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Speaker 1: We are one day away from training camp twenty nineteen

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Speaker 1: and I cannot wait. Welcome to everybody to wed edition

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Speaker 1: of Texans All Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: John Harris here the voice of the Texans, Mark Vandimir

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Speaker 1: there Mark one day, one day, Johnny, that's less than

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Speaker 1: a day, less than a day to day. It's tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 1: It's tomorrow morning on the air, training camp lips. So

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Speaker 1: here's how it's gonna go. From six to eight, you

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Speaker 1: hear Panted, Panter Gas, Sean and Seth. Then we take

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Speaker 1: over from eight to ten. Then you will hear Landry

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Speaker 1: Lopez from ten until two of course Clint Cambo. So

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Speaker 1: that'll be your schedule on Sports Radio six ten through

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Speaker 1: the week days up until the Thursday game against the

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Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers up which is two weeks from tomorrow night.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I think that's also important to point

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Speaker 1: out we're two weeks away from an actual game with

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Speaker 1: this team. You know what, I've thought about that, but

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Speaker 1: I hadn't thought about it until you just said, like,

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Speaker 1: we'll wait a second. Holy cow. Yeah, And it's a

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Speaker 1: strange dynamic. Wow, you know, not being away for the

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Speaker 1: start of camp This is the first home launch of

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Speaker 1: camp in three years. And it sounds like a long

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Speaker 1: time when you say it like that, because it has

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Speaker 1: been We got used to go into the Greenbrier and

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Speaker 1: now you're back in Houston. And even though you have

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Speaker 1: what ten years ago or two years ago with h

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Speaker 1: to New Orleans, that's right. Anyway, it's all a blur.

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Speaker 1: Last year is in nine ers. Last year was the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers here. Boy they did that. Huh. They

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Speaker 1: actually showed up here for that and lived to tell

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Speaker 1: about it. Sort of. They had a bad season. Kyle

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Speaker 1: Shanahan should know about He should know about it in Detroit.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if anything, we should be going up to Detroit.

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Speaker 1: They want to come down here and do some practicing

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Speaker 1: five with us. Patricia wants to make them tougher here.

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Speaker 1: This put it in context for me. Yea Art when

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Speaker 1: I I start thinking about, you know, just writing something

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Speaker 1: real quick about training camp, and I was like, look,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna write so much about training camp and what

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Speaker 1: happens to training camp. I'm just hit on some of

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Speaker 1: the things I've been thinking about, and I wrote kind

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Speaker 1: of this little notes article and it says, how often

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Speaker 1: does an NFL roster turnover? Keep this to your point. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: last time we're here for training camp was twenty sixteen. Right,

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Speaker 1: of the eighty three players that will start training camp now,

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Speaker 1: eighty three because you've got, you know, three guys on

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Speaker 1: of rookies deal with some stuff. So eighty three guys

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Speaker 1: it's not going to So you got eighty three guys

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Speaker 1: how many of them were here for training camp in

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen? How many of those eighty three we're here

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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty sixteen training camp three years ago? I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna say thirty four? Oh man, thirteen? What teen? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I didn't even look. This is bad? That off thirteen

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Speaker 1: thirteen of the eighties or here or three years ago

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Speaker 1: in twenty six That's how you can start naming them.

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Speaker 1: I mean you think about the rookie class in twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 1: in college. The last time the Texans had training camp

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Speaker 1: here and it's it was just two years. It was

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Speaker 1: just two years. But that's how fast. That's how fast

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Speaker 1: NFL roster. And you think about this now, when you

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Speaker 1: Where does that layer go? Some of them end up

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Speaker 1: severity is getting hurt, obviously, but the severity of it's

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Speaker 1: not long. You better not make plans to be around

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Speaker 1: and forever being a sort of a facetious way of

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Speaker 1: describing a long career. But I think that it does.

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Speaker 1: this is not just the Texans. Most teams are like

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Speaker 1: what you just said, Yes, they rotate very quickly. It's

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Speaker 1: the projected starting offense for your Texans. Yeah, the player

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Speaker 1: that you're I mean, the Texans only have one offensive

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Speaker 1: going into his fourteenth training camp. Yeah, he is the OG.

