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Speaker 1: Welcome to everybody to him. Monday edition of Texans All

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Speaker 1: Access from Monday Texans Radio Studio. I love, Love, love

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Speaker 1: saying that from the studio John Harris alongside Mark VanderMeer.

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Speaker 1: Glad you guys are all with us tonight. And when

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Speaker 1: I say we've got a jam pack show, we have

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Speaker 1: got a jam pack show, just like this morning. We

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Speaker 1: had a jam pack morning. We went from President Greg

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Speaker 1: Grissom to the general John McClain to General Manager Nick Casserio. Boom,

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Speaker 1: bang boom. That was our show this morning, Texas Training

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Speaker 1: Camp Live, and it was pretty awesome. We're gonna do

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Speaker 1: kind to something similar. We're gonna hear from Nick Cassario

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Speaker 1: in this segment. If you miss it this morning, you've

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Speaker 1: got to hear his interview with Mark and I was great.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna have that for you. Now we're gonna

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Speaker 1: hear from DK two five. Desmond King is gonna stop by.

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Speaker 1: He is. I love this guy, absolutely love Desmond King.

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Speaker 1: And then we're gonna close it down with two guys

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Speaker 1: on defense that you need to keep an eye on.

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Speaker 1: These three preseason games are gonna be big for them.

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Speaker 1: Derek Rivers a little Drews doesn't with Drew Doherty and

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Speaker 1: then a zoyah alufa hi ha ha. I learned say it.

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Speaker 1: I learned how to say it. I impressed him by

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Speaker 1: learning how to say it. Big Z. First time we've

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Speaker 1: ever had a chance to talk to Big Z, and

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Speaker 1: he was awesome, really good forward to that. But you know,

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Speaker 1: right out of the shoot, I talked to my man,

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Speaker 1: Mark Vanamir. Mark. I know you're not envious, I mean

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Speaker 1: talking to Big Z. But now I'll tell you what

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Speaker 1: that is, A big, big man standing next to him.

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Speaker 1: Now listen, you and I both stood next to every

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Speaker 1: big three hundred pounder his team has ever had. He's

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Speaker 1: as big and well put together as any of them

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Speaker 1: I have ever seen. Ever. Well, they're gonna have some

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Speaker 1: options on that D line, right, I mean when you

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Speaker 1: the depth in camp and knock Wood, that's going pretty

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Speaker 1: well so far as far as the medical part of it.

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Speaker 1: Knock Wood knock everything you can knock. But I like

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Speaker 1: that and alofa high, alofa high. So you stressed the alo.

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Speaker 1: It goes up a little accent on that. That's helpful

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Speaker 1: to me. So you had him say it for you,

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Speaker 1: because like if I read the fanatics. Sometimes it doesn't

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Speaker 1: always work for me. Well, here's what I did. I

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Speaker 1: cheated at b not no. I said it how I

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Speaker 1: thought it sounded, because I said, aloofa high um, aloof

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Speaker 1: a loofall high. He said, stressed a loo and so's okay.

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Speaker 1: So then we stressed and we did the interview, and

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Speaker 1: I said, he's like, oh, you said it perfectly, I felt,

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Speaker 1: I got so I got it from him after my

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Speaker 1: good attempt. I got a good boy, good at a boy,

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Speaker 1: so to speak, and then he corrected me, and then

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Speaker 1: the beginning of the end. But in the in between,

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Speaker 1: I just called him big Z because you know, it's

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Speaker 1: an interview, you know, you know, all those things good

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Speaker 1: and we really want to get a tongue tied sometimes

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Speaker 1: as you can with the name um of that quality,

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see them. Get pads on and Mark,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna start right there first of all pads on tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: and then a few a couple of transactions here that

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Speaker 1: show is starting. We saw both these guys in practice today,

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Speaker 1: so this is not too big a surprise. The Texas

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Speaker 1: have added two free agents, Mitchell Fabroni and Danny is

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Speaker 1: a Doora. Mitchell is a long snapper they found through

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Speaker 1: the Hub Football Network, which has been a pretty cool

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Speaker 1: kind of scouting resource thing for guys that have kind

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Speaker 1: always a hurricane on the offensive line. Also, I thought

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Speaker 1: this was great news. Activated off of the active NFI

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Speaker 1: list DeMarcus Walker, defensive lineman. And why does that matter, well,

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Speaker 1: of all the players on this defensive line or just

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Speaker 1: glad to see Marcus Walker back. Unfortunately, that means that

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Speaker 1: they're all making plays. That's probably the biggest takeaway I've

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Speaker 1: at guys like nevill Hewitt, who led the Jets and

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Speaker 1: but to some of the onlookers from the outside in

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Speaker 1: can make plays. To your point, you got linebackers for days,

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Speaker 1: that's my quote. Now with the defensive lineman, you also

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Speaker 1: have defensive lineman for days, Johnny, and I think that

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Speaker 1: one of those position groups that gets to be in

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Speaker 1: sharper focus as you move on. As far as what

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Speaker 1: have to make those final decisions. So it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: interesting to see how these next few practices play out.

