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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, Welcome to the program. Great to have you

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Speaker 1: listening on a Tuesday night, Mark Vandermeyer and John Harris

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Speaker 1: with you as we talk Texans. What else are we

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Speaker 1: going to talk about on Texans All Access. Don't get

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Speaker 1: me all philosophical right now. I've been in the hot

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Speaker 1: sun a lot lately, and I could certainly go for

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Speaker 1: a while on that. I wrote, Johnny, remember this morning

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Speaker 1: we had John mcleanon and I started talking about the

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Speaker 1: Junction Boys for whatever reason you did. So I wrote

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Speaker 1: about that Vandermeyer's view as well, because I'm just like, look,

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Speaker 1: let's just talk football, right, Yeah, And it comes up

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Speaker 1: because it's training camp and people start thinking about the

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Speaker 1: Junction Boys, which I thought might have been a dated reference,

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Speaker 1: but you guys assured me that it is not. It's

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Speaker 1: one of those that there's certain references that they're aged,

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Speaker 1: but they're not dated. Right, that's a well pussed seeing scription.

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Speaker 1: Yeah they're aged, but they're not. Did this came up

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Speaker 1: with that on a fly? But I think it's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: I think it works. But yeah, when you think of

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Speaker 1: anytime you mentioned training camp, that's what you think about. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I remember the Junction Boys. I remember the first time

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Speaker 1: I heard of some some team doing three days. My

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Speaker 1: buddy Mike's Aeroline had moved to New Orleans and he

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Speaker 1: went to the high school that Garywalla went to, River Ridge,

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Speaker 1: John Curtis, famous school in just outside of suburban New Orleans.

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Speaker 1: They went state championships left and right. I remember, Mike,

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Speaker 1: we used to have grueling two days, but it was

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Speaker 1: one in the morning. You went back home. You just

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Speaker 1: like sat there and waited for the second practice. It

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Speaker 1: was brutal. They did three days in New Orleans, and

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Speaker 1: I'm like, he said, Johnny, we hit three times a day,

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Speaker 1: hit hit times three times a day. And I remember

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Speaker 1: love Me saying that. The other day he was talking

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Speaker 1: to us. He's like, well, you know, John they read

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Speaker 1: it nine and set nine on seven twice a day.

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Speaker 1: And I thought, that's brutal. That is brutal. To think

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Speaker 1: back to what we were doing and think, huh, some

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Speaker 1: common sense has kind of like dawned on all of us.

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Speaker 1: But the Junction boys there was not about It was

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Speaker 1: not about common sins. Bear Bryant was bear right. It

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Speaker 1: was all about just proving which guys the toughest guys.

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Speaker 1: And he found his guys, and he built the championship

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Speaker 1: team with them eventually nineteen fifty four, and guys were

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Speaker 1: dropping out. They were falling out and dropping out like flies.

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Speaker 1: And John McClean put it so eloquently, this morning nobody died.

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Speaker 1: So there's that. And here at this training camp, it's

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Speaker 1: not two days, three days, it's one a day. But

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Speaker 1: they meet, they get together. I was talking to Roy

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Speaker 1: what the rest of the day is like, because I

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Speaker 1: think people are curious, especially since if you're at practice,

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Speaker 1: and by the way, tomorrow there's still some availability, so

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Speaker 1: go to Houston Texans dot com or the Texans app

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Speaker 1: to find out about training camp tickets and game tickets,

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Speaker 1: which are also very important. One week from Saturday, preseason opener,

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Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints be there at NRG. It's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun to see New Orleans coming here.

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Speaker 1: But talking about these things with Roy Lopez, look, people

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Speaker 1: are curious. If you see them practice, they're back in

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Speaker 1: the building about ten thirty, eleven o'clock, what are they doing.

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Speaker 1: They're doing a lot of things, They're meeting. I'm surprised

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Speaker 1: it's there, it's there at something. They come back in

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Speaker 1: and then they get a lift in, which is hugely

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Speaker 1: important to our training camp because if you don't get

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Speaker 1: So you get they get a lift in, they get

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Speaker 1: lunch in, then they've got special teams meeting, Then they

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Speaker 1: team meeting, and then they probably have some walk through

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Speaker 1: at some point. Yeah, they probably have a walk through.

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Speaker 1: We mentioned to walk through a room on a show,

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Speaker 1: described it. They go from Now a lot of guys.

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Speaker 1: I got here at six o'clock. I think I got

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Speaker 1: So these guys are here. There's no telling what time

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Speaker 1: the quarterbacks are. Because David Shaw's birthday was two days

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Speaker 1: and Davis was very quick to tell coach Seawan his

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Speaker 1: with the focus. I mean, what could be more important

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Speaker 1: So I don't mind it. I don't I don't have

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Speaker 1: with it, but it's that's it's that feeling of hey,

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Speaker 1: mentioned that this morning he was talking about going away

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Speaker 1: to training camp. I know the Green Bar. The first

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Speaker 1: time he was awesome. Both times are awesome. The first

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Speaker 1: first preseason game and the okay, this is too much.

