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Speaker 3: Oh, good evening, Texans. Here we are once again at

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Speaker 3: Sports Radio six Tents studio, Mark Vandermin and John Harris

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Speaker 3: with you, and we're cooking in free agency as the

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Speaker 1: That will be Dan Happy New Year.

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Speaker 3: But obviously all this stuff is happening right now, and

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Speaker 3: this team will sign so and so, because nothing becomes

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Speaker 3: the Texans put out a release today, Johnny. I was

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Speaker 2: Hey, if I just hang on, I might get a

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Speaker 3: You come up empty, right, you come up snake eyes

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Speaker 3: Where do we want to be, how do we want

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Speaker 2: I think there there are still a I think very

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Speaker 2: I don't know if there's I don't know if there's

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Speaker 1: So what I'm saying, No, there was no question he's

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Speaker 1: Thanks.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna keep it in mind. I'm not sure what

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Speaker 1: No, because I got to make plans. I'm not holding out.

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Speaker 3: Get back to you. Look, look, look you're in the mix.

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Speaker 3: Happens to you, gentlemen, I'm just saying it, just right

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Speaker 3: I'm telling you, Colin, are you narrative? Colin our producer?

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Speaker 3: And he's not talking about I'm talking about the other

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, unlimited supply. Yeah, you got it.

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Speaker 3: You have to have that attitude even if you still

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Speaker 2: Well, what happens is important and take him back to football. Okay,

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Speaker 1: No, I'm not well no, right, Johnny.

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Speaker 2: They're like, Hey, we're just gonna kind of hang out

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 3: Nick knows as well as anybody may be better than anybody,

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Speaker 1: Really important for you.

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Speaker 2: Tommy Togia in the middle of twenty four Tommy freaking

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Speaker 1: Great.

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Speaker 3: They say, they missed the lot, that's what they miss.

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Speaker 3: The line still in progress. We don't know, We don't

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Speaker 2: We just know that a good football player, win healthy, yes,

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Speaker 3: I think that's a great way to put a Johnny.

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Speaker 3: You want to add as many good football players as

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Speaker 3: and they absolutely do, so they can adjust how they

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Speaker 1: So that's why we love sports.

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Speaker 3: the old lineman and clearly not done in free agency

436
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Speaker 3: twenty four hours from now, I mean twenty four hours

437
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Speaker 3: ago we didn't have Braden Smith. Now you have Braiden Smith.

438
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Speaker 3: So we'll see where it goes tomorrow in the following day.

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Speaker 2: To your point, I mean, you know my infamous rant

440
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Speaker 2: about Dwayne Brown, and it's always a lesson to me

441
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Speaker 2: as Dwayne became the player he became and one of

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Speaker 2: the greats in Texas history.

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Speaker 3: I think you fall on that sword way too much though,

444
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Speaker 3: by the way, but like it's nice for you to

445
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Speaker 3: think about it.

446
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Speaker 2: But to that point, though, to that point, like why

447
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Speaker 2: did I miss? Like what was it that I that

448
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Speaker 2: I missed?

449
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Speaker 1: What was it?

450
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Speaker 2: And I think what I what I missed is probably

451
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Speaker 2: a couple of things I wasn't going to be able

452
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Speaker 2: to see. But Dwayne was a hell of an athlete

453
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Speaker 2: and he'd only played left tackle for a short amount

454
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Speaker 2: of time, and I thought I was looking at the

455
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Speaker 2: finished product back Brown. I thought I was looking at

456
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Speaker 2: the guy that you know, this is just what he's

457
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Speaker 2: gonna be. What I didn't factor in was Dwayne's desire

458
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Speaker 2: to be great. Yes, Dwayne's athleticism, those things, he had

459
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Speaker 2: all those ingredients to be a superstar because he wanted

460
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Speaker 2: to get better. He was gonna work at it until

461
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Speaker 2: he became better. And all of a sudden, when athleticism

462
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Speaker 2: meets desire meets great coaching and the team, all all

463
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Speaker 2: of a sudden, you become Dwayne Brown, the player that

464
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Speaker 2: everybody knows. And I think it's It's kind of set

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Speaker 2: me a lot of times when I look at a

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Speaker 2: player now and I look at it.

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Speaker 1: Take Braden Smith for instance.

468
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Speaker 2: Look at Brayden Smith and you're like that dude's swore

469
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Speaker 2: me like even come out of Auburn.

470
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Speaker 3: You could see it's the way he played. You think

471
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Speaker 3: it fits the culture of what they're seeking on this outfit.

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Speaker 1: I think so for sure.

473
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Speaker 2: And I think back to that and I think guard

474
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Speaker 2: or tackle, I don't it doesn't matter to me because

475
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Speaker 2: I think he's going to be a success at one

476
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Speaker 2: of those positions. And he ended up being a success

477
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Speaker 2: for the Colts at right tackle, but he might end

478
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Speaker 2: up being a success for the Texans at guard.

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Speaker 1: Yeah maybe, yeah, you know, maybe it is tackle. Who knows.

