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Speaker 2: Welcome to Wednesday edition of Texans All Access from the

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Speaker 2: Monday Texans Radio studio. John Harrison, Mark Vandermir Here one

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Speaker 2: day before the Texans take on the Detroit Lions and

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Speaker 2: a joint practice on Thursday and then a game on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Game you could hear right here in s Ports Radio

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Speaker 2: six ten at noon. Pregame show will start nine with

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Speaker 2: Shawn and Seth, then the game at twelve with Mark

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Speaker 2: and Andre.

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Speaker 1: Minus me, I'll be on TV.

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Speaker 2: You can see that KTRK Chown thirteen and then postgame

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Speaker 2: after that on Sports Radio six to ten you can

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Speaker 2: hear with Seawan and Clint Sterner.

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Speaker 1: Mark, we are that close. How you're feeling.

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Speaker 3: I'm feeling great, Johnny.

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Speaker 4: Look, this is a great two sessions file again, just

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Speaker 4: like you had with the Panthers, you had the Thursday

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Speaker 4: have a Thursday joint practice and a Saturday game to

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Speaker 4: wrap up all your preseason activity. And you're gonna go

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Speaker 4: into full game mode next week with a couple of

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Speaker 4: weeks to get ready for the Rams. And as ND

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Speaker 4: told us on Monday show, even with the fourth preseason

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Speaker 4: game which no longer exists, which would take place that

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Speaker 4: Thursday before Labor Day weekend. The starters, I put that

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Speaker 4: into air quotes, were working on the game plan for

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Speaker 4: preseason game. So really that hasn't changed. Now you can

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Speaker 4: fully focus though on Game one, instead of having the

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Speaker 4: of thing. So I like, this great activity, Please don't

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Speaker 4: get hurt. Let's get back healthy, safe and ready for

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Speaker 4: the Rams September seventh.

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Speaker 2: Now, I don't remember exactly, but I'm trying to think

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Speaker 1: Ye had Labor Day weekend off and that was it.

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Speaker 2: So you played that game Thursday night, right, got to

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Speaker 2: seen everything in training camp, but we haven't ever always

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Speaker 2: I don't know if we'll see all those guys in

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Speaker 4: they light it up against the Detroit Lions. So please

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Speaker 4: when did Connor Barwin get hurt? Remember you got hurt

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Speaker 2: The game one injuries when you've gone through all the preseasons,

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Speaker 4: I don't care what level of the depth chart we're

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. I think the third thing to watch ends

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Speaker 2: I think there's still a competition for that third corner battle,

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Speaker 1: He is the third thing to watch and my sleeper

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Speaker 4: All right, sleeper of the game for is that everybody

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Speaker 4: Mattress from the official sleep partner of the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 4: Mine would be Jawar Jordan. I think he's gonna run

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Speaker 4: I think he's gonna run it a lot because what

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Speaker 4: he marks. I think he'll play, but if he does

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Speaker 3: So let's see what he produces.

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Speaker 2: That is gonna be absolutely fantastic. Now, I just mentioned

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Speaker 2: Wednesday edition of Texans All Access from the Honday Texans

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Speaker 1: Gonna ask you an interesting question.

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Speaker 2: I want to see how your answer meshes with what

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Speaker 1: What would you say? Dog?

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Speaker 6: Is that that?

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Speaker 6: Is that that?

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Speaker 6: I feel like that's good too, that's good too.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but crazy implies that you're not playing smart relentless.

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Speaker 6: I don't think that minute and that crazy. I feel

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Speaker 5: They say, like he plays out there were like crazy

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Speaker 6: I think, knowing my teammates, I figured that's what they

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Speaker 1: You're wonder year two, how much more comfortable do you fear?

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Speaker 5: A lot, a lot more comfortable with everything is moving

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Speaker 5: it flows a lot better. I have a routine now,

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Speaker 1: That's starting to click.

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Speaker 5: A little bit of all of those things you just said,

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Speaker 5: I just feel like I've been studying more as well,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to cornerback is draft.

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Speaker 2: Everybody wants to know about how they cover, can they matge,

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Speaker 1: That kind of stuff.

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Speaker 2: But I think the one thing people missed about you

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Speaker 5: So I mean that was just like that was perfect

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Speaker 6: It really reminds me back home.

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Speaker 2: What is the ceiling for your secondary this year? What's

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Speaker 6: There is no ceiling. That's the crazy part. You guys

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Speaker 5: We have the ability to be that good. We had

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Speaker 5: the potential word that I don't like to use. But

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Speaker 5: as long as we continue to work, we continue to

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Speaker 5: play everythaying together, it's gonna come together the way it's

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Speaker 1: I love that answer.

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Speaker 2: You can ever align potentially, you gotta go make it

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Speaker 1: Last to appreciate your time, man, Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: If I'm being one hundred percent honest, I'm gonna talk

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Speaker 2: I believe it was his mom that was down on

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Speaker 1: That's I mean, you could see the resemblance, so it

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Speaker 2: She was so excited to see Kaylen because Kaylen and

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Speaker 2: Kamaria have become such close friends since being drafted together

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Speaker 2: coach Stephen had a gokay unbelievably smart, hard working, great personality.

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Speaker 1: How tough is it to get through these as? The

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Speaker 9: I mean, I think every day get opportunity to come

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Speaker 6: Coaches, players, everybody.

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Speaker 2: Said the best way possible, coach, coach, tell me about

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Speaker 9: A lot of hardworking them in all of them. The vets,

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Speaker 2: Kayling starts solid year as a rookie, there's no doubts

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Speaker 9: Somebody just focused on getting better day in the day,

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Speaker 1: One day after practice, m J.

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Speaker 2: Stewart just looked at me and said, I'm aging like

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Speaker 2: a fine wine. He does a lot of different things

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Speaker 9: A lot of leadership.