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Speaker 1: That was a little bit much, but it had that

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Speaker 1: feel love. We're all up here together. It's just it's

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Speaker 1: just us. It does bring it together. You have that greenbriers,

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Speaker 1: Do you think Bear Bryan would have let us have

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Speaker 1: our time at slam and Sammy's yeah, well that's the

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Speaker 1: broadcast crew. Baron Bryant over the broadcast crew in nineteen

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Speaker 1: fifty four. Get out there. No water before you get

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Speaker 1: on the air. None if you get dry mouth? Do

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Speaker 1: you just keep talking? Their segments access mating. Have these

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Speaker 1: people seen me during a game? I have three different

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Speaker 1: well for me. Yeah, I have always if I'm up

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Speaker 1: That was, you know, first world problems. Yeah, exactly what

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Speaker 1: am I saying. I'm not complaining. I mean in there

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Speaker 1: every week, not at all. Johnny straight me out on this,

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Speaker 1: because I'm watching practice. I don't think Davis Mills has

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Speaker 1: seen that. I've seen you putting that on him. Oh

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Speaker 1: did I just chink announcer Jinks? Did I just do

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Speaker 1: an announcer Jinks in the actual process of so we

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Speaker 1: would put the Jinks on him. I don't think there's

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Speaker 1: anything wrong with throwing a pick or two, by the way,

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Speaker 1: because it means you're taking chances, pushing the envelope. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to do that again. I've all that

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Speaker 1: which is the key part, the key follow in any

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Speaker 1: Mill's best practice. Yeah, and I didn't see every stitch

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Speaker 1: want to be very clear, receivers O line. Everybody's involved.

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Speaker 1: It's a cumulative effort. It's an ensemble out there, and

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Speaker 1: Not just that. But I still feel like because my

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Speaker 1: market research focus group, my son vander Kidd won. He said, well, Dad,

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Speaker 1: are they gonna get takeaways? Because they're not getting takeaways,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like. And I said, I'm not worried at

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Speaker 1: it'll be a Lovey Smith typical defensive performance, which means

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Speaker 1: a lot of takeaways. Your thoughts, I think so too.

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Speaker 1: and it's not just checked down Charlie stuff. No. Saturday

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Speaker 1: now some of those linebackers aren't quick to fly out

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks to make those throws. But Davis's even amongst he's

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Speaker 1: not He's that's the right way of saying this. He's

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Speaker 1: He's still sticking throws. When they did a two minutes drill,

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Speaker 1: you gotta get it. But he throws. He throws a

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Speaker 1: you get to play your high school ball here and

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Speaker 1: then come back you play your professional ball here. It's

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Speaker 1: pretty cool. I get to start the trend. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'll take I'll take credit to pull credit of that. Um.

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Speaker 1: And it's just amazing scene. Like guys Kendle here, ken Yon, Uh,

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Speaker 1: Jerry back here. Um, there's a lot of guys just

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Speaker 1: you know, hometown heroes. I said another and another report

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Speaker 1: the other day. It's kind of like the h time

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Speaker 1: take over there in Houston, University of Houston while ago.

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Speaker 1: But we're just doing it the Texans away, you know. Um,

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Speaker 1: but I know guys love being here. Just just blessed

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Speaker 1: to be able to play home. You know, my parents

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Speaker 1: be here. I've never imagine this, my all my years

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Speaker 1: are playing I never thought I had this opportunity. But

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Speaker 1: I'm just beyond blessed to be here. All right. I

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Speaker 1: know this because my man, Tyler shut Ups, was working

440
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Speaker 1: on this for weeks and he kept asking, my opinion,

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Speaker 1: you're a cinematic star. Man, how'd you like the Homegrown

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Speaker 1: special on you? It was great? It was great. I

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Speaker 1: loved it. My mom would saved me every secondent like

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Speaker 1: I didn't do it. So it's like but man, just

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Speaker 1: like I said, it's just an honor, just just complete blessing. Um.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't see myself playing anywhere else. I mean I could,

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Speaker 1: but I honestly wouldn't want to be. Houston is my home.

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Speaker 1: I love it here. Um, I want it in my

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Speaker 1: career here, no matter what, no matter where where guy

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Speaker 1: takes me, where he brings me. Um, you know, just excitement.

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Speaker 1: Just I just want to turn this program around and

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Speaker 1: just lay to be the organization that we know it

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Speaker 1: could be. So it just all takes time. They've just steps.

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Speaker 1: You know, it did very well homegrown. Go check it

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Speaker 1: out Houston Texas dot com. You mentioned one name that

456
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Speaker 1: always intrigues me, and that's Jerry Hughes. It shows you

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Speaker 1: my age. My dad actually coached against Jerry. When Jerry's

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Speaker 1: running back over at Austin High School, my dad coached

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Speaker 1: against him. We kept telling about this running backers playing

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Speaker 1: defensive at TCU. But now he's the og and he's here. YEA.