480
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Speaker 2: But on March tenth, all we know is we signed

481
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Speaker 2: for two years twenty million apparently twenty five depending on

482
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Speaker 2: who you look at which agent sent And I know

483
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Speaker 2: his agent, I know Michael Pretty He's a good dude,

484
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Speaker 2: and it's a it's good money. And the one thing

485
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Speaker 2: that I mentioned that we have to keep in mind,

486
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Speaker 2: whether it's guard, whether it's tackle, it won't matter if

487
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Speaker 2: he's not healthy. And that has got to be the key.

488
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Speaker 2: He's got it, just gotta and that as we saw

489
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Speaker 2: it Trent. When Trent was healthy, Trent was a major

490
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Speaker 2: factor in the offense at twenty twenty five. Then we

491
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Speaker 2: go to New England, we don't have Trent, and our

492
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Speaker 2: offensive line probably played one of its worst games in like.

493
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Speaker 1: Ten or twelve games. It changed everything.

494
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Speaker 2: It changed everything. And so with Brayden, I think it

495
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Speaker 2: is we'll find the spot, We'll get it right. He's

496
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Speaker 2: a good, very good player. And I know a lot

497
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Speaker 2: of people like we do. Lush, You're Laken Tomlinson. I

498
00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:49,919
Speaker 2: said this to to Landry as I was texting him.

499
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Speaker 2: I said it to you all, say it to anybody.

500
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Speaker 2: Braiden Smith's a much better player than Lake Thominson was

501
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Speaker 2: when he got here. I could promise you that, whether

502
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Speaker 2: lad or not, Braiden Smith is a guy that was

503
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Speaker 2: borderline Pro Bowl with the Colts.

504
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Speaker 3: Braydon Smith was on the line people raved about. They

505
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Speaker 3: raved about the Colts offensive line for a while. And

506
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Speaker 3: I know they've had some changes along the way here,

507
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Speaker 3: but when that thing got started the first two three years,

508
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Speaker 3: my gosh.

509
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Speaker 2: So I'm gonna ask you a question. We got some

510
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Speaker 2: time a segment. What okay, So we've thrown some ingredients

511
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Speaker 2: in there. Resigned, Trent resigned ed right already had tay

512
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Speaker 2: Orsieri resigned Jared Kingston, which is a guy I'm interested

513
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Speaker 2: in seeing this year. I'm not saying Jared's gonna come

514
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Speaker 2: in there and steal, but I'm interested You.

515
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Speaker 1: To your next thing.

516
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Speaker 3: Don't and I know you don't do this, but I

517
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Speaker 3: want to say one thing about ursery because you brought

518
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Speaker 3: up Dwayne Brown. Dwayne Brown year one, platooned with Ephram

519
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Speaker 3: Salat right. Dwayne Brown at the end of the year

520
00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:49,040
Speaker 3: started to show it. But Dwayne Brown, I've said this

521
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Speaker 3: many times, told me it took him three or four

522
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Speaker 3: years to really get good, to really really figure it

523
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Speaker 3: out and make it second nature. Is going to get

524
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Speaker 3: better now if Er three has that true desire you

525
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Speaker 3: talked about. It's hard to evaluate somebody's desire to get

526
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Speaker 3: better unless you have all the inside information, and then

527
00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:08,680
Speaker 3: maybe things change. I don't know, but Dwayne clearly got

528
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Speaker 3: better and became a multi time pro bowler. Ers three

529
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Speaker 3: is going to get better, and you and I talked

530
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Speaker 3: to Trent Brown about that about Ersrie's desire. Er three

531
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Speaker 3: being a guy who wants to get better, wants to

532
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Speaker 3: be great, did get better without the course of the season.

533
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Speaker 3: Year two could be really great for Ersrie, without going

534
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Speaker 3: through all the rookie crap, pre draft stuff, underwear Olympics.

535
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Speaker 3: Now he can fully focus. This is gonna be good.

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Speaker 2: Go on.

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Speaker 3: You mentioned Kingston. I know you're getting to somebody else

538
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Speaker 3: as well.

539
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Speaker 2: So Jared Patterson are. And by the way, Jared Patterson

540
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Speaker 2: signed an extension with the Chargers. That's running back Jared

541
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Speaker 2: different one T Yeah yeah different so yeah, so Jared

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Speaker 2: Patterson are Jared Patterson still you know, still with us

543
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Speaker 2: and still very active.

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Speaker 1: Well, there's a Braiden Smith who plays basketball for Purdue.

545
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Speaker 2: Yes, he's really good too. So and then Braiden Smith

546
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Speaker 2: now added to the group. That's the Booya base we

547
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Speaker 2: have right now at offensive line. Okay, what more do

548
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Speaker 2: you want to put in there? What more would you

549
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Speaker 2: like to see put in there?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 3: I thought you were gonna go another direction with this

552
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Speaker 3: because there's another wild card at center.

553
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Eli Cox? Well, yeah, Eli like Cox. We I

554
00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:18,960
Speaker 2: really like I. I watch's on the roster. I watched

555
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Speaker 2: Eli late in the process last year from out of Kentucky,

556
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Speaker 2: and I I was like, d I like this guy.

557
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Speaker 2: I really like him. And when we got him as

558
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Speaker 2: anundrafted free agent, I was kind of surprised. I was

559
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Speaker 2: surprised he didn't get drafted.

560
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Speaker 3: I'm not hanging my hat on that necessarily, but it's

561
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Speaker 3: worth bringing up guys who are in the building already

562
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Speaker 3: who yes, yeah, I don't know, I never know.

