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Speaker 2: Welcome into a Friday Nation of Texans All Access from

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Speaker 2: the Hyundai Texans Radio Studio. I am your host, buying

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Speaker 2: so tonight, Yes, John Harris Football on a sideline reporter

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Speaker 2: and hopefully you like my falsetto, because that's all I've got.

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Speaker 1: That's it.

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Speaker 2: I can't sing for the life of me, and it

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Speaker 2: kills me. Although I don't wish I could sing.

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Speaker 1: I wish I could play an instrument. But that's a

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Speaker 1: story for a different day.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate you being with me as we lead you up

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Speaker 2: to Area forty five with Patrick Crayton and Sean Bejanni

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Speaker 2: later this evening starting at seven.

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Speaker 1: So we got a lot to do tonight.

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Speaker 2: First off, when I say first off, we're gonna discuss

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Speaker 2: what's coming up, what do you need to be on

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Speaker 2: alert for. We'll talk about that as it pertains to

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Speaker 2: the Texans. Then we will have the Texans OG podcast.

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Speaker 2: Now it's got a little bit of a wrinkle with

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Speaker 2: my guy Indi Koalue, not because D and D is

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Speaker 2: the host of Texans Og podcast. The wrinkle is it's

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Speaker 2: kind of an OG but not really because he's not

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Speaker 2: done playing. So if you think about it from that perspective. Okay,

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Speaker 2: it's somebody that's still playing Who's nog. That can only

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Speaker 2: be one person. That's John Weeks. So John Weeks gonna

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Speaker 2: stop by with Indy Callouse. Great stuff from those two.

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Speaker 2: Then we will close down the show with a segment

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Speaker 2: that's become one of Mark's favorites. Basically, it is the

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Speaker 2: four AFC South Voices. They get together in Indianapolis, all

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Speaker 2: sit at the table, Mike Keith of the Titans, Frank

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Speaker 2: Frangie of the Jags, Matt Taylor the Colts, and of

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Speaker 2: course the voice of the text is Mark.

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Speaker 1: Vandermir and they just start chopping it up.

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Speaker 2: They talk about broadcasting, to talk about the games, they

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Speaker 2: talk about the history, you talk about being around for

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Speaker 2: a while, all those kind of things.

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Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to it.

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Speaker 2: They call it the Voices of the AFC South and

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Speaker 2: it's really really good stuff. So we'll have that a

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Speaker 2: little bit later in the show. But I think if

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Speaker 2: we kick off today, it's so I say it's the

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Speaker 2: last day for free agency. It kind of is in

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Speaker 2: some respects because the legal tampering period begins on Monday

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Speaker 2: before our show will kick off. So if you've been

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Speaker 2: around for a while and you know kind of how

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Speaker 2: this free agency thing works. You know, there's Monday basically

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Speaker 2: to Wednesday of a legal tampering period. Then the new

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Speaker 2: league year starts on Wednesday at I believe it's three

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Speaker 2: o'clock Central time. At that point, every non franchise tag

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Speaker 2: free agent becomes free. Even before that, in that legal

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Speaker 2: tampering period, they've got the opportunity to talk to other

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Speaker 2: teams gauge their value. Now, has it been happening already?

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Speaker 2: Was there were there conversations at the combine? Presumably there

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Speaker 2: might have been. There might have been conversations with teams

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Speaker 2: in which a general manager was talking to an agent

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Speaker 2: of a particular player, in which they could talk and

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Speaker 2: then maybe at the end the conversation turned to, well, hey,

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Speaker 2: you know, what do you think.

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Speaker 1: Of this player?

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Speaker 3: Who knows?

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Speaker 2: But the legal tampering starts on Monday, Monday afternoon, and

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Speaker 2: that's really when I know a lot of people have

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Speaker 2: been really really excited, as it pertains to the Texans,

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Speaker 2: because they've got money to spend. They've spent some Dalton

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Speaker 2: Schultz three years, thirty six million dollar contract.

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Speaker 1: As it's been reported, it was also official.

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Speaker 2: Today announced by the team that Dalton Schultz has been signed. Now,

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Speaker 2: I know that's just a formality, seemingly, because once it

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Speaker 2: hits the interwebs, you know it's got to be true.

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Speaker 2: But I've seen situations where things hit the innerwebs and

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Speaker 2: then it's like, well, wait a second, hey, where's such

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Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden you find out, oh no,

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Speaker 2: he did. Past is physical. So those are the kind

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Speaker 2: of things you got to be wary of in some respects.

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Speaker 2: And keep in mind mind PSA from last night, make

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Speaker 2: sure whatever X account you're looking at, whatever Instagram account

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Speaker 2: you're looking at, make sure that's a legit account. Don't

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Speaker 2: fall for the adnarn chefters, but the Z don't fall

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Speaker 2: for those Because that was floating around yesterday with the

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Speaker 2: Chris Jones deal of four years, one hundred and sixty million,

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Speaker 2: and a lot of people fell for it because that's.

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Speaker 1: About what he's gonna get.

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Speaker 2: I mean, people are think he's getting thirty million before

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Speaker 2: one hundred and sixteen is twenty nine million a year.

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Speaker 2: That sounded right, and so a lot of people were

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Speaker 1: Oh, look at this, it's coming back to the Chiefs.

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Speaker 2: Chiefs fans get excited because earlier in the day he

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Speaker 2: and it's a picture of him being tackled basically by

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Speaker 2: Andy Reid. So is that saying goodbye? It was kind

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Speaker 2: of cryptic, and so when that tweet came out, everybody's

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Speaker 1: Them chef to ree with an e at the end.

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Speaker 2: That's and he's got two hundred and fifty five followers,

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Speaker 2: so or it could be she don't know, but it's

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Speaker 2: a fake account, so be careful of those. So from

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Speaker 2: a Texans perspective, here's what we're looking at. Here are

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Speaker 2: the names, and I know you if you've been paying attention,

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Speaker 1: That have kind of been out there, starting at running Back.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, Devin Singletary Motor's name has been out there. There's

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Speaker 2: been conversation about bringing him back, or at least there's

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Speaker 2: I don't know noise the right word, but there's been

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Speaker 2: consideration of bringing him back.

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Speaker 1: I think on both sides. I think Devin would would

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Speaker 2: And you know, running backs, this whole thing with running backs,

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Speaker 2: and there's been a lot of talk about Sakuon Barkley

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Speaker 1: We don't know what the market's gonna be.

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Speaker 2: We know the last big contract that I was signed

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Speaker 2: by a running back was Jonathan Taylor. That was three years,

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Speaker 1: Take that deal.

