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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, Welcome into NRG Stadium. Mark Vandamer and John

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Speaker 1: Harris with you for the program that gets you inside

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Speaker 1: the building here in the Hunday Texans Radio studio across

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Speaker 1: the half from the locker room, where the Texans rookies

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Speaker 1: are still around. Of course they're using those high school

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Speaker 1: join forces one week from today when OTAs really get

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Speaker 1: rolling where they can actually sling it eleven on eleven

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Speaker 1: out at the Houston Methodist Training Center. But the rookies

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Speaker 1: were out there this weekend with the tryout guys, and

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Speaker 1: we've got a lot to get to today, Johnny As.

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Speaker 1: Not only do we have this stuff to talk about.

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Speaker 1: Friday show was rookie heavy, of course, with us just

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Speaker 1: having watched them work out. Today we have a lot

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Speaker 1: of JJ wat to talk about, the commencement speech, his

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Speaker 1: new TV game show if you want to call it that,

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Speaker 1: about that, and a whole bunch of other stuff, the

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Speaker 1: Rockets situation, and I know we have other things to

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Speaker 1: get to, like Gut Reaction, but I don't even know

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Speaker 1: where to begin. I mean, the watch game show is

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Speaker 1: called Ultimate Tag. Yeah, this just came out about one time,

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Speaker 1: maybe just after lunchtime today about JJ, TJ and Derek

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Speaker 1: because the three What brothers are as as it says here,

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Speaker 1: are going to front a physical competition. It's essentially they're

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Speaker 1: executive producers. So yeah, they're they're footing the bill on this.

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Speaker 1: Apparently I thought it said hosted, and they're gonna host

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Speaker 1: it as well. It's gonna be on Fox. They it's

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Speaker 1: a game called Ultimate Tag, and it says here and

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Speaker 1: I quote, the high octane series based on the playground

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Speaker 1: game where players must chase each other in order to

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Speaker 1: tag the other one who'll launch in the network in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty. I have a lot of ideas about this.

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Speaker 1: I have a lot of thoughts. This could this could

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Speaker 1: be if you take the movie Tag, which they said

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Speaker 1: it's it's sort of modeled after, take Tag in the

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Speaker 1: Amazing Race and kind of put them together and you

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Speaker 1: get a game Ultimate Tag. That could be kind of cool. Well,

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Speaker 1: we saw a picture of them in studio, not them,

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Speaker 1: not the What brothers, but people who might be participating

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Speaker 1: in this game. Yeah, I'm not exactly sure what they are.

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Speaker 1: Is this gonna be in a closed course in studio

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Speaker 1: like American Ninja Warrior, which is not really a studio,

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Speaker 1: but it's a closed course or will it be a

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Speaker 1: free for all through a city and then how do

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Speaker 1: you get the cameras to follow you around? Like you said,

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Speaker 1: amazing race, that could be really interesting. There are a

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Speaker 1: lot of different ways you could go about doing Tag

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Speaker 1: on TV very much, so there there's some ideas. But

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Speaker 1: if you do it in a closed setting, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I could see where the athleticism making a person miss. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm just curious as to how this all go down

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Speaker 1: because we've look, we've all played tag. Before you run,

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Speaker 1: You're in, You're in. I mean, what made the movie

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Speaker 1: areas that they didn't expect. So it was this marathon

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Speaker 1: of a game that went on. So it was you know,

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Speaker 1: is very very cool. But I'm curious to see how

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Speaker 1: this is all gonna come together. I mean, we got

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Speaker 1: Ultimate Tag Executive producer JJ Watt. What other childhood games

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Speaker 1: would make good TV shows? Hide and seek? Now? What

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Speaker 1: what childhood game was the hottest thing going in the

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Speaker 1: Pokemon thing? Four Square? All four square killed it. The

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Speaker 1: thing was like a couple of years earlier, right, Uh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: It was big for a minute. But celebrity four square,

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Speaker 1: Celebrity four square would be good. It's easy to play relatively,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the better athlete you are, the better you

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Speaker 1: even better, just because you're seeing celebrities getting tagged with

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Speaker 1: volleyballs or whatever you're you're throwing. At that point, the

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Speaker 1: laser tag hasn't caught on as a celebrity sport. That's interesting. One. Oh,

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Speaker 1: this is going to start a wave. I'm sure they've

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Speaker 1: done stuff. We I did this one day with our

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Speaker 1: We started talking because Lance I grew up together. So

