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Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody, Welcome into a Wednesday day should

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access sime here, John Harris, football sideline reporter,

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Speaker 1: So glad that you are with me tonight, twenty four

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Speaker 1: hours from departing for LA, or a little less than

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours actually to go take on the Rams

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Speaker 1: on Friday. So we'll be leaving on Thursday. But it's

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Speaker 1: a Wednesday, but it felt like a Friday, especially at practice.

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Speaker 1: So because it's Friday, practice is more like a Regulus

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Speaker 1: in practice. So nothing really that I can report on

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Speaker 1: or would report on. But if you want a little

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Speaker 1: preview of the game against the Rams, I got that

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Speaker 1: for you at Houston Texans dot com or the app.

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Speaker 1: But what you can hear live right now. As I

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Speaker 1: tweeted about it a little while ago, as Mark talked

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Speaker 1: about it. This morning, Nick Cassario jumped in the Honday

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio studio with us to give his thoughts about

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Speaker 1: the preseason about LA and whether he would pick Aaron

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Speaker 1: diplomatic answer. You'll hear that in three two one go

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Speaker 1: joining us now in the Hunday Texans Radio studio. It's

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Speaker 1: Nick Kissario, general manager of the Texans. How's it going, Nick, Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's good to see you. Great to see you. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so big week, they're all big. But here we go

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Speaker 1: with preseason game number two. It's a strange preseason Nick,

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Speaker 1: We're all getting used to three games, plus you have

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Speaker 1: this short week and then another short week on top

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Speaker 1: of that dynamic going on. Can you speak to that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of factors that are involved. I would

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Speaker 1: say relative to the Rams, it's a good opportunity for

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Speaker 1: have some familiarity just relative to haven't played them last season,

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Speaker 1: Say they've had a lot of continuity. Say they're kind

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Speaker 1: of the way they handle the preseason. They don't play

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Speaker 1: a lot of players. But that's okay. I mean, you're

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Speaker 1: still getting get an opportunity to work against another group

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Speaker 1: we can kind of see how some of our players

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Speaker 1: doing a different setting. And then you mentioned a short week,

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Speaker 1: which is kind of going to simulate really what's gonna happen?

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Speaker 1: And on the Thursday night game, so play Friday night.

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Speaker 1: I know it's a few days earlier than normal, but

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Speaker 1: going to look like. Nick, we played last week obviously here.

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Speaker 1: Now you're on the road for the first time. How

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Speaker 1: much does that become, as you call it, a different

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Speaker 1: for all of us on a lot of different levels,

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Speaker 1: It just gives us another bite at the apple, a

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Speaker 1: Eventually you're going to transition to some of the carded

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Speaker 1: spacious press box in the league. We're actually going to

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Speaker 1: see week two in Denver, so it's actually it's unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: You could literally have a walkthrough in the press box

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Speaker 1: that place. So it's huge and it's loud as hell,

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Speaker 1: and there'll be some challenges there outside of the crowd.

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Speaker 1: They have a good team, so um, you know, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of good buildings throughout the league. Fortunately been

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Speaker 1: able to be in just a lot all of them,

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Speaker 1: I think. But you haven't been to La yet. Have

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Speaker 1: we played Yeah, we were at Guy, Yeah you back

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Speaker 1: to back we did. We played oh yeah, Charters on

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Speaker 1: Sunday and then we played the Rams Thursday night and

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Speaker 1: follow up. So okay, great, great atmosphere, really great, great stadiums,

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Speaker 1: and you'll just stayed out there for that week. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we played the Chargers and we practiced at UCLA, so

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Speaker 1: we were at UCLA. Coach Kelly I was able to

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Speaker 1: accommodate us, so we have a relationship with him, so

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Speaker 1: it worked out really well. All right, Well, let's have

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Speaker 1: a great trip this week. Thank you very much for

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Speaker 1: the time. Nick. Thanks, guys, appreciate it. It's that question

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Speaker 1: that I asked about Aaron Donald and Matt Stafford a

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Speaker 1: little either or then I'm gonna throw at Mark in

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Speaker 1: different forms A souped up advanced edition of Either or

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Speaker 1: next right here in Texas All Access. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: Wednesday edition of Texans All Access. I am John Harris

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Speaker 1: alongside the voice of the Texans Mark van Amir. Mark.

