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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, and welcome to the show. We've got another

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Speaker 1: big one for you here tonight with Texans. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: hear from including EJ. Speed former Colts. We will forgive

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Speaker 1: him for that because now he's at Texan. As a

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Speaker 1: matter of fact, we're gonna get Matt Taylor on the

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Speaker 1: show as well tonight. He's the voice of the Indianapolis Colts.

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Speaker 1: Ask him about Ejspeed, among many other things about the

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Speaker 1: Dreaded Horseshoe as they embark on a campaign in which

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Speaker 1: they attempt to bounce back from a really horrible season

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Speaker 1: for them with Daniel Jones at quarterback. So we'll get

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Speaker 1: into that with Matt and later on in the show.

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Speaker 1: Texans pass rusher just joined the team this offseason, trying

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Speaker 1: to make some noise in camp. And beyond it's Casey Twohill.

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Speaker 1: He will visit with us as well. And you want

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Speaker 1: to stay tuned to all the shows this week because

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Speaker 1: we get a lot of good stuff. But more on

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Speaker 1: that later. Let's get to this now before we get

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Speaker 1: to EJ.

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Speaker 2: Speed.

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Speaker 1: Training camp dates have been announced by your Houston Texans,

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Speaker 1: and as we discovered because the NFL put this out

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Speaker 1: that the Texans rookies in vets report on July twenty second.

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Speaker 1: So we predicted and correctly, as it turns out, that

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Speaker 1: the first practice would be Wednesday, July twenty third.

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Speaker 2: We'll be out there live at the.

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Speaker 1: Houston Methodist Training Center eight to ten am on Sports

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Speaker 1: Radio six ten, and you know, Sean and Seth will

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Speaker 1: do the six to eight hours and after that, I

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Speaker 1: presume Reggie and Lopez will be on the field as

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Speaker 1: well and catch up with a player Clinton Ron. Look

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Speaker 1: by afternoon, why be out there, nobody's practicing. It's one

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Speaker 1: hundred degrees. Go inside air conditioning. Talk about what you

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Speaker 1: saw earlier that day. So Wednesday, July twenty third, put

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Speaker 1: it down. That is not an open practice. I want

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Speaker 1: to be very clear on this. The team will practice

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Speaker 1: three consecutive days Wednesday through Friday from July twenty third,

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Speaker 1: and then on Saturday is the first open practice. July

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Speaker 1: twenty sixth, nine am, Houston Methodist Training Center Sunday, and

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Speaker 1: Demiko Ryans always works it out like this. Sunday's a

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Speaker 1: day off, family day, church day. This is the way

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Speaker 1: he wants it. Other coaches didn't work out those days

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Speaker 1: that way on purpose, wants his guys to have that time.

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Speaker 1: It's all about being a great man, being a great

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Speaker 1: family man, being a better person, a better husband, a

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Speaker 1: better whatever you want to be, in addition to being

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Speaker 1: a better football player. He made that very transparent during

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Speaker 1: his introductory press conference two years ago plus, and he

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Speaker 2: So then you have three more practices.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna make this as radio friendly as pert as possible.

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Speaker 1: This training camp schedule layout here, But after that first

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Speaker 2: We'll still be on the air that.

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Speaker 1: Day, giving you Texans Training Camp Live a couple of more.

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Speaker 2: Saturday will be another one.

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Speaker 1: But guess what after that Saturday practice and by the way,

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Speaker 1: the Greenbrier. For the third time in franchise history. The

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Speaker 1: Texans are going to the Greenbrier. They were there in

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen. You heard all about it right

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Speaker 1: here and a lot of other places. But we're going

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Speaker 1: back to train at the Green Brier. Now it's a

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Speaker 1: That's a three o'clock start August ninth. So they will

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Speaker 1: Then they return home at the Houston Methodist Training Center Monday,

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Speaker 1: August eleventh.

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Speaker 2: That Sunday, that's a Saturday game.

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Speaker 1: Monday, they'll do some practicing, not open, and then they'll

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Speaker 2: Just one day.

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Speaker 1: I think Demico Ryans is doing this thing right. One

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Speaker 2: Maybe?

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Speaker 1: But they'll practice against the Lions August twenty first, and

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Speaker 2: Did I do that? Okay?

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Speaker 1: Is that kind of digestible in a radio format as

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Speaker 1: That's your training camp schedule. And this is a new

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Speaker 1: Nick Neeman Neville Hewitt is not on the team currently,

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Speaker 1: You never know. I think he's still out there as

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Speaker 2: But EJ.

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Speaker 1: Speed, outstanding tackler for the Colts, joins the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 1: Johnny and I visited with him here in the Hunday

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Speaker 1: Texans radio studio. Joining us right now, Houston Texans linebacker EJ.

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Speaker 2: Speed.

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Speaker 1: I say, Houston Texans linebacker, not Colts linebacker.

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Speaker 2: Texans linebacker. Say what you chess want?

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Speaker 3: He said it twice.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there we go. How's it going to he jays?

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Speaker 2: It's good. How y'all doing doing great? All right?

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Speaker 1: So I just have a hard time with the horseshoe

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Speaker 1: a Houston Texans.

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Speaker 3: So welcome, thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm glad

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they glad to be here. Wonderful to have you here.

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Speaker 1: And what is it like playing for a head coach

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Speaker 2: Is that any different? Is it a mental thing?

