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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, Welcome to the show Friday Night tgif just

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Speaker 1: got paid party Hardy?

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Speaker 2: Is that?

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Speaker 1: What he says, is that Monte who does that Friday Night.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sing, but we're fired up because it's

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Speaker 1: been a big football week for your Houston Texans in

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Speaker 1: the entire NFL. Mark vandermir and John Harris with you

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Speaker 1: Hyundai Texans Radio Studio Rodeo. I did it last night, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: by the way, I did the h How did that go? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it went really well and lo and behold, I did

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Speaker 1: not realize. And this is how out of tune I

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Speaker 1: can be with things. I guess that it was employee

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Speaker 1: night in the suite and a lot of employees were

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Speaker 1: in the big suite, and so in the hallways today

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Speaker 1: I was getting the business from people like, oh, nice

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Speaker 1: job opening the gate. That was awesome, and yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: really hard to do. You know, they make it so

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Speaker 1: you get open the gate just by breathing on it.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's funny because you opened the gate for

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Speaker 1: the calves. I did the calf scramble thing for the calves.

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Speaker 1: Calfs to run out and the kids chase them down,

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Speaker 1: and you know how that goes. It's not the mutton busting.

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Speaker 1: That's when the five year olds get abused. I didn't

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Speaker 1: get abused. But in fact I went back to the

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Speaker 1: carnival today with young Liam, who's twelve, and we watched

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Speaker 1: the mutton bust and I said, when you do that now.

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Speaker 1: He's like, I don't think so, Dad. These those sheep.

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Speaker 1: When you go to the one at the carnival, you're

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Speaker 1: sitting so close and you can see how big those

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Speaker 1: sheep are. They're big animals. It's not like, oh, it's

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Speaker 1: a little cute dog sheep. No, No, these are biggins anyway,

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Speaker 1: the calves. So when you open the gate, they come

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Speaker 1: running out. But it's not like a stampede of bulls.

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Speaker 1: You know, you just stay out of the way. You'll

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Speaker 1: be fine. It's not a big deal. But I'm up

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Speaker 1: on the big video board. It was fun. I gave

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Speaker 1: them a pregame speech before that, a couple of hours prior,

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Speaker 1: you know, and all I said was, you're on the

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Speaker 1: same surface as two Super Bowls as the Texans playoff wins.

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Speaker 1: He's grabbed naming all the players and Taylor Swift, Beyonce,

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Speaker 1: think about all the great performers that have been there,

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Speaker 1: and I said, and you you kids, So that got

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Speaker 1: them kind of fired up.

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Speaker 3: I think it's good. How old are those kids?

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Speaker 1: They're teenagers, they're like sixteen, Okay, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say how much.

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Speaker 2: Listen, that's a that's a tough crowd to have to entertain,

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Speaker 2: so to speak. Trust me, you know, teaching eighth graders

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Speaker 2: algebra one, that's a tough crowd. It's a tough crowd.

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Speaker 2: So I'm sure you did great. I saw your pictures

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Speaker 2: on Instagram. Look like you're having fun, and that's obviously

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Speaker 2: the most important thing.

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Speaker 1: So the kids had fun.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was employee night, which apparently you didn't know.

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Speaker 1: So that's yeah, yeah, it's fine. But not every employee

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Speaker 1: goes to employee Yeah. But you know, related to you

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Speaker 1: teaching eighth graders algebra I was reading that kids today

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Speaker 1: in school harder than ever to teach because those who

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Speaker 1: have phones, and that's just about everybody, are so used

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Speaker 1: to the dopamine hits of social media. Right. Well, this

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Speaker 1: is a phenomenon that we're becoming very familiar with, and

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna it's all gonna come to a

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Speaker 1: head eventually. I don't know what you do about it,

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Speaker 1: but it is an issue for adults too. But the

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Speaker 1: kids who are used to these dopamine hits and then

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Speaker 1: the phones are really stripped away during the day by

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Speaker 1: and large, and now you've got them and they're having

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Speaker 1: withdrawal almost literally. I was reading about this and I thought,

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Speaker 1: that's me. When it comes to Free Agent news. I'm

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Speaker 1: having withdrawal as opposed to Monday Tuesday, when it was

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Speaker 1: just one thing after another, bang bang bang bang bang,

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Speaker 1: and then it slows down. You're like, wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: where's my dopamine hit, Nick or any other GM Because

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Speaker 1: I can get news about the Jaguars and Colts. And

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Speaker 1: if I like the news like Daniel Jones going to

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Speaker 1: Indie because I don't think it's going to help them

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Speaker 1: that much, then it gives me a little dopamine hit.

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Speaker 1: See that's how it works. I don't know if you

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Speaker 1: see it the same way.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm the same way.

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Speaker 2: I can't tell you how many times during a day,

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Speaker 2: no matter what I'm doing, I refresh. And I'm honest,

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Speaker 2: I don't as much as I you know, get pretty

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Speaker 2: much everything from X or Twitter or even Instagram. I

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Speaker 2: don't go there as often I guess as I think

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Speaker 2: I'm just like boom, refresh, refresh, refreshed. After last night's radio,

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Speaker 2: guest because I'm just like, what happened? And they happened,

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Speaker 2: who happened, who traded, who did what? And it really

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Speaker 2: was kind of And it's in a sense because you know,

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Speaker 2: you do it so often. It's like you're waiting and waiting.

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Speaker 2: It's like somebody waiting, you know, to be drafted in

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Speaker 2: the NFL Draft, and you just wait and you're like, cray,

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Speaker 2: maybe this team I interviewed with this team, Nope, not

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Speaker 2: that team. Okay, what about this team? I really like them,

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Speaker 2: They like me. We met at the Senior Bowl that

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Speaker 2: don't know, didn't happen there. And you get to a

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Speaker 3: I'm done, forget it. Just don't worry about it.

