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Speaker 1: All right, good evening, Texans, and welcome to the program,

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Speaker 1: and we will have a program for you tonight. A

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Speaker 1: lot of things to talk about, but we had to

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Speaker 1: begin the program with this with such heavy hearts as

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Speaker 1: news broke today that Ryan Mallett, former Texans quarterback, is

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Speaker 1: dead at the age of thirty five, drowned reportedly on

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Speaker 1: a Florida beach. Mallet played for the Texans in twenty

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Speaker 1: fourteen and twenty fifteen. We all remember the Cleveland game

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Speaker 1: when he won, as his first start went so well

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Speaker 1: through a TD pass to JJ Watt. But Mallet eventually

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Speaker 1: played for the Ravens. He was with the Patriots before

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Speaker 1: the Texans and became a high school football assistant in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty in Arkansas. Recently accepted a head coaching job

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Speaker 1: in high school football in that state, where he played

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Speaker 1: college football. He also played at Michigan. But Mallet gone

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Speaker 1: at thirty five, reportedly drowned on a Florida beach, and

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Speaker 1: so sad, so tragic, what more can you say about it?

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Speaker 1: And will continue to break the news as I'm sure

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Speaker 1: many listeners are tuning in. But Johnny and I have

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Speaker 1: a show ready for you tonight and we had planned

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Speaker 1: on doing this and we're going to continue to do

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Speaker 1: this because there's not much more to say. It's just

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Speaker 1: I don't have any more details on Ryan, and I'm

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Speaker 1: sure more details will emerge, but it's just so shocking

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Speaker 1: and saddening to hear that Ryan Mallett has passed at

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Speaker 1: age thirty five. All right, let's get with the rest

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Speaker 1: of the show, and we're going to talk about something

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Speaker 1: that I wanted to talk about a bit last night.

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Speaker 2: I tweeted out an Instagram.

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Speaker 1: Post that the team put out our social media department,

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Speaker 1: and with JJ going into the Ring of honor, they

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Speaker 1: had the offensive goat of franchise history, Andre Johnson, the

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Speaker 1: defensive goat JJ.

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Speaker 2: Watt, and who is the special team's goat?

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Speaker 1: They were asking, well, the overwhelming response was John Weeks,

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Speaker 1: who has all those consecutive starts far and away a franchise.

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Speaker 3: Record, and for a non.

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Speaker 1: Position player, I hate to say that with John Weeks,

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Speaker 1: it's a position. Long snapper is a position and.

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Speaker 3: A key one.

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Speaker 1: You know how important long snapping is. Think about life

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Speaker 1: air conditioning because when you don't have it, you really

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Speaker 1: notice it. If that snap goes over the punter's head, Boy,

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Speaker 1: is that going to be noticeable? If that is not

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Speaker 1: But we take him for granted because never missed one, right.

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Speaker 1: I hate saying that. McLain says that. John McClain says

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Speaker 1: it all the time, and I cringe. I cringe.

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Speaker 3: Oh, like, no, don't say that. And then it's you know.

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Speaker 2: But how about this.

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Speaker 1: You know this better than anybody that there are subtleties

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Speaker 1: to this too. It's not about all right, did you

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Speaker 1: snap it over the guy's head or not. The ball's

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Speaker 1: the time is that they needed to get there. Those nuances,

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Speaker 1: those subtleties are so important because if they're not there,

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Speaker 1: if it gets there in point seven to two, it's blocked. Yep, right,

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Speaker 1: It's that it might look good at first, but a

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and say a snap is six inches left or right,

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Speaker 4: you know, as Wesley Snipe said, and white man can't

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Speaker 4: right into the way of a blocker, yeah, coming to

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Speaker 4: block the punt. Yeah, And that hasn't happened. So the

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Speaker 4: answer to your question. As soon as soon as I

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Speaker 4: saw it, I was like, my instant reaction, it shouldn't

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Speaker 4: have been like Dud's John Weeks, but it was, Come on,

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Speaker 4: it's Weeks. I mean, he's he's been the guy since

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Speaker 4: twenty ten, and he's a guy that I can't remember

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Speaker 4: what year was Mark. He was playing through a bad

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Speaker 4: get a bad snap, This is the time we have

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Speaker 3: Never did, Nope, never never did.

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Speaker 4: And I just think his consistency over all these years,

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Speaker 4: He's been the gold standard on special teams without a doubt.

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Speaker 4: I think it's it's John Weeks and I don't know

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Speaker 4: that it's a question, but we can make it a question.

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Speaker 1: We could make it a question. We could make it

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Speaker 1: like this. Who else deserves consideration? Yeah, special teams goat

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Speaker 1: in franchise history. Give me a name, You give me

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Speaker 1: one name. Okay, I'm gonna give you your name.