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Speaker 1: I think it's an actual thing too, because he does

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Speaker 3: A lot of stuff that he says just makes a

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Speaker 3: You feel what I'm saying. He knows the full work

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Speaker 3: he's played in certain situations, going down in distance and

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Speaker 4: So I'm i ask you a question. It might be

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Speaker 4: Why pick Houston?

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Speaker 3: I like what was going on over here, the great

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Speaker 3: it's a place where a lot of people is growing. Wins,

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Speaker 2: Ye. What are you seeing out of this offense? TJ?

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Speaker 1: Because it's a new offensive coordinator and Nick Kelly and

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Speaker 1: you faced the Texans offense recently, but this is a

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Speaker 2: I know it's still early.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean a little different things that I didn't

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Speaker 3: they're going. Uh, They've been throwing a lot of counters,

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Speaker 3: a lot of stuff that getting into different formations and

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Speaker 3: to give up too much, but just you know, they

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Speaker 3: though CJ hasn't you know, been able to participate. Uh

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Speaker 3: Mills has gotten married and he's been, you know, doing

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Speaker 3: his thing, and everything just seemed more fluent EJ.

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Speaker 4: When you were the Colts, I think you were. You

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Speaker 4: were a Day three draft pick. I remember when Ballad

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Speaker 4: drafted you, and I remember him saying before the draft,

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna draft the best linebacker in the state of Texas,

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Speaker 4: and it was like he drafted the j speed. We're like, okay,

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Speaker 4: but you honestly, you came, You got to the league,

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Speaker 4: you started off you weren't starter, but you were killed

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Speaker 2: Then you become a starter. To fix youre in the defense, You've.

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Speaker 4: Kind of run the gamut. A nothing was handed to you.

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Speaker 1: None all right, prior to miny camp big break? Do

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Speaker 2: So would you rather have it closer? Now this is

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Speaker 1: Would you rather have it closer? Maybe like three weeks

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Speaker 2: Thanks a lot, welcome, We appreciate it, appreciate that was fun.

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Speaker 1: Okay, former cults. He's a Texan, EJ. You're a Texan.

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Speaker 1: I don't have to get into all this again. How

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Speaker 1: All right, we are back here in the hun day

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Speaker 2: So many great people work for that franchise.

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Speaker 1: But you know how I feel about the Horseshoe, right,

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Speaker 1: But I don't forget, and I don't forgive all the

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor Matt. Great to catch up. Happy summer. Let

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Speaker 1: me start here. You left mini camp with what feeling

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Speaker 5: You know, I left with, you know, a big spirit

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Speaker 5: that quarterback job and how well they can orchestrate this

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Speaker 5: offense and build consistency on the offense the side of

437
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Speaker 5: the ball, because that was the biggest thing they missed

438
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Speaker 5: last year. You know, they missed the playoffs. And this

439
00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:08,080
Speaker 5: is the hill I'm going to die on. But if

440
00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:11,640
Speaker 5: it had they had more consistent quarterback plays. Not all

441
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Speaker 5: about the quarterback certainly, but had they had more consistent

442
00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:18,840
Speaker 5: quarterback play a year ago, the Colts were probably a

443
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Speaker 5: playoff team. They just didn't get it. They need to

444
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Speaker 5: get that from somebody, Richardson or Daniel Jones. In twenty

445
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Speaker 5: twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Well the year before they had Gardner Minshew and almost

447
00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:31,040
Speaker 1: made it a player too. They would have been in

448
00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:35,240
Speaker 1: and the universe changes with that, Matt Taylor voice of

449
00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:39,080
Speaker 1: the Colts joining us. So I still have nightmares about

450
00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:43,000
Speaker 1: Dallas Clark and then after he left there was always

451
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Speaker 1: a tight end or two that would give me a

452
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Speaker 1: hard time with Indianapolis as the voice of the Texans here,

453
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Speaker 1: Jack Doyle, et cetera. And now you have Tyler Warren

454
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Speaker 1: coming in from Penn State, drafted him. How did he

455
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Speaker 1: look and what are your expectations? It's a lot to

456
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Speaker 1: put on a rookie to say he's he's the next

457
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Speaker 1: Dallas Clark. But he sure looks like he could be.

458
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Speaker 5: Yeah, he really looks sharp, you know. He kind of

459
00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:10,040
Speaker 5: the universe just sort of funneled Tyler Warren to the

460
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Speaker 5: Colts and the draft seemingly the way the board went,

461
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Speaker 5: the way the draft unfolded, the Colts need at that position,

462
00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:22,040
Speaker 5: everything just kind of kept going to Tyler Warren falling

463
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Speaker 5: to the Colts, and that's what happened with the fourteenth

464
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Speaker 5: overall selection. And you know, to your point, you know,

465
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Speaker 5: Dallas Clark is, you know, it's a wonderful player. He's

466
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Speaker 5: in the Colts Ring of Honor, one of the best

467
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Speaker 5: players in the history of the franchise. But in recent years,

468
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Speaker 5: the Colts just haven't gotten enough production from their tight ends.

469
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Speaker 5: You know, last year they only had thirty nine catches

470
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Speaker 5: collectively from that group, less than five hundred yards receiving

471
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Speaker 5: collectively from that group. You know, those were some of

472
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Speaker 5: the poorest numbers that the tight end group has put

473
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Speaker 5: up for the Colts since like the mid nineties, and

474
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Speaker 5: so there's no question they got to get better there.