563
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Speaker 1: You never know. Again, throw him the bully base.

564
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Speaker 2: But at that point, as you look at what's there,

565
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Speaker 2: because when We talked about this going into free agency.

566
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Speaker 2: We're like, well, you know what, I'd like to sign

567
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Speaker 2: a couple of guys. I think i'd like to draft

568
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Speaker 2: maybe a couple of guards, maybe a tackle. Maybe I'll

569
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Speaker 2: draft a tackle guard that you know, a guy that

570
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Speaker 2: could play either. What do you what do you add

571
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Speaker 2: to the Buoya based offensive line right now?

572
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Speaker 3: Would you like, I'm gonna sign a guard, I'm gonna

573
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Speaker 3: sign a center. Okay, I'm okay at tackle because I

574
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Speaker 3: got the four, all right, I got.

575
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Speaker 1: Fishing guard center coming in. What pardon me? You want?

576
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Speaker 1: You want to sign vets at garden Center. I think

577
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Speaker 1: they'll sign. They will.

578
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Speaker 3: It might not be names that are going to break

579
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Speaker 3: the headline, right, you know Meter on ESPN like, oh

580
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,800
Speaker 3: my gosh, the crawl is lighting up right now. It's

581
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Speaker 3: not going to do that necessarily. I mean maybe they

582
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Speaker 3: maybe they signed why a Teller, which would be a

583
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Speaker 3: big one at guard, right, But they'll bring in some guys.

584
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Speaker 3: They'll bring in at least a couple more interior players

585
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Speaker 3: who are veterans. And again you brought up George Fan.

586
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Speaker 3: Now that was during camp right or right before it,

587
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Speaker 3: and George Fan played tack.

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Speaker 1: It was like a week into camp.

589
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Speaker 3: A week was into camp, right, So they bring in

590
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Speaker 3: George Fan a week into camp, and he turns out

591
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Speaker 3: to be a really important cog in the machine. So

592
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Speaker 3: they could bring in guys before camp like that. We

593
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Speaker 3: might have to wait that long. We might not have

594
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Speaker 3: to wait that long. But they're gonna be bringing players

595
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Speaker 3: like that. And we can name a thousand guys in

596
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Speaker 3: the league. There aren't a thousand. We can name dozens

597
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Speaker 3: of guys in the league and might not come up

598
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Speaker 3: with the name. But maybe it's a name that can

599
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 3: help you. Maybe it's something they determined can help you

600
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 3: and they're right, maybe they'll be wrong. I don't know.

601
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Speaker 3: But we also have a draft coming up. Johnny Well

602
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Speaker 3: got that. That's kind of my point. You like the

603
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,479
Speaker 3: interior lineman in this draft, and I like that. So

604
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Speaker 3: they'll take a couple of shots there, a couple of

605
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 3: shots at free agents. They might not be marquee busting names.

606
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Speaker 3: But I think you got enough now to sort it

607
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Speaker 3: out with the coaching, with year two in the system,

608
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Speaker 3: and I know some guys will be new to the system,

609
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Speaker 3: but I think you have the elements right now. You're

610
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 3: not done, but I talked about not judging the cake

611
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Speaker 3: while it's still in the bowl and the batter and

612
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Speaker 3: you're mixing it up, right, whatever food metaphor we want

613
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Speaker 3: to come up with. Somebody said, well, I could take

614
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Speaker 3: a finger and lick it and taste it if I

615
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Speaker 3: don't like to take all right.

616
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Speaker 1: Stop.

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Speaker 3: I haven't added all the ingredients yet though to the batter,

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Speaker 3: all right.

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Speaker 2: So that's why that's why I'm asking, because I think

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Speaker 2: I think with the Braden Smith move, I think bringing

621
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Speaker 2: back Trent and Ed those guys they cover a couple

622
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Speaker 2: of guard tackle positions depending on where they line up,

623
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Speaker 2: et cetera. But I think what it does is allows

624
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Speaker 2: you at twenty eight, thirty eight, fifty eight, fifty nine,

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Speaker 2: sixty eight.

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Speaker 1: I think those are the four top four picks.

627
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Speaker 2: I think it's allowing you to take best offensive linement

628
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 2: available right in those spots, so you're not stuck, you know,

629
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Speaker 2: going in drafting the eighth tackle because you feel like

630
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Speaker 2: what you have at tackle you can you could survive. Hey,

631
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go get the third best guard as opposed

632
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Speaker 2: the eighth best tackle, because that's a guy we think

633
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,359
Speaker 2: is better, a better player than what's left the tackle

634
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Speaker 2: and there we go.

635
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Speaker 3: All right, next up, that wasn't the only thing that

636
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:40,359
Speaker 3: Texans were at today. Special teams made the list among

637
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 3: other things. We'll get to everything, and some teams around

638
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 3: the league as well. How's the competition doing? Are you worried?

639
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Speaker 3: Are you not worried at all? How you're feeling? It's

640
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Speaker 3: Texans Radio.

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Speaker 1: Now more Texans Radio.

