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Speaker 1: What's up? Everybody?

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Speaker 2: Welcome into a Monday ed issue of Texans All Access

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Speaker 2: from the Hoday Texans Radio studio. John Harrison, Mark Vandermire

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Speaker 2: here with you, and you know what, we don't want

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Speaker 2: to mess around.

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Speaker 1: We told you through Mark Vandermier's tweet.

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Speaker 3: Hi. Mark.

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Speaker 1: By the way, how are you doing, Hi, Johnny?

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Speaker 2: I told Mark, said Will Anderson right out to shoot

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Speaker 2: Defensive player of the Year. So here we go, Will

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Speaker 2: Anderson Defensive Player of the Year exclusively with Mark and I.

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Speaker 1: We had a blast talking to Will.

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Speaker 2: It's actually our first time talking to Will one on one.

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Speaker 1: We had a blast. Here it is Will Anderson Junior.

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Speaker 4: Well, how's it going for you off season after such

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Speaker 4: a successful rookie campaign?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you for having me. It's going great. Man.

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Speaker 5: No school, no homework, yeah, I don't have to walk

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Speaker 5: the class, so it's good.

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Speaker 3: No study hall or anything like that. Man. So it's

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Speaker 3: been great. Man.

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Speaker 5: Just getting really to like take care of my body

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Speaker 5: and really like focus on myself and nutrition and all

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Speaker 5: the good things to make sure like leading up into

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Speaker 5: OTA's I'm good.

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Speaker 4: Do you think about this time last year getting ready

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Speaker 4: for the draft. All the workouts combine everything you had

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Speaker 4: to go through to get drafted, and this year you

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Speaker 4: have none of that.

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Speaker 5: None of that, man, I don't miss that process at all.

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Speaker 5: That's one probably one of the most stressful processes ever,

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Speaker 5: like trying to maintain late, trying to hit a certain speed,

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Speaker 5: everything like that. But you know, I embraced it, took

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Speaker 5: it all in. It was It was a great opportunity

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Speaker 5: just to you know, meet a lot of guys and

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Speaker 5: really get my body right in the way that I

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Speaker 5: haven't before.

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Speaker 2: Well Mark kind of said it, you know, talking about

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Speaker 2: your year last year, I think we buried the league.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations defensive Rookie of the Year. What was honors like

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Speaker 2: being out there? You and dey Fitz player of the Year,

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Speaker 2: You got CJ winning off its Player of the Year,

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Speaker 2: and then of course Andre Johnson goes in Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 2: What was that honors experience like being out there and

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Speaker 2: kind of experiencing that for all you guys.

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Speaker 5: Man, it was just a blessing. Man to share that

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Speaker 5: moment with all those guys. You know, me and CJ

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Speaker 5: came into team together. Man, we both got drafted two

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Speaker 5: and three, and to share that moment with him and

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Speaker 5: his family feelingly to be there man, and coach Ryan's

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Speaker 5: and McNair's and Nick and you know Andre and his people. Man,

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Speaker 5: it was just a blessing man, and just all under

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Speaker 5: to God man and just being able to be in

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Speaker 5: there and be in that setting. But also just see

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Speaker 5: so many other great athletes and how they maneuver around

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Speaker 5: everything and how they are.

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Speaker 4: We all watch the games, But how did the year

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Speaker 4: evolve for you individually as a player, Like going on,

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Speaker 4: all right, I'm in the NFL. Oh, this is how

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Speaker 4: I make these kinds of place. How did all that

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Speaker 4: go for you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Man, it was.

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Speaker 5: I mean, like from the first game from Baltimore, it

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Speaker 5: was most definitely a learning lesson, but like sometimes it

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Speaker 5: came a little natural. But then like when teams starts

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Speaker 5: studying you and start game planning for you and things

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Speaker 5: like that, I think that's just one thing that I

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Speaker 5: have to do a really good job of adjusting to

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Speaker 5: and not getting so frustrated because a lot of times

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Speaker 5: when a team would start to you know, game plan

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Speaker 5: for me and stuff like that, or chip me or

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Speaker 5: you know double to me and stuff like, I would

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Speaker 5: get really frustrated and really get down on myself. But

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Speaker 5: I had to take accountability to be like, look, this

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Speaker 5: is going to happen, so like how can we take

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Speaker 5: that next step? So this offseason, like that's really something

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Speaker 5: that I'm gonna focused with my rush is like taking

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Speaker 5: that next step in that area of my game and

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Speaker 5: not getting frustrated with myself.

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Speaker 1: That took week two.

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Speaker 2: Will the Colts were well aware of you by week

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Speaker 2: two of what you could you could definitely do. Do

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Speaker 2: you have a moment that stands out more than any other?

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Speaker 2: Your first sack was against Lamar Jackson? Yeah, is that

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Speaker 2: stands out for you more than any other?

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Speaker 5: I would say the playoff game against the Browns just

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Speaker 5: as a team, man, it was it was awesome to

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Speaker 5: see the city. It was awesome to see the fans,

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 5: It just that's the type of brand that we want

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Speaker 5: to have every game, you know, throughout the building, everybody,

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Speaker 5: and then just the first game that's like my first

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Speaker 5: sack against Lamar, so that's once to remember, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: How hard is it to play through injuries? Because I

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Speaker 4: noticed you were doing this. You know your foot was

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Speaker 4: rather heavily toward the end of the season, But how

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Speaker 4: is that overcoming that week after week?

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Speaker 6: Will?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Man, it's all a part of the game, you know

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Speaker 5: what I'm saying. And it's also a I said for me,

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Speaker 5: like just being at Bama, but my whole life being

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Speaker 5: in college, all the coaches I have, Like you know,

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Speaker 5: at the end of the day, like it's awesomeate your decision,

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Speaker 5: Like you either want to go out there and play,

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Speaker 5: but it just shows what type of competitor you are,

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Speaker 5: what type of where you are. And for me, I

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Speaker 5: stand firm on my faith knowing that God makes no mistakes.

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Speaker 5: You know, I'm gonna be good when I go out there,

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Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, Like, I'm not gonna make

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Speaker 5: anything worse, you know, But I just wanted to go

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Speaker 5: out there and play for the guys beside me. Man,

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Speaker 5: because we put it in so much work this whole

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Speaker 5: off season. Let's just go leave it all on the field.

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Speaker 3: Will.

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Speaker 2: We've got to know you a little bit off the field.

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Speaker 2: You're maybe the sweetest nicest person there is. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you have such great manners. You're just an incredible young man.

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Speaker 2: But I've said this to Mark in his ears, I'm

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Speaker 2: down on the sideline like Will is literally twitching, like.

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Speaker 1: He's in his stance and he's twitching.