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Speaker 1: I came up with that question that I asked Nick about,

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Speaker 1: and either or which one? If you were asked by

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Speaker 1: Sean McVay. Look, one of these guys will play, which

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Speaker 1: one do you want to see such that your team

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Speaker 1: gets good work against them? And he said neither. I

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Speaker 1: think he danced away, but I would like to see

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Speaker 1: this offensive line against Aaron Donald. I love watching Aaron

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Speaker 1: Donald play. Who would you pick? I gotta see Stafford.

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Speaker 1: I gotta see Stafford because I want to see how

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Speaker 1: my defense is so and if he plays Stafford, he

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Speaker 1: is going to play a bunch of other people who

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Speaker 1: can protect Stafford, who can make plays for Stafford. So,

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Speaker 1: in other words, your number one offense is playing. And

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Speaker 1: this is an offense by the way, no O, b

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Speaker 1: J No Robert Woods, Bobby Trees. He's in Tennessee right now.

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Speaker 1: So they're gonna see how they're gonna be without those

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Speaker 1: two weapons. Of course, they still have plenty to work with, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: but it's gonna be interesting. It is gonna be very interesting.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna ask you one question and then we're

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Speaker 1: gonna flip it to the regular season, and it's gonna

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Speaker 1: change the entire question. But a similar vein so Week three,

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Speaker 1: the preseason, we play the San Francisco forty nine. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so similar question. Kyle Shanahan comes to you and says, Mark,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you pick. I'm gonna play one of

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Speaker 1: these two. Which one do you want to see for

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Speaker 1: your team? But sorry, trying to predict where you were going,

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Speaker 1: Nick Bosa or Deebo Samuel, which one would So you're

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Speaker 1: not giving me Trey Lance. You're not giving me the quarterback? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, I don't know whether I'm a

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Speaker 1: planner or not. That he's out of the conversations. I'll

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Speaker 1: take both. Deebo Samuel is a unique player, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna see Michael Pittman the following week. But it's

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Speaker 1: not quite the same thing, is it. But they do

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Speaker 1: use Pittman in some different ways. I would say Bosa

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Speaker 1: would be the guy give me that blocking practice up front. Love.

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Speaker 1: He said today that the first team would play a

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Speaker 1: little bit more in the final preseason game. Right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: We'll see how that goes. You know, minds can change,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not doubting him. I'm just saying we'll see

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Speaker 1: how it goes. I'm looking forward to seeing this though,

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Speaker 1: because we saw practice today and it was not your

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Speaker 1: regular training camp type of practice, and that's what my

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Speaker 1: question to Nick was about, basically, you know, how does

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Speaker 1: he see it when they're working on where guys need

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Speaker 1: to line up and how they need to execute execute

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Speaker 1: against certain fronts in certain situations that they're facing. I

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Speaker 1: thought it was an interesting practice that way, really good

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Speaker 1: important practice for the team. Yeah, very much so. And

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Speaker 1: it's you're right, it's reached. And he had said he said,

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Speaker 1: this is like a Friday regular season practice, and may

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Speaker 1: mean it's funny because as soon as I as soon

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Speaker 1: as I saw stretching, I realized, oh, I knew exactly

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Speaker 1: what it was. Yeah, I knew it was a Friday, right,

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Speaker 1: So I just put my notebook behind. I just texted

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Speaker 1: Amanda and I said, man, I guess what. No Harris

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Speaker 1: hits today. So because it's that kind of practice, you're

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Speaker 1: not the one that you report on. You don't report

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Speaker 1: anything from that particular practice other than hey, this guy

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Speaker 1: was at practice and that might have been it. And

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Speaker 1: Kenny Green was at practice. He didn't really do much,

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Speaker 1: but hopefully they they ramped that up in due time.

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Speaker 1: So Debo or Nick Bosa, I think if Stingley's gonna

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Speaker 1: play a little bit like him, see Debo okay, I'd

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Speaker 1: like to see him. I like him to see Debo.