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Speaker 2: I'll just go undrafted whatever, and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: six round there is the call, and you're so happy

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Speaker 2: and you're going to Philadelphia or wherever you're going, and

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Speaker 2: you're just pumped about that. You kind of give up

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Speaker 2: on it, and there's a point on on Friday, I

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Speaker 2: think at some point where I had I had just

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Speaker 2: just looking at my my TV as I was doing work,

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Speaker 2: and I just had basketball game, basketball game, Basketball game,

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Speaker 2: basketball game. I was like, you know, I'm just gonna

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Speaker 2: do this on put Twitter to side. I picked it

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Speaker 2: up maybe like an hour later, refreshed it nothing. I'm like, okay, good.

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Speaker 2: So we've kind of reached that point where a lot

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Speaker 2: of the big, the big ticket items are gone, but

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Speaker 2: it doesn't mean that there aren't still decisions to be made.

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Speaker 2: Cooper Cup, I don't think it's the Texans, but you

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Speaker 2: never know. Stepan Diggs is still out there. You know,

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Speaker 2: there's some big names there still out there. Makuie Becton

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Speaker 2: literally and figuratively big guy mckaie Beckden still out there.

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Speaker 2: But it's the same I'm the same Mark. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's literally like, okay, what's what's happening? What's going on?

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Speaker 2: I mean, you're just paying attention to this time of

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Speaker 2: year so often, trying to figure out what are they

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Speaker 2: going to do next? And you know, we got to

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Speaker 2: you look and you go, dang, that's a lot of movement.

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Speaker 2: They did a lot of things over the last few days,

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Speaker 2: include trading for ed Ingram from the Minnesota Vikings. They've

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Speaker 2: done a lot, but because more than likely in a

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Speaker 2: lot of people's lives, it's not Daniel Hunter, it's not

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Speaker 2: Joe Mixon, it's not Steffan Diggs, it doesn't have the

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Speaker 2: sexiness that it did last year. You didn't have all

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Speaker 2: that much money to spend, so you kind of had

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Speaker 2: to go to TJ max and see if you can

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Speaker 2: find the Peter Malar jacket for thirty bucks. And hopefully

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Speaker 2: in some cases you might have done that, maybe once,

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Speaker 2: maybe twice. You get a He'll Figure T shirt for

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Speaker 2: fifteen instead of paying seventy five for it. So that's

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Speaker 2: hopefully what they've been able to do. But there's still

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Speaker 2: some work to do. Is we've talked about and we're

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Speaker 2: all in some sense waiting, Okay, what's that offensive line

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Speaker 2: Domino to fall, what's the next one? And I think

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Speaker 2: that's probably more than likely where I think they're gonna go.

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Speaker 2: And again, we didn't see this defon Digg's trade coming

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Speaker 2: and it didn't happen till April third last year.

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Speaker 3: I don't believe, so we could be waiting.

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Speaker 2: I mean it could be kind of you know, in

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Speaker 2: this period between free agency in the draft, and we

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Speaker 2: because we're into April, and all of a sudden, bang,

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Speaker 2: there's a move by the Texans. So look, Nick's done

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Speaker 2: it before he's done it again. He's made three of

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Speaker 2: the most significant trades in team history. So uh, maybe

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Speaker 2: there's another one coming down to Pike.

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Speaker 3: So we'll see.

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Speaker 1: Johnny right off the bat before we get to the Texans.

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Speaker 1: Everything happening this week. Cooper Cup off the table signing

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Speaker 1: with the Seattle Seahawks. Your thoughts on Cooper Cup becoming

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Speaker 1: a Seahawks and you called this, he said he's from

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Speaker 1: that part of the country, probably gonna go there. He's

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Speaker 1: got Darnold to throw them the football, and voila, we

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Speaker 1: have Cooper Cup off the deck.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I could have made some money in Vegas I guess,

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Speaker 2: but being an employee of NFL team, I guess I

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Speaker 2: couldn't do that. What it's not surprising, you know. I

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Speaker 2: kind of come to grips with it the other night,

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Speaker 2: Mark like it just doesn't feel like it's gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that's fine. I would have I would have liked

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Speaker 3: Cooper Cup. I'm a big fan of Cooper Cup.

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Speaker 2: I have been for a while, especially since seeing him

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Speaker 2: at the Senior Bowl a while back. Man, he was

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Speaker 2: so so good, but the Seahawks had to do something.

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Speaker 2: But now you got Cooper Cup with Jackson Smith and Jigba,

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Speaker 2: of felt like the Texans were out of that. But

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Speaker 2: that's big news that Cup is going back home. He's

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Speaker 2: from Washington, his wife is from Washington. And that's why

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Speaker 2: I said the other night, I really felt like that's

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Speaker 2: where he was gonna end up. He was gonna end

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Speaker 2: up in Washington. It made sense. Seattle needed him. They

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Speaker 2: need a receiver. He's from there. He's gonna get good money.

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Speaker 2: Seattle's got some money to spend, uh and so yeah,

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Speaker 2: he's going to Seattle.

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Speaker 1: Makes sense, you know, since it's Friday night, we have

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Speaker 1: a little time to stretch out here. I think it's

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Speaker 1: really notable how far they've come in two years, not

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Speaker 1: just one year, but two years. I mean two years ago.

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Speaker 1: At this time they had hired to meet go Ryans,

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Speaker 1: they had a free agent class going, they had some pieces,

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Speaker 1: and it was prior to the draft where they got

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Speaker 1: CJ and Will, etc. And I think that a lot

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Speaker 1: of especially when you compare it to some other teams

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Speaker 1: and they have builds that backfire, never get off the

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Speaker 1: launching pad the Jets. You know, really, McDaniel with the Dolphins,

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Speaker 1: in many ways, you've had some regular season real hot flashes,

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Speaker 1: real great moments. Right. I don't know if I should

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Speaker 1: call those hot flashes. Anybody's going through the change out

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Speaker 1: there from the opposite sex would say that's not a

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Speaker 1: good thing. Mark, that's not a good thing. That a

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Speaker 1: lot of flash. But they've had some hot moments in

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Speaker 1: regular seasons and nothing in the postseason. Obviously, they could

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Speaker 1: have stood to be a lot Hotter in the playoff

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Speaker 1: game against Kansas City when they were freezing to death

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Speaker 1: post twenty twenty three. Anyway, look how far they've come

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Speaker 1: in two year. But let's take it from last year,

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Speaker 1: because I think this is a good thing. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: They've been able to put a free agent here, free

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Speaker 2: Okay, I don't think anything precludes them from doing that now.