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Speaker 1: He said today as he was walking in. We had

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Speaker 1: And it got me thinking, So fourteen years ago, we

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Speaker 1: I mean, all that we didn't have when he started

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Speaker 1: some of the things in the season. And here's here's one.

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Speaker 1: I'll be looking for a training camp. We'll also have

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Speaker 1: be going on active you p NFI. So that can

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Speaker 1: mean a lot of different things. As we've talked about.

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Speaker 1: the training camp season, if you will on NFI. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: NiFi not football injury. That means anything that you suffered

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Speaker 1: like this could be something that's not very serious at all.

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Speaker 1: some of these, Okay. Falcon's wide receiver Julio Jones said,

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Speaker 1: all about the team. And by three K he meets

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Speaker 1: three thousand three games. Yeah, he's not gonna do it.

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Speaker 1: There's no doubt he's not gonna hit three thousand. It's

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Speaker 1: nice to float it out there. And it's all about

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Speaker 1: the team. Yeah, it is all about the team. Speaking

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Speaker 1: Oh I saw this and ja Jaguars Ramsey showed up

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Speaker 1: it's all about the team, Johnny, It's all about Look,

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Speaker 1: get it. But now that I'm here, I'm here to

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Speaker 1: I'm showing up in a Brinks truck with fake money

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Speaker 1: bags in the back to send a message to management

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Speaker 1: that I need more money. But it's all about the team,

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Speaker 1: of course. And then some people are listening. Will what

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Speaker 1: it's his right to look, I get it, but it's

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Speaker 1: not contract negotiation time, it really isn't. It's he's already set.

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Speaker 1: He already said that he's not gonna contract this year.

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Speaker 1: So why are you doing this? Is this haymy rick?

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Speaker 1: seeing j Jo out on the field again, Jonathan Joe,

425
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Speaker 1: So number six. I could watch kik Qt run routes

426
00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:11,760
Speaker 1: all day, all day. Every slot route you can think of, whip, pivots, crossers,

427
00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:19,240
Speaker 1: anything seems slot, slot fades, anything that he runs. I

428
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Speaker 1: love watching him because to be a slot receiver in

429
00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:28,040
Speaker 1: the NFL, now there's there's a science to it, but

430
00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:32,119
Speaker 1: it's more about an art. It's about changing pace, changing speeds,

431
00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,400
Speaker 1: and Kiki Qt does that really for a young guy

432
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Speaker 1: as well as anybody I've seen. And I love the

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Speaker 1: fact that he catches the ball with his hands and

434
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Speaker 1: he makes something happen after the catch. And we got

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Speaker 1: really excited about watching the first three or four days

436
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Speaker 1: of training camp of the Green Bar last year, and

437
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:50,439
Speaker 1: then he was hamstring and then we didn't see him

438
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Speaker 1: again until Week four against the Colts, and the first

439
00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:56,600
Speaker 1: game back eleven catches. So we can get that production

440
00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,480
Speaker 1: right away that would be fantastic for this team. But

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Speaker 1: mainly just watching him run those routes, it's just, Oh,

442
00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:10,520
Speaker 1: it's it's watching an artist paint and be creative, because

443
00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:13,240
Speaker 1: that's the way he has to win with his releases.

444
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Speaker 1: To be creative. How do I get loose? How do

445
00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:18,040
Speaker 1: I change my pace here to throw off the defense,

446
00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:20,480
Speaker 1: and he's he's become really really good at that, and

447
00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 1: I can't wait when they put the pads on to

448
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Speaker 1: see him do that. Number five is very simple for me.

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Speaker 1: Texas Training Camp Live. This is my six year doing

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Speaker 1: it with Mark, and I have a blast. I have

451
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:33,080
Speaker 1: a blast just being there and starting our show before

452
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:35,159
Speaker 1: anything kicks off, and then watching all the players come

453
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Speaker 1: on the field, and then hearing that hornblow at nine

454
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Speaker 1: fifteen to start practice and we're on the air. It's

455
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Speaker 1: just he feels like such a part of it. And

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Speaker 1: I just I love Texas Training Camp Live eight to

457
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Speaker 1: ten every day for two weeks in between Painted Pendergast

458
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Speaker 1: and Landry and Lopez. We've got that two little out

459
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Speaker 1: of those two hours. We'll have it eight to ten

460
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Speaker 1: throughout the season on Mondays, Texas Mondays, but Texas train

461
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Speaker 1: Camp Live. It's just awesome to sweat through a show.