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Speaker 2: When you are on the field, I almost look at

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Speaker 2: it this way. Off the field, you're Will Anderson junior.

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Speaker 2: On the field, you know, the whole terminatory thing. It

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Speaker 2: really feels like that's what you become when you're on

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Speaker 2: the field. Do you go to someplace mentally like different

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Speaker 2: on the field, Yeah, I have to do that to play,

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Speaker 2: to play the sport that you play. Kind of how

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Speaker 2: how do you deal with kind of dichotomy of who

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Speaker 2: and block you because of how you play.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, most definitely, I think I take myself to that

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Speaker 5: that point to like I'm getting ready to go play football,

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Speaker 5: Like I'm getting ready to go play a game that's physical.

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Speaker 5: You're gonna get hit, you gotta hit somebody back, And

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Speaker 5: for me, it's just like I don't need any extra

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Speaker 5: you from getting with yours And I had a saying

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Speaker 5: all the time in Alabama, like don't be denied what

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Speaker 5: my whole mindset, Like this person in front of me

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Speaker 5: so I have to go take it. So that's just

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Speaker 4: What about free agency? Daniel Hunter on the other side

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Speaker 4: of the line, now, so what do you think of

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Speaker 4: that some of the other acquisitions?

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Speaker 5: Maybe, yeah, man, Like it was so exciting. I met

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Speaker 5: him at the Pro Bowl, So it's just so crazy.

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Speaker 5: I met him at the Pro Bowl. We chopped it

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Speaker 5: so we got to eat dinner and everything like that

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Speaker 5: out the Texas was signed him. Man, I met him

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Speaker 5: up in the office today and I was just jumping

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Speaker 3: Like you should have seen him. Man, I was literally just.

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Speaker 5: Jumping up and down like I was so happy, and

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Speaker 5: I was like, bro, like this is what I wanted

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Speaker 5: right here man, like, just somebody opposite of me that

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Speaker 5: teams fear like I guess, I know that's a hard worker.

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Speaker 3: Bro.

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Speaker 5: He's physical, He's gonna go strike tight ends and he

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Speaker 5: can rush like I know he's that double digit SAX

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Speaker 5: since he's been in the league. So and then just

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Speaker 5: to get an opportunity to learn from him as well, Man,

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Speaker 5: that's what I'm most excited about. Like a vet like that,

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Speaker 3: I'm just ready to learn from him as well. Well.

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Speaker 2: We had a chance to talk to Danil and I've

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Speaker 2: talked to pass rushers that have come into our building

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Speaker 2: for a long time. I'm so intrigued by just past rushing.

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Speaker 2: And I asked this question, is past rushing for you

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Speaker 2: more in art or science?

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Speaker 2: Is it more kind of technical in your feel like

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Speaker 3: So like I'm really good on one.

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Speaker 5: Side of just being crafty of like I could throw

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Speaker 5: to break it down like more technical. Yeah, more technical,

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Speaker 5: Like Okay, this is what you gotta do here. So

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Speaker 5: of say, it depends on the side that I don't want.

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Speaker 4: So you mentionined teams preparing for you based on what

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Speaker 4: you do. What about you preparing for teams watching film?

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Speaker 4: How does all that go during the week for you

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Speaker 4: when you're getting ready for a game.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's great.

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Speaker 5: I think I've learned that skill in high school. Like

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Speaker 5: I'll be Friday night. Friday night, I was watching the

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Speaker 5: game after the game, watching another point after the game

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Speaker 5: of football. So watching film it was a little different

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Speaker 5: in the league because it's just more detailed.

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Speaker 3: So I had to Like rankings was a great vent

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Speaker 5: Man, he helped me out a lot, Like he taught

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Speaker 5: me how to like extend, like how to watch film

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Speaker 5: a little better. But other than that, like just taking

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Speaker 5: the notes from him, like getting on it, like what

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Speaker 5: what's the quarterback manner hythms? How far is he like

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Speaker 5: setting in the pocket, all those things? How many kicks

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Speaker 5: the old tackle's taking? So what's the center doing with

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Speaker 4: I want you to Oh, Jimmy Ward too, Jimmy Ward.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Jimmy Ward Show. Ladies and gentlemen. Uh, tell the

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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, we're gonna be a Momentum BMW right there

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Speaker 2: We'll be live at six, so come hang out with us.

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Speaker 2: We're there six to seven. So I'm gonna start my day,

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Speaker 4: that year. They were year fifteen fifteen, Yeah, the number

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Speaker 4: three defense in the league.

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Speaker 1: They got after it.

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Speaker 4: Then you had John Simon. John Simon had five sacks

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Speaker 4: for the Texans and he arrived what was it week

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Speaker 4: five or something that year, Yeah, something like that. Clowney

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Speaker 4: at four and a half. By the way, in case

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Speaker 4: you're wondering, in thirteen games played, he's never had double

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Speaker 4: digit sacks, as we all know. We always say that

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Speaker 4: about him, but he could affect the game in multiple ways.

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Speaker 4: It's not just about sacks.

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Speaker 2: These pass rushing units. The Colts ended up with fifty

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Speaker 2: one sacks last year. Ebacom had nine and a half,

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Speaker 2: Pay had eight and a half, say eighteen between them.

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Speaker 1: They didn't have anybody with double digits.

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Speaker 4: Buckner had eight, Steer got hurt, Greg Stelily had half sack.

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Speaker 4: You get three guys with eight in that range, that's

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Speaker 4: pretty good. You get a few others. Remember the Texans

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Speaker 4: last year had Grenard twelve and a half, right, and

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Speaker 4: nobody else had more than nobody else had double figures.

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Speaker 4: Yet they had their all time best year, and we

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Speaker 4: were just giving you some of the numbers. That's with

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Speaker 4: Mario fourteen sacks one year, Watt doing what he did,

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Speaker 4: all time sack leader in franchise history, Whitney with the

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Speaker 4: twelve that year, yet twelve and a half last year.

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Speaker 4: As you're a high watermark for an individual, yet you

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Speaker 4: had your all time best sack season as a franchise

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Speaker 4: shows you that team sacks getting it from all over

466
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Speaker 4: is better. Probably, It's also really helpful to get a

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Speaker 4: guy who's gonna get double teams.

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Speaker 1: What was the best pass rush duo in Texans history?

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Speaker 4: That's it Whatt and Whitney that year. Yeah, yeah, I

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Speaker 4: think so too. Now, Mario had a good year with

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Speaker 4: a Moby chipping in with five and Mario at fourteen.

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Speaker 4: They got up to nineteen as a duo. I mean,

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Speaker 4: that's not bad, but it's not unbelievably great either. But

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Speaker 4: they really don't have too many other years like that

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Speaker 4: where you know two guys are really getting after it.