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Speaker 4: And on Sunday evening, January twenty twelve, doing my Overnight Show,

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Speaker 4: if anybody heard that Overnight Show, they they're going to

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Speaker 4: be absolutely shocked at what I'm about to say, because

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Speaker 4: I absolutely lost my mind that Jacoby Jones tried to

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Speaker 4: headbut a punt that was bouncing down inside the ten

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Speaker 4: yard line in the playoff game, in the playoff game

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Speaker 4: against the Ravens. And I love Mark, you would have

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Speaker 4: been very, very proud of that moment. But Jacoby and

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Speaker 4: people will remember the Super Bowl return that was with

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Speaker 4: the Ravens.

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Speaker 3: And all that, but the franchise it's still ours.

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Speaker 4: When Jacoby caught punts, it was going to be exciting

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Speaker 4: one way or the other.

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Speaker 3: It really was.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you were like, okay, so you gonna take

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Speaker 4: this back And there was a run I came it

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Speaker 4: was eight or nine where they punted the ball, and

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Speaker 4: I remember when the ball would go up in the

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Speaker 4: I just felt that every time the ball was gonna

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Speaker 4: whatever to Jacoby, he was gonna make something happen. I

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Speaker 4: never felt like the Texans were able to get as

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Speaker 4: But yeah, Kevin Walter, you had Andre Johnson. He still

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Speaker 4: made some great plays at receiver. He probably just wasn't

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Speaker 4: Gary Kubiak wanted when they when they drafted him on

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Speaker 4: he got the ball. So I'm gonna throw Jacobe Jones

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Speaker 4: out there. My rant about him trying to field a

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Speaker 4: felt like the electricity that he brought to it was

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Speaker 4: pretty It was I wanna say overwhelming, but it gave

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Speaker 3: Absolutely. I think it's a great suggestion.

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Speaker 1: He is the all time leader in special teams touchdowns

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Speaker 1: for the Houston Texans. He has four returns for touchdowns

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Speaker 1: and that's a good number. Nobody else has more than three.

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Speaker 1: So I think Jacoby Jones is a great idea. We're

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Speaker 1: talking about special teams. Goat best special teams players in

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Speaker 1: all the gunners and people like that because that's a

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Speaker 1: different deal, right, special teams tackles.

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Speaker 3: We could get into some of that.

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Speaker 1: The last couple of years, we've seen some special teams,

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Speaker 1: some dudes, Yeah, getting down for There's what I'm gonna suggest.

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Speaker 4: He wasn't a gunner, but he was instrumental specialtis. We'll

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Speaker 4: get to him a little bit later though.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's do this though. Let me give you a name,

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown. I love Kaimi fairbarn and I think fair

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Speaker 1: Baron has been very solid for this team. I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying Brown isn't well. I think fair Baron's actually better

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Speaker 1: those opportunities that Chris Brown had. Chris Brown almost every

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Speaker 1: year of this franchise had chances to do really cool things.

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Speaker 1: Year one, he kicked the field goal, the only field

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Speaker 1: the time, and they felt like, well they the fans

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Speaker 1: felt like Chris Brown was run out of town, right

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Speaker 1: and he goes back. Texans have three defensive scores. The

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Speaker 1: only offensive points were Chris Brown's foot, so it's really special.

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Speaker 1: Teams offense could move the ball forty seven yards. We

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Speaker 1: know that whole legend. Year two kicks the game winning

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Speaker 1: he kicked the game winner against them. Then Kansas City

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Speaker 1: Five, he has a shaky season, has that horrific shank

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Speaker 1: that one. But six he bounces back works with doctor Brittella,

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Speaker 1: and in six he's got a season. He hits that

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Speaker 1: he has a game against Miami where he kicks three

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Speaker 1: He was Special Teams Player of the Week and it

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Speaker 1: at the buzzer that would have tied it against the Colts.

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Speaker 1: at NRG Stadium in prime time, and that one hurt

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Speaker 1: a lot. Vince Young remained perfect against the Texans at

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Speaker 1: the time. But overall, Chris Brown had a hell of

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Speaker 1: a career for the Houston Texans. He played longer than

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Speaker 1: Fairbaran's been with the team so far, and he has

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Speaker 1: something twenty five thirty more Madfield goals and I think

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Speaker 1: Fairbann other than the playoff game. The playoff game was

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Speaker 1: with Fairbarn's leg, But that was a chip shot.

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Speaker 3: That was a.

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Speaker 1: Wedge as opposed to hitting the target with your seven

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Speaker 1: iron right, that was a much more makeable you know.

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Speaker 1: I hate to say anything's easy, but it's much easier

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Speaker 1: I'll nominate Chris Brown as one to get second place

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Speaker 1: consideration behind one John Weeks, give me another name.

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Speaker 4: Okay, so you went, Chris Brown. I'm thinking about two names,

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Speaker 4: but I'll go with the first one. It's the one

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Speaker 4: that you already mentioned. That's Kymie Fairburn game winners twenty eighteen. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: That's a big one. He's made big kicks.

