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Speaker 2: We originate, that's a broadcast term for where we're coming

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Speaker 2: to you from from the Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida,

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Speaker 2: where I don't normally hang out. I've been here before

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Speaker 2: for NFL meetings, and that's really the only time I've

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Speaker 3: This is a.

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Speaker 2: Historic place and it's really cool. Obviously, the owners love

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Speaker 2: it here, coaches, general managers. This is also known as

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Speaker 2: the Owners' Meetings, but it's really officially entitled the NFL

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Speaker 2: Annual Meeting, and they're voting on things going over.

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Speaker 1: League business.

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Speaker 2: Families are here of the coaches, GMS, owners and it's

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Speaker 2: a lot of fun. Tomorrow night we should have Nick Cassio,

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Speaker 2: and I always say scheduled to appear because you never

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Speaker 2: know what happens here at these meetings and guys get

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Speaker 2: called into votes or whatever. But Nick Cassario, Executive vice

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Speaker 2: president and general manager on Tomorrow Night's show and Wednesday

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Speaker 2: night the McNair's Cal and Hannah here of course, and

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Speaker 2: we'll talk to them about a bunch of stuff related

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Speaker 2: to your Houston Texans. And also he's Tomorrow Night Mike Toman,

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Speaker 2: new president of the Houston Texans. He's here on the

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Speaker 2: trip as well. It's always fun to meet people from.

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Speaker 1: Around the league.

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Speaker 2: Say hello and talk to Aaron Glenn today, head coach

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Speaker 2: of the New York Jets, original Houston Texan. And I

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Speaker 2: asked him how Deuce is doing. Deuces his son and

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Speaker 2: he's been working in Dallas for a while, and I thought, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I guess that makes sense because I knew about Deuce

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Speaker 2: when he was already, you know, an older kid, not

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Speaker 2: that old, but you know, probably eight ten years old.

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Speaker 1: And this was back in two thousand and two.

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Speaker 2: The very first radio show I ever did with a

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Speaker 2: player was Aaron Glenn in the inaugural season. Now he's

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Speaker 2: head coach of the New York Jets, and yeah, life

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Speaker 2: goes on right. We've got a great show for you tonight,

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Speaker 2: Dimiko Ryans in just a few moments here. Also, let's

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Speaker 2: catch up with AFC South Business with Jim Wyatt of

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Speaker 2: Tennessee Titans dot Com, who's been covering that team since

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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety nine, and the South Florida Beat AFC Beat

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Speaker 2: Chris Perkins South Florida Sun Sentinel. He'll be on the

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Speaker 2: show as well, old friend of mine from Hurricane beat days.

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Speaker 2: But man, he covers everything. He's an awesome guest, So

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Speaker 2: that'll be later on in the program. A couple of

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Speaker 2: things right off the bat. I was in one of

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Speaker 2: those NFL League wide Owners GMS Coaches meetings this morning,

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Speaker 2: which is really cool to see these formal presentations. In fact,

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Speaker 2: I missed the one last night because flying here from Houston,

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Speaker 2: thunderstorms in Fort Lauderdale could not get in on time,

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Speaker 2: I know people get frustrated, but I'm thinking, you, guys,

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Speaker 2: way too late for me to go to last night's session,

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Speaker 2: which featured Serena Williams and Caitlin Clark talking about girls'

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Speaker 2: sports and in relation to girls flag football, which the

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Speaker 2: league is heavily promoting in the Houston, Texans. As you know,

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Speaker 2: heavily promoting. Try to make it a state sanctioned sport.

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Speaker 1: It's not there yet.

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Speaker 2: It's a pilot program, but they're getting very very close.

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Speaker 2: It's very cool and I'm very interested in this as well.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to be observing practice for Clements High School

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Speaker 2: I know gambling has something to do with it as well.

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Speaker 2: But the personalities, all the off helmet shows, meaning quarterback,

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Speaker 2: attended his first NFL Annual Meeting as head coach of

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Speaker 1: Now he's on his third.

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Speaker 2: Got a chance to pose for that League Coaches photo

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Speaker 2: Meiko rants, All right, coach, here we are at the breakers.

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Speaker 2: First of all, let's start there. These meetings. What's it

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Speaker 4: Yeah, these meetings are are very cool when you have

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Speaker 4: You see guys with their families, their wives, and you

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Speaker 2: This is your third time being at these meetings and

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Speaker 5: It makes me just take a moment to reflect.

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Speaker 4: It's like, man, this is very special moment right to

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Speaker 4: It's something I don't take for granted, something I'm very

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Speaker 5: And also look at it as these are your guys,

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Speaker 4: They're still joking with everyone each other, having a lot

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Speaker 5: So it's a it's a surreal moment.

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Speaker 4: It have to pinch myself some time to realize, man,

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Speaker 2: Right, we last caught up at the combine, so since then,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, free agency has been it's been busy. It's always busy.

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Speaker 4: You're always trying to improve your team. We lost to

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Speaker 4: I can see that transition. I can see that role

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Speaker 4: But at the same time, I feel like we've made

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Speaker 2: How about the wide receiver room coach, because he really

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Speaker 4: I was always very fond of Christian from his time

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Speaker 4: of good plays. Barrios has that ability to return to

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Speaker 4: And Watson, He's and mister consistent. He shows up, he

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Speaker 2: Team building the offensive line. You trade Laramie, you're bringing

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Speaker 4: With our offensive line? I'm looking to just when I

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Speaker 4: they have experience. Now I'm hoping that experience along with

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Speaker 4: name for me is the mindset of our offensive line

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Speaker 4: protect our quarterback. Right, We're gonna play tough, We're gonna

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Speaker 2: Defensively, you made such great strides last year. I know

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Speaker 2: you want to take another step forward. You made some

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Speaker 2: additions there as well.