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Speaker 2: Does Derrick Henry get that he's thirty years old and

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Speaker 2: what's gonna happen there? Well, Motor falls into that category

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Speaker 2: I would love to be able to bring him back. Now,

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Speaker 2: the Texans still have time between now and Monday to.

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Speaker 1: Get a deal done with Motor because obviously he was

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Speaker 2: But that's gonna be a name that a lot of

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Speaker 2: her show started talking about number fifty three. Who the

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Speaker 2: hell is number fifty three? Well, she found out Blake

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Speaker 2: Cashman when healthy, and I thought this when he was

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Speaker 2: be a really good player. And then injuries, injuries, injuries.

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Speaker 2: Even this past year we saw some injuries, but when

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Speaker 2: Blake was on the field, AFC Defensive Player of the

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Speaker 2: Week against the New Orleans Saints was great throughout the year.

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Speaker 2: We would love to be able to bring Blake Cashern back,

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Speaker 2: but I got a feeling that again because the success

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Speaker 2: Cash I know, and well, I've heard that there's been

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Speaker 2: mutual interest between the two, as there's been for a while,

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Speaker 2: but obviously, you know, until Penn is the paper, we

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Speaker 2: don't know, but Blake Casher another one.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be watching the biggest ticket item, John Grenard.

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Speaker 2: That's because the position he plays, he plays the edge.

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Speaker 2: Twelve and a half sacks last year, set a career

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Speaker 2: record with sacks. Last year, had games where he was dominant,

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Speaker 2: He really grew last year as a player. And there's

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Speaker 2: aside from the injuries, he's had what foe head coaches.

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Speaker 1: I mean started with Bill I mean he got.

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Speaker 2: Here in twenty twenty, started with Bill O'Brian, with the

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Speaker 1: If then what to Lovey Smith and want to Meeka Ryan.

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Speaker 2: So I don't know, you guys do the math for

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Speaker 1: I think he's at three or four.

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Speaker 2: I can't say he had any continuity, but I know

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Speaker 2: he had pretty good coaching this year with Jacques Jacques

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Speaker 2: JYG really kind of, you know, play at that high level,

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Speaker 2: himself into a lot of different contract offers from a

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Speaker 2: JG's gonna end up getting a lot of contract offers.

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Speaker 2: Now what that means with the Texans, who's to say?

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Speaker 2: The Texans are the one and only team that have

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: I have other teams been telling his agent and what

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Speaker 2: they think they can give to him potentially, but legally

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Speaker 2: it's supposed to be the Texas up until Monday. So

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Speaker 2: we'll see what happens with John Grenard. Sheldon Rankins one

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Speaker 2: year deal last year signed with the Texans, and it

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Speaker 2: prove what you can do. You get a defense that's gonna,

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Speaker 2: way that Dmika Ryans wats his defensive line to plays

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Speaker 1: Rank had that three SAT game against the Bengals. He

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Speaker 1: played hurt throughout the last probably.

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Speaker 2: Three or four weeks of the year, and and it

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Speaker 2: needed him to. Love to bring Rank back, would absolutely

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Speaker 2: love it. If that's the money that gets spent on

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Speaker 2: the defensive tackle, awesome, I would love that.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: I was on the Utopia podcast with Sean Pendergast and

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Speaker 2: I said, man, I'd love to bring Christian Wilkins.

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Speaker 1: Bring in Christian Wilkins. Man sign Rank. I don't care.

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Speaker 1: Get the best defensive tackles you can.

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Speaker 2: Find in this league and just rotate them all throughout

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Speaker 2: the game and go rec shop. And maybe that's what happens,

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Speaker 2: because you know, look how many times did we see

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Speaker 2: Rank and Milie Collins on the injury report. Now, they

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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody?

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to a Friday edsue of Texans All Access

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Speaker 2: from the Honday Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harris,

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Speaker 2: footballing Outside of the Reporter, and as promised, it's time

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Speaker 2: for our OG podcast, Texans OG's love this podcast with

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Speaker 1: It can only be one John Weeks.

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Speaker 4: John, I've met you a few times and it's always

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Speaker 4: been a pleasure.

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Speaker 5: Appreciate you joining us.

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Speaker 6: Brother, absolutely, my friend, the pleasure is all mine. Thanks

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Speaker 4: Oh thanks for jumping in. So how many years has what?

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Speaker 6: Fifteen?

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Speaker 4: Man, congratulations. I mean we all know the average career

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Speaker 5: Thank you fifteen. That that's crazy.

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Speaker 6: Oh no way, man. I feel fantastic.

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Speaker 7: I am incredibly excited to be coming in per year fifteen.

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Speaker 6: I am just juiced to be back and I'm ready

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Speaker 5: That's awesome. That's awesome.

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Speaker 4: I'll say this after playing you know, football my entire life,

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Speaker 4: you just kind of talk about, you know, the mindset

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Speaker 7: The mindset something that I've worked a lot. I've worked

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Speaker 7: I've worked with the sports psychologists for my fifteen years

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Speaker 7: The difference between me and you is that you know

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Speaker 6: When I get my opportunity, I love it.

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Speaker 4: Me and my buddy we had like a knockdown, drag

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Speaker 7: So the argument is going to be settled with you

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 7: It's something that Mark had joked with us about before

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Speaker 6: And that's just the way my coach taught me how

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Speaker 7: Then it's just reps and reps and reps and reps

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Speaker 6: It's like riding a bike.

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Speaker 5: When you're doing it. Oh, go ahead, go ahead.

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Speaker 7: Now you have some freak athletes that can just bend

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Speaker 4: You talked about two hundred and fifty three hundred snaps

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Speaker 7: all kind of just mechanical and kind of finding what

441
00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:13,119
Speaker 7: worked best for you, right. I think the funnest thing

442
00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:17,000
Speaker 7: to do is to you can relate us as specialist kicker, punter,

443
00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:21,040
Speaker 7: snapper to almost golfers. Right, every golfer has a unique swing.

444
00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:23,560
Speaker 7: There's different things that a golfer thinks.

445
00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:23,960
Speaker 6: About, right.

446
00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,439
Speaker 7: The there's the Tigers and the Rories that have the

447
00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:30,280
Speaker 7: perfect form, everything's in sync, right, But then you have

448
00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:32,840
Speaker 7: still the high guys like Scotty Schefflers and all them

449
00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:35,760
Speaker 7: that have the uniqueness where you know, Scotty's feet are

450
00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:37,880
Speaker 7: a little different, but it still works for him. Right.

451
00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:40,560
Speaker 7: There are things that I do that I wouldn't teach

452
00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:43,080
Speaker 7: other people to do because it's not how you're supposed

453
00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:44,879
Speaker 7: to do it, but it's what I found worked for me.