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Speaker 1: No doubt you want to hear or we don't want

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Speaker 1: to read our work. Mark and I both have articles

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Speaker 1: up there. My Harris hits are up there. Marks Vanderbuer's

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Speaker 1: view is up there on Houston Texas dot com. So well,

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Speaker 1: let you take a look at that. But Mark, we

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz is going to undergo surgery and be out

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Speaker 1: for five to twelve weeks. Five to twelve is an

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Speaker 1: way to twelve. There's no in between here. Now it's

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Speaker 1: don't want to see anybody get hurt. It is a

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Speaker 1: serious thing. There's no doubt the Colts quarterbacks that this

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Speaker 1: every game, they have trouble. And this is since the

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Speaker 1: Manning era began. When they have a quarterback when they

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Speaker 1: the postseason. The hassleback years. Look, he won some games

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Speaker 1: all sorts of issues those years. But the point is

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Speaker 1: you know when the who tweeted out Garoppolo to the Colts. Look,

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Speaker 1: they can't afford you that they just traded for Wentz

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Speaker 1: and now you want them to pay Jimmy ge and

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Speaker 1: think the forty nine ers are interested giving them away? No,

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Speaker 1: So they're in deep trouble right now at the quarterback spot.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know what the solution is. Is it

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Speaker 1: I saw that going around as well on Twitter. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: so the Jags are now becoming Look, and you're gonna

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Speaker 1: Not all media love Urban Meyer, but urban Meyer in

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Speaker 1: the NFL is very sexy to the media. And this

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Speaker 1: highlight and now and you have Tebow of course as well,

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Speaker 1: and stop highlight. In practice of Trevor Lawrence stepping out

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Speaker 1: to the left and hitting Tim Tebow in the back

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Speaker 1: of the end zone has been seen more than the

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Speaker 1: Immaculate Reception. All right, this, I've seen it more than

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Speaker 1: the catch with Dwight Clark. All right, I've seen this

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Speaker 1: more than any NFL highlight in history, because they're acting

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Speaker 1: like this is some huge deal that Revere Lawrence in

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Speaker 1: practice can avoid tackling dummies, literally tackling dummies. Step out

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Speaker 1: and Tebow can make a diving grab. I salute the

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Speaker 1: athletic ability. Nice practice play. If it happened here, I'd

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Speaker 1: be very happy about it, believe me. But the highlight

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Speaker 1: is living Johnny, Like we have just seen Hail flutey.

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Speaker 1: This is practice. We're talking about practice. I do like

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Speaker 1: the tackling dummy thing, though, I do kind of like that,

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Speaker 1: you know, they so the tackling dummies. What's happening here

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Speaker 1: and people when the ball is snapped, they bring those

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Speaker 1: tackling dummies into the backfield to simulate the backs of

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Speaker 1: the offensive linemen backing up on Lawrence so we can

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Speaker 1: get used to the pocket. And Johnny, I was saying

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Speaker 1: this to you the other day of practice before this

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Speaker 1: for he used the Texans found day. He was a

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Speaker 1: way better. He's faster than me, so I was a

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Speaker 1: bit I was slow. I couldn't run, so I was

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Speaker 1: to play at safety. N IVY League is the look different.

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Speaker 1: Look boy, we gotta see tape on that. Nick, thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us. Thanks so much. Have a

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Speaker 1: great day. There you go, little Nick Cassio for you.

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Speaker 1: That was a little bit of surprise I found out.

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Speaker 1: We found out yesterday being Sunday, I don't know, middle

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Speaker 1: of the afternoon, four thirty. We're gonna get Nick Cassario

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Speaker 1: on with us. But he was excellent as always, And yeah,

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Speaker 1: hundred bucks. Keep that in mind on hundred bucks. If

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Speaker 1: you can figure that out. Sports Radio six ten at

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio six ten on Twitter, go sign up for it,

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Speaker 1: and you've got an opportunity for a general manager of

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Speaker 1: hand you a hundred bucks. It's already been a couple

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Speaker 1: of transactions. Let's see how good you are? All right?