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Speaker 9: Number one, a guy that can move around different spots

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Speaker 1: How different is this defense? Coach?

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Speaker 2: Maybe not schematically, but just every year is different. I've

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Speaker 2: Twenty three was different than twenty four, Twenty four is

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Speaker 9: every year in school is something different. It's still school,

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Speaker 9: And obviously you're not starting necessarily from square one as

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Speaker 1: So it's been good.

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Speaker 2: weather a little bit.

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Speaker 1: What do you accomplish? What are you looking to accomplish

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Speaker 1: for your group? Back there? Going to Detroit with the

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Speaker 1: joint practice and then a game on Saturday.

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Speaker 9: It's about the team, you know, we always want to win,

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Speaker 9: but it's really about the guys getting better each and

448
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Speaker 9: every day the preseason, about guys getting opportunities to display

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Speaker 9: their abilities and show how they can improve over the

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Speaker 9: course of training camp because it is a grind, but

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Speaker 9: every day, whether it's a physical setting or to walk

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Speaker 9: through where you're getting mental reps right, how sharp can

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Speaker 9: I be and how how can I do? How often

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Speaker 9: can I do the right thing? So I think that's

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Speaker 9: that's the focus there going into training camp. You know,

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Speaker 9: joint practices get you know, they got hyped up, but

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Speaker 9: again you're trying to get better, You're trying to get

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Speaker 9: something out of it.

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Speaker 1: Coach, thank you so much, really appreciate thank you, sir.

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Speaker 1: Sad part of that is I think that might be

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Speaker 1: my last training camp interview.

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Speaker 2: We might get wanted Detroit we'll see, but if that

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Speaker 2: was the last one, it's a great one to end

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Speaker 2: on steven A. It's funny because when we text each other,

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Speaker 2: none of us know really how to spell Steve and

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Speaker 2: I gokay. I think it's relatively easy, but we just don't.

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Speaker 2: We just always say steven A. So the other day

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Speaker 2: when I saw in the text threat, I'm like, steven A,

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Speaker 2: oh oh oh, are stephen A not stephen A Smith espn.

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Speaker 2: Which I'd much rather talk to steven out of gokay,

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Speaker 2: To be honest with you, steven A Smith whatever, I'd

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Speaker 2: much rather talk to our steven A.

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Speaker 1: He's the best now.

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Speaker 2: Mark in his final training camp interview, caught up with

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Speaker 2: Center Jake Andrews. Take listen to good interview here all right, Jake,

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Speaker 2: So tell me how it's been. We caught up at

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Speaker 2: mini camp, but a lot of water has gone under

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Speaker 2: the bridge since then.

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Speaker 3: How's it been for you? Since?

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Speaker 10: I've been having a lot of fun, really enjoyed being here.

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Speaker 10: I feel blessed to be here. I think we've gotten

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Speaker 10: a lot better since we last talked. Still got a

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Speaker 10: long way to go, but like I said, I think

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Speaker 10: everybody's enjoying it. And I know I am for sure.

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Speaker 4: Be in the center. You're the quarterback of the offensive line.

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Speaker 4: So what's that like for you having to make those

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Speaker 4: calls at the line and direct everybody properly?

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Speaker 10: U I enjoy I think it's a lot of fun.

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Speaker 10: That's a big piece of why I like enjoy so

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Speaker 10: much playing center. It comes with like a small leadership

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Speaker 10: role that you kind of just have to have. But

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Speaker 10: then again, like you're you're learning defenses, you're learning like

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Speaker 10: the way they align. It's fun to study different teams

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Speaker 10: each week, even studying our own team and just figuring

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Speaker 10: out the little intricacies that they talk about and what

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Speaker 10: they do.

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Speaker 1: So I really enjoyed just as a foot ball.

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Speaker 6: Fan and lover of the game.

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Speaker 10: So yeah, I have a lot of fun with it

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Speaker 10: and take a lot of pride in doing that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, facing your own team is one of the best

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Speaker 4: defenses you're gonna face, no doubt. So what is that

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Speaker 4: like day in day out as you try to fool them?

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Speaker 4: I'll put that in air quotes and make plays because

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Speaker 4: they know you after a while pretty well, Yeah they do.

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Speaker 10: I mean it's not often you have to, you know,

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Speaker 10: somewhat game plan your own defense and practice so you

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Speaker 10: can get you know, a good look at something. But

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Speaker 10: you know, kudos to them. I mean, it's one of

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Speaker 10: the best defenses as a hole in the league. Definitely

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Speaker 10: one of the top defensive lines in the league, the

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Speaker 10: front seven, not to mention, you know, if you break

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Speaker 10: it down in each category, like they're they're pretty degne good,

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Speaker 10: you know, everywhere.

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Speaker 1: So it's a lot of fun.

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Speaker 10: And you know, I've always said practice, if you can

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Speaker 10: make practice harder than the games, like that's that's a

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Speaker 10: good thing. And they make it hard for us. Hopefully

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Speaker 10: we're making it hard for them as well. And you

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Speaker 10: know that's just a winning formula right there. When we're

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Speaker 10: on the same team on Sundays.

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Speaker 4: We see results on the field, no question. With the

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Speaker 4: offensive line, you guys paving the way for the ony game,

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Speaker 4: pass protection, everything like that. What's it been like behind

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Speaker 4: the curtain, behind closed doors, the room bonding, developing, the

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Speaker 4: camaraderie you guys need at the chemistry you guys need

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Speaker 4: to be effective off the field.

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Speaker 3: What's that been like?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been good.

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Speaker 10: You know, you kind of have I don't mean this

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Speaker 10: in a negative way, but you kind of have no

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Speaker 10: choice when you're around each other here during training camp.