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Speaker 1: we we invented our games. Yeah, we came up of

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Speaker 1: we used to play football on bikes? Like quit what

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Speaker 1: They are brothers, so you know they have all those

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Speaker 1: so that makes the games competitive. But it's a driveway

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Speaker 1: The rules you come up with it when you're playing

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Speaker 1: this to TV. A great idea great concept, and you

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Speaker 1: feel that brotherly rivalry with them and all that trash

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Speaker 1: So it's really a cool thing. You know, it's funny

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Speaker 1: this is a funny thing to come out with. JJ. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is very cool and start thinking about all the

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Speaker 1: different games that that we enjoyed as kids, and the

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Speaker 1: football and bikes. It was amazing. I mean, we were

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Speaker 1: play we call it stickball. It's basically WHI football. We

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Speaker 1: games are the best. If you could turn those into

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Speaker 1: it was crazy. I don't know how anybody would have

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Speaker 1: there's the rolling run on bikes. They're just driving around

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Speaker 1: still kids doing some fun stuff out. Please tell me

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Speaker 1: So great phenomenally rotary phone with my kid. Oh yeah, see,

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Speaker 1: I think that blue. I think along those lines ultimate tech.

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Speaker 1: I've said this and this is my TV show idea

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Speaker 1: is that you take millennials gen zers and you give

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Speaker 1: them you give them equipment that we used. You're like

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Speaker 1: and say you got to play song five. Figure it

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Speaker 1: out and figure out how to do it. And there's

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Speaker 1: there's no way. Rotary phone. I didn't think. I didn't

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Speaker 1: think of I saw a four minute video pop. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: there's no way, and how can this be four minutes?

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Speaker 1: I would just I'm laughing the entire the entire way.

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Speaker 1: I mean, how do they use it? Encyclopedia the rate well, alphabetical,

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Speaker 1: do you think the Britannica people are a little upset

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Speaker 1: at Google, Like why didn't we put this online? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a lot of issues. Tyreek Hill being out to me

426
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Speaker 1: is for that team. I think it changes everything. Yeah,

427
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Speaker 1: they have still have Kelsey And look when that team

428
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Speaker 1: didn't have Tyreek at twenty fifteen, it came in here

429
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Speaker 1: and beat the Texas up pretty good. That was a

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Speaker 1: Texas team with you know, with Bran Hoyer quarterback. It

431
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Speaker 1: was they ran the ball so well they did that year. Yeah,

432
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Speaker 1: and it's a it's a different Chiefs team. But since

433
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Speaker 1: Tyreek has made his presence known on that offense on

434
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Speaker 1: the field, it has gone to a completely different level,

435
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Speaker 1: completely different level. I know everybody's trying to pigeonhole me

436
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Speaker 1: coole Hardman into that spot. That's a rookie having to

437
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Speaker 1: do that. I don't know about that, but he'll have

438
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Speaker 1: some flashes. He's a dynamic player. There's no way he

439
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Speaker 1: can pick up where he'll left off. There's no way

440
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Speaker 1: he can do that. Now. Maybe eventually it's possible. Mark,

441
00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:20,520
Speaker 1: you've seen since two thousand and two, you've seen every

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Speaker 1: Texans game. You've seen players in this league. I've been

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Speaker 1: on the sideline since twenty fourteen. I don't know that

444
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Speaker 1: I have seen a player that completely with that sort

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Speaker 1: of explosiveness and in game speed. I don't think I've

446
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Speaker 1: ever seen one. He runs by NFL dbs who have

447
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Speaker 1: speed and have angles on him, and he just blows

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Speaker 1: them up. I mean, I don't I have never seen

449
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Speaker 1: anything like the Cheetah. The only guy that gets even

450
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Speaker 1: close to that is Will. But with Will, it's a

451
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Speaker 1: different kind of speed. Like I don't know how to

452
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Speaker 1: I don't know how to explain it, Like Tyreeks, is

453
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Speaker 1: Will so smooth when he does it, you don't always realize,

454
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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, Will Fuller just smoked me by fifteen yards. Yeah,

455
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Speaker 1: you know, Tyreek, It just feels like there's this twitch.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the way of saying it, maybe,

457
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Speaker 1: but it's just different. But Tyreek he's the scariest guy

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Speaker 1: that I've seen with the ball in his hands. And yeah,

459
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Speaker 1: he's frightening. I hope there are things that he gets

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Speaker 1: right off the field. But just from a football standpoint,

461
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Speaker 1: I find it ironic that the Texans did sign Bradley

462
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Speaker 1: Roby and Robie had a couple of his best games

463
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Speaker 1: against Tyreek Hill. Yeah, so yes, I would rather play

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs without Hill. But that said, it was number one.

