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Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody, Welcome into a Wednesday A Dash

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Speaker 1: of Texas All Acts, says from Monday Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: I am your host, John Harris, football Anal Southam reporter

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Speaker 1: and so glad to be with you. We're gonna go

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Speaker 1: in the lab with your Doherty in our next segment.

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Speaker 1: And when I say we, I mean me and Drew

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Speaker 1: and we had a lot of different things on that

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Speaker 1: in the lab, but we'll have that for you in

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Speaker 1: our next segment. Obviously we had on the fifty three

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Speaker 1: man roster, the cuts that took place, those kind of things,

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Speaker 1: But yeah, that's the next segment because we're coming right

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Speaker 1: out to shoot hot, coming out hot, and how do

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Speaker 1: you do that on a Wednesday Dash of Texas All Access.

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Speaker 1: Let you bring in GM Nick Cassario, who decided to

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Speaker 1: share a few moments with Mark and myself. What a

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Speaker 1: beautiful human being he is, and we had an opportunity

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Speaker 1: to catch up with him and talk a lot of

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Speaker 1: different things about this team, talk about the cuts, talk

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Speaker 1: about various positions, and talk about the Indianapolis Colts. And

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Speaker 1: we will close with an idea from Mark that gets

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Speaker 1: shut down very very quickly. Right at the end of

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Speaker 1: our interview with Nick Cassario. Let's go Mark meet Nick

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Speaker 1: now joining us right now on Texans Radio. It's general

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Speaker 1: manager Nick Cassario. After being completely done with the roster,

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Speaker 1: no more changes. Everything is set in the stone. And

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Speaker 1: just kidding, you know, we joked that it's like a

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Speaker 1: construction site. It's always under construction. You finish this ramp here,

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Speaker 1: you're working on that shoulder there, You're never done. That's

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Speaker 1: exactly right, Mark. You really kind of create different buckets

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Speaker 1: and depending on the time of the year, there's certain

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Speaker 1: things that are appropriate for that time of year. So

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Speaker 1: I think this is the time of the year. It's

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Speaker 1: really in mass You know, when you look at what

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Speaker 1: happened yesterday throughout the league, there was almost called a

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Speaker 1: thousand transactions. It wasn't quite that many. Wow, it's a

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Speaker 1: significant amount. So twenty seven ish play. Twenty five to

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Speaker 1: thirty players come off of a roster so that are

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Speaker 1: available to the rest of the league. And there were

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Speaker 1: thirty three claims that were made this afternoon, which is

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Speaker 1: historically about what it is. It's about thirty five to

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Speaker 1: forty claims. Kind of at the initial cutdown like it is,

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Speaker 1: there'll be some players that are offset as a result,

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Speaker 1: so there will be players that we're on that are

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Speaker 1: rest in the league. There will be available potentially for

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Speaker 1: your practice squad. So i'd say this week, between now

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Speaker 1: and probably into next week, there'll be a lot of

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Speaker 1: i would say player movement, and then eventually you'll kind

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Speaker 1: of solidified and get situated, and then by the end

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Speaker 1: of September you'll probably have a good idea of kind

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Speaker 1: of where you are and where your players are, and

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Speaker 1: then moving forward, it's probably going to be more of

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Speaker 1: a case by case specific player situation relative to what's

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Speaker 1: going on with the rest of your team. Nike, it

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Speaker 1: feels like that's something that not that we have to

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Speaker 1: feel we have to educate listeners, but there are listeners

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Speaker 1: and people out there like, oh, the fifty three man

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Speaker 1: roster like it's set in marble. Are there players and

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Speaker 1: agents that kind of look at it that way too,

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Speaker 1: where you almost have to educate them on, hey, look,

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Speaker 1: this is for now, but it doesn't mean for later.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of the agents understand how it works,

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Speaker 1: so you know, they understand it's kind of a snapshot

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Speaker 1: very easily could change. So I think the one thing

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Speaker 1: the right thing, Just be honest, and if you have

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Speaker 1: But we look at it as it's fifty three. Kind

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Speaker 1: of your question, John, But then Lovey has talked about

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Speaker 1: this multiple times, and we've talked about this. It's really

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Speaker 1: seventy or sixty nine. However you look at it. So

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Speaker 1: those practice squad players are just as important or just

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Speaker 1: So you have to look at it. You have fifty

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Speaker 1: I think that's really the piece of the puzzle what

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Speaker 1: You're looking for certain things and every team is different,

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Speaker 1: so it goes back to what you're philosophy is with

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Speaker 1: that's right, exactly right. So you can get to it's

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Speaker 1: that are an active each week, Nick, did the philosophy

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Speaker 1: once COVID hit and practice squads could expand to sixteen?