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Speaker 1: C J. Gardner Johnson, E J. Speed, among others.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the safety position was one we tried to get

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Speaker 4: Eric Murray back. Really like how Eric, you know, progress

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Speaker 4: had a really great year for us and you know,

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Speaker 2: Everything to do with the offseason Texans. So far as

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's hard to believe. I covered the team from

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Speaker 3: And they tell you, oh, it's four to three, bottom

438
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Speaker 3: of the seventh. I mean he used to be able

439
00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:27,280
Speaker 3: to get all those updates back then. And then yeah,

440
00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:29,199
Speaker 3: that all of a sudden was me people calling me

441
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Speaker 3: for scores. What's happened here? So it's a completely different

442
00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:35,840
Speaker 3: world now compared it used to be.

443
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Speaker 2: Well, you've seen the Titans go through a lot of

444
00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:41,199
Speaker 2: different versions of themselves and this current one. So you

445
00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:42,800
Speaker 2: have the head coach in his second year, you have

446
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Speaker 2: a new GM and the number one pick in the draft.

447
00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:49,080
Speaker 2: Great opportunity for the franchise to reset, if you will.

448
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Speaker 2: How do you see it?

449
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Speaker 6: Yeah?

450
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Speaker 3: It needs to get it right. I mean, uh, you know,

451
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Speaker 3: Will Levis the last couple of years certainly left, Uh

452
00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:59,359
Speaker 3: you know, something to be desired and uh, he's battled injuries,

453
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Speaker 3: He's made some stakes. I think they haven't completely given

454
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Speaker 3: up on him yet. You know, Brian Callahan was instrumental

455
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Speaker 3: in sending him to California to work with Jordan Palmer,

456
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Speaker 3: kind of a quarterback guru, just to try to help

457
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Speaker 3: him refine some of his technique and be better in

458
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Speaker 3: the pocket from a footwork standpoint. And while they do that,

459
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Speaker 3: and while they push him to be better, they're exploring

460
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Speaker 3: their options. And you know, at cam Ward's Pro day

461
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Speaker 3: this past Monday, I was down there for that and

462
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Speaker 3: pretty much the whole staff was down there. Go to

463
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Speaker 3: Shador Sanders and Colorado's pro day on Friday and Boulder

464
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Speaker 3: where they're also going to meet with Travis Hunter. The

465
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Speaker 3: doing private workouts with all these guys, they're doing their

466
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Speaker 3: home work, and certainly all signs point to them taking

467
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Speaker 3: a quarterback, which also don't know for sure what offers

468
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Speaker 3: could be presented. I don't think we're going to know

469
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Speaker 3: that as we get until we get close to the draft.

470
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Speaker 3: And this team, and I tell people all the time,

471
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Speaker 3: this team needs more than a quarterback. I mean, you're

472
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Speaker 3: when you're three and fourteen and picking first in the draft,

473
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Speaker 3: it's for a reason. That's because your team's not very good.

474
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Speaker 3: And uh, they've signed thirteen guys in free agencies so far.

475
00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:08,960
Speaker 3: They've resigned a good number of their own, but still

476
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Speaker 3: a lot of holes to fill. And if again, if

477
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Speaker 3: you get a boat load more than you'd expect this

478
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Speaker 3: trade conversation, I think you have to at least pause

479
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Speaker 3: and think about it.

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Speaker 2: How was the pro day of cam Ward different than

481
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Speaker 2: Shador Sanders comparing contrast?

482
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, well I'll find out about about Shador. You know,

483
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Speaker 3: Cam's pro day was an event. I mean I've been

484
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Speaker 3: to some pro days over the years. I guess the

485
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Speaker 3: biggest one.

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Speaker 1: Oh, shadors is this is this Friday.

487
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm already a little bit skeptical about what

488
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Speaker 3: that's going to be like from an access standpoint and

489
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Speaker 3: from what I'm trying to do. But Miami they were.

490
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Speaker 3: It was a great crowd, and uh I went to

491
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Speaker 3: cam Newton's pro day way back in the day at

492
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Speaker 3: Jordan Hare Stadium, and I remember this the spectacle that

493
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Speaker 3: turned out to be and this everybody was there to

494
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Speaker 3: see camp Ward because he obviously didn't throw with the

495
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Speaker 3: combine and hadn't thrown all off seasons or people's first

496
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Speaker 3: chance to see him. I got there at two o'clock.

497
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Speaker 3: He was supposed to throw at four thirty. I don't

498
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Speaker 3: think he threw the six fifteen. He was probably an

499
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Speaker 3: hour and a half late because they were doing so

500
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Speaker 3: much other stuff. And then when he threw it, it

501
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Speaker 3: was impressive I think by him, just from an athletic

502
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Speaker 3: and armstrength standpoint, but also it was need to kind

503
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Speaker 3: of watch his teammates and how they respond to him

504
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:25,159
Speaker 3: and how he appears to have great leadership qualities, and

505
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Speaker 3: then they talk to him afterward. He was great, very accommodating.