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Speaker 1: How valuable is it to have guys like Jerry, like

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Speaker 1: Mario Addison in your d line room that can maybe

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Speaker 1: see things because they've done it, they've been there. How

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Speaker 1: important a day to your room? Very important? Um. They

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Speaker 1: drop a lot of knowledge for us, a lot of

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Speaker 1: knowledge that um we didn't we we didn't have in

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Speaker 1: our room as much. You know. Billie Collins was the

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Speaker 1: help with that, that way he is, and just having

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Speaker 1: more and more older vents in the room, just teaching

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Speaker 1: the stuff. You know, you you learned a lot from

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Speaker 1: teammates and a lot of people don't realize that until

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Speaker 1: you get guys like that in your room. You know.

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Speaker 1: Your coach of course teach you everything techniques and style,

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Speaker 1: but you learn a lot more from the teammates because

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Speaker 1: you're with them every day. You played with them eyby day.

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Speaker 1: You understand, you understand. I'm a lot more, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I just I'm just excited to be able to

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Speaker 1: get the play next to him and just keep learning

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Speaker 1: the rowing. Ross Blacklock, appreciate you, Tom Man, thank you

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Speaker 1: very much. There's Johnny with Ross Blacklow coming up. Our

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Speaker 1: buddy James Palmer from NFL Network, former Houston TV sportscaster

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Speaker 1: for CS and Houston, did a great job here, does

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Speaker 1: a phenomenal job with NFL Network. Has sat in on

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Speaker 1: Good Morning Football on the NFL Network a lot. Always

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Speaker 1: fun to catch up with him, and he reluctantly I'm joking.

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Speaker 1: I might have been reluctantly. I don't know, but he

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Speaker 1: came on the air with us. He had no choice.

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Speaker 1: So let's hear some of that next here on Texans Radio.

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Speaker 1: If you haven't joined us in the morning on our

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Speaker 1: Texans Training Camp live shows live from the Houston Methodist

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Speaker 1: Training Center, where have you been? Really? We have so

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Speaker 1: much fun on those programs from the practice field Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Actually we're gonna be in studio the Hunday Texans Radio

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Speaker 1: Studio at NRG Stadium because there is no practice, but

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Speaker 1: we decided to give you a special treat that day.

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Speaker 1: Nick Casserio will join us live at nine am. But

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Speaker 1: this morning we had a special visit right off the bat,

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Speaker 1: James Palmer from NFL Network. He used to work here

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Speaker 1: in Houston. You know, he was hovering around the tent

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Speaker 1: talking to Johnny and I just said, get on the air, please,

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Speaker 1: we need you on the air. Here's that visit. I

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Speaker 1: didn't even get a chance to put my bag down

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Speaker 1: in Mark's like grab a headset on, and then I'm

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Speaker 1: walking in the front door, and I mean he's in.

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Speaker 1: Turns are here and new ones every year, hopefully they

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Speaker 1: stay in the league. And you need a map to

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Speaker 1: get around? No, man, I'm good. I don't need a map.

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Speaker 1: I'm ready to be here. Well, they still the NFL Network,

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Speaker 1: and I thought you might need it, right, you might

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Speaker 1: need it. It's been it's been a minute since you

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Speaker 1: since you've been here, you've been danced around. So where

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Speaker 1: have you been? I know you well, I know you've

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Speaker 1: been at Denver in Las Vegas only you've been to

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Speaker 1: so far, because listen, I haven't spent a whole lot

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Speaker 1: of time at home the last couple of years. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: every year in Denver they start with a quarterback competition.

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Speaker 1: Rush here so much Russell Wilson so stayed for the

518
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Speaker 1: whole first week. It was wild. You got a chance

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Speaker 1: to sit down with Russ and sit down with Hackett

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Speaker 1: and and see what they're kind of building there and

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Speaker 1: that in that division, which is wild. Uh So, then

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Speaker 1: I still have Kansas City after this, going up to

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Speaker 1: Minnesota for the owners vote on the ownership with the

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Speaker 1: Houston Texas with the uh we're with these things with

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Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos right, something happening we didn't knows ownership

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Speaker 1: will be there. Um So going up there for the

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Speaker 1: for the Broncos ownership, WHI should be a pretty quick vote,

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Speaker 1: but uh yeah, making the rounds man, I'm I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: excited to be down here because I'll be honest as

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Speaker 1: we jump kind of into this talking to people around

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Speaker 1: the league and everything in deering camp and stuff like,

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Speaker 1: there's one thing when I was saying I was coming

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Speaker 1: here that that kept coming up with a couple different

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Speaker 1: GMS was like, I really liked the Texans draft, Like

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Speaker 1: that's a that's like a thing around the league kind

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Speaker 1: of like, I really like this this draft down in Houston.

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited to see some of these young guys. Man,

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to see how a couple of them are.

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Speaker 1: I know a couple of them, and I'm kind of

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Speaker 1: excited to see what they can do at this level.

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Speaker 1: You're only missing stretching right now, so I don't feel

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Speaker 1: guilty at all for having you as I'm hearing around

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Speaker 1: the corner. Of course, you might be missing a live

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Speaker 1: national TV hit, but who knows you're with us? And

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Speaker 1: that's what camps all right tell me about Deva. This

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Speaker 1: is the first road trip for the Texans this year.