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Speaker 1: I think I said Patriots. Nope, one Chiefs, two Patriots,

466
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Speaker 1: three Cults, four Rams, five Chargers, six Saints. So the

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Speaker 1: Texas will play five the first I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 1: I'll give you this. The Cults probably look the Patriots

469
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Speaker 1: of the Patriots, right. But at some point, the Brady

470
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Speaker 1: meter starts to it's you know, whatever state it is

471
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Speaker 1: between E and F that that gas meter that Brady has,

472
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Speaker 1: it's gonna go down at some point, And we don't

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Speaker 1: know when that's gonna be. Yeah, and who's to say

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Speaker 1: it happens in June. It might happen in October, you know,

475
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Speaker 1: like everyone thought it was happening in twenty fifteen when

476
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Speaker 1: they lost to the Chiefs that night, and they came

477
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Speaker 1: back and obviously did very well for themselves. But there

478
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Speaker 1: there are gonna be some games where he doesn't have

479
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Speaker 1: it and they're gonna lose, and you're gonna say, oh,

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Speaker 1: is this it? And and that's gonna be it. I

481
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Speaker 1: just don't know what it's gonna be is in twenty nine,

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Speaker 1: twenty one. I don't know what it's gonna be. It

483
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Speaker 1: could be this year and it would shock nobody. It

484
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Speaker 1: should shock nobody when it happens because Father Time being

485
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Speaker 1: undefeated and everything. So they have some issues. We've got

486
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Speaker 1: over the Chiefs issues. I think the Colts in that

487
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Speaker 1: top five might have the least amount of issues really

488
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Speaker 1: when you look at the whole big picture here, which

489
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Speaker 1: is frightening to me to say that you could again

490
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Speaker 1: have two teams out of the AFC South going into

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. Maybe three, but you could have two teams

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Speaker 1: out of the division, and I'm really hoping that the

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Speaker 1: Texans are one of them. And you just got to

494
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Speaker 1: hit that that new starting line in the postseason, healthy

495
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Speaker 1: and ready to rock like they did last year. The Colts,

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Speaker 1: I'll say this and then I'm gonna get your good

497
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Speaker 1: reaction to where he's got the Texans. I this isn't

498
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Speaker 1: gonna sound weird, but I sort of liked the Texans

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Speaker 1: having the schedule that they do this year because it's

500
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Speaker 1: gonna be ample opportunity to beat teams that I think fans, analysts,

501
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Speaker 1: media want the Texans to beat. Yeah, you want to

502
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Speaker 1: have a shot at these guys. You want to shout

503
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Speaker 1: with big guys, and you want to show Yeah. Okay,

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Speaker 1: uh yeah, maybe the Saints win Monday Night. But two

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Speaker 1: weeks later, when you go out to LA and you

506
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Speaker 1: knock off the Chargers on the road, oh okay, maybe

507
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Speaker 1: the Texans are for real. They're knocking off some good teams,

508
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Speaker 1: you know, beating the teams where quarterbacks injured or whatever.

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Speaker 1: They've had success. There's no question about that. They've had

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Speaker 1: success over the last few years, minus the second half

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Speaker 1: in particular twenty seventeen, but having a run of breezing

512
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Speaker 1: the Saints and then folds In the Jags, and then

513
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Speaker 1: Rivers and the Chargers, and then Cam and the Panthers,

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan and the Falcons and then Mahomes and the Chiefs,

515
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Speaker 1: and luck In the Colds and Car and the Raider

516
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Speaker 1: it's brutal, it is. But if you can prove that

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Speaker 1: you can win some of those ball games, then I

518
00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 1: think number one for your team. It gives you that

519
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Speaker 1: opportunity to say, look, we will go anywhere and beat

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Speaker 1: anybody any time. You got to prove it to yourself.

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Speaker 1: And you're right, it would like you come out of

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Speaker 1: the gate well against those teams. I think obviously everyone's

523
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Speaker 1: gonna get really excited about it. That's great, that's great

524
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Speaker 1: for the fans, great for everybody. The point is, do

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Speaker 1: you believe that you can do it? Can you do it?