475
00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,680
Speaker 5: Tyler Warren coming in gives this offense a lot of

476
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Speaker 5: flexibility and a lot of creativity because you know, you

477
00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:10,200
Speaker 5: saw his highlights, you saw him play at Penn State

478
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Speaker 5: last year. They lined him up in seemingly every spot

479
00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,440
Speaker 5: on offense. You know, there was that famous game against

480
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Speaker 5: usc where they lined him up at center and then

481
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Speaker 5: they had the double pass back to a backup quarterback

482
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Speaker 5: and then Warren goes out for a pass and catches

483
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Speaker 5: the ball over two linebackers in the end zone. I mean,

484
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Speaker 5: the guy's just amazing. So to put it in perspective,

485
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Speaker 5: he had over one hundred catches last year himself, whereas

486
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Speaker 5: the Colts tight ends last year combined again had less

487
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Speaker 5: than forty. So it's been really fun to watch him

488
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Speaker 5: evolve in this offense in the spring. You know, they're

489
00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:47,399
Speaker 5: being creative on how to get get into football in

490
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Speaker 5: a variety of ways, getting the ball in space. He's

491
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Speaker 5: got speed, he's got force. He can run by you,

492
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Speaker 5: he can run over you. So I do understand the

493
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Speaker 5: Dallas Clark compare. Plus he's just throwing that long flowing

494
00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:05,960
Speaker 5: hair that he has coming out of the you know

495
00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:08,639
Speaker 5: the back of his helmet. He just looks like a

496
00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:11,200
Speaker 5: dude that could play in twenty twenty five or he

497
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,239
Speaker 5: can play in nineteen seventy five, because he's just kind

498
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:16,280
Speaker 5: of an old school guy, so it's going to be

499
00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:19,200
Speaker 5: fun to see, you know, how involved he is. But

500
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Speaker 5: there's no question he's going to be the top tight

501
00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:25,440
Speaker 5: end threats on this team now going forward. But in

502
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Speaker 5: terms of expectations, you know, we kind of did our research.

503
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Speaker 5: If you go back twenty five years, the last twenty

504
00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 5: five drafts, there's only been six or seven first round

505
00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:42,159
Speaker 5: drafted tight ends that have eclipsed over five hundred receiving yards. So,

506
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Speaker 5: you know, I think that's going to be sort of

507
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Speaker 5: on the low end of what I expect from Tyler Warren.

508
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Speaker 5: But I think he's going to be really, really productive

509
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Speaker 5: for this team as a rookie. And again, I think

510
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Speaker 5: a lot of that depends on who his quarterback is.

511
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Speaker 5: If it's Daniel Jones, then I think he's going to

512
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 5: be really in this offense because Jones is going to

513
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 5: hit the intermediate part of the passing game, which is

514
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Speaker 5: where the Colts have struggled. If it's Anthony Richardson, I

515
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:11,440
Speaker 5: don't know, just because we haven't seen him consistently do that,

516
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Speaker 5: you know, hit the middle part of the field where Titans,

517
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Speaker 5: you know, seem to kind of thrive and make their hay.

518
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Speaker 5: So I think there's a lot of question marks as

519
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Speaker 5: it relates to Warren's productivity and usage, but there is

520
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Speaker 5: I do think it's safe to say that he's going

521
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Speaker 5: to be a big focal part part of this offense

522
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Speaker 5: going forward because of where he's drafted. You know how

523
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Speaker 5: good I think he can be and how creative the

524
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Speaker 5: Colts can be lining him up in different parts of

525
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Speaker 5: this offense, including the offensive backfield where he can run

526
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Speaker 5: the ball and he can pass the ball too out

527
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Speaker 5: of the wildcat spot.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor, Voice of the Colts, joining us Matt on defense.

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Speaker 1: I want to start here that side of the football

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Speaker 1: with EJ. Speed no longer a Colt, he's now a Texan.

532
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Speaker 1: What kind of player are the Texans getting an EJ?

533
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Speaker 2: Speed?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, is one of the hardest playing linebackers I've ever

535
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 5: seen play. The guy just gives maximum, full throttle every

536
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 5: single play. He's one of my favorite Colts the last

537
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:15,200
Speaker 5: couple of years just because he brings it every single game.

538
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 5: He's a guy that had humble beginnings right and he

539
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:21,399
Speaker 5: started off as a Division three guy at Tarlaton State

540
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 5: in Texas and was just kind of like their version

541
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Speaker 5: of Cordell Stewart, like a slash guy, played both ways,

542
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 5: played offense and defense, ran the ball, caught the ball,

543
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:37,960
Speaker 5: played linebacker. He's just a really hard hitting guy. He

544
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Speaker 5: can drop and coverage as well. So it was it

545
00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 5: was a tough thing to see him leave the team

546
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 5: in free agency, but then to go to the Houston Texans,

547
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Speaker 5: that was doubly difficult to see just because you're going

548
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Speaker 5: to a to a you know, a division rival if

549
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Speaker 5: you will. But he is a great kid, a great player,

550
00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,640
Speaker 5: and started off again as a special teams guy, kind

551
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,640
Speaker 5: of a contributor to the third phase of the game,

552
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 5: and then worked his way into the starting defense after

553
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 5: a couple of things broke his way, some guys left

554
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 5: the team in free agency, and a spot opened up

555
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 5: for him to play full time on defense last year,

556
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Speaker 5: and I thought, he's a really good player. He's going

557
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 5: to give you, at the very least for the Texans

558
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 5: a great depth piece at linebacker going forward.