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Speaker 1: So what do you see in there with Russell Wilson

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Speaker 1: in the bold and the new coaching staff. Well, I mean,

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Speaker 1: the defense early on is obviously ahead of this offense

550
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Speaker 1: because they're playing the same system. They're playing with Vic

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Speaker 1: Fancho with a vow coming in and so obviously they're

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Speaker 1: gonna be ahead of head of for us in that

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Speaker 1: offense as they're installing something new because that that secondary

554
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Speaker 1: is justin Simmons, Pat Sertan, Ronald Darby, Kareem Jackson, who

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Speaker 1: you guys know, they're They're beyond excited to have cream back.

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Speaker 1: I was kind of touching Go for a second, but

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Speaker 1: I think having a safety duo that works really well together.

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Speaker 1: I was talking to some people about this and that

559
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Speaker 1: defense is so important, and you look at some of

560
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Speaker 1: these teams and ultimate name drop talking to one of

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Speaker 1: the greatest safeties of all time in Steve Atwater. When

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Speaker 1: I was up there was like, you know, if you

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Speaker 1: have these two guys that can work back and forth,

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Speaker 1: it's your safety duo. It changes what you do as

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Speaker 1: a defense. You can cover up holes, cover up mistakes.

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Speaker 1: You saw in Cincinnati how good Bond Bell and Jesse

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Speaker 1: Bates worked together with subpar Johnny like corner play bad. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just going was trying to be polite. It's early, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was a corner play and they can make up

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Speaker 1: for a lot of things. And they love the way

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Speaker 1: Kareem and and and Justin Simmons worked together. So this

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Speaker 1: offense is of work in progress right now. I think

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Speaker 1: you're going to see the deep ball a lot. They

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Speaker 1: love the way obviously Russ throws it. It's one of

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Speaker 1: the better deep balls in football. But I don't think

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Speaker 1: right now they have anybody in the receiver group that's

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Speaker 1: as good as dk Metcalf for Tyler Lockett, and Tyler

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Speaker 1: Lockett is criminally underrated. And his ability to judge judge

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Speaker 1: a ball in the air and his ability to track

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Speaker 1: a ball. I think Cortland Sutton's gonna have a big year.

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Speaker 1: But offensively, all eyes like a lot of teams, like

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Speaker 1: I just came from the Raiders, offensive line is gonna

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Speaker 1: be a big, big, uh you know, focal point for

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Speaker 1: if they can protect Russ and have this offensive work.

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Speaker 1: But I like all the pieces around him. I think

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Speaker 1: Javontay Williams is going to be a star at the

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Speaker 1: running back spot in his second season. I think one

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Speaker 1: of the things all so about playing with Russ's understanding

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Speaker 1: when the play is not over, yeah, and understanding that

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Speaker 1: part of it. And I remember hearing tight end that

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Speaker 1: what Jimmy Graham talk about that you know in New Orleans,

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Speaker 1: he turned, the ball was there, he ran his route,

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Speaker 1: the ball was there. He get to the spotty want

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Speaker 1: the ball was there. That was just the difference. He

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Speaker 1: got to Seattle, he get to his route and Russ

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Speaker 1: is scrambling and he's like, Okay, how do I do this?

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Speaker 1: How do I adjust? And so the Broncos receivers are

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Speaker 1: definitely gonna do that. You also went to Las Vegas.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna be another road trip for the Texans after

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Speaker 1: the bye week. You saw almost a catastrophic Andrew, I

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Speaker 1: saw this hit yesterday. I walked inside after practice and

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of catched up on Twitter and I see

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Speaker 1: you and you and the tweet was great because it

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Speaker 1: got me to buy in and I listened to you

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Speaker 1: describe it and I'm like, oh my god, my heart

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Speaker 1: would have been in my shoes. But other than Hunter

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Speaker 1: Rent for almost taking out Davanta Adams on the sideline,

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Speaker 1: what did you learn about the Raiders when you went? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: And first off, I Rappaport was so mad at me

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Speaker 1: because he's like, your storytelling's terrible. You should have told

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Speaker 1: the Raiders fans right in the beginning, like everybody's okay,

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Speaker 1: but I didn't. You know, that's perfect, that's great right

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Speaker 1: there the whole time. The inverted pyramid here, Yes, like Ian,

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Speaker 1: not all of our lives work In two hundred and

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Speaker 1: forty characters like we can drag something out here, like

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Speaker 1: we can you know, play something, but listen. And it

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Speaker 1: wasn't almost taking out Davant Dadams. He took Davante Adams out.

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Speaker 1: Derek Carr was like, gave me a hug after practice.

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Speaker 1: It was like, did you see what almost happened? Like

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Speaker 1: it was like his whole life, his whole world was

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Speaker 1: almost gone in the in the blink of an eye.

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Speaker 1: It's it's kind of similar to, you know, to Denver

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Speaker 1: to where they made all these moves, right you get

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Speaker 1: Chandler Jones and you and you go and get Davontae Adams.