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Speaker 10: I mean, that's that's kind of part of it, and

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Speaker 10: I think we've all embraced it. I think we all

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Speaker 10: truly do enjoy being around each other. Everybody gets along

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Speaker 10: with everybody, doesn't matter if you're a ten year guy,

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Speaker 10: one year guy, like I think everybody truly enjoys being

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Speaker 10: around each other. And so that's been really nice. You know,

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Speaker 10: I know you don't have that at a lot of places.

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Speaker 10: It's not always like that, and so for that to

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Speaker 10: be the case here has been really fun. And I

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Speaker 10: think we're all lucky to have such a good room

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Speaker 10: up there.

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Speaker 4: Do you feel like you're developing an identity? I know

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Speaker 4: that's kind of cliche, but it seems like that's coming

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Speaker 4: around from the outside looking in.

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Speaker 3: How do you see it, Jake?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, I you know, I think there's always

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Speaker 10: work to be done, but you know, we got a

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Speaker 10: long way to go. We're still not where we need

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Speaker 10: to be, and you know we probably never will be.

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Speaker 10: But you know, you know, Di Migo actually just said

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Speaker 10: it when we got done just now, like you're striving

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Speaker 10: for perfection, but you'll never hit perfect It's it's the

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Speaker 10: game of football cannot be played perfectly. It just doesn't happen.

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Speaker 10: But I think the the closer and closer you can get,

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Speaker 10: and the harder you strive to be perfect, that's when

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Speaker 10: good stuff happens. And Yeah, I think I think we

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Speaker 10: are gonna have a decent identity of you know, running

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Speaker 10: the football hard and and moving defenders and paving you know,

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Speaker 10: lanes for the backs to hit and making sure that

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Speaker 10: the pockets cleaned for a passer and you know, stuff

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Speaker 10: like that, and then playing with a little attitude. I

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Speaker 10: think that's kind of all what sums up the identity.

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Speaker 10: And I think we've we've gotten closer and closer each

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Speaker 10: week to getting that.

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Speaker 4: You have the joint practice last week with the Panthers,

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Speaker 4: now you have one with the Lions coming up. How's

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Speaker 4: that different from a game for you? For what you do, Yeah.

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Speaker 10: You know, it's you want to protect the team, You

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Speaker 10: want to protect the other team. You know, I know

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Speaker 10: they're quote unquote the enemy and stuff like that, but

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Speaker 10: you know, you never want to hurt anybody. You never

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Speaker 10: want to get anybody hurt. So there's kind of that

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Speaker 10: line to it. Then again, it's practice and you are

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Speaker 10: competing and you know, everybody wants to have a job

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Speaker 10: when it comes down to cut down day, and you

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Speaker 10: know that's kind of an unsaid thing, but it's definitely different.

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Speaker 10: You're able to finishing games, you're not able to finish

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Speaker 10: in practice, especially upfront for us, Like you have to

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Speaker 10: kind of find that that threshold I was saying of

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Speaker 10: making sure you're finishing plays but not doing you know,

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Speaker 10: too much while you're still competing and still trying to

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Speaker 10: have that identity like we just talked about, you kind

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Speaker 10: of have to you kind of have to adjust a

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Speaker 10: little bit. But but it's always good work.

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Speaker 4: So what about Houston. How's it been for you? What

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Speaker 4: are you noticing about the city. How's the acclimation going

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Speaker 4: to Houston?

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's great.

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Speaker 10: Me and my wife and you know, we have a

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Speaker 10: thirteen month old and we love it. It's been great.

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Speaker 10: We're both from the South and so the Southern hospitality

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Speaker 10: is obviously nice to be back in. It's hot, but

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Speaker 10: you know, I grew up in it, I'm used to it.

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Speaker 10: I love it. It's been a lot of fun.

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Speaker 8: We have.

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Speaker 10: Like I said, we have a thirteen month so so

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Speaker 10: we don't get out too much, right but we do

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Speaker 10: try to get out some and you know, have a

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Speaker 10: nice dinner here and there, and it's it's been great.

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Speaker 6: I love it so far.

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Speaker 7: We both do.

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Speaker 3: Baby sleeping, Okay, at thirteen months.

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Speaker 10: She sleeps great.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, right, good, yeah, now that's good. Sometimes it

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Speaker 4: takes a little longer for.

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Speaker 1: Some it does.

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Speaker 10: We were lucky she's she's been awesome. We're scared for

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Speaker 10: what the next.

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Speaker 3: My hold, you're gonna pay the price.

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Speaker 10: Yeah's coming, it's coming at some point.

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Speaker 3: She's the best though. All right, Jake, Well, congratulations on that.

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Speaker 4: I know, thirteen months ago, but still being a young father,

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Speaker 4: it's got to be great and being here with the

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Speaker 4: Houston Texans.

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Speaker 3: We appreciate you being on.

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Speaker 2: All right, that's gonna do it with our interviews in

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Speaker 2: this segment, Choir Lasser, Steve and I you okay, and

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Speaker 2: Jake Andrews.

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Speaker 1: Coming on next a little Texans.

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Speaker 2: Audio juke box. We'll hear from Lions coach Dan Campbell.

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Speaker 2: We'll hear from Texans GM Nick Cassario and Texans off

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Speaker 2: It's coordinator Nick Kayley.

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Speaker 1: All next right here in Texans All Access. What's happen everybody?

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to this Wednesday edition of Texans All Access

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Speaker 2: from the day Texans Radio studio, John Harris, your host,

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Speaker 2: football and sideline reporter, getting ready for a joint practice

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Speaker 2: tomorrow against the Detroit Lions. And there's no better way

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Speaker 2: to get hyped about a joint practice than a Texans

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Speaker 2: audio jubebus.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 2: I love to pull in sound from various luminaries, if

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Speaker 2: you will, and found a few found a couple of

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Speaker 2: nick sees, found a Dan see that we found some

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Speaker 2: audio that would relate to the Texans or maybe.

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Speaker 1: Even the Lions at this point.

