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Speaker 1: Hello, Texans, Welcome to the show Good Evening Thursday in

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Speaker 1: the Hunday Texans Radio studio, which means the General. John

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Speaker 1: mcclaim from the Houston Chronicle is with us. John. How's

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Speaker 1: it going, Mark, It's been fun to be at practice.

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Speaker 1: It's closer to the regular season, closer to the cut

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Speaker 1: down date. But I got to tell you, I love

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Speaker 1: La and I can't go to La. Oh I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: so I will be. I've decided that I'm gonna listen

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Speaker 1: to you and Andrea, and I'm gonna tweet like I

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Speaker 1: do during games. Oh, so beware. Oh you're gonna tweet

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Speaker 1: about We'll be ready General three o'clock. By the way, folks,

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Speaker 1: boys and girls, three o'clock. I do, and I don't.

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Speaker 1: I think the TV ratings and the radio ratings. Actually

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Speaker 1: radio ratings probably better during the day, TV ratings better

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Speaker 1: at night. Uh. TV ratings in the preseason are very high.

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Speaker 1: The second highest rated TV series in Houston is Houston

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Speaker 1: Texas Preseason Football. But you know you want the maximum number,

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Speaker 1: so night really helps that out. But as far as

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Speaker 1: leveling and the football logistics side of it, I love

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Speaker 1: it because it's in La. Because the temperature will be nice. Oh,

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Speaker 1: the weather it will be so nice. And the people

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Speaker 1: that you know, the Collins. Sam's such a dump. They're

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Speaker 1: doing construction on two hundred and seventy million dollars upgrade.

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Speaker 1: I believe that you guys will have a makeshift press box.

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Speaker 1: Yes we where we were yes last year. And I'm

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Speaker 1: speaking with JB Long before we go out there. He's

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Speaker 1: the voice of the Rams who started with them when

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Speaker 1: they moved back to LA three years ago. So he's

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Speaker 1: gonna tell me the lowdown. I think it's gonna be adequate.

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Speaker 1: It's the NFL. It's gonna be at least adequate. But

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Speaker 1: I can tell you this because I'm responsible for preseason

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Speaker 1: television and those guys getting plugged in and that is

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Speaker 1: no picnic got to run extra fiber lines and all

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Speaker 1: this other stuff. Because it's a makeshift TV situation out there,

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Speaker 1: and they're doing the renovation for USC as you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the Rams won't even be enjoying, so to speak,

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Speaker 1: the improvements. Maybe your makeshift press box will be like

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Speaker 1: we had one when the oilers were there was after

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Speaker 1: the earthquake, right, and they just put us in the

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Speaker 1: stands up high and put countertops in front of us,

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Speaker 1: and it's open air, and that was like Miami Hurricanes baseball.

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Speaker 1: There were a lot of gang members who decided to

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Speaker 1: come sit and lean up against our press box. So

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Speaker 1: they were down in front of us, and about in

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Speaker 1: the first quarter, I'm like, a little secondary smoke, a

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Speaker 1: little secondary smoke, and uh no, it was a lot

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Speaker 1: of secondary smoke. And next thing I know, here comes

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Speaker 1: Amy Trash, the executive from the Raiders, with several cops

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Speaker 1: coming down there to tell them. And I remember one

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Speaker 1: guy screaming at her, calling her name, saying South Central bleep,

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Speaker 1: and they told him to cut that out or they

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Speaker 1: were gonna remove them. So as soon as they left,

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Speaker 1: they did it again. And I guess I don't remember it.

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Speaker 1: I remember getting really hungry in a second. Somebody's that

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Speaker 1: I wrote one of them all time best stories. So

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Speaker 1: maybe you'll have that kind of box with Colin sim

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Speaker 1: You never know. I'm up for anything in La No,

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Speaker 1: I'm not. So. The Texas will play the Rams, and

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Speaker 1: they've been game planning this week if they have to

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Speaker 1: scout team jerseys out there, they've been getting ready for this.

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Speaker 1: Starters back. Yeah, as if in a way as if

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Speaker 1: it's a regular season game. Not quite all the way,

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Speaker 1: but they want to get into that mode a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I like to Faguey held out the same nine starters.

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Speaker 1: The ones that are healthy will play. Whitney Merciless will

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Speaker 1: not play because Whitney's still recovering from his hamstring injury.

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Speaker 1: I believe Wait will play a series, Watson, I'm guessing

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Speaker 1: will play the at least the first quarter. Hopkins and

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Speaker 1: Fuller will be back, but it'll be a much better

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Speaker 1: barometer of where we're going to see from the Texans

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Speaker 1: in regular season. And the more I think about the

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Speaker 1: defense with the guys coming back healthy, with the emergence

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Speaker 1: of Duke gadget four, who has just been a tremendous

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Speaker 1: find and can help him off the bench, and then

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Speaker 1: all the new players. I'm doing a column with Brian

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Speaker 1: Game for Saturday about the new players, how they fit

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Speaker 1: in the competition in these last two games, special teams,

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Speaker 1: how important that is, and so I'm really fired up

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Speaker 1: for at least the first quarter, maybe the first half.