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Speaker 1: You know who's really good Desmond King. I've been following

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Speaker 1: him for a very very long time, and Mark and

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Speaker 1: I had a chance to catch up with him a

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Speaker 1: few days and go and talk about becoming a Texan

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Speaker 1: and a few either orst mixed in as well. Desmond

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Speaker 1: King here next, I'm Texans All Access, Texans All Access,

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access. Yeah, sir, welcome back his Monday edition

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Speaker 1: of Texas All Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris. So glad to be with

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Speaker 1: you now. Last week after our media days, Mark and

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Speaker 1: I did. I think it was a win Tuesday night show.

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Speaker 1: And we're talking about various things within that show or

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Speaker 1: within that day that we're kind of that stood out

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Speaker 1: to us, if you will. One of them for me

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Speaker 1: was having the opportunity to catch up with Desmond King.

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Speaker 1: Defensive back university, I will play with the Chargers, ended

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Speaker 1: up with the Titans for about half the year last year,

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Speaker 1: and then ended up joining the good guys. He's been

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite players in college football for a

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Speaker 1: very very long time. I loved watching him play, and

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Speaker 1: sitting next to him was really just kind of odd

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Speaker 1: the other day when we did our interview with him,

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Speaker 1: but it was fantastic. We talked about a lot of

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Speaker 1: different things, and of course, you know, we got to

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Speaker 1: get some either oars in with our man, Desmond Kings.

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Speaker 1: Here we go, mark me, Desmond, let's rock joining us

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Speaker 1: right now in Texans Radio. It's Desmond King. So how's

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Speaker 1: the adjustment been so far being here in Houston with

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Speaker 1: these guys on this team? Oh man, it's great. It's

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Speaker 1: a great feeling being here. Um, love the team, love

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Speaker 1: the organization, and love the players. The coaches are amazing.

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Speaker 1: It just it feels right. It feels right, and I'll

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Speaker 1: just know that I have been played in a great

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Speaker 1: a great position to be successful. That's all I can

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Speaker 1: say right now. Desmond. For people that haven't seen you play,

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Speaker 1: and I told you this coming in, I was like,

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Speaker 1: you know what, put all my cards on the table.

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Speaker 1: You're one of my favorite cost players to ever watch

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Speaker 1: because you weren't the biggest, you weren't the strongest, you

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Speaker 1: weren't the fastest, but you might have been the best

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Speaker 1: football player. And it always felt like you went on

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Speaker 1: the field and you pride yourself on how you played football,

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Speaker 1: not how much you won the speed contest or the

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Speaker 1: strength contest, but how much you played football. But for

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Speaker 1: people that haven't and you play, what are you bringing

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Speaker 1: to the Houston Texans playing for the Texans this year? Um,

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I'm I'm I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm an energy guy. That's what I feed off of.

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Speaker 1: I'm a guy that's going to go out there and

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Speaker 1: do what I know how to do, do what I

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Speaker 1: know what to do. You know what I mean. And

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Speaker 1: that's that's that's the end of the story. Like you you,

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Speaker 1: I've been doing it for years now, you know, since

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Speaker 1: I was six years old. So why change now? Go do?

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Speaker 1: Go have fun. It's football. That's what you're getting paid

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Speaker 1: to do with to have have fun out there and win.

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Speaker 1: So you know they getting a guy that want to win,

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Speaker 1: hard worker guy is going to bring that energy to

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Speaker 1: the defense, bring the energy to the team and just

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Speaker 1: be electrified on the field, man, be all, be everywhere.

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Speaker 1: It feels like you're a guy who scores touchdowns. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: you just find a way to the end zone. You

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Speaker 1: did with Tennessee last year. Hello, here's a touchdown. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's a feeling. I grew up as

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Speaker 1: a running back, which transferred to being a dB in college,

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Speaker 1: at dB in high school. But you know, I got

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Speaker 1: a knack for the ball. I love having the ball

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Speaker 1: in my hand, um, and I know what to do

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Speaker 1: with it once I get it. So I mean that's

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Speaker 1: it just ends up in the end zone. Well, this defense,

514
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Speaker 1: well last year the Texans didn't get enough takeaways. Right

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Speaker 1: this year, with Lovey Smith coming in and the new guys,

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Speaker 1: it feels like that's the mantra. Get the ball. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: absolutely that and that's our number one go this year

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Speaker 1: is to get the ball, create turnovers, and it's going

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Speaker 1: to create better opportunities for our team as a whole,

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Speaker 1: not just the defense, but as the team as a whole.