506
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Speaker 3: He seems like a very nice young man. People compare

507
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Speaker 3: him to Steve mcneor a guy covered the way back

508
00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:36,399
Speaker 3: at ninety nine. So you know he has those qualities

509
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Speaker 3: that maybe you can build around Shador's pro day. They're

510
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Speaker 3: calling that the Colorado Showcase, I think is what they

511
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Speaker 3: call it, and already been told, hey, no one on

512
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Speaker 3: ones was Shador travel. They got too many other things

513
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Speaker 3: going on at the crowd. I think four or five teams,

514
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Speaker 3: you know, media crews going because with cam not a

515
00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 3: lot of Tide's got the one number one pick. I

516
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 3: think most people figure you're you know, if he's going somewhere,

517
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:04,600
Speaker 3: he's going to Titans at one. With the door, I

518
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:06,000
Speaker 3: think a lot of teams were in on it. You

519
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,879
Speaker 3: don't know how how far he could drop, So I

520
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:10,639
Speaker 3: think there's more interest in him. And then you got

521
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Speaker 3: the Travis Hunter factor two and the Dion factor. So

522
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Speaker 3: I'm curious to see what this is gonna be like.

523
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,560
Speaker 3: And they're expecting about three to five minutes of snow

524
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Speaker 3: on Friday, the pro to have. I've already checked the forecast.

525
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Speaker 3: I hope that doesn't complicate things.

526
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Speaker 2: Jim Wyatt of Tennessee Titans dot Com joining us. So

527
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Speaker 2: this is the highest pick since two thousand and five

528
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Speaker 2: with Vince Young.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they had the I guess it was twenty seventeen

530
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Speaker 3: them a right about that. In twenty sixteen, maybe they

531
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Speaker 3: had the number one pick for a while. They ended

532
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Speaker 3: up trading that was sixteen and they end up trading right,

533
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Speaker 3: and then that's the trade where they got you know,

534
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Speaker 3: Jack Conklin was that draft. That was the Derrick Henry Draft.

535
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Speaker 3: And but the first time they picked number one since

536
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Speaker 3: they took Earl Campbell way back in the day. That's

537
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Speaker 3: how long it's been since this franchise has picked first

538
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Speaker 3: in the draft. So you need to get it right, Mario.

539
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,520
Speaker 3: It was the number two pick of the two thousand

540
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 3: and fifteen draft. You know, they took a quarterback early

541
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Speaker 3: before that, and Jake Locker Obviously, I've got young they

542
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,320
Speaker 3: they've they've have I won't say missed, but just didn't

543
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:19,320
Speaker 3: get uh, didn't get a Packer Mahomes, Jane, Jane Daniels

544
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 3: and Daniels. Obviously, he's still got a long ways to

545
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 3: go to do it year after year after year, but

546
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 3: haven't hit yet on a guy that's changes your franchise.

547
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Speaker 2: So important, no question about it. Jim, What about the

548
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:33,080
Speaker 2: new stadium? What can you tell us about that? What

549
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:35,159
Speaker 2: a couple of years away from moving in is that it.

550
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Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty twenty seven is the first year they had

551
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Speaker 3: an opportunity, I guess last month to go over there

552
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Speaker 3: and do kind of a stadium tour, kind of walked

553
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Speaker 3: up to what is going to be the second level,

554
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 3: uh and pretty has a pretty good bowl around you.

555
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,480
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a translucent roof that does not open.

556
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Speaker 3: It's going to be just east of the current stadium,

557
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:57,879
Speaker 3: which is gonna come down when that stadium is ready.

558
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Speaker 3: The hope is that there's gonna be a super in

559
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Speaker 3: a couple of years, maybe twenty twenty nine. It's going

560
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 3: to still be a great location, walkable for fans coming

561
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Speaker 3: from downtown. It's at the capacity is lower, like the

562
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Speaker 3: current capacity sixty seven. This one's can be closer to

563
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:17,920
Speaker 3: sixty Maybe you can have more with standing room only.

564
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Speaker 3: Hoping to host final fours, you know, college football, playoff, WrestleMania,

565
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 3: I mean, every concert you could think of. So people

566
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Speaker 3: were excited about it, and the visuals are spectacular. I'm

567
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 3: looking forward to seeing it come up. National's my hometown.

568
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 3: Saw the first one built. Hard to believe now it's

569
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Speaker 3: coming down and another one's coming up, but readible the time.

570
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Speaker 3: Keith throw rolling.

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Speaker 2: Well, people were surprised to find out the Texans. There

572
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 2: are only six stadiums in the NFL older than what

573
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Speaker 2: the Texans have, and that includes stadiums that have had

574
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Speaker 2: a massive renovation, and the Texans have not had that

575
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Speaker 2: at NRG. So clearly the Titans having two stadiums since

576
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,639
Speaker 2: they moved from Houston is amazing. Jim, you said it.

577
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Speaker 2: You're from Nashville. How has Nashville changed? A lot of

578
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 2: people love to go to Nashville a great destination city.

579
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Speaker 2: I've noticed it just in our trips, just going downtown

580
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:16,160
Speaker 2: on a Saturday night twenty years ago, fifteen years ago

581
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:17,160
Speaker 2: versus today.

582
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Speaker 3: How do you see it? It's crazy. And I was

583
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 3: not only like that on a Saturday night or Friday.

584
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,880
Speaker 3: It's like that on a Monday night, a Tuesday night,

585
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:28,359
Speaker 3: a Wednesday night. I mean, Broadway is incredible, just the

586
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:32,399
Speaker 3: crowd that it attracts. Obviously, there's a lot going on

587
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 3: in Nashville from a music standpoint, but also a professional

588
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 3: sports standpoint, college sports standpoint. It's a lot of fun.