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Speaker 1: I think everybody is sort of benefited from the extra

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Speaker 1: roster flexibility. The players benefit, you know that, the team's benefit.

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Speaker 1: So you have more opportunities to get other players and

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Speaker 1: So just having let's say, more healthy bodies, more readily

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Speaker 1: I think everybody has appreciated and responded favorably to the

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Speaker 1: Michigan University and watched to turn this into the Troy

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Speaker 1: spent time there. I spent time there. But this is

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Speaker 1: an interesting story really because he's an undrafted free agent.

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Speaker 1: Who would have thought and this is why you say

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Speaker 1: can kind of wander a little bit and then you're

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Speaker 1: kind of focus. You know, kid, you know you can

432
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Speaker 1: get lost here a little bit. So we need a

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Speaker 1: segment called Nick's Picks. Okay, against the spread every week.

434
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Speaker 1: We can't gambling. The NFL will find that stay away

435
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Speaker 1: from that. Never mind about it, Nick, thanks a lot

436
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Speaker 1: for joining us. Thanks guys. A great idea from Mark.

437
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Speaker 1: Just that's one that can't be executed. I like the

438
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Speaker 1: idea though Nick's Picks. It would be great and just Nope,

439
00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:51,120
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. With the focus the NFL on gambling.

440
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Speaker 1: We saw that impact on goy like Calvin Ridley who

441
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Speaker 1: did some things on DraftKings or whatever he did and

442
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Speaker 1: ended up getting suspended for a year. So yeah, mbling

443
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Speaker 1: is a no go for NFL employees, etc. So yeah,

444
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Speaker 1: Nick's picks. You are just gonna have to wait till

445
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Speaker 1: week one on Friday when I do my picks, which,

446
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Speaker 1: of course they're just for fun an upper gamblers or

447
00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:18,399
Speaker 1: anything like that. They're just to discuss the games. As

448
00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:23,320
Speaker 1: I've always said, speaking of discussing games and well discussion

449
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Speaker 1: in general. Drew Doherty stopped by for a little in

450
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Speaker 1: the lab to have a little pow wow about house

451
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Speaker 1: teams put together. How Nick and love you were able

452
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Speaker 1: to do it. That's next in the lab right here

453
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Speaker 1: on Texatile Access. Yes, yes, I know everybody gets excited

454
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Speaker 1: about the fifty three man roster. Who made it? The cuts?

455
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Speaker 1: Who was three o'clock yesterday? I liked the day after

456
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Speaker 1: Beca's when waiver claims happen. That's when some action starts

457
00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:55,680
Speaker 1: to take place. That's when practice squads start to come together.

458
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Speaker 1: And that's where we are now. No official statement yet

459
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Speaker 1: from the tech Sins as far as who made a

460
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Speaker 1: practice squad, but there are a lot of names we've

461
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Speaker 1: We've heard Marlon Mack being on the practice squad. I

462
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Speaker 1: just saw Cydrical Way he going to the practice squad,

463
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Speaker 1: amongst others. Thank Jalen Camp is there. So when that

464
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Speaker 1: becomes official, well obviously bring it to you. So a

465
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Speaker 1: lot of things going on with the Texans fifty three

466
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Speaker 1: man roster, with the practice squad, and this is the

467
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Speaker 1: time of year I love now. I know it's a

468
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Speaker 1: stressful time for the players, for their agents, for their families,

469
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Speaker 1: also for coaches, and GM's two getting it right, you know,

470
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Speaker 1: did you get did you cut the right guy? Did

471
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Speaker 1: you saved the right guy? And there's always one you regret,

472
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Speaker 1: but there's always one where you go, you know what.

473
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Speaker 1: I played a hunch and I played it right, and

474
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Speaker 1: I'm sure Nickossario on the staff and the Texans have

475
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Speaker 1: done that as well. One that I just saw a

476
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Speaker 1: little while ago, Trey Sermon got cut by the San

477
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Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine ers, and I actually on my play

478
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Speaker 1: card I said this Thursday night last Thursday night. Boy,

479
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Speaker 1: it feels like a long time ago that Trey Sermon

480
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Speaker 1: was one of the guys that I was looking at

481
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Speaker 1: because running back wise, you don't know what's going to happen.

