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Speaker 1: Hello Texans. We're back on a Monday, Mark Vantam Aaron,

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Speaker 1: John Harris with you right here in the Hyunday Texans

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Speaker 1: Radio studio with plenty to go over as OTAs get

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Speaker 1: rolling for the Texans this week, and we'll have plenty

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Speaker 1: to say about that as the week continues, a lot

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Speaker 1: of talk about various position groups. Why not this is it.

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Speaker 1: They are gearing it up. In fact, they'll be out

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Speaker 1: there for the next four weeks and then that is it,

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Speaker 1: Johnny break time. What I called the desert between mini

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Speaker 1: camp and training camp. And during the desert, you know,

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Speaker 1: it can either go slowly or quickly, depending on how

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Speaker 1: you spend your summer, and then before you know what,

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Speaker 1: it's back to football and training camp. I think the

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Speaker 1: desert goes fast. And now for me, it goes a

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Speaker 1: little fast because I can jump into the colleg drump

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Speaker 1: for a little bit, because you got media days, you

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Speaker 1: got big twelve media days, and that usually hits middle

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Speaker 1: of July. So once I get to that point, then

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Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, it's on now, I mean it's close.

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Speaker 1: Then you can start to okay, you can start to

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Speaker 1: smell it. As Andrea says, but this is kind of

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Speaker 1: the hardest period, I think between the draft in OTAs.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's rookie Minicamp, but that's such a brief period.

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Speaker 1: But I think that's that's the hardest, the hardest time

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Speaker 1: because everybody's kind of sitting up pins. Okay, how did

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Speaker 1: you do in the draft? How these guys look? I

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Speaker 1: thought it was interesting that they had the NFL Rookie

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Speaker 1: Showcase or premiere out in LA where they bring all

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Speaker 1: the rookies and they put them in their NFL team's

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Speaker 1: gear and then they take a big picture with them. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and no Texans because they're here. Yeah, because well, we've

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Speaker 1: always had somebody. I think he Key went last year,

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Speaker 1: Deshan went, but they just weren't interested in anybody, just

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Speaker 1: didn't not interested. Good. I hope the guys know that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Phill O'Brien brought that up in the team meeting. No Texans. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's kind of been the way that everybody

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Speaker 1: nationally has and some locally have sort of looked at

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Speaker 1: this draft for the Texans. But you know, look, if

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Speaker 1: this is a draft that you end up getting two

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Speaker 1: a secondary starter out of it pretty and good draft. Huh. No,

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Speaker 1: we won't know that for a few years, but we

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Speaker 1: can start to see the progress. Obviously this year we

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Speaker 1: can see it start. We saw the immediate rewards of

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Speaker 1: last year, So you started getting some of those immediate rewards.

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Speaker 1: But you want to know for a fact what you've

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Speaker 1: got until a few years down line. That said, she's

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Speaker 1: not gotten a lot of run, and the NFL Rookie

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Speaker 1: Showcase kind of hammered that point. Home Texans rookies and

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Speaker 1: we're good. You know, I'm really looking forward to seeing

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Speaker 1: these old linemen in these OTAs as the week progress here. Now,

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Speaker 1: the thing about it is this old lineman OTAs Bill

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Speaker 1: to see how these guys move around, how they fit together,

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Speaker 1: the combinations they put together. And as you and I

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Speaker 1: is not necessarily the plan. Often it's planned B, C

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Speaker 1: different things, different combinations, get guys in different spots, just

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Speaker 1: to see how they react to the situation. Boom thrust

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Speaker 1: into it in practice, and I was having not an

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Speaker 1: argument with mcclaim. We've never really argued about anything but

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Speaker 1: didn't mean to stutter with John's accent, but that is fine.

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Speaker 1: I agree with that. However, the reason why they sometimes

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Speaker 1: Newton move over to guard. You've seen these things happen.

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Speaker 1: You only have seven offensive line addressing for game day.