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Speaker 1: Our offense, our special teams, phases, UM, and our defense,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And it's once you create

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Speaker 1: those turnovers, they're gonna come in bunches. More gonna come

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Speaker 1: as the game go on, as the season go on.

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Speaker 1: And that's the position that we want to put our

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Speaker 1: team in, is getting the ball out j Ever getting

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Speaker 1: coaches here and said coach, I got running back skilled

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Speaker 1: absolutely everywhere I go. And what's putting the response for

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Speaker 1: I mean, I almost had a shout at the Chargers almost,

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Speaker 1: oh stay almost almost that was that was going to

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Speaker 1: put me in offense before a play. Almost did. But um,

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Speaker 1: but you do get opportunities. You had opportunities to return

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Speaker 1: game all that kind of stuff. Now, I I said

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Speaker 1: a long time ago, I return punts, way way way

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Speaker 1: back in the day. It was a scariest thing, Happenden

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Speaker 1: in the football field. You look at it differently. It

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Speaker 1: seems when we watch you like, it looks like there's

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Speaker 1: an opportunity for you. What makes returning punts not as

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Speaker 1: scary for you? What is it that you see or

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Speaker 1: you feel what you experience as your returning punts back?

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Speaker 1: And see an opportunity And that's how I look at it.

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Speaker 1: I see an opportunity for me to contribute in a game,

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Speaker 1: contribute to the team's success. And I see an opportunity

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Speaker 1: for me to do what I'm naturally born to do

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Speaker 1: with the ball in my hand. It's go score, you know,

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Speaker 1: create opportunities. Like I said, it's going to create opportunities

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Speaker 1: for our offense, putting them in better field position, and

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Speaker 1: that's going to help us as a team. So I

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Speaker 1: take pride in that, you know what I mean, And

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Speaker 1: I mean I love to do it. I have no

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Speaker 1: fear about doing it. I feel like it's something that

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Speaker 1: I was born to do and you know, I just

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Speaker 1: like it. Desmond King joining us on Texans Radio. All right,

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Speaker 1: so you're an All Pro and it's not like you

555
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Speaker 1: just make that decision before the season, or do you

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Speaker 1: do you set out to accomplish something like that. I

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Speaker 1: know it's probably a byproduct of just playing well and

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Speaker 1: at this stage in your career, it's not like you're

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Speaker 1: an older guy. You're just a more experienced guy. So

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Speaker 1: what do you bring it on the table this year?

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Speaker 1: As far as that goes, and trying to get back

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Speaker 1: to that level. Definitely, definitely, just you know, putting myself

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Speaker 1: in that right mindset to go out there and continue

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Speaker 1: to be the best person that I can be, the

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Speaker 1: best player that I can be, and it's going to

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Speaker 1: show in the field. The more hard work I put

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Speaker 1: in is the more hard work I'm going to get

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Speaker 1: put out. And that's what's going to keep contributing and

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Speaker 1: calculating over the games over the weeks. It starts in practice,

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Speaker 1: it starts in the meeting room, and that's that's where

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Speaker 1: I need to start. Started as as myself, and then

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Speaker 1: it ended up trickling down to the rest of the team,

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Speaker 1: and everybody's just going to come to get what are

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Speaker 1: these guys like, these teammates of yours, What could you

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Speaker 1: tell us about your fellow dbs. Oh, they all of

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Speaker 1: them hard workers. We compete in everything that we do

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Speaker 1: out there. Today we had condition to us guys running,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like it's everything's a competition,

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Speaker 1: you know. We want to make each other better. We

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Speaker 1: want everybody to be on the same page, everybody on

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Speaker 1: the same schedule. And I can feel that energy from

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Speaker 1: our defensive room right now. Um, not just the DBS,

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Speaker 1: but throughout the whole defense. Lineman, the linebackers, safeties, corners,

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Speaker 1: nickels like, we we want to build that competitive environment

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Speaker 1: in our in our room, in our defensive room, and

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Speaker 1: I think that's what's going to take us over that

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Speaker 1: edge this year. All right, you're ready for some either wars?

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Speaker 1: Pretty simple. I just ask your question. Either give you

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00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 1: two options. Either are and you're all ready. Okay. You

590
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 1: gotta pick a new professional sport. Football's done. Pick a

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Speaker 1: new professional sport. Either you could be a Premier League

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Speaker 1: soccer star or could be a Major League baseball stars

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Speaker 1: between them two. Between those two, I go soccer. Okay.

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Speaker 1: I think everybody's picked soccer. Soccer. Everybody pick I'm pretty

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Speaker 1: good with my feet, okay, all right, pretty good? All right?