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Speaker 3: Completely and totally settled.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I think what they've done has been good,

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Speaker 1: I'd be shocked if we don't see two linemen drafted

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Speaker 1: difficult because in the absence of Nick Cassiria just coming

428
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Speaker 1: out and talking about it openly, we have to guess,

429
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Speaker 1: and it's it's hard to say. I mean, am I

430
00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:36,320
Speaker 1: right that it's right around fifty to fifty? There could

431
00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:39,480
Speaker 1: be a fifty eight, you know, our fifty two forty eight.

432
00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:41,119
Speaker 1: I don't know how else to word it. What are

433
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Speaker 1: you thinking there?

434
00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:46,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, because we really don't know. I this is

435
00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:54,960
Speaker 2: I feel confident that if Titus cut a little weight,

436
00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:58,159
Speaker 2: got his body in a little bit better shape to

437
00:20:58,200 --> 00:20:59,520
Speaker 2: where he could get back to the way that he

438
00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,919
Speaker 2: was moving probably earlier in his career. I think Titus

439
00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:06,040
Speaker 2: could play left tackle, I really do. And I think

440
00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:08,199
Speaker 2: Blake would survive over there. I think Titus would do

441
00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:10,119
Speaker 2: a little bit better job because I think Titus is

442
00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:14,879
Speaker 2: just a little bit better athlete. So you have that option.

443
00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:17,760
Speaker 2: I think that's the way I like it. You have

444
00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:21,520
Speaker 2: that option. Now, is it the best option? I don't

445
00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:25,120
Speaker 2: know totally, but I think you're gonna give it some opportunity.

446
00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:27,400
Speaker 2: Remember last training camp, we saw Blake Fisher over there

447
00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,920
Speaker 2: a lot We saw Blake over there at left tackle.

448
00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:31,679
Speaker 2: This is no lar I mean in training camp. So

449
00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,720
Speaker 2: we saw Blake a lot, and there were times it

450
00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:35,520
Speaker 2: looked pretty good.

451
00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:36,440
Speaker 3: There were times.

452
00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:39,200
Speaker 2: Where you're like, okay, boy, that was Will Anderson just

453
00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:42,120
Speaker 2: gave him a business, so it's gonna happen that way.

454
00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:45,000
Speaker 3: But I think at least you have those couple of options.

455
00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:49,480
Speaker 2: Here's the thing, as as you look at still who's.

456
00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:52,400
Speaker 3: Remaining at tackle, there are more former.

457
00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:56,360
Speaker 2: Texans free agents at tackle right now in the free

458
00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,720
Speaker 2: agency class that you've discarded trade and got rid of

459
00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:02,840
Speaker 2: they move on at some point than any other free

460
00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,560
Speaker 2: agent that's in the tackle class. This tackle free agent

461
00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:07,960
Speaker 2: class is basically Cam Robinson, who I wouldn't touch at

462
00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:10,639
Speaker 2: the temple, with Pole and a bunch of other guys,

463
00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:13,640
Speaker 2: including a lot of guys that have played for the Texans.

464
00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:17,000
Speaker 2: Charlie Hack, George Fan, Kendall lamb Uh. Those are the

465
00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:18,520
Speaker 2: three off the top of my heads I could think of,

466
00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:21,399
Speaker 2: and I'm sure I'm missing you know a few others

467
00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,840
Speaker 2: at that point. But my point in that is, I

468
00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:26,880
Speaker 2: don't know that you'll find the answer in free agency.

469
00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:27,959
Speaker 3: Now a draft.

470
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Speaker 2: Okay, all bets are off because with a draft, you

471
00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,439
Speaker 2: just I'm sorry, with the trade, you just never know.

472
00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:37,159
Speaker 2: I mean, Nick could call up I don't know, he

473
00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:42,320
Speaker 2: could call up Dallas and maybe make a play for

474
00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:46,440
Speaker 2: Tyler Smith and or you know, get him here, make

475
00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:48,399
Speaker 2: him left tackle. You know he's probably playing guard now.

476
00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:50,679
Speaker 2: I just you know, I'm kind of spitball in there.

477
00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:51,560
Speaker 2: But you get the bet me.

478
00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:56,080
Speaker 3: And that is with a trade, you just don't know exactly.

479
00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,320
Speaker 2: Problem with the trade is problem with the trader is

480
00:22:58,320 --> 00:22:59,920
Speaker 2: you get a little desperate. So then you go to

481
00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:01,920
Speaker 2: the draft. You look at the draft, and I think

482
00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:05,240
Speaker 2: with the draft, what's interesting is the two guys at

483
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,800
Speaker 2: the top, actually three guys at the top. All three

484
00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,879
Speaker 2: of them are kind of being thought as well. You know,

485
00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 2: they played tackle, but I think we're gonna move in

486
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 2: the guard. Yet I watch him play and I'm like,

487
00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:19,959
Speaker 2: those guys can all play tackle. And that's Kelvin maxfrom Texas,

488
00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:22,880
Speaker 2: That's Will Campbell from LSU, that's armand Membu from out

489
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:26,240
Speaker 2: of Missouri. But they are all really good athletes. They're

490
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:31,040
Speaker 2: all all very good movers of people. They pass for

491
00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 2: tech very well. Membu is probably the best athlete of

492
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Speaker 2: the three. You know, Campbell is probably the best overall player.

493
00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:41,520
Speaker 2: But I was studying. I studied Kelvin Banks today. I

494
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,880
Speaker 2: spent probably about two hours on him today, and I'm like, man,

495
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,119
Speaker 2: if that dude ended up in Houston, he's from Houston.

496
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:48,879
Speaker 3: He went to Summer creekt High School. I he ended

497
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 3: up in Houston. He's the left tackle.