462
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Speaker 1: I don't even care. I doesn't matter to me, it

463
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:05,920
Speaker 1: doesn't matter whatsoever. Number four. One of my favorite things

464
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Speaker 1: to do in games, in practice and mainly a training

465
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Speaker 1: camp is watching Jordan Thomas with the ball in his

466
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Speaker 1: hands in space because the first thing automatically that I do.

467
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Speaker 1: I mean, this guy's two hundred seventy two hundred and

468
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Speaker 1: twenty five pounds, so when he catches the ball in

469
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Speaker 1: the secondary, they're in anybody in the secondary that's within

470
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Speaker 1: fifty pounds of this guy, and he can run and

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Speaker 1: I want to just see him run completely over secondary guys.

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Speaker 1: Now that's not always the smart thing to do, because

473
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Speaker 1: there's sometimes he can run away from some of them,

474
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Speaker 1: but I just love to see him with the ball

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Speaker 1: in space and turn up and it's like, all right,

476
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Speaker 1: let's roll. I was like, he's fun to watch, really

477
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Speaker 1: fun to watch. So Jordan Thomas with the ball in

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Speaker 1: the secondary in space at number four, number three, it's

479
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Speaker 1: gonna be really exciting to see will full or healthy

480
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 1: beyond I mean beyond any player, just seeing him healthy again.

481
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Speaker 1: Watching him run routes. The one thing I noticed the

482
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Speaker 1: last two years the Green Briers, especially twenty eighteen, was

483
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Speaker 1: how much separation he was getting just running routes. And

484
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,760
Speaker 1: it wasn't just running his nine route, which a lot

485
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,439
Speaker 1: of people think that's all I can do, and if

486
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Speaker 1: they do, shame on you. This guy can run any

487
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 1: round in the route tree and he can get open.

488
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:18,399
Speaker 1: He run a five yard hitch route and get three

489
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,600
Speaker 1: yards of separation like he did against Tennessee last year.

490
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Speaker 1: So seeing will Fuller healthy out on the field is

491
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:27,680
Speaker 1: gonna be a blast. Number two. I'm curious about Bradley

492
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Speaker 1: Roby when he's coming out of the house state. I

493
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 1: knew he was talented, but I knew they were inconsistencies

494
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:36,480
Speaker 1: in his game, and I sort of followed him a

495
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:38,240
Speaker 1: little bit at Denver and then when there were some

496
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 1: coaching changes in Wade Phillips left, then there were even

497
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 1: working inconsistencies. But you could see physical ability when he

498
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,040
Speaker 1: went against Tyreek Hill. Oh my god, it was so good.

499
00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:52,119
Speaker 1: It was so so good. Can he do that consistently

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Speaker 1: if he can, But his defense is gonna be tough.

501
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,359
Speaker 1: If not, oh boy, it's gonna be tough. But I

502
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,159
Speaker 1: want to see speed. I want to see how he

503
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 1: covers in one on ones. I want to see how

504
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,439
Speaker 1: he fits into the overall defensive scheme. Bradley Roby at

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Speaker 1: number two and number one. The one thing I always

506
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:09,679
Speaker 1: love more than anything else in football. I mean, I

507
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,119
Speaker 1: love the hitting, a love of the physical aspect. I

508
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 1: love the chess piece. I love the deep ball and

509
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,159
Speaker 1: number four throws as pretty a deep ball as there is.

510
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 1: I could watch the Shawn Watson throw effortless deep balls

511
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:23,399
Speaker 1: all day long. Now I want him to hit. I

512
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 1: want him hit big, and they started to last year

513
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 1: before Will got hurt. But even after Will deep on

514
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,919
Speaker 1: DeAndre against the Jets, he hit some big throws, the

515
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Speaker 1: big the big throw to Vincent against the Eagles. I

516
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Speaker 1: love watching him throw the deep ball that is number one.