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Speaker 1: I always like the second half too, though general, because

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Speaker 1: we get to see some of these guys who are

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Speaker 1: struggling to make the team Josh Kais is a guy

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Speaker 1: who I'm not saying he's gonna make it, but he

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Speaker 1: regular season. Yes, but you still have this situation at cornerback,

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Speaker 1: just like to see some of those battles. I'll give

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Speaker 1: you another one. Special teams, especially in Game four. You

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Speaker 1: know the thing about Game four is the starters don't play,

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Speaker 1: but the special teams standouts to Brian Peters has to

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Speaker 1: so you're gonna have him out there on special team.

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Speaker 1: So I think there are things to watch it every

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Speaker 1: about it for Friday. How often do you hear somebody

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Speaker 1: talk about a battle at punter and that may be

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Speaker 1: the best battle on the team. The reason is Shane

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Speaker 1: Leckler who's going into his thirty ninth season and his

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Speaker 1: fifty two years old, coming off a really good season.

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Speaker 1: He told me today that he is in the fight

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Speaker 1: of his life. But with Trevor Daniel, the undrafted rookie

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Speaker 1: and Shane knows it. But I asked, Shane, I said,

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Speaker 1: He's got to knock you out to get this job.

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Speaker 1: He said, I don't. I don't know about that. He's

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Speaker 1: a but Trevor has done great and I've had to

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Speaker 1: do things that I don't usually do in camp, so

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Speaker 1: he knows it. Said he loves working with Brad Seely.

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Speaker 1: You know, Brad was uh in New England. When they

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Speaker 1: on from Sebastian Janetkowski. So Brad Seely, I think he

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Speaker 1: what he's gonna go by. Shane's a great holder and

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Speaker 1: Trevor Daniel when I did a story on him at

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Speaker 1: of Tennessee, practiced it every day, but he didn't have

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Speaker 1: to do it in a game. And that's one of

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Speaker 1: those things you just take for granted, yeah, until it

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Speaker 1: doesn't work for granted. Yeah, John, I don't I mean,

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Speaker 1: the greatest snapper in the history of football at any level,

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Speaker 1: John has never had a bad snap. And uh and

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Speaker 1: uh so I'm watching that last two games, those guys

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Speaker 1: will be punning. And then I still Shane's coming off

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Speaker 1: and if you let Da'll go, he's gonna be somewhere

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Speaker 1: else and he could turn out to be really good.

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Speaker 1: And then can you find another one next year or

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Speaker 1: the year after whenever Shane retires. So there is a

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Speaker 1: lot for Bill O'Brien, Brad Sealing, and Brian Gaine to

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Speaker 1: consider about the punting competition. It's really interesting, John, because Daniel,

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Speaker 1: like you said, does he have to knock out Lechler?

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Speaker 1: Does he have to punt his brains out in order

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Speaker 1: to win that job? Or let's say there's a tie, Daniel,

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Speaker 1: you could have forever. Right, Leckler is not going to

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Speaker 1: sports wise, it can go very quickly. I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: it's going to happen that way with Shane, but you

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Speaker 1: never know. So this is a very interesting battle. I

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Speaker 1: that's probably the way you want to handle this. I've

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Speaker 1: never been covered a team in my forty years where

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Speaker 1: when you're looking at the battles of all the positions punters,

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Speaker 1: the one that is the biggest is that the biggest? Really, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what's bigger than Shane Well, I mean he's big because

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Speaker 1: he's a future Hall of Famer and all that, But

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Speaker 1: as far as close competition, all right, let's go down

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Speaker 1: some position groups because we talked last week, but things

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Speaker 1: change week to week. I want to start a running

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Speaker 1: back here because Tyler Irvin is returning punts and they

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Speaker 1: i'ven't seen many people do much in recent years around here,

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Speaker 1: and that I'm just being honest, No, you are. It's

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Speaker 1: the morning show. Guys were talking about Keyshawn Martin and

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Speaker 1: leaders in average but he never broke up big one.

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Speaker 1: You know, he'd always give you like ten and that's

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Speaker 1: ten in a sure handed hunt catcher, if you will.

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Speaker 1: But you want to see some explosive, potentially explosive plays

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Speaker 1: in that department. So what do you make of Tyler Irvin?

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Speaker 1: Because you're coming into the regular season here and Deante

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Speaker 1: And then you got Alfred Blue number two, and I'm

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Speaker 1: think Troy Maine Pope's going to be number three, and

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Speaker 1: Kiki Qt gonna be the kickoff returner, isn't he? Now

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Speaker 1: that he's back kickoff pot he could return pots too.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to take a guy who didn't return punts

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Speaker 1: it's totally different, as you know, than being a kickoff returner.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not sure how much he did it there.

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Speaker 1: He was really good as kickoff returns. You know, anything

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Speaker 1: would be how they remember Jerome mathis that's what he did.