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Speaker 1: And will you do it at the moment of truth

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Speaker 1: in the postseason, because you know it's one thing to

528
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Speaker 1: do it early, you gotta be able to do it late.

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Speaker 1: You gotta be able to do it after Thanksgiving and

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Speaker 1: after January. First, all right, I'll give you my gut

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Speaker 1: reaction to wherever those Jacons are on that list is,

532
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Speaker 1: I don't know as of this show, so you're gonna

533
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Speaker 1: tell me. And we got to get into some other

534
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Speaker 1: stuff as well. A college coach has gone to the

535
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Speaker 1: pros in another sport, but I've got some thoughts on

536
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Speaker 1: how that applies to the NFL and playoff losses. We're

537
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Speaker 1: not going to spend too much time on that, but

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Speaker 1: we have to address it. It's Texans All Access. Mark

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Speaker 1: Van Jamar, John Harris with you. Hello, and welcome in

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Speaker 1: again to Texans Radio. Texans All Access here on the

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Speaker 1: hunday Texans Radio studio across the hall from the locker room.

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Speaker 1: We were playing gut Reaction. We started to talk a

543
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Speaker 1: lot about different stuff related to some of the stuff.

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Speaker 1: Johnny wanted my gut reaction too, so let's keep it

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Speaker 1: rolling here. Gut Reaction, gut Reaction. Titans twenty five, Jags

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Speaker 1: twenty and again, this is Peter King's power rankings at

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Speaker 1: this point, and you're Houston Texans at number fifteen. Your

548
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Speaker 1: gut reaction, I think it's a gutless pick. Come on,

549
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,200
Speaker 1: don't put the Texans in the middle either. You know,

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Speaker 1: of course, it's not all about me. It's not all

551
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,119
Speaker 1: about the Texans, Peter King. I get it, I get it.

552
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 1: You're not just thinking about one team. But that just

553
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,119
Speaker 1: shows you that he doesn't quite know what to do

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Speaker 1: with them. Yeah. I think the question is this, if

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Speaker 1: you're a national guy or anybody, really, are the Texans

556
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Speaker 1: a playoff team? Are the Texans one of the top

557
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Speaker 1: twelve in this league? You know? Are they one of

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Speaker 1: the top six in the AFC? You know? And I

559
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 1: think that it's it's gonna be tough to crack that

560
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Speaker 1: top six. That's what you're trying to do in the AFC,

561
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 1: right you know? Who are the top six teams? Whatever

562
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Speaker 1: order you want to put them in? You know, the Patriots,

563
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Speaker 1: you say, the Colts, you say, the Chiefs, Chargers? Are

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Speaker 1: the Ravens in there? I don't know. He's got the

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Speaker 1: Ravens number vcacy Are the Ravens ahead of the Texans

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Speaker 1: on this list? Browns are eleven, Ravens are twelve, and

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Speaker 1: then the Texans are fifteen coming seventh. What have the

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Speaker 1: Browns ever done, Johnny? What if the Browns done to

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Speaker 1: deserve being in that top twelve right now? And I

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Speaker 1: guess you're you're projecting, Okay, they're gonna make the playoffs

571
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Speaker 1: if you have the middle eleven, you're saying the Browns

572
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Speaker 1: are a playoff team. I'm not ready to say that.

573
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,199
Speaker 1: They play in a tough division. I know the Bengals

574
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 1: are down right now, but they can still give you

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Speaker 1: a game, I would think. And then you got the

576
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Speaker 1: Ravens and Steelers to deal with. As soon as Cleveland

577
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Speaker 1: beats the Steelers and Ravens on a consistent basis, call me,

578
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 1: because that is not easy. I don't care who's playing

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Speaker 1: for the Browns. I mean, you didn't just go ahead

580
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 1: and change, you know, all the players out mayfield out

581
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 1: a nice finish last year. You added OBJ, which I

582
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,200
Speaker 1: think is a questionable move honestly considering what you gave

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00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 1: up to do it. So we'll see how that thing

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00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,880
Speaker 1: works out. I still say, you know, the Texans, being

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00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: who they are, coming off a division title winning eleven games,

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00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,440
Speaker 1: I know it wasn't a good finish, but they've added

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00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,359
Speaker 1: to the arsenal as well. Have they taken that much

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Speaker 1: of a step back to make them fifteenth? I say no,

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00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:33,719
Speaker 1: I tend to agree. I thought when I saw fifteen,