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Speaker 1: If Laramie and Titus are gonna play an extended amount,

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Speaker 1: I might want to see Bosa. I don't know that

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Speaker 1: I want to see postings anybody else, but I want

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Speaker 1: to see want to say bost against those two. I'll

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Speaker 1: give you another one. Opening day. I'm going to allow

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Speaker 1: you to sit a Cults player. You're stealing my game.

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Speaker 1: This is your yeah, this is this is where I

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Speaker 1: was going to, well, see you are not great minds,

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Speaker 1: thinking like, are you go ahead? Okay, you ask me,

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what I was gonna say. So Frank Reich says, okay,

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Speaker 1: you've want you You've won an NFL lottery in which

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Speaker 1: every single game this year you get to sit in

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Speaker 1: opposing player. Let's go. But coach gets to pick the

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Speaker 1: two players, because says, I get to pick these two.

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Speaker 1: You get to pick one, and it's an either or okay,

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Speaker 1: and it's an either worse yea fit in kind of

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Speaker 1: like an expansion draft or the player unprotected yet so

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Speaker 1: Frank Reich has left unprotected Shaquille Leonard or DeForrest Buckner.

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Speaker 1: Which one are you eliminating it's a really good one.

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Speaker 1: You know a lot of people would just automatically go

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Speaker 1: to Leonard. But DeForrest, Buckner is a monster upfront to

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Speaker 1: deal and against us too, he has our number. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's not good when you have those two guys. You

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Speaker 1: know a lot of sports cliches go like this. You

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Speaker 1: gotta be strong up the middle, no matter what the

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Speaker 1: sport is. But it's true. Cliches are there for a reason.

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Speaker 1: Baseball obviously, catcher, pitcher, up the middle, short second, center field,

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Speaker 1: and then you look at basketball, you know the old school.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a good center, do you have a

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Speaker 1: good point guard? That kind of thing up the middle.

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Speaker 1: Football is the same way. Man, those guys are really

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Speaker 1: good up the middle defensively, and DeForest Buckner is you know,

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Speaker 1: part of that deal, and so is Shack Leonard. But

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Shack Leonard. Somehow I'll survive against Buckner.

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Speaker 1: Shack Leonard is one of those guys. Yeah, Buckner is

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Speaker 1: gonna be a problem all day, but Shack is gonna

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Speaker 1: get the ball out. He's gonna rub it in your face.

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Speaker 1: It's not gonna be pretty. I want Leonard out of there,

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Speaker 1: and he might be out of there anyway with the injury. Okay,

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Speaker 1: two teams that we play this year, Okay, Denver Broncos

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Speaker 1: and a Dallas Cowboys. You can eliminate either Russell Wilson

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Speaker 1: or Dak Prescott. Who are you eliminating? Either Russell Wilson

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott? Take one away. Oh that's a good one, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: Because I started thinking about the Broncos. I was gonna

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Speaker 1: go against you. No, no, oh yeah, yeah, against you.

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Speaker 1: So I'll go with Russell Wilson. I'll take my chances.

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Speaker 1: It's week two win or lose on opening Day, I

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Speaker 1: gotta I feel like I gotta have that one. But

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Speaker 1: I know you don't have to have that one, like

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Speaker 1: half to in the must win game two since but

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Speaker 1: I just feel like it would be so good to

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Speaker 1: get it, to get some kind of momentum on your

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Speaker 1: way to Chicago. And Dak is good. You've beating him

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Speaker 1: once you're at his place, right, Gosh, I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. I just think Denver is just not even

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Speaker 1: close to being the same team without Russell Wilson. Dallas

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Speaker 1: can manufacture wins without Dak Prescott with that running game

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Speaker 1: at home, I guess Denver did it too, to the

578
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Speaker 1: tune of seven wins. But I think Dallas can can

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Speaker 1: win a football game without Dak Prescott. Absolutely. Okay, Cleveland's

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Speaker 1: December fourth, and I'm not going to ask you about

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Speaker 1: the quarterback. Okay, but you get to eliminate one an

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Speaker 1: offensive player and defensive player. Would you like to eliminate

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Speaker 1: that day, Nick Chubb or Miles Garrett? I'll go Chub.