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Speaker 4: He's been consistent since he started in a full time capacity.

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Speaker 4: In twenty seventeen, he hit twenty of twenty five, hit

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Speaker 4: thirty seven of forty two. He had twenty of twenty five,

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Speaker 4: don't say wasted on a three thirteen and one season,

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Speaker 4: But in playoff years twenty eighteen, thirty seven out of

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Speaker 4: And I remember in that twenty nineteen season he missed

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Speaker 5: Yep.

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Speaker 3: One a Otia we saw phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: We saw in one practice in particular, where he just

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they had a.

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Speaker 1: Two minute situation he had to make a sixty yarder

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Speaker 3: And he did it. So I'm going Kymie Fairbairn, all right.

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Speaker 1: I just think I know I'm right about this because

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Speaker 3: Big one, a really important one.

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Speaker 1: So I'll give him that for sure, and the career

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Speaker 1: here in twenty thirteen, we're talking about Special Teams goats

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Speaker 3: Anyway, we don't have to get into that.

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Speaker 1: But Shane Leckler, his average just dominates now when you

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Speaker 5: Yep.

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Speaker 3: Anyway. Yeah, his his.

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Speaker 5: Because this is cool.

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Speaker 4: So we started talking about different places, like, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: kind of point you don't You definitely don't want that.

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Speaker 4: You don't want to do this. You want you want

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 4: They couldn't have been further from the truth. He was

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Speaker 3: Brian Braman was one of the better cover special.

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Speaker 4: Teams guys this team has had, and whether he had

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Speaker 4: But when he gets to the Texans, you think, Okay,

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Speaker 4: matters like, yeah, I gotta go on special teams, on

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Speaker 4: He's the kind of guy that a special teams coach

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Speaker 3: He was the guy. He was credible, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, Johnny, And we're doing Special Teams goats besides John

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Speaker 1: I interest you in more touchdowns?

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Speaker 3: I believe he was here for Andrea's Ring of Honor.

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Speaker 1: It's been an up and down year to say the least.

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Speaker 1: Matt Schaub was acquired. He's hurt, he's healthy again, he's

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Speaker 1: hurt again. Rosenfels has to finish off the season. There

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Speaker 1: they are at home with a chance to go five

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Speaker 1: hundred for the first time ever. Look, you're not gonna

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Speaker 1: have a parade over it. You're not gonna put up

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Speaker 1: a Colt Spanner for going five hundred for the first

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Speaker 1: time ever. But you want to go five hundred for

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Speaker 1: the first time ever. You're playing the Jacksonville Jaguars. They

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Speaker 1: don't need the game. They sit David Garrard, they start,

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Speaker 1: they start Quinn Gray. Quinn Gray throws for three hundred

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Speaker 1: plus and he's on fire.

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Speaker 3: Quinn Gray is tortuing you. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Andre Davis returns two kickoffs for touchdowns, not one, but two,

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Speaker 1: and you win by fourteen. You win by those two.

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Speaker 1: That's how important that performance was. Look, you didn't go

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Speaker 1: to the playoffs, but you went five hundred for the

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Speaker 1: first time. That was a good Jags team that a

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Speaker 1: week later would beat Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 2: So that was a clutch performance.

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Speaker 1: Had another kickoff return for a touchdown another time, so

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Speaker 1: he has three. Now there's only one player in the

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Speaker 1: history of the franchise other than Weeks, to go to

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Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl for Special teams, and that is Jerome Mathis,

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Speaker 1: who everybody says he was from two thousand and five,

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Speaker 1: a very forgettable year two and fourteen, but he returned

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Speaker 1: two kickoffs for touchdowns that year and went to the

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. He also had another one and oh seven. Wow,

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Speaker 1: what a what a team performance for kickoff returns for

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Speaker 1: tds and O seven that Ligas Shesky. No, that wasn't Leggy,

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Speaker 1: that was Marcianos Arceio yea, yeah, so good for them.

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Speaker 1: Mathis with three, Andre Davis with three. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: give them honorable mention. What do you think?

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Speaker 3: I think those are both really good.

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Speaker 4: I mean when you think of Jerome Mathis going to

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Speaker 4: the Pro Bowl, week Sie and Mathis are only two

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Speaker 4: special teamers to go to the Pro Bowl, So I

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Speaker 4: mean you have to you have to consider Jerome Mathis.

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Speaker 4: It just was such a short period.

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Speaker 3: Of time, disappointing career, right absolutely.

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Speaker 4: Now there's one guy that we didn't quite mention, and

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Speaker 4: yet he didn't have any return touchdowns, but from a

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Speaker 4: yard standpoint, and because he's one of the greatest guys

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Speaker 4: that ever lived, he's got to be on a consideration.

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Speaker 3: That's JJ Moses.