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Speaker 1: I look at that front defensively a lot too, and

560
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 1: pay outside obviously, the big fellows Grover Stewart DeForest Buckner

561
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Speaker 1: in the middle and the depth.

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Speaker 3: That you have.

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Speaker 1: Instead of just focusing on that, just tell me generally

564
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Speaker 1: on defense, what your thoughts are and what the storylines

565
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Speaker 1: are heading into twenty twenty five.

566
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Speaker 5: Well big storylines, I mean, obviously again Louis an Arumo's

567
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 5: their new defensive coordinator, new scheme. What the Colts have

568
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:48,920
Speaker 5: to do a better job of what's killed them in

569
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Speaker 5: the past defensively the last couple of years is they've

570
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:57,880
Speaker 5: made life just too easy, too efficient for opposing quarterbacks

571
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Speaker 5: to have some big games. You know, the Colts last

572
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 5: year ranked thirtieth in opponent completion percentage. That numbered Hubard

573
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,119
Speaker 5: right around seventy percent, you know, Mark, I mean, if

574
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,880
Speaker 5: you get if you allow quarterbacks to just sit back

575
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 5: there in complete easy passes, that's first downs. That's a

576
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 5: lot of time of possession. That's another thing the Colts were.

577
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Speaker 5: They were thirty first. I think the number was in

578
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:27,879
Speaker 5: time of possession defensively on the field, which means they

579
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,160
Speaker 5: were on the field a ton they couldn't get off.

580
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,399
Speaker 5: They only won time of possession last year in six games,

581
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:35,920
Speaker 5: which is not the end all be all, but you know,

582
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Speaker 5: you're putting a lot of stress on your defense to

583
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 5: make plays. You know, third down was a problem, not

584
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 5: able to get off the field. They allowed the second

585
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 5: most third down conversions in the NFL last year. And

586
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 5: you know, so they played a lot of zone defense.

587
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,200
Speaker 5: They didn't blitz a lot. So lou Anarumo comes in.

588
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 5: I don't think the blitzing numbers are going to be crazy,

589
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 5: but you're certainly going to blitz more than what the

590
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 5: Colts have done the last four or five years. He's

591
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,439
Speaker 5: going to play more manna man, some more press man

592
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 5: in the back end. Loui an Rumo is just known

593
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 5: for being one of the best game planning, situational defensive

594
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 5: coordinators in the NFL in the recent past, and they've

595
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,639
Speaker 5: really bulked up their secondary to be able to kind

596
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 5: of pull that off, because in this system it kind

597
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 5: of goes in reverse. It kind of goes from the

598
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 5: back end to the front end in terms of being

599
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,400
Speaker 5: successful on defense with the way they want to play.

600
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,959
Speaker 5: So they brought in Tarvarius Ward where they hope can

601
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:35,120
Speaker 5: be sort of that shadow shutdown corner to take away

602
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,639
Speaker 5: the other team's best player, which has been a problem

603
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 5: for the Colts to consistence to consistently pull off. They

604
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 5: bring in cam Binham to play safety. Hopefully he's, you know,

605
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 5: their version of you know what the Bengals had back

606
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 5: in the day with Jesse Bates to play situational and

607
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 5: just to disguise some things in the secondary. They draft

608
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 5: Justin Wally in the third round out of Minnesota. He's

609
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:00,719
Speaker 5: really high on him as a wander back to come

610
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 5: in and play in some stuff packages, either nickel or dime.

611
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 5: The biggest question is is how much can that secondary

612
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 5: help the pass rush to be able to kind of

613
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 5: hold down the other team's weaponry, to help the pass

614
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 5: rush get there by the quarterback hanging on to that ball,

615
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 5: that extra beat for guys like Quitty pay who you

616
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 5: mentioned Stampson. Ebicom's coming off a torn achilles last year

617
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 5: the first day of training camp, so he's back, but

618
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 5: what are you going to get there with that injury?

619
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Speaker 5: Just with the nature of it. They draft JT Tuamolowyle,

620
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 5: who's a second round pick pass rusher out of Ohio State.

621
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 5: Really high on him, but at the end of the day,

622
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:40,959
Speaker 5: he's a rookie. Right, there's an acclamation to the NFL

623
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 5: for every player at that position. You got the two

624
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 5: big guys up front and Grover Stewart and DeForest Buckner.

625
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 5: But again, the big question to me on defense is

626
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 5: how much can that secondary help the pass rush get home,

627
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 5: be more disruptive, get more sacks, and make more game

628
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Speaker 5: changing plays on opposing quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor, Voice of the Colts with us all right,

630
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Speaker 1: Jags and Titans. Let's start with the Jags. What are

631
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Speaker 1: your thoughts new regime? Trevor Lawrence? It's year five? Does

632
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 1: it happen? What do you think with Jacksonville going into

633
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five?

634
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 5: Matt, You know, I think I'm saying the same thing

635
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 5: about this division that I said last year. Last year,

636
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 5: I was wrong, but I think we were all wrong

637
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:29,080
Speaker 5: talking about the parody of this of this division. Maybe

638
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 5: it's it's the best version of itself since it was

639
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 5: formed back in two thousand and two. I think we're

640
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 5: just kind of a year late. I'm really bullish on

641
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 5: the parody of the AFC South going into the season.