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Speaker 3: Yes, in the sports radio six to ten studios, Mark

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Speaker 3: Vandermin and John Harris with you. Okay me fair barn

644
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 3: gets the extension today. And this is a very important

645
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:10,120
Speaker 3: person on this football team. Need we say more? Fifty

646
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 3: yard plus specialist, The guy hits bombs. What more can

647
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 3: I say? The one he hit against Pittsburgh in the playoffs. Look,

648
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Speaker 3: we forget about it because you ran away with it

649
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter, But that was a fifty one

650
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 3: yard kick in the elements when you were only up.

651
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Speaker 1: Seven to six, and that notorious end to the field.

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Speaker 3: Yes, this is what I lost for Chris Brown the

653
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 3: job in Pittsburgh. And he hit one there later the

654
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 3: next year of the Texans and that three defensive touchdown game,

655
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 3: Yes we remember that, but fair baron hitting that one

656
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 3: at the time. Look this wasn't a kick to send

657
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 3: you the super Bowl or anything, but it puts you

658
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 3: up ten to six, which at the time felt like

659
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 3: they're not going to overcome this. The Steelers, you know,

660
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 3: it was important to make it so they only they

661
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 3: needed a touchdown, not a field goal, right because you know,

662
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 3: a field goal like you know whatever, you could have

663
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 3: spring a leak and all the sudden they're in range

664
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 3: for Boswell. So I thought that kick was really monstrous

665
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 3: at the time, and it let everybody relax a little bit.

666
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 1: We got the double figures.

667
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 3: Okay, good on a tough night, and then the defense

668
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 3: took over wood. He actually had that extra touchdown for you.

669
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 3: That was beautiful on offense. We know how the game

670
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 3: ended with Calen Bullock with the pick six. So Fairbairn

671
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,280
Speaker 3: with all those kicks from beyond fifty this year, everything,

672
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 3: he's dumping this football team over the years. He's the

673
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 3: highest paid kicker in history. You know, for now, that'll

674
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 3: get passed by somebody soon enough.

675
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,959
Speaker 2: And Aubrey has been going back and forth to the Cowboys.

676
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 2: It sounded like he was going to be that guy.

677
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean, look either way. For how many

678
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 2: ever days Kenyee is in this position. He's the highest

679
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 2: paid kicker in history. And contracts are given a lot

680
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 2: of people they forget this. Contracts are given for what

681
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 2: teams anticipate you'll be going forward. Yeah, not to pay

682
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 2: you for what you've done, right, but using history as

683
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 2: a guide for what you're going to do in the future.

684
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 2: They give you a contract for that. I mean, I

685
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 2: don't see Kimi slowing down. I don't see Kymi slowing

686
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 2: down at all. I mean, he made forty four field goals,

687
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 2: and you know, we joked in studio like, okay, can

688
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 2: we cut it the like thirty four next year, like

689
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 2: ten extra touchdowns instead of you know, thirty four field Well,

690
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 2: we do.

691
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 3: What I've talked about it. Let's lead the league in

692
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 3: extra points. Yes, that'd be great. Lead the league in

693
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 3: extra points. That's a good thing. That's a good thing.

694
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 1: But the goals, it's.

695
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 3: Not a dubious honor because they're important and you win games.

696
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 3: You won twelve games and he had a huge part

697
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 3: in it. Ironically though, or interestingly enough, in the last

698
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 3: three years, you've had games that have been won by

699
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 3: kickers not named Fairbaron as well. In twenty twenty three

700
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 3: with Matt Amondola yea, and in twenty twenty five with

701
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 3: matthew Wright what about and Dar againsts He didn't win,

702
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 3: but it was huge because that game against Tampa in

703
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,959
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, Darry kicked the field goal and then

704
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 3: the Bucks take the lead on the past to Houghton

705
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 3: from Baker Mayfield, and I thought, you cannot You cannot

706
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 3: win today, Tampa Bay, not on a day where Dara

707
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 3: kicks a field goal.

708
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 1: Not today. Satan and then CJ in Tank do their thing.

709
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 3: But the Amidola kick against the Bengals, and I know

710
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 3: he had won off the crossbar against the Jags.

711
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: I mean, look, that was a pretty.

712
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 3: Long It was fifty nine Okay, it was crossbars, it

713
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 3: was on target.

714
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 2: I think the one thing about Kaymie this year when

715
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 2: we talked about it a little bit the end of

716
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four for Kaymi was I know that Kansas

717
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 2: City game and I remember talking to Frank Ross. We

718
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 2: were at the combine in you know, after that loss

719
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 2: to Kansas City, and Frank was determined to get special

720
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 2: teams back on track.

721
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was determined.

722
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 2: He he felt like special teams did not live up

723
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 2: to the standard that he set, that the Miko and

724
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 2: Nick set for the organization, and he was very upset

725
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 2: about that.

726
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 1: And a big part of that was they had to

727
00:31:58,440 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 1: kick better.

728
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 2: And when we went to go play playoff games in

729
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 2: the cold, we had to kick better than we did

730
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 2: at Kansas City in that divisional playoff game. And that's

731
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 2: why I think that kick against Pittsburgh was such a

732
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 2: big one because the last time that if you think

733
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 2: about our season, we didn't we can kick a lot

734
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 2: off grass outside in elements that not that I can

735
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:23,959
Speaker 2: think of. I mean, there was a there was a

736
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 2: run where we were inside for I don't know how

737
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 2: many games straight. So all of a sudden, we go

738
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 2: up to this game at Pittsburgh night game on a

739
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 2: notoriously bad field, into that end zone that is always

740
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 2: treacherous facing the rivers. Yeah, and Mark when he hit

741
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 2: that ball, and for people to don't know, I'm always

742
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 2: back there behind a goalpost and I give Mark Kava

743
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 2: heads up whether it's good or not. As soon as

744
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 2: he hit that thing, I could tell this is good.