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Speaker 2: In fact, let's start right there with Lions head coach

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Speaker 2: Dan Campbell. He's a Texan, not a Houston Texan, but

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Speaker 2: he's a Texan. Went to a and m he knows

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Speaker 2: what Texans football is all about, and he said he's

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Speaker 2: excited about facing this Texans defense because it is the

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Speaker 2: real deal.

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Speaker 7: Holy Field, I'm really fired up that we're gonna get

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Speaker 7: Houston to come in here. It's only for one pre

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Speaker 7: but I mean, those guys are you know what Dimico's

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Speaker 7: down out there has been has been very really impressive,

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Speaker 7: and I know this defense is, Uh, they're the real deal.

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Speaker 7: The way they play the way they practice to go

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Speaker 7: about their business. They got weaponrar on offense. Quarterbacks, a

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Speaker 7: good little player, you can go across the board. So

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Speaker 7: my point, I can't wait then, Like that's perfect. So

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Speaker 7: that keeps me from jumping too far ahead. So we've

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Speaker 7: got this little batch left. I can't wait to get

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Speaker 7: Houston here because it'll be great for us. We need

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Speaker 7: to work and it'll make us better. I just know

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Speaker 7: it will. So that's where we're at now. But I'm

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Speaker 7: trying to keep my eyes there because i do want

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Speaker 7: to look over the hill. Okay, keep going.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna let Dan look over the hill. I guess

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Speaker 2: everybody Detroit will know what that means. But you could

662
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,879
Speaker 2: tell there is definite excitement about facing a team to

663
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 2: caliber in the Houston Texas. I know from the Texans

664
00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:54,400
Speaker 2: there is that thought of facing a team the caliber

665
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 2: of the Detroit Lions. Now, Troy practices sometimes don't happen

666
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,920
Speaker 2: in his final week of pre season, but both Dan

667
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 2: Campbell and Damika Ryans, we're excited about facing one another.

668
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 2: What is it that Dan Campbell is looking for in

669
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,880
Speaker 2: these joint in this joint practice session with the Texas.

670
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Speaker 7: No, No, it'll be very similar There'll be a couple

671
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 7: of things that Demiko and I'll do different. You know,

672
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:17,640
Speaker 7: they'll be a little like one thing would be more

673
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:19,879
Speaker 7: of a second long to third down period. You know

674
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 7: we second long play it out. We've we've done it

675
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 7: out here with our own guys. Those are good and

676
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:29,160
Speaker 7: so now those are more stress just on offensively man

677
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 7: picking up the chunk yard is that you need or

678
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 7: what can you get back to put yourself in a

679
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:35,879
Speaker 7: third manageable? And then defensively is to be able to

680
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 7: keep them back. You know you got them back, now

681
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 7: how do you you know, how do you expose the

682
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 7: team when you got them in second and ten and

683
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 7: get off the field. So anyway, we'll do some of that,

684
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 7: but we'll do a lot of other things. I mean,

685
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 7: we're going to get forty to fifty plays in, which

686
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Speaker 7: will be good for guys.

687
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Speaker 1: All right, appreciate Dan.

688
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 2: See Dan Campbell aggie roommate of my good friend Billy

689
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 2: Lucci back in college. I can't wait to go up there.

690
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 2: First of all, the weather can be so I'm looking

691
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 2: forward to that. But also I like this Lions team,

692
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,719
Speaker 2: always have, especially with Dan Campbell. I like the way

693
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 2: it's been built I like the way that Brad Holmes

694
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 2: has attacked the draft. The drafting and Jamira Gibbs was

695
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 2: something that I was fully one hundred percent on board

696
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 2: with for the Lions. I would have been on board

697
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 2: with for the Texans too, but turned out the way

698
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 2: it did for Detroit with all those picks they got

699
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 2: from the Jeer Golf trade and what it turned out

700
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 2: to be, it's been really really good for them. Now

701
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 2: let's flip it over the Texas side. Let's talk Nick

702
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 2: Cayley offensive coordinator, booth or field. What's it gonna be

703
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 2: my man?

704
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'll be down on the field, feel good about it,

705
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 8: feel good about both. But I'll be down on a

706
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Speaker 8: field moving forward.

707
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Speaker 1: Communications good either way.

708
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Speaker 8: I just like, you know, I like to be able

709
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 8: to look guys in the eyes and be able to

710
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 8: walk over immediately and talk to guys, make adjustments with

711
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 8: the coaches, and be able to look guys in the

712
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 8: eyes when I communicate with him just a little bit

713
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 8: more efficient, and you know, I can cut a few

714
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Speaker 8: steps out that way.

715
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Speaker 1: Many many eons ago, I did both as well.

716
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Speaker 2: One season I was up in a booth now wasn't

717
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 2: calling plays, And the next year I was the head

718
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 2: football coach.

719
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Speaker 1: It's a little different.

720
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Speaker 2: Head coaches are going to be down on a field,

721
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 2: but I know being down in a field it just

722
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 2: felt that much better. The booth you can see so much.

723
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Speaker 2: That's why I love doing the games and TV from

724
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 2: up there because you could see everything. There are a

725
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 2: lot of things I can't see from down on the

726
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 2: sidelines during the season, but I feel like I have

727
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 2: a better feel for what's happening during the game because

728
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 2: I'm close to the action, kind of see some of

729
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 2: the interaction on the sidelines, look across the field, see

730
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 2: some of the same things. So I could appreciate the

731
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 2: decision that Nick Keiley had about booth or field. Somebody

732
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 2: had asked me and I said, I said booth, but

733
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 2: I'm not sure because I guess that's where he was

734
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 2: starting in Minnesota, so he tried it off for size,

735
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 2: liked it better being down in a field. I like

736
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 2: it better actually for him, but I understand why it's

737
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 2: a decision point about being up in the booth or

738
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:55,720
Speaker 2: the field during the games and calling it from there.