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Speaker 1: Kick Off returns went to two thousand and five. Mel

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Speaker 1: Gray was here a little bit at the end of

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Speaker 1: his career. But I think it's imperative. If you one

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Speaker 1: reason they hired Brad seely as they want to improve

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Speaker 1: the coverage and then to try to develop somebody to

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Speaker 1: impact field position. Where are you at with tight ends

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Speaker 1: right now? Three? Three? Okay, So Stephen Anderson really on

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Speaker 1: the bubble here, fight to make the roster. Ryan Griffin

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Speaker 1: is clearly the starter. You know, Ryan if he's if

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Speaker 1: Guessing you do too. He's reliable, such a big target

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Speaker 1: down the middle of watching him make some great catches

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Speaker 1: and practice. And then is you got Jordan Thomas, a

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Speaker 1: practice today. And then you have Jordan Nakins, a really

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Speaker 1: good receiver. I just don't see any room for Steven Anderson,

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Speaker 1: although I don't know he could keep more than three

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Speaker 1: running backs considering what you got, Keep an extra receiver,

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Speaker 1: you know, keep Joe Webb's the third quarterback because he

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Speaker 1: can do other things. But um I I still none

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Speaker 1: of those are is intriguing as the punny well because ye,

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Speaker 1: Shane Lechler will probably be the second punter inducted into

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Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame behind Ray Guy. Okay, let's go

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Speaker 1: to wide receiver here for a moment because Fuller Hopkins great,

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Speaker 1: and then it gets really interesting after that. Obviously, Kik

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Speaker 1: qt is ellacton a locket those top four or Coach,

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Speaker 1: I think he's a lock two. John Well, do you

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Speaker 1: keep five or six? Do you keep five and you

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Speaker 1: keep Coats and cutting Miller. I think Miller's in a

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Speaker 1: fight to make the roster right thank he's on the

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Speaker 1: bubble and it's gonna be tough. And look, he's had

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Speaker 1: all set now. Clowny's playing right in stay healthy. It's

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Speaker 1: Clowney Watton reader. That is there a better defensive line

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Speaker 1: in the NFL? No, So you're gonna go in bass,

426
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Speaker 1: maybe with Darnland Sue in basse, you go those three

427
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Speaker 1: guys in Scarlett and Merciless outside maybe edge of four

428
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Speaker 1: and well, I think it'll be Scarlett starting off edge

429
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Speaker 1: of four play and then the rotation. You know, most

430
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Speaker 1: of um. He's good at playing down, which is what

431
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Speaker 1: he played in college. But last week when he made

432
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Speaker 1: his play against Dante bet As, he was up. Ye

433
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Speaker 1: So I everybody loves And I told him this week,

434
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Speaker 1: I said that laboram surgery costs you some money. He said, yes,

435
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Speaker 1: it did. But look, I get to come home, get

436
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Speaker 1: my families here, my friends are here, get to play

437
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Speaker 1: for my favorite team. And so he feels blessed yea,

438
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Speaker 1: and seems to have a great attitude about that too.

439
00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:40,200
Speaker 1: Because certain guys coming home might not be the best thing.

440
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Speaker 1: And I don't care what your psychological makeup is. It's

441
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Speaker 1: a distraction to many. You know, just have family members around,

442
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,480
Speaker 1: and great family members even could be a distraction. But

443
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Speaker 1: it seems to be working out for him so far.

444
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Speaker 1: I asked check just to double check to make sure

445
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Speaker 1: we see him make big plays. But as he's screwing

446
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Speaker 1: up on the others, no, he's not got a steal

447
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Speaker 1: in the sixth round. And do that's great news. Well,

448
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Speaker 1: you mentioned Clowney being an end. I still say, all right,

449
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Speaker 1: if that's if you classify Clowney for the fifty three

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Speaker 1: man roster, well he lined up and right in where

451
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Speaker 1: Romeo hit him two years ago. If you have him

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Speaker 1: classified as a defensive lineman, I'm keeping seven. I'm keeping seven.

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Speaker 1: But I also don't think in the courts of the

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Speaker 1: season for him, like if he's going to be a

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Speaker 1: franchise uh, it'll be down to where he played so

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Speaker 1: many snaps and considering the way offensives play, I play outside,

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Speaker 1: he'll be playing linebacker a lot. And I can't wait

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Speaker 1: to see how Romeo moves him around, and you know

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Speaker 1: what's going to happen and Clowney and what wad'll be

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Speaker 1: on right or left? Clowney I remember two years ago,

461
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Speaker 1: sometimes stood up over the center and there's only one

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Speaker 1: defensive lineman on the field. Based on what Romeo was doing.

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Speaker 1: They put did that with Cushing and Merciless too, put

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Speaker 1: them over the center. And I just think that's going

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Speaker 1: to be so exciting to watch. But the front seven

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter. If Clowney's down or up in Scarlet's in

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Speaker 1: that front, seven is gonna be should be really good. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So if you do what you said and Clowney's a

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Speaker 1: defensive lineman, Now let's go to outside linebacker because we

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Speaker 1: talked about Scarlet and edge of four and what else

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Speaker 1: are they doing there? What else are they doing an

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Speaker 1: outside linebacker? Whitney Scarlet, edge of four? Is there a fourth?