745
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 2: I could tell, and I just had this charge, like, Yes,

746
00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 2: that was a big that was a bigger factor to

747
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 2: think a lot of people want to admit.

748
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: You missed that one.

749
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 3: They are at their forty one when it's seven to six.

750
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 3: Seven Sick got a one point lead because we talked

751
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 3: about what was the down and distance? I mean it

752
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 3: was fourth down, what was the distance? I can't remember.

753
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 3: It wasn't like fourth and one or something.

754
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 2: No.

755
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 3: No, it wasn't like a decision to go for. It

756
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 3: was a decision whether to punt.

757
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 2: Right because you have the forty one punt played defense

758
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:21,719
Speaker 2: puped it before.

759
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, And what I always loved about Conymia.

760
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 2: We've asked this many many times, and I could see

761
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 2: it from the sidelines after every third down play if

762
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 2: we were on there, if we are on the other

763
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 2: side of the fifty, he runs on the field. They

764
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 2: have to pull him back like he runs on the field,

765
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 2: no matter where it is, like the balls on the

766
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 2: other side of the fifty, the plus side of the fifty.

767
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 2: He thinks he's given a shot. I think you can't

768
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 2: ask to like bring him back.

769
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 1: You gotta have that mentality. You have to have the mentality.

770
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 2: Now, last year he had a new snapper, he had

771
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 2: Austin Briingman, right, and we never had to talk about him.

772
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 1: We didn't. However, this year, apparently Nick made a punter trade.

773
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 3: Yes, Nick did, and he gets Kai from the it's

774
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 3: not spelled like the grocery store Texans partner.

775
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: Well, the figure had a pretty funny tweet. What did

776
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 1: he say?

777
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:10,319
Speaker 2: He said, I wonder if he can do commercials for CHP.

778
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 2: That's pretty good. I happen to see that a little

779
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 2: while ago. It's like, Figure, that's good stuff. Dude, that

780
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 2: was funny.

781
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 3: I mean like Kroger should definitely do something with him,

782
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 3: but HCHB would just draw attention to Kroger. But yeah,

783
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:28,280
Speaker 3: I'm not sure they're both Texans partners by the way,

784
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:29,880
Speaker 3: But anyway, Texas make a trade.

785
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: All right.

786
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 3: So they swapped a six and a seven, and people

787
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 3: were like, we traded It's like it's in twenty twenty eight.

788
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:40,240
Speaker 3: Everybody calmed down, right, twenty twenty eight, six and seven.

789
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:42,759
Speaker 3: So now you have the Saints seventh in twenty twenty eight.

790
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 3: I don't know where that's gonna be. I'm not that

791
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 3: concerned about it right now. Once upon a time, wait,

792
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 3: you would know the answer to this mark ingram. They

793
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 3: traded him to the Saints for a seventh. Well, was

794
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 3: it twenty twenty four? I think it was twenty twenty four.

795
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,040
Speaker 1: So we traded him in twenty twenty one.

796
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 3: One, and I think it was a twenty twenty four

797
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 3: to seventh because I remember it was so far in

798
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 3: the future. But then they made that pick. I think,

799
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:11,319
Speaker 3: I know. I remember us noting this is the Ingram pick,

800
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 3: like Marcus Harris, yeah, or Solomon Bird. It was one

801
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 3: of those who seventh rounders. Okay, well, Bird, it was

802
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 3: one of those seventh rounders. I'm pretty sure. Okay, let

803
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 3: me let me I mean, but you never know, I mean,

804
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 3: and that'll be worth noting on Saturday when we're on

805
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 3: fumes at the end.

806
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: Of the draft coverage.

807
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:31,919
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, this is that that pick that we got

808
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 3: in the Kai Kroger transaction.

809
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 2: Anyway, Kroger's not it was Solomon Bird. It was Solomon

810
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 2: It was Solomon Byrd. Okay, yeah, from from New Orleans.

811
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 2: Solomon Bird picked two thirty eight, seventh round. And again

812
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 2: that's another guy that has been around, has been learning

813
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 2: from the best, and has something in his repertoire.

814
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 1: It's not as if Solomon Byrd was starting from scratch.

815
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 2: This guy was a really, really good pass Rusher at

816
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 2: usc for the year he was there, and then Wyoming

817
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:56,399
Speaker 2: before that.

818
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:58,800
Speaker 1: So there's one of those guys.

819
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, Solomon Eli Cox one of these future reserves guys

820
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 2: that nobody really is talking about right now.

821
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 1: But we'll find a way on the field and a

822
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 1: key role. I don't know who. I don't know what you.

823
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 2: Make him play for you, but somebody's gonna end up

824
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 2: making a key playing a key role.

825
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,759
Speaker 1: It might even be for just a couple of weeks, but.