589
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 3: I mean I went to high school on Elliston Place,

590
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 3: which is just off a west end with not far

591
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Speaker 3: from the Vanwolt Campus. I remember there used to be

592
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 3: nothing around there. Now my high school where it is,

593
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 3: it's been moved. That's been where I went to school.

594
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:02,440
Speaker 3: That building was knocked down, replaced with the Kyraz and restaurants,

595
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:07,640
Speaker 3: and but all through downtown you see cranes and new

596
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:11,160
Speaker 3: construction and uh. I'll go into pockets of town thinking

597
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,679
Speaker 3: when when did this come up? H I love it.

598
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 3: I mean, traffic's not great, obviously that has suffered, but

599
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 3: I love to fill in the city sometimes. Kid boy,

600
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Speaker 3: I wish they had the stuff when I was growing

601
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:25,400
Speaker 3: up and in high school, in college, running around going

602
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Speaker 3: out at night. And I'm probably lucky they didn't because

603
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 3: I probably would have gotten in more trouble and and

604
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 3: uh and gotten maybe off track.

605
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Speaker 1: All right, Jim, A couple more for you, AFC South.

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Speaker 2: I know you're focused on the Titans, but I know

607
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 2: we're all focused on the division, the Cults. Your thoughts

608
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 2: on what they've done, which isn't a ton necessarily, but

609
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 2: bringing in Daniel Jones's significance, splitting reps in OTA's reportedly

610
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 2: all that they're going to be doing to try to

611
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 2: get that quarterback position solidified.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm curious. I mean, because they're in the same

613
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 3: similar situation as the Titans, at least waiting on Anthony

614
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 3: Richardson's see if he potentially could develop, knowing that you

615
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 3: can't wait forever. And now Daniel Jones is the guy

616
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 3: who is certainly capable, and I'm curious see it plays out.

617
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 3: I was at the game, I guess, and Anthony Richards's

618
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 3: first season when he hurt that shoulder that ended the season.

619
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Speaker 3: That was against the Titans, and then last year certainly

620
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 3: there were a lot of things that kept him in

621
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Speaker 3: an out of line up. I think he's really talented.

622
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 3: I saw him in college, but he's inconsistent mat The

623
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Speaker 3: day I saw him in college was against Vanderbilt when

624
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 3: he came in there with the Gators Invannibel beat Flord

625
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 3: and Richardson was all over the place in that game.

626
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Speaker 3: But through the draft process, people fell in love with

627
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:42,479
Speaker 3: his talent. So him, like Will levis kind of on

628
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 3: the clock and just wonder how many chances you're going

629
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Speaker 3: to get. So I think their futurists for twenty twenty

630
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 3: five hinges on how the quarterback position goes. I think Jacksonville,

631
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 3: certainly in the rebuild mode. Still with the new coaching

632
00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 3: staff and a new front office, the Texan's clearly the

633
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 3: team to beat in the division. I mean, they've got

634
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 3: a good coach, you got a good quarterback who I

635
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 3: really like They've you know, certainly, I think the culture

636
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 3: is right there. It's just trying to find a way

637
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Speaker 3: to get over.

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Speaker 1: The hump there it is.

639
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Speaker 2: Our conversation with Jim Wyatt of Tennessee Titans dot Com

640
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 2: coming up. Let's get the South Florida beat, but the

641
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 2: AFC perspective from South Florida with Chris Perkins of the

642
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 2: South Florida Sun Sentinel. Great guest covered the heap for

643
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 2: a long time Dolphins forever. AFC. Who's hot, Who's not?

644
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 2: What's it like down here? Let's get to it all

645
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 2: stadium stuff. Yeah, they renovated big time at hard Rock

646
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 2: and now look what they've got going on down there.

647
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 2: Let's talk about that and then some on Texans Radio.

648
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 2: All right, we don't want to run over, so let's

649
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Speaker 2: get into our final interview here from the NFL Annual

650
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 2: meeting in Palm Beach, Florida. Chris Perkins has worked for

651
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 2: the Sun Sentinel in South Florida for a long time

652
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 2: covered everything has some interesting perspective on the Texans knows

653
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Speaker 2: John Lopez, how about that from back in the day.

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Speaker 2: Let's get to our conversation with Chris Perkins. Okay, old

655
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Speaker 2: friend of mine, Chris Perkins from the Sun Sentinel.

656
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Speaker 1: What do we call it now? The South Florida Sunset?

657
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Speaker 6: South Florida Sun Sentinel.

658
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Speaker 7: Man, old timers remember when it was the Fort Lauderdale

659
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Speaker 7: Sun Sentinel, but South Florida Sunset.

660
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 2: Because it was Miami Herald and the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel.

661
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 2: And you dropped the Fort Lauderdale. See could invade the

662
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Speaker 2: Miami market.

663
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Speaker 6: That's right, baby. We're all over the place.

664
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Speaker 7: We're in Brower, We're in Palm Beach, we're in in

665
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Speaker 7: Miami day.

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Speaker 6: That's right. Baby.

667
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Speaker 2: Wait, I don't want to date you because you look

668
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Speaker 2: so young. I mean, it's amazing, and so do I.

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Speaker 2: We both look so young. But Chris, I met you

670
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Speaker 2: on the Hurricanes beat a long time ago. You already

671
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Speaker 2: with the paper for a while. I mean you've been

672
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Speaker 2: with that one paper. Oh you went somewhere else.