739
00:30:56,520 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 2: Thoughts about the offense against the Carolina Panthers. Nick Keley

740
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 2: had to say this about his efficient squad against Carolina

741
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:05,719
Speaker 2: on Saturday.

742
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 8: Yeah, no, I thought they went on competed. They tried

743
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 8: to do exactly what we wanted to do. You know,

744
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 8: I thought we were fairly efficient, physical, took care of

745
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 8: the football, protected well.

746
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 6: I was happy with that.

747
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 8: I think it's something to build off of, and we

748
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 8: just got to keep moving it from here.

749
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 2: That last thing he said, I know, maybe he just

750
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 2: threw that in there, just kind of finish, you know,

751
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 2: have a way to end a sentence. But how does

752
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 2: it move on from here? That was the most important thing. Yeah,

753
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 2: it looked good Saturday, But how do we build on this?

754
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: Those do any good?

755
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 2: If we go to Detroit joint practice or in the

756
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 2: game and we revert backwards to some bad habits or

757
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 2: don't stay physical at the end of training camp, those

758
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 2: kind of things, how do we move on from here?

759
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 2: I think it's a great question Nick Keyley posed for

760
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 2: himself and the offense. Good stuff there from Nick answering

761
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 2: that question. One thing I know has to be at

762
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 2: least consistent, if not continuing to grow every day is

763
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 2: the physicality of this offensive line.

764
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 1: Nick Keley discussed that in his presser too.

765
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 8: Oh sure, I mean I think Look, I don't believe

766
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 8: in being anything other than the most physical team we

767
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 8: can possibly be. I think it allows you to control

768
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 8: the line of scrimmage, It carves out actually takes a

769
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 8: two or three yard gain in the run game to

770
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 8: a four or five or six yard gain. It wears

771
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 8: on people in the fourth quarter, and it's a matter

772
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 8: of mental and physical conditioning for us. Just continue to

773
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:20,479
Speaker 8: push through that. But yeah, I believe in a physical

774
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 8: football team, and I think our guys have answered the

775
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 8: bell and they're working to be the most physical version

776
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 8: of themselves every single day.

777
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 2: When I heard that answer from Nick Keley, I kind

778
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 2: of knew what the answer is going to be based

779
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 2: on the question. I knew how he's going to answer that,

780
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 2: but it's still good to hear him say it with

781
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 2: such emphasis. Look, we're gonna be a physical ball club,

782
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 2: and he said that when he became the offensive corner.

783
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 2: He has set it throughout OTA's mini camp. He said

784
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 2: it once they put the pads on. But you're starting

785
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 2: to see it, and I think that's the most important

786
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 2: thing is you're starting to see that physicality of the

787
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 2: offensive line, just the offense overall. Boy, the running backs run,

788
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 2: how hard they run guys up front, getting a hat

789
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 2: on a hat. Double teams moving people. We should have

790
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 2: double team move people, but single blocks moving people out

791
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,959
Speaker 2: of the way. Those kinds of things have been really,

792
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 2: really good for this offensive line and for the offense.

793
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 2: Speaking of offensive line, it's not yet solidified. When how

794
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 2: could that happen? Has happened this week? When do we

795
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 2: feel good about what the solidification of the offensive line

796
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 2: will be?

797
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 8: Mister Kayley, I think every rep counts, to your point,

798
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,479
Speaker 8: So you know, there's not one practice. I don't think

799
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 8: that's any more important than the others. I think it's

800
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:34,239
Speaker 8: a cumulative effect and it all counts for something. So

801
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 8: we'll watch this film like we have every other practice

802
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 8: and we'll assess it from there. But yeah, it all counts.

803
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 6: Yeah.

804
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 2: I gotta think they're getting closer and closer to it.

805
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 2: I think there are some things that they have I

806
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 2: think they know it now. I think they're getting close

807
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 2: to knowing it now, not just the starting five, but

808
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 2: just how each guy in the offensive line, how he ticks,

809
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 2: and how they work together. I think there are some

810
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 2: questions maybe about say Cam Robinson. You know, he was

811
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 2: hurt for a week week and a half. Maybe you know,

812
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 2: how does he kind of fit into the equations? Still,

813
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 2: I don't know that you really had a good read

814
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 2: on that. So I think they got to see Cam Robinson.

815
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 3: Now.

816
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 2: I don't know if he'll play, but I think it's

817
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 2: gonna be a big week going up against Detroit, going

818
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 2: up against Aiden Hutchinson, Josh Pascal, et cetera.

819
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:20,399
Speaker 1: For the Lions out on the edge.

820
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:22,400
Speaker 2: So I think there are still some guys that are

821
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,320
Speaker 2: trying to figure out, but I think they have a

822
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 2: pretty good beat on some of the guys, especially that

823
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 2: have been there every single day. And that's why I

824
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,320
Speaker 2: always say, just be there every day, just stack good days,

825
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 2: and the coaches start to learn what they've got and

826
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 2: can kind of, you know, think about what it is

827
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:38,840
Speaker 2: they're gonna be able to do with those particular players,

828
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 2: especially rookies. And that's why Ariante being as good as

829
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 2: he has, being as consistent as he has, and yeah,

830
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 2: he had some tough moments yesterday, I don't get me wrong,

831
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 2: and he's gonna have some tough moments. He's a rookie

832
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:51,359
Speaker 2: potentially playing left tackle in the league. But just keep

833
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 2: stacking days, you get more consistent. The more you play

834
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 2: and the coaches know what they've got in you, and

835
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 2: then they can sort of game plan around whatever the

836
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 2: inadequacies are, etcetera, etcetera. So all right, enough Onny the

837
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 2: offensive lines talk about running back, in particular Nick Chubb.

838
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 2: I thought he ran the ball really well against the Panthers.

839
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 2: What has he looked like to Nick Cayley.