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Speaker 2: Oh, JJ Moses has a ton of return yards.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, he's got I love him hit thirteen hundred

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Speaker 4: three kick return yards in four he hit thirteen fifty

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Speaker 4: five and three. He had five fifty three punt return

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Speaker 4: yards uh in combined in those two years as well.

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Speaker 4: So he's I think he's second to map this, I

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Speaker 4: believe in Oh no, I'm sorry, all time return yards.

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Speaker 3: He's the leader, and he's the leader in the clubhouse.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well they got kicked off a lot too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's true. So true, that is true.

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Speaker 1: But it's not going to take anything away from JJ Moses,

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Speaker 1: who we saw at the Legends day at OTAs and

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Speaker 1: terrific to catch up with him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, And so JJ Moses we got I'm making

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Speaker 4: sure that we we.

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Speaker 3: Add him in there.

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Speaker 4: But you know the guys that have been on the

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Speaker 4: on the the special team's last couple of years, You

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Speaker 4: guys like MJ.

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Speaker 1: Stewart, daryagom As himself. Yeah, he's played some Smith obviously,

501
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Speaker 1: is Neville Hewitt.

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Speaker 4: I mean there have been some guys that have gone

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Speaker 4: down and made some incredible plays. I mean, these special

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Speaker 4: teams have been incredible the last couple of years under

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Speaker 4: Frank Ross, and hopefully that that continues as this team

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Speaker 4: gets better. Hopefully it's not well, we got better offense defense,

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Speaker 4: but the special teams. I don't think Frank and Frank's

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Speaker 4: gonna let that let that fall off. But I'd like

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Speaker 4: to see a little bit more in the return game.

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Speaker 4: I just don't know how much the return game is

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Speaker 4: going to be part of the game anymore. Yeah, but

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Speaker 4: if Steven Simms, if Stephen simms philosophy is carried through

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Speaker 4: in the NFL, which I thought was one of the

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Speaker 4: most enlightening answers we got throughout all our talks on

515
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Speaker 4: media days. We asked him about the new touchback rule

516
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Speaker 4: where if you catch the ball outside of the end

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Speaker 4: zone but before the twenty five, if you make a

518
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Speaker 4: fair catch, the ball goes to twenty five. And he said,

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Speaker 4: if that ball has kicking me in front of the

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Speaker 4: end zone, I'm returning it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And we're like, really, like, no, I'm return better.

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Speaker 1: Make it past the twenty five otherwise you'll be sitting

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Speaker 1: next to Frank Ross on the field.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that philosophy go by the waist side.

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Speaker 5: If that's the case.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Johnny, stick around and we'll continue to talk Texans.

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Speaker 1: We'll continue with interviews. We have the safety dance going

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Speaker 1: tonight with m J. Stewart speaking of special teams, personal

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Speaker 1: protector on the Punt Unit, and also Eric Murray, and

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Speaker 1: again not much more to say about the passing of

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Speaker 1: Ryan Mallett at age thirty five, My goodness, dead on

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Speaker 1: a Florida beach, apparently drowned, reportedly, news broke today. So tragic,

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Speaker 1: so horrifying, and again we don't have any more details

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Speaker 1: on that. I just want to say that, and we'll

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Speaker 1: continue to do a show here today Texans All Access,

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Speaker 1: and we'll reset when we get back with our interview

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Speaker 1: with m J.

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Speaker 3: Stewart.

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Speaker 1: It's Texans Radio continuing on Texans All Access tonight. If

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Speaker 1: you joined us late, if you just jumped in the car,

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Speaker 1: you didn't know. Ryan Mallett, former Texans quarterback, Raven's quarterback,

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Speaker 1: Patriots quarterback, dead at.

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Speaker 3: The age of thirty five. So tragic.

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Speaker 1: Reportedly drowned on a Florida beach. Mallett had just accepted

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Speaker 1: a job as a high school football coach in Arkansas,

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Speaker 1: where he was an assistant since twenty twenty. And not

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Speaker 1: much more to say other than we are so shocked

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Speaker 1: and saddened by this news. Just terrifying, horrifying, Ryan Mallett

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Speaker 1: dead at the age of thirty five.

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Speaker 2: Rest in peace.

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Speaker 1: Ryan played for the Texans in twenty fourteen and twenty fifteen. Right,

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Speaker 1: that's promised. Now an interview as we caught up with

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Speaker 1: m J.

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Speaker 5: Stewart.

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Speaker 2: We were talking special teams in the first segment.

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Speaker 3: MJ.

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Speaker 1: Stewart personal protector on the punt team, among other things,

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Speaker 1: good safety and m J. Stewart likes the way this

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Speaker 1: offseason has been going so far.

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Speaker 5: It's been great.

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Speaker 6: You know, we take this whole ota period to really

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Speaker 6: you come together as a team and just getting to

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Speaker 6: know of new guys is very cool.

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Speaker 4: You brought in some vets, some guys from around the

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Speaker 4: league that you know, but also some rookies to the group.