498
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:53,359
Speaker 2: And I know it might be a little bit of

499
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,080
Speaker 2: a struggle at first, but he's a left tackle. He's

500
00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 2: an exceptional player, a really good athlete for a guy

501
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 2: his size. He's got the right demeanor to play that

502
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,880
Speaker 2: that spot. You can tell he tries to put guys

503
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:06,639
Speaker 2: in the dirt in the run game too, and so

504
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:08,879
Speaker 2: I like that. So you know, you can give me

505
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 2: any one of those three guys, and I think they

506
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:13,040
Speaker 2: would all play left tackle, even though because they don't

507
00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:16,360
Speaker 2: have thirty five inch arms and people are thinking about

508
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:17,080
Speaker 2: them as a guard.

509
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 3: So you can give me those three guys.

510
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,760
Speaker 2: And even if you thought with Calvin Banks, all right,

511
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 2: well we're gonna orry these guys, We're gonna move them

512
00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,520
Speaker 2: to guard, and then you get them there and then like, okay,

513
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:30,560
Speaker 2: we think we need to maximize what we've got.

514
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:31,600
Speaker 3: We move them out to tackle.

515
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:33,280
Speaker 2: We've seen that have done a lot of times, including

516
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,639
Speaker 2: Larmy Tunzel who did it with the Dolphins, start at

517
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 2: guard and then moved out to tackle in the next year.

518
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:42,760
Speaker 2: So that's okay, get the best five on the line together,

519
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:47,119
Speaker 2: playing well together and see where it goes. And that

520
00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,879
Speaker 2: puts tightest left tackle, great, Blake Fisher left tackle. Great,

521
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,359
Speaker 2: if it puts Josh Simmons from Ohio State there.

522
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,399
Speaker 3: As a rookie. Okay, rookies have had to survive over

523
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:56,400
Speaker 3: there left tackle.

524
00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:58,399
Speaker 2: You know what happens. When we went and played the

525
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:00,000
Speaker 2: Bears in twenty twenty two, we were there.

526
00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:03,480
Speaker 3: We two three three three.

527
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:04,439
Speaker 1: That was after Denver.

528
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,440
Speaker 3: I think it was after Denver. We played in Week three.

529
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:11,840
Speaker 2: They're playing a fifth round rookie at left tackle, and

530
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 2: I'm thinking we are gonna eat. And we did not

531
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:19,320
Speaker 2: beat Braxton Jones all day long. So you know, you've

532
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:22,400
Speaker 2: got opportunities with rookies to put them over their left

533
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 2: tackle and they could survive.

534
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:25,119
Speaker 3: You can chip and help with a tight end.

535
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 2: You know, that's gonna be the charge of Nick Cayley

536
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:29,959
Speaker 2: and Kole Popovich to come up with schemes to make

537
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,480
Speaker 2: sure that if it is a rookie. They don't leave

538
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:34,800
Speaker 2: that rookie out there on their own. But rookies have

539
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,360
Speaker 2: played pretty well tackle man, they have. We can't give

540
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:38,639
Speaker 2: up on that thought.

541
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,920
Speaker 1: They gotta come up with a plan that It's funny

542
00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 1: because I look at it two different ways. You know,

543
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 1: I always want to win the off season because that's

544
00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:49,200
Speaker 1: just who I am. I want the team to win

545
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:51,760
Speaker 1: the off season and then win in the regular season,

546
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:55,199
Speaker 1: win everything. Yeah, sometimes you don't win the off season

547
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:57,600
Speaker 1: and you do win in the regular season, and sometimes

548
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:00,520
Speaker 1: you look great in the off season and it doesn't out.

549
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,159
Speaker 1: I would love them to come up with a plan

550
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,920
Speaker 1: to get everybody confident about it. Get a high approval

551
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 1: rating if you will, you know my political season very much.

552
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 1: Get a high approval rating on the plan. But the

553
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:16,920
Speaker 1: fact is, I think everyone's being properly patient right now.

554
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:20,400
Speaker 1: Not everyone, but most people understand and follow this team

555
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 1: closely understand this is not done. They've learned their lesson

556
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 1: over the years. Don't judge player acquisition season on March fourteenth,

557
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 1: because it ain't over. And like you point out, so

558
00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:35,480
Speaker 1: many key moves in the history of this organization have

559
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:39,360
Speaker 1: taken place later and even after training camp in Lariman

560
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,399
Speaker 1: Tunzel himself in twenty nineteen. So you got to give

561
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 1: it a minute here. It could be a rookie, it

562
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 1: could be a veteran. We're not thinking about last year.

563
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:51,320
Speaker 1: The Digs trade came from out of nowhere. That's obviously

564
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 1: another position group, and let's discuss that position group for

565
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 1: a moment, because with Kirk Nico. All right, that's a

566
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 1: good start right there. But I feel like even in

567
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 1: the first round, they're not going to go for a receiver.

568
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,879
Speaker 1: They're getting a receiver now if they resigned Digs or

569
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: a big name or Cooper Cup or whatever. All right, fine,

570
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: but we see how injuries make you so thin in

571
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 1: a hurry. And what did we say last year when

572
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: they had what we called the Big three with Tank,

573
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:22,919
Speaker 1: Digs and Nico, Well, as long as two of them

574
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 1: are healthy, you'll be okay, that was the thing. As

575
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,120
Speaker 1: long as two of them are healthy, you'll feel pretty solid.

576
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:32,119
Speaker 1: But what happened We couldn't keep two of them healthy,

577
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 1: and Eco was out for five games, Digs was out

578
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 1: for half the season. Tank obviously in and out and

579
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 1: then back in and really started to take shape in

580
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: year two. My gosh, if you watch and I know

581
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,399
Speaker 1: you have the first half of that Chiefs game. You

582
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 1: could see some great plays from Tank. Oh Tank was great, Yeah,

583
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 1: he was really good in that game. You thought, okay,

584
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:55,160
Speaker 1: we're coming around here. You got Tank and Ego going good.