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Speaker 1: Maybe that's just one before either Larry Bird or Steph Curry.

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Speaker 1: I'm going Steph Curry. That's my that's my modern day.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's my day, day and age. Okay, you

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Speaker 1: know I watched Steph Curry. Okay, let me make it tougher.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Kobe Bryant or Steph Curry. M hmm. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go Kobe. Okay, alright, because only only because the game,

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Speaker 1: when the game comes down to the end, Who do

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Speaker 1: you want the ball? Who you want Larry Bird? Who

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Speaker 1: want Larry Bird? Kobe Bryan and Larry you want the ball?

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Speaker 1: And Larry Birds Larry Bird is gonna make a shot

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Speaker 1: and take your heart. He might pass to another guy.

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Speaker 1: Larry Bird plays basketball like you play football. I believe

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Speaker 1: that because that's that's what he He's a profession in that,

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Speaker 1: that's what he built his craft on. Yeah, that's what

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Speaker 1: he did. I mean, yeah, he could shoot lights out.

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Speaker 1: Now let's say about this, right, you pick in Larry

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Speaker 1: Bird because he's good with the ball in his hands.

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Speaker 1: What if he needs to make that stop? Who you

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Speaker 1: gonna pick? Michael Jordan? Yeah, but you got I'm staying

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Speaker 1: with Kobe is an all? Kobe isn't all okay because

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Speaker 1: not just with the ball in his hands, he can

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Speaker 1: do it. All right, make this I'm gonna make this

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Speaker 1: one really hard. This is this, This is hard? All right?

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Speaker 1: We know you went to Iowa. Great career to Iowa,

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Speaker 1: wiping that out. You gotta go back to back to school.

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Speaker 1: Oh boy, you gotta pick either Michigan or Michigan State.

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Speaker 1: What's the question. You gotta go back and redo everything

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Speaker 1: out of high school? Right, and you gotta pick either

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Speaker 1: Michigan Michigan, Michigan State, Michigan State. Really, why I actually

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Speaker 1: wanted to go to Michigan State coming out of high school. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I took multiple visits, went there, UM talk to the coaches,

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Speaker 1: had really good relationship with some of the coaches. UM

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Speaker 1: knew some of the players that was up there. UM

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Speaker 1: Tony Lippett is actually one of like my closest like

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Speaker 1: friends UM State. He was at Michigan State. He was

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Speaker 1: a receiver and switched the corner of So I had

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Speaker 1: a lot of guys that was up there, but uh,

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Speaker 1: Michigan State only because Michigan was the the team for

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Speaker 1: me growing up. So I wanted to be different. I

635
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Speaker 1: wanted to go and work my way up, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean. I wanted to go to a school

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Speaker 1: that's not that big in our in our state and

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Speaker 1: kind of make my way up in that program. I

639
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Speaker 1: could appreciate that. I can appreciate that. The more people

640
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Speaker 1: I've asked that I've been from Detroit, they would tell

641
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:56,240
Speaker 1: me Michigan State more than any others. I like that. Grain. Yeah,

642
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 1: so Michigan State or Michigan did not offer me. So

643
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 1: I went to Iowa and yeah, very good. Desmond, thanks

644
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: a lot, good luck, a lot good luck. I saw

645
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 1: a segment on Desmond on Big ten Network that was

646
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 1: absolutely fantastic talking about his time back in Detroit. Very

647
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 1: very cool stuff. I don't know if I can find that.

648
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 1: I wish I could, because it was a really cool

649
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 1: segment about Desmond grown up, ending up at Iowa. Just

650
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 1: a guy that I love having around and hopefully he's

651
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 1: gonna end up making place for this defense in twenty

652
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 1: twenty one. Okay, talking about a couple of guys that

653
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 1: we hope are going to make plays. One since he

654
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 1: got in the league, injuries have been an issue. One

655
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 1: I think has got an opportunity to be a don't

656
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: sleep on me candidate with an opportunity to make this

657
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: ball club and be a big, big part of it

658
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. We have those two next right

659
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 1: here in Texans All Axis. We got one segment this

660
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Speaker 1: Monday edition of Texas All Access from Monday Texas Radio

661
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 1: stud I'm your host, John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter

662
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: and a great show. Not was excellent, excellent stuff from

663
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 1: Desmond King, who I wrote about today in my Harris Hits.

664
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: Go check him out Houston Texas dot Com. Harris Hits.

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00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 1: It's My Training Camp Observations Day five and Good Old

666
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 1: two five Desmond King making his way in there just

667
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 1: being a baller basically, so he makes it in there.