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Speaker 1: Does callum Bier? We're talking about six linebackers. They gotta

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Speaker 1: have more than that. Oh, I'm talking about Peter. It

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Speaker 1: would be seven. They gotta have another outside linebacker, all right,

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Speaker 1: So Peter Callumbide, Is there anybody other than him? Troy Lewis?

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Speaker 1: They might like one of those guys that came here,

478
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Speaker 1: like LaTroy Lewis. What about insidebacker? Is it definitely? I

479
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Speaker 1: mean you have Cole and Peter's backing up to the

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Speaker 1: top two Cunningham and McKinney. So I think that's about

481
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Speaker 1: it for them. Joshkis would love to make the team.

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Speaker 1: We'll see. I don't know, but if he makes it,

483
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Speaker 1: that means you're dropping an outside line backer or you're

484
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Speaker 1: not gonna keep seven defensive linemen. As I want to

485
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Speaker 1: consider an outside linebackers rush to passer, I think you're

486
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Speaker 1: gonna keep an extra one there over a fourth inside guy.

487
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Speaker 1: And of course it comes down special teams. All these

488
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Speaker 1: things we're talking about come down to special and it's

489
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Speaker 1: hard for us to gauge that because, oh, this is

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Speaker 1: our number three guy and the kickoff coverage unit and

491
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,880
Speaker 1: he's so good and he's got Those are the things

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Speaker 1: that we don't really see much unless you're watching a

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Speaker 1: ton of tape or whatever. And even then it's hard

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Speaker 1: to evaluate. If you're a non football guy other than

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Speaker 1: the offensive line, tell me a position you're more worried

496
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Speaker 1: about than the others other than offensive line. Well, I

497
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Speaker 1: got to say with the health of Kevin Johnson right now,

498
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Speaker 1: and I he comes back one percent, but I'm still

499
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Speaker 1: not completely comfortable at cornerback. You know, Jonathan Joseph, I

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Speaker 1: think he'll play well because when Jjo's healthy, he plays well.

501
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Speaker 1: But Jjo's not getting any younger. And what did we

502
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Speaker 1: just say in the last segment about guys like Leckler

503
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Speaker 1: or Brady or whoever. When you hit a certain age

504
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Speaker 1: in this league, sometimes it goes quickly. I'm not saying

505
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Speaker 1: it will but you gotta be prepared for that. So

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Speaker 1: Aaron Colevin, who started in bass defense outside on Saturday

507
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Speaker 1: night against the forty nine ers, maybe they play him there.

508
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 1: I don't know. But as Johnson gonna come back healthy,

509
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Speaker 1: do they need more insurance? We talked about Chechalrey. I

510
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Speaker 1: don't know. Jermaine Kelly's banged up. He might open the

511
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Speaker 1: season on pup. I don't even know that for sure.

512
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Speaker 1: Seventh round bigs hurt. Yeah, not good for him, and

513
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Speaker 1: maybe they really like him so they want to hang

514
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Speaker 1: on to him for a while. I mean, they had

515
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Speaker 1: to sign Bryce Jones this week because they needed some help.

516
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Speaker 1: And if Jorndon went out with the injured, you getting

517
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Speaker 1: a jam? Do you move Kareem back? Karee was playing

518
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Speaker 1: slot receivers and as Aaron's job, Well, I think that

519
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Speaker 1: that's one area where you could do it. Now, in

520
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Speaker 1: the course of a game, you could do anything. You can,

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Speaker 1: put Tyrn Matthew out of corner if you had to,

522
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Speaker 1: or Kareem or whoever you know, and just sort of

523
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Speaker 1: make your way through that afternoon. Over a longer haul,

524
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Speaker 1: it gets interesting. Thornton, who's out waived injured. I kind

525
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Speaker 1: of I don't know what they really thought of him,

526
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Speaker 1: but he was making plays in camp and I thought,

527
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Speaker 1: maybe this guy emerges. It's one of those undraft DIDs

528
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Speaker 1: who you know, when you see the magic of an

529
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Speaker 1: A A J. Boy a story, you hope of the

530
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Speaker 1: very best for these undrafted about d virgins. He have

531
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Speaker 1: a prayer. I think he's got a prairie. Hits hard.

532
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Speaker 1: He makes plays, but he also he got burned on

533
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Speaker 1: that play The Deep where they had the incompletion the

534
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Speaker 1: forty nine ers did last week. But you know, guys

535
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Speaker 1: are gonna get burned, and Jonathan Joseph everybody gets burned

536
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Speaker 1: from time to time, so I'm not gonna evaluate him

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Speaker 1: on that. I've noticed him making plays, though he does

538
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Speaker 1: make plays, So we'll see. I don't know how they

539
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 1: gauge it with all the tape they have to watch,

540
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Speaker 1: and they're gonna be Brian gain is gonna be bringing

541
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Speaker 1: in so many guys here because they're gonna be churning

542
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Speaker 1: the bottom of roster. What those cuts are made down