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Speaker 7: This is my third time. This is like Steinbrinter and

674
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Speaker 7: Billy Martin. So I was at the Sun Sentinel covering

675
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Speaker 7: m and then the Dolphins went to the Poem Beach

676
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 7: Post and covered thee for ten years that's from then

677
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 7: came back to the Sentinel and covered the Dolphins again,

678
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 7: then went to the Athletic and covered the Dolphins for

679
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Speaker 7: a couple of years. Got laid off at the Athletic

680
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 7: during Covid went back to the Sentinel covering news for

681
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Speaker 7: two years, and then he came back to the Dolphins

682
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 7: in twenty two. So this is year number sixteen on

683
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Speaker 7: the Dolphins, third time on the beat, year number sixteen.

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Speaker 1: Okay, covering news thumbs up or thumbs down.

685
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Speaker 7: Oh, it was a great experience, but it's way too

686
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Speaker 7: serious over there. There's not a lot of laughter covering news, man,

687
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 7: So this is you know, they call us the toy

688
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 7: shop for a reason. So uh yeah, we don't deal

689
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Speaker 7: with reality, you know over there. Not to bring the

690
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Speaker 7: program down, but you're dealing with hit and runs and

691
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:38,719
Speaker 7: murders and all arson. This is free agency. This is

692
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Speaker 7: how is his Achilles. This is not the real world.

693
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Speaker 7: Are you getting the one million dollar extension? This is

694
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Speaker 7: not the real world. I love it.

695
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Speaker 1: So the toy shop, that's a newspaper term.

696
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Speaker 2: It away in the industry because that's where my buddy

697
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Speaker 2: John Lopez got it.

698
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Speaker 1: He used to work, Yeah, he was.

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Speaker 6: I worked with John and San Antonio at the San

700
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Speaker 6: Antonio Light.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh in the eighties. Yea is beautiful.

702
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you don't.

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Speaker 2: Look well, he doesn't look that old. H He kind

704
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Speaker 2: of does, though, he kind of does a little bit

705
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Speaker 2: a little bit. Sorry John, but he always says, we

706
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Speaker 2: work in the toy department of life.

707
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Speaker 1: And this is where he got it. From the newspaper.

708
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Speaker 2: Industry because that's what they call you guys, because they're

709
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Speaker 2: covering serious news. Correct, well, thank goodness, we're covering sports here,

710
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Speaker 2: but a couple of other things.

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Speaker 5: You know.

712
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Speaker 1: Here we are in pop Beach.

713
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Speaker 5: It's a little warm.

714
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Speaker 2: Nobody's complaining. No, nobody's complaining. But it's interesting. There's a

715
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Speaker 2: difference in the humidity here versus Houston. Houston, everyone says

716
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 2: it's humid. It is humid, but this is a different

717
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Speaker 2: level of humidity. I mean, really like you can walk

718
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Speaker 2: out with an on iron shirt and it's gonna be

719
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Speaker 2: smooth within moments.

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Speaker 7: Exactly exactly, you know what, as you know, it gets

721
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Speaker 7: rough here. I call him it oppressive. It's just oppressive humidity. Man,

722
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 7: you can't do anything. You just want to sit in

723
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Speaker 7: some ac and do nothing, like drink a nice tea

724
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Speaker 7: or something like that. It is crazy here. Yeah, you

725
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 7: walk out and look if you take a shower, a

726
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 7: warm shower, Oh you you better get acclimated for like

727
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 7: a two hours before you go outside because you're gonna

728
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Speaker 7: take another shower in that humidity.

729
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Speaker 1: Right good drops the poundage though.

730
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Speaker 2: Chris Quick notes here the Miami Dolphins offseason, how would

731
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Speaker 2: you characterize this offseason for the franchise?

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Speaker 6: Definitely frugal.

733
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Speaker 7: They don't have a whole lot of money because of

734
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Speaker 7: all those extensions they gave out last season to Tua

735
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Speaker 7: and Tyreek, Jalen Waddle you're Houston guy, and uh and

736
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Speaker 7: uh Jalen Ramsey.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

738
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Speaker 7: It's been frugal. They've plugged some holes that they needed

739
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Speaker 7: to plug. Power running back, back, up quarterback with Zach Wilson,

740
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Speaker 7: guard with James Daniels from Pittsburgh. But they haven't gotten

741
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Speaker 7: any high quality players. None of these guys are going

742
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Speaker 7: to a Pro Bowl anytime soon that they've signed, So

743
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Speaker 7: you know, basically you are returning. You're plugging holes from

744
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 7: an eight to nine team last year. Your your best

745
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 7: hope is that Tuas stays healthy, because you aren't. You

746
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Speaker 7: aren't getting heavy reserve help, you know, a heavy help

747
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Speaker 7: in this offseason. They need a safety, they need a cornerback,

748
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 7: they need a de tackle. But it's not like you're

749
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Speaker 7: expecting them to go out in free agency and get

750
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Speaker 7: a game changer. So it's a lot that's going to

751
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 7: be on these returning players. A lot of is on

752
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 7: Tua's health. They've done a good job this offseason, but

753
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:18,359
Speaker 7: nobody that's gonna, you know, move mountains for him.

754
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Speaker 2: Chris Perkins of The Sun Sentinel joining us, what is

755
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Speaker 2: the local narrative on Tua right now?