826
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 2: Something that they contribute to the team that I think

827
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 2: is gonna make him pretty interesting.

828
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 3: On Kroger, Tommy Townsend is an unrestricted free agent to

829
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 3: beep and has not signed with anybody yet. And either

830
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 3: they tried to sign him and they could not come

831
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 3: to an agreement, or they didn't want to sign him.

832
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 1: We don't know.

833
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:40,800
Speaker 3: We don't know the answer to that question, So hold

834
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 3: off on that. Kroger did not have a great year

835
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 3: with the Saints, but he's got a lot of talent.

836
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,799
Speaker 3: He was really good at South Carolina. I mean, he

837
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 3: was a first team All America punter. This guy's got

838
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 3: a lot of talent, and I think that you have

839
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 3: to look at it like this, and you pointed this out,

840
00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna give this to Johnny Harris. Special teamers.

841
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 3: When you look at net punt stats and things like that,

842
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 3: the guys you have around you are a factor in

843
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 3: this coverage downing punts, that kind of thing. You know,

844
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 3: what's a touch back, what's not a touchback? They make

845
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 3: a nak nakwan Jones? Who am I thinking of that?

846
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 3: That JaMarcus Ingram. JaMarcus Ingram one of the other the

847
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,839
Speaker 3: other new guy that we got late last year who

848
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:27,400
Speaker 3: had the punt the save from going into the end zone.

849
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 2: Again, think about guys that we've signed. We we re

850
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:37,240
Speaker 2: signed JaMarcus Ingram, we re signed e J. Speed, Common Thread,

851
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:41,879
Speaker 2: M J. Stewart, Jake Commell, we signed today. Special team

852
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 2: formerly the Ravens. They're really good. Those are some of

853
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 2: the best special teams guys in the league. So when

854
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 2: you're punting for the Saints and then that average isn't

855
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 2: that good? Well, wait a second, they don't have the

856
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,440
Speaker 2: special teamers we do. That that affects things, ladies and

857
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 2: gentlemen affects it a lot. So that can that can change.

858
00:37:57,560 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 2: And he was in a tryout camp, was he not? Yeah,

859
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 2: parent he was. I don't I don't remember him, but.

860
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 1: We were looking at Mertz.

861
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 3: I was just left a quarter back and two years

862
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:07,879
Speaker 3: ago he's just looking at British Brooks and he's still

863
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 3: on the squad.

864
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 1: So there's that.

865
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, But last year at the rookie triout camp, how

866
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 3: can Mertz throw the ball? He's throwing on air? But

867
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 3: it looks good, it looks pretty good. Coach VanderMeer said

868
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 3: he might be something. And then he showed up big

869
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 3: in that final preseason game and you had to put

870
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 3: him on the fifty three man roster. Clearly, I know

871
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 3: my stuff from rookie Minichamp throwing on air. No, not necessarily.

872
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 3: I'm gonna just guessed, right. But they made the trade

873
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 3: for the punter, Kay Kroger. What about Jake Hubbell linebacker? Yeah,

874
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 3: former Cyclone special team were extraordinary. That gets your leg

875
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 3: up here being a Cyclone baby.

876
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 2: Well here's the other thing too. You don't know exactly

877
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,279
Speaker 2: and maybe the maybe team does. We don't know when

878
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 2: Jake Hanson's gonna be able to come back. I feel

879
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 2: like Jake is gonna make it back for conditioning, but

880
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,760
Speaker 2: but you never know, right, and so you go get

881
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 2: Jake Hanson two point zero just another version and if

882
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 2: you got say you have two Jake Hanson's running down

883
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 2: on kickoff and running on punt next to E J.

884
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: Speed. I feel good about that. See really.

885
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:07,240
Speaker 3: Canson, though, is named after Jake Ryan from sixteen Candles.

886
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 3: I don't know if Jake Hummel is named after Jake

887
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,880
Speaker 3: Ryan from sixteen Candles. I guess what one of the

888
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,799
Speaker 3: first questions is. I'm gonna be asking him and he's

889
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 3: gonna say, what the hell is sixteen candles? And then

890
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 3: it's just gonna out me as an old guy there.

891
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 2: So we just added a couple of new cyclones with

892
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 2: David Montgomery and Jake Hummel, to go with the many

893
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:26,239
Speaker 2: cyclones we already had.

894
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 1: Had a chance to meet Montgomery today.

895
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I gotta tell you so, we're gonna put

896
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 3: out a video soon of this. He looked me in

897
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:38,799
Speaker 3: the eye. I asked him, what makes a great running back?

898
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:40,839
Speaker 3: You know, what are some of the attributes you think

899
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 3: make a great running back. He looked me in the

900
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:46,319
Speaker 3: eye and said something like, if I'm coming after you,

901
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get through you no matter what. And he

902
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 3: looked Johnny. He stared at me with this intensity, and

903
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 3: I was.

904
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:52,799
Speaker 1: Like, I didn't do it.

905
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 3: I love this guy. Man. He broke me like that.

906
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,479
Speaker 3: And he also said Arian Foster's his favorite running back.

907
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:01,920
Speaker 3: He said a lot of good things. This is an

908
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 3: interesting guy and I was told that, Yeah, he's a

909
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:09,319
Speaker 3: very thoughtful, serious, committed guy. He uh, he had some

910
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:11,320
Speaker 3: great answers. We're gonna have that interview on the radio

911
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:13,439
Speaker 3: pretty soon. I'm Texans Radio here this week.