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Speaker 4: I thought sixteen would be impressive statistically, and it's really not. Yet,

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Speaker 4: you had the number one defense in the league. Whitney

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Speaker 4: seven and a half sacks in fifteen games. Clowny played fourteen,

479
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Speaker 4: had six sacks. That's it. Yet we all all know

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Speaker 4: how effective that defense was in keeping the Texans in

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Speaker 4: these close games despite brock Osweler ninety foe passing yards

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Speaker 4: to the victory. So many close games that year and

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Speaker 4: the year before, and he had outstanding defensive play. But

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Speaker 4: it's not just about the sacks, like we said, it's takeaways.

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Speaker 4: What was the year Demps had the seven picks?

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Speaker 1: Twenty sixteen, twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 2: I should it was twenty sixteen because he got back

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Speaker 2: at twenty fifteen because the hard Knocks year it was

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Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, Demps has six.

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Speaker 4: And twenty sixteen. What am I missing here? I always

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Speaker 4: thought it was seven anyway, close enough. Andre Hall had

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Speaker 4: four the year before that when they were number three

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Speaker 4: in the league.

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Speaker 2: So those two years had got to a point where

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Speaker 2: I was so happy to see the defense go on

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Speaker 2: the field. It was so much fun to watch those

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Speaker 2: defenses get on the field. I thought about twenty eighteen

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Speaker 2: because that was the one year that we all talked

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Speaker 2: about Watt, Clowney, and Merciless all staying healthy at the

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Speaker 2: same time. Watt had sixteen, Clowney had nine, Whitney only

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Speaker 2: had four, and we only had forty three as a team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's wild to.

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Speaker 2: Think about because we thought about, oh, those three guys

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Speaker 2: are staying healthy.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, this is gonna be awesome.

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Speaker 2: And really between them, they just had just had the

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Speaker 2: twenty five sacks, but you got picked, but you got yeah,

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Speaker 2: you did. How many interceptions that year? Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 2: you had a ton of them that year. You had

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Speaker 2: fifteen interceptions, almost one per game that year. Andre Hall

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Speaker 2: had three, Justin Reid had three, including the pick six

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Speaker 2: against Washington's at Cuttingham had a pick six against the Browns.

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Speaker 3: I remember that.

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Speaker 2: So, yeah, as long as the sacks, the sacks payoff,

515
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Speaker 2: if they pay off interceptions, that that's fantastic. But I

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Speaker 2: was thinking about twenty eighteen from that perspective. But I

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Speaker 2: think it's it's hard to come up with nine pass

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Speaker 2: rushing units better.

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Speaker 1: Than at Texans.

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Speaker 2: It was interesting to kind of look at the comments

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Speaker 2: of people saying down below, a lot of them were

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Speaker 2: asking about the Texans. Some were saying, how are the

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Speaker 2: Colts in there without in front of the Texans or

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Speaker 2: even the Jags. Treyvon Walker, Josh Allen, Okay, I kind

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Speaker 2: of get it, even though I don't. I don't think

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Speaker 2: either one of them is a really good pass rusher.

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Speaker 2: Even Josh Allen getting his two and a half against

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Speaker 2: the Texans in Week twelve, I didn't think it was

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Speaker 2: a tremendous performance, to be honest. He had one, he

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Speaker 2: had two. No, I'm sorry, he had his sack and

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Speaker 2: a half where he was unblocked or unaccounted for. Now

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Speaker 2: that's on the scheme, and that's great. Mike Coldwell did

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Speaker 2: a great job. It'll be Ryan Jilson this year. But

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Speaker 2: to not be included the nine, eh, okay, there's more

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Speaker 2: to prove at that point for that entire group.

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Speaker 4: And they really look if you're gonna do a list

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Speaker 4: like this, you really do have to look at the

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Speaker 4: whole unit. And I know they it's easy to say

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Speaker 4: San Francisco, Okay, great, they must be good, right, And

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Speaker 4: I don't have all the numbers in front of me

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Speaker 4: team numbers, but that goes for picks as well. You're

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Speaker 4: just going over some of the good interception seasons for

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Speaker 4: the Texans in twenty fourteen. Remember they led the league

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Speaker 4: in takeaways. They had twenty picks as a team that year.

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Speaker 4: But guess what, Johnny, The high mark individually was a tie,

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Speaker 4: three way tie with three each.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: AJ Boyer, Kareem and Jamal Roll had three interceptions in

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Speaker 4: ten games.

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Speaker 1: Jamar Roll, holy cow, blast is from the past.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 1: So there you have it, my goodness.

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Speaker 2: All right, So hopefully the past rushing unit is gonna

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Speaker 2: get better and better and better.

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Speaker 1: But what about the running backs?

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Speaker 2: Nick Asario addressed the running back questions from Sean and

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Speaker 2: Seth this morning on Pat Pendergast. We're gonna do a

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Speaker 2: little Texans Audio juke box next with Nick Caisario right

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Speaker 2: here on Texas All Access.

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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody?

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to a Monday nation of Texans All Access

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Speaker 2: from the Texans Radio studio. John Harrison, Mark Vandermir coming

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Speaker 2: at you time for Texans Audio Jukebox. Now, I don't sing,

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Speaker 2: so I'm not gonna sing, but sometimes I do. And

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Speaker 2: if you're old, like the two of us, you know

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Speaker 2: what a juke box is a lot of you are like,

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Speaker 2: I don't know what a juw box is. Well, it's

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Speaker 2: kind of like Spotify, but in this really big machine

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Speaker 2: where you would go and you would put a quarter in,

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Speaker 2: then you'd hit B six and then you'd get exactly

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Speaker 2: what you wanted to hear, which was a Loverboy it.

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Speaker 4: Still exists somewhere, and they should, Johnny, they should. It's

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Speaker 4: fun to go up there.

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Speaker 1: Look at it.

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Speaker 4: You could talk to girls up there. There used to

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Speaker 4: be one at every like diner booth. Yeah, oh those

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Speaker 4: are great. The flip yes, the flip ones, those are fantastic.

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Speaker 4: So juke box is great.

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Speaker 2: But this juke box is coming straight from second vice

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Speaker 2: president General Manager Nick Cassarrio, who's on with Sean and

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Speaker 2: Seth today. Now, one of the things that we know

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Speaker 2: that uh Demika Ryants talked about it as last press

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Speaker 2: conference was getting better with two things, in particular defensive line,

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Speaker 2: the transformation there continued, Danil Hunter added, did he go?

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Speaker 1: Autry added fully fought?