585
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,919
Speaker 1: No digs, but these two guys can really pump up

586
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 1: this offense at a key time of year. And then bang,

587
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,639
Speaker 1: Tank gets hurt in that horrible play where he was

588
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 1: catching a touchdown pass. So you've got to find a

589
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:08,880
Speaker 1: way to have enough depth, you know, to your point

590
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 1: about the offensive line, Look, you're not gonna have that

591
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 1: a receiver where there's no drop off, you're not gonna

592
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 1: have that. But you have to have real serviceable plus

593
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,679
Speaker 1: depth at the receiver position. So that means guys like

594
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 1: Mechi right now, Xavier Hutchinson, you know, we seem to

595
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 1: make plays, but they really got to step up on

596
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 1: a consistent basis. So you feel good about that depth.

597
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: But they're not done there. They'll certainly draft somebody relatively high,

598
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be first round, and probably another VET

599
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 1: coming in. But if it's a big name VET that

600
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 1: affects the draft position you would think. But again you

601
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 1: always point out you got Tank in the third round,

602
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 1: Ego in the third round.

603
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 2: You never know how that's gonna go down. Yeah, And

604
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 2: I like this group of receivers. I know some people

605
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 2: really don't. But I spent a lot of time with

606
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 2: the Meca Buka the last couple of days, just studying

607
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 2: him really closely. I mean, look, these guys I did

608
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 2: a lot of work on in summer, and so I

609
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 2: kind of have in my mind what I'm looking for

610
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 2: and what I've seen, and I don't know that Abuka,

611
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 2: like I should say it this way, Abuka stands out

612
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 2: when I watch him, and and I love him, and

613
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 2: a lot of people, you know, a lot of people

614
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 2: we get stuck in these narratives and so they're like, well,

615
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 2: Buka is a slot receiver. You got Kirk, He's a

616
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 2: slot receiver, And like no, no, no, no, no, no, you

617
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 2: can't go and label dudes, especially come out of college,

618
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 2: what they are? You know, because the last I looked

619
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 2: Mecha Abuka's got the same size and dimensions as or

620
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 2: as close to Justin Jefferson. He's got the same mentions

621
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 2: as DeAndre Hopkins. And even though hop has transitioned into

622
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 2: a slot receiver, it definitely hasn't hasn't been. I should

623
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 2: say that either, because Hop's not really a slot receiver now,

624
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 2: even with the Ravens. He just plays in the slot

625
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 2: a lot. You know, a guy like Edelman, he was

626
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 2: a slot receiver. He didnt knew much outside. You know,

627
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 2: that's a you know, Christian Kirk has played seventy five

628
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 2: percent of his snaps I think last year on the inside.

629
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 2: But a college guy, you never know. And so Abuka

630
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 2: has moved around. He did some sensational things watching him

631
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 2: on tape. I mean sensational. He's got excellent hands, He's

632
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 2: tough as a two dollars steak.

633
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 3: He blocks on the perimeter in.

634
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 2: A run game, like if you gave me a Mecca

635
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 2: a Buca like and I know a lot of people

636
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 2: you know, listen to Sean set in the morning. They

637
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 2: do their mock draft injection and they have a Mecca Abuka.

638
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 2: Well before the Tunsil trade, they had a Mecca a

639
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,080
Speaker 2: Buka going to Texans, And I was like, hell, yeah,

640
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 2: I think that would work perfectly. I like to fit

641
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 2: Abuka Kirk Nico. Then when Tank comes back in twenty six, like, okay,

642
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:36,479
Speaker 2: I'd like to fit of that.

643
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 3: I really like to fit of that.

644
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 2: And even now, even after making the trade for for Laramie, Yeah,

645
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 2: I'd like to see offensive lineman in the first round,

646
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 2: depending on what they do trade wise over the next how.

647
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 3: Many ever weeks.

648
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 2: Even if you gave me a Mecha a Buka that situation,

649
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, hell yeah, because I think he can

650
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:55,120
Speaker 2: do a lot.

651
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 3: More than just be your quote unquote slot receiver.

652
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 2: And so from that standpoint, like the narrative of Mecha

653
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 2: Buker kind of ticks me off because you know, well,

654
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:05,720
Speaker 2: he's just our slobery.

655
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 3: No, he's not. He's not. You can't say that about

656
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 3: anybody in College's just this. He's just that. You have

657
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 3: no idea.

658
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 2: Aj Brown is an Ole miss He played in the

659
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 2: slot one hundred percent of the time. He han't played

660
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 2: in the slot since that big beast has been outside

661
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 2: for Tennessee in Philadelphia. So we just gotta be careful

662
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 2: what the narratives there. But you're right, Mark, I think

663
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 2: the biggest thing to the wide receiver group is one

664
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 2: of John Matchi, Xavier Hutchinson, Jared Wayne. One of those

665
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 2: three guys has got to take a significant step forward.

666
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 3: Now.

667
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 2: I felt like I think X made a big step forward.

668
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 2: I feel like he made some key plays in the

669
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 2: playoff game. He's kind of made key plays his first

670
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 2: two years. To me, X is the kind of guy

671
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 2: that you know, he does so much on special teams,

672
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 2: so many the jet sweet gadget play type stuff. You know,

673
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 2: when Bobby's calling plays. I think he could be that guy. Man,

674
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 2: he could be a good three, could be a good four.

675
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 2: But you bring in another receiver and you have X

676
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 2: or Mechi or Jared or whatever one of those guys.

677
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 3: Now you start feeling pretty good about that group.

678
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 2: But you still have pieces to add in ways to

679
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 2: go with that group. No sense of panic, but it

680
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 2: is definitely something that you gotta get moving in the right.

681
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 1: Direction, putting together this roster in progress. All right, coming up,

682
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 1: we say goodbye to a Texan. This happened at the

683
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:30,959
Speaker 1: end of our show yesterday. The longest tenured Texan officially gone.

684
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: We'll talk about him and some other stuff. Of course,

685
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Speaker 1: it's Texans Radio all right. Back to it here on

686
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 1: Texans All Access. Mark Vandermaar and John Harris with you.