668
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: Now two guys that I think are very, very intriguing

669
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Speaker 1: for different reasons, are gonna join us in this last segment,

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00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:37,720
Speaker 1: our first keeping with the d theme, Drews dozen with

671
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Speaker 1: Derek How about that? Yeah, that's pretty cool. I like

672
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 1: deliteration too. Drews dozen with Derek Rivers defensive vand he

673
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: on Saturday in the past rush drills. I think he

674
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 1: had one rep. I think if I remember correctly well,

675
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 1: and there might have been others, but the one that

676
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 1: I saw, he bull rushed the snot out of a

677
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: tackle and I mean lifted a guy up off the

678
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 1: It was I was just speechless, like Yo, that's Derek

679
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: Rivers I saw back before the injuries hit when he

680
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: got into the league twenty seventeen, twenty nineteen. Those have

681
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 1: been injured, injury filled years. He missed both of those years, unfortunately.

682
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: But Derek Rivers is back and he's actually shown something

683
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:21,479
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see what looks like with the pads.

684
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 1: Come on, So how about a little Drews dozen with

685
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Speaker 1: Derek Rivers. It's number ninety five, It's Derek Rivers, a

686
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Speaker 1: member of the defensive line. Welcome to Houston. First of all,

687
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 1: you've been a lot of different places. You're from Kinston,

688
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 1: North Carolina. Is North Carolina barbecue better than other barbecues?

689
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Speaker 1: Because let me let me preface it by saying, I

690
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 1: think all barbecues, I'm like all dogs go to Heaven.

691
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 1: All barbecues are good. They're just different, right, they are different.

692
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna be big. I'm gonna be a Carolina

693
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: But I like that Vina's Vinega base. So that's how

694
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Speaker 1: I like my barbecue. Okay, you're from Kinston. That's in

695
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 1: eastern North Carolina center. I have a friend from way

696
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 1: back from Lexington, North Carolina, and we were setting up

697
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 1: this interview. He said, Eastern Carolina barbecue is trash, which

698
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 1: that's not very nice to say. What do you have

699
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 1: to say to that? Tell hey guy, come on down.

700
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if he might lead Kinston, but he

701
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,360
Speaker 1: got to come on down. I like it. You're very,

702
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: very political, and you got a little guy helping you out.

703
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 1: Is this your intern? What do we got here? Yeah? Yeah,

704
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 1: this is my god? What's up? I'll be out it

705
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,279
Speaker 1: a little bit man. Yes, my guy. He keep me

706
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 1: on my toes. Make sure what I'm saying all right?

707
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: Things not bad? How old are we talking about you?

708
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:24,839
Speaker 1: He's too all right? So he's running, has a good

709
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 1: good forty I saw him. He is fast. Do you

710
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 1: coach him? No? He coaches me. So how are you

711
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:34,320
Speaker 1: liking camp? I saw you working after practice with Malik Collins.

712
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: You're not one of the only guys that's worked with him.

713
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 1: I mean, what are you doing afterwards when you're doing

714
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 1: stuff like that? Man is getting better? Trying to learn

715
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: your teammates a lot of times, man, because it's football

716
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,279
Speaker 1: obviously is about a lot of technique. But honestly, when

717
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 1: you know your guys, man know how they play. You

718
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 1: played much better as a D line. So obviously me

719
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 1: and Malie trying to get that that that team works,

720
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: trying to get that out of asso to the point

721
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: where we don't even gotta say anything. We just know

722
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 1: how each other plays, and you just in in unity.

723
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 1: What was this opportunity for you when you decided come here?

724
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 1: Obviously you know take out the financials. What was the

725
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 1: opportunity for you here? Praise guy, man, it was. It's

726
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 1: a blessing. Man shoot it was awesome. Ain't number the

727
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 1: grace of guy, for real, It's another opportunity. We're all

728
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 1: blessed to be able to do what we do, and

729
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 1: so I just I was excited, man, to be back

730
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 1: here with a couple of familiar faces, some family friends,

731
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,760
Speaker 1: and so it's it's been awesome. And then as a player,

732
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: what's better about you now versus say this time last year?

733
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 1: Shoot man? Just confidence wise, that's one thing. Is just

734
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:27,800
Speaker 1: trying to learn defense. Love The defense is awesome, so

735
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 1: it makes you play with usually athleticism, play with confidence. Honestly,

736
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 1: it's a we have a great room, great team, a

737
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:35,800
Speaker 1: lot of good brothers in here, and so that so

738
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,279
Speaker 1: going from here, it's just everybody encourages you here and

739
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 1: so with with that you've become a better player, better man.