482
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Speaker 1: How is that going to shake out? Tray Sarmon's available

483
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Speaker 1: after just one year, so I don't know what the

484
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Speaker 1: Niners didn't see, but he has been wave Trey Sarmon

485
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Speaker 1: is available now. There are a lot of things going on,

486
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Speaker 1: and Drew Dorry and I tried to encapsulate all of

487
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Speaker 1: them right here with our in the lap. Let's go.

488
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Speaker 1: I didn't really get surprised, and you and I chit

489
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Speaker 1: chatted about this offline on text yesterday. I didn't really

490
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Speaker 1: get too surprised by any of these. Nope, roster moves.

491
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Speaker 1: Clint Stirner, I thought to give him full credit in

492
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Speaker 1: the postgame show after the final preseason game, brought up

493
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Speaker 1: the idea that he thought Marlon Mack was probably going

494
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Speaker 1: to be cut, And initially I said, what, Clint, what

495
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Speaker 1: in my mind on the right home, but he laid

496
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Speaker 1: it out very very clearly the reasons, basically saying, he's

497
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Speaker 1: coming off an injury, he's a veteran, he's probably gonna

498
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Speaker 1: be more expensive than the other options you have at

499
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Speaker 1: that position. And he wasn't doing it like, he wasn't

500
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Speaker 1: saying like, oh, Marlon Mack is awful, right, He's just

501
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Speaker 1: saying of that group, he's probably gonna be the odd

502
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Speaker 1: man out. So he I think that's the best way

503
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Speaker 1: to putting it. Putting it odd man out because and

504
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Speaker 1: that was the only real surprise, the only the only

505
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Speaker 1: two which you and I we do fifty three man

506
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Speaker 1: rosters all the time. We're always trying to figure out

507
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Speaker 1: who's gonna be on the fifty three man roster, all

508
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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. And then really the only two

509
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Speaker 1: things that I didn't have was I had I had

510
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Speaker 1: Brooks over Stuart at safety, and then in a Marlin

511
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Speaker 1: Mack that was that was it. Other than that, it

512
00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:40,359
Speaker 1: was all pretty much the roster revealed itself, as as

513
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Speaker 1: Nick Cassaria likes to say, Hey, the roster roll revealed itself. Love.

514
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Speaker 1: He Smith mentioned it as press conference, and it really

515
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Speaker 1: had yeah said a few really are phrasing, but and

516
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Speaker 1: essentially yeah, essentially the point being that guys will water

517
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Speaker 1: will find its level, Guys will find their natural spot,

518
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Speaker 1: or they'll fade, or they'll shine whatever. They've got plenty

519
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Speaker 1: of time, they got three preseason games, they got a

520
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Speaker 1: full month of training camp. They will shine or they won't,

521
00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:10,920
Speaker 1: and it'll be pretty evident. The Marla mac One was

522
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Speaker 1: the one that I was like, now I have seen

523
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Speaker 1: some reports that they're planning I'm bringing him back on

524
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Speaker 1: practice squad, which would be really cool to give him

525
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Speaker 1: that opportunity to have him here. And again we've said this, market,

526
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Speaker 1: I've said this, You and I have talked about this,

527
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Speaker 1: the fact that a fifty three man roster is not

528
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Speaker 1: set in stone. You don't go over there and chisel

529
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Speaker 1: it out of the marble and like this is the No,

530
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Speaker 1: that thing changes, that thing's written in pencil, and him

531
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Speaker 1: coming back is probably I'm guessing there's some massa like

532
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Speaker 1: massaging of contracts. Potentially, Yes, if he's there a week one,

533
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Speaker 1: it costs a whole lot more. You know, this is

534
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Speaker 1: just something that I'm throwing out there. Yeah, I imagine

535
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Speaker 1: that's that could go into it. And that's why you

536
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Speaker 1: might see guys, like you're talking about, this is such

537
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Speaker 1: a fluid process. You might see guys get added right

538
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Speaker 1: after that first game or you know later. Do you

539
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:04,440
Speaker 1: remember that happened to John Weeks last year. It happened

540
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,200
Speaker 1: in weeks he last year where he was quote unquote

541
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Speaker 1: released and it was some procedural thing that they had

542
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,360
Speaker 1: to get to fifty three and they told him, look, procedural,

543
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,399
Speaker 1: bring you back. And I think when everybody first saw it,

544
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 1: they were like, oh John. And then when following reports

545
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:22,639
Speaker 1: came out that. Okay, look, this is a procedural thing.

546
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,520
Speaker 1: He's coming back. There's no no worries. But he relaxed.

547
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Speaker 1: And that's maybe that happens with Marlon here. Who's to say,

548
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:35,760
Speaker 1: but the thought being, the fifty three man roster came

549
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Speaker 1: together about like we expected, which I don't know good

550
00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 1: or bad, but it was sort of evident this training camp.