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Speaker 1: And the offensive line was an issue last year. I

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Speaker 1: mean I think they tied for like nineteenth and sacks

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Speaker 1: aloud and Derek is under pressure a lot. They didn't

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Speaker 1: really make any moves on the offensive line to make

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Speaker 1: that group better at all. And you're gonna have a

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Speaker 1: guy like what I'm told, Lester Cotton starting to like

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Speaker 1: right guard who has been cut like four times by

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Speaker 1: the Raiders, undrafted guy at Alabama a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 1: and Alex Leatherwood's running with the threes first round pick

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Speaker 1: from a year ago. Um, it's it's an interesting watch

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Speaker 1: on that group up front to protect Derek because we know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, i'd like to get your guys opinion, but

637
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Speaker 1: I think it's top three in terms of group of

638
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: pass catchers that Derek has, Darren Waller, Hunter renfro and

639
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: Vontae Adams maybe top two, And if he doesn't have

640
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 1: time to get him to football, it's gonna be an

641
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 1: interesting story. But I think there's some question marks in

642
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 1: their secondary. For sure. D lines should be good. They're

643
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: they're really good getting pressure with four last year, and

644
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 1: in that division, you definitely have to do that because

645
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 1: if you blitz any of those quarterbacks, they're going to

646
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 1: burn you. But yeah, i'd say, oh, line in both

647
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 1: those spots are really the main keys. James Palmer with

648
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 1: us from NFL Network. I know you have things to do,

649
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 1: but we have a couple more questions here. Yeah, so

650
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 1: you went to Denver, went to the Raiders, now you're here.

651
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 1: Where else are you going? And where do you look

652
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,200
Speaker 1: forward to go as a training campsite? We know he

653
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: look forward to come here for our Houston resident But

654
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 1: who has a really cool camp that you like to visit?

655
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 1: Seattle is one of my favorite camps. To visit, just

656
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Speaker 1: because I don't know how many camps are literally on

657
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 1: a lake. People are on boat watching camp. There's DJ Turf,

658
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 1: the dogs up. There was a beautiful chocolate lab that

659
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: the head groundscrew guy has running around chasing geese off

660
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 1: the field. Um, It's it's just an awesome setting up

661
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: in Seattle. That's what's one of my favorite spots. Um.

662
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 1: I like the teams that try to get away. I

663
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 1: still like that. I loved when I would do Texans

664
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Speaker 1: at the Greenbrier and you know, actually had some memories

665
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: pop up the other day on like Instagram, like me

666
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 1: talking to JJ and Tyring and everybody there. Um. But

667
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 1: I like going up to Saint Joe because I just

668
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 1: love when teams stay at school and and and you

669
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Speaker 1: know when the chiefs do that, you know, north of

670
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Speaker 1: the city. It's always kind of fun when everybody's coming

671
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 1: out of their dorms and going to the practice field.

672
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be there next weekend for a few days

673
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 1: with with Mooch, so that should be you know, who'll

674
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 1: get Andy for sure if Mooch is there, so uh it.

675
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Speaker 1: I like I like those settings where the guys are

676
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 1: with each other every single minute of every single day, James.

677
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 1: I know, the Texans aren't the talking point in the league, um,

678
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 1: and if they were, it was probably for you know,

679
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 1: the Shawn Watson thing whatever. But when the topic of

680
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: Davis Mills comes up around the league, what do you

681
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 1: hear about him? Are people curious about him? Are they

682
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 1: the Texians won't do anything until they move on from him.

683
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 1: What was kind of the prevailing thought that you hear

684
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: about Davis. Yeah, that's a good question because I was

685
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: hosting Good Morning Football two weeks ago for the week

686
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 1: in New York and we're doing something about landing spots

687
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 1: for Jimmy Garoppolo and somebody was like, well, I think

688
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the Houston Texans. I'm like, looking, I'm

689
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: like why. I mean, I don't see it right now,

690
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 1: but I because I know that what they think they

691
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 1: have in Davis, and everybody else at the table was

692
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 1: looking at the guy going like, no, man, like, I

693
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: think we all want to see what Davis Mills can do.

694
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 1: And that's kind of the perception around the league is

695
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: like they really want to see what they got because

696
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 1: of the way it finished last year. And that's the

697
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 1: main reason why and I think, you know, his name

698
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 1: actually really kept coming up when I was calling teams

699
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 1: during the draft, when I was asking about all these

700
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 1: quarterbacks coming out in this draft, and his name kept

701
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: coming up, like, well, if he would have stayed a year, yeah,

702
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 1: he's the top quarterback. Like teams were told me that, Like,

703
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 1: if he would have stayed a year, he would have

704
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: been the first quarterback off the board this year. Like

705
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: that was a regular thing talking with teams with this

706
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 1: group that was coming out this year. So I think

707
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: people need to realize, and the right people do. It's

708
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 1: not where he was picked because of the group of

709
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that were picked before him. It's what he did

710
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: as a player. I mean, it was really him and

711
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 1: Mac were the ones that played last year and played well.