543
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Speaker 1: to fifty three. We're gonna see them having guys, but

544
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Speaker 1: everybody will, so we'll see how that goes. You know,

545
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Speaker 1: y'all get Um, where would your claim be waiver claim

546
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Speaker 1: since you were four, since they were four and twelve. Yeah, yeah,

547
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Speaker 1: it'll be nice, but it goes away after week one, correct,

548
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Speaker 1: So you only get you only get the DIBs that

549
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Speaker 1: you have in the draft ye as of right now,

550
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Speaker 1: or the cuts after the fourth preseason game. It's gonna

551
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 1: be important, bliss. They're gonna be some veterans cut. There

552
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Speaker 1: will be some veterans cut, but it's unlikely. People talk

553
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Speaker 1: about tackle. Look, you're not gonna get you know, Orlando

554
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,400
Speaker 1: past at his prime cut by a team, And you're

555
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,160
Speaker 1: not gonna get a good corner either. No, because it's

556
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Speaker 1: like pitching. We're not gonna let go of one of

557
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Speaker 1: those guys right now. You know, you have to trade

558
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Speaker 1: for somebody, and rarely do teams have a surplus at

559
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Speaker 1: corner and tackle. They might have a guy who can

560
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 1: play a little bit, but it's not like a pro

561
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 1: bowler is gonna hang out. All right, let's get rid

562
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Speaker 1: of them. You're just hope somebody might Fitcher's game that

563
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 1: you've had your own, or maybe what's got before and

564
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 1: went to another team. All right, let me ask you

565
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 1: this about Brad Seeley. Three decades. He's coached coached specialties

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Speaker 1: eight team and he's been a coordinator of all of them,

567
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Speaker 1: and he's been assistant head coach for two different teams.

568
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a very experienced coach. You could

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Speaker 1: argue that this is the best special teams coach they've

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Speaker 1: ever had. A Joe Marciano was good on special teams

571
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Speaker 1: for a long time here, but this is a who's

572
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Speaker 1: one things in this league. Yes, I wonder Bred regrets

573
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Speaker 1: leaving New England and go. I think he went with

574
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Speaker 1: Eric man Jeanie to Cleveland. I'm guessing they gave him

575
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Speaker 1: a big raise. But Ted Johnson just swore by him

576
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Speaker 1: when he was with the Patriots and they won three

577
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Speaker 1: rings together. So I'm really excited to see what he's

578
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Speaker 1: gonna do here. And he's about to be able to

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Speaker 1: get players too. Yeah, well, players and scheme and practice time.

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Speaker 1: I don't know this for a fact, it feels like

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Speaker 1: they spend more time on special teams in practice than

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Speaker 1: they used to. It's probably not the case, but I'm

583
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Speaker 1: gonna ask at some point because it feels that way.

584
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Speaker 1: Because every time I look at a period, number one

585
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: offense against number one defense, it feels like it goes

586
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Speaker 1: by in the blink of an eye and then all

587
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I'm back watching punt formation and they're

588
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:50,600
Speaker 1: wearing the little yamakas or whatever they call that. That

589
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 1: would be good because they need to work. Yeah, that

590
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 1: would be good. All right, we have one more segment

591
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Speaker 1: with the General, John McClaine. Let's talk about how Andrew

592
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Speaker 1: Luck and the Colts look the other night. What are

593
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Speaker 1: the Titans up to in the preseason. The General has

594
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Speaker 1: insight into what's happening in Nashville. And of course our

595
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Speaker 1: boys from North Florida, the defending AFC South champions. That's right,

596
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Speaker 1: we'll discuss them as well. I'm Texans All Access. It's

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Speaker 1: the show that keeps you up to date with your

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans. Texans All Access here from the Hunday Texans

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Speaker 1: Radio studio. I'm Mark Vandermier with John McClain from the

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Speaker 1: Houston Chronicle and we keep it rolling here. And of course,

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Speaker 1: the AFC South could be the best division in football.

602
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Speaker 1: I've been asked this on a number of shows. I

603
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Speaker 1: know you're on a ton of shows, John, What do

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Speaker 1: you say to people when they ask you, is this

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Speaker 1: the best division in pro football could be I think

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Speaker 1: the NFC South is the other one when they with

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Speaker 1: Carolina Awards in Atlanta. Yeah, and you also look at

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Speaker 1: the quarterbacks. They have four good quarterbacks. Jamis Winston's being suspended.

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Speaker 1: Of course, everybody thinks Tampa Bay is going to get

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Speaker 1: off to a really bad start this tough schedule. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: you know, you're usually judged on your weakest link. Is

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis with Andrew Luck going to be better than Tampa

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Speaker 1: Bay with Jamis Winston coming back from his suspension. But

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Speaker 1: I think because if the quarterbacks all stay healthy, there

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Speaker 1: won't be any other division other than the NFAC West

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Speaker 1: that could be better than the AFC South. Well, when

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Speaker 1: I watched the Colts against the Ravens the other day,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you felt. And I hate to

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Speaker 1: gauge too much on preseason football. I mean, come on,

620
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Speaker 1: but they did not look very good. Now there's a

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Speaker 1: long way to go and they can get better. And

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Speaker 1: Andrew Luck is Andrew Luck. I mean, when he gets

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Speaker 1: fully recovered, he's going to be very dangerous. But they

624
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Speaker 1: just don't seem to have the weapons. John old Light

625
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: has always been a problem since he's been there, but

626
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Speaker 1: they had good receivers, tight ends, they had some weapons.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't look like they have the web right now. They

628
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: got t Y Hilton, they got Jack Doyle, Yeah, Ryan

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Speaker 1: Kelly number one pick, nel Quinton Nelson number one pick.