642
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 5: I think the Jaguars are going to be much better.

643
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 5: They have no excuse not to be, you know, much

644
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 5: more competitive and have a much better record this year

645
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 5: than they did last year. And last year they were

646
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 5: really close. It just didn't show up record wise, right,

647
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:58,120
Speaker 5: I mean, they finished well under five hundred. But if

648
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 5: you look at you know, how their season played out.

649
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 5: They had thirteen games, just like the Colts, thirteen games

650
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 5: decided by one score, but they lost ten of them.

651
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Speaker 5: So I do think Trevor Lawrence is gonna, I think,

652
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 5: roll into the prime of his career. Lord knows, he's

653
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 5: had a bunch of different offensive coordinators and you know,

654
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 5: head coaches in his ear, and a lot of things

655
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 5: to compartmentalize. But I do think this is the year

656
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 5: that he kind of puts it all together. The weaponry

657
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 5: around him is pretty good. Defensively, I think they're gonna be,

658
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 5: you know, good enough to stay in games. So I'm

659
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 5: very bullish on the Jacksonville Jaguars, you know, taking those

660
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 5: next steps. They've got Basically every point of leadership within

661
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 5: that franchise is going to have a new person in

662
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 5: it or a person doing it for the first time

663
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 5: at the NFL level. Offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator, head coach,

664
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 5: and Liam Cohen new GM who's a young pup. When

665
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 5: it's when it's when you compare him to a lot

666
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 5: of his peers around the NFL. But I think the

667
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 5: Jacksonville Jaguars should be really competitive and I don't think

668
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 5: they're going to be in the basement for very long.

669
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 5: Inside the AFC South along with the Tennessee Titans, I

670
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 5: think it's going to be an absolute dogfight within this

671
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 5: division all six games of the Colts play, and by

672
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 5: the way, as it relates to the Colts in the

673
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 5: AFC South, four of their last six games of the

674
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 5: season are against the division, and that's the way you

675
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 5: want it. You won all of those games to feel

676
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 5: like playoff games, to feel like you big magnitude type

677
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 5: of atmospheres. So from that standpoint, I think, you know,

678
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 5: the month of the latter half of November and December

679
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 5: is going to feel like big time football for the

680
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 5: Colts because I think their quest for an AFC South

681
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 5: championship for the first time since twenty fourteen is going

682
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 5: to come down to how well they play in those

683
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 5: last six games of the season.

684
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 1: Cam Ward, how good do you think he's really going

685
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 1: to be After watching him play at the University of Miami,

686
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: looked really like a creative playmaker or that's got to

687
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 1: help out the Titans.

688
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 2: A lot as.

689
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 1: I know they had the record they had, but they

690
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 1: beat the Texans at NRG Stadium and looked really good

691
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 1: that day.

692
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 2: What are you thinking, Yeah, I.

693
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Speaker 5: Think cam Ward is going to be really, really good.

694
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 5: You know, talking with some of the people in Nashville

695
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 5: in the off season, they seem to think that already

696
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 5: in short order. He's come in. He is the face

697
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 5: of the franchise. He's the biggest leader on the team,

698
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 5: and that's hard to do. I mean, you know, with CJ. Stroud,

699
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 5: he came in right away, and you know, he was

700
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 5: obviously the guy that was the most marketable for the

701
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 5: front office. But you know, you've got to come in.

702
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 5: You've got to earn it. You've got to build the trust.

703
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 5: You've got to earn that trust from the rest of

704
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 5: the team.

705
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 2: C J.

706
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Speaker 5: Stroud pulled that off, and I think cam Ward is

707
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 5: in the process of doing just that. First guy in,

708
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 5: last guy out. But just you know, eating, sleeping, breathing football. Reportedly,

709
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 5: that's what you're getting from cam Ward. Plus the creativity

710
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 5: that you mentioned on the field too. This guy can

711
00:33:57,840 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 5: do a lot. Was really impressed with what I saw

712
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 5: last year at Miami. Looks like the real deal, and

713
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 5: he's looked like looking like he's acclimating the life in

714
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:09,399
Speaker 5: the NFL and handling himself the way that you need

715
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 5: to earn the trust of the rest of that locker room.

716
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 5: So you know, I've read a lot of stuff about

717
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 5: him in terms of how he looked at Mini Camp.

718
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 5: I mean, he completed over seventy percent of his past

719
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 5: is based on what you read, but you don't really

720
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:25,359
Speaker 5: know the context of that. You don't know how much

721
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:28,240
Speaker 5: of that is you know, seven on seven or easy

722
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 5: throws or you know, eleven on eleven work where maybe

723
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 5: he's getting sacked and you know, a completion to follow

724
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 5: something like that. You just don't know. But you'd rather

725
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 5: if you're a Titan fan or follower, you'd rather be

726
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 5: reading more about the positive, the positive things and the

727
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 5: negative things. And certainly the Titans have nowhere to go

728
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 5: but up after a three and fourteen season, So I

729
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,280
Speaker 5: think they're going to be better now. To what extent

730
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,479
Speaker 5: I don't know, But again, I just I think every

731
00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 5: game inside the AFC South is going to be an

732
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,800
Speaker 5: appo dogfight. The winner of this division is going to

733
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 5: have to earn it, and they're gonna have to put

734
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,760
Speaker 5: their best foot forward in all six of the games

735
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 5: they play against the division, because I think the parody

736
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 5: is there, and I think again, this might be one

737
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 5: of the best top to bottom divisions that we've seen

738
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 5: from the AFC South historically. And throwing the Colts there too,

739
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:21,840
Speaker 5: they're a tough out. They just got to get quarterbacks

740
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,920
Speaker 5: solidified and find some more consistency there, which is what

741
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 5: the Jaguars are trying to do and certainly with the

742
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 5: Titans are trying to do with camp Ward as a

743
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 5: rookie quarterback.