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Speaker 1: That's why you need that to happen. Well, especially with

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Speaker 1: him as you watched him during your draft studying. Go, Okay,

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Speaker 1: this guy we think is a left tackle, or we

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Speaker 1: at least what the initial progress is. However, we live

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Speaker 1: to it right now. Julio Davenport started at left tackle

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Speaker 1: last season for this team, his first full season as

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Speaker 1: They have options. Davenport obviously realizes this, but don't count

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Speaker 1: them out. He talked about here in the Hunday Texans

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Speaker 1: Radio studio with John Harris and I some of the

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Speaker 1: things he's been working on. Next step is to consistently

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Speaker 1: getting my set better overall, just be a better player,

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Speaker 1: the best player I can be for his team. Julio,

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Speaker 1: last year nine game winning streaks, A lot of really

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Speaker 1: that's always driving for how much does that loss to

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Speaker 1: playoffs gonna drive you guys? Oh, you know, it's big

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Speaker 1: So it's competitive league and this is gonna be every year.

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Speaker 1: So it ain't something that you can be better about,

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Speaker 1: but you just got to put the work in. Julianne,

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Speaker 1: in the nature. What you do with your offseason time

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Speaker 1: that's awesome, that's very cool. What was the what was

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Speaker 1: What's that like for them to see you come out,

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Speaker 1: for them? You know, it's big time. You know they

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Speaker 1: So I'm just kind of living my own dream, but

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Speaker 1: No no, no, no, you missed a call. Then you

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Speaker 1: can't go back in time. What is this? Michael J.

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Speaker 1: Fox and the flux capacitor? I hate that about basketball.

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Speaker 1: Don't get me started. And as far as being able

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Speaker 1: to review every play, no, make the challenge flag rule,

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Speaker 1: I would be okay with that if he said you

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Speaker 1: have to throw a challenge flag and then we reorganize

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Speaker 1: how challenge flags are throwing reaps, make the coaches think

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Speaker 1: about it. Otherwise the guy upstairs is gonna feel compelled

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Speaker 1: to stop the game all the time, and it's gonna

435
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Speaker 1: bring everything to a screeching halt. So, okay, your gut

436
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Speaker 1: reaction to reaction, Your gut reaction to what Pete Carroll

437
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Speaker 1: said three very simple words. I don't must go to

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Speaker 1: this angle to be honest with you, kill instant replay. No,

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Speaker 1: you cannot do it. You have to have recourse if

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Speaker 1: the technology is too good. Pete Carroll's wrong about this.

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Speaker 1: Come on, Pete Carroll. I never took you as get

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Speaker 1: off my lawn guy. You have got to be able

443
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Speaker 1: to review your plays. Johnny, you need some kind of

444
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Speaker 1: last house on the left. Here. Here's what he said,

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Speaker 1: get rid of get rid of instant replay. I get

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Speaker 1: all the reasons why we have instur replaying technologies open

447
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Speaker 1: up a new world for us to get this point,

448
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Speaker 1: but I missed the human element of trusting the officials

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Speaker 1: to make the calls the moment, and then the rest

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Speaker 1: of us having to live with what they called. It

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Speaker 1: was both fun and frustrating, but I really liked the

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Speaker 1: game better when the officials were just as much a

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Speaker 1: part of the game as the players was. Frank Curses

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Speaker 1: big catch in the Super Bowl that got them down

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Speaker 1: there when they should have eaten the Patriots was that

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Speaker 1: it was not reviewed because that was clean. He caught

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Speaker 1: it right in front of the raft, I know. But

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Speaker 1: did they look at it again? No? Or no? Okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: it was trying. I mean he was inside of two minutes,

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Speaker 1: so they could have, but they didn't. I mean, he

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Speaker 1: caught it, he caught it clean. But you know what,

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Speaker 1: as I read that, you know what I thought of?

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Speaker 1: What remember Phil Mary? Yeah, now that that's sort of

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Speaker 1: nuanced because that was when the officials were it was

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Speaker 1: replacement officials. Yeah, so it was a little different. But

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Speaker 1: I can't remember if they went up to the booth

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Speaker 1: for that one or not. I think they did. They

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Speaker 1: messed that whole thing up, and I'm like, no, you

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Speaker 1: have got to have replayed. No, don't do that to me.

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Speaker 1: Don't do that to me. I'm sitting at home in

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Speaker 1: my living room with my high definition TV. I'm being

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Speaker 1: Joe six Pack here or maybe Joe Chardonnay, but I'm

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Speaker 1: sitting at home with my high definition television, and I

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Speaker 1: got a better look at it in slow motion than

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Speaker 1: everybody in the stadium. Come on. You can't do that.