454
00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:48,000
Speaker 7: So it's kind of like finding what worked for you,

455
00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:50,360
Speaker 7: getting in that groove and then just hitting the repetitions

456
00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:50,639
Speaker 7: on it.

457
00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:53,879
Speaker 4: You've been in this league obviously a long time. You

458
00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:56,000
Speaker 4: first entered in two thousand and eight, and I know

459
00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,159
Speaker 4: it's a long time because I was still playing and

460
00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:00,000
Speaker 4: I've been out of the league for a while now.

461
00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:04,000
Speaker 4: Talk about just the difference of you know, the NFL

462
00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:08,000
Speaker 4: and its entirety, the players, the culture, Like, how's it

463
00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:10,439
Speaker 4: different from two thousand and eight to now we're in

464
00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:11,600
Speaker 4: twenty twenty four.

465
00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:15,159
Speaker 6: Oh, man, I mean, it's it's crazy. It's you know

466
00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:15,800
Speaker 6: what I mean.

467
00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:18,639
Speaker 7: I think, you know, and your son being a college

468
00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:21,320
Speaker 7: player right now. I think the biggest thing you see

469
00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,240
Speaker 7: is when these young kids come in, they're just built different. Yeah,

470
00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:27,280
Speaker 7: you know, these young kids are just you know, JJ

471
00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:29,960
Speaker 7: had that funny picture yesterday with the seventeen He's like,

472
00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,880
Speaker 7: I didn't look like that at seventeen, right, Like, it's

473
00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,879
Speaker 7: just some of these kids are just, Uh, it's crazy

474
00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:38,679
Speaker 7: to see how big some of these kids are at

475
00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,120
Speaker 7: such a young age. And it's it's awesome to watch

476
00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:46,720
Speaker 7: how the games evolved. Yeah, man, it's that that to

477
00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:48,679
Speaker 7: me is just the biggest thing, is just kind of

478
00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:53,200
Speaker 7: seeing just the athleticness or the athleticism of all these

479
00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:57,000
Speaker 7: young guys coming in and just how crazy how athletics

480
00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:57,920
Speaker 7: some of these guys are.

481
00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:00,359
Speaker 4: That's a great point because when I watched the game,

482
00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:02,440
Speaker 4: I'm not one of those old school guys. Oh back

483
00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,960
Speaker 4: in my day, we were tougher, bigger, faster, stronger. I'm

484
00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,879
Speaker 4: watching the game like, good God, look at Bosa, Like

485
00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:11,920
Speaker 4: where's he working? And how can I join that gym?

486
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,960
Speaker 4: And Miles Garrett and you know, the listens goes on

487
00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:18,960
Speaker 4: and all like there's so many guys that we called freaks.

488
00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:21,520
Speaker 4: You know, I played with Javon Curis. His nickname was

489
00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:26,240
Speaker 4: the Freak. Yeah, Mario, Yeah, Mario Williams was a freakish athlete.

490
00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:28,359
Speaker 4: But now it seems like every team has three or

491
00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:30,440
Speaker 4: four guys that are built like that and can move

492
00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:30,800
Speaker 4: like that.

493
00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:32,760
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it's absolutely.

494
00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,040
Speaker 7: I mean I remember when I first sold obviously, like

495
00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:37,600
Speaker 7: you said, I came out of college, you know, eight

496
00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:39,679
Speaker 7: I got cut by Detroit. I was out for a

497
00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:43,399
Speaker 7: few years, and I think it was in twenty twelve,

498
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:45,040
Speaker 7: So I've been on the team for two years, and

499
00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:49,960
Speaker 7: we went and played Detroit, I believe on Thanksgiving, and

500
00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,520
Speaker 7: I just remember seeing Calvin Johnson and to me, when

501
00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,399
Speaker 7: I watched him huddle up with Detroit, it was like

502
00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:59,720
Speaker 7: those early Pop Warner days we had, whereas that one

503
00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:02,359
Speaker 7: kid that's just so much bigger and more athletic than

504
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,280
Speaker 7: everybody else. Right, But now you just look at these

505
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,320
Speaker 7: teams in there everywhere. These I mean, these these guys

506
00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 7: are just so special. It's such a cool thing to

507
00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 7: watch just how athletically gifted the league has become.

508
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:16,439
Speaker 6: And I'm just you know, I'm still glad to be

509
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:16,960
Speaker 6: a part of it.

510
00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:19,880
Speaker 5: Now, correct me if I'm wrong. Did you play with Demiico?

511
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:21,639
Speaker 6: I did so.

512
00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 7: I played with Demiko in ten and eleven, okay, before

513
00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:27,480
Speaker 7: he got traded to Philadelphia, which was a sad day,

514
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:28,560
Speaker 7: definitely a sad day.

515
00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:32,639
Speaker 6: In the locker room. And then, uh, you know, I

516
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:34,800
Speaker 6: we stayed We stayed close.

517
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,440
Speaker 7: We talked all the time when I saw him when

518
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,399
Speaker 7: he came down here and we played against him in Philly,

519
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:41,720
Speaker 7: and then I followed him when he got into coaching,

520
00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:44,120
Speaker 7: and when we would play San Francisco. We would talk

521
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:46,280
Speaker 7: a lot during pregame and all that kind of stuff.

522
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:49,800
Speaker 7: So I'm thrilled to be playing for him now. Just

523
00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:51,239
Speaker 7: one of the best men I've ever met in my

524
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:54,760
Speaker 7: entire life. And I'm so happy for him and his

525
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:56,439
Speaker 7: family with how successful he's been, and.

526
00:23:57,960 --> 00:23:59,680
Speaker 6: He's just I mean, I don't have enough good things

527
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:00,520
Speaker 6: like I say about him.

528
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 4: All right, So you got the diplomatic stuff out of

529
00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 4: the way, and now let's be real. So when you

530
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:06,679
Speaker 4: see him, do you call him, hey, meek? What's up?

531
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:07,440
Speaker 5: Where? Do you call him?

532
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 6: Coach?

533
00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:08,000
Speaker 7: You know?

534
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 1: You know what I do?

535
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 7: Uh, I've and I've apologized to him several times because

536
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:13,760
Speaker 7: it just comes so naturally.

537
00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:15,400
Speaker 6: I'll just walk up to him and be like, hey, Cap,

538
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,600
Speaker 6: I got a question for you. You know, like when

539
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:18,280
Speaker 6: I got here.

