974
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:11,319
Speaker 8: that's for sure. But you know, you get only so

975
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:14,439
Speaker 8: many chances to have the number one pick, and you're

976
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:17,239
Speaker 8: not a team that's in oh and seventeen. You know,

977
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 8: you got a lot of improvement. Reimproved the defense with

978
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 8: some really smart moves, the trade for Monteste Sweat. You've

979
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 8: got some pieces on the offense. You drafted a tackle

980
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 8: last year. So there's a lot headed in the right

981
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:33,880
Speaker 8: direction in that momentum. And you know, everybody I've spoken

982
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:38,240
Speaker 8: to here to the last three days, this quarterback, Caleb

983
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 8: Williams and some of the others, but Caleb is the

984
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:45,239
Speaker 8: belief is he's going to be a generational guy, much

985
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 8: like you guys experienced this year. I think it surprised

986
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:51,800
Speaker 8: a lot of people, but maybe it shouldn't surprised a

987
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:54,480
Speaker 8: lot of people. Well, they played and you know, you

988
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:56,279
Speaker 8: just can't you can't look the other way at that,

989
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 8: and you really, I just I know he's doing when

990
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 8: I say he Ryan pol is really drilling down deep

991
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:06,320
Speaker 8: and making sure he looks at every possible scenario including

992
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 8: all the other quarterbacks, and just you can't just rush

993
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:11,440
Speaker 8: into it because somebody said, Hey, this case's going to

994
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 8: be the number one pick because he is potentially a

995
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 8: generation What kind of guy is he? You know, what

996
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:19,719
Speaker 8: kind of guy is he gonna? Is the chemistry going

997
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:21,800
Speaker 8: to be good? All those things, as you guys.

998
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 1: Know, Jeff Joniac, Voice of the Bears, with us, you

999
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:26,239
Speaker 1: have the number one pick, but you have a lot

1000
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 1: of other picks too, So what about and you being

1001
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 1: at the combine, Jeff is exciting because when a quarterback

1002
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 1: is in the air, possibly and we were in that

1003
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 1: position last year, there's a lot of focus on and

1004
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:41,799
Speaker 1: everyone really locks in on the quarterback discussion. But what

1005
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 1: are some of the other things that you're looking out

1006
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:46,239
Speaker 1: for for the Bears to become a better team.

1007
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:48,440
Speaker 8: Well, we also have the ninth pick, and you know,

1008
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 8: you could get really creative with a lot of trade

1009
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 8: downs and really collect a bushel full of picks this

1010
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:56,360
Speaker 8: year if you so choose. But you know, I always

1011
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 8: feel like, don't pass on you know, the greatness of

1012
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:02,399
Speaker 8: a talent, you know, especially in the top ten. Take

1013
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:05,520
Speaker 8: a chance. You do have to take some chances, but

1014
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:08,759
Speaker 8: there's a lot of ways they could go. I'm big

1015
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 8: on the line of scrimmage still, both sides of the ball.

1016
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:13,360
Speaker 8: The Bears definitely need another edge rusher to pair with

1017
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 8: Montese Sweat. They have to determine in this particular scheme

1018
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:20,359
Speaker 8: that three technique defensive tackle which is the engine of

1019
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 8: this defense or this defense. And you know, they drafted

1020
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 8: Javon Dexter Senior, and he came on as the year

1021
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 8: went on, and he is long, and he can be

1022
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,240
Speaker 8: very very dangerous as he gets stronger and so forth,

1023
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:36,839
Speaker 8: But is he the guy to make to make that

1024
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:40,239
Speaker 8: transition into that position? Safety is going to be a

1025
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 8: question as well in the back end after Deddy Jackson's

1026
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:48,279
Speaker 8: departure and then another receiver tight end running back. As

1027
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 8: you know, there's a lot of ways they could go,

1028
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 8: but you can't straight too far from the line of scrimmage.

1029
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 8: Just so, only so many of those big guys on

1030
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:56,120
Speaker 8: the planet.

1031
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:58,799
Speaker 1: We have a lot more in that visit with Jeff

1032
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 1: Joniak and I have to put it on a vander

1033
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 1: pot or something soon enough, And this whole show will

1034
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 1: be in podcast form soon enough on Houston Texans dot Com, Spotify, iTunes,

1035
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:13,479
Speaker 1: wherever else you get your podcasts, we are there even

1036
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 1: tune in. Does anybody go to that? Maybe? I don't know,

1037
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 1: but check it out later if you missed any of

1038
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:21,439
Speaker 1: the show. And we'll be back Monday to evaluate all

1039
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 1: the combined numbers, all the Texan stories that break. It's

1040
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 1: all coming up in a week from Monday. Legal tampering

1041
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 1: or whatever you want to call it, the pre league

1042
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:34,200
Speaker 1: year negotiating period where a lot of stuff leaks breaks

1043
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:37,400
Speaker 1: and it's fun to follow. We'll be following it live.

1044
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 1: Coming up Area forty five, Sean Bajanni, Patrick Creighton. Stay

1045
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 1: tuned for this program. They will go over everything that

1046
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 1: went down today. It's coming up. Have a great weekend,

1047
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 1: Go Texans,