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Speaker 1: You have to have replay. You ready for our buddy,

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Speaker 1: Eric Winston, your gut reaction to hit so what he

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Speaker 1: thought should could change about the game. Go ahead? So again,

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Speaker 1: Peter King, his article talked to twenty five smart people,

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Speaker 1: ran the gamut of people, players, coaches, just great people

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Speaker 1: have been Yeah, it's excellent. Calm. Eric Winston said, your

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Speaker 1: gut reaction to this seed the playoffs by record, not

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Speaker 1: division title. I'm actually more okay with this than anything

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Speaker 1: I think. Here, here's the thing. Could you do it

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Speaker 1: where you allow it an eight and eight division winner? Yes,

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Speaker 1: you're in the playoffs because you won your division. I've

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Speaker 1: always thought this, and in the NBA too, because there

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Speaker 1: was some freaky times with the Rockets when they had

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Speaker 1: the four and the five and the five got the

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Speaker 1: home court or whatever. Anyway, I think this. You're in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs if you're at eight in eight division winner,

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Speaker 1: but you're not at home. Okay, I know you won

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Speaker 1: your division, so congratulations. So even though your record might

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Speaker 1: be worse than a team that is a better record

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Speaker 1: in another division that failed to make the wild card, Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: you're in because you won your four team division. But

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Speaker 1: because otherwise, why have the divisions, Johnny? They don't mean

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Speaker 1: anything anymore, you know, they really don't. They're just for

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Speaker 1: scheduling purposes, right, And you know you're lucky if you're

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Speaker 1: in an easy one. You're unlucky if you're in a

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Speaker 1: tough one. So how does that make sense? But are

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Speaker 1: you with me here? I would be okay with that,

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Speaker 1: But you got to play on the road if the

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Speaker 1: record warrants it, all right, I see that. Okay, good,

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Speaker 1: I could see that. I'm glad, we're I'm glad we

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Speaker 1: came to an understanding, we could see. Yeah. I don't

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Speaker 1: get too kind of hung up on the playoffs. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you deserve to get in, if you win your division, great,

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Speaker 1: what about what about seven teams per conference? What about

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Speaker 1: letting that extra team in and then there's only one

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Speaker 1: buy for the top seat, same amount of weeks. You

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Speaker 1: just have three games on this first Saturday and Sunday

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Speaker 1: and stas too, a triple header, Johnny, I am now

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Speaker 1: t well, I know, but I know, you know, you know,

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Speaker 1: I got let me interrupt here. You know what ESPN

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Speaker 1: really wanted though, They wanted the Monday night game to

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Speaker 1: be a playoff game, right, Yeah, but it was conflicted

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Speaker 1: with the National Championship of College Football. Yeah, that could be.

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Speaker 1: That's that's gonna be tough, especially because the ESPN has

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Speaker 1: that game. Yeah. I I have never been a big

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Speaker 1: fan of expanding playoffs to water down the regular season.

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Speaker 1: I think it's good the way it is, too, So

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Speaker 1: I don't like adding more teams. That's like if they

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Speaker 1: go to eight teams in college football and be like, hey,

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Speaker 1: you know, okay, maybe, but no, there's no reason for that.

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Speaker 1: I didn't like it when in fact too because I

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Speaker 1: felt like, hey, look, there are a couple of teams

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Speaker 1: that could you know, you make it forward. It's fine.

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Speaker 1: The more you just water down a regular season. So

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Speaker 1: I'd rather keep it at six, all right. Next up,

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Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna go here, but my radical idea for

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Speaker 1: college football. And I got another one show Webb will

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Speaker 1: join us, and you got another one for me. I

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Speaker 1: got another one. I've got an overtime question for you

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Speaker 1: as well. It's Texans All Access. Busy Busy night here

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio, Mark Vandamaron John Harris with you in the

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Speaker 1: Hunday Texans Radio studio. Okay, we're doing gut reaction to

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Speaker 1: Peter King's column, what are you talked to about twenty five? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Twenty five s smart people around the game. He talked

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Speaker 1: to a few players. He asked Clays Campbell. Clays Campbell said,

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Speaker 1: make every healthy player active on game day. Now, I'll

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Speaker 1: take the financial component out of this, because I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure what that financial component would be. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: but just to have your fifty you made a fifty

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Speaker 1: three man roster, make everybody active on game day. I

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Speaker 1: agree with that hard please or go to fifty five.