630
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Speaker 1: They have invested in their offensive line high picks compared

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Speaker 1: to the Texans who have Nick Martin a second rounder.

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Speaker 1: But I don't put any stock in the only thing

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Speaker 1: I'll looked at with Andrew Luck, did he take a

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Speaker 1: hit and did he get up? Yeah, because after as

635
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 1: long as he's been out, he's not going to come

636
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: out and all of a sudden be really accurate. But

637
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 1: I look for them to be capable of beating any

638
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 1: team in the division, but still finishing last. I think

639
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 1: that's the thing. They can beat any team in the

640
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 1: division on a given day. And two years ago with Luck,

641
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: that team went eight and eight, and look, the Texans

642
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 1: beat him here. They beat him up there in twenty sixteen,

643
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: but it was not easy. So we'll see how that goes.

644
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 1: What about what's happening in Nashville right now, John, how

645
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 1: are they feeling about what they're doing in the preseason.

646
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry's now the starting running back, and they brought

647
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 1: in Dion Lewis from New England as a change of pace.

648
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,719
Speaker 1: They have big plans for both of them. You know,

649
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 1: Mike Rabel's a former defensive coordinator. Every former defensive coordinator

650
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 1: wants to run the ball first and foremost, and so

651
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 1: they're gonna pound the ball. They're not gonna call it

652
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 1: exotic smash mouth. Mariota will run a little bit. Corey

653
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: Davis their number one pick last year. He's always battling injuries.

654
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:28,240
Speaker 1: Delaney Walkers I believe hurt right now. They gave Richard

655
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 1: Matthews an extension. They don't have Jack Conklin back. He

656
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 1: blew out his knee at the end of last season.

657
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 1: That's not good defensively. Their first pick where Sean Evans

658
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 1: can't get on the field. He was hurt. He came back,

659
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 1: played three plays, got and was a recurrence of whatever

660
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 1: the injury is. Shocking Mike Rabel didn't tell him what

661
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: the injury is. I wonder where he got that. And

662
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 1: Harold Landry, their second round picks, been really, really good.

663
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 1: So they've worked on the defensive side in the offseason

664
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 1: and the draft, free agency, but I don't see them.

665
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: I see them going nine, seven, ten and six and

666
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 1: making a wild card. I picked in our football section,

667
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 1: which comes out Sunday in a chronicle, in a magazine,

668
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: I picked Jaguars, Texans, and Titans go to the playoffs

669
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 1: first time in the SEC South. They get three teams

670
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,320
Speaker 1: instance two thousand and seven, and the Texans were not

671
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,839
Speaker 1: one of those three. And when I make the case

672
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,359
Speaker 1: for people, they're like, wow, what And I said, well,

673
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 1: who from the East other than the Patriots? Who from

674
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:35,360
Speaker 1: the North. Everybody says Lamar Jackson's gonna replace Joe Flacko

675
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson and done squat that I've seen that's impressed me,

676
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 1: other than run. And then in the West Kansas City,

677
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 1: new quarterback Oakland, new coach Denver, I'm not impressed with

678
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 1: Vance Joseph. And then I think San Diego. I mean,

679
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 1: Chargers do not have a home field advantage, and all

680
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 1: the people picking them to win, I ask, would you

681
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 1: pick any other team in the league if they played

682
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 1: every game on the road. Everything I've read and people

683
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 1: I've talked to, they have no home field advantage where

684
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 1: they play, and half the time the opponent has more

685
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 1: fans do than they do. I mean that's in a

686
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 1: building that size. I could get it if it was

687
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:20,320
Speaker 1: a ninety thousand seat building and you had thirty thousand

688
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: potential available seats every week. But it's a thirty thousand

689
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:27,479
Speaker 1: seat stadium, not even that, and the opponents are dominating it.

690
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:31,840
Speaker 1: The Chargers moved to La so far looks ridiculous, but

691
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 1: I get it. They couldn't get a stadium built in

692
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:37,760
Speaker 1: San Diego the fifteen years. And I but I would

693
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 1: love to pick the Chargers. They got the talent, but

694
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 1: that has got to play a role over the course

695
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 1: of the season. Yeah, no doubt. All right. So in

696
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 1: the East Buffalo, no, no way. HUM went to the

697
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: playoffs last year. But the biggest fall in the league. Okay, Miami,

698
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 1: I absolutely not Ryan Tannehill, I don't think so. I

699
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: always on a talk show in Miami this week and

700
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 1: they said, well, we'll see in October. I said, is

701
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 1: us Willer playing? And I said please? And they thought

702
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 1: I was a little rude saying that. I guess it

703
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 1: kind of was. They don't understand how big that would

704
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 1: be here. It wasn't anything against Brock. Maybe it wasn't.