687
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 1: And at the end of our show yesterday, news broke

688
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 1: that John Weeks and you knew the Texans already signed

689
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 1: a long snapper in Tucker Addington, but you thought maybe competition,

690
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: maybe Weeks is back. Maybe maybe Weeks a forty nine

691
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 1: er signs with San Francisco. He'll be reunited with many

692
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 1: Texans employees. Many names you don't know who worked for

693
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers organization, who used to work for

694
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. Some you do, like Kyle Shanahan. But

695
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: what do you make of it, Johnny, This is a

696
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:12,720
Speaker 1: guy who basically pitched a perfect game since twenty ten.

697
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 1: It was always on target, locked in, total professional. I mean,

698
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 1: we have to celebrate the career of what Weeks did

699
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 1: here as a guy who was here since twenty ten

700
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 1: at a Baylor really loved as a Texans player, did

701
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 1: a ton in the community, Walter Payton Man of the

702
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 1: Year nominee, and did his job superbly. What service to

703
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: this organization. And I've always said this, he's like the

704
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 1: plumbing and electricity. You know it's you don't notice it,

705
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 1: You kind of take it for granted until it's out,

706
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,719
Speaker 1: until something goes wrong, then wait a minute. So he

707
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 1: was so reliable so many years, and he'll be so cherished,

708
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 1: really as a long snapper. We're saying this about him

709
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 1: that says something.

710
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know, it's one of those things where

711
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 2: I'm sort of glad we got off the air last night.

712
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 3: We finish the im me.

713
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 2: Literally, as you get off the air, the first thing

714
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 2: you do, okay, check phones, and I look and I

715
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,240
Speaker 2: see the news, and I was glad.

716
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 3: I was glad in the sense that.

717
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:19,240
Speaker 2: The timing of the announcement was after our show, because

718
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:21,880
Speaker 2: trying to encapsulate that in the last few minutes of

719
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 2: the show it would have been or any part of

720
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 2: the show without much notice would have been really really hard.

721
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 2: You know, his wife, Amanda is tremendous. She's a pillar

722
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 2: in the community. I mean, she's done so much in

723
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 2: this community community with John. And I think that's the

724
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 2: other thing with WEEKSI is just the fact that he's

725
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 2: such a he's such a pillar in the community. And

726
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 2: I think it was Nick Skirfield, our friend, who put

727
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 2: out today that John Weeks is the only Texan to

728
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:52,280
Speaker 2: have played in every Texans playoff game. That's pretty wild,

729
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:56,880
Speaker 2: and I was like, Wow, that's that's pretty amazing. And

730
00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 2: he's done so well by this organization. I think the

731
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:03,799
Speaker 2: organization embraced him. He embraced the organization. You know, it's

732
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 2: an opportunity to go try on a new organization with

733
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,320
Speaker 2: the forty nine ers and go see, you know, extend

734
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,920
Speaker 2: his career. You know, I've had that conversation with him

735
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:16,319
Speaker 2: over the years, you know about you.

736
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:20,839
Speaker 3: Know, are not in short? Are you ready? Is this it?

737
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:24,439
Speaker 3: Do you have more football in you? You know, keep

738
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:26,440
Speaker 3: playing if you can physically.

739
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 2: And I think he always had that mindset like I'm

740
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 2: gonna go as long as this body allows me to.

741
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 2: And you know, he didn't see too much drop off

742
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 2: in him as a long snapper for punts, kicks. You know,

743
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:41,839
Speaker 2: he just he's always been so steady. You know, John

744
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 2: mcclaan will get on here and tell you he's a

745
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 2: grace long snapper in.

746
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 3: The history of the game.

747
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 2: And you know, I just it's hard to think of

748
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 2: life without him because down on the sidelines, you know,

749
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 2: down in the sidelines, always have to avoid him.

750
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,399
Speaker 3: So I'll tell you this story. Some people know the story.

751
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 3: I don't know if I've told you this. I think

752
00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 3: I've told you this.

753
00:35:58,239 --> 00:35:58,439
Speaker 1: Mark.

754
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 2: So my first game down on the sidelines, first game

755
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 2: was against the Redskins, now the Commanders back in twenty fourteen,

756
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 2: and so down on.

757
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 3: The sidelines, think thee kind of chaotic.

758
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,280
Speaker 2: There's a lot of things moving, a lot of people

759
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,320
Speaker 2: doing a lot of different things. You know, there's a

760
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,720
Speaker 2: t big TV cart and there's good room down at NRG.

761
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 2: Some places there's not, but sometimes when all the actions

762
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:22,919
Speaker 2: in one location, you can get a lot of people there.

763
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 2: So I'm moving from one part to the next. And

764
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 2: I knew that John practices snaps, but I was paying

765
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 2: attention to something happened in the game, and I wasn't

766
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 2: paying attention.

767
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 3: To where I was.

768
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 2: On the sidelines, And all of a sudden, I felt

769
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 2: this kind of whoosh of air go right by my face.

770
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,479
Speaker 2: I mean right by my face. It must have been

771
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:49,240
Speaker 2: six to eight inches away, if not closer. And I realized.

772
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 2: I looked down and there's Weeks He laughing. He's like,

773
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 2: I had to send you a warning shot because you

774
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 2: were getting in the way. So he was practicing his

775
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 2: log snaps, and he's fine. I mean, I'm telling you

776
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 2: that ball is that ball's humming. He hits me, you know,

777
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 2: if I'm turned, he hits me profile like right, and

778
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,799
Speaker 2: my nose is broken. It's probably concautious, probably blood everywhere. Well,

779
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 2: that's how good he was. He was just sending a

780
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 2: warning shot across the bow, as he called it, and

781
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,799
Speaker 2: fired one to whoever the punter was that Shane at

782
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 2: that time, and Shanee just cackling. He's just laughing. And

783
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 2: so I always knew be careful wherever you are on

784
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 2: the sidelines. And I've stopped I don't know how many

785
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 2: people from getting the same thing happening to them because

786
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 2: they started to walk into the path of a John

787
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:38,239
Speaker 2: Weeks practice snap.

788
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 3: On the sidelines and I would stop them.

789
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 2: Videographers, other sideline reporters, you know, TV sidelline reporters. I

790
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 2: just kind of put my arm out like yo, and

791
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 2: they'd stop, like what and then they see the ball

792
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:50,879
Speaker 2: fire and by like oh, okay, thank you, and I'm like, yeah,

793
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 2: you do not want to get hit by a John

794
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:53,400
Speaker 2: Weeks snap.