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Speaker 2: Tikasi added, Timpsettle added, and we know the depart Ershadon Rankins,

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Speaker 2: John Grenard and Maily Collins.

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Speaker 1: So we talked a lot about that.

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Speaker 2: The other one was the running game to wit changes

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Speaker 2: in the backfield and some updates on the offense line.

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Speaker 2: So we're gonna go to our Texans audio jukebox and

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Speaker 2: hear what Nick Cassario had to say about how the

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Speaker 2: Texans went about acquiring Joe Mixon.

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Speaker 8: With Joe he was released, likely he was gonna be

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Speaker 8: I think he was going to be on a waiver

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Speaker 8: wire probably the next day at four o'clock, and then

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Speaker 8: he would become a free agent, and then you would

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Speaker 8: probably there was going to be interest in Joe. Joe's

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Speaker 8: a really good player, so there's gonna be competition. So

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Speaker 8: we try to get ahead of that. So we picked

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Speaker 8: up the phone and we talked about it internally first,

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Speaker 8: like number one, do we have interest in the player,

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Speaker 8: do we think he fits? Okay, we feel good about

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Speaker 8: the player, all right, that's step one. Step two we'll

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Speaker 8: talk about what you asked about there a little bit

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Speaker 8: relative to his personal situation. That step three was pick

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Speaker 8: up the phone. Hey, would you guys be interested in

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Speaker 8: trading the player. We'll give you, you know, whatever the

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Speaker 8: pick was, and we agreed to the trade, I think,

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Speaker 8: you know, and that's how he kind of came to

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Speaker 8: the agreement.

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Speaker 4: We're able to acquire the player on.

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Speaker 8: The team and the commitment that we made to Joe.

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Speaker 8: This is a player that has been a very consistent,

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Speaker 8: very productive, very durable player over the last however many years.

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Speaker 8: I mean he's usually out there. I mean he's got

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Speaker 8: good balance, he's got a good running style, he's versatile,

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Speaker 8: You're play in a passing game. So from a football

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Speaker 8: player standpoint, we felt this as a player that we

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Speaker 8: wanted to be a part of our program here moving forward.

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Speaker 2: All right, our good stuff there. I always love the

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Speaker 2: process and how these trades come to be. We've seen

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Speaker 2: this before, and I go back to twenty fourteen. I

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Speaker 2: remember twenty fourteen. It was during a mini camp I

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Speaker 2: think it was was it mini camp when this happened.

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Speaker 2: Texans were going to release TJ. Yeats made it known publicly,

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Speaker 2: put it out there. I think Obe even talked about

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Speaker 2: it at press conference. But they didn't release him. They

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Speaker 2: just put that news out there, and it forced the

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Speaker 2: Falcons to say, hey, hey, hey, we'll trade you a

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Speaker 2: Keem Dan a linebacker's not playing for us. We'll make

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Speaker 2: a straight up player trade because we need a quarterback

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Speaker 2: here Atlanta. You get a Keem Dent. It ended up

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Speaker 2: working out for both sides. We've seen this happen a

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Speaker 2: lot now. There had been rumors in news about the

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Speaker 2: Bengals releasing Joe Mixon.

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Speaker 4: Way back to the TJ. Yates thing, because that was

638
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Speaker 4: a lesson in a lot of things. This right, putting

639
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Speaker 4: it out there, and then you end up making a

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Speaker 4: trade of you never know what's going to happen in life,

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Speaker 4: because the Keem Dent and t J. Yates end up

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Speaker 4: back on the Houston Texans together, and as a matter

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Speaker 4: of fact, both eventually on the coaching staff correct of

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Speaker 4: the Houston Texans. And to further the story, Yates ends

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Speaker 4: up back at Atlanta right, Yes, as a does he

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Speaker 4: go back to Atlanta as a player? No, he's pretty

647
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Speaker 4: much done done. He comes back to the Texans off

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Speaker 4: his couch, and then where did you go to go?

649
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Speaker 4: Coach Atlanta? But he survived the Arthur Smith purging. He's

650
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Speaker 4: back with the Falcons right now as quarterbacks coach, so

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Speaker 4: that's cool.

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Speaker 1: And Matt Schaub was actually.

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Speaker 4: On that staff last year as an offensive advisor. They

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Speaker 4: gave him some title. So a lot of you never

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Speaker 4: know what's gonna happen in this business examples right there

656
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Speaker 4: with that Yeats news and one more thing, Johnny, that

657
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:14,920
Speaker 4: Yeats trade showed you, hey, Rick Smith was pretty sharp.

658
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 1: At these things, absolutely, as well as many others.

659
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 4: But the match Shop dismissal, they actually made a trade

660
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 4: to get him to the Raiders when they let him go.

661
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 4: That was another one. He got stuff for TJ Yets

662
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 4: at match sjob. When the whole world's knew that the

663
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,200
Speaker 4: Texans would likely have to cut that dead, they didn't.

664
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's what the Bengals were able to do.

665
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 2: They they were going to release him. You heard an

666
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 2: a clip. They were going to release him. And as

667
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 2: Nick said, you release a guy, there's gonna be a

668
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 2: market for a guy like Joe Mixon. They're gonna be suitors.

669
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 2: Can you cut that off at the pass? That Texans

670
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 2: were able to do that and jump in there and

671
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 2: ended up making the move. I loved it, and you

672
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 2: don't give up much. I think it was a seventh

673
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 2: rounder in twenty twenty five. If you're the Bengals, you're thinking, look,

674
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 2: we were gonna release him anyways. Now we get a

675
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 2: little something for him. And if you're thinking about how

676
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 2: little that little is, the Texans got picked to thirty

677
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 2: two from the San Francisco forty nine ers for Malie Collins.

678
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 2: They then packaged that with the deal with Minnesota when

679
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 2: they made the move down from twenty three to forty two.

680
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 2: So you never know what little lan yap, as you'd

681
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 2: like to say, is attached to a trade deal, and

682
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 2: how do you get to that trade deal? Well, that

683
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 2: was how they got there. So I was when I

684
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 2: heard that in my mind, I kind of figured that

685
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 2: was how it was going to go. The Texans obviously

686
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 2: had not been able to sign any of the running

687
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 2: backs that were free agents. Looked out there saw running

688
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 2: back at Joe Mixon had every quality they were looking for, big, strong,

689
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 2: great hands as we found out my fingers are still recovering,

690
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 2: and thought he could end up being a player for

691
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 2: this squad. But circument the process. Hey, let's make a trade.

692
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 2: I'll give you a little something that up to make

693
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 2: sure we get the player. We don't need to get

694
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 2: in some sort of you know battle as they have

695
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,479
Speaker 2: potentially or seemingly did against the Jets and the Bears

696
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 2: for Keenan Allen that didn't work out.