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Speaker 1: So there you go, the all thre to eleven things

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to in training camp twenty nineteen. Now,

519
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 1: as I said, there's excitement about the offense. Why well

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Speaker 1: the end of Lab Crew Jory myself discussed that next

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Speaker 1: right here in Texans All Access. We'll final segment of

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Speaker 1: this Wednesday's edition of Texans All Access. I am John Harris,

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Speaker 1: Football Analyst, silent reporter for your Houston Texans if you

524
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:02,399
Speaker 1: missed it earlier. A little bit of fortunate news and

525
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,920
Speaker 1: hopefully it won't be long before we see Justin Reid

526
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,239
Speaker 1: back on the field. But he has been added to

527
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Speaker 1: the active pup NFI list, So I hope everything's gonna

528
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 1: be okay with Justin and he will be back in

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Speaker 1: due time, but could be a procedural and hopefully that's

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Speaker 1: what it is. But just a just a heads up

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Speaker 1: if you didn't hear that news now. Mark and I

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00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 1: talked about earlier in the show. All Right, training camp

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Speaker 1: starts tomorrow and optimism abounds. It always does. But but

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Speaker 1: the lab crew, me buddy Drew Doherty discussed our optimism

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Speaker 1: for this twenty nineteen offense. I have never been this

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00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:47,439
Speaker 1: optimistic about a Texans offense. I'm very optimistic on the

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00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 1: whole about this team. But I've never been this optimistic

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00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,679
Speaker 1: about a Texans offense. And that's because of many, many components.

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00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:59,160
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, his continued growth, the addition of Carl Smith

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00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,720
Speaker 1: as quarterbacks coach, and the ideas he can can help

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Speaker 1: Deshaun with the weapons and their health. Now, DeAndre Hopkins

542
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: he's on the pup right now, but he'll be out

543
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:12,160
Speaker 1: there week one. Will Fuller looks like knock On Wood.

544
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,199
Speaker 1: He's gonna be out there week one. KKQT had a

545
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,359
Speaker 1: great spring, Vincent Smith has a solid spring, he's a

546
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:21,680
Speaker 1: fourth receiver, and then the tight ends. Yeah, I'm very,

547
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,159
Speaker 1: very very excited about this offense. And it got me

548
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: thinking when have I been this excited about a Texans

549
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 1: team heading into training camp? And it's got to be

550
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,440
Speaker 1: two thy twelve was the last time I was this excited,

551
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 1: and really twenty thirteen as well, even though twenty thirteen

552
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: turned into a flaming pile of you know what, we

553
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 1: were pretty pumped because Manu, they just had that they

554
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 1: just kind of ran out of gas at the end,

555
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: and they had their struggles against the Patriots, but hey,

556
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 1: they got ed Reid and I'm excited. When were you

557
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 1: this excited and this optimistic about a Texans team heading

558
00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: into camp? What's a great question, And I you know,

559
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 1: when I'll handle the offensive part. First. I remember, I

560
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: believe it was oh nine. It was my third training camp,

561
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Speaker 1: and I remember watching the offense at oh nine, especially

562
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Speaker 1: the passing game, and I remember just watching. I remember

563
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 1: Shop one day. I was like, you're talking about this

564
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 1: heading into oh nine? Like this heading into the yeah, yeah,

565
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 1: like oh nine training camp, like as an nine training

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Speaker 1: camp is going on. I remember watching and I'm like,

567
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Speaker 1: Shop isn't missing, Like he's moving this offense. I mean,

568
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 1: one rep after the next, it's clockwork. So after oh nine, offensively,

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Speaker 1: I felt like man two thousand and ten, because I

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Speaker 1: remember in the spring of two thousand and ten seeing

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Speaker 1: Arian Foster for the first time, like as a not

572
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Speaker 1: not the first time, but I remember seeing it twenty

573
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Speaker 1: three for the first time, and I remember there was

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Speaker 1: a lot of debate that offseason about who's gonna be

575
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Speaker 1: running back. Oh they didn't drafting and running backs No. Nine,

576
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Speaker 1: but the draft had been take in twenty and ten,

577
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Speaker 1: and there's the thought also that Steve Slayton was going

578
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 1: to return because he was dealing with the neck issue,

579
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of things going on, and Slates

580
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 1: was great No. Eight. Arion was really good the last

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Speaker 1: two games at O. Nine, but there was not that

582
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Speaker 1: feeling of him just reaching up and snatching that position.