744
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 1: Matt condolence is about the passing of mister Ersay and

745
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: with Carly Orsa Gordon taking over. Tell me how different

746
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 1: it is so far as she seems really up for this,

747
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:47,800
Speaker 1: obviously and ready to take charge and obviously taking charge already.

748
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:49,799
Speaker 2: But you tell me how it's going so far.

749
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Speaker 5: Well, I appreciate that. You know, Jim irsay was. I mean,

750
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 5: if you're from here and you lived in Indianapolis, I mean,

751
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 5: you just can't. There's just no denying the impact that

752
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 5: Jim had on the community. I mean, if Jim Mersey

753
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 5: is not the steward of the franchise that he was,

754
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:15,800
Speaker 5: there's no Lucas Oil Stadium. There's no Colts probably, and

755
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,400
Speaker 5: you know, the city of Indianapolis as a great town

756
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:22,359
Speaker 5: and a great sports town just doesn't exist. We don't

757
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,839
Speaker 5: have you know, final fours here in Super Bowls here,

758
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 5: and Taylor Swift concerts and WWEE Royal Rumbulls. I mean,

759
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 5: whatever you're into, Indianapolis is able to bring those things

760
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 5: to town, primarily because Lucas Oil Stadium is here. It's

761
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 5: a state of the art complex and facility. And that's

762
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:44,720
Speaker 5: because of the Colts, and that's because of Jim Mersey.

763
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 5: So it was a really tough thing to see and

764
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 5: go through with his passing about a month ago, very

765
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 5: unexpected age of sixty five. I mean, it's been well

766
00:36:57,239 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 5: chronicled just how you know, generous of a man he was,

767
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,360
Speaker 5: and what he meant to the city. But as it

768
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,840
Speaker 5: relates to the family now and with his daughters, you

769
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 5: mentioned Carly ursa Ordon and Kaylen Jackson and also Casey Foyd.

770
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 5: So the three daughters now obviously in full charge of

771
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:19,919
Speaker 5: the franchise, both from a front office standpoint and from

772
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 5: a football operations perspective as well. I think Carly is

773
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 5: going to be most involved on the football side, and

774
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 5: then the other two daughters have their I think strengths

775
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 5: and initiatives that they are very proud of. And oversee,

776
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:40,240
Speaker 5: Kylin is very philanthropic and she's gonna head our community

777
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 5: relations efforts. You know, Casey's going to be very involved

778
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 5: in the marketing side of things. So I think it's

779
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:51,320
Speaker 5: really kind of too early to tell just how this

780
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 5: is all going to evolve, but that's how things are

781
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 5: set up now. But I will tell you that you

782
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 5: know that the three of them have been very, very

783
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:03,479
Speaker 5: involved in the franchise dating back to the high school days.

784
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 5: Jim made it a concerted effort to make sure that

785
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,959
Speaker 5: they were exposed to the different areas of the team

786
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:14,399
Speaker 5: football side and non football side. Uh so they got

787
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 5: a good feel for how the franchise is run. Jim

788
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 5: did a good job of pulling back to curtain and

789
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:24,320
Speaker 5: letting them into, you know, meeting rooms when tough decisions

790
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 5: had to be made, hirings and firings, things like that.

791
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:31,840
Speaker 5: So they know ball. And especially with Carly, you know,

792
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:34,839
Speaker 5: she's made an individual effort the last four or five

793
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 5: years to better understand how football works, the mechanics of

794
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 5: the game, she's on a headset during the game. You know,

795
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 5: she wants to hear the communication between the coaches and

796
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,399
Speaker 5: the players. She wants to understand, you know, the role

797
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 5: of a special teams coordinator or a strength coach. So

798
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:56,920
Speaker 5: she really has her fingerprints in DNA on just about

799
00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:01,359
Speaker 5: everything within this organization now. So really the only thing

800
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:04,359
Speaker 5: that's that's different, obviously is just the passing of Jim,

801
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 5: and now Carly and her two sisters are going to

802
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,320
Speaker 5: try and make their imprint on the organizations. They'll do

803
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 5: a great job, but certainly they are in the infancy

804
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:19,359
Speaker 5: of doing just that because of the timeliness of Jim

805
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 5: Mersey's passing in late May. And they understand too that

806
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 5: the urgency is there for this franchise. Chris Ballard, you know,

807
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:29,839
Speaker 5: going into his ninth year and Shane Styching going into

808
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 5: year number three again, haven't won a division in ten

809
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 5: plus years, haven't won a playoff game in six years,

810
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 5: haven't hosted a playoff game since twenty fourteen. There's urgency

811
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 5: there and they know that, and they are prepared to,

812
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 5: you know, make these decisions going forward because they don't

813
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:49,879
Speaker 5: want to just you know, tread water. They don't want

814
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 5: to just make the playoffs once every couple of years.