712
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 1: And so I think the perception around league is like

713
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 1: if he plays the way he played at the end

714
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 1: of last year, and that's the future for the Houston

715
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: Texans and they had this draft capital moving forward. I mean,

716
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: like it's very similar in my mind to like Philly,

717
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 1: if you found the guy and then you still have

718
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: the picks, you just get to build around him, and

719
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 1: that's what Philly did this past year. It's just built

720
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: around Jalen and if Houston can do that, and you know,

721
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 1: he's the guy like poof. I love his demeanor when

722
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: I talk to people that have worked with him a

723
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: lot like I love the way's wired that the cop

724
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 1: of Eli I think is pretty accurate in terms of

725
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 1: how his makeup is and how he handles himself and

726
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 1: the calumness and aspect of Elie. I see that. Com

727
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 1: just gotta get for the postseason now, A right? Fine? Yeah?

728
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 1: Exactly how old is your baby? Now? Baby? Remember Nixon

729
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 1: was the first child to appear on Comcast Sports Net Houston.

730
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Speaker 1: R ip. I'm not the network, not my son. Um

731
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: he is nine now wild yeah, because he's still in

732
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 1: the sports league with my nephew or something like that.

733
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 1: They were doing something. I do remember that. I do

734
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 1: remember the Debor area. James, It's always so great to visit.

735
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Speaker 1: It's wonderful to have you. Thanks for being here. I

736
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: love it. There's our buddy, James Palmer from this morning,

737
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 1: NFL Network doing hits here from Houston Texans training camp.

738
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Speaker 1: As you heard, Ian Rappaport is also here coming up

739
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: more fun from this morning. Among other things on the show,

740
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 1: an old friend an old coach, an old player at

741
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 1: the you a lot of things, and we're gonna hear

742
00:33:57,080 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: from him next Tony Fitzpatrick, my buddy, and other stuff

743
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 1: on the way as well here on Texans Radio. All right,

744
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: we have this final segment here on Texans Radio tonight,

745
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 1: and before we get to the guest, let me just

746
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 1: remind you that tomorrow we're gonna have Quintin Demps on

747
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 1: the show at eight forty five eight to ten am.

748
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:16,800
Speaker 1: Will be out there on the fields of the Houston

749
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 1: Methodist Training Seenter for Texans Training Camp Live. Demp's former

750
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: Texans safety been here for a couple of stints. He's

751
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 1: now a Texans Legends ambassador. He's going to join us

752
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 1: on the program and then Friday on that program about

753
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 1: the same time eight forty five ish, my buddy Jonathan

754
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:38,240
Speaker 1: Wells running back from Ohio State. I go back with Jonathan.

755
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:40,319
Speaker 1: He doesn't know this, but we spent time together at

756
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 1: the Meadowlands in nineteen ninety nine. He was with the

757
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 1: Buck guys and I was with the Miami Hurricanes, so

758
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: we didn't really spend time together, but I was in

759
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 1: the same building. I probably realized that much more than

760
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: he does. I might have brought that up to him.

761
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 1: I don't know if he remembers or not, but of

762
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 1: course that's gonna come up on Friday because that was

763
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 1: my first game calling action for the Miami Hurricanes. And

764
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 1: speaking of that guy doing sideline reporting, then, of course

765
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 1: I have John Harris now in this crew, and he's phenomenal.

766
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 1: Don Bailey, a friend of mine from Miami, did it

767
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 1: then for the Hurricanes radio network. He was Jim Kelly's

768
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 1: center for the Hurricanes. Great guy, still works for them,

769
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:18,720
Speaker 1: does color commentary. And Don and Tony Fitzpatrick our next guest.

770
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 1: They are good friends. And I met Tony and Houston.

771
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 1: He was living here already coaching for the University of Houston.

772
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 1: He's been there through well. He'll talk about how many

773
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 1: stints he's had coaching with the University of Houston and

774
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,280
Speaker 1: playing for the Houston Gamblers back in the day. Speaking

775
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: of Jim Kelly, he was Jim Kelly's roommate when the

776
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 1: Gamblers thrived here in the early mid eighties. They lived

777
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 1: out at Sugarland. I'm sure there were no parties or

778
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:47,919
Speaker 1: any kind of after hours activities in the Kelly Fitzpatrick

779
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 1: household back in the day, no way. Anyway, we were

780
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: innocently doing the show today out at the field and

781
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Tony walked up, So he had

782
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 1: to make an on air appearance. Whether he liked it

783
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 1: or not. A gentleman has come into our broadcast area.

784
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 1: Who I needed to talk to you on the areas

785
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 1: A former assistant coach with the University of Houston, former

786
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: a lot of former gambler, a lot of formers here,

787
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:16,919
Speaker 1: Tony Fitzpatrick played for the Canes. I mean, unbelievable. There's

788
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:18,839
Speaker 1: so much we could talk about right here. But Tony,

789
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:22,879
Speaker 1: it's great to see how Mark, how you doing? I mean,

790
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: there's just so much to get to. First of all,

791
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:26,439
Speaker 1: how does it feel to be here watching training camp?