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Speaker 4: I like the secondary group, the secondary group that's come

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Speaker 4: together in that room that you brought together. Some guys

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Speaker 4: that have been here. Eric Murray's been here, brought in

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Speaker 4: Jalen last year, but Jimmy's new to the group. Kind

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Speaker 4: of has the group matched together in the short time

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Speaker 4: you guys have been together, MJ.

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Speaker 6: We've actually been mentioning really good, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 6: Like you said, there's been some guys who you know,

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Speaker 6: have been here some new faces as well, but we

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Speaker 6: all come together, we all you know, connect as a family,

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Speaker 6: you know what I mean. So I'm really excited about

577
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Speaker 6: our secondary group and I feel like we're going to

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Speaker 6: be a force to be reckoned with.

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Speaker 1: Describe the vibe or culture or however you want to

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Speaker 1: describe it to me with the new coaching staff, how

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Speaker 1: has that been.

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Speaker 5: It's really kind of like upbeat, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 6: It's just like, uh, it's just something in the air

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Speaker 6: that's really positive. It's positive energy, good energy in the air.

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Speaker 6: And I'm excited for the season because I feel like,

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Speaker 6: you know, with Miko, you know, he played here. He's

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Speaker 6: a former player, so he understands you know, you know

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Speaker 6: what I mean. A lot of coaches can't relate because

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Speaker 6: you know, they just coached, they didn't play. But Miko played.

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Speaker 6: He understands, you know, how we how we are, what

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Speaker 6: we go through. And so just just having a coach

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Speaker 6: like that, you it makes you want to, you know,

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Speaker 6: work harder for him because he understands you, you know what

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Speaker 6: I mean.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, j if you.

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Speaker 4: Had you know, it's a I say, it's a new defense.

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Speaker 4: But then you look and you see some of the

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Speaker 4: same elements. So and you've been around the league for

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Speaker 4: a little bit, what's different about this? Give you have

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Speaker 4: to go into like you know, the exactly what you

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Speaker 4: can't right, But but but how is it different? Is

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Speaker 4: the verbiage different? Are things easily more easily to pick

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Speaker 4: up on? We talked to can't remember who it was

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Speaker 4: that said it's a little bit more this or that.

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Speaker 4: There's there's not as much you know, kind of gray area,

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Speaker 4: which in football, you're caught in gray you're gonna be

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Speaker 4: in a lot of trouble. But how do you kind

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Speaker 4: of see the defense being different than what you've been

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Speaker 4: in even last year of the years before that outside Houston.

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Speaker 6: I actually kind of played in a similar defense before,

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Speaker 6: so it wasn't really hard for me to pick up on, right,

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Speaker 6: But the verbiage is a little different, like the names

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Speaker 6: and everything, but it's still kind of the same defense.

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Speaker 6: So it's kind of kind of easy for me to

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Speaker 6: pick up on, you know what I mean, just having

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Speaker 6: to like, you know, just remember, you know how he

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Speaker 6: played it in other places, and then take you know,

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Speaker 6: with the coaches here are you know giving me in

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Speaker 6: kind of put it all together, m J.

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Speaker 1: You came into the league in twenty eighteen, which isn't

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Speaker 1: that long ago yet in football years, it's a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a slice of time there. How has your

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Speaker 1: life changed and how you approach this profession, this business

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Speaker 1: knowing that, hey, however long it last, is what it is,

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Speaker 1: and then you know there's a future beyond that.

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Speaker 2: How do you regard all of that and handle it?

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Speaker 5: Uh?

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Speaker 6: Kind of kind of I'm gonna just give a shout

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Speaker 6: out to Denzel Perryman because he kind of told me

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Speaker 6: this one day. But you know, as long as my

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Speaker 6: face scan works outside, I'm super.

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Speaker 5: Happy, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 6: So and it is just like that, I'm just happy

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Speaker 6: to still be here, you know what I mean. Just

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Speaker 6: you know, whatever my role is, just to make sure

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Speaker 6: I play that to my best ability.

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Speaker 4: The one thing that I think some people gloss over

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Speaker 4: a lot, you know, think about fantasy, think about offense, defense.

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Speaker 4: They don't think about special teams. But you've been an

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Speaker 4: absolute stalwart on special teams since you've been in the league.

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Speaker 4: But in particular last year, you got a fake punt

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Speaker 4: that you converted. Last year, you had the big hit

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Speaker 4: against the Chargers where you knocked the punt out m J.

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Speaker 4: I got a feeling that when players come to the

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Speaker 4: NFL and not that their only special teams. Players could

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Speaker 4: do a lot more than that. You've done a lot

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Speaker 4: more than that in your career. But when they hear

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Speaker 4: special teams, some guys are like, well, I don't play

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Speaker 4: special teams, bro, Like, that's not me.

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Speaker 3: I play defense or I play offense. That's it.