840
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 8: I mean, he's as consistent of a human being in

841
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 8: terms of his approach, and I feel like he's continuing

842
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 8: to get better and better and better. And we only

843
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 8: had him for a short time in the spring. We

844
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 8: got him here in training camp, and he's continued to

845
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 8: grow every single day that he's been out here. He's

846
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 8: a really patient runner, has a good feel for pressing

847
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 8: landmarks and tracks, and he's just got a really good

848
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:32,760
Speaker 8: instinct about runn football.

849
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 2: It's interesting to see the thoughts of people that follow

850
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:41,800
Speaker 2: the NFL nationally. Josh Norris, who covers it for Underdog

851
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,719
Speaker 2: Fantasy's pretty good. He was once an intern for the

852
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 2: Saint Louis Rams many many years ago, so dude knows

853
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 2: ball and he just put up a video of Nick

854
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 2: running and was like, Nick Chubb is Texans RB one

855
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 2: and again, we don't know about Joe Mixon.

856
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 1: We don't really have an idea.

857
00:35:57,880 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 2: I think it was a report the other day maybe

858
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:02,279
Speaker 2: from Aaron Wilson and I talked about Joe maybe not

859
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 2: being ready for week one. Who's to say when it

860
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 2: comes to injuries, you just don't know. Honestly, none of

861
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 2: us really know. We can, you know, talk to various

862
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,840
Speaker 2: people around other than you know, in the Texas training

863
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:19,840
Speaker 2: training staff isn't gonna tell anybody anything. As well, they shouldn't.

864
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 2: It could be a disadvantage. Oh, we're not gonna see

865
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,359
Speaker 2: Joe mix it in week one. Oh okay, let's plan

866
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 2: for this. My gut tells me that Joe may not

867
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:31,359
Speaker 2: be ready for week one. But what I do know

868
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:34,400
Speaker 2: is that if Nick Chubb is healthy, Damian Pierce is healthy,

869
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:38,479
Speaker 2: Woody Marks is healthy, Daria Goombawally is healthy, I feel

870
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 2: pretty good about what they could potentially put together against

871
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:42,919
Speaker 2: the Rams of this run game. And remember the last

872
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 2: time we saw the LA Rams defense, they were giving

873
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,719
Speaker 2: up two hundred plus to say Quon Barkley in the

874
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 2: fed Off Eagles. So for as good as that front is,

875
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 2: it's not a great linebacking corps it's not a great

876
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:55,840
Speaker 2: safety corps.

877
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: If you get the front blocked, you've.

878
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:58,800
Speaker 2: Got an opportunity to do some big things in the

879
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:02,399
Speaker 2: running game, Nick hub being first and foremost you would

880
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 2: think in that running back group. Okay, let's flip over

881
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 2: to another, Nick c Nick Cassio. He was on with

882
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 2: Sean and Seth in the morning yesterday. Since we were

883
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:18,320
Speaker 2: just discussing offense, and we'll throw in the joint practice

884
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 2: aspect of it.

885
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 1: The guys asked Nick Casio.

886
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 2: Do you see more complex stuff defensively in a joint

887
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 2: practice than you would in a preseason game.

888
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 1: Here's what Nick had to say.

889
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 11: Yeah, you might sprinkle some things in there, Seth. The

890
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,839
Speaker 11: reality is everybody is gonna probably talk about it. Well,

891
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 11: we did this practice, we did that. So you're gonna

892
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,359
Speaker 11: run your defense, you're gonna run your offense. Maybe you're

893
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:42,840
Speaker 11: gonna work on something maybe that you haven't worked on

894
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 11: to this point, or like I said, give the opposition

895
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 11: a different look. So honestly, you want to try to

896
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,239
Speaker 11: make it as taxing or as difficult as possible, because

897
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 11: it's kind of like the game. You might go into

898
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 11: a game, haven't seen that before? Something comes up there

899
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 11: and the course of the game. How are we gonna

900
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:58,359
Speaker 11: handle it, how are we gonna adjust to it? What's

901
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 11: a communication? You can spend some time I'm on the

902
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:03,240
Speaker 11: sideline in between series. So there's a number of different

903
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 11: ways that you know you can tackle this. But you

904
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 11: might be some things in practice that you're not going

905
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 11: to do in the game, that you're gonna just do

906
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 11: in practice, and maybe it's something that you're going to

907
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 11: use in a regular season. Understanding it's a long year,

908
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 11: you're probably gonna end up using everything at some point

909
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:18,720
Speaker 11: along the way.

910
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 2: This past Sunday, Texas made a trade with Philadelphi Eagles.

911
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 2: And if you feel like you've heard those two teams

912
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 2: in the trade before, it's happened. It's happened a few times.

913
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 2: In fact, it happened this offseason. I think it happened

914
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 2: during a draft probably as well. It was John Metchie

915
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 2: moving to Philadelphia with a draft pick coming the other

916
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,919
Speaker 2: way to Houston, Harrison Bryant tight end and a draft pick.

917
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 2: It basically netted out to Kenyan Green and John Metchi

918
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:48,400
Speaker 2: for CJ. Gardner, Johnson and Harrison Bryant draft picks moved

919
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 2: back into their original ownership et cetera. So it essentially

920
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:55,719
Speaker 2: if you net out those two trades, want to happen

921
00:38:55,760 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 2: in in March ish and want it happened on Sunday,

922
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 2: it was that Kenyan and Mechi for Harrison Riot, CJ.

923
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:08,919
Speaker 2: Gardner Johnson Trading Mechi was gonna be well, it's gonna

924
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,880
Speaker 2: be difficult on everybody, just because of the guy that

925
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:13,919
Speaker 2: John Metchi is, what he has meant to this city,

926
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,440
Speaker 2: what he's meant to the Texans, the fight that he

927
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 2: had in twenty twenty two where he healed up from

928
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 2: an acl was getting himself ready to play, and then

929
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 2: finds out he has cancer. Mechi will always be remember,

930
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 2: there's no doubt about that. But Nick ed to give

931
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:31,239
Speaker 2: the guy an opportunity somewhere else he probably wasn't gonna

932
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 2: get here.