551
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Speaker 1: It didn't seem like there were a ton of secret

552
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Speaker 1: sort of surprises. So they got to the fifty three

553
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Speaker 1: man roster that they'll start the year with as of

554
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Speaker 1: whatever today is when you're listening, and then they'll go forth.

555
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Speaker 1: There might be a player added, there might be a

556
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Speaker 1: couple added, there might be a couple moved, you know,

557
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Speaker 1: throughout the season. That'll happen because injuries and movement and

558
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. I don't know if we'll

559
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Speaker 1: have a Danny Amadola, but we didn't know that we're

560
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 1: gonna have a Danny Amadola last year. No, not until

561
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:13,680
Speaker 1: basically this week. But yeah, you know about this next week. Yeah,

562
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 1: like over the weekend, see cha the Labor day signing. Okay, Now,

563
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Speaker 1: if you listen to this podcast, you know from this

564
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Speaker 1: last spring, a few times I mentioned how John and

565
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Speaker 1: I love doing the mock draft simulators on places like

566
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Speaker 1: PF dot com. Yeah, the Draft Network, there's those are

567
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Speaker 1: two of the better ones, I think, And so doing

568
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 1: that at least three or four times a week for

569
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:41,000
Speaker 1: a few months, I got to know a little bit

570
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Speaker 1: more about the running backs class that we just saw

571
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Speaker 1: get drafted, and now we've seen some guys get cut

572
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Speaker 1: that when I picked them in the sixth seventh round,

573
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Speaker 1: I was given an A plus grade because I picked

574
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Speaker 1: these guys, and boy, there's some there's some guys out

575
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Speaker 1: there that are at least some of these sites thought

576
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 1: very very highly of that didn't wind up getting drafted,

577
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 1: but they went to camp with some teams. Now they're gone.

578
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,120
Speaker 1: Any chance some of them stick, perhaps with the Texans

579
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Speaker 1: or do you think it's it's kind of gonna be

580
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 1: one of those things where we're gonna roll. The Texans

581
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:19,359
Speaker 1: are gonna roll with what they have now, maybe, like

582
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 1: you say, bring Mac back, or do you think there

583
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:25,000
Speaker 1: is a chance that some young blood could be brought in.

584
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 1: I absolutely think there's there's an opportunity for young blood

585
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 1: to come in. Look, every player that you maybe that

586
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,440
Speaker 1: you released, is not or waived or whatever the case

587
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:36,920
Speaker 1: might be, is not going to come back on practice squad.

588
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Speaker 1: Of those, maybe you get twelve eleven. I mean, who

589
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,639
Speaker 1: knows what the number is. There's gonna be opportunity at

590
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 1: worst case. This is what the practice squad now does

591
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,359
Speaker 1: is it allows you to look at players and go,

592
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:52,159
Speaker 1: you know what, We're gonna leave the fifty three man

593
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:55,600
Speaker 1: roster where it is. But what we're gonna do is

594
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,879
Speaker 1: take this cat and put him on practice squad and

595
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Speaker 1: let him get in the building and let him meet

596
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:03,400
Speaker 1: the coaches and let him show us a few things

597
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:05,119
Speaker 1: out in the field. I think running back is one

598
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 1: of those positions that you could do that with and

599
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,880
Speaker 1: feel comfortable. I always felt like offensive line, defensive line,

600
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 1: it's kind of tough because you want to see how

601
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 1: fisical are they know, how their hands, how they move,

602
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 1: you know, some of that stuff that you'd like to

603
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,200
Speaker 1: see with pads on, you're not gonna have that opportunity.

604
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,400
Speaker 1: But a running back, yeah, you may not see exactly

605
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 1: all the vision, but can you catch them all in

606
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,200
Speaker 1: the backfield? How does he hit the hole? How quick

607
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,159
Speaker 1: does he hit the hole? And then obviously all the

608
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,680
Speaker 1: things that go around off the field. How is he

609
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 1: in meeting rooms? How is he with the coaching staff?