792
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 1: It's it's exciting to be back around it like, uh,

793
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 1: because it's been a couple of years and I've been

794
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: out here and uh been around at coaching and playing

795
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,280
Speaker 1: and uh to get the get the field, get thee

796
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,319
Speaker 1: you know, hear the hits, not a lot of hits

797
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,360
Speaker 1: because they're you know, just shells and helmets and right

798
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 1: just being around it's beelsom right when you're going through

799
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 1: training camp. Tony as a coach for us, what are

800
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: your thoughts? Survival? Just get the next rep. I mean,

801
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:52,359
Speaker 1: I know everybody wants to say that, well, I'm gonna

802
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 1: see our team improving them. But as a coach, honestly,

803
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,800
Speaker 1: especially when sisst what are you thinking about As a coach,

804
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,760
Speaker 1: I really tried to strive on making sure every step,

805
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,400
Speaker 1: every hand placement, every look. That's why I like the

806
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 1: tight side and a tight end zone. Look at the

807
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:07,720
Speaker 1: defensive line. And I was also a special teams coordinator,

808
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 1: so watching everywhere they're putting their head there, it's just

809
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 1: you want perfection, and I know it's not in this

810
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 1: kind of weather with with the heating, humidity, their minds sinking. Gosh,

811
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get through the next rector, like you said,

812
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 1: but as a coach, you want them to strive to

813
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 1: be the best every play. Okay, can I rat out

814
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:25,840
Speaker 1: my partner? When special teams comes to practice here and

815
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: it starts, Wow, he leaves, goes on his phone or

816
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 1: goes to the bathroom. That's the respect he has special

817
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 1: practice Tony. Well, here's the deal. Being a being a

818
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:37,880
Speaker 1: D line coach and a special teams coordinator both are

819
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,360
Speaker 1: most important to me. I was coaching them both, right, So,

820
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: and you're coaching more people on the team when you're

821
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 1: coaching special teams. Send any any any position or any

822
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 1: interesting yes, yeah, well put yes, yes, your good love

823
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 1: Frank Ross and introduce you because he's wonderful, high energy

824
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 1: guy just like you. Tony. Hey, all right, let's go

825
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: in reverse order here at Miami. What do you think

826
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 1: of what they're doing at the University of Love Mario

827
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: Love Mario, the staff, the staff he's put together, Charlie Strong,

828
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 1: the strength, cod just everybody. Uh. He brought a lot

829
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 1: of guys from Oregon. I love. I love the transfer

830
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 1: portal because the whole defense will be different. Yeah. I

831
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 1: don't know about the nil. I'm still trying to wrap

832
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:19,080
Speaker 1: my mind around that. But it's it's free agency, right

833
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:21,240
Speaker 1: with the with the portal and the and the Moneys

834
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: they're they're throwing out there. I mean, the quarterback has

835
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 1: a seven to fifty I BMW to the rest of

836
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: the career there, you know. So I was talking to

837
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 1: Andre Johnson, I said, can you imagine if they had

838
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 1: and when we were there, Oh my gosh, crazy, Tony.

839
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: What's the sixth What has to be an absolute to

840
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 1: have success at Miami. What do you have to absolutely

841
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 1: do is Mario christ Ball takes the job. What does

842
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: he have to do now? He played there, so he

843
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 1: knows what's the key players? Players, players and big men

844
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 1: up front both sides of the ball. You got, you're

845
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 1: gonna get the speed, You're gonna get a quarterback. You

846
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:52,840
Speaker 1: had a great quarterback, but big, big, big bodies on

847
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:54,879
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. He knows. He's been at Alabama.

848
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: He saw it at Oregon. He said, he's been in

849
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 1: some place. He knows. But that's to me. That and

850
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: ring the swagger back in a good way and have

851
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 1: an attitude when you hit the field. Tony, you were

852
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: Jim Kelly's roommate. USFL Houston Gamblers in the eighties. Unbelievable stuff.

853
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 1: I want to hear all the stories you can't tell

854
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: on the air. But well, how weird was it to

855
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,799
Speaker 1: see the USFL back in whatever form? It was really weird,

856
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:20,720
Speaker 1: real weird. I tried to watch a couple of games.

857
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 1: It was hard for me, especially seeing the Houston Gamblers. Um,

858
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 1: they got some good players, but we have a lot

859
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 1: of great players because a lot of those great players

860
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: went to the NFL. I'll be at A couple of

861
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 1: players now have come into some camps and which is good.

862
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: But we had a lot of great players, a lot

863
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:38,479
Speaker 1: of great players on a lot of teams. It wasn't

864
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 1: just a couple of guys. Sure, No, that was amazing

865
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,840
Speaker 1: that Gambler's team was as young as a young kid

866
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 1: like that, but as a young kid growing up. And

867
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:48,839
Speaker 1: the Oilers were sort of struggling when I first got here,

868
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:50,319
Speaker 1: and you look up and you're like, hey, man, Jim

869
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: Kelly and Gambus, who do some good things. They resonated

870
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 1: in the city when they got here. I'm gonna tell

871
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:56,120
Speaker 1: you what a lot of us on the Gamblers thought

872
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 1: we could have beat the Oilers. They were starting. They

873
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 1: were strolling out that time. That time. That's resolutely Can

874
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,320
Speaker 1: I tell you all I went here? Really one? Yeah? Okay.