933
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:33,479
Speaker 1: Here's Nick Cassario on trading John Metchi.

934
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:36,760
Speaker 11: Yeah, there's never one particular factor that you know forces

935
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 11: you to make a decision. I would say that position

936
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 11: is probably as deep as is any position on a team.

937
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 11: You're gonna end up keeping, HOVERMNT receivers you're gonna keep,

938
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 11: and as it pertains to Mets, I mean, Demiko was

939
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:50,439
Speaker 11: asked about it yesterday I mean I feel the same

940
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 11: way that Demiko does. I mean, love everything about John.

941
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:56,319
Speaker 11: Everybody knows his story, what he's been through to get

942
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 11: to this point. He's a good football player, He's meant

943
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 11: a lot to this program. He's done a lot for

944
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 11: this program, and I think in that particular situation, it's

945
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 11: a good opportunity for him in Philadelphia where he probably

946
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 11: has a chance to maybe have a bigger role than

947
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 11: he potentially could have had here, just given our depth

948
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 11: currently on the roster. Now could that change in the

949
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 11: blink of an eye for sure, So there's a calculus

950
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:20,720
Speaker 11: that goes into it. I'd say that was a situation

951
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:22,839
Speaker 11: where Hollie and I had some discussions and then we

952
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 11: were able to come to a resolution. And I think

953
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 11: we've done I don't know, seven or eight trades with Philadelphia.

954
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 11: I think Howie and I, I mean, I respect the way

955
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:31,839
Speaker 11: how he goes about his business, and I think there's

956
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:34,840
Speaker 11: a mutual respect and understanding there honestly giving him a

957
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 11: chance to go to a situation where he is a

958
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 11: pretty good opportunity. You know, we felt like it was

959
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 11: the right thing by John as well, and just given

960
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 11: you our situation, I mean could he have helped us, Yeah, absolutely,

961
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 11: he has helped us over the course of his career.

962
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 11: But I mean that's these are decisions that we all

963
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:51,920
Speaker 11: have that we have to make, and you know, we

964
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:53,759
Speaker 11: make the decision that we feel is best for the

965
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:55,280
Speaker 11: team and we kind of keep moving forward.

966
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:59,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think match has got a better chance with Philly,

967
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 2: And I know a lot of people you'll hear that,

968
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 2: and I say this a lot of times. Look, there

969
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 2: might be a better opportunity for a player here in

970
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,920
Speaker 2: Houston then there might be in Cleveland.

971
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:11,920
Speaker 1: But John Houston so much better in Cleveland.

972
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, but there are always teams that have got pockets

973
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 2: and really good units of players that you just can't

974
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 2: break into. But here you might have an opportunity to,

975
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe be a corner. Maybe up in

976
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 2: Cleveland with Denzel Ward, Greg Newsom, Martin Emerson, with the

977
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 2: guys they have at corner in Cleveland, you might not

978
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 2: have a great opportunity to crack into that top five.

979
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 2: Maybe here in Houston you've got a better opportunity, even

980
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:42,720
Speaker 2: though they've got the best corner in the league.

981
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 1: So it all can vary. I think with the Eagles

982
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 1: and what they've.

983
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 2: Got going on wide receiver Dante Smith, AJ Brown, John Dotson.

984
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:51,839
Speaker 2: After that, it's kind of a free for all and

985
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 2: Johnny Wilson there's six to seven wide receiver apparently was

986
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,919
Speaker 2: taken off on a cart yesterday. So maybe that opens

987
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 2: up more opportunities for Mechi. We had the team that

988
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 2: won a Super Bowl last year, more than he was

989
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 2: gonna get here, especially with adding Christian Kirk, adding Jalen Noel,

990
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 2: adding Jayden Higgins, adding Braxton Barrios, adding Justin Watson in

991
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 2: this offseason. So from that point, maybe there's a better

992
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 2: opportunity there. And I think that's what Nick was getting at.

993
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 2: It's a good opportunity up there at Philadelphia. Hopefully John

994
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:25,840
Speaker 2: hits the ground running. You can find himself some opportunity

995
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 2: there in Philly, especially alongside a quarterback that he knows

996
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 2: from his days at Alabama Jalen Hurts. Mamechi trade was

997
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 2: just one of the many roster machinations that are forthcoming

998
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 2: for the Texans.

999
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: Are there more trades?

1000
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:40,359
Speaker 3: Are there?

1001
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: More waiver claims? Are there? More moves there?

1002
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:47,800
Speaker 2: Obviously was a transaction on Wednesday morning bringing long snapper

1003
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:51,240
Speaker 2: Blake Ferguson He's a guy that's got a lot of experience.

1004
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 1: In this league.

1005
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:54,680
Speaker 2: So bring another long snapper, give him an opportunity as well,

1006
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 2: alongside Austin Brickman. Trey McKinty released at that point, and

1007
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 2: again it's kind of in a sense all interconnected. You

1008
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 2: trade Mechi for Harrison Bryant because Harrison Bryant comes in

1009
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:08,360
Speaker 2: a guy, and Trey McKinney, you just picked up a

1010
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 2: few days ago, ends up being the guy that is

1011
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,919
Speaker 2: released because you have a need somewhere else.

1012
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:16,440
Speaker 1: That's just kind of the way it goes.

1013
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:20,319
Speaker 2: But just all the roster machinations at this point of

1014
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:24,839
Speaker 2: the year can make things pretty difficult when it comes

1015
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 2: to roster cutdown Day one in particular, that Nick remembers

1016
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 2: from his days with the New England Patriots actually is

1017
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:35,760
Speaker 2: staring at him right in the face here in Houston

1018
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 2: with one of those positions I talked about at wide receiver.