610
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:36,879
Speaker 1: How quickly does he learn? How quickly does he retain

611
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. You could, I think, see

612
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,159
Speaker 1: it in a running back and bring a guy and

613
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 1: put him on practice squad and say, look, you'll have

614
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: an opportunity down the road. We'll see what you're gonna

615
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 1: do with that opportunity. And at that point, you don't

616
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: cut somebody from the fifty three man roster. You don't

617
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 1: have to make that decision, but you realize you got

618
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 1: two or three spots on practice squad and your draft

619
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:05,200
Speaker 1: room like that particular back or like that particular you know,

620
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 1: weapon X or whatever he is. Hey, let's take a

621
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 1: flyer on him. He's out and available. They've probably had

622
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 1: some feelers out there and probably through the draft process

623
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:15,879
Speaker 1: that they liked him. In the draft process. They probably

624
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 1: talked to him during that process at some point a

625
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 1: scout James Lipford, maybe all the way up to Nick. Yeah,

626
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,439
Speaker 1: they have some good intel exactly now, it's just driving

627
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 1: with what you've seen from and heard of what he's

628
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,200
Speaker 1: been doing since May with that new team, right, and

629
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 1: you know there are so many players over the history

630
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 1: of time, whether it's running back or whatever, that they

631
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 1: weren't drafted, they didn't stick for whatever reason. Coaching change.

632
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 1: Coaches couldn't see how to use that player, they didn't

633
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 1: find the right fit. The player that always comes to

634
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 1: mind for me is James Harrison. Debo was cut I

635
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 1: think three or four times by the Steelers. They just

636
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 1: couldn't figure out what to do with him, and he

637
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: they finally were like, you know what, let's just let's

638
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 1: keep this guy around. Let's see who does the special teams.

639
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 1: And then that turned into, well, you know what does

640
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 1: pretty well on special teams. He doesn't look like a

641
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: pass rusher, but you know, in practice he keeps getting

642
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: in the pass into the quarterback. Let's put him out there. Man,

643
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 1: he's pretty good. Let's play him all the time. Oh yeah,

644
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 1: he's really really good. Let's make him a pro bowler,

645
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 1: all pro And that's, you know, a guy that could

646
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: potentially go to the Hall of Fame at some point.

647
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 1: That was a guy that people just didn't know how

648
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 1: to use and what to do with him, and they

649
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 1: finally figured it out. And maybe that happens for a

650
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 1: number of guys, and maybe it happens for some of

651
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 1: these guys that get waved in release. So I'm I'm

652
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: always willing to take a shot on a guy if

653
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 1: I saw something in college that like, heck, yeah, I

654
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 1: take a shot on him. I think Tyler Batty was

655
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 1: a guy from Missouri who I think it was at

656
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 1: the Ravens if I remember now, he's not a big dude.

657
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: He is not a big dude. He's five seven, but

658
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 1: he is tough as a two dollars steak man. He

659
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 1: will run inside, but he can catch the ball out

660
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 1: of the backfield. He's a tough He's a tough little guy.

661
00:29:58,440 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 1: Is that a guy you want to take him? Maybe

662
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 1: trying to develop into a third down back sort of

663
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 1: a if you go into Texans way back machine. Remember

664
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 1: a Keem Hunt, right, I do, Yeah, a Keem Hunt.

665
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 1: That's kind of Tyler Batty and that guy gave you

666
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: a I mean some of the most memorable plays of

667
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 1: fifteen and sixteen, and Keem Hunt did. So you had

668
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 1: a player like that. You know who's to say, but

669
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 1: you just want to make sure that whoever you're putting

670
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 1: on that practice squad, you feel like, Okay, we can

671
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 1: a develop this guy over time or B this is

672
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 1: a guy that at some point we foresee playing on

673
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: this roster in twenty twenty two, or see both. Yeah,

674
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 1: I'm cool with it. I also like Sequandre white Yahan

675
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,720
Speaker 1: for for another time. Okay, Ross Blacklock has been dealt

676
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: to the Vikings. We've seen the reports. He goes along

677
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 1: with a seventh round pick and in return the Texans

678
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:50,960
Speaker 1: get back a six. So that means the Texans now

679
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 1: have four sixth rounders. They don't have a seventh rounder

680
00:30:55,480 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: because that's theirs that got Delta Minnesota. They they got

681
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: a seventh round conditional pick back when they traded cornerback

682
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 1: John Reid a year or so good, but the day

683
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: that he got cut before the season started nixed that deal.

684
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: So he got cut, they brought him back. He did play.

685
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: I think six plus games doesn't matter, but Sexans are

686
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 1: not getting that pick. So if you see that listed

687
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 1: out there, that's not correct. And John Reid didn't make

688
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 1: the Seahawks this year, by the way, well he made

689
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 1: the initial fifty three for John. I let John when

690
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: he was here exact just didn't work out here. So

691
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: Sexans have four six, two ones, two threes and a

692
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: two four and five. That's eleven picks total in twenty

693
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 1: twenty three. We know they're not going to take eleven players.