697
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 1: You don't get into that. You just make the trade.

698
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 3: Here you go.

699
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 2: Because at that point the Texans are like, look, we

700
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 2: can take on his contract. Yeah, and it's not gonna

701
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,560
Speaker 2: it's not gonna kill us. They ended up getting an

702
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 2: a stitching, but they knew it was not gonna kill us.

703
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 2: And you end up taking it on the Keenan Allen contract.

704
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 2: Oh that's salty.

705
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 4: That's a salty salty nothing that happened over a little

706
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 4: differ and we found out that and from Keenan Allen

707
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 4: himself that the Texans were interested in him. Now, had

708
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 4: they made that deal, Keenan Allen wants all the money

709
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 4: because he didn't want to take a pay cut, and

710
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 4: he was clear on that. That's another thing he said,

711
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 4: So you'd have to pay him the money. Now, you know,

712
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 4: I've always loved Keenan Allen. I know Andre loves Keenan Allen.

713
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 1: I think you do too.

714
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 4: Big fan, really good wide receiver, no question. Said he

715
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 4: was coming off his best season. Why should he take

716
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 4: a pay cut? Getting more seasoned? Long in the tooth,

717
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 4: as we say from time to time, so you never

718
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 4: know when it's down, you know, sometimes it's gradual. Sometimes

719
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 4: it's more sudden than you want. And I'm not saying

720
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 4: it will for him, but you were going to take

721
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 4: that risk had you acquired him. I think, Johnny, I

722
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 4: don't want to say they dodged a bullet or anything

723
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 4: like that. I would have loved to have Keenan Allen

724
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 4: on this team. I would have celebrated I would have

725
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 4: thought it was cool. I would have been rooting for

726
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 4: him to play forever for Houston. But now that you

727
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 4: don't have him, I'm thinking this could work out really

728
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 4: well for you. You have other opportunities in the draft here.

729
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 4: Maybe there's another veteran that comes a lawn that we're

730
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 4: not even thinking about it.

731
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 2: Oh, there's one that I've thought about that I sent you.

732
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 2: Who's the name I sent you? He's still out there?

733
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 4: Wait were you sending me t Higgins?

734
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 1: No, another Bengal? Oh, your boy, Tyler Boyd's still out

735
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 1: there out there. He's kind of a.

736
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 2: If keenan Allen is tier a kind of inside slot receiver. Ish,

737
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 2: Tyler Boyd is I think in that next tier. So

738
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 2: he's he's still out there. Now he's a free agent,

739
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 2: so you don't have to worry about a trade. But

740
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:54,719
Speaker 2: that's the passing game. Let's scan the running game, all right.

741
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 2: Damian Pierce, It's name not not talked about as often

742
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 2: lately because, especially in a pre agency, was always about

743
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 2: motor and then it was about the other get backs

744
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 2: you're bringing in.

745
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 1: Then it became Joe Mixon.

746
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 2: Oh, Joe Mixon is the guy Sean at Seth asked

747
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 2: Nick Cassario about Damian Pierce and whether the light can

748
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 2: go on for him in year three.

749
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 8: Deep, he's a great player. He's helped us, you know,

750
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 8: win a number of football games. He's got good skill.

751
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 8: I think you know, we've all been in the league

752
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 8: and seen the league. Now you need two good backs.

753
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 8: So Damien's good back. He has good skills. So once

754
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 8: we get started here in the offseason program, we'll see

755
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 8: what improvements a player can make. A lot of this

756
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 8: is about individual ownership and the fact that you know,

757
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 8: Damien was honest enough and accountable that he wants to

758
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 8: improve and get better.

759
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 4: It says a lot about who he is as a person.

760
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 8: I think that's the type of mindset and the type

761
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 8: of people that we want to continue to have in

762
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:45,959
Speaker 8: our building. So Deep, he's going to help us win

763
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 8: football games. And glad dp's here, got a great attitude.

764
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 8: He's been in the building here. You know, over the

765
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 8: last few weeks. We have a number of players, honest,

766
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 8: we have like twenty five thirty players that are in

767
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 8: the building working on their own volition preparing for the

768
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 8: start of the offseason program. So it's a credit to them.

769
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 8: But dp's excited about the offseason, and everybody should be

770
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 8: excited about the offseason just in terms of their individual

771
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 8: improvement and just try to becoming better football player, because

772
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 8: that's what this is about.

773
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 2: Mark your thoughts Damian Pierce going into year three. I

774
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 2: know you and I always talk about this. We've seen

775
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 2: players good rookie campaign second year not as good third

776
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 2: year man the light goes on, whatever the case might be.

777
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 2: We've seen it happen before for different players. Damian Pierce

778
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 2: could be one of those guys. I know that you

779
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 2: probably can't one hundred percent bank on it, but if

780
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 2: you go into the season and think Joe Mixon is

781
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 2: our number one guy, there's no doubt about that. What

782
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 2: do we think we can get out at Damian Pierce

783
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 2: this year that we weren't able to get out of

784
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 2: him last year.

785
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 4: I'm hoping he's Aerosmith because Aerosmith, their debut album was

786
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 4: so good. Yeah, you know, and then they dipped a

787
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 4: little bit. There was some decent material, you know. There

788
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 4: was a seventy five yard touchdown run equivalent in there. Yeah, yeah,

789
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 4: train kept the rolling. There were some stuff, but not

790
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 4: until you get to like toys in the Attic and Rocks.

791
00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 4: Do they really hit their stride?

792
00:33:58,840 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 1: Correct?

793
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 4: So on classic rock albums here, so three people enjoyed that.

794
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 4: But I'm going to tell you this, there's no way

795
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 4: you are ready to give up on a talent like that. Nope,

796
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 4: he had a rough year. You see, he still has

797
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 4: the talent. Anybody can pop off seventy five yards for

798
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 4: a TD in this today's NFL. You know there's juice there.

799
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 4: He's just got to figure out how to play in

800
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 4: the system. Maybe they have to figure out how to

801
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 4: utilize his services better. I'm not sure what needs to

802
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 4: be done. But what were we saying at this time

803
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 4: last year? We were saying, running game all set. You

804
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 4: just got to add to it. You had a Devin

805
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 4: Singletary and free agency. Had they signed him by now

806
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 4: this time last year? I think, so, okay, maybe just

807
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 4: about or whatever, but you thought, all right, good compliment

808
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 4: to DP having Singletary, having Motor on the roster, and

809
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 4: obviously it didn't work out for Damien last year. Don't

810
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 4: give up on him, give him a shot, give him

811
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 4: training camp. See how it looks. You know, he's got

812
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,360
Speaker 4: that juice. He is not going to give up. So

813
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 4: let's just see what you can get now. You don't

814
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:59,879
Speaker 4: want to rely on him saying he's the guy into

815
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 4: twenty four, which you obviously haven't. Joe Mixon is the guy,

816
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 4: but you need one, two, three punches in this league

817
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 4: at that position. So keep him around and see if

818
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,800
Speaker 4: he can get back to it and get toys in

819
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 4: the attic rocks that kind of production out of him.