583
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Speaker 1: But I remember watching him in the spring of twenty

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Speaker 1: ten thinking, ohoh boy, this guy's gonna be He's gonna

585
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Speaker 1: be all kinds of good. And not only that, he's

586
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Speaker 1: gonna be all kinds of good with this passing game

587
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 1: that can just light it up on anybody. And so

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Speaker 1: going into two thousand and ten, I was I was

589
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Speaker 1: really excited because the offense was gonna be phenomenal. And

590
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Speaker 1: then the game one against the Colts, it was. It

591
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 1: was phenomenal. Arian ran for you know, a couple bills

592
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Speaker 1: I can't remember with two forty one or whatever. He

593
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 1: was just incredible touch. He was incredible that day, and

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Speaker 1: I felt like, Wow, that was confirmation of what I

595
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Speaker 1: had seen it training camp. So going into thousand and ten,

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00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 1: it was really excited about the offense. But I remember

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00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 1: watching the offensive training camp at two thousand and ten thinking, man,

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00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 1: the offense is either really really, really good or the

599
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: defense is gonna get sliced up. And it was comment.

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00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: You were right about both. Both both happened. Both happened.

601
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 1: At one point in two thousand and ten, the Texans

602
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 1: past defense was the worst since the NFL AFL merger.

603
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 1: It might have been at the end of the season,

604
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 1: but as far as passing yards allowed, I mean, they

605
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 1: got roasted and roasted by the likes of Sedgi Adjierra

606
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 1: two two. And you're like, what did you say? Exactly,

607
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: a guy, a guy named Sedgi ad Jr. Two two

608
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 1: Chargers had a monstrous day and he should not have

609
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 1: had a monster's day, but he did against that defense. Yeah,

610
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 1: and you saw that on a weekend week out basis.

611
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 1: And the thing about it was Edgi Kareem. The thing

612
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 1: about it that two thousand and tenth season was all

613
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 1: those games were very winnable. We're all winnable because the

614
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 1: offense could do anything really it wanted to. It was,

615
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 1: you know that its own game was just working with Aria.

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00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 1: I mean, it was phenomenal. But I was pretty excited.

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00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: I felt like twenty twelve coming off twenty eleven, because

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00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: that was a year where you know, that officas was

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Speaker 1: like we had that Shop, if we had Shop and

620
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 1: it wasn't knock on TJ He said Shop had had

621
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: he had had those pelts on the wall. He had

622
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 1: been there, and he thought, man, if he can get

623
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: in that same position again in twenty twelve, what can

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Speaker 1: you do? So twenty twelve to me was the exciting

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00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 1: one going into twenty thirteen. I know a lot of

626
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Speaker 1: people were excited. I was one that was. I wasn't

627
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 1: and part of it was because I worried about Shop

628
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 1: at the end of twenty twelve, and I thought there

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Speaker 1: would be some carry over from twenty twelve, the struggles,

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Speaker 1: the struggles against the Patriots. I remember this distinctly, and

631
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 1: I felt kind of bad at the time, but then

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00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, I wasn't in the building,

633
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 1: so I was just kind of firing. And so ron

634
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 1: Jiwarski was working at ESPN at the time. He was

635
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 1: doing Mona Night Football and he did his quarterback rankings

636
00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 1: and he was counting down a quarterback every day, and

637
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 1: every day it was maybe he's counting it down. No Shop,

638
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: no Shop, no shob you got to the top ten,

639
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: number ten, No Shop. I'm like, he's got Matt Shop

640
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 1: in the top ten. And I'm telling you it's if

641
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a problem, I think I think Shop

642
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: could be a problem. Watch him at the end of

643
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: twenty twelve. He was not great. He was not and

644
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 1: so I was a little bit skeptical of twenty thirteen.

645
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: Then they start off with two wins and they were

646
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 1: great wins, but it was like, hey, you got two wins. Okay,

647
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 1: maybe maybe I'm wrong. And then the bottom just fell

648
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: out well, and the bottom fell for a lot of

649
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: reasons and not just Matt Shop. But I wasn't as

650
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 1: excited about twenty thirteen as I was about twenty twelve.

651
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 1: I thought twenty twelve was gonna be the year. Turn

652
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: out not to be. We're gonna talk about this and

653
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: a bonus in the Lab podcast in the next week.