694
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 1: A lot of those picks are gonna get dealt. Many

695
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 1: of them will be dealt the week of the weekend

696
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: of the draft. But lots and lots and lots of

697
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 1: AMMO right now for Nick Kisserio and company, and no

698
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 1: AMO in the seventh, which I think they like because

699
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 1: they don't have to dicker around with that and they

700
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: can start working on undrafted free agents, negotiating with them saying, hey,

701
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: you got a spot here for competition, we think we

702
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: could use you. They get a headstart on things. So

703
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 1: that's I think an under rated little aspect of this deal.

704
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: In addition to getting compensation for a guy that might

705
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 1: have been on the chopping block. Yeah, you might have

706
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: to just cut him. I mean you get something. You

707
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: essentially you move up to the draft, You essentially pick

708
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: swap is what you did. You're like, hey, we're gonna

709
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: move up to six. You guys move down to seven,

710
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: and you'll get a guy that we really felt like

711
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 1: had run its course here in Houston. That's unfortunate because

712
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: I loved Ross his human being he was just a

713
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: sweet teddy bear of a man. Went to Mexico with

714
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: the guy. Yeah, I mean he was just awesome. Yeah,

715
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 1: just a really good, good dude amongst the d line. Again,

716
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 1: the roster reveals itself to you. It was pretty clear.

717
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: And I watched every single rep of one on one live,

718
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: and I watched every single rep of one on one

719
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 1: side drill on film, every single one. So I saw

720
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: everything in training camp at least at least three or

721
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 1: four times. It was clear the ten guys that should

722
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 1: have been kept. If they were keeping ten or nine

723
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 1: or what. I can't remember with the number is, I

724
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 1: think it's ten, those were the ten. If you said

725
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 1: give me the ten, that's the ten. I worried about

726
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 1: nine because I worried about having to make a decision

727
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: between Dwump four and Heinis and I felt like both

728
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 1: of them deserved it. I felt like Hinnich was probably

729
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,479
Speaker 1: a hair ahead of what Dwump four gave them, But man,

730
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 1: DWMP four was he was coming. And when you think

731
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:37,040
Speaker 1: about having that position of essentially a position Roy plays,

732
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 1: they're two interior defensive positions. One is the three technique,

733
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 1: a little bit quicker. That's Malik, a little bit quicker,

734
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 1: a little bit lighter, but a guy that is there

735
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 1: to create havoc up the field. So that was what

736
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 1: hopefully they wanted Ross to be, but that never came

737
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: to fruition. But you have some guys that could play

738
00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 1: at spot. Ross could play at spot. Rashim Green can

739
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 1: go and play that spot. Thomas Booker can play that spot,

740
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: but he can also play the other spot, which is

741
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: a nose tackle spot. That's Roy, that's highnish, that's sometimes Booker.

742
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: Booker can play both, which is nice. And then you

743
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 1: have dwap four who could play that spot. And I

744
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 1: think and I think that dwamp four can play both

745
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 1: those spots too because he is pretty quick and small

746
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: point that we need to point small thing we got

747
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 1: to point out right now, we've heard all about flexibility

748
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 1: and how valuable that is, and yes, it is nice

749
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 1: to have guys who can play, but these guys can

750
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,399
Speaker 1: do things at each of these that's like, excel at

751
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 1: each of these spots. Not just play and give you

752
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 1: the league average, but they've got they've got ways that

753
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: they can make plays as an outside guy, make plays

754
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 1: on the interior. And that's so very attractive. That's so

755
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: very tantalizing right now, and something I'm very very excited about.

756
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,879
Speaker 1: The V word became kind of a bad word fertility

757
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 1: during the Bill O'Brien err because it would be the

758
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:54,360
Speaker 1: first thing out of Bill's mouth and oh, he's versatile.

759
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 1: And what ended up happening was people would hear, oh

760
00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:59,280
Speaker 1: he's versatile, and then watch him go to those multiple

761
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 1: spots not play well and think all versatility is a sham. No,

762
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,800
Speaker 1: versatility is hugely important. But the key is, like you

763
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 1: just said, Drew, you gotta be able to play both spots. Sure,

764
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: you can't just line up there. Oh that's that's not versatility.

765
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 1: Versatility is being able to line up and be productive

766
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 1: at multiple spots. So the d line got it right.