820
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: I take it back. Motors signed on March twenty first,

821
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:18,839
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three.

822
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 4: Jeez, that's later. That would be three days later than this.

823
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 1: Very much later.

824
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 4: And it feels, believe me, three days from now is

825
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 4: gonna feel very late in free agency compared to even

826
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:30,399
Speaker 4: where we are today, because it was a week ago

827
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:32,360
Speaker 4: that it got started with the negotiating.

828
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 2: Period bordering on all right, we're on to the draft now, yeah,

829
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 2: which in fact, free agency kind of continues, but it's

830
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 2: kind of a little bit of a lull. But there

831
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 2: are still some guys obviously out there. I mentioned Tyler

832
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 2: Boyd a little bit earlier. Now we're sticking with the

833
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 2: run game and obviously Damian Piers Joe makes it gonna

834
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 2: have an impact, there's no doubt, but there's another player

835
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 2: that could have a significant impact on that. And it's

836
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 2: a guy that we really haven't seen a ton of

837
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 2: in the any of last year other than training camp,

838
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 2: we saw a decent amount of as a rookie. The

839
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 2: jury has been out because he's been dealing with injuries.

840
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 2: He was injured all last year and that's Kenyon Green.

841
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:18,320
Speaker 2: Here's what Nick gave as an update on Kenyan Green

842
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 2: the injuries in him this offseason.

843
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 8: Yeah, honestly, KG is probably as far along as he's

844
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 8: been at any point. So you know, he's dealt with

845
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,279
Speaker 8: a lot and you know, I think he's excited about

846
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:32,400
Speaker 8: the offseason here. So I think this will be the

847
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 8: first really off season that he'll actually have the opportunity

848
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 8: to train and actually go through an offseason program. So

849
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 8: certainly moving in the right direction, doing some things outside

850
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 8: the building that are hopefully helping him become better football players. So,

851
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:48,359
Speaker 8: I mean, as long as they work cards on, they

852
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:49,840
Speaker 8: have the right attitude, as long as they show up,

853
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,320
Speaker 8: as long as they're diligent, consistent, they're going to improve.

854
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 8: And in terms of when they're on the field, we'll

855
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 8: do what's best for the player, we'll do what's best

856
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 8: for the team.

857
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 1: With really the eye.

858
00:36:58,239 --> 00:36:58,400
Speaker 7: You know.

859
00:36:58,480 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 8: The most important thing is kind of can make it

860
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 8: sure that they're ready to go for training camp when

861
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 8: we need them. So we'll go through the spring and

862
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 8: once we get a little bit closer here, I think

863
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 8: the official offseason program starts April fifteenth, so we kind

864
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 8: of see whoever shows up where those players are at

865
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:12,400
Speaker 8: that time, and then when was he getting into May.

866
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 8: We'll kind of see what sort of progress they've made.

867
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 4: Mark.

868
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 2: I took out of there a couple of things, and

869
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 2: these are things that you and I have talked a

870
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 2: little bit about. The biggest thing is, without saying it,

871
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 2: Nick is like he just got to get his body right.

872
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 2: He's got to get rehabbed and get to a point

873
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 2: where all the limbs and fingers and knees and toes

874
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 2: and all of that are surgically fixed and he can

875
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 2: now get stronger, get his body where it needs to be.

876
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 2: As opposed to rehabbing an injury all the time, Go

877
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 2: get stronger, Go get go, lose a little bit of weight,

878
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 2: get your body right now that you can, as opposed

879
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:55,800
Speaker 2: to get that body part right that you injured before

880
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 2: we can start putting on some muscle and all that

881
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. That's what I took out of it,

882
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 2: and that I said at the time was the right move.

883
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 2: He had had a couple instances with that, you know,

884
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 2: arm elbow, whatever it was, was given him issue. Go

885
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 2: get it right now so that by the time you

886
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,760
Speaker 2: get to January, you've done the rehab. Now in January

887
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 2: you can hit the ground running with conditioning, get yourself

888
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 2: ready for the season. Your thoughts about Kenyan and what

889
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 2: Nick had to say, My belief is and.

890
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 4: You know how good I am at evaluating offensive lineman. Yeah,

891
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 4: does he push the other big guy out of the

892
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 4: way effectively?

893
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 1: That's it.

894
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,799
Speaker 4: But I'll say this that he's got to it's up

895
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 4: to him. It's up to him, yep, as long as

896
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 4: he's healthy. And in some cases, health is up to

897
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:40,799
Speaker 4: you too, by the way you strength and conditioning, by the.

898
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 1: Way you lose that whole process.

899
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 4: As long as you do that properly and maintain health

900
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:49,880
Speaker 4: through that, because I know some things are unavoidable, he

901
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 4: should be okay, Yeah, he should be okay. There's a

902
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 4: reason why they drafted him where they did. They had

903
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:56,760
Speaker 4: big belief in him and look at him in college

904
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 4: and all that. But You've got to be able to

905
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 4: do that at this level. So I keep praying that

906
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 4: he's gonna be able to come around because I think

907
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 4: you have options there. You have Kendrick Green as well,

908
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 4: you have other guys who could possibly rise up and.

909
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,319
Speaker 2: Help you at that guard spot. Yeah, no doubt. Nick

910
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 2: also talked about Titus Howard. So if you want to

911
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 2: check all that out, go check out the Odyssey app.

912
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 2: But we just want to hit the juke box numbers

913
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 2: on a few of those and how they could impact

914
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 2: the Texans running game. Gotta get it right, gotta get

915
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:23,360
Speaker 2: it better. Now, it doesn't have to be top of

916
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 2: the league.

917
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 1: But it does have to be better.

918
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 2: I head a conversation with former Houston Chronicle writer Brooks

919
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 2: Cabina at the combine.

920
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:30,959
Speaker 3: We were talking.

921
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:32,320
Speaker 2: He was asking, you know, what do you think and

922
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 2: I was like, well, you know, we got to improve

923
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 2: the run game and he was like do you I

924
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:39,760
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, I think you do. Not to number

925
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:41,799
Speaker 2: one in the league, but you just have to give

926
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 2: CJ something to take the pressure off.

927
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 4: Can pick the pressure off, sustainable attack with the running game.