540
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:19,840
Speaker 7: You know, when I got here and I walked into

541
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:21,719
Speaker 7: the locker room, they pointed to that man right there

542
00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:23,439
Speaker 7: and they said, hey, fifty nine is a captain of

543
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:25,960
Speaker 7: this team. You refer to him as captain, and and

544
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,280
Speaker 7: that's that's how you address him. So for two years

545
00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:31,360
Speaker 7: I played with him, I called him cap constantly, and

546
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:33,840
Speaker 7: you know, when he was first here, I made that

547
00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:38,080
Speaker 7: mistake several times, and I felt terrible I'd be like, hey, Caps.

548
00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 6: Coach, sorry, you know, like I and I had to

549
00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:42,119
Speaker 6: pull him the side one day.

550
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:45,439
Speaker 7: It was just like coach, coach, I apologize, like if

551
00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:47,159
Speaker 7: I've met her out of line, please tell me like

552
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 7: it just naturally.

553
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:50,440
Speaker 6: When I see you, I just think cap.

554
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,200
Speaker 4: So And you know, it's funny because I played with him,

555
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,879
Speaker 4: you know, from six for two years, and when I

556
00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,280
Speaker 4: see him to this day here in the building, I

557
00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 4: always call him meek and I always have to catch

558
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 4: myself because it's like, no, this isn't the rookie that

559
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,960
Speaker 4: you play with. This is actually the football team. But

560
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:09,359
Speaker 4: I'm sure he got a kick out of it when

561
00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:10,280
Speaker 4: you called him cap Oh.

562
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:11,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know.

563
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 7: I mean I think at his presser, you know, he

564
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:16,880
Speaker 7: had a fun time with making me stay up for.

565
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,400
Speaker 6: The current photo with the current players on.

566
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:20,760
Speaker 7: The team, that he made me stay up with all

567
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 7: his former teammates on the team too, So I think

568
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 7: he gets I hope he gets kick out. I mean,

569
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:27,320
Speaker 7: I want to play for the man as long as

570
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:28,200
Speaker 7: he'll have me play.

571
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,600
Speaker 4: So that's awesome, that's all I'm speaking. As long as

572
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,160
Speaker 4: he'll let you play, as long as your body holds

573
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:35,399
Speaker 4: up So what does an off season look like for you?

574
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 4: How much time do you take off as soon as

575
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,640
Speaker 4: the season's over, and what are some of your Don't

576
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 4: give away your secrets, but just let the people who

577
00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 4: are listening kind of know what it takes.

578
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 5: The same as league for fifteen years.

579
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:46,439
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know.

580
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:52,199
Speaker 7: I mean, my my my vice, my stress relief is

581
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:53,919
Speaker 7: to work out, you know.

582
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:57,159
Speaker 6: So what I try to do, and I've had awesome

583
00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 6: vets like you tell me, you know, tell me to

584
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:00,879
Speaker 6: to do it better.

585
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,560
Speaker 7: But I try as best I can to take as

586
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:07,120
Speaker 7: much time off as I can, right you know, especially

587
00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:09,359
Speaker 7: when you go two rounds into the playoffs, the season

588
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 7: being a little bit longer, you try to take a

589
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 7: little extra time. For me, that's never really been something

590
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:18,920
Speaker 7: I've handled well. So I'll take about a week off

591
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 7: and then I won't get right back into football training specifically,

592
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 7: but I'll start getting back into my workouts without within

593
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:28,399
Speaker 7: like a week week and a half after the season,

594
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,120
Speaker 7: and then it's just kind of figuring out a routine

595
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,480
Speaker 7: and something you trust with somebody that you do trust.

596
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:37,159
Speaker 7: And I have a great trainer out here that I

597
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 7: work with in the off season. His name is Billy

598
00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 7: He does a fantastic job with me. He's worked in

599
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 7: the NFL, does privates now, so he knows what it

600
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:50,359
Speaker 7: takes to be an NFL guy. He trains me for

601
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 7: my position specific things, which I think is important for

602
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,399
Speaker 7: different players. Right Like, you know, Indie, if me and

603
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,560
Speaker 7: you are working out together, I don't need to be

604
00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:00,720
Speaker 7: benching you know, whatever you're throwing up these days, right

605
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 7: Like you're in the trenches battling with those guys every day.

606
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 7: I'm training a little bit different, So I think for me,

607
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 7: position position specific type of.

608
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 6: Training has been beneficial.

609
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,159
Speaker 7: And then it's you know, it's a cliche, but like

610
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 7: trying to keep myself as young as possible, you know,

611
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 7: And that's kind of what I've been doing, and I

612
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 7: enjoy it.

613
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:22,640
Speaker 6: I love training.

614
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 7: I love pushing myself to the brink of exhaustion when

615
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 7: I'm working out. I love setting myself up with new challenges.

616
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 6: So I get back into it pretty early.

617
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:37,000
Speaker 7: I take a little bit longer off the diet, you know,

618
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:40,440
Speaker 7: I let myself enjoy some food there for a few

619
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 7: weeks before I get back locked in on the diet.

620
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 7: But yeah, I don't know if I would if it

621
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 7: was something I would tell people to jump into right away,

622
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 7: but for me, I'd like to get back into it

623
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:52,160
Speaker 7: as as soon as possible.

624
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 6: Snapping I'll take a I'll take about a month off.

625
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 3: I won't.

626
00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:58,159
Speaker 6: I won't snap a ball for.

627
00:27:58,160 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 5: About a month, Okay.

628
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,159
Speaker 4: I would think, and I'm just guessing from the movements

629
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:06,400
Speaker 4: that a lot like you mentioned where I would work

630
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:11,480
Speaker 4: with more brute strength, I'm assuming you would work more flexibility.

631
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 5: And quickness yep. But besides the technique obviously right.

632
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 7: So the way I look at it, right, the strength

633
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:20,160
Speaker 7: has to be there because on pump protection.

634
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 6: In the A gap, I'm the way the league has

635
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 6: gone the last.

636
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 7: Few years, you're seeing a lot more stout defensive ends

637
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,160
Speaker 7: rushing the A gap trying to beat the snapper right

638
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:32,920
Speaker 7: got a snap set up and protect So you're seeing

639
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 7: a lot a lot of good A gap rushers, kind

640
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,640
Speaker 7: of bigger guys, stronger guys. So you got to keep

641
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 7: the strength on there.

642
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 6: You got to be able to get your guys out

643
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 6: and coverage, and then you got to be able to cover.

644
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 7: So the way I've talked to my guy is that

645
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 7: where I do need that specific flexibility. For me, I'm

646
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 7: kind of like a lower half type of snapper. I

647
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 7: really get my legs and my hips and everything involved,

648
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 7: so that's important. But I always tell them just to

649
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 7: train me as best he can as aligned because that's

650
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 7: kind of the comparison that I'm at right now.

651
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 6: You know, I'm running with backers. I'm I'm trying to.