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Speaker 4: But you not only have done that, you've excelled at that.

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Speaker 4: Where does that kind of come from for you to

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Speaker 4: be such an integral part of the special teams, maybe

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Speaker 4: the forgotten unit, but arguably the most important units on

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Speaker 4: the whole team.

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Speaker 5: It just comes from the passion of the game. You know.

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Speaker 6: I'm not really a big person of you know, oh,

658
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 6: I have to play defense. And if I don't play defense,

659
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 6: like you know, some people are like, you know, if

660
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Speaker 6: they don't you know, if they're not where they want

661
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 6: to be, you know, they kind of shut down. Like me,

662
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,239
Speaker 6: like I love football so much. It's just like I

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00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 6: just like playing, you know, I like to be on

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Speaker 6: the field. And as long as I'm on the field,

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Speaker 6: whatever that may be, for however long that may be.

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Speaker 6: You know what I mean, I'm just gonna give it

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Speaker 6: the best because I just love the game. I love

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Speaker 6: the I love everything about the game. So it's like,

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Speaker 6: if you're very passionate about football, like it don't matter

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Speaker 6: if you play special teams, if you play defense offense,

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Speaker 6: it don't matter. As long as you can get on

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Speaker 6: the field, you know what I mean, that's the best

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Speaker 6: thing in the world.

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Speaker 3: M J. Stuart with us, MJ.

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Speaker 1: The m stance from Marvin Right, Yes, does anybody call

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Speaker 1: you Marvin?

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Speaker 4: No, not even when you get in trouble.

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Speaker 6: No, nobody, like even my mom, my dad, my grandma,

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00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 6: nobody calls me that.

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Speaker 1: What did they give you the MJ? Or did you

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Speaker 1: decide at some point I don't want to be Marvin.

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Speaker 6: So my dad actually gave me that name when I

683
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Speaker 6: was really young. Okay, so I've called MJ my whole life.

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Speaker 6: You know, people try to, you know, mess with me

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Speaker 6: and call me Marvin, Marvin k Marvin Hagler.

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Speaker 2: Marvin's a good name.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, But but if it's not your name, then it's

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00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 4: not a bad name at all.

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Speaker 6: I'm not I love my name, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 6: But like, just nobody called Junior Junior.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, my dad's name I see Marvin Jr.

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Speaker 5: Okay, mar my name is Marvin Stewart Jr.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so the j Yeah, of course, Marvin Jr. That's good.

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Speaker 3: MJ.

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Speaker 4: So you're so your DC guy come to Houston. Have

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Speaker 4: you adapted to the food scene in Houston? And if so,

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Speaker 4: what's your favorite kind of Houston cuisine? Maybe not the

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Speaker 4: restaurant or whatever, but your favorite Houston because you know,

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Speaker 4: there's so much There's Asian, there's barbecue, there's Vietnamese, so

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Speaker 4: many levels of Asian. I should say, text mex what's

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Speaker 4: your favorite kind of cheap meals sort of thing to

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Speaker 4: have here in Houston.

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Speaker 5: I'm a foodie, would lad?

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Speaker 3: Lets you do that, by the way, we have preface

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Speaker 3: everything with that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm a foodie, bro. And I think like Houston.

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Speaker 6: I don't know why. I'm just so stuck on lamptops

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Speaker 6: in Houston, Like lamptops and Houston are just Wow. Everywhere

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Speaker 6: I've been I had good I haven't had bad lamptops.

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Speaker 5: In Houston yet.

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Speaker 3: Wow. So interesting.

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Speaker 5: Uh, it's is. I don't know why.

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Speaker 6: I don't even I really don't even like red meat,

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00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:23,360
Speaker 6: to be honest, but lamptops.

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Speaker 5: Something about the Lamptops and Houston.

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Speaker 2: Does that count as yet it's close enough.

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Speaker 4: Where did you love a food come where the where'd

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Speaker 4: the foody aspect come from? Is that just something over

719
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Speaker 4: time you picked up on or where.

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Speaker 5: I've always loved food.

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Speaker 6: I'm I'm like a big kid, like you know what

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Speaker 6: I mean, I'm a safety yet two o five, you

723
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Speaker 6: know what I mean, I'm a big safety. I've just

724
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 6: always been a big kid, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 6: So I always love food.

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Speaker 3: That's awesome. J thanks a lot for being with us.

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Speaker 3: Good luck.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I appreciate it. Thank you, Thank you for

729
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:48,879
Speaker 5: having me.

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Speaker 2: And there's our conversation with m J.

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Speaker 1: Stewart and coming up, Eric Murray, let's visit with him,

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Speaker 1: and again, not much more to say, but we are shocked, saddened,

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Speaker 1: and we want our express our deepest condolences to the

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Speaker 1: family of Ryan Mallet, former Texans quarterback, who reportedly died

735
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Speaker 1: today at the age of thirty five, drowned on a

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Speaker 1: Florida beach and so sad. Just such shocking news today.