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Speaker 1: Is Kareem Hunts still playing, though I don't know he's

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Speaker 1: asked for a trade. Maybe he's trade. But even dearest

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Speaker 1: Johnson is a pretty good backup. I mean, he's a

587
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Speaker 1: good solid number two. He's the three. You know where

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Speaker 1: I started to get bad feelings as an opponent about

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Speaker 1: their line during the COVID year. Of course, Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: look I was doing that game off a monitor and

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Speaker 1: you were there. But one thing I could tell with

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Speaker 1: some of the tight shots that I was getting, because

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Speaker 1: I got the ALL twenty two on one side. On

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Speaker 1: the other side right next to it, I have the

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Speaker 1: TV copy, which I really never look at while I'm

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Speaker 1: doing a radio game, but you could see certain things

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Speaker 1: on there that you can't see in the ALL twenty two.

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Speaker 1: In my binoculars, and one of them was the nastiness

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Speaker 1: of those guys up front in Cleveland. They have an

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Speaker 1: attitude and an identity as an offensive line and they're

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Speaker 1: upset that they didn't do well last year. And I'm

602
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Speaker 1: not terrified of them, but it's not good. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go Chubb. I'd like Chubb out of the game, please.

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Speaker 1: I'll deal with Miles Garrett. I'm with you, Laramie. Laramie

605
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Speaker 1: was a little upset after the game because Miles was like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they were chipping on me all day, but when they

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Speaker 1: went to one on one, Miles Garrett didn't get to

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Speaker 1: either of the Texans quarterbacks that day. So storing affair,

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Speaker 1: I'll let Laramie. I'll let Laramie go one on one

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Speaker 1: with him. I'll go I'll let Laramie go one on one.

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Speaker 1: I trust it. But Chubb, Yeah, we can. We can

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Speaker 1: eliminate Chubb. Okay, Texans will face two first round twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one NFL quarterbacks, Chicago's Justin Fields and Jacksonville's Trevor Lawrence.

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Speaker 1: You can eliminate one Trevor Lawrence or Justin Fields. You

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Speaker 1: can eliminate one. Luton's out of there. Who's the backup

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Speaker 1: in Jacksonville right now? It is in Jacksonville CJ. Bethard

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Speaker 1: and behind him e J. Perry from Brown Boy. You're

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Speaker 1: dying to see him, kind and kind of not because

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Speaker 1: I kind of feel like e J. Perry would compete

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Speaker 1: his way throughout a ballgame and make it really tough

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Speaker 1: on us, really really tough. In Chicago, the backup is

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Speaker 1: Trevor Simeon and his backup is Nathan Peterman. So you're

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Speaker 1: you're getting a big break either way. Yeah, which one

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Speaker 1: you want? Or you want Bears or Justin Fields out.

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Speaker 1: Simeon hasn't played well for a long time. I've seen

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Speaker 1: Bethard play pretty well. But I gotta say it's Lawrence.

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Speaker 1: I'll deal with Fields. I think that team is not

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Speaker 1: very good now. They could beat the Texans because they're

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Speaker 1: at home. They can beat anybody. Look, anybody can beat anybody.

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Speaker 1: We know that. I'll take Uh wait, did I say so? Yeah, Lawrence?

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Speaker 1: I want Lawrence out. Well. I'm eager to see another

632
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Speaker 1: Davis Mills Trevor Lawrence showdown and see how that goes,

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Speaker 1: and maybe you make it two and oh because I

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Speaker 1: know they're two and oh against the Jackson but Tyrod

635
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Speaker 1: Taylor started a week one last year. Okay, okay, you

636
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Speaker 1: can see I'm a piece in these together. So we

637
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Speaker 1: face both the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles

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Speaker 1: this year. We play Philadelphia on Thursday night. Nick talked

639
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Speaker 1: about that earlier. This is good preparation. A short week.

640
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 1: You're ready for that November third game against the Eagles.

641
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: We go to MetLife to take on the Giants. Each

642
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 1: of those teams has an alum of Penn State sae

643
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 1: Quon Barkley for the Giants, Miles Sanders for the Philadelphia Eagles.