795
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 3: So but definitely miss him.

796
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 2: We'll see him back at the NRG, yeah, because the

797
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 2: forty nine ers will be coming two archiev for the

798
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 2: first time since twenty seventeen. But just man, everything you

799
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 2: wanted a text and everything you wanted in a player,

800
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 2: everything you wanted to teammate, you know.

801
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 3: John Weeks. Was that so yeah, I'm gonna miss him.

802
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 2: It's it was wild news to hear, just kind of

803
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's it's hit me, Mark, but

804
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:20,719
Speaker 2: it really hasn't hit me. Probably won't until I see

805
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 2: him in that that that freaking uniform of the forty

806
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:24,800
Speaker 2: nine ers.

807
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:27,720
Speaker 1: Well, that and not seeing him at training camp, because

808
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 1: oh yeah, he is absolutely such a familiar face as

809
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 1: a player. I thought the funniest moment was Dimiko Ryan's

810
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: press conference, his introductory press conference when he was named

811
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:41,799
Speaker 1: head coach, and he took pictures on stage with the

812
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 1: former players and with the current players, and you know,

813
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 1: the current players. He took pictures. Weeks was up there

814
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 1: in the former players. He's like, Weeks, get back up here,

815
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 1: your current and former you know, because he is I mean,

816
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:57,320
Speaker 1: Weeks is in that era with what all those guys.

817
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 1: When you think about him coming in twenty ten, he

818
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,919
Speaker 1: was here before. I mean that's a long time ago,

819
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:05,799
Speaker 1: and here for the first playoff season division championship and

820
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:07,959
Speaker 1: then he's here for this Dimico era, and we didn't

821
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 1: know what the Demico era was gonna bring us and

822
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 1: has brought us two wonderful years so far. So uh,

823
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 1: that's great for him. Tucker Addington a lot of pressure,

824
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 1: big shoes.

825
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 3: To fill a lot of pressure.

826
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:21,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see how that goes. And Canemie Fairbairn is

827
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 1: now the longest tenured Texan, longest tenured position player, as

828
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:28,760
Speaker 1: you would call it, is Titus Howard, who was drafted

829
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. You know, for a long time we

830
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:34,800
Speaker 1: could say Titus and Laramie, but now we got Titus.

831
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 1: And that's amazing, Johnny, that Titus has been around here

832
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:39,240
Speaker 1: longer than anybody.

833
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:42,360
Speaker 2: That just shows you how time is flying. It feels

834
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,360
Speaker 2: like he just got here. Yeah, it feels like he

835
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:47,320
Speaker 2: just got here. But I remember when he got here.

836
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 2: You know, he's a rookie obviously, and he was engaged.

837
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 2: Titus thing got married and I think he has three

838
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 2: kids now maybe four in the time that he has

839
00:39:58,120 --> 00:39:58,400
Speaker 2: been here.

840
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 3: I think it's three. With time he's going with the tech.

841
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 2: It's like, holy cow, we've seen this guy go from

842
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 2: you know, young dude coming out of college. It was

843
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 2: pretty polished, even though he was coming out Alabama State,

844
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 2: get married, having kids, have family.

845
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 3: It's just it's crazy.

846
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 2: And yeah, you're right, Titus is the longest tenured Texan.

847
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 2: You know, you'd say Laramie and Titus, and then you

848
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 2: would say Eric Murray too, because Eric Murray had shown

849
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:21,839
Speaker 2: up in the COVID year. And although it feels at

850
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 2: times like COVID was just yesterday, it feels like it

851
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 2: was eons ago, and we have i mean nobody from

852
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 2: twenty twenty, you know, I mean nobody from that team now, Titus.

853
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:38,919
Speaker 3: It's ridiculous. That was just five years ago.

854
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: That's incredible. And this week people were tweeting out there.

855
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:44,759
Speaker 1: You know what you were doing when you heard that,

856
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 1: the world stopped. And everyone remembers when the Rodeo canceled.

857
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Speaker 1: The Rodeo Yeah through or however far through it they were,

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Speaker 1: and that was an utter shock. Wait a minute, the

859
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Speaker 1: Rodeo is done. We're done. Early and then the NBA season,

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Speaker 1: the Rodeo was one thing, and that was huge because

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Speaker 1: it's local and it's the Rodeo.

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Speaker 3: It's so important.

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Speaker 1: But when the NBA canceled their season, they were first

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Speaker 1: to go. Right when they canceled their season, and somebody

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Speaker 1: posted the video of what was it, the Utah Jazz

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Speaker 1: playing Somebody Rudy Gobert.

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Speaker 3: Gobert, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: And they said, oh that yeah, but they said, the

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Speaker 1: two teams are out on the floor. Then they went

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Speaker 1: to the locker rooms and they you're going to cancel

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Speaker 1: this game and the season's done too. That's incredible, powerful stuff.

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Speaker 1: And we've made it through that. Let's not have another one. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Coming up, John Weeks, we love you and I know

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about you again sometime soon. Coming up,

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Speaker 1: what's going on around the league. So, a very notable,

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Speaker 1: high paid, super high paid player, I mean, the highest

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Speaker 1: paid non quarterback in NFL history. Story came out about

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Speaker 1: how professional is he? Look, he's a really good player

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00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 1: that among other things, we'll talk about next year on

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio. All right, wrapping it up here Friday night,

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Speaker 1: having fun, Mark Vandermer, John Harris. Texans made their announcement

882
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Speaker 1: today of players that they have acquired during the early

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Speaker 1: part I'll call it the early part of what I

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Speaker 1: call player acquisition season, team building season, however you want

885
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: to put it. Because they put out a big press

886
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 1: release of all the names you've been hearing about, they're

887
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Speaker 1: no surprises here. A couple of things left out, probably

888
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Speaker 1: because of Tea's crossing and I's dotting and that sort

889
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 1: of thing. Other big news that has happened during this

890
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Speaker 1: player acquisition time, among many other stories, Miles Garrett signing

891
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 1: the big deal, highest paid non quarterback in NFL history.