705
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 1: It wasn't anything against Brock as much as it was

706
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,879
Speaker 1: for the drama of seeing him or start for another

707
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:21,720
Speaker 1: team in this building, and how fired up the fans.

708
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 1: Can you imagine the talk shows? Like I was talking

709
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 1: about it, everybody wanted to talk about it. I just

710
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 1: can't wait for the season. It's gonna be so good,

711
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: all right. What about the New York Jets though, John

712
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: A lot of people say that they could surprise some people,

713
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 1: not playoff surprise, but win more than you think with

714
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:42,439
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback. A many rookie quarterbacks do very well.

715
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: What would you do if you're Mike mccagnet with Teddy Bridgewater,

716
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 1: I would hang on to him and I would wait

717
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 1: until other teams said quarterbacks go down during the season.

718
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 1: If I had way of trading deadline, try to get

719
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 1: two franchises and neat quarterbacks, maximize it. But remember he's

720
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 1: on a one year contract. What are you gonna get

721
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 1: for him? If you're gonna trade for him, would you

722
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 1: have to sign him to a multi year deal? And really,

723
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 1: what has Bridgewater done in the preseason? It makes you

724
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 1: think this is my franchise quarterback. He stood up, No,

725
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,759
Speaker 1: he's not a franchise quarterback. Fact that he's returned from

726
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 1: an injury that was just unbelievable. That in itself is

727
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 1: just astonishing. Here is who he is. If God forbids

728
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: something happened here, for instance, you might want to look

729
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 1: at that, right. That's who he is. He's not a

730
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: franchise guy. He's somebody who looks pretty good that maybe

731
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 1: you could fall in love with over the course of

732
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 1: the season. For instance, when the Dolphins lost Tannehill, well

733
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:43,360
Speaker 1: they went to Jake Cutler. I hate to use the

734
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:48,760
Speaker 1: word accomplish, but more accomplished. Bridgewater a lot of water, yeah,

735
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 1: and and certainly a guy who is a playmaker, but

736
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: he also makes mistakes. But my point is this, it'll

737
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: be that kind of team where you lose your starting quarterback,

738
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:59,359
Speaker 1: you're not in love with your backup, and let's see

739
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:01,839
Speaker 1: what we have in ten and go from there, kind

740
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 1: of like what the Vikings did with Sam Bradford exactly

741
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:07,439
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. Although they traded a one for him,

742
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: you're not trading a one for Teddy Bridge one. Well

743
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 1: you think not, because but the price might go home.

744
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 1: Bradford was hurt and they still did it, and he

745
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 1: got hurt in Bridgewater. I think whatever we think right now,

746
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 1: he would go for he'll go for more because of desperation. Yeah. Interesting, Okay,

747
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 1: I don't want to now. I won't even bring it

748
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 1: up about here, John. Nobody's talking about the Steelers. Really

749
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: shouldn't they be? Yes? I mean there is. They're right

750
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 1: up there behind New England, and you know they lose

751
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 1: it home to Jacksonville. A lot of people are down

752
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,399
Speaker 1: on them, but they still Levon Bell will come back

753
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 1: having their Big three. I mean, they're talented, they got

754
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 1: a good offensive line, got a good enough defense. Still

755
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:50,399
Speaker 1: amazed that Jacksonville went in there beat the heck out

756
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: of them. The Vikings with Kirk Cousins. I think the

757
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:57,799
Speaker 1: Vikings are with the defense and with the running game,

758
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 1: with the receivers, are legitimate Super Bowl contender. Will be

759
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: contending with Green Bay for the division. Okay, and what

760
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:08,359
Speaker 1: about out West in that division? We just saw San

761
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 1: Francisco here, Rams, no doubt Rams the Super Bowl? Does

762
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:14,320
Speaker 1: anybody else make the playoffs out of the West. A

763
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 1: lot of people think the forty nine ers. I think

764
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 1: Seattle's going down, not even winning record, and I think

765
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 1: that Arizona going with Josh Rosen and rookie quarterbacks, just

766
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 1: don't do much historically do not. We had one here

767
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:30,359
Speaker 1: last year who in six and a half games through

768
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 1: nineteen touchdown passes. But that's highly unusual. I think John

769
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:37,440
Speaker 1: that heat. I came up with a theory Watson's success,

770
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 1: and this happens in this league. If you see a

771
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback half success, then all of a sudden, everyone thinks,

772
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 1: maybe I should be playing my rookie quarterback. Right. What

773
00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 1: about this? For announcers? Tony Romo does very well as

774
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:52,839
Speaker 1: a rookie number one network analyst. Did that sort of

775
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 1: inflate wittens stock and enable them to get on Monday

776
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:59,800
Speaker 1: Night Football as the lead guy? Of course it did. Okay,

777
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:02,759
Speaker 1: tell you something to Texans fans. I'm not saying worry

778
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:06,359
Speaker 1: about it, but think about it. There's a reason that

779
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 1: there's a time honored adage sophomore jinks. There's a reason

780
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 1: because it does happen from time to time. It does

781
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: happen all right, portslustrated Jinks, Oh, forget about Sports illustrated. There.