654
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 1: But yeah, people talk about the bottom falling out with

655
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,479
Speaker 1: shob and it did in twenty thirteen. Yea. But it started,

656
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: like you're saying, at the end of twenty twelve, and

657
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 1: I'm not just saying in December, you got you can

658
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 1: go back to the Thanksgiving Day game because we're gonna

659
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 1: talk about that. Thanks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, big wins there,

660
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 1: and it was a big win. But there were two

661
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:09,320
Speaker 1: just massive blunders, massive blunders by the Detroit Lions secondary.

662
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: I mean, shop threw up a pass that you could

663
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,359
Speaker 1: have waived a fair catch under and this guy dropped it.

664
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 1: And it was so it was starting to creep in

665
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 1: there because that they should have closed the door on

666
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 1: the Texans in that game, and they didn't. And that's

667
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 1: what that's kind of what bad teams do, but they

668
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 1: didn't play bad teams in New England, right, you know,

669
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 1: and the good teams took advantage of that. And it's

670
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 1: like you said, he started there, I think at the

671
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,359
Speaker 1: end of twenty twelve, and I don't know what it was.

672
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was arm strength, it was

673
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 1: between the years of combo of everything, but it started

674
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 1: then and he got away with it in those first

675
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: two games of twenty thirteen. His first pass of twenty

676
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,400
Speaker 1: thirteen was a pick yeah, I mean in his his

677
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 1: own in the field. Next play on offense by the Chargers,

678
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 1: they score a touchdown. It was essentially a pick six, right,

679
00:34:57,880 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 1: And you know, his last pass of that season, when

680
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,359
Speaker 1: he was the Texans were getting gonna lose their fourteenth game,

681
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 1: last pass the season was picked off. Twenty thirteen was

682
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 1: such a rough year. But I and I don't mean

683
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:10,240
Speaker 1: that as being like, oh, he looked at a crystal

684
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: ball and I saw it. It It was just you could

685
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: see it on the field. And and I went back

686
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: to that Patriots game, the first Patriots game when it

687
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 1: really when it really stood out to me, because there

688
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:20,359
Speaker 1: were a couple throws in that game where I'm like, well,

689
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 1: you should have seen that. You should have seen that.

690
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 1: He should have known that was there the interception in

691
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,359
Speaker 1: the end zone, and I think it was in the

692
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 1: first half of that game. I thought, man, he that

693
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 1: shouldn't be a throw that he makes. And I just

694
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: remember why going back and watching that throw closely, and like,

695
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 1: you know, there's not as much zip and then, you know,

696
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 1: come to find out in twenty thirteen that he did

697
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 1: you know, he had he had lost some RPMs on

698
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 1: the fastball. And it wasn't as if Matt had a

699
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 1: lot of fastball to begin with. But he had a

700
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 1: strong arm. But he had a he had a he

701
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 1: had a he had a He had an average to

702
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,400
Speaker 1: above average arm, so at throws he could make. He

703
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: wasn't sitting there with a popgun arm. But he obviously

704
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:59,359
Speaker 1: didn't have a Ryan Mallett Howitzer either. But you could

705
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,840
Speaker 1: tell that the velocity the RPMs were off late and

706
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 1: twelve and going on in thirteen. I just hoped in

707
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 1: thirteen it was not going to be an issue. It

708
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: turned out to be a major issue. But twenty and

709
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 1: twelve was the year where I felt like, oh boy, okay,

710
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,320
Speaker 1: all right, let's circle it back around in my in

711
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 1: my off base, or should I be this up Tomas,

712
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 1: Because I mean, I know the offensive line has to

713
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: get better, but I still think that these weapons, man

714
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 1: like I think the Texans are capable of a hell

715
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 1: of a lot. Well, let's go, let's let's tie the

716
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 1: conversations together. Why why was I so excited about twenty twelve,

717
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 1: in particular offensively. First of all, you were getting shot

718
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: back a guy that had started since two thousand and seven,

719
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: and he obviously seven and eight he had been banged up,

720
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 1: but he was a pro bowler at nine and ten

721
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 1: and eleven, he had been banged up. But you know,

722
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:46,800
Speaker 1: look that's because Albert Haynes were fell on his foot.