644
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 1: More underrated running backs in the league. You can eliminate

645
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 1: one of them. Which one are you gonna I'll take

646
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: Barkley out because I think look, as long as Hurtz

647
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: is there, I feel like the Eagles can be effective.

648
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:52,720
Speaker 1: I feel like without a healthy Barkley, with Barkley completely

649
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 1: erased from the equation, they're not going anywhere in New York. Now. Look,

650
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,160
Speaker 1: I know Dables there, They've changed the system everything. I

651
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 1: saw a little bit of preseason action with them and

652
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones and one drive got hit three times. Yeah,

653
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: that's not good. That's not good At all. Yeah, so

654
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: I believe without Barkley they're doomed. Okay, we faced the

655
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 1: Colts and the Titans this year, and you know exactly

656
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 1: what I'm about to ask you. You're gonna go which

657
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 1: running back would I'd rather not see? Wrong quarterback? No,

658
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 1: you're right running back. Sorry, I couldn't think of an

659
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 1: offensive line in a match up with Quinton Nelson. Um,

660
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 1: you could take one out Jonathan Taylor, Derek Henry. Eliminate

661
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 1: one for both games. Oh, for both games. Eliminate one

662
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 1: for both games, Jonathan Taylor or Derrick Henry. Henry Henry. Look,

663
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 1: I've seen the Titans. We beat them without Henry last year.

664
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Speaker 1: Up there, Tyrod Taylor here. It came close in the

665
00:30:56,360 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 1: second half of the comeback. I still got to see

666
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 1: it to believe it. From Matt Ryan this year, I

667
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: still think that and especially with the offensive line not

668
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: being exactly what it was, this could be pretty interesting

669
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: if you're able to slow down Jonathan Taylor and someone

670
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: hits the snot out of Matt Ryan. Johnny, you know me,

671
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 1: I want to see everybody play their third string if possible. Yeah,

672
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: of course, you know I'm not big on if you

673
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 1: want to be the best, beat the best. Yeah, I

674
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 1: get that, but I'll play anybody weakened preferably. But with

675
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, I kind of want to see Matt Ryan

676
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 1: in the cults. I want to see how this works

677
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: out for them, and I want to be part of

678
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: the demise. We both have seen Texans defenses stop Derrick Henry. No,

679
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 1: we haven't seen We haven't seen a Texans offense stop

680
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor. We haven't seen that defense yet. A defense

681
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 1: to stop Jonathan Tylor is that interesting? Yeah? But you

682
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 1: know what? Yeah, but nineteen or purity salties, right, and

683
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 1: you stopped Henry what up there in twenty nineteen late

684
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 1: in the season, right, it's the one time based on

685
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: big time, I mean since he became Derek Henry because

686
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 1: when they were sort of doing the one two punch

687
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 1: with DeMarco Murray and the exotic smash mouth wasn't exactly

688
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 1: the same thing we're talking about right now. Yeah, I'll

689
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 1: say I'll take Henry out though, okay, and I'll take

690
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:20,959
Speaker 1: my chances with Matt Ryan because I gotta stop Jonathan

691
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 1: Taylor at some point. Maybe I can't. You know, it's

692
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,239
Speaker 1: funny because you stopped t Y Hilton like maybe one

693
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 1: or two games in his career. You know, usually it's

694
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 1: he stops himself, he gets hurt, whatever, has to pull

695
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 1: himself out. That's what this Derrick Henry situation reminds me of.

696
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: You did stop him in that one twenty nineteen road contest. Okay,

697
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: face the Titans twice and you I just compared the

698
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: running backs. But now we're sticking with the Titans. And

699
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 1: the Titans alone, you can eliminate either Jeffrey Simmons up

700
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: front or and I know they're not analogous players, but

701
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 1: just think about how important they are. You can eliminate

702
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Simmons or Ben Jones at center. Oh Simmons Simmons.

703
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 1: I mean, I know it sounds obvious, I know, but

704
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 1: you're thinking Ben Jones, the quarterback of that old line

705
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 1: and they depend on him, and they ran the ball

706
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 1: pretty well without Derrick Henry. Let me change this, well,

707
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 1: Leek Willis is gonna start against you Simmons or Ben

708
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: Jones for both games because if Daniels in there, Simon,

709
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 1: if Daniels in here, he can run everything in this sound.