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00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, that's I can see people

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00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 1: feeling that way based off of how the year ended

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Speaker 1: with the tough loss to the Colts in the playoffs

593
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 1: and that kind of thing. And I know every team

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00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 1: has got and he's got forty nine or seventh, that's

595
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 1: a high projection for them. But they've they've added a

596
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 1: lot of pieces in the off season, George Kittle, with

597
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 1: Nick Mullins as quarterback, became one of the top three

598
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 1: tight ends in the league. They drafted Nick Bosa, they

599
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 1: added d Ford, they added Kwan Alexander, Like you can

600
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 1: see the additions on the San Francisco forty nine ers,

601
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 1: but they haven't done it. They haven't done it in

602
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 1: a division, in a division where the team the Rams

603
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 1: went to the Super Bowl, where another team, the Seahawks,

604
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 1: went to the playoffs, where the Seahawks had won a

605
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 1: championship in twenty thirteen. You're talking about a division that's

606
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: pretty darn good already. So making the forty nine or seventh, like,

607
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 1: I see, that's a projection. So I agree with you

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Speaker 1: the fact that you don't know what to do with

609
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 1: it yet, Because if you kind of could look at

610
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 1: your crystal ball and you could see that tightest hired

611
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 1: Max Sharping or Matt Khalil, any of those guys could

612
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 1: really ably step in at tackle and and be the

613
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 1: guys the Texans want them to be, then I think, Oh,

614
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Speaker 1: and by the way, Will Fuller stays healthy for a

615
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 1: full sixteen games, then I think I think people would

616
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 1: be more apt to say, oh, boy, that could be

617
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: a pretty fun group if the shan gets protected, if

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00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 1: those tackles turn out to be But I'm sure a

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Speaker 1: lot of people are looking at it going and he

620
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 1: even references in his right up on the Texans, he said.

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Speaker 1: Houston responded by drafting Titus Howard to tackle from small

622
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Speaker 1: Alabama State. I mean, for Peter King, who's been around

623
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Speaker 1: the game a long time, do you don't say that

624
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 1: that's that's fullhearted? Because how many times have we seen

625
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 1: you know where did where did Art Show go to school?

626
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 1: You know where did gen up Shall go to school?

627
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 1: Didn't go to go to school? Yeah? So I'm on

628
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 1: the other side of the ball now, but but you

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Speaker 1: get it, Yeah, exactly. So we've seen We've seen guys

630
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Speaker 1: go to small schools, uh and and end up being

631
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Speaker 1: Hall of famers. And I'm not putting that Titus, please,

632
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 1: but but to say small Alabama State? Yeah small? Now? Look, um,

633
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 1: Julian want to buck now. He struggled a little bit.

634
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Speaker 1: But is this first year as a starter. And I

635
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 1: think it's all about the prospect, you know, I mean

636
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: we're stating the obvious here, right. The school is irrelevant here?

637
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 1: Why should fourth because but Garoppolo went to a small school.

638
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 1: Now I know he's great. He doesn't exactly have pelts

639
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 1: in the NFL, but he's done some good things. Well,

640
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 1: he went to the University of the Patriots, so that right.

641
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 1: He went to New England. You he went to to

642
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 1: to TVU. Yes, you got a masters. He was there

643
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 1: so long, so you know along those lines. Okay, Garoppolo,

644
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 1: show me sixteen games. Stay up right right, Let's see

645
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 1: if you could do it. It's not easy. Deshaun did

646
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: it last year, and it took a lot for Deshaun.

647
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 1: I mean, that was one play that was unbelievable to

648
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: see what he had to endure to make it, the

649
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 1: punishment he took and kept dragging himself back up to

650
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 1: the huddle and up to the line of scrimmage and

651
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 1: doing what he did, and have to take the bus

652
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: and everything like that. Let's see it. Do it, Garoppolo.

653
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 1: If you have to add up doing that, maybe you

654
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 1: stay up right all season and your uniform never gets dirty.

655
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 1: Let's see if you remember this before you get the

656
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 1: next one. What Watson missed one play? Do you remember

657
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: why he missed one play? Remember something silly though, it's

658
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: like an equipment issue or something. He was in the

659
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 1: locker room for halftime. He had taken a knee, went

660
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 1: to the locker room and they called the penalty and

661
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 1: the Texans for some illegal formation. He was the locker room,

662
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 1: so he had to knee because I saw somebody tweet

663
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 1: that at home. That was at home. I think it

664
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: was the Monday night game maybe, or I can't remember

665
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: which game it was. But he went in a halftime

666
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: a little bit early, and everybody was like, what's going on?