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll continue with the show. It's Texans Radio,

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Speaker 1: all right. Final segment on the show tonight and a

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Speaker 1: strange night indeed, with the news breaking today that former

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Speaker 1: Texans quarterback Ryan Mallett has died reportedly drowned on a

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Speaker 1: Florida beach at the age of thirty five. Also at

742
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Speaker 1: the Patriots, of course in the Ravens, Arkansas, Michigan before that,

743
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Speaker 1: and Mallet recently accepted a job as a high school

744
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Speaker 1: football coach in Arkansas. He was an assistant for the

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Speaker 1: past few years and now gone. Ryan Mallet, way too

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Speaker 1: soon at the age of thirty five. Unbelievable and there's

747
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Speaker 1: not much more to say about it. We just wanted

748
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Speaker 1: to keep breaking that news as we found out ourselves

749
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Speaker 1: this afternoon, and I'm sure I can share on behalf

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Speaker 1: of the entire organization. We have heavy hearts at the

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Speaker 1: very least about this and all our prayers with the

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Speaker 1: Mallet family at this time. All right, let's get to

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Speaker 1: our conversation with Eric Murray, John Harris and I had

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Speaker 1: a chance to visit with the safety at Mini Camp. Now,

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Speaker 1: I think you're the longest tenured in Texan. I'm kidding,

756
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,280
Speaker 1: but it feels it's close. It feels like it's around

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00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: here for a while and another regime. But do you

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00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 1: talk to some of the younger guys, some of the

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Speaker 1: new guys about that, They ask you questions, what's it

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Speaker 1: been like?

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Speaker 2: I mean, you're the salty veteran.

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Speaker 7: Here now, I mean a little bit. But I'll try

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Speaker 7: to keep passing and past and move forward. I think

764
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Speaker 7: we got a good thing going here, so you know,

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Speaker 7: want to keep it in that direction.

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Speaker 4: So not to get into the minute differences and such,

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Speaker 4: but are there differences in the defense you're running last

768
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Speaker 4: year versus this year? Verbiage all that kind of stuff,

769
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Speaker 4: and with the differences in a different scheme, like, how

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Speaker 4: are you kind of adapting to it?

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Speaker 3: And how has it been back in.

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Speaker 4: The second because we know you got to have communication

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Speaker 4: back there with coverage, what you're looking at all that?

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Speaker 3: How's that kind of gone early on?

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Speaker 7: Eric, I mean early on this it's been pretty good.

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Speaker 7: I think, Uh for a guy like me, like I've

777
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 7: been around a few systems, so you see, Yeah, the

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00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 7: verbage is a little different, but the players are, you know,

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00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 7: generally the same. You're gonna have the same elements in

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00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 7: the defense and that's really never gonna change. So just

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00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 7: knowing the verbage and who you're talking to on the field,

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00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 7: you know that'll take some time, and that's what this

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00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 7: period is for.

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Speaker 3: Eric.

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Speaker 1: Coaches feel like they can rely on you. They know

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Speaker 1: what you're gonna bring to the table. Describe that to us.

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Speaker 1: What do you feel like you contribute here, especially as

788
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 1: a pillar when you look at some of the new players,

789
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 1: young players, maybe.

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Speaker 3: Some of the undrafted guys, even.

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00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 7: Just the sound voice, consistency, you know what I'm doing.

792
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 7: I'm do the same thing every day and I ring

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00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:48,839
Speaker 7: my hardhead and work and I think, uh, that's been

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00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 7: part of the reason why I've stayed around for so long.

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Speaker 7: And it's just you know, been the main stand in

796
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 7: the league. So that's just my bread and butter, and

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00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 7: that's what I'm gonna stick to.

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Speaker 4: You talk you talk about during we were talking before

799
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Speaker 4: we talked here, Eric, and going back to your hometown

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Speaker 4: Milwaukee and doing a football camp. There's a lot of

801
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 4: reasons for doing it, but what was the main reason

802
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:08,799
Speaker 4: for you want to do that camp back in Milwaukee?

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Speaker 7: Just because it's you know, it's been so good to

804
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 7: me and it you know, made me who I am

805
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 7: and just being around those people and giving back to

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Speaker 7: the community. That's something I really want to do because

807
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:20,840
Speaker 7: I haven't done it since I'm in the league, so

808
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:22,920
Speaker 7: I really want to get that done this year.

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Speaker 3: And you get that started back in Milwaukee.

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Speaker 4: Your hometown, was that where you're gonna go for the

811
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Speaker 4: break where you got played for the break outside of

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Speaker 4: the camp? Uh?

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Speaker 7: Probably take my family to New York. I got two

814
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 7: kids and a wife just got married. Oh wow, so yeah,

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Speaker 7: I appreciate that.