710
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: I feel like I can run on them without Simmons

711
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: and make some plays, you know, maybe throw the ball

712
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 1: a little bit. I feel pretty good. He's so good. Yeah,

713
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:38,480
Speaker 1: he's good. He's so oh. This division, all right, I

714
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 1: get it. Last year they got one team into the postseason.

715
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: That's the first time that's happened in a long time,

716
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 1: since twenty sixteen. All right, so last year was the

717
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: first time in five years they did not get two

718
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 1: teams into the playoffs. This division's pretty good, and I

719
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 1: think that when you look at having the two best

720
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: running backs in the league in one division, that's strong

721
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 1: stuff right there. Yeah. I know Minnesota's gonna have something

722
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 1: to say about Dalvin Cook, but most gms, I think,

723
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: would put Derek Henry and Jonathan tayl Are right on top.

724
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 1: I know the quarterbacks don't scare you as much, but man,

725
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 1: it's a it's a tough go and the Jaguars aren't

726
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 1: getting any worse. I guess the division isn't what it

727
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: used to be, Johnny. I mean when you look at

728
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 1: the Jags in the Texans Lappers last year, and there

729
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 1: have been some young players added to the division, Obviously

730
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 1: we're improving. Young town over here. It feels that way

731
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 1: because the Watson Titans are on top, and they don't

732
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:31,400
Speaker 1: should have made the playoffs. They don't have a Mahomes,

733
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 1: they don't have a Josh Allen. They don't have one

734
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: of those guys. If if if the Colts had Justin Herbert,

735
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:41,280
Speaker 1: I mean, oh, forget it. I mean that that image

736
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: to me. Yeah, sorry, just mean you get to kind

737
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 1: of take into account in some sets. Okay, what if

738
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: it doesn't work with Matt Ryan, it's a it's a

739
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 1: bad year. They go eight to nine, nine and eight,

740
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 1: it's not working out. Where do they go from here?

741
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 1: Dick Foles, well, apparently Foles has been all played by

742
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:02,760
Speaker 1: Sam Ellinger. But the training camp, if I'm Nick Folds,

743
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,320
Speaker 1: that really bothers me a lot. Because ellen Air was

744
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,279
Speaker 1: at the University of Texas for I think a total

745
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 1: of seven years law. But it felt like that when

746
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,920
Speaker 1: you were watching Longhorn football, and although he seemed like

747
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: a really good guy and made plays with his feet

748
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 1: would make that occasional big throw, I didn't see a

749
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: boatload of trajectory there headed toward an NFL career. But

750
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 1: here he is, so more power to them. Okay, we

751
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 1: will make two road trips to two very fun locations

752
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:32,479
Speaker 1: this year. And both of the NFL teams in those

753
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: cities made a trade for a wide receiver. You can

754
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 1: eliminate one, Okay, either Miami's Tyreek Hill or the Las

755
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: Vegas Raiders Davante Adams. This is a good question. This

756
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 1: is a good question because you don't exactly know how

757
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 1: each one's gonna they're going to use that. Just getting

758
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: this for the first time, Yeah, all right, so, and

759
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,320
Speaker 1: I'm I'm acting as if I really have a factor.

760
00:35:58,440 --> 00:35:59,800
Speaker 1: You know, this is like I mean, think my in

761
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 1: put is gonna make this happen. Yeah, off the top

762
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: of my head, my gut says, get rid of Davante

763
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,439
Speaker 1: Adams with the Raiders. That's really gonna weaken them a lot.

764
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:10,359
Speaker 1: And you're at their place, You're at the Dolphins place.

765
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill does not scare me as much without two.

766
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 1: I gotta see it to believe it. But I do

767
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:18,719
Speaker 1: believe Adams with the Raiders makes them that much better.

768
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 1: You know, they don't have guys like Zay Jones went

769
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: to Jacksonville and I saw him make some plays last year.