912
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:15,319
Speaker 2: So when we get back our final segment, I want

913
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:16,399
Speaker 2: you to think about this. I want you to think

914
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 2: about what changes the Texans have made new Like we

915
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 2: talked about the guys that extended, we talked about you know,

916
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 2: Trent and Ed and MJ.

917
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:27,279
Speaker 1: Those guys are.

918
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 2: You'll hear the interviews that we did with him this

919
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 2: past couple of days. You hear them over the next

920
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:36,840
Speaker 2: couple of days. But Montgomery Braden Smith read blank and

921
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 2: ship humble, trying.

922
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 1: To think who else? So there's anybody else that I've missed?

923
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 2: New guys like new guys coming in right, because I

924
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:49,400
Speaker 2: feel like this is one of the better groups of

925
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 2: new guys that we have brought in, like very focused,

926
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:55,880
Speaker 2: very intentional for what we needed to improve running back.

927
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 1: We one got David Montgomery. Needed to prove offensive line safety.

928
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:00,720
Speaker 1: We needed proof safety.

929
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:03,880
Speaker 2: And we went out and we got really good football

930
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 2: players to fit that mold.

931
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:07,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll talk about that on the way out. It's

932
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 3: Texans Radio now more Texans Radio.

933
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:18,240
Speaker 1: Yes we're back. Okay, I forgot to turn my microphone on. Colin. Geez,

934
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: you know this building spent a lot of years.

935
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, Colin, your fault. Spent a lot of years in

936
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 3: this building, Johnny. Like, I look around, it feels like

937
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 3: coming home, but it's been remodeled, you know, several times,

938
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:33,720
Speaker 3: definitely several times. And then I look at the phones.

939
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 3: Seven one three five s two four six ten. That number,

940
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 3: So you hole your head, you know how you know

941
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 3: your the address where you grew up, You know your

942
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:45,440
Speaker 3: your the phone number when you were a.

943
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 1: Kid, seven five three two three oh three.

944
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:52,839
Speaker 3: This number is in my brain, in my DNA. There's

945
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 3: a part of my brain that just has this number

946
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 3: printed on it.

947
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 1: Okay.

948
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:58,759
Speaker 3: And the text line used to have a different number, though,

949
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 3: See what am I gonna remember that one six one

950
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:02,239
Speaker 3: zero two six That was it.

951
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 1: That was the old text line.

952
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:06,800
Speaker 3: But now the text line is just the phone number, right, Colin,

953
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:09,840
Speaker 3: the one line is just the phone number, Which was

954
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 3: the question I asked back in the o's Why can't

955
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:14,880
Speaker 3: the text line be our freaking phone number.

956
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:17,799
Speaker 1: That's too logical. You're head of the game, man, I

957
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:19,400
Speaker 1: don't know. You're head of the game. I don't know.

958
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: I don't know why they couldn't do it all right?

959
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 1: What was your teach? What was it? Texans have made a.

960
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 2: Number of editions right over the last last few days.

961
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,359
Speaker 2: Traded for Dave Montgomery. That'll become official tomorrow the start

962
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:35,320
Speaker 2: of the new league year. Reblanket Ship, safety, Braden Smith,

963
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:36,839
Speaker 2: offensive line guard.

964
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 3: Or tackle, Jammes special team, ja Combell's special team or Robinson, Dominique.

965
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 2: Robinson, Ki Kroeger. Guys you know, are brought in on

966
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 2: top of the extensions. But I feel like this my opinion,

967
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 2: I feel like the guys they brought in there has

968
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:55,280
Speaker 2: been a hot and and when it comes to free agency,

969
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 2: it feels like that's kind of the case. But two

970
00:42:57,680 --> 00:42:59,360
Speaker 2: years ago, when we had a lot of money to

971
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:02,759
Speaker 2: play with, they were intentional, but they could go out

972
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 2: and pluck and choose. It's got to a point now

973
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 2: where hey, we've got a defense that's returning ten and eleven.

974
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 1: Starters, right exactly.

975
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:13,240
Speaker 3: It's so different from three years right, So two years ago.

976
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:14,799
Speaker 1: We're getting ready for twenty twenty four. Let's go to

977
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 1: three years ago.

978
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:19,439
Speaker 3: I mean that draft of CJ and Will and what

979
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 3: you were trying to build. It is a process. I

980
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:26,720
Speaker 3: think the re signings are as important as anything, maybe

981
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 3: more in agreed to keep the band together, the important

982
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 3: parts of the band together. It's absolutely crucial the continuity

983
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 3: of such. And you mentioned the new guys and talking

984
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:42,719
Speaker 3: to Montgomery notices about this culture. Dan Campbell talks about

985
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 3: Themico Ryans a lot. They talk about the Texans. If

986
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 3: they talk about what the Texans are doing and have

987
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:49,240
Speaker 3: done already in this era, as.

988
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:52,399
Speaker 2: It pertains a demo, I'd be interested to one hundred

989
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:55,760
Speaker 2: percent truth serum in are upper management, if you will.