667
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 1: And I just remember Obi standing over next to me

668
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 1: about ready to do the halftime interview, and he was

669
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 1: just looking out the rests like, oh really, like what

670
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: are you doing? I mean, it was just it was insane. Okay,

671
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 1: here's here's one we haven't talked too much about this.

672
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 1: Jaguars linebacker Telvin Smith put on his Instagram page that

673
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,240
Speaker 1: and I'm paraphrasing here, he's taking a year away from football.

674
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:35,479
Speaker 1: He's got to take care of some stuff. What's your

675
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 1: gut reaction to what's going on at Jacksonville with the

676
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: Fournette stuff with Jalen Rams and you're not showing up rotas,

677
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: which is not too surprising. And then Telvin Smith just

678
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,959
Speaker 1: walking away. Now, I don't know what's going on off

679
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 1: the field, so I'll say that, but he's taking a

680
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 1: year away from football. Said he's gonna come back to

681
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 1: the Jaguars at some point, But I don't know. Mark

682
00:32:56,160 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 1: your gut reaction Telvin Smith aside, almost just because I

683
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: don't really know what the whole reason is here. But

684
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 1: I don't know. It just feels very Jaguar esque considering

685
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: some of the other things that have been happening there

686
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 1: since they went to the AC Championship Game and lost

687
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 1: to New England. Because you talked about it last year

688
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 1: that you know there could be some front running going on.

689
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: It's gonna be tough for them to bounce back and

690
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 1: come up with any kind of repeat performance and success.

691
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 1: How people handle it versus failure, you know, people change, behaviors,

692
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 1: change what happens when the going gets rough. Well, all

693
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 1: of that just completely snowballed on them in a negative

694
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 1: way last year and they had the kind of season

695
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 1: they have Blake Bortles, etc. I just feel like there's

696
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 1: something wrong with the culture there and it really shocks

697
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 1: me because you have Tom Coughlin and Doug Morone. I mean,

698
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 1: these are two guys that I would think would bring

699
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: the culture, would create the culture, would foster a winning

700
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 1: team first culture, and it just doesn't feel team first,

701
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:00,120
Speaker 1: considering some of the guys who are missing workouts there

702
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 1: and the reasons why, which I haven't heard much that

703
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 1: makes sense. Yeah, and then Telvin Smith has this, which

704
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,360
Speaker 1: is it's not even like the reason that he's doing it,

705
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 1: but the fact that there's no communication between him and

706
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 1: the team on it, and they have to sort of

707
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:17,280
Speaker 1: react to it instead of be proactive with the information

708
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 1: getting it out there, like hey, Telvin, we got you,

709
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 1: We're gonna do this, and you know they do it together.

710
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 1: Instead this is Televin doing it and they just have

711
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 1: to react. It just feels all wrong, And you know,

712
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 1: I feel bad for some of the guys we know

713
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:32,279
Speaker 1: who worked there with and around the team, but that's

714
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 1: just life in the in the big city, if you will,

715
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:36,400
Speaker 1: or it's a small city in this case, and it

716
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: sucks to be them. Now, maybe they end up having

717
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:40,400
Speaker 1: a great season on the field. Everybody gets there for

718
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,240
Speaker 1: camp Foles is terrific. Everybody feeds off of that boom

719
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: they go, but I just feel like it's not going

720
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: to happen for them. I think when I saw the

721
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 1: news about Telvin Smith, first of all, I was like, man,

722
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 1: I hope everything off the field is okay. But I

723
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: feel like, and I said, I said this about Cush

724
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,320
Speaker 1: isn't just because it's a linebacker, But I said this

725
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: about Kush used to feel like he was the soul

726
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 1: his team, and I feel like Telvin Smith is the

727
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 1: Jaguar's soul. I feel like they follow him. He's the

728
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: one who can keep Jalen in line. He's the one

729
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 1: that you know, Jaylen starts getting out of out of

730
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 1: whack a little bit. He's the guy kind of gets

731
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 1: him in line. He's the guy who fires everybody up.