770
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:25,839
Speaker 1: You know, it's all about those plays at the moment

771
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 1: of truth in this league. And I just think that

772
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 1: Adams can really help Derek car a lot. I know

773
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 1: people are listening thinking, well, Tyreek Hill should be able

774
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 1: to help tah I don't know. I mean he should

775
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 1: be able to I'm not saying he's gonna be a

776
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 1: horrible year, but I don't know. I'll take Adams. I'll

777
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 1: take Adams. You probably picked Tyreek Hill. I've always been

778
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 1: afraid of Tyreek Hill, but I actually feel like if

779
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 1: Tyreek's out, that just means more targets for Jalen Waddle,

780
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:56,360
Speaker 1: Chase Edmonds out of the backfield, Mike Asikiet wide receiver,

781
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 1: slash tight end, whatever you want to call him. I

782
00:36:58,160 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 1: just think it's more targets for those guys, and those

783
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:02,880
Speaker 1: guys are incredibly good. Now. The Raiders have got that

784
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,279
Speaker 1: talent too with Darren Wadder, but he's been banged up.

785
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 1: You gotta hunter renfro But I don't know that they're

786
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,359
Speaker 1: convinced that there's any other weapons. So if you take

787
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:12,799
Speaker 1: Vante out of there, I think Derek Carr is gonna

788
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 1: get in this mode of I'm going to seventeen as

789
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 1: much as humanly possible, Like that's the guy I'm going

790
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 1: to the flip side of this too, is the Raiders

791
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 1: also have. They have Josh mcdanios now, and I think

792
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: he is going to be instrumental in helping Car. Okay,

793
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:30,839
Speaker 1: if you don't have Adams, I can manufacture completions. It's

794
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 1: for other players. And I think the receiver, the receiver

795
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 1: trio between Darren Waller, Hunter Renfro and Vanta Adams is stout.

796
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: But I think numbers two and three in Miami, Jayalen

797
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 1: Waddle and Mike Asiki are are better than two and

798
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: three in Las Vegas. So I would I would say

799
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 1: Davanta Adams as well. I listen, you know, me to

800
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 1: Tyreek scares the fool out of me. But Tyreek scared

801
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 1: the fool out of me when he was with Patrick

802
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,440
Speaker 1: Mahomes because Mahomes is gonna get him the football in

803
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: some way, shape or form where he was gonna make

804
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 1: a play about Alex Smith with the ball in his hands.

805
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 1: And yeah, with Alex Smith two, it's just Tyreek was

806
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 1: that guy. Now Alex couldn't take total advantage of it

807
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 1: because they were only together for you know, a year

808
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:09,880
Speaker 1: or two, but it really the Tyreek box was truly

809
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 1: opened once Patrick Mahomes went out there. And so that's

810
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 1: the last one. We play Kansas City and we played

811
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: the Chargers. You can eliminate Mahomes or Herbert. We play

812
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:20,800
Speaker 1: the Chargers here, we play the Chiefs here, so that

813
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 1: elements out Holmes or Herbert. Is it as easy as

814
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 1: it is slam dunk that you're taking Mahomes. I will

815
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,239
Speaker 1: eliminate Mahomes. Yeah, I mean I think that's easy. But

816
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 1: then again, boy, Herbert's got a boy. The Chargers without

817
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:40,280
Speaker 1: Herbert is probably not very good. You know, the Chargers

818
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 1: with Herbert would remind me of who would be the

819
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 1: Seahawks before Russell. Yeah, at all his talent there, and

820
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:49,879
Speaker 1: then Russell got plopped into it. It was like, look

821
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 1: we got I think the Chargers would be the same

822
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: way the Charger Omega Loody Reid is good at manufacturing

823
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 1: wins with another quarterback his career. Speaking of Mega Loaded,

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00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:01,800
Speaker 1: you see the deal with Arma James got Oh baby,

825
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 1: you got paid seventy six mill for the safety from

826
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,839
Speaker 1: the Chargers. Are a nice job, Mark, a nice job?

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Speaker 1: Canymi Fairbairn. What do you mean? Oh yeah, he's next right.

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Speaker 1: You are in Texas all access. This is all access.

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Speaker 1: This is all access. We got a final segment of

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Speaker 1: this this shit Texas All Access and we kick it

831
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Speaker 1: off no bun intended with our pal Callimi fairband. Let's

832
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 1: go exceded. You go back home, you venture over to

833
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 1: the old haunts where you used to rule the UCLA campus.