815
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 5: They want to be the best. They want to They're

816
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 5: here to win and win big, and so they're going

817
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,760
Speaker 5: to do everything in their power to make sure that happens.

818
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 1: Matt, great information. As always, I really appreciate the visit.

819
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 1: Look forward to seeing the Colts this year. I know

820
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 1: we both have a lot of work to do before

821
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 1: that happens, but I appreciate spending time with you.

822
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:13,320
Speaker 5: Likewise, Mark, you are the best. Hope you enjoy the

823
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:16,359
Speaker 5: rest of your summer and get away a little bit

824
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 5: before training camp starts. In the grind sets in, there's.

825
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 1: Matt Taylor, voice of the Indianapolis Colts. A lot of

826
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: stuff about the dreaded Horseshoe coming up. K C Two

827
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 1: Hill plays for your Texans. Join the team this offseason,

828
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 1: try to make it as a contributor on that defensive line.

829
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 1: We'll check in with him next here on Texans All Access,

830
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 1: final segment of the show tonight. And Johnny and I

831
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 1: caught up with so many of the Texans players around

832
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: Mini camp, so we're giving you those interviews between Mini

833
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 1: camp and training camp.

834
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:45,359
Speaker 2: That's what we do here.

835
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:47,959
Speaker 1: And we heard from EJ Speed earlier. If you missed

836
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 1: any of that, it's on the podcast. This will be

837
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 1: up in podcast forms soon enough. K C two Hill,

838
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 1: defensive end from San Diego, went to Stanford and he's

839
00:40:57,080 --> 00:41:00,319
Speaker 1: been with the Eagles, Washington, Buffalo and now he's here.

840
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 1: And after this interview, I will tell you my guess.

841
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:06,759
Speaker 1: But who does he sound like? What movie star does

842
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 1: Casey Toohill sound like?

843
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:11,920
Speaker 2: Listen? And it's not just about that he's an interesting guy, Casey.

844
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:12,800
Speaker 2: Why Houston?

845
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:15,399
Speaker 4: I mean it seems like a simple question in a sense,

846
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 4: but when you're deciding where you want to continue playing football, that.

847
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:20,919
Speaker 2: Can probably be a little bit tougher.

848
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 6: Why Houston, Yeah, I mean that's a great question, honestly,

849
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 6: just great culture. The scheme that the Texans run, you know,

850
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:31,880
Speaker 6: I've always respected, I've kept my eye on it. I

851
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 6: have some familiarity with Matt Burke. He coached me when

852
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 6: I was a rookie on the Eagles. So yeah, just

853
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,359
Speaker 6: some familiarity there. And also just yeah, I mean what's

854
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 6: being built here special and anyone can see that, and

855
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 6: I wanted to be a part of it.

856
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:46,799
Speaker 1: Nice when you see what's happened here on the defensive line,

857
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,279
Speaker 1: not just at end, but tackles. When you see a

858
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: guy like Tommy Togii last year making plays for a

859
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,799
Speaker 1: team that has a lot of talent, then defensive end

860
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 1: you see who starts and then Derek Barnett scores two touchdowns.

861
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 1: That's got to give you a lot of encouragement. Hey,

862
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 1: there are a lot of good players here, but I

863
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:02,440
Speaker 1: can contribute.

864
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, I mean, and that's that's always the position

865
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 6: you want to be in. Just you know, teams that

866
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 6: you know want to get everyone a chance. But at

867
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 6: the same time, like you know your role, and you

868
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 6: come in and you compete and you work hard, and

869
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 6: I think that hard work and improvement is really rewarded here.

870
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:18,400
Speaker 4: Mark and I have talked about this a lot, Casey

871
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:20,840
Speaker 4: about that defensive line room. We've talked a lot with

872
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:23,479
Speaker 4: the interior defensive line guys. We've talked a lot about

873
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,239
Speaker 4: that room and what it's like. And it's pretty big

874
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 4: and crowded right now.

875
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 3: But what is that room like?

876
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 4: Good camaraderie, seems like guys have really good relationships, Guys

877
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 4: that have been here for a while.

878
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 3: Obviously you're new to the mix.

879
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 2: But what's that room like for you stepping into it.

880
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:39,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean everyone's been been very welcoming and helpful.

881
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 6: I mean the great camaraderie, but also very high standards,

882
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:44,360
Speaker 6: which is what you want to be a part of.

883
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 5: Right.

884
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 6: You don't want to be in a room that has

885
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 6: a bad culture, bad standard. So I could observe, you know,

886
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 6: the high standards, especially like the coaches, you know, you know,

887
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 6: how they approach our improvement, how they want us to improve.

888
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 6: And then also just like you know, will holding everyone

889
00:42:57,560 --> 00:42:59,880
Speaker 6: accountable and all the guys in the room, lots of

890
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,360
Speaker 6: that's lots of guys who have made a lot of plays,

891
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 6: and that's that's a good room to be.

892
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 1: In, all right, So tell me, because I know that

893
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 1: you know, players come and go from different teams, do

894
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:13,920
Speaker 1: you save any gear from former teams and especially the

895
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 1: Washington football that's never coming back, that's and it might

896
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:19,399
Speaker 1: be nice to hang on to some of that merch.