652
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 7: Protect, So that's kind of the focus for me now.

653
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 7: It's it's been fun to watch how the positions evolved, right.

654
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 6: So, when I first got in the league.

655
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 7: They had just changed the rule where you couldn't line

656
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 7: over the snapper and bull rush them.

657
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 6: But when I remember when I got first and they

658
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 6: got in the league, I don't know, did you have

659
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 6: Joe Marr when you were here?

660
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 5: Yes, Marciano Yo.

661
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 6: Yeah, Marciano came up to me.

662
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 7: He says, son, if you're not two hundred and fifty

663
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 7: five pounds, you're not making this team.

664
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 6: So it was like, okay, so I was big.

665
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 7: I was big when I was younger, know I was

666
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 7: two fifty five because I had to be stout inside

667
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 7: the A gaps.

668
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 6: That's what he wanted, you.

669
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 7: Know, a few years ago, as the positions evolved, as

670
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 7: guys have gotten more athletic, like we talked about earlier.

671
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 7: You know, I had a few coaches to say, hey,

672
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 7: I can't have you that size anymore.

673
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 6: I need you running, I need you, I need you

674
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 6: to thirty five ish, somewhere in that range.

675
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 7: So that's kind of been a fun transition to go

676
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 7: from like the bigger spectrum to kind of the more

677
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 7: linebacker is she type type type build?

678
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 5: Got it?

679
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 4: That's very interesting right there, you know, talking about not

680
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 4: just changing the technique, but you have to almost change

681
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 4: your not almost, you have to change your body style.

682
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 5: Like, yeah, your body composition.

683
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm glad you're talking about this so people

684
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 4: realize exactly what you have to go through to have

685
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 4: the success you've had. We talked about Demiko when he

686
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 4: was a rookie. You know, I just saw the leadership

687
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 4: qualities from Demiico and I see that. But now I'm

688
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 4: on the outside looking in with another young guy, and

689
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 4: I think, you know where I'm going with this CJ.

690
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 5: Stroud.

691
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 4: I mean, he just appears and I could be wrong,

692
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 4: because again I don't go in the locker room.

693
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 5: I watch it on television, see the interviews.

694
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 4: I've had a chance to interview him a couple of times,

695
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 4: but he's just another guy similar to Demiko Ryans, where

696
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 4: it just feels like he was built to lead a team.

697
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 6: Absolutely.

698
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 7: I think the greatest thing about CJJ is one hundred

699
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 7: percent genuine like what you see is what you get.

700
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 6: And I think that's one thing that love about him.

701
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 7: I think that's one thing that makes him a tremendous

702
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 7: leader leader. You know, he speaks his mind. He's very

703
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 7: open and upfront with the guys, and the guys respect

704
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 7: him and they respect him for being that way, and

705
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 7: that's that's easy to follow a guy like that, and.

706
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 5: You just see it. I mean, one thing that really

707
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 5: stood out.

708
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 4: Every time I would ask him a question, John, he

709
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 4: would pause and you could just almost see the wheels

710
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 4: like he's not just going to throw out just some random,

711
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 4: you know, for verbal answer you could you could always

712
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 4: see that he's always thinking everything through. Then the other

713
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 4: guy that I'm excited about, I'm a little bit biased

714
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 4: because of the side of the ball, but Will Anderson,

715
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 4: I mean, you talk about two great picks. He feels

716
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 4: like he's going to be a mainstay on the other

717
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 4: side of the ball. Can you just kind of talk

718
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 4: about what you see from him as a teammate. Yeah.

719
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 7: I mean, you just two incredibly hard working young man

720
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 7: that came in here and they just put their head

721
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 7: down and just grind it away. And I think, as

722
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 7: you know, in this business, when you can do that,

723
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 7: when you can come in here and lead, but you

724
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 7: can also take leadership, that just makes guys fall in

725
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 7: love with you even more, right, And we knew from

726
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 7: day one what we were getting from both of those

727
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,239
Speaker 7: guys when they came into that locker room and they

728
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 7: interacted with us.

729
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 6: So I'm so happy for the success that both of

730
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 6: them have had. Both of them are going to.

731
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 7: Be tremendous leaders, staples to this organization, and I'm very

732
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 7: excited to see what the future holds both of them,

733
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 7: because these aren't guys that are just gonna stop. They

734
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 7: want to get better every day, every practice, every rep.

735
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 6: And that's fun to watch.

736
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 4: You know, from yourself to you know, other guys that

737
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 4: are on this team. When I first heard that they

738
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 4: were named captains, my first thought was, all, man, that's

739
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 4: pretty cool. But then if I'm being real and I'm

740
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 4: being honest, I was kind of like, really, like, hold on,

741
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 4: you know, there's some great rookies. There's some great mature rookies.

742
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 4: What went into that? I mean, you were there, you

743
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 4: were part of the vote. Like, was it just what

744
00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 4: they did at practice, not just the preseas and games?

745
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,959
Speaker 4: Like to name a rookie captain, I've never heard anything

746
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 4: like that in my entire career.

747
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:07,479
Speaker 7: And again, I think it comes down to how they

748
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 7: both carry themselves, not only on and off the field, right,

749
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,959
Speaker 7: but they're they're true professionals, true leaders.

750
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 6: And being a captain you know and you know this,

751
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 6: you know you know this too. It doesn't matter.

752
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 7: Age never matters, right, It's about It's about being able

753
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 7: to talk to the guys, being able to get get

754
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 7: out of the guys what you need to get out

755
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 7: of and being able to deliver the message that.

756
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 6: The guys need to hear.

757
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 7: And everyone respected both of them enough, how they came in,

758
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 7: how they worked, how they practiced, and both of them

759
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 7: earned that sea and I was proud to vote for

760
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 7: both of them.

761
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 6: And you know, I'm just again, I'm excited. I'm excited

762
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 6: that they're my teammates.

763
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 7: I'm excited to watch them grow this next upcoming season,

764
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 7: and I'm excited for the organization.

765
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 4: I earned a lot of C's also, but it wasn't Captain.

766
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 4: There's more of my classes in the university. And I'll

767
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 4: take it. Well, we we always say that Rice Seas

768
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 4: get you degrees.

769
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 7: So yeah, absolutely, I don't think that's change.

770
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 5: Said it, said Baylor too, y'all said it Baylor.

771
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 3: Good?

772
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 4: All right, I'll tell you what has changed, and I

773
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:10,359
Speaker 4: need your I need your input on this one.

774
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 3: John.

775
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 4: The damn fashion. The fashion I am not understanding.

776
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:16,839
Speaker 6: I don't both not there.

777
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 5: Talk to me, you see it. Talk to me. What

778
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 5: has evolved.