723
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 1: That wasn't because you know, he's not injury prone. You know,

724
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 1: it'll be back in twenty twelve, would be fine. But

725
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 1: as the guy that started for six years, you had

726
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,800
Speaker 1: an offensive line up front for the most part of

727
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:59,439
Speaker 1: twenty twelve that had been together. These guys have been

728
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 1: to other for the most part in twenty twelve. You know,

729
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: wide receivers, you know, Drey was still here, Kevin Walter

730
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:09,399
Speaker 1: was still here. You know, you had continuity. I think

731
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 1: that's the one thing that this offense has not really

732
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 1: had last few years. I mean, if you think about

733
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,359
Speaker 1: you think about last year, you know, with the offensive line,

734
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 1: there's a time, there's a time where all five guys

735
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 1: were either in their first year, first full year as

736
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 1: a starter, or their first full year with the Texans. Yeah,

737
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 1: on the offensive line, and yeah, you might start some

738
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 1: rookies this year, and that might be the case, but

739
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:33,439
Speaker 1: not across the board. You're not gonna have all five

740
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,839
Speaker 1: guys that are neither the Texans. I wouldn't think. I mean,

741
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 1: maybe I'm wrong in that. But let's say you start

742
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 1: Nick Martine at center. I mean, he's this fourth year.

743
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: Here's third year as a starter, so you've got some experience.

744
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,360
Speaker 1: It's going to be the same quarterback center combination that

745
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,399
Speaker 1: you've had that started last year, which is the first

746
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 1: time that's happened since the shop Chris Meyer's days. That's

747
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: a ways back. So you have continuity to go with

748
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:58,439
Speaker 1: some of the better athletes that are in this league.

749
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: You talk about Will Fuller in four three speed, I mean, legit,

750
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,800
Speaker 1: fourth three speed, DeAndre Hopkins best receiver in the league.

751
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: So those guys have been there. Will's fourth year, Deandre's

752
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 1: what seventh year? I think it's a right seventh year.

753
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:13,759
Speaker 1: And your young guy who's going to contribute his kiking

754
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 1: QT and what is he doing in the spring. He

755
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 1: was lining everybody up telling him where to go. So

756
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:20,320
Speaker 1: he's got a good idea. But he's ahead of Tame mentally.

757
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:24,839
Speaker 1: So at your skill positions, you're not starting, or you're

758
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: not going with any rookies. You're going guys that have

759
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 1: been around. Deshaun is not a rookie. He's coming off

760
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,439
Speaker 1: a year, an offseason in which he was healthy. So

761
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:34,279
Speaker 1: to me, there are a lot of arrows pointing in

762
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 1: a positive direction. I think when I read national pundits

763
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: and they're talking about this team, they have well, you

764
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: know it goes back to the offensive line. But I

765
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,400
Speaker 1: really don't think that there is a ton of respect

766
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 1: given to this to this offense and what it can do.

767
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,360
Speaker 1: But we've seen what it can do. We we saw

768
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 1: it against the Titans of twenty seventeen. We saw it

769
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:56,959
Speaker 1: last year in stretches. We saw it at Philadelphia when

770
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 1: when Sean kind of and he didn't even have all

771
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:01,760
Speaker 1: his weapons that day and had no running game that day,

772
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:05,280
Speaker 1: so and he had a hobble. DeAndre Hopkins, Yeah, Andandre

773
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: Hopkins was it was a for debate whether he was

774
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 1: gonna actually play in the games. Yeah, he wasn't on

775
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 1: the field for warmups, and I remember he was not

776
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 1: in He was on the injury report, but he was

777
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,400
Speaker 1: listed as questionable. But we had heard that he was

778
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 1: going to play and he's not out there for warmups,

779
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 1: and I'm like, man, maybe maybe he's not. Maybe, but

780
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:26,320
Speaker 1: we know hop. I mean, he's tough as nails and

781
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:28,320
Speaker 1: he's gonna get out there whenever he can. He fought

782
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 1: through I don't know how many injuries in that Colts game.

783
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,839
Speaker 1: I don't know how he made it. But the point

784
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: that the offense is, if you get let's just say

785
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: you get decent offensive line play, let's just say you

786
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: get that, you've got an opportunity man to do some

787
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 1: really really good things. And and I spent some time

788
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,319
Speaker 1: going back and watched I watched every every sack. I

789
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:51,360
Speaker 1: watched all sixty two sacks, and I kind of I

790
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:53,400
Speaker 1: charted them all, like what was it down at distance?