897
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:21,320
Speaker 1: I thought about that in the moment as that was

898
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 1: happening a lot. So yeah, you know, I have a

899
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 1: few things here and there, but you know, things you

900
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 1: move around, like things disappear, you know, things get thrown

901
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 1: away by significant others. Maybe I don't want to cast

902
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 1: any blame. So yeah, you know, I have some stuff

903
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 1: here and there, But I mean I really don't care

904
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:35,959
Speaker 1: about any of that stuff.

905
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 2: Now I'm here and I'm ready.

906
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:40,360
Speaker 4: To be here, okay from San Diego. So is the

907
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 4: argument in and out versus Waterburger even an argument in

908
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 4: a two hill household?

909
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,360
Speaker 6: No, I mean, that's just the dumbest argument I've had Waburger.

910
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:49,799
Speaker 6: I've headed in and out. Quality is not even the same.

911
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 6: I've also I talked to people in Texas.

912
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 2: I mean, ever since Waburger got bought by private equity,

913
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 2: I've heard of cargo company now, so yeah, so who cares?

914
00:43:57,360 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 2: So I'm not worried about that.

915
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 6: Maybe I'll try it if I I want some mediocre food.

916
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 4: Okay, there's in and out here too, so there is,

917
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:06,080
Speaker 4: there's one on the way home. I'll probably hit now

918
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:07,840
Speaker 4: that I'm inspired Stanford.

919
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 2: Stanford.

920
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 6: You know, honestly, I think it was just the best

921
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 6: fit for what I want to accomplish, kind of how

922
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 6: I viewed myself. Taking academics seriously, and Stanford is just

923
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:20,360
Speaker 6: a place if you want to be around excellent people.

924
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 6: I mean, and I don't say that with arrogance. I

925
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 6: say that with the truth. I mean everyone that was

926
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 6: there was you know, better at pretty much everything than

927
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 6: I was. So it was good if you want to grow,

928
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 6: that's a great place through you know, challenging yourself or

929
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 6: even osmosis with all the people there.

930
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 2: Do you have any Davis Mills stories for us?

931
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 5: Oh?

932
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:38,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, when he was at Stanford, Yeah, we over like

933
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:39,479
Speaker 2: I mean Davis gosh.

934
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 6: Yeah, so Davis is younger than me. So it's funny

935
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 6: to come come here with him because I remember him

936
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 6: being like an underclassman.

937
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:47,880
Speaker 2: Good stories.

938
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 6: I mean, he keeps saying that I owe him like

939
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 6: one hundred dollars for some uber we took once. I

940
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:55,399
Speaker 6: guess that's like the defining moment in our relationship, which

941
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:58,359
Speaker 6: kind of bugs me. But yeah, he's a funny guy,

942
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 6: Davis real right sense of humor. But I I enjoyed

943
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 6: being around him at Stanford and then obviously, like I

944
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 6: would only see him when we played a few times

945
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 6: over the past few years.

946
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 2: So it's good to be able to reconnect in case.

947
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 2: Yes say this.

948
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,359
Speaker 4: After every game, I look on a field and there

949
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 4: are people hugging from all walks of life on it.

950
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 3: It's the smallest It's like the.

951
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 2: Biggest small community in in the world. Great teams.

952
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like you know somebody every single game, Like, oh,

953
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:25,879
Speaker 4: I with to the high school with that trainer over there. Yeah,

954
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 4: I went to Stanford with that guy over there. I mean,

955
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 4: is he kind of like that every game where you're

956
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:32,200
Speaker 4: gonna know somebody from the other side.

957
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:33,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always like fun.

958
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:35,960
Speaker 6: Sometimes it's it's overwhelming because you're like maybe after the game,

959
00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 6: like man, all these people I could like say hi

960
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:39,320
Speaker 6: to her. If you don't say hi to someone, sometimes

961
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:41,759
Speaker 6: they're like, hey missed you, and it's like shoot right,

962
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 6: but it can. Yeah, it's it's really unique, and I

963
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:47,839
Speaker 6: think the longer you go on, the more relationships you build.

964
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:50,359
Speaker 6: It's really worthwhile even seeing like because I think when

965
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:52,319
Speaker 6: you're on a team, like some of those relationships get

966
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:54,320
Speaker 6: so deep and some of the people impact you greatly,

967
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 6: you know, whether it's on the staff, coaches, whatever, and

968
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 6: then if you leave, it's just kind of gone and

969
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 6: you may not see that person ever again. Yeah, so

970
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 6: it's great that I really appreciate like being able to

971
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:04,399
Speaker 6: revisit those relationships when we play.

972
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 2: It's fun. Casey, thanks so much for joining us, Good

973
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 2: luck to thank you guys appreciate it.

974
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 1: There's Casey two Hill And when the interview began, I said,

975
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:11,759
Speaker 1: who does he sound like?

976
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:11,840
Speaker 5: What?

977
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 2: Movie star? And have you guessed it?

978
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:17,240
Speaker 1: It's Ryan Reynolds. Doesn't he sound like him? He doesn't

979
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:19,399
Speaker 1: look like him, not that he's a bad looking Guy's

980
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 1: good looking guy. Doesn't look like Ryan Reynolds, but does

981
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: sound like Ryan Reynolds. Anyway, that's it for the show tonight.

982
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:28,239
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening. Matt Taylor was on Voice

983
00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:30,319
Speaker 1: of the Colts e J. Speed again. This is up

984
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:33,840
Speaker 1: in podcast form very soon. Have a great night, Go Texans.