928
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:51,800
Speaker 2: Very well said, very well said, Also well said Drew Doherty.

929
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 2: Also well said Nico Collins. The two of them got

930
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,320
Speaker 2: together wax poetic about the twenty twenty three season.

931
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Speaker 1: We'll have that for you next right here on Texans

932
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Speaker 1: All Accident. What's happening, everybody?

933
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 2: Welcome back to a Monday edation of Texans All Access

934
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 2: from Monday Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harris,

935
00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:07,880
Speaker 2: football analyst, sideline reporter.

936
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: Glad to be with you.

937
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:17,400
Speaker 2: A reminder mark me Indy Klue Tomorrow night Momentum BMW

938
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 2: six to seven, just off the Southwest Freeway. Make sure

939
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 2: you get over there, hang out with us, Chat, chop

940
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:27,840
Speaker 2: it up, take a picture, get an autograph, whatever.

941
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 1: You're looking for.

942
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 2: Iron'tare three of us will have you covered from six

943
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 2: to seven. A lot to talk about with ND, and

944
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:35,840
Speaker 2: I love when we get a chance to do events

945
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:39,400
Speaker 2: with ND. So come check that outs time. Check this

946
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 2: out with Nico Collins. He caught up with Drew Doherty

947
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 2: late last week. A few minutes with Nico Collins and

948
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 2: Drew Doerty.

949
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:48,719
Speaker 7: It's always a good day when you get to talk

950
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:50,800
Speaker 7: with wide receiver Nico Collins.

951
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:51,400
Speaker 9: How are you?

952
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 6: I'm great, I'm great man to join us all season

953
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:57,480
Speaker 6: is getting ready? Man it's feeling great, blessed, blessing to

954
00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:00,120
Speaker 6: being an opportunity out man. Man, just feeling bleas it's

955
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:01,160
Speaker 6: all around it feeling to happen.

956
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,719
Speaker 7: Good to hear you mentioned the offseason. What have you

957
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 7: been doing since we saw you last when the playoffs ended?

958
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 6: Man, just wrestling, just restling. I'm seeing my family, just

959
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 6: taking my mind off the game of football for a minute.

960
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 6: It was a long season, fun season. But just get

961
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:15,359
Speaker 6: my mind up for you know, just a little bit,

962
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 6: travel a little bit with the Vegas Super Bowl, Hawaii,

963
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 6: back home, the Alabama centifam back in Houston. Now I'm

964
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 6: back on the vacation over with and just enjoying the ground.

965
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:24,319
Speaker 3: Man.

966
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 6: So that get it.

967
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 7: Vegas, Hawaii, Baman. That's it's a nice quartet. It's a

968
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 7: nice four places to go. So when you look back

969
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 7: at this season twenty twenty three, what's gonna be the

970
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 7: first thing that pops in your mind?

971
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 3: Man?

972
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 6: Excitement? It was a citement, Yeah, that's it. Just straight excitement, man,

973
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,360
Speaker 6: just fun. Just having fun with the game. Man, just

974
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:45,400
Speaker 6: playing the game and playing your whole life. Just watching

975
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:47,280
Speaker 6: all the work you've been putting in in the off season,

976
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 6: you know, come to show on Sundays, you know, during

977
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:51,719
Speaker 6: the prime time when the time matters, man, and so

978
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 6: now I feel like he's on the right. Just it's

979
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 6: only up from here. Just feed off the momental and

980
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 6: feed off the energy from last year.

981
00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 5: Man.

982
00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 6: Just continue to build, continue to grow, and continue to

983
00:41:59,680 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 6: work on.

984
00:41:59,920 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 7: My wide receiver. Nico Collins, you had a lot of

985
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:05,399
Speaker 7: fun moments last year. Some of the most fun moments

986
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 7: for me to watch of you where you were just

987
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 7: punishing dudes, I mean, just getting violent, especially like in

988
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:13,919
Speaker 7: the Colts game that I never knew and I've talked

989
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 7: about this with you a few times, but I never

990
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 7: knew that was a part of your game.

991
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 9: How nasty you.

992
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:20,800
Speaker 6: Get after the catch, Man, it's just got to you.

993
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 6: Gotta you gotta get nasty after the catch. Got to you,

994
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:25,360
Speaker 6: gotta go spoil when the ball touch your hands. It's like,

995
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 6: oh yeah, Now everybody trying to tack you. Now, everybody

996
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 6: watching you. So it's only right. You're gonna make a play, man,

997
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 6: And just you see a defender just trying to tackle

998
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:34,280
Speaker 6: tackle you. Man, it's only right. You just lower your shoulder.

999
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 6: It's only right, man, to set the tone, you know,

1000
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 6: it just it just put and showed the other team

1001
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 6: that you're not scared. You know, it just it just

1002
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:41,440
Speaker 6: you got to have a fun to join the game, man,

1003
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 6: And it kind of set the tone for the whole team.

1004
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:43,800
Speaker 3: You know.

1005
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:45,320
Speaker 6: I feel like once you get that excitement, once you

1006
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 6: get the jews from everybody to cry out the team,

1007
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 6: you know it is a ball game, it's gonna be

1008
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 6: great feeling for everybody. Man. Can't wait to get back

1009
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 6: with the group. Man, get ready for OTAs and just

1010
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 6: get bat and pick up where we left off.

1011
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1012
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:57,880
Speaker 9: I mean you the way you played that that you

1013
00:42:58,000 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 9: were the swarm mentality.

1014
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 7: I mean people's siate that with the defense typically, but

1015
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 7: that was I mean nobody can deny that.

1016
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 3: Right Yeah.

1017
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:05,640
Speaker 6: Yeah, It's probably both sides of the ball man, you know,

1018
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,399
Speaker 6: blocking after the cats, doing your route, man, just whatever,

1019
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 6: just be just had that relentless mindset, you know, whenever

1020
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,000
Speaker 6: you step on the field, you know that's whatever you do. Man,

1021
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:15,239
Speaker 6: Glad to have fun. Can't wait for everybody to get

1022
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 6: back in the building. Man, get back to it. Push

1023
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 6: each other, man, you know, ta is it's a grind.

1024
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,240
Speaker 6: You know it's gonna be fun though. Man, it's new faces,

1025
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 6: new Juice trying to reload.

1026
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 9: Wide receiver Nico Collins.

1027
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 7: Reload is something that the Texans, in all NFL teams

1028
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 7: are doing right now.

1029
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:30,280
Speaker 9: Let's talk about the Texans reload.

1030
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:32,760
Speaker 7: What you've seen through a few days of free agency,

1031
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 7: I imagine you're you're pretty excited about.