779
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 7: Absolutely, Everyone's got their own personalities and their fashion matches

780
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 7: their personalities.

781
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 6: And it's been fun to watch.

782
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 7: But and I'm like you, man, I mean, give me

783
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 7: a pair of jeans, a T shirt, and you know,

784
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 7: if I want to get fancy, a little bomber jacket

785
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 7: or something, and that's about is I'm gonna get.

786
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:40,800
Speaker 6: You know. So it's fun to watch how some of

787
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 6: these guys.

788
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:45,279
Speaker 7: Come in though I mean some stuff that I don't

789
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 7: think I could ever pull off. But the fashion is

790
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 7: definitely evolved, and it's been, uh, it's been fun to watch.

791
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:56,720
Speaker 4: That might be the biggest change that I've noticed outside

792
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 4: of some of the rules and some of you know,

793
00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 4: We talked about how some of these guys are bigger, stronger, faster,

794
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 4: but some of the things these guys are wearing, I

795
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 4: just never I never expected to see a defensive end

796
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 4: walking around with a purse like I'm sorry and it

797
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 4: being okay.

798
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 6: So yeah, I mean.

799
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 7: The fits now, I mean I don't I don't know fashion, man,

800
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 7: I mean, gosh.

801
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:23,839
Speaker 6: I got nothing.

802
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 1: I got.

803
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 7: I got a couple of fancy suits from a really

804
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:27,240
Speaker 7: good friend of mine.

805
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 6: Uh don to.

806
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 7: His name's Tom. He makes me some awesome suits. But

807
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 7: other than that, my guy, I'm about as basic and

808
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:37,320
Speaker 7: as blue collar as it gets.

809
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 6: It's a pair of jeans, a polo, and a jacket.

810
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:40,839
Speaker 6: That's about it.

811
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 4: You know, it's funny, you know, early in the season,

812
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:47,760
Speaker 4: it might have been this season is previous season, they're

813
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 4: making fun of Kirk cousins attire and I'm watching it saying,

814
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,399
Speaker 4: I like what he's wearing, Like what's wrong with what

815
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 4: Kirk Cousins has on? And I know it was like

816
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 4: some joke that it was too plain, but the fur

817
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,359
Speaker 4: and the purse and the skirts, and it's not even

818
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:05,240
Speaker 4: like I'm saying, hey, you shouldn't dress like a woman.

819
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 5: I just I just don't understand, so I guess.

820
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 7: I mean my question for you then would be like,

821
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 7: if you were playing, do you think you would jump

822
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 7: on to the new fashion trends or do you think

823
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:15,720
Speaker 7: you'd stay.

824
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 4: That's such a great question. I've actually thought about that,

825
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 4: but I just can't see. I don't like attention, so

826
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 4: I don't think I would do anything that would cause

827
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 4: too much attention. And I'm just comfortable in jeans and

828
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:29,439
Speaker 4: a T shirt.

829
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 7: So I will say this, and this might you know,

830
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 7: this might crush a few people here, but they don't

831
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:34,919
Speaker 7: dress like that.

832
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 6: You know, the guys on.

833
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 7: The team don't dress like that constantly. You know, that's

834
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 7: not an everyday thing. That's something that that's uh, that's

835
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 7: game day only at tied type stuff.

836
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 5: You know, thank God for that, Thank God for that,

837
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:50,720
Speaker 5: because yeah, that's.

838
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 7: Uh, that's uh, that's you know, they know that they

839
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:55,359
Speaker 7: might be getting a little bit of a I might

840
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 7: get a photograph or two before the walking up on

841
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 7: the tunnel, so they got to make sure that it's right.

842
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 4: All right, Well it's not right, but I appreciate you

843
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 4: saying that they're only doing it once a week. All right,

844
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:09,840
Speaker 4: let's talk about the recap of this season, and again

845
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 4: I keep talking about outside looking in because that's where

846
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 4: I'm at. But such a special year. I know it

847
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 4: didn't end the way y'all wanted it to. And I've

848
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 4: always said at the end of every NFL season, there's

849
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 4: only one happy team, and obviously that's a team that

850
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 4: wins a super Bowl. But have you had a chance

851
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:26,880
Speaker 4: to reflect and realize how special this season was for

852
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 4: the former players, for the fans, and for everybody watching.

853
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 5: The root y'all on?

854
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 6: Yeah? Absolutely, you know.

855
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 7: I don't think you don't take what we did this

856
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 7: year for granted, you know, And I think that was

857
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 7: the big message in the locker room too, is to

858
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,399
Speaker 7: try to understand it, like, hey, these seasons don't happen

859
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 7: all the time.

860
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 6: When you're in striking distance, you got to do your

861
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 6: best to take advantage. You know.

862
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 7: Unfortunately we weren't able to be that really happy team

863
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 7: at the end. But to look back on the season

864
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,760
Speaker 7: and say it wasn't successful, you know, would be wouldn't

865
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 7: be fair to the guys that put in all the work,

866
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,400
Speaker 7: that went out there every day and played. And I

867
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,360
Speaker 7: think you can you really tell from the fans you know,

868
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,239
Speaker 7: just the amount of people that come up and just like, man,

869
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 7: that season was awesome, you.

870
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,400
Speaker 6: Know, and as players, and you know this as players,

871
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 6: you just.

872
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,919
Speaker 7: Kind of just like man, I needed you know, yeah,

873
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 7: it was great, but we didn't get to the end.

874
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:18,800
Speaker 6: But to just see the energy back in Houston.

875
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 7: And I've said it for a long time now, when

876
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 7: when they when the fan base has energy here in Houston,

877
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:25,759
Speaker 7: I don't think there's a better fan base to play

878
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 7: play in front of.

879
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:29,320
Speaker 6: And and they were they.

880
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:33,479
Speaker 7: Were excited, and we were excited, and you know, we

881
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 7: we understood that we felt a little bit short, but

882
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:40,840
Speaker 7: I'm excited for for what's what's ahead, and uh, what

883
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 7: a great season it was to be a part of.

884
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Speaker 6: Now it's happy to be a part of it.

885
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:46,359
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, man, it's definitely a part of it.

886
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:50,839
Speaker 2: John Weeks in Kymie Fairbairn in just waiting at Camp

887
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 2: Johnson and hopefully they'll get Cam back. He's one of

888
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 2: the best punters in the league. So you got two

889
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 2: of the three specialists in appreciate John Weeks for stopping

890
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 2: by the Texas OG podcast with my man in d Kalud.

891
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 2: Now when we went to the combine, Mark looks forward

892
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 2: to this every year. Mike Keith, the voice of the Titans,

893
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 2: Frank Frangie, the voice of the Jaguars, Matt Taylor, the

894
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 2: voice of the Colts, and Mark sit down as.