816
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:37,280
Speaker 3: Wow, congratulations.

817
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 7: So just want to, you know, go to New York

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00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 7: for a couple of days, see some things, shop a little.

819
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 3: Bit outside of playing. Have you been there much?

820
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 4: No?

821
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Speaker 7: I probably went one time.

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Speaker 5: I was in eighth grade. I was in choir.

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Speaker 3: So what were you doing in New York at the choir?

824
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Speaker 3: So performing?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it was Uh, we did a choir trip in

826
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Speaker 7: eighth grade from my middle school. So we went, did

827
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Speaker 7: some singing, went to go see a Broadway play Stump.

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00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 5: Oh.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, met most deaf walking around, met him, went to

830
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Speaker 7: a Knicks game, met uh Rampage Jackson when he was real.

831
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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so we had a good time. We had

833
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:13,799
Speaker 3: a good time. Man, that's half an eighth grade trip.

834
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Speaker 1: I've seen the UFC and I've seen Stomp as well.

835
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Speaker 3: That was pretty good.

836
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was good and we went to see Mama Mia. Okay,

837
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 7: we had a good time.

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00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: That is good, all right, So how is the wedding?

839
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Speaker 1: Everything goes smoothly. It wasn't really a big wedding. We

840
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 1: didn't do a big ceremony. We just kind of we've

841
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 1: been together for a long time, so you know, we

842
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:36,760
Speaker 1: just got our papers right and did a little ceremony

843
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 1: amongst ourselves.

844
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Speaker 3: That was That was smart.

845
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 1: That's the state of money fest thing you could do.

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Speaker 1: She but that all depends on the bride, right, She's

847
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: got to be you for that. If she's not up

848
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:47,959
Speaker 1: for that, it's not happening, well.

849
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Speaker 3: Then she's the right bride. If she is up for that.

850
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 4: If she got to New York, we need a destination

851
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,879
Speaker 4: wedding and we're doing this, then it's like, I don't know,

852
00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:59,680
Speaker 4: not sure. So okay, this isn't neither I got it

853
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 4: either for you. Okay, So you say you have kids

854
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 4: and you just got married. Emergency comes up. You and

855
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 4: your wife got to go somewhere, but you can't take

856
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 4: the kids. Who makes for a better emergency babysitter either

857
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 4: Jalen Petrie or Jimmy Ward.

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00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:19,719
Speaker 7: Jalen Petrie really, yeah, yeah, Jimmy. Jimmy a little rambunctious,

859
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 7: so he moved around a lot. Jalen, Actually he's a homebody, like,

860
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 7: he don't do a lot right on the weekends, he'd

861
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 7: like to stay around his family and you know, do

862
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 7: stuff like they coach the AAU basketball team. So I

863
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,279
Speaker 7: know he'll he'll stay in one place.

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Speaker 5: I gotcha.

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Speaker 3: That's a good answer. That's a good answer.

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Speaker 1: Actually, what what have you learned about Houston over your

867
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 1: time here? Because you're not from here, but like we say,

868
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 1: you got here as fast as you could, So what

869
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 1: have you What are your impressions like after being here

870
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:49,239
Speaker 1: for a few seasons.

871
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:53,800
Speaker 7: Well, I love the food, I love the diversity, and

872
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 7: just if I don't even know, I've been to Dallas

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Speaker 7: and I've been to Austin, and I can tell you

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Speaker 7: that I love Houston the most out of those ones.

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Speaker 7: You know, people they like to compare, but I think

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Speaker 7: Houston has really has everything you need and you can

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Speaker 7: find it in different pockets of the city.

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Speaker 5: So I really love that aspect about it too.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you talk about food, so cheat meal.

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Speaker 4: I know Lad's got you guys on lock like all

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Speaker 4: the time, but every now and again, you can get

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Speaker 4: your cheat meal. Yep, you're picking either barbecue or text

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Speaker 4: mex Barbecue.

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Speaker 3: Definitely barbaricue.

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Speaker 2: Yah, all right, that's the right choice every time.

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Speaker 3: Eric thanks a lot for joining us.

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Speaker 5: I like to you thank you. All right.

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Speaker 1: There's our visit with Eric Murray and it's been a

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Speaker 1: show where we had a lot of things planned, we

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Speaker 1: did a lot of things, and we also express our condolences,

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Speaker 1: our deepest sympathy to the family of Ryan Mallet, who

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Speaker 1: passed away today, reportedly at the age of thirty five

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Speaker 1: after drowning out of Florida Beach. And Mallet played for

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Speaker 1: the Texans in twenty fourteen and twenty fifteen, and we

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Speaker 1: just wanted to say rest in peace, Ryan.

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Speaker 5: All right.

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Speaker 1: That's going to do it for the show tonight. This

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Speaker 1: show will be up on podcasts soon enough, and we'll

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Speaker 1: be back tomorrow with more. It's Texans Radio.