1032
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:35,319
Speaker 3: What you see.

1033
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 6: You're excited, man, Yeah, Nick and Domico, you know, Kyle,

1034
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:41,319
Speaker 6: they they know what the dude for the facility, Man,

1035
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 6: they picking the right people and it's only right for Ota.

1036
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 6: Is It's gonna be fun and man, just I feel

1037
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:48,240
Speaker 6: like it's gonna be unstoppable, you know. Is everybody everybody

1038
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 6: get the groove, everybody, you know, build a chemistry, man, brotherhood.

1039
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:53,759
Speaker 6: Everybody bought in man and can't wait man to shot

1040
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:54,319
Speaker 6: the ril again.

1041
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 9: When you see some of the moves defensively that have

1042
00:43:57,400 --> 00:43:58,400
Speaker 9: been made, what do you.

1043
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 6: Think, major man? All what I'm saying, Miko, Man, you

1044
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 6: know what he doing. You know, I'm mom on the

1045
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 6: offensive end. But the defense look damn good in the

1046
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 6: d line, linebacker, secondary. Yeah, it was gonna probably be

1047
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 6: the number one defense in the league. You know, I'm

1048
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:16,000
Speaker 6: calling it right now. If not number one, it's gonna

1049
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:18,240
Speaker 6: be the top you know, but the boy's gonna be special.

1050
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 3: Man.

1051
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 6: I can't wait to see it.

1052
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 7: Bold words there from Nico Collins. All right, how about

1053
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:24,720
Speaker 7: the offense? You tank the rest of the Dalton Schultz

1054
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 7: is coming back. When you saw the news Aboutdalton coming back,

1055
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 7: what was the exactly level?

1056
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 6: MANI It was huge, Man, it was huge.

1057
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 7: Man.

1058
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:31,800
Speaker 6: Since day one, dut Man came in. You know, he

1059
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 6: always you know, talking, you know, always asking them questions.

1060
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,439
Speaker 6: You know, just him being that Vet may is huge.

1061
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 7: Man.

1062
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 6: We need we need that shoulder to lean on. We

1063
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 6: need the advice from a man and for him to

1064
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 6: come in and and do what he did, man, for

1065
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:45,320
Speaker 6: him to get the distinctive man's well deserve everything. He

1066
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 6: everything he got, man's well deserved.

1067
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 7: Man.

1068
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 6: I'm happy for him. And you know he's about to

1069
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:51,800
Speaker 6: lead his team man and the whole offense.

1070
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:51,960
Speaker 3: Man.

1071
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,439
Speaker 6: We're just about to continue to approve, continue to push

1072
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 6: each other, man, continue to have fun and play for

1073
00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 6: one another.

1074
00:44:57,239 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 9: Another leader of the team.

1075
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 7: CJ. Stroud the quarterback, What my be possible with you

1076
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 7: guys in year two? And this is what all the

1077
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:06,360
Speaker 7: coaches coming back. That's that's a big deal too, right, It.

1078
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 6: Huge that's huge, man, because my last couple of years, Man,

1079
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:11,360
Speaker 6: it wasn't wasn't like that, you know, it was different

1080
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 6: coach changes. But we saw it now. Man, I feel

1081
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:17,120
Speaker 6: like we found our foundation, Man and your two for CJ.

1082
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 6: And I feel like for him, Man, it's only gonna

1083
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:21,240
Speaker 6: get better. You know, you continue to ball out, continue

1084
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 6: to beat him, Man, you know, nothing changing. I feel

1085
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 6: like he's gonna continue to chase his craft and the

1086
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 6: rest of us whole line receivers running back tight ends.

1087
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 7: Man.

1088
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:30,640
Speaker 6: I feel like everybody as a collective offensive unit. Man,

1089
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 6: we feel like we're all gonna chase you know them

1090
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 6: details Man that we feel like we need to approve

1091
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 6: of from last year.

1092
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 9: Yeah, what's what are you gonna do?

1093
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:40,439
Speaker 6: Continue to climb man, watch film, you know, we're getting

1094
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:43,080
Speaker 6: to our pass Batman, and work on my craft, you know,

1095
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:44,440
Speaker 6: work on the things I feel like I need to

1096
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 6: work on because I just felt like it was some

1097
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 6: stuff I need to work on improve all, you know,

1098
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:50,400
Speaker 6: from this year. So I can't wait Man to attack

1099
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:52,360
Speaker 6: the grind because part of it, Man, you got a

1100
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 6: little craft, because get the show out of problem time.

1101
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:56,640
Speaker 7: I'm gonna keep it close to the vest I respect it.

1102
00:45:56,719 --> 00:45:57,360
Speaker 9: I respect it.

1103
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 7: So what's it like going around town this year versus

1104
00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:03,320
Speaker 7: maybe this time last year and the year before that.

1105
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:05,399
Speaker 6: It is different, man, It's real different.

1106
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 2: Man.

1107
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:07,879
Speaker 6: You see the sitement in the fans man talking about

1108
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 6: the Texans. You know, and Ota is a free agency, man,

1109
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:12,839
Speaker 6: you know. You see the sitement for next year. Man,

1110
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 6: and uh it just it's just said. It's setting the tone.

1111
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 6: Man's building the pot for next year.

1112
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 5: Man.

1113
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 6: Can't wait to be a part of.

1114
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 7: Nico Collins always good to be with you, my friend,

1115
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:22,359
Speaker 7: best of luck. It was a fun twenty twenty three,

1116
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 7: and I can't wait, like the rest of us for

1117
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 7: twenty twenty four.

1118
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 6: It's only fun, man. It's time to be low. It's

1119
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 6: for the city.

1120
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:28,839
Speaker 1: This go love that, dude.

1121
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 2: We're gonna have Nico with Mark and I a little

1122
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:35,280
Speaker 2: bit later in the week probably, I think Thursday or Friday,

1123
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 2: we'll have Nico on with us.

1124
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 6: We had a chance to catch up.

1125
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:39,760
Speaker 1: You heard Will Anderson a little bit earlier.

1126
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 2: We had Nico, Jimmy Jalen trying to think who was

1127
00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 2: Christian Harris and Nico Tank.

1128
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:51,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we have all those guys lined up for you.

1129
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:53,120
Speaker 1: I think Tank's coming up on Wednesday.

1130
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:55,320
Speaker 2: We always have a fun time talking with Tank and

1131
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:58,239
Speaker 2: we have a fun time talking to you and with you.

1132
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 2: Appreciate you guys being here. Thank you so much, big

1133
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 2: thanks to Will, to Mark, to True, to all of

1134
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:05,120
Speaker 2: you for a listening. We'll see you next time and

1135
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 2: as always, go Texans.