782
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 1: That's that's a bunch of crap right, perpetuated by sports

783
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 1: Stop it general. Really, I have the cover right here.

784
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 1: By the way, this is a regional cover. There are

785
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:34,399
Speaker 1: four different players and a cover of Sports Illustrated. It's

786
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,400
Speaker 1: not just him, so they go regional with the covers,

787
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 1: so that doesn't even count in a jinx format. Of course,

788
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: here's the other thing. It's been broken so many times

789
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:44,399
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. There's no jinks, and I don't believe

790
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,720
Speaker 1: in jinxes. It's funny because I used to do shows

791
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 1: on the Billy Goat jinks with the Cubs and of

792
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 1: course the Curse of the Bambino and everything, and you know,

793
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,319
Speaker 1: we were talking about jinxes on the show and people say,

794
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's such a thing. I'm like, there,

795
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 1: of course, there's no such thing as a jen It's

796
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 1: just fun talk radio stuff a chinx. Please anyway, don't

797
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:07,359
Speaker 1: bring that up again, John, I won't bring it up again.

798
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 1: All right. What do you have going on in the

799
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 1: Houston Chronicle. I have a column on Friday about Shane

800
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:15,399
Speaker 1: Leckler talking about being in the battle of his life

801
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 1: with rookie Trevor Daniel. I have a thing for Saturday

802
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 1: with Brian Gaine talking about the roster, the last two games, importance,

803
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 1: where they are as a team, their depth, things they

804
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 1: want to accomplish, and then I know Aaron Wilson is

805
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 1: writing about KIKIQT being back, and we got a lot

806
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:38,279
Speaker 1: of stuff on in the Chronicle chron dot com and

807
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 1: Mark almost everything I write goes on our pay site,

808
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 1: Texas Sports Nation. I'm already paying for the Chronicle twenty

809
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 1: nine ninety will you can get it from nineteen ninety five,

810
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 1: so I tweet it, but people like if it goes

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00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 1: to the Chronicle. Hey, it's great to have you back.

812
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 1: I say, I've been back since they came from the Greenbrier.

813
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 1: But everything is on Texas Sports Nation dot com. So

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00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 1: checking out. Please have fun in La. I'll be listening

815
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:05,279
Speaker 1: to you for the first time. I'm looking forward to that.

816
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:06,719
Speaker 1: I got one more for you on the way out,

817
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 1: Mission Impossible the new movie. Is it the best Mission

818
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: Impossible movie? I went back and watched all of them

819
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:15,399
Speaker 1: leading up to this one. They refreshed me because it's

820
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,400
Speaker 1: mean awhile and I believe it was the idea of

821
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:22,359
Speaker 1: fifty five or six year old Tom Cruise doing so

822
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:24,840
Speaker 1: many of his own stuff. It's crazy. And also the

823
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:27,880
Speaker 1: scenery was great, So yes, I liked it better than

824
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 1: the others. I'll tell you what. I am a big

825
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 1: fan of the old TV show. I'm sure you are too.

826
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:34,319
Speaker 1: The one thing I didn't like about any of these

827
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 1: movies is the TV show was a true ensemble team effort.

828
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:41,319
Speaker 1: In these missions. Peter Graves was just the guy, right,

829
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:45,400
Speaker 1: but he delegated. But they were all even, they were

830
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 1: all equals. When they started these movies, Crue said, I'm

831
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:51,319
Speaker 1: the guy, and I have these supporting figures, but really

832
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 1: it's Ethan hunt. And they killed Jim Phelps in the

833
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:56,319
Speaker 1: very first mission Impossi. He was a bad guy. Yeah,

834
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: he was a bad guy. I mean, don't make Jim

835
00:42:57,719 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 1: Phelps a bad guy in the first ten minutes of

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00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 1: Mission hip Possible on screen? What are you doing? The

837
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 1: first one in nineteen ninety six, he had a whole

838
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 1: different crew. Yeah, he did. And I do like these movies.

839
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 1: They're really entertaining. I love the Born movies. In these movies,

840
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:13,759
Speaker 1: it's great. It's a thrill rod. It's not very deep,

841
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 1: but it's so much fun in the theater. Speaking of

842
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 1: not very deep, go see Crazy rach Asans. I really

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Speaker 1: enjoyed it. I'll definitely go check it out. It's a

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Speaker 1: It's a good, easy movie to see in black Clansman

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Speaker 1: is not easy to see, but it's great. Spike best

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Speaker 1: movie ever, his best movie ever, Malcolm X. I think

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Speaker 1: Malcolm X. Okay, but it's it's right up there with it.

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Speaker 1: I gotta check it out. Thank you, John fun in La.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. That's John McClary for the Houston Chronicle.

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