767
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: You bring up a good point though about the getting

768
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:28,360
Speaker 1: the undrafted signees, getting that process going. I mean, right now,

769
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 1: with the initial fifty three man roster, you're looking at

770
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 1: Kurt Heinisch, you're looking at Jake Hanson, Troy Hairston, three

771
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 1: guys that you have an initial fifty three man roster

772
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 1: that came from the undrafted process. Now, that doesn't mean

773
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 1: that you wouldn't have gotten them if you would have

774
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,359
Speaker 1: waited until the very last pick and and to really

775
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 1: kind of move that process along. But if you get up,

776
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:56,400
Speaker 1: if you get a jump start. And the other thing

777
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 1: is if you had a seventh round pick, maybe you

778
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 1: pick one of those guys comes a drafted pick. Either way,

779
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 1: you got him through the undrafted process because two hundred

780
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 1: fifty six picks went by or whatever it was, and

781
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 1: those guys didn't get picked, but you brought him here.

782
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: He converted Harrison of fullback. That's been a good move.

783
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 1: Kurt Heiness has been I think a great signing. And

784
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 1: Jake Hanson I was curious. I really liked him at Illinois,

785
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 1: but when he didn't play in twenty twenty one, he's

786
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 1: off the radar screen, like how bad is the injury?

787
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: You never know how guys are gonna come back. Made

788
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,360
Speaker 1: plays this August dude, he came back in preseason and

789
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 1: he could He could fly. He can app That is

790
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:33,439
Speaker 1: one thing about every single linebacker on this defense. They

791
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: can all run and Hanson is a perfect example that. Oh,

792
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 1: by the way, the last two years with Lovey in

793
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:43,839
Speaker 1: nineteen and twenty at Illinois, his last two full years

794
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 1: in college, he led the nation and takeaways combined for

795
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 1: those two years. Loves takeaways absolutely. I mean I love

796
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,799
Speaker 1: takeaways too, we all do. So Yeah, that's to get

797
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,720
Speaker 1: that undrafted process. To see three guys on the initial

798
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:58,359
Speaker 1: fifty three man roster and we don't know how that's

799
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:02,280
Speaker 1: gonna shake out over the next two days, week, month, whatever,

800
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 1: but you at least know you found some value there

801
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:11,839
Speaker 1: and if anything, if anything, you can bring those guys back,

802
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: or you hope to bring those guys back on a

803
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 1: practice squad. I don't know if you can after what

804
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:18,800
Speaker 1: those three were able to do, but you'd want to

805
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 1: be able to try that if you have to, so

806
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 1: us It's such an interesting process to me, Drew, Just

807
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: how you know guys that go to practice squad. I

808
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:31,919
Speaker 1: wish the NFL would just allow teams to not cut

809
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:33,799
Speaker 1: a guy, but to say, you know, we're just gonna

810
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 1: take you straight to practice squad, right like, we don't

811
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 1: subject them to waivers. You know, if you want to

812
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:42,839
Speaker 1: subject guys to waivers, fine, but you know these six

813
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 1: guys are lock guaranteed practice squad. We're not cutting you,

814
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 1: just moving you to practice squad, and then you could

815
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: have the others. Hey, we're gonna we're gonna release you

816
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: and put you on the waiver process and see what happens.

817
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,320
Speaker 1: But that'd be that, that would be my change to

818
00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:00,080
Speaker 1: the whole thing. Lock up half the practice squad, the

819
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:04,320
Speaker 1: eight guys you want, but the other eight guys subjecting

820
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 1: to the waiver process and see what happens, and then

821
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:07,800
Speaker 1: if you can bring him back, great, If not, I

822
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 1: don't know. It just feels so risky. I don't know.

823
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 1: I just that's the one part I don't like. Well,

824
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 1: I'll say this, you know what I like. If Tim

825
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: Jamison's listening to this podcast. About two minutes ago, he

826
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 1: was shaking his head and smiling because our good pal

827
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:22,879
Speaker 1: Tim Jamison, he played for this team for six years.

828
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 1: He was an undrafted rookie in two thousand and nine

829
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 1: and I think early October, end of September, he was

830
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: the first guy that got called up from the practice

831
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:35,360
Speaker 1: squad got his fifty three man roster spot. He was

832
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: He made it that year before Arian Foster did. So

833
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: Arian's probably talking terodactyl instead of listening to this podcast. Yeah,

834
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:45,400
Speaker 1: maybe Tim is listening to this podcast. Do we translate

835
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:48,839
Speaker 1: that to pterodactyl. I don't know either way, yeah, I'm

836
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:51,839
Speaker 1: not sure that we translate that to pterodactyl, but if

837
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,919
Speaker 1: we did, Aaron might listen. He might listen. But yeah,

838
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 1: Tim Jamison, when those guys undrafted ended up being a

839
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:02,759
Speaker 1: really important player for this team in thirteen May for

840
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 1: a while, oh nine, I think Drew said all the

841
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: way to fourteen fifteen, maybe he just was always around

842
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 1: and always providing very good value on the defensive line

843
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: and hoping that guy's like Kurt Heinisch and Thomas Booker

844
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 1: and Michael Dwon four some rookies and young guys on

845
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,359
Speaker 1: the defensive line could do the same down the road.