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Speaker 1: Is it really that much of a problem. That way,

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Speaker 1: you get a few more guys out there. If you

549
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Speaker 1: have a few guys hurt and you can sort of

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Speaker 1: keep them around without having to ir them, that would

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Speaker 1: be nice. Here's another one. What less Sneed said, reinvent

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Speaker 1: the preseason. And there's a reason why I bring it up.

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Speaker 1: He said. My long term thought has reduced the preseason

554
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Speaker 1: from four to two games, one home, one away. But

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Speaker 1: don't waste the rest of August. I would add a

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Speaker 1: scrimmage with another team at a neutral site that loves football,

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Speaker 1: and slot that scrimmage the same week. That now would

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Speaker 1: be used for the first full preseason weekend the week

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Speaker 1: after the Hall of Fame game. We could take the

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Speaker 1: NFL on the road to towns in America and support

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Speaker 1: the NFL on Thursday Sundays and money is by watching us,

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Speaker 1: he said. It's a chance to give back and invest

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Speaker 1: in our dedicated fans who support us, even even though

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Speaker 1: they might be in a place that's not close to

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Speaker 1: NFL franchise city. Wouldn't it be fun to see Carson

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Speaker 1: Wentz in the Eagles scrimmage the Viking Vikings somewhere in

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Speaker 1: North Dakota. Yeah, it would be fun for the North Dakotaans.

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Speaker 1: But how are you making up the lost revenue of

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Speaker 1: the preseason game You're canceling, he says. Or the Seahawks

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Speaker 1: and Texans scrimmaging in Madison, Wisconsin. Yeah, where Russell Wilson

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Speaker 1: and JJ wat play. Love it be great, but how

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Speaker 1: are you gonna make the money back. You're not making

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Speaker 1: it back in a scrimmage. You're not charging the full ticket.

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Speaker 1: Sneeds a TM. He's not the he's not business manager.

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Speaker 1: The president to Jamie Roots to get back to me

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Speaker 1: with your thoughts. Okay, college football, by the way, all

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Speaker 1: the radical ideas here like Pete Carroll saying, get rid

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Speaker 1: of ins and replay. How about this one? Are you

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Speaker 1: ready for this? Okay, go ahead, go back to the

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Speaker 1: old system of choosing a national champion. Oh, I'm talking

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Speaker 1: free bcs. I'm talking. You're heading into New Year's Day.

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Speaker 1: Remember New Year's Day when that meant something New Year's Day,

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Speaker 1: Johnny in New Year's Day? Like, all right, we're number four,

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Speaker 1: but we're playing number two. If number three blows out

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Speaker 1: number one by forty and we blowout number two, maybe

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Speaker 1: we're no. Wait, if number three just edges by number

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Speaker 1: one and we blow out number two, maybe we'll get

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Speaker 1: some votes of the UPI, which no longer exists, but

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Speaker 1: in the UPI, and we can go ahead and win

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Speaker 1: a share of the national championship. I thought it was

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Speaker 1: fun that way. I think the playoff look, it can

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Speaker 1: be great, but often it isn't. Well, we've had a

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Speaker 1: couple of great games in a con football playoff. We

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Speaker 1: had the guy in the locker room generated the two

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Speaker 1: that we've had, and the only other playoff game that's

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Speaker 1: been worth the Dharma's at Rose Bowl, which was Georgian

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Speaker 1: in Oklahoma. I would be more after gree with you.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I am I'm I'm after gree with you

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Speaker 1: because I, first of all, I'm a traditionalist when it

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Speaker 1: comes to college football. But and I love the bowl

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Speaker 1: games and I loved New Year's Day. I love that.

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Speaker 1: I feel like some of the passion for college football

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Speaker 1: is maybe gone a little bit because we're not discussing, well,

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Speaker 1: who is really better, Clemson or Alabama? Who is really better?

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Speaker 1: And the fans are fighting all offseason long. All of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, Clemson blows out Alabama and it's like it's

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Speaker 1: just it's like, well, you know, Clemson won. Yeah, no debate.

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Speaker 1: There'body's talking about it. That's what makes the sport great.