791
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 1: What kind of rush did they face, what kind of

792
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 1: defense were they facing, what, what was the what was

793
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 1: the reason for the sack? And so I studied all

794
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 1: sixty two and I just feel like there were probably

795
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: twenty five to thirty sacks that could could be cleaned

796
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:12,440
Speaker 1: up with experience, with a little bit uh more cohesive

797
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 1: offensive line play, a little bit better offensive line play,

798
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 1: a little quicker decisions, receivers getting in routes a little

799
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:19,719
Speaker 1: bit faster. You know, there are things that you can

800
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 1: you can solve with all that I just mentioned that,

801
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 1: I think you're you know some of those you can

802
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,760
Speaker 1: you know, Deshaun his third year, you know, knowing the offense,

803
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,839
Speaker 1: no one you know, reading NFL defenses. I mean that

804
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 1: that end of itself, getting a rep of doing that

805
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 1: every single game. I mean, that's that's really gonna help

806
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: him in year three. M receivers that are a little

807
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:41,439
Speaker 1: bit twitchier, they're quicker, they get their routes will fuller.

808
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 1: I mean, how fast can you get across the field.

809
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:46,719
Speaker 1: You know, Kiki Qt, how he can get his routes inside,

810
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,400
Speaker 1: which are just they're unbelievable to watch. I mean the

811
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 1: offseason he was incredible. Um, you know, and then Hop

812
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 1: does obviously what he does. So if you get protection,

813
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 1: and you get decisions made a little bit quicker, if

814
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,359
Speaker 1: you get the run game. You know. Look, those are

815
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,959
Speaker 1: all ifs, but those are all things that they don't

816
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,879
Speaker 1: feel like ifs. It feels like those things are going

817
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 1: to get better. The key is the five guys up front.

818
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 1: How quick can you come to a consensus on what

819
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 1: those five should be and how many reps can you

820
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: get them together so they can start working together. Because

821
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 1: the other thing we didn't talk about too with the

822
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 1: offensive line from last year is you started with a

823
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 1: five against New England. The next week you had a

824
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 1: different five. Well, you started with a five against New England.

825
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: Then it changed right in the second quarter, your second

826
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 1: quarter drastically, So then week two has got to change.

827
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 1: Week three was the same as week two, but then

828
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:37,320
Speaker 1: week four you changed again, and then a couple of

829
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 1: weeks later you went back to another offensive line set,

830
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 1: and then in week seven you're mister Klomte, so you

831
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 1: put Man's in there, and obviously Greg's played a lot,

832
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 1: so I mean, but it's still you had no continuity

833
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:50,879
Speaker 1: the five guys up front, so you can keep those

834
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 1: guys healthy. The continuity. I go back there work continuity

835
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 1: because I think it's so valuable in football to have continuity.

836
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 1: Now they're times where continuity turns into being stale and

837
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 1: you gotta, you know, kind of shug it up a

838
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:08,759
Speaker 1: little bit. But I think you got to get to

839
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 1: that continuity first. And if you can get continuity with

840
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,319
Speaker 1: guys that have been in the lineup together, guys that

841
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 1: have some experience, and then you put a couple of

842
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:18,360
Speaker 1: good rookie athletes like Tyus Howard or Max Sharping on

843
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 1: a line one or both at some point and you

844
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 1: feel like let them grow and get better. Then you

845
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 1: got an opportunity for this offense, for us to be

846
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 1: had this conversation about the offense year in and year

847
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 1: out for the next how many every years. I can't wait, man,

848
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: neither Ken I Drew. It's gonna be fun. Let's get

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Speaker 1: it kicked off eight o'clock tomorrow morning on our Flags

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Speaker 1: of Sports Radio six ten Texas Training Camp Live, marking

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Speaker 1: myself six straight year together. Tomorrow. We'll have Jamie Roots

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Speaker 1: on to kick it off, the President of Texas. We'll

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Speaker 1: have John McClain, the General, on with us every day

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Speaker 1: throughout training camp. Looking forward to it all getting started

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Speaker 1: tomorrow and where this marathon goes. Who knows at the end.

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Speaker 1: Love to see some confetti fallen down on my head,

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Speaker 1: would love that. Thanks so much everybody for listening. We'll

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Speaker 1: see you tomorrow and as always, go Texas.