895
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 1: The voices the AFC South. This is really good stuff.

896
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 2: We're gonna finish up on a Friday with some great

897
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 2: stuff from those four next right here on Texans All Access.

898
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Speaker 1: What's happened? Everybody? Welcome back to the final.

899
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Speaker 2: Segment of our Friday initiative Textans All Access, last one

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00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 2: before free agency tampering period legal tampering period begins. I'm

901
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:37,959
Speaker 2: your host, John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter, fresh back

902
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 2: from Indie and the Combine last week. And as much

903
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 2: as we loved getting an opportunity to interview all the

904
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,760
Speaker 2: people that we do, I know that Mark Vannerers's favorite

905
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 2: thing is when he sits down with the three other

906
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 2: voices of the AFC South, Mike Keith and the Titans,

907
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 2: Frank Frazie of the Jaguars, and Matt Taylor of the Colts.

908
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 2: Here's a snippet of their conversation. Mike Keith, kick it off,

909
00:39:59,040 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 2: my friend.

910
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 8: This is so much fun to be joined by my

911
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 8: fellow play by play announcers from the AFC South, Frank

912
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:07,880
Speaker 8: Franchie Jacksonville.

913
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,359
Speaker 5: Jaguars, how are you. I'm well. Thank you for doing this.

914
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 5: I love doing this.

915
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 3: I look forward to it.

916
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:16,840
Speaker 8: Matt Taylor, how you doing, Indianapolis Colts and the champ

917
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:22,720
Speaker 8: He's here, got the belt, Mark vandermir Houston Texans. Congratulations

918
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 8: on being the AFC South champions.

919
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 3: Thank you, Migaan, Thanks for doing this. This is a

920
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 3: wonderful thing that we all do.

921
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 9: And who would have thunk it, ha that I'd be

922
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 9: sitting here with the title, and Frank I wrestled it

923
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:35,879
Speaker 9: away from you as you did.

924
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 10: Personally, we didn't have a good last month. We winded

925
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 10: it over the last month.

926
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 9: We have so much to do with the wins and losses,

927
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:44,359
Speaker 9: don't we, But that doesn't mean we can't claim them.

928
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 3: I can tell you this. I sounded much better this year.

929
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:50,120
Speaker 3: I don't know what it was. People were compliment to

930
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 3: a great job. Like you know, last year we got

931
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 3: blown out.

932
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 9: In some game and I thought I did a pretty

933
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 9: good broadcast.

934
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 3: But it doesn't matter. I get it. This is what

935
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:58,280
Speaker 3: it's about, and it's wonderful.

936
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Speaker 8: Winning and losing it's so underrated towards the perception of

937
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:08,880
Speaker 8: your performance. Of course, it's crazy how that factors in

938
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 8: for people.

939
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 9: We've all had good games or good wins where we

940
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:15,320
Speaker 9: feel like I can't speak for you guys, but I

941
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 9: would imagine this be the case where you feel like

942
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 9: I could have done a better yet day, you know,

943
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:23,360
Speaker 9: I could have done certain calls, could have nailed those better.

944
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 9: And then you have blowouts where I thought, man or

945
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 9: not blowouts, but just losses. I thought that was a

946
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:30,720
Speaker 9: really good broadcast. I mean, we hit on all the points,

947
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 9: the calls were clean, everything was good.

948
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:35,320
Speaker 3: But you want your team to win. That's why we are.

949
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 9: Voices of the team, because we want to ride those

950
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 9: highs and not preferably not the lows. But it makes

951
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:42,880
Speaker 9: the highs that much more appealing.

952
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 10: And my point is right, if we're winning, yeah, okay,

953
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:51,439
Speaker 10: and if we're losing, it's the worst broadcast they ever heard.

954
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 10: I mean there's a lot to that.

955
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 8: Well, we do the thing where they put a GoPro

956
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 8: in our booth. Yeah, and do I like a call

957
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 8: of the which is kind of I don't know what

958
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 8: I think of it, but they do it. It's sponsored.

959
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, good.

960
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:09,320
Speaker 8: So right, it's sponsored and for for the people listening,

961
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,719
Speaker 8: that's a big deal to what we do. Anytime you

962
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 8: say something is sponsored, you have Mark vander Meer's reaction,

963
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 8: which is good. Yes, but that means that security. Yeah,

964
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Speaker 8: that means you got to have one every Tuesday.

965
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 5: Yeah.

966
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:25,720
Speaker 8: So you win and it's like there's a touchdown pass

967
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 8: and and it's exciting and whatever, and you know, you

968
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 8: see the comments, Oh, it's so fun and.

969
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 3: We really enjoyed you lose.

970
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, why are you posting this?

971
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Speaker 3: Why are celebrating mediocre?

972
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:40,399
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the whole thing.

973
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:42,839
Speaker 10: We only I think ours only goes out. That part

974
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:44,279
Speaker 10: only goes out kind of like when we win.

975
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 3: Oh nice, okay, good for you.

976
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:48,800
Speaker 10: But the beauty of the go pros is fantastic because

977
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:52,319
Speaker 10: it's not like these booths have a pro go pro spot, right,

978
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,719
Speaker 10: so some go here while they go here, And it

979
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 10: was perfect because then it had a great shot of

980
00:42:57,600 --> 00:42:58,400
Speaker 10: my bald spot.

981
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 3: We can move it down just a hair, yeah.

982
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:02,359
Speaker 6: Just a little bit.

983
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 10: We have a ball with that as well.

984
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 5: So you were going to say, Matthew.

985
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:07,799
Speaker 11: Well, I was just going to agree that when you win,

986
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:10,399
Speaker 11: I mean, you guys experienced this too. When you win,

987
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 11: Monday is so much easier tall coach getting coffee, the

988
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,440
Speaker 11: water cooler in the break rooming. That that's the joy

989
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 11: of it is you come back on Monday and everything

990
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:23,239
Speaker 11: is a little bit smoother. People are more inclined to

991
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 11: give you more to the Monday show. The coaches show

992
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 11: is a better show following a win as well.

993
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 9: I think one thing though that we go through being

994
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 9: around on Mondays is that win or lose, they jump

995
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 9: into next week so fast because they have to.

996
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:40,719
Speaker 3: It's like a two hour window. Yeah, you think about

997
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 3: what they're going through as coaches.

998
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 9: Especially players may be a little bit different, but his coaches,

999
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:46,319
Speaker 9: they got to move win or lose, they got to

1000
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:49,360
Speaker 9: move into next week. It's over. Just shove it aside,

1001
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,439
Speaker 9: move into next week. But they do like talking about

1002
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 9: the wins more. And you know, we all know how

1003
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 9: to ask the questions, and I think these are important questions.