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Speaker 1: Remember when everyone thought, there's no way college football is

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Speaker 1: going out of a playoff because that way people will

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Speaker 1: stop talking about it. They love college football, loves the controversy,

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00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 1: which maybe they did, maybe they didn't, but to your

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Speaker 1: point that it just generated so much conversation. And look,

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Speaker 1: we're probably the same people. And I put us in

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Speaker 1: a collective group here that complained about why don't we

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Speaker 1: have a playoff to start the champions So never mind

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Speaker 1: about that. I think it's fun stuff to talk about

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Speaker 1: right now. Our conversation with a guy who his third

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Speaker 1: string quarterback, odd special teams, can play wide receiver, he

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Speaker 1: can drive the bus. He's Joe Webb and he's fun

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Speaker 1: to talk to. So if I call you Jolton Joe

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Speaker 1: Webb on the air, is that good? Or is that okay?

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Speaker 1: If I have a nickname or something, or do you

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Speaker 1: not want spider whip whatever you want to spider Web,

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Speaker 1: that's not bad, Jolton Joe. That's that might be a

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Speaker 1: data reference though, yeah, but it's okay though, you know,

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Speaker 1: Jolton Joe is right, Yeah, okay, is a data references,

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Speaker 1: but not bringing it back. We're trying to bring it back.

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Speaker 1: We're trying to bring it back, Joe, Is there anything

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Speaker 1: on a football field? After a year we're convinced that

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Speaker 1: you can do anything? Is there anything on a football

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Speaker 1: field that you can't do well? I would say long snapper.

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, exactly you did in high school, so

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Speaker 1: you could do it if you needed to. But what

635
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Speaker 1: does it say to you that you have that versatility

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00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 1: that you can play any position on the field when

637
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 1: you're asked? Well, first of all, I just I love

638
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 1: playing ball. I love being on the field. I have

639
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: a great passion for the game. And one of the

640
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: first things I heard once I get into the NFL

641
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: was the more you can do. Now, that's all people

642
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: are saying, more you could do, more you can do.

643
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: So I kind of took that and ran with it.

644
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 1: How tough it is practice for you because you kind

645
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 1: of have to know a little bit of everything out there?

646
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 1: How does that go for you on a week to

647
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 1: week basis, Joe? It all depends on our opponent. You know,

648
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: we have an opponent, you know, you know which is

649
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 1: a scrambler quarterback, running type of quarterback. You know, you

650
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 1: know I had to I had to fill in that role, right,

651
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 1: you know, and then also had to receive a role

652
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 1: I sold so special teams. I mean, man, I'm running

653
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 1: all day. I badly get breaks. My owner break is

654
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 1: like when field goal team is up, did you ever

655
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 1: kick field goals? No, don't answer that because we already

656
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: know the answer. Joe. I remember the day that you

657
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 1: were in the building and you were going back up

658
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 1: to sign your contract, and you've been around the league

659
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 1: for a while and you've seen it from a lot

660
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: of different angles, But was there any nervousness or anxiety

661
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 1: this offseason about where you're gonna be or did you

662
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 1: always feel like, if I get the opportunity, I want

663
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 1: to come back to Houston. Yeah. Man, I feel like

664
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 1: Houston is a you know, a great place for me.

665
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: You know, it feels like home. You know, it's back

666
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 1: in the South. You know, I'm from Alabama, so I'm

667
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: used to the heat. You know, it's it's it's a

668
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 1: great atmosphere. You know, it's a football state, you know,

669
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 1: which is from unfamiliar with from being from Alabama. So

670
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's a great place for me. Man.

671
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 1: What was it like seeing what Deshaan Watson went through

672
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: last year as a quarterback of the beating He took

673
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 1: the ability to stay out there on the field, make plays,

674
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: take the boss, whatever it took in order to play.

675
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: I think it showed a lot, you know, the willingness

676
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: he's he's able to take, you know, to will his

677
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 1: team to win. You know. You know, teammates saw him,

678
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 1: you know, come to the sidelines with poors. You know,

679
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: no matter what happened on the field, he always had

680
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 1: poors about himself. You know, he always had that competitive spirit.

681
00:32:57,840 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: You know, so I think it shows a lot for

682
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 1: him them. You know, just you know, no matter how

683
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 1: that how the games going, you know, good ups and downs.