1019
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:41,880
Speaker 2: Take a listen to this. The hardest player potentially that

1020
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:43,320
Speaker 2: he ever had to cut.

1021
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:47,359
Speaker 11: It happens probably almost every year, you know, because when

1022
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:49,400
Speaker 11: you get to the final cut, I mean there's a

1023
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 11: thousand or so players that are essentially going to be

1024
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 11: exposed to the rest of the league, and you understand

1025
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:56,719
Speaker 11: you can't keep everybody as much as you want to.

1026
00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 11: So honestly, I mean not that because he here in

1027
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 11: Houston with us, But we went through this situation with

1028
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 11: Barrios when we had him, you know, when I was

1029
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:07,160
Speaker 11: in New England.

1030
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 1: He was really close.

1031
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 11: We released him with the idea of we're going to

1032
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,040
Speaker 11: try to get him on a practice squad and he

1033
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:16,319
Speaker 11: ends up getting claimed and we don't see him for

1034
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 11: until six or seven years later. Now, I mean Barry

1035
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 11: Braxton's with us here now in Houston, But I mean

1036
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:24,400
Speaker 11: that's a situation. I mean, look, there's multiple examples that

1037
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 11: that are like that. It happens every year, so it's

1038
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 11: a very fluid situation. I would say that snapshot is

1039
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 11: not the final snapshot of what it's going to look like.

1040
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 11: So we have to be nimble, We have to be

1041
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 11: able to adjust and adapt, and if there's an opportunity

1042
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 11: to add a player that we feel can help us,

1043
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 11: whether it's now or in the future, then we have

1044
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 11: to weigh a calculus of what does that look like

1045
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 11: relative to exposing another player or moving on from another

1046
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 11: player that is quote unquote made the initial.

1047
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:53,560
Speaker 1: Roster, so Braxton Barrios.

1048
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 2: Of all the players, Barrios is the one that comes

1049
00:44:56,200 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 2: to mind for Nick, and I mean it makes sense, Adaman, Welker, Barrios,

1050
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 2: there are some similarities with all of those guys and Mondola.

1051
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:12,480
Speaker 2: The Patriots seemed to hoard very quick, explosive out of

1052
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:16,280
Speaker 2: their cuts, great hands, tough athletes to play in the slot,

1053
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:19,799
Speaker 2: and Barrios is definitely one of those guys. But one

1054
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 2: thing that Nick said at the end of that, which

1055
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 2: I think is, you know, hugely important. The fifty three

1056
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 2: is this fluid being, if you will, it's always moving.

1057
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 2: There are always things changing. Even if once you get

1058
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:38,759
Speaker 2: to the three pm cutdown on Tuesday, well don't mean

1059
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,880
Speaker 2: you've made the team. There are gonna be some moves.

1060
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 2: There might be trades after the fact. There might be

1061
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:46,760
Speaker 2: a trade before the fact. There might be a waiver

1062
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:49,399
Speaker 2: claim after the fact, And a waiver claim has got

1063
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:52,239
Speaker 2: to go on to the fifty three. And as far

1064
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 2: as I can remember, it says Nick has been here

1065
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one, there's always been at least one

1066
00:45:56,160 --> 00:46:00,839
Speaker 2: waiver claim that happened after the fifty three and cut down.

1067
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 1: So even if you feel like you've made it.

1068
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:08,920
Speaker 2: Hang on because you just don't know exactly what might happen,

1069
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:11,799
Speaker 2: and it might take a week or so. But I

1070
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 2: think this fifty three man cut down is it's the

1071
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 2: right way of saying this.

1072
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 1: I feel like I can see where it's going.

1073
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:23,319
Speaker 2: But I know there are gonna be surprises along the

1074
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:25,919
Speaker 2: way in what they do to bring players back.

1075
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 1: So even though on mine, I've oh, I got it perfect.

1076
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,760
Speaker 2: If I got twenty four offense, twenty six defense, three specials,

1077
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:35,879
Speaker 2: I got my fifty three, there's gonna be at least

1078
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:38,520
Speaker 2: one or two players coming in from somewhere else in

1079
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 2: some way, shape or form. I'm just curious as to

1080
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:44,759
Speaker 2: what and who those players are going to be. But

1081
00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:47,920
Speaker 2: that's for next week. We got to get through this

1082
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 2: week with the Detroit Lions, and that will start tomorrow

1083
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 2: at the Lions practice facility. Looking forward to seeing them

1084
00:46:57,680 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 2: up close. Saw them up close last year and that

1085
00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 2: was a really good football team. But excited to see

1086
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 2: Aiden Hutchinson up close. I would imagine he's gonna practice,

1087
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 2: so looking forward to seeing him. Those two running backs

1088
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:10,720
Speaker 2: are so so very good. The offensive line has always

1089
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 2: been good, but they're breaking in some new pieces, they

1090
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:16,320
Speaker 2: lost a piece of free agency, they lost Frank Ragnow

1091
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:20,240
Speaker 2: to retirement. They've got two new coordinators, Johnny Morton and offense,

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Speaker 2: Kevin Sheppard on defense, so it's gonna have probably a

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Speaker 2: little bit of a different look. But the DB's against

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Speaker 2: i'mon Ross, Saint Brown, Jamison Williams. That's gonna be a

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Speaker 2: fun battle. It's a fun battle Sunday night. So that's

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Speaker 2: gonna be really, really good. So we're looking forward to

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Speaker 2: all of that and we're gonna bring it to you

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Speaker 2: all from up in Detroit over the next few days.

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Speaker 2: Then we'll be back and get ready for the twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty five regular season. Appreciate you guys being with me

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Speaker 2: this evening. Thank you so very much. We'll see you

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Speaker 2: tomorrow from Detroit on this very station, Sports Radio six ten.

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Speaker 2: Thanks to everybody, Thank you for listening. As always, Go Texans.