756
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Speaker 7: He's got to get something going. You know, it's been

757
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:31,800
Speaker 7: two years of a well three years under Mike McDaniel,

758
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 7: two years that have been injury shortened. You know, in

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Speaker 7: twenty twenty two there was the concussion in September, the

760
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Speaker 7: concussion in December, and then in twenty twenty four last year,

761
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Speaker 7: the concussion in September and the hip injury against Houston,

762
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Speaker 7: yeah in December. So it's been early and late. You know,

763
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Speaker 7: you can't get off to a great start because of

764
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Speaker 7: his injuries. It's hard to finish strong because of his injuries.

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Speaker 7: So the narrative really is to a you gotta get

766
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Speaker 7: it together, you gotta stay healthy. At the season ending

767
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 7: season wrap up press conference, said that it's imperative that

768
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Speaker 7: TUIs stays healthy, that he's smart. When he crosses the

769
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Speaker 7: line of scrimmage running, you gotta get down. You can't

770
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Speaker 7: take the hit that you took against Houston and hurt

771
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Speaker 7: your hip. You can't run into Damar Hamlin, the Buffalo

772
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Speaker 7: safety and get a concussion like you have got to

773
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Speaker 7: avoid contact when the opponent knows that. That's a strong

774
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Speaker 7: thing going for the opponent.

775
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Speaker 2: Chris, some of the hits he takes, I can't believe

776
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Speaker 2: he still does that. I don't know if he can

777
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Speaker 2: get that out of him because he knows, he intellectually

778
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:38,360
Speaker 2: must know that he can't do that, yet he does it.

779
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Speaker 2: The one that knocked him out earlier of the year

780
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Speaker 2: was what are you doing?

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Speaker 1: You know? Head first like that?

782
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Speaker 7: Yeah, and you know, and it wasn't really even a

783
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Speaker 7: big hit. He ran into Damar Hamlin kind of Damar's

784
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 7: ribs arm shoulder type area head first and to a

785
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 7: bounced off of him. And really tas head also hit

786
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Speaker 7: the ground. Yeah, And I asked, Tua, did you get

787
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Speaker 7: the cussion from the hit or from your head hitting

788
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Speaker 7: the ground, and he said, I don't know, it doesn't matter,

789
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Speaker 7: And you know which I agree with that answer, because

790
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 7: I'm sure two is like I'm sick of answering these questions. Yeah,

791
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 7: but to us, it's like, okay, but that could have

792
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Speaker 7: been your third concussion from the head hitting the ground.

793
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 7: It happened against Buffalo with the Matt Milano hit, yep,

794
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:24,839
Speaker 7: And it happened against Green Bay in twenty twenty four,

795
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Speaker 7: and so this could have been the third concussion all

796
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Speaker 7: caused by the head whipping back and hitting the ground,

797
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Speaker 7: which would be a significant development because that I'm sure

798
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,439
Speaker 7: Tua those he just didn't want to share it, but yeah,

799
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Speaker 7: that could be you know, something that we have to

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00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 7: watch for all through this.

801
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Speaker 6: It's this season.

802
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 2: Man, the way some of these receivers hit the ground,

803
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 2: I'm amazed they get up.

804
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: The ground causes more injuries. The ground is hard, it's

805
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 1: not going anywhere you hit it. It's not giving yep,

806
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:50,439
Speaker 1: and you're done.

807
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's got to be incredible to deal with

808
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:55,839
Speaker 2: this stuff and the recovery from those hits. Chris, tell

809
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 2: me about the division. It's still the Bill's division. It

810
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 2: must be weird for you, though, you covering the Dolphins

811
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:02,360
Speaker 2: for so long, a little bit on and off, like

812
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 2: we discussed. But it was the reign of terror with

813
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,880
Speaker 2: the Patriots for so long, and now the Bills have

814
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Speaker 2: their own little reign of terror going thoughts.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you have.

816
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,279
Speaker 7: The Dolphins fans are tortured like they are aiding life

817
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 7: right now because there was no break right as soon

818
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 7: as Brady leaves, Josh Allen fills in. It was supposed

819
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 7: to be Tua and Tyreek and Jalon Waddle filling in,

820
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 7: and Josh Allen said, no, hold my beer, and so

821
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Speaker 7: you know you're sitting here just wondering. Look the Dolphins

822
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Speaker 7: with this core, I think they've got two years twenty

823
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Speaker 7: five and twenty six and after that, you know they

824
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:39,879
Speaker 7: aren't extending to his contract anymore. You know, they could

825
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Speaker 7: get some money from Tua. He's due thirty nine million

826
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Speaker 7: this year. You could restructure and add some years onto

827
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Speaker 7: it and get some money to spend in free agency.

828
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Speaker 7: They're not touching to his contract. WHOA, And I think

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Speaker 7: that that's because this is it like, Okay, you don't

830
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Speaker 7: want to you don't want a possible new regime to

831
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Speaker 7: come in and have this quarterback underm you know, this

832
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:06,359
Speaker 7: injury prone quarterback undum. I think that that's a big

833
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 7: part of what this is. So, you know, it's just

834
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Speaker 7: so much frustration for the Dolphins fan because, as you said,

835
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Speaker 7: it went from Brady to Josh Allen and the Dolphins

836
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 7: were supposed to have their little spot here with Tua.

837
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Speaker 7: But that window is closing very very quickly. I can't

838
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Speaker 7: see you know, Tua, Tyreek, Jalen Ramsey at these salaries

839
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 7: staying together another two years if they don't produce a

840
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:36,360
Speaker 7: playoff victory at the minimum, one playoff victory minimum.