846
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna finish up. We're gonna go round.

847
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:25,439
Speaker 1: The league hit on a few items, including Baker Mayfield says,

848
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:28,439
Speaker 1: I didn't say that about the Cleveland Browns. That's next

849
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:32,280
Speaker 1: on Texas All Access. It's all Access, It's all Access.

850
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 1: We were one final segment of this Wednesday edition of

851
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 1: Texans All Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio. I

852
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 1: am John Harris, glad to be with you. I may

853
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 1: have buried the lead earlier. I mentioned some of the

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Speaker 1: things happening with the practice squad, but I think I've

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Speaker 1: failed to remind everybody or alert everybody to the fact

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00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 1: that Texans did make a waiver claim, and that is

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Speaker 1: Tyler Johnson, formerly of the U. Now, if you live

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Speaker 1: in Minnesota, you in Minnesota is the University of Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: The U is not the University of Miami. Everywhere else

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Speaker 1: the U is the University of Miami, but in Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: the U as it's referred to is Minnis the University

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Speaker 1: of Minnesota Golden Gophers. Tyler Johnson spent a couple of

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Speaker 1: years with Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Obviously, he's at a position

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Speaker 1: where there's Chris Godwin, there's Mike Evans, there is now

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Speaker 1: Julio Jones, and they're just wasn't a lot to go around.

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Speaker 1: And so the Bucks waved Tyler Johnson. The Texans had

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Speaker 1: the number three spot and they claimed him. And when

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Speaker 1: I saw the fact that he had been cut, Mark

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Speaker 1: and I were in studio and we were kind of

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Speaker 1: chopping it up about various things and talking about and

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Speaker 1: something happened right as I saw it, because I was

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Speaker 1: going to turn him and go, we need to claim him.

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Speaker 1: Six one two oh five, could play inside, could play outside,

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Speaker 1: can do some things. Watch him against the Colts was

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Speaker 1: actually watching for the Colts and on the first route

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00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:56,759
Speaker 1: couldn't hang on to a pass. A second one, he

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Speaker 1: beat Kenny Moore an inside route, made the catch for

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Speaker 1: a first down. Tom Brady hit Tyler Johnson with some

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Speaker 1: big throws while he was in Tampa as a rookie

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Speaker 1: on it to last year, So Tyler Johnson becomes part

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Speaker 1: of the Texans receiving cores. I mentioned a little earlier

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Speaker 1: the forty nine ers have gotten rid of Trey Sermon.

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Speaker 1: Tray Sermon was a third round draft pick and I

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Speaker 1: bring that up because he's a running back. And when

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Speaker 1: Marlon Mack was released yesterday, now coming back to the

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Speaker 1: practice squad, at least, that's what I think the team

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Speaker 1: would like to be able to do. If he comes

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Speaker 1: back to practice squad, he's in the house, then you

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Speaker 1: got an opportunity to use him. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: a guy like Tray Sermon makes any sense, but would

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Speaker 1: you take a flyer on a Tray Sermon, the former

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma former Ohio State running back who finished twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: with a flourish He went nuts down to stretch, and

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Speaker 1: that might be a guy you take a look at.

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Speaker 1: Maybe not it was one of the guys that I

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Speaker 1: wanted to look at when we played the Niners last week.

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Speaker 1: Another guy wanted to look out was Treat Castro Fields.

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Speaker 1: He ended up getting claimed after he was released a

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Speaker 1: drafted rookie by the Niners. He gets picked up. I

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Speaker 1: believe it was with the Washington Commanders. So things going

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Speaker 1: on throughout the league. It does appear for your Texans

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Speaker 1: that Tabierra Thomas will go to IR, team Quatriano gonna

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Speaker 1: go to IR and with Tyler Johnson coming in, I

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Speaker 1: think my math is correct. That leaves one more opening

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Speaker 1: that it's fifty two. But we'll see what that actually

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Speaker 1: can mean for the Texans. A big thanks to Mark,

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Speaker 1: to Nick Caserio, as always to Drew Doherty. You guys

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Speaker 1: are the best for listening. We'll see you Tom, everybody,

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Speaker 1: and as always, go Texans.