875
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:07,280
Speaker 1: My boss's name is Stan Carter and he's from Big Sandy, Texas.

876
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, guess who his junior high football coach was,

877
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:12,799
Speaker 1: the head coach of junior high and the linebacker coach

878
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: at Big Sandy Lovey Smith. Oh my gosh, yes, yes, yes,

879
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: he has some stories about him. He's a he's general

880
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 1: manager and vice president our company. That's Universal plan. You

881
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 1: guys are Texans Luxe member. Yeah, well we're looking at

882
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:27,120
Speaker 1: lux We got okay, Stephen, Stephen Freelander. He's working as hard, yes,

883
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 1: and doing a great job. Right here. Let's go Steven

884
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:37,719
Speaker 1: if you can. He's doing a great joy. Yeah, all right,

885
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:41,520
Speaker 1: well done, Love, you'll be here. We'll make this whole

886
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:44,360
Speaker 1: thing happen. We got Tony Fitzpatrick here. Look, if you

887
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 1: work for anybody, you get a high energy guy in

888
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 1: you results, it's awesome. All right. One more for you, Tony.

889
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 1: You are an assistant coach University of Houston for two

890
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: or three regimes, for four regimes, Jack Party, John Jenkins,

891
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 1: Kim Melton, Art Briles. Oh my gosh, okay, so which

892
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 1: is rare? How much does it blow your mind? The

893
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,839
Speaker 1: Big Twelve, the facilities they have now, they've really taken

894
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: things up. And a basketball program too with the Fatida Center.

895
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 1: I couldn't be happier for the Universe Houston. I wish

896
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:13,479
Speaker 1: Oklahoma and Texas would have stayed in the conference, but hey,

897
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: they're gonna add some more teams. What they're doing over

898
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: there is exciting, It's fantastic. A matter of fact, I

899
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 1: was at Dana Holgerson's golf tournament. And here's coach Sampson.

900
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 1: I've never met him as a coach. You coached the

901
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: wrong sport. He goes, why is that? He goes, what

902
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:26,960
Speaker 1: are talking about? I said you should have been a

903
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 1: football coach. He goes, No, I played football, and they

904
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:30,560
Speaker 1: play like that. And if they don't play like that,

905
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 1: they don't play for me. Wow. Yeah, I love that guy.

906
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 1: I love the love the school, what they're doing. Pessiman

907
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 1: is doing a great job. Quture is amazing as a president.

908
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: A lot of a lot of great things are happening

909
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,839
Speaker 1: over it. How many great stories can you tell us

910
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 1: about Andre Ware? Oh, he's the best. He's the best.

911
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. He probably was an amazing player, right,

912
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: Heisman Trophy winner, all that stuff I cat didn't. I

913
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: don't think you got a fair shot in the NFL.

914
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,280
Speaker 1: But he's even that better of a person. Yea, Yeah,

915
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:02,319
Speaker 1: I love him as person. I reach out to him

916
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 1: all every time. I every time I see him, I

917
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:06,600
Speaker 1: hug him every every every chance I get a texting.

918
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 1: He's just a great human being. Yep. And he's still

919
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:14,400
Speaker 1: in our boothing. My broadcast partner going into our twenty

920
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:17,879
Speaker 1: first season together. Tony, I know you all the time

921
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 1: and I really appreciate I'll be driving throughout the state

922
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 1: or the country and I'll listen to you ays and

923
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: I'll text you. Yeah. Well, it's great to see it

924
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:28,359
Speaker 1: to be with us, all right. Tony Fitzpatrick joining us

925
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 1: farmer Houston Gambler coach with the Cougars Miami Hurricane National

926
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Speaker 1: Championship nineteen eighty three wearing is that the ring? No,

927
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:40,719
Speaker 1: as it's yes, h that's conference championship Okay, And then

928
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:43,880
Speaker 1: I had the other one. I'm getting fixed, okay, good good, Yeah,

929
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:48,959
Speaker 1: Bernie Cosar, Yes, hey, another good thing back on her. Yeah.

930
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 1: Mario wants everybody back. He wants the players back on

931
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 1: the sideline. He wants yeah, he wants yeah. Yeah, he

932
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Speaker 1: doesn't want to s there's my buddy, Tony Fitzpatrick joining

933
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 1: us on the Pro Graham this morning. Thought we'd play

934
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Speaker 1: a little best for you on tomorrow's show. We'll be

935
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 1: live again Texans and Pads before the day off on Thursday,

936
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 1: so you're gonna hear all the latest from what is

937
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: going on with this football team. We mentioned Quentin Dempson

938
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 1: is going to be on the show, and you never

939
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 1: know who's going to show up. Have a great night everyone,

940
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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. Go Texans.