834
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Speaker 1: You can do that when we get there. Yeah, I'm

835
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 1: excited to go to so far. It's not exactly home,

836
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 1: it's my second home. Yeah, of course, I gotta can't

837
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 1: forget about the islands. Yes, but yeah, it'll be fun

838
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: to go to the West coast, see the new stadium,

839
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 1: see the new setup, and um continue this journey to

840
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 1: a preseason and getting ready for your regular season. How

841
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 1: do you feel right now where you are going into

842
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 1: the regular season, I mean for your specialty being ready

843
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,839
Speaker 1: to go on September eleventh. How much do you kind

844
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: of kick leading up to it? How many days off

845
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 1: do you get? You sure like a picture? Are you

846
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 1: sure like starting picture? Sure like a reliever we gotta

847
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 1: kick every day? Or starting pitcher where you do it

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Speaker 1: every few days. Yeah, I think pitch count is important, Um,

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Speaker 1: but honestly it's a lot to do with mental reps

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Speaker 1: for me. Um, Physically, I feel good, Frank and Bake

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Speaker 1: and the whole the whole coaching staff take good care

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Speaker 1: of us. And you know, especially Weeks and Cam. It's

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Speaker 1: just mental reps and seeing the ball and getting comfortable

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Speaker 1: in those situations, getting called out on the field and

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Speaker 1: going one for one with your special teams this year.

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Speaker 1: Just looking at the team across the board. Obviously in

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Speaker 1: preseason it may not be what you have going into

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Speaker 1: the regular season, but just overall from a special team standpoint,

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Speaker 1: you talk about Cam, you talk about Weeks, Bike and

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Speaker 1: also Frank and then the group of players you've got,

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Speaker 1: what's the outlook for you for this year? Looking at

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Speaker 1: that group as a whole, I think we look good overall.

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Speaker 1: There's there's not much let off across the board wherever

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Speaker 1: we we whoever we put out there, you know, and

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Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be tough for you know, Frank and

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Speaker 1: those guys to make those decisions, but you know, I

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Speaker 1: think as a unit we're gonna be great. We put

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Speaker 1: a lot of tension to detail into every thing we

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Speaker 1: do and we just got to continue to do that

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Speaker 1: every day and um go out there and execute it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you and I have talked about

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Speaker 1: this at all. Last year against Seattle, you went sixty

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Speaker 1: one yards. Now in practice, how far have you gone

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Speaker 1: and how far do you think you could go in

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Speaker 1: the perfect conditions at Energy Stadium? Oh, man, that's tough.

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Speaker 1: I've I've gone back there to you know, sixty five,

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Speaker 1: sixty seven, But honestly, I don't. I don't touch those

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Speaker 1: numbers very often. To me, I'm, you know, trying to

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Speaker 1: be perfect inside fifty. Um, that's one of my goals.

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Speaker 1: And to me, being those those reps are the ones

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Speaker 1: that are important that you know, hit game one of

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Speaker 1: You might get one or two sixty yarders attempts in

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Speaker 1: your career. So yeah, they're nice to hit, um, and

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Speaker 1: they're fun. Um. But to me, there where you making

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Speaker 1: money and help the team a lot is within fifty.

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Speaker 1: Favorite field goal you've hit since you've been a tax

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Speaker 1: could be the last one of Seattle, could be one

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Speaker 1: of twenty eighteen to beat Dallas. Favorite field goal that

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Speaker 1: you've hit in your career as a Texan. Oh, that's tough.

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Speaker 1: You hit a few? Yeah, I hit a few. Um,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It was kind of a team win. Um. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: the game against Buffalo in the playoff game, um you know,

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Speaker 1: it was a it was a chip shot, but just

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Speaker 1: what it meant to the fans and um us as

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Speaker 1: a team and moving on to the next round in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. It's it's that one that one sticks out

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Speaker 1: in my mind, sticks out for a lot of people

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Speaker 1: as well. Big thanks to Kaymi, to Mark and to

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Speaker 1: Nick Cassaria. We'll see you tomorrow. Abody is always Go Texans.