732
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 1: He's the guy who keeps everybody on point defensively, and

733
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 1: he's not always on point defensively, but he's kind of

734
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 1: a defense. And that team's soul. They they not only

735
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,760
Speaker 1: rally around him, but they follow his lead and everything

736
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 1: he does, which I find fascinating for a guy that's

737
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 1: all about two hundred fifteen pounds. I mean, he's no

738
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:35,919
Speaker 1: bigger than that. I mean I saw about the Senior

739
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 1: Bowl and I was like, he's a string being. He

740
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 1: hasn't got any bigger sense. But he's a hell of

741
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,320
Speaker 1: a player. But beyond that, to me, he sort of

742
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,359
Speaker 1: sets the tone for everybody. And if he's not there,

743
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:48,880
Speaker 1: then where is it coming from? And that to me

744
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:52,360
Speaker 1: is where you get that important whatever good they could do.

745
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a top five defense. We're talking

746
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 1: about storing and yardage. Absolutely, I think he is absolutely

747
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: that kind of player. Just football player, yes, but just leader,

748
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:05,879
Speaker 1: the voice, the mouth of that team. He's that guy.

749
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: I mean, he's the guy who reigns in Jalen. I

750
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 1: think when I don't remember the game against Week seven,

751
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 1: when the bus game when we played him there, you

752
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,280
Speaker 1: remember Yannick and got Quack getting pulled off the field

753
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 1: late in the game. It was Telvin who was the

754
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:21,440
Speaker 1: one that had to go over there and kind of

755
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 1: calmed him down, like chill out, like he was going

756
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: after a coach. I mean it was it was. There

757
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,360
Speaker 1: are some there are some loose cannons on that team,

758
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: and Telvin was the guy to me that really kind

759
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 1: of kept it, kind of kept it together. And it

760
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:38,319
Speaker 1: wasn't Ramsey. It wasn't Ramsey. Okay, got reaction on this one,

761
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 1: and this will tie together what you teased a little

762
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: while ago. I saw this online and I can't remember

763
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:46,720
Speaker 1: who tweeted this, but I saw it from at least

764
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 1: at least two or three different people. That Game six,

765
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: lost by the Rockets to the Warriors is the and

766
00:36:55,719 --> 00:37:00,919
Speaker 1: I quote, greatest choke in playoff history in the city

767
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:04,759
Speaker 1: of Houston. How can they say that. You're gonna say, no,

768
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 1: it's not it's not it. I hate the word choke.

769
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:10,879
Speaker 1: Lopez knows this. We used to argue about the word choke.

770
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 1: I mean, look, you know, failure to execute whatever, lost

771
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: opportunity or yeah, I mean failed opportunity. I guess. I

772
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,479
Speaker 1: guess if you miss out one and a half foot

773
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 1: put and you're a pro golfer, that's kind of a choke,

774
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:28,880
Speaker 1: I guess. But this was not a one and a

775
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 1: half foot put. This is a missed opportunity. Okay, this

776
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 1: is no two foot gimme all right. This is not

777
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,279
Speaker 1: in the leather you had to make this. This is

778
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:41,239
Speaker 1: like a five and a half foot knee knocker that

779
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 1: you got, you know so, and they didn't make it.

780
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 1: All right, there was an opportunity there data execute. They're

781
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:48,879
Speaker 1: going up against one of the greatest teams I've ever seen.

782
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 1: I'm not making excuses for them, Believe me. I think

783
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: they should have gotten it done. Yea, they should have

784
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:54,920
Speaker 1: got Like the Texans should have done much better against

785
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 1: the Cults, probably beaten them, and they didn't do it

786
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 1: all right. I don't call that a choke. It's just

787
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: failure to execute for the Texans. They really weren't ready

788
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: that day for whatever reason. You know, I was trying

789
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 1: to like come up with a comparison. It would be

790
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: the Rockets playing the Warriors without Durant is like the

791
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 1: Texans playing what it's You can't say it's any team

792
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: without their quarterback because it's too much. A quarterback is

793
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 1: seventy five it Durant is. You know, you could take well,

794
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:23,359
Speaker 1: Durant scoring thirty plus points a game. It's you can't

795
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 1: just subtract those points. Somebody else is taking those shots.

796
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:28,319
Speaker 1: I guess what those guys are freaking awesome? Who are

797
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 1: taking those shots? Okay, a fully healthy Texans team? Yeah,

798
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 1: taking on the Patriots without Gronk, that's about the closest

799
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: you could get. I don't know, Yeah, Gronk and somebody else.