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Speaker 1: Then a story Johnny comes out in The Athletic about

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Speaker 1: how he's frequently late to the facility. He's skipped mandatory

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Speaker 1: team activities on multiple occasions, writes Jason Lloyd. Jason Lloyd

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Speaker 1: writes for Theathletic dot Com, So what do you make

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Speaker 1: of this? I'm sure there are a lot of players

897
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Speaker 1: like this. You don't hear about it most of the time.

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Speaker 1: And obviously he's a hell of a player. They wanted

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Speaker 1: him back. But when I say they, with the Browns,

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Speaker 1: you never know who's calling the shots. I mean, it's

901
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 1: got to come down to ownership and the Watson deal

902
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 1: signing Garrett, who vocally wanted to be traded, but they

903
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 1: gave him so much money he had to say yes,

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Speaker 1: kind of like Watson himself. Your thoughts, you know what?

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Speaker 2: It's It's interesting because when I saw that come down,

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00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,840
Speaker 2: it it struck me because there's been a lot of

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00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:32,920
Speaker 2: talk here in Houston, you know, about about Laramie Tunzel,

908
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:38,480
Speaker 2: and a lot of people are opining about this, that

909
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Speaker 2: and the third and they don't know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they don't have any they don't have any clue.

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00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 3: They don't know. They're not in that locker room. You

912
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:48,880
Speaker 3: and I are in a building, but we're.

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Speaker 1: Not a locker room.

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Speaker 2: So it's interesting that you know somebody from the Browns talk.

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Speaker 2: The most notorious player known for being late all the

916
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Speaker 2: time was the guy that went to the Hall of Fame,

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Speaker 2: Derek Thomas.

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Speaker 3: Derek Thomas with the Kansas.

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Speaker 2: City Chiefs was late to everything, everything in his career.

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Speaker 3: Everywhere along the way.

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Speaker 2: Then they had to talk to him about being on time,

922
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Speaker 2: and he just was notoriously late. Now, he worked hard,

923
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Speaker 2: he did what he was supposed to do. He just

924
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Speaker 2: showed up late to stuff. And that was that was

925
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Speaker 2: always kind of a thorn in the side of Marty Schottenheimer.

926
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Speaker 2: But he understood. Marty understood what he had with Derek Thomas.

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Speaker 2: He knew that guy played hard, he knew he cared

928
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Speaker 2: and that he would put in the work, he would

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Speaker 2: do all those things. And I would imagine that's what

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Speaker 2: Cleveland looks at with Miles is, yeah, we got to

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Speaker 2: have this guy. He does work. Yeah, maybe he shows

932
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Speaker 2: up late to things. Maybe there's some things that he

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Speaker 2: doesn't show up to, and maybe we got to make

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Speaker 2: that more clear to him.

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Speaker 3: That's what we want.

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Speaker 2: But you know, set the expectation for him and see

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Speaker 2: if he wants to meet it. But you know, if

938
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Speaker 2: you did set that expectation for him and he he's

939
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Speaker 2: still not he's still not adhering to it, and then

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Speaker 2: you give him forty million dollars a year, he's just

941
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Speaker 2: gonna continue doing what he's doing.

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Speaker 1: So it's a bad example. It's a bad Yeah, for

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Speaker 1: the rest of the play, I'm gonna so I have

944
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Speaker 1: a theory about being late, and I want to see

945
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Speaker 1: if you agree with this. This applies to everybody listening

946
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Speaker 1: right now. I think being late is an adrenaline addiction.

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Speaker 1: And I'll explain because I've had many times, especially when

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Speaker 1: I was working in sales, where I would know that

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Speaker 1: if I left now, I'll be early. So let's not

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Speaker 1: push it and be early. Let's try to get something

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Speaker 1: just done. And I would notice that, oh, now it's

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Speaker 1: time to go, and I'm kind of pushing it. I

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Speaker 1: might be late, but what happens is you get a

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Speaker 1: big adrenaline rush, like now I'm in a hurry. You

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Speaker 1: know how many times have I done this?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 1: I know not everybody does this, And at this point

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Speaker 1: in my life, I'm much better about being early, you know,

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Speaker 1: just get there early or at least on time. But

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Speaker 1: there have been times in my life where I've been

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Speaker 1: in that perpetual pushing it. Because if you think about it,

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Speaker 1: it's easy to get somewhere on time. You just set

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Speaker 1: your phone to it. These days, set an alarm, leave

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Speaker 1: at the appropriate time, and you'll get there on time.

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Speaker 1: But I think people are kind of addicted to this

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Speaker 1: rush of being in a hurry. I gotta get there. Well,

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Speaker 1: you could have left five minutes ago, but you didn't.

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Speaker 1: Why why not? I don't know. Why didn't you get

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Speaker 1: up five minutes earlier? It's the same thing. Well, five

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Speaker 1: more minutes of sleep? Is that really gonna help you

971
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Speaker 1: that much? Does that really mean that much?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 1: I think it becomes a getting late or being late

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Speaker 1: addiction of sorts. And I probably am not wording this properly.

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Speaker 1: And maybe other people have thought of this and it's

976
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Speaker 1: got an appropriate institutional clinical term. I don't have one

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Speaker 1: for it. We'll get deeper into this, maybe never, but

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Speaker 1: I thought I would throw it out there. Okay, Monday,

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Speaker 1: full show, six o'clock, stay tuned, Area forty five. Next

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00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:01,480
Speaker 1: I'll talk about everything happening with the Texans and in

981
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Speaker 1: the NFL, the Cooper Cup deal, all of it happening

982
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Speaker 1: next night. You Tyler for producing. Have a great night,

983
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Speaker 1: a great weekend everyone, And this podcast or this show

984
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 1: which is also a podcast because it'll be available in

985
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 1: podcast forms soon enough. Go check it out wherever you

986
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Speaker 1: get your podcasts, Spotify, on the Odyssey app, the Texans app.

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Speaker 1: It's all there. Have a great night, Go Texans.