841
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Speaker 2: All right, Chris Perkins joining us from the South Florida

842
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Speaker 2: Sun Sentinel hard Rock Stadium. Now the Texans are trying

843
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Speaker 2: to get their.

844
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Speaker 1: Stadium either revamped.

845
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Speaker 2: Well, renovation is actually the focus here, and we all

846
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:50,319
Speaker 2: know it's it doesn't come free, yep, but you could

847
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Speaker 2: do things with it. You had that massive renovation at

848
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 2: hard Rock, got F one racing there, You got the

849
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Speaker 2: big tennis tournament which used to be in Keebis Skein.

850
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Speaker 2: People have to understand how huge this says. This and

851
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 2: Indian Wells are the only ones that have men and

852
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:07,279
Speaker 2: women other than US Open in this country. So that's

853
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 2: a huge tournament. What about the stadium, what do you

854
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:12,840
Speaker 2: think of it? All the other events there? How do

855
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 2: you think it's going overall?

856
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Speaker 6: Absolutely fantastic.

857
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Speaker 7: Look, Steve Ross can make money with everything but the Dolphins.

858
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 7: Actually he can win at everything but the Dog. He's

859
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 7: making money with the Dolphins. But yeah, he's done a

860
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 7: great job because yeah, he look, I wasn't sure how

861
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 7: the tennis was gonna look keep his gain is a

862
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:34,759
Speaker 7: great tennis facility. It was built for tennis, and you

863
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:37,719
Speaker 7: have some of those great views of the water. You know,

864
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 7: you're right down there, you know, kind of not in

865
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Speaker 7: the keys, but it's yeah, it's a great venue. They

866
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Speaker 7: bring it up here and it is world class. Like

867
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Speaker 7: they have made this into a world class venue. And

868
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Speaker 7: as you say, they used to call this and I

869
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Speaker 7: don't know if they still call it the Miami Open

870
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Speaker 7: the fifth Major. Because you got like eight of the

871
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Speaker 7: top ten women and eight of the top ten men.

872
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Speaker 7: It is a spectam tacular tournament. And they've done a

873
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 7: great job with those grounds that f one race. I

874
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 7: covered that last season. Last year. I couldn't believe it.

875
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 7: Like this is, this is hard Rock Stadium, and there's

876
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 7: a there's a track around hard Rock Stadium, and now

877
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Speaker 7: Steve Ross has he has created like three other little

878
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Speaker 7: tracks within that track and people come out there like

879
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Speaker 7: other you know, businesses and stuff, and you can drive

880
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Speaker 7: a car around there for you know, I don't know,

881
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 7: ten thousand dollars or whatever. I'm sure it's not cheap.

882
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:32,359
Speaker 7: I'm not doing it, but but yeah, it's it's it's

883
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Speaker 7: an incredible thing that that Steve Ross. You know, you

884
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 7: see why some people are billionaires. You see some people

885
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 7: know how to make that making money.

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Speaker 2: They're saying, okay, got it. Chris Perkins of the South

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Speaker 2: Florida Sun Sentinel joining us the sports scene in South

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Speaker 2: Florida Miami market just so people understand. Sometimes you say

889
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:54,800
Speaker 2: South Florida, they think Tampa. No, right, this is South Florida, Miami,

890
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:58,239
Speaker 2: Fort Lauderdale, Pop Beach a little bit. Who's the king

891
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:00,440
Speaker 2: right now? It's gotta be the Dolphins still, I would figure.

892
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:02,800
Speaker 2: But the Heat had that amazing run and they're a

893
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Speaker 2: very good organization.

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Speaker 1: The Marlins.

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Speaker 3: Eh.

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Speaker 2: But they've won big a couple of times. How do

897
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 2: you see it? I know Messi's here as well, So

898
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 2: how do you define it.

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Speaker 6: As fan interest goes?

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Speaker 7: It's clearly the Panthers right now, the Florida Panthers defending champs.

901
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 7: Oh but you know, but still, you know, as far

902
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:27,799
Speaker 7: as just overall, it's Dolphins and then Heat, and you

903
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 7: know the heat has been down recently. They just had

904
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 7: the Jimmy Butler you know, saga, I'm forcing his way out.

905
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Speaker 7: So Heat fans are a little salty. We don't see

906
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:39,720
Speaker 7: Messi a whole lot. You know that stadium only seats

907
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:44,840
Speaker 7: seventeen thousand, and you know, Messi doesn't speak after games.

908
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 7: He's not on any commercials. I don't know what that

909
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:49,759
Speaker 7: man's voice sounds like. I'm one hundred percent honest. I

910
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:55,280
Speaker 7: have never seen Lionel Messi at postgame pregame for Inner

911
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 7: Miami giving an interview. So from what I understand, he

912
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:02,240
Speaker 7: does it for Apple, who's paying a lot of his salary,

913
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 7: And I'm sure he does stuff for MLS, but like

914
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:08,879
Speaker 7: for the local TVs and and radio, not a thing.

915
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:11,920
Speaker 7: Having said that, Messi is huge, right, He's one of

916
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:14,360
Speaker 7: the biggest athletes in the world, one of the biggest

917
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Speaker 7: of all time. So they they have some, they have

918
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:21,680
Speaker 7: some some some I guess, some attention from the public.

919
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 7: But yeah, from I mean fan fan interest wise and

920
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 7: what fans want to see and what they talk about.

921
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 7: It's it's mostly the Panthers because they're winning. But the

922
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 7: Dolphins are still far and away the number one, you know,

923
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 7: presence as far as a sports franchise.