990
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 2: I wonder how much that practice against the Lions kind

991
00:43:58,600 --> 00:43:59,320
Speaker 2: of open their eyes.

992
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, he said there was some hard hitting going on.

993
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:06,279
Speaker 3: Oh he was hit hard. He said he remembers that.

994
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:07,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I.

995
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:11,840
Speaker 2: Mean from from a Texas perspective, saying, hey, man, five's

996
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 2: pretty good.

997
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: I'm kidding.

998
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:14,759
Speaker 2: I wonder if you'll go back to thirty two, but

999
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 2: Blanket Ship for is thirty two, so we'll figure out

1000
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 2: what their numbers.

1001
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 1: I know nothing. Yeah I might know, but I might know,

1002
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:21,480
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure if it's at least just anything.

1003
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 2: But with all that said, with a secondary that's got

1004
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:28,959
Speaker 2: four Pro bowlers in it with Will and to Neil,

1005
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 2: with Aziz and uh Henry linebacker, you know a lot

1006
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 2: of pieces in place already. They've found guys and signed

1007
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:43,240
Speaker 2: guys in the last couple of days that will potentially

1008
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:47,280
Speaker 2: step into starting roles. I think three guys in particular,

1009
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 2: I think between Demo, Blanket Ship and Brayden Smith, right,

1010
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 2: they ain't got They got three starters on a team

1011
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 2: that won twelve games exactly, and they didn't have to

1012
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 2: break the bank to go do it. They just went

1013
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 2: and got really good guys that are going to satisfy

1014
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 2: the swarm quotient for this team.

1015
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 1: So that's why that's why I was asking that question.

1016
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 3: That's big because especially it's safety because you did sign M. J.

1017
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 3: Stewart again, who's going to be healthy and he started

1018
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:14,120
Speaker 3: for you last year, but Blanket Ship can beat him out,

1019
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 3: so you're wondering about that. But you want MJ on

1020
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:18,920
Speaker 3: the team Special Teams Extraordinaior can play safety for you.

1021
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,240
Speaker 3: We'll see how they work it all out. Braden Smith,

1022
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:23,719
Speaker 3: you had to replace Titus Howard somehow, you know, either

1023
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 3: the tackle or the guard or both or whatever. You

1024
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:28,799
Speaker 3: had to replace that. As far as running back goes,

1025
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:31,880
Speaker 3: you had to replace Chubb. And we love Nick, but

1026
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 3: you upgraded there. Yeah, yeah, absolutely upgraded in fact the

1027
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,239
Speaker 3: running back group. And we mentioned this last night, it's

1028
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 3: worth mentioning again. I'm hearing too many people talk about,

1029
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:41,239
Speaker 3: well the running back Mari, we missed out on this,

1030
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:44,319
Speaker 3: And look at the numbers. Look within very closely here,

1031
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 3: look within. Oh, these guys are all the same pretty

1032
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,160
Speaker 3: much as far as the numbers go. Montgomery would have

1033
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 3: had a lot more yards if he had the same

1034
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 3: amount of carries. Okay, he's splitting carries with Superman Jamir Gibbs.

1035
00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 3: I mean, Jamir Gibbs is a freaking Marvel character playing

1036
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,839
Speaker 3: running back in Detroit. Montgomery's still getting carries and got

1037
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:05,240
Speaker 3: to over seven hundred yards and four point five per pop.

1038
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:08,400
Speaker 3: You give Monty extra carries, He's getting well over one

1039
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:10,239
Speaker 3: thousand and four point five per pop. He's that kind

1040
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 3: of back. He's that good. He's gonna be fine here.

1041
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 3: He just needs the wall in front of him to

1042
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 3: push things around.

1043
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 1: Here's my quick math.

1044
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:18,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dave Montgomery, the next couple of years is six

1045
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 2: to seven million dollars reblanket ship signed for three for

1046
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:27,720
Speaker 2: twenty four. That's basically fourteen million ish. Kenneth Walker's getting

1047
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 2: three for forty five and basically is a first and

1048
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:32,839
Speaker 2: second down guy because you can't play him on third down.

1049
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:34,439
Speaker 2: He can't catch the ball and he doesn't pass block.

1050
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 3: All right, So you got a running back and you

1051
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:39,719
Speaker 3: got a safety, run past threat at running back and

1052
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 3: a safety for what you would have paid top dollar.

1053
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: For Kenneth Walker. That's amazing.

1054
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:48,360
Speaker 2: See to me, that's yeah, that's that's Daniel Manning j

1055
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 2: Joe in a different form, in a different form, right,

1056
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 2: different form but similar.

1057
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:54,759
Speaker 3: But you brought it up. I mean, Jjo Andmanning were great.

1058
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 3: You're coming off a six and ten season, trying to

1059
00:46:57,080 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 3: build a defense, not rebuild build, right, this is a

1060
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 3: built thing on defense that you're adding to in an offense.

1061
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:06,359
Speaker 3: We all know that you got a lot of assets here.

1062
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 3: You want to solidify things up front. They continue to

1063
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 3: work at it. That's it for the show tonight. It'll

1064
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:13,760
Speaker 3: be up in podcast forms soon enough on the Odyssey

1065
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 3: app and later on Spotify. Colin Neil, thank you for

1066
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 3: producing aspiring good broadcaster there Go Texans.

1067
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