740
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:43,800
Speaker 1: And it's cool. On another note, what's with all the

741
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 1: short shorts in this camp? It's hot? I guess yeah,

742
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 1: And that's the thing these days, you look at basketball,

743
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 1: everybody got short shorts, So I guess that's the nutrient.

744
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,320
Speaker 1: You're not going that far, are you? Man? Yesterday I

745
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,239
Speaker 1: accidentally grasped the two small shorts. But it's but now

746
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 1: I'm not going that far. Hey, let's wrap things up

747
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,439
Speaker 1: a little Kinston. Jerry stack is from there. Yes, where

748
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 1: do you rank in the athletes coming from Kinston? Originallys he?

749
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 1: I'm guessing he's top of the list. Man. There's some

750
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 1: good dudes, man. Even guys ain't made the least. We

751
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 1: had Brandon Inger, Randy Richie, a couple of guys, and

752
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 1: I'm probably low on the toe of the pole. But

753
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 1: Jerry's Jerry's up there. Jerry's up there. I'm gonna go.

754
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go top the team, top team. You're very modest.

755
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, you're in the NFL. You're doing well.

756
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:23,839
Speaker 1: Jerry Stackhouse, Yeah he's number one, but come on, yes,

757
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 1: I'm still going top fifteen. There's some dudes, man, there's

758
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 1: some guys I can still that are over there now

759
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 1: that still could play ball. Kiss is an awesome place. Man.

760
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:33,440
Speaker 1: We're glad you're here. Best of luck the rest of

761
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 1: the way. You gotta get with your son here and

762
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 1: get some stuff. Go on here. He needs you more

763
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 1: than I do than I happen to be watching. That

764
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 1: interview is so so cute. Derek's a little boy was

765
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:47,760
Speaker 1: just waiting for his dad's attention and just so cute

766
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:51,879
Speaker 1: to see him. I mean, just a beautiful little boy.

767
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,759
Speaker 1: And what a great family there. Derek Rivers meeting with

768
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,399
Speaker 1: Drew Doherty. Now I had a chance to catch up

769
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 1: with a guy that was really really intriguing to me

770
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: last year because beside, I used to say this all

771
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 1: the time, the big Z was Zoya alofa high. I

772
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:12,400
Speaker 1: hope I said it right Z. I tried, man, I

773
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 1: really tried. I tried to get it close. And he

774
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: was really the biggest guy we have. But he was

775
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 1: a rookie, no offseason, no draft prep like I mean,

776
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 1: he did draft prep, but there's no ts no, I

777
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 1: mean nothing, and yet he still was able to get

778
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 1: on the field do some things. I've been seeing some

779
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 1: things out of him that I really like in the

780
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:36,280
Speaker 1: past rustrials, and I actually asked him about that pretty

781
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 1: much right off the bat. Here is big Z defensive

782
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 1: lineman A zoya alofa Hi with me today? All right,

783
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:49,880
Speaker 1: John Harris out here day five And we typically on

784
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 1: the radio say big Z because we get to work

785
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: in and going fast and flapping our gums, and sometimes

786
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 1: it is hard to say a zoya Alofahi. How do

787
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 1: I do it perfect, man, Big, I got it right.

788
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,800
Speaker 1: I'm so proud of myself. Mark and I talked about

789
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 1: this all the time. I'm gonna have Tory big zekes.

790
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: It's easier to do the interview. See what's without pads?

791
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:11,879
Speaker 1: How tough is it? Big guys inside? And he didn't

792
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 1: want to be give me that's why you played football right?

793
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 1: Without pass man, It's extremely tough, man, because instincts, instincts wise,

794
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: we just want to get after it and and and

795
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 1: and bull rush. Put my head in someone's chest and

796
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 1: and and you know what I'm saying, not come on

797
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 1: their back. But um, we're professionals, were coming coming come

798
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 1: here every day. Um tempo was low, so we go low,

799
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:33,879
Speaker 1: tempo was high, we go high. All right. I saw

800
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:35,399
Speaker 1: this the other day, and I want to make sure

801
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 1: that I saw this correctly because I saw from the

802
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:39,919
Speaker 1: side and I was like, I think he just threw

803
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,880
Speaker 1: Reggie White' hump move? Did I see you do that?

804
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:44,880
Speaker 1: And where did you learn something like that? And how

805
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,799
Speaker 1: important is that to have that as part of your game? Yes, man,

806
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: it most definitely was Reggie White Man um hump move.