924
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 3: I can't believe I forgot about hockey.

925
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:43,319
Speaker 2: The arena is up in Fort Lauderdale while the Heat

926
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Speaker 2: play in Miami, and people have to understand how far

927
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Speaker 2: these are apart.

928
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Speaker 7: Well, yeah, it's it's probably it's over an hour. I mean,

929
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Speaker 7: you know how Houston spread out, It's the same way here. Yeah,

930
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 7: it's it's and so. But here's the thing, Mark, And

931
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 7: as you know that people when the teams are losing,

932
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Speaker 7: people start saying.

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Speaker 6: Wow, I'm not gonna way up there.

934
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Speaker 7: Okay, Well, when the Big Three was playing for the Heat,

935
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Speaker 7: nobody had a problem driving to downtown Miami, right, And

936
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Speaker 7: when Dan Marino was slinging touchdown passes, nobody had a

937
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 7: problem going to the Orange Bowl, right, you know. So

938
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Speaker 7: it's it's a matter of how well is your team

939
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Speaker 7: doing That location goes out the window if you're winning titles.

940
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Speaker 2: The Houston equivalent would be playing hockey in the Woodlands

941
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Speaker 2: or something. By the way, folks, so that's what they're

942
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Speaker 2: dealing with. Chris, your thoughts on the Texans from the

943
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Speaker 2: outside looking in. You were at NRG Stadium when the

944
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Speaker 2: Texans had that great game against Miami. It was a

945
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Speaker 2: much needed win. They got it, they got after it.

946
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Speaker 2: Obviously didn't end the way they wanted to, but they

947
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Speaker 2: won a playoff game.

948
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Speaker 6: Again.

949
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Speaker 2: I know the Dolphins haven't won a playoff game in

950
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Speaker 2: a long time, twenty five years.

951
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Speaker 6: Wow.

952
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Speaker 2: So you tell me from the outside looking at your

953
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Speaker 2: thoughts on the franchise.

954
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Speaker 6: I like what Houston is doing.

955
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Speaker 7: I was surprised with the Laramie Tunsel trade, but I

956
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 7: like what they're doing. I like CJ, I like the Mico.

957
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 7: I think they've got a nice squad down there. You know,

958
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Speaker 7: let's see if they can keep it going. Let's you know,

959
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:01,360
Speaker 7: I guess offensive line is still a concern, right.

960
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:03,439
Speaker 1: Maybe they're in a rebuilding mode.

961
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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, so I really want to see what happens there.

962
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:11,919
Speaker 7: How how do you take advantage of CJ. Stroud under

963
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,319
Speaker 7: his rookie contract. Ye, you know, because that's a big

964
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:16,839
Speaker 7: thing because look the way this guy is playing. He's

965
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 7: gonna get forty million a year on his extension and

966
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Speaker 7: after that, to some extent, the party stops. And you

967
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 7: know CJ has got to produce all by himself. So

968
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Speaker 7: he's got a lot of he's got an opportunity to

969
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 7: be surrounded by a lot of help. Let's see if

970
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 7: the Texans can can take advantage of that. And look,

971
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Speaker 7: you know this conference is loaded at the top with

972
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Speaker 7: with Kansas City and Buffalo and Baltimore. You've got to

973
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Speaker 7: be able to barge your way into that thing or

974
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Speaker 7: be ready when one of those three drops out. I

975
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Speaker 7: think Houston's in a good spot. They're in a good position.

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Speaker 7: I really do.

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Speaker 2: Do the Chiefs drop out or do they hold out

978
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Speaker 2: of the AFC crown in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 7: Well, I'll say this, I think good for I'd just

980
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 7: say thirteen wins. Okay, So look that defense, you know

981
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,239
Speaker 7: them in Philly, those defenses, I mean you look at

982
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:12,800
Speaker 7: how many times they held opponents to under twenty and

983
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 7: you know their offense only has to score three touchdowns

984
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 7: and You've got the victory, so that I think they're

985
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Speaker 7: gonna have some staying power from that standpoint, you know.

986
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Speaker 7: I mean, they're Kansas City's offense wasn't anything great. I

987
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:29,360
Speaker 7: think they were maybe seventeen or eighteen in the league.

988
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:32,520
Speaker 7: But you've got Mahomes who can make timely plays. He

989
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:35,880
Speaker 7: doesn't carry the team. He makes timely plays. He doesn't

990
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 7: miss on those timely plays. And your defense is shutting

991
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 7: people down. So they might not go to the super Bowl,

992
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:46,680
Speaker 7: but I see them being a major you know, probably

993
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 7: maybe a number one seed maybe, but definitely first round

994
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 7: home playoff game. Yeah, win the division, all that kind

995
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Speaker 7: of stuff.

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Speaker 3: Cool.

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Speaker 1: Chris, thanks a lot for joining us anytime.

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Speaker 2: There's our conversation with Chris Perkins, South Florida Sun Settinel.

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Speaker 1: And that's it for the show today.

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Speaker 2: It'll all be up in podcast forms soon enough, including

1001
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Speaker 2: our conversation with Tamico Ryans.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to miss it.

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Speaker 2: It's on the Odyssey app right away, and check out

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Speaker 1: Have a great night.

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Speaker 2: We'll be back tomorrow night with Nick Cassario with Mike Toman,

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Speaker 2: President of the Texans.

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Speaker 1: The McNair's on this week, Let's do it All.

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