800
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:46,359
Speaker 1: I mean Durant, He's he is that significant. He's more

801
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,359
Speaker 1: significant than quote just Gronk, Right, you'd have to take

802
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 1: Gronk out and maybe a Hogan or Gronk and you

803
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: know some player that's important about the closest you get.

804
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 1: But if you gotta, it's hard to come up with

805
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 1: the comparison. But I think in going back to the

806
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 1: word choke, you've got a thirty two point lead in

807
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 1: the third quarters, that's against a backup quarterback that there's

808
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: there's nothing that will take the cake from that one.

809
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 1: This is it. This is going against the the two

810
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: time world champion in a row, world champion, three out

811
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: of the last four world champion. I mean, that's that's

812
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 1: who you were, That's who you were playing. Yeah, this

813
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:26,920
Speaker 1: was not you know, a Buffalo team that was banged

814
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: up without its I mean that was a quarterback. They

815
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:34,400
Speaker 1: didn't have their starting quarterback. So from that perspective, that

816
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 1: to me will always be because that was, first of all,

817
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,360
Speaker 1: the Oilers playing in that game was ridiculous. I mean,

818
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 1: that was a that was the Oilers team that had

819
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:44,919
Speaker 1: Hall of famers across the board. That that team didn't

820
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 1: even be playing at wild Card the road. That exactly

821
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: that said take care of business. You gotta take care

822
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,839
Speaker 1: of it, take care of business. Two point lead at

823
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 1: that point, I mean that that was Look, that is

824
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 1: called the greatest meltdown in NFL history. Right, this game

825
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 1: will not even this Rocket Game six will not even

826
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 1: be a blip. Okay, you were mentioning twenty fifth anniversary

827
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:10,799
Speaker 1: of Choke City, right, And the Chronicle did a great

828
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 1: piece this weekend interviewing a lot of different media guys

829
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:16,320
Speaker 1: and people who are around then, and the two newspapers

830
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 1: coming up with the same headline. Somehow, I mean, unbelievable stuff.

831
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:23,800
Speaker 1: And even that does not compare to what the Oilers

832
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:25,920
Speaker 1: did or did not do against the Bills. Even the

833
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,440
Speaker 1: Choke City stuff. Losing those big leads against Phoenix in

834
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 1: two consecutive games in a series that to me was

835
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 1: not as big as what the Oilers did because basketball

836
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 1: is different. I'm sorry, A fifteen point lead in the

837
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 1: NBA with time left is not that much. It's a

838
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:44,319
Speaker 1: few bad possessions for your team. And also, look at

839
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 1: Philly in Toronto last night. Philly and I think three

840
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:49,319
Speaker 1: possessions in a row where the shot clock ran down.

841
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:50,839
Speaker 1: I mean I think at the end they just turned

842
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 1: it over with two or three seconds on the shot clock.

843
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't have that happen and they end

844
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 1: up losing on the Kawhi Leonard. You know. Oh, by

845
00:40:57,239 --> 00:40:59,879
Speaker 1: the way, somebody I sent you the tweet I saw

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Speaker 1: somebody tweeted Vernon Lunkwist call of tiger Wood shot on

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Speaker 1: sixteen that rolled in and the ball hung on. They

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Speaker 1: tweeted that call with the shot last night by Leonard

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Speaker 1: and it was just cold, so good Johnny. Thanks, all right,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for tonight Tomorrow night. We will

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Speaker 1: have two players on. I can guarantee you that we

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Speaker 1: will have two players on the show, but I cannot

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Speaker 1: guarantee you who they will be. How about that? How

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Speaker 1: about that for a surprise, A little tease. I'm teasing myself.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know who they're going to be yet.

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Speaker 1: But we will have numerous guests on in the next

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Speaker 1: few days, so you can look forward to that as

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Speaker 1: we get our shot and interviewing a lot of these guys,

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Speaker 1: a lot of these players, vets, new guys. Whatever. You'll

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Speaker 1: be hearing from them on Texans Radio every night, five

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Speaker 1: nights a week, six to seven o'clock on Sports Radio

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Speaker 1: six ten and the Texans app. It's always a thrill

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Speaker 1: to have you listening. Follow social media tomorrow because the

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Speaker 1: players will be out and about doing a variety of

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Speaker 1: things getting ready for the season media wise, So that's

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Speaker 1: kind of a fun couple of days for us. Be

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Speaker 1: checking us out at Houston Texans on Twitter and on

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Speaker 1: the website and all over the place in social media.

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Speaker 1: Have a great night, everyone, and go Texans.