1004
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 9: You know, what did you do well you can carry forward?

1005
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:03,319
Speaker 9: What do you need to improve upon? There are ways

1006
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,360
Speaker 9: to handle it, because I know you guys get peppered

1007
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 9: with this.

1008
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 3: Are the things you can't say? Are the things you

1009
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 3: can't talk about?

1010
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 8: Your questions handed to you are they scripted for you?

1011
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 9: No one has ever said anything to me about anything,

1012
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 9: but you know, and I think we're all similar in

1013
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:18,680
Speaker 9: this way. My whole career, I've been the voice of

1014
00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 9: a team, you know, and I've always known how to

1015
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 9: handle those things right. And when you're doing basketball, I

1016
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:25,439
Speaker 9: mean I did a three and twenty three basketball team

1017
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 9: once upon a time. You know, you learn how to

1018
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:32,239
Speaker 9: ask the creative questions in that environment when your team

1019
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:34,279
Speaker 9: is losing. I say this to everybody too, in our

1020
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 9: digital social every department that does team related content. When

1021
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 9: you lose, you will get better at your craft. That

1022
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 9: will improve you even more than winning.

1023
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:45,479
Speaker 10: And in my situation marks a little differ. You guys

1024
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:47,359
Speaker 10: work for the teams. I don't work for the team.

1025
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,880
Speaker 10: So I come in for the game, but you gotta

1026
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 10: do Yeah I do, but I don't. But so But

1027
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 10: to your point, I think people understand that what I'm

1028
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:01,759
Speaker 10: on every afternoon for the team. Yeah yeah, So I'm

1029
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 10: not gonna ask the hard hitting how in the world

1030
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 10: could you have blitzed in that situation? That's not my job.

1031
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:07,839
Speaker 10: But who does?

1032
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 1: Who does?

1033
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 9: My rebuttal is this? Who does ask those questions? I'm thinking, Hey,

1034
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:15,919
Speaker 9: mister talk radio guy. Go to the press conference. You've

1035
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:18,799
Speaker 9: got access to these people, to the head coach. You

1036
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 9: could ask him yourself the tough question.

1037
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:21,279
Speaker 3: But you don't.

1038
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 9: Most of these guys don't have the guts to show

1039
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 9: up at the presser and ask those questions that they're

1040
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 9: throwing out to their audience rhetorically on the air.

1041
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 11: Don't play the fluff sound bite from the day before

1042
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:33,880
Speaker 11: and then rip it for three out.

1043
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:35,880
Speaker 3: Go to the press conference.

1044
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:38,800
Speaker 8: But there's certain questions you always have to ask. I

1045
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 8: don't know if you guys, do you do a postgame

1046
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 8: interview immediately after with the coach.

1047
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 3: I don't.

1048
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 5: I don't.

1049
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:47,560
Speaker 8: Next day, No I do. It's next day, So I

1050
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 8: would you know? And I'm going to ask if there's

1051
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 8: something involving the quarterback. If he throws four touchdown passes,

1052
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:56,839
Speaker 8: r if he throws four interceptions, if he gets hurt,

1053
00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 8: there's gonna be.

1054
00:45:58,080 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 5: A quarterback question.

1055
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:01,280
Speaker 8: Yeah, you have to do that, you know why, because

1056
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 8: the fans are interested in the quarterback. It's a thing.

1057
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 8: And so Mike Vrabel, he would get so mad at

1058
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:11,839
Speaker 8: me because he would say, you know, I would say,

1059
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:16,479
Speaker 8: is Will Levice okay? Or is Ryan Tannehill. Is he gonna,

1060
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 8: you know, do we have a report on him yet

1061
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:20,359
Speaker 8: after jury? And he no, I get the same thing

1062
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,719
Speaker 8: every time. And he finally, you know, sort of said

1063
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 8: to me at one point, he goes, why you know,

1064
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 8: I'm not going to answer that. Why do you ask?

1065
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 8: And it's and I explained it to him. It's kind

1066
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:31,760
Speaker 8: of the job.

1067
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:32,839
Speaker 5: You know.

1068
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:37,360
Speaker 8: It's not the hard hitting, crazy whatever, it's just, you know,

1069
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:40,799
Speaker 8: these are things that the fan base is going to

1070
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 8: want to know. And so if we have to go

1071
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:46,240
Speaker 8: through the dance of me asking you not answered, fine,

1072
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:48,759
Speaker 8: that's okay if that's what you want to do, but

1073
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:51,440
Speaker 8: just understand to do my job. And he totally got that.

1074
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 8: You got to ask the question, right, And he totally understood.

1075
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:55,920
Speaker 5: He was like, Okay, I get it.

1076
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 8: You know, I get why you feel like you have

1077
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 8: to do that from the fans person effective, because that's.

1078
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:01,880
Speaker 3: Who you do it for.

1079
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:04,759
Speaker 10: We and I think most of us. I'm pretty sure

1080
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 10: this case with you three guys right now, and I

1081
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:06,880
Speaker 10: know it is with me.

1082
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 3: We have good coaches.

1083
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 10: Well, I mean, our guy to work with, Doug Peterson's fantastic,

1084
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 10: and I get that, and I get the sense you

1085
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 10: and I've talked about the Miko. Yeah, and I know

1086
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:17,320
Speaker 10: you're getting the nose Shane steike In and so instead

1087
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 10: you're getting a new a new coach with Brian. But

1088
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:21,919
Speaker 10: we were lucky there. It's not the old school guy

1089
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:24,319
Speaker 10: as much. We've all had that guy probably, but it's

1090
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:26,480
Speaker 10: not the old school guy as much as you go, Okay,

1091
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 10: I'm gonna ask this question. He's gonna jump it in here. Well,

1092
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 10: I don't think we in today's day and age, certainly

1093
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:32,359
Speaker 10: in art division, I don't think we have that.

1094
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:33,520
Speaker 3: I think you have a pretty good coach.

1095
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:35,799
Speaker 2: It's still sort of surreal to hear Frank Frangie on

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Speaker 2: the airwaves here in Houston. Good friend of mine, known

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Speaker 2: him for thirty years and appreciate him. Mike Keith, Matt Taylor,

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Speaker 2: and of course Mark Vandermuir for stopping by. It's gonna

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Speaker 2: be a wild weekend. Hopefully the Texans sign a few

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Speaker 2: of their own and get ready to sign some other

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Speaker 2: people's own on Monday when the tampering period begins. We'll

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Speaker 2: see you then, everybody, and as always, go Texans.