807
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,879
Speaker 1: But um yeah, aunts, Bobby king Man great coach. I'm

808
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 1: teaching us to hunt, move, counter work up field a

809
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 1: little bit. Um. Once the guy bites, hump him over

810
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,279
Speaker 1: and get a sack and make a play. I was

811
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 1: so impressed seeing that you're a second year guy. Who's

812
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 1: the focus for you going from your one rookie oh

813
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 1: of COVID nonsense, not coming in the year two. You

814
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 1: actually had an offseason this year. What's kind of the

815
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: focus going from year one year two? Yeah? Most definitely

816
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: coming in our first year, especially with COVID, was was

817
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 1: definitely tough, but we're able to do it. But coming

818
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 1: in year two, coming in with a lot more confidence,

819
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:26,960
Speaker 1: m getting off an actual offseason programming, OTAs, getting to

820
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 1: be around the coaches, get to be around the strand staff. Nutrition,

821
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 1: lad Um was definitely helped. Just coming in. I would

822
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 1: say the biggest thing is confidence, coming in with a

823
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 1: lot more confidence. Okay, you're Georgia kid. Is this hot

824
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:44,799
Speaker 1: to you? Not? It's it's hot. It's hot, but it's

825
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:46,839
Speaker 1: but it's not too bad because I'm kind of used

826
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 1: to it from coming from Georgia. All Right. I started

827
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:51,360
Speaker 1: this segment with Max Sharpening a few days ago. I

828
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,359
Speaker 1: NOI's offensive alignment but I started this segment called say

829
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 1: something nice about all Right, you're ready, Okay, let's do it.

830
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 1: Say something nice about Ross Blacklock. Ross Blacklock has some

831
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 1: really good tattoos. Okay, say something nice about Bobby King.

832
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: Brings great energy every day to practice, comes with great energy. Man,

833
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:22,400
Speaker 1: he's a great coach. Say something nice about Titus Howard physical,

834
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 1: he's real physical, brings a lot of great energy, and

835
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:30,760
Speaker 1: he's dominant player. Okay, last one, say something nice about

836
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 1: Justin Britt, great veteran leader off the rip. He's only

837
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 1: been here for for a little bit and he's already

838
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:40,879
Speaker 1: a leader of this team. How important is that? See

839
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:43,320
Speaker 1: the fact that you have guys that have come in

840
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:45,759
Speaker 1: that have been leaders elsewhere. Now they come in here

841
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 1: and maybe someone we've got something to prove, you know,

842
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:49,360
Speaker 1: just hasn't played in a while. How important is that

843
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 1: for a young guy? For you to see the leadership

844
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:53,800
Speaker 1: that's coming from guys that are coming in here for

845
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:55,799
Speaker 1: their first year. It's awesome, man. They get to teach

846
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 1: us what they've learned from a different team, from different programs,

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Speaker 1: from different UM schemes. So it's great having better guys

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Speaker 1: come in like um Britt and and and guys that

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Speaker 1: have been here like Brandon Dunn. Man, he's helped me

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Speaker 1: so much through my rookie year. And now I'm getting

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Speaker 1: to Washington getting to wash him and practice how they practice,

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Speaker 1: how they um um practicing. Get after it now. Back

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Speaker 1: in the day in the old locker room, be Done

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Speaker 1: used to say he had control the ox cord at

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Speaker 1: all times. A locker room changed a little bit. Does

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Speaker 1: Dunny still have controls? He's still still DJ Dunny in

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Speaker 1: the locker room. He is definitely still d J Dunny.

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Speaker 1: He's definitely still running to oxcord Man Dunny. He's a

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Speaker 1: great guy man, real good music. Zoya alufa high, big

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Speaker 1: Z the Man, Thank you very much, free time, Thank you, sir,

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Speaker 1: appreciate you. Go Texan, are you Kimmy. He's even got

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Speaker 1: our tagline down, Go Texans. He could finish this show tonight.

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Speaker 1: I mean I should have just mic Job just left

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Speaker 1: it right there, because that's how we end every show

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Speaker 1: with Go Texans. But I usually do it, and I

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Speaker 1: say thanks to big Z, to Derek Rivers, to Drew Doherty,

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Speaker 1: to Mark van Amir, to Desmond King, to Nick Assaria,

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Speaker 1: to everybody out there, listening. It's been great. Your support

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Speaker 1: is fantastic. It's really been such a positive vibe with

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Speaker 1: the Texans in the building and hopefully that starts to

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Speaker 1: rub rub off out in the community. But you guys listening,

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Speaker 1: that's huge for our supports. We really appreciate it. We

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Speaker 1: will see you tomorrow, have a great night, and as always,

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Speaker 1: as Big Z said, go Texans, Go Texans.