684
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: You know, he always you know, pull us about in

685
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: competitive reader to win. Joe, you were on I believe

686
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 1: all special teams last year. How difficult is that for

687
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 1: younger players to look at playing special teams and go, Okay,

688
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:20,719
Speaker 1: this is my role. I'm gonna accept it because they

689
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 1: look at you and they see you doing that. What's

690
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 1: that like for younger players to have to try and

691
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:26,959
Speaker 1: accept that role to play on special teams? And how

692
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: do you look at that role special teams? I look

693
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 1: at it. You know, it is one of the most

694
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 1: important things in the game. You know a lot of

695
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 1: people don't think of special teams like that, but it's

696
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: all about field position and all it's about. It's all

697
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 1: about momental change. You know, it can make a bit

698
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 1: difference in the game. You know, you go out, Dad

699
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: and you you hit the punt return and he fumbled

700
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 1: the ball, you pick it up. You know, it's a

701
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 1: it's a momentum swinger. So you know, you tell young

702
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: guys like that, man, hey, you could build your career

703
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: off of special teams. You know, you might not be

704
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 1: a start right now, but it'll help you work your

705
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 1: way up until it be the starter. So uh, you know,

706
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: the young guys coming in now know they more and

707
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 1: more they started understand than coach O'Brien. He always emphasizing

708
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:12,399
Speaker 1: special team, special team. So I think we go get better.

709
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:14,800
Speaker 1: We're gonna be a lot better this year and continue

710
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:17,439
Speaker 1: to build on it. How important is that locker room

711
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:21,800
Speaker 1: chemistry whatever you guys have together as a bond as players.

712
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: You've been around a lot of different locker room situations.

713
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:26,800
Speaker 1: What do you think of the one here? It's a

714
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,920
Speaker 1: it's very it's a very unique bun that's that's being

715
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 1: built right now. A lot of again not a lot

716
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 1: of new guys coming in. You know, I see guys

717
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 1: who was here before, you know, go up to them,

718
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: hey man, what's your name? Where you're from? You know,

719
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 1: trying to get the norm. And it's not more so

720
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 1: about you know, it's about me, me me. It's more

721
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: so like, hey man, we're gonna need everybody that's in

722
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: the locker room right now in order to win, you know,

723
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 1: in order to get over this you know, first round hump,

724
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 1: this wild wild cart hump, and we try to pursue

725
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, So we know that for a fact.

726
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: We need everybody, you know. It's yeah, we got there competing,

727
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 1: you know, to make one another better. But at the

728
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: end of the day, hey man, I got your bet,

729
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 1: you got my bet. I need you, you need me?

730
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 1: All right? You're ready for some either oars. Okay, I've

731
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 1: got a list of like twenty two and I'm just

732
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 1: picking one and I feel like will fit. So for

733
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:20,439
Speaker 1: Joe web let's start very easy. You NBA fan, Okay,

734
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 1: all right, Clay Thompson or Steph Curry. Still everybody's saying, Steph,

735
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 1: how do people not seek Like I want to thought

736
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 1: you would have picked Clay Thompson. Clay. Clay is a

737
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: great player, Don't get me wrong. I think Steph can

738
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 1: create more shots for himself than Clay. Yeah. I just

739
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 1: think Clay does the all round. That's why. Yeah, he

740
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 1: does the defense. Yeah, you're right, all right, So let's

741
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 1: go this one. Jannie or Kauhi. Yeah, I'm starting to

742
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: like starting to go the other way. We're starting to

743
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,440
Speaker 1: go the other way. You can be the CEO of

744
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 1: a company either Facebook or Netflix. Netflix. Okay, I like that,

745
00:35:56,600 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: like that answer. You can relive one athletes life from

746
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:06,840
Speaker 1: the beginning the present day Lebron or Michael Michael. I

747
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 1: like it. I like it. That's a little bit of

748
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 1: old school coming out right, Dan Jordan. I mean, he

749
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 1: has a unique story. A lot of people don't know.

750
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 1: He got cut from the high school team. He got cut,

751
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 1: so he had to bounce back from that. You know,

752
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,399
Speaker 1: if he don't make it high school team, he don't

753
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,320
Speaker 1: go to North Carolina, he don't go to the Bulls.

754
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:28,239
Speaker 1: So you know, um, and you know, I just I

755
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 1: grew up watching Jordan. You know, I remember watching regular

756
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:33,360
Speaker 1: season games. You know, make sure you had to do

757
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 1: your homework earlier just so you can watch the games.

758
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:40,760
Speaker 1: So who you grow up rooting for? Though? Like what team?

759
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 1: But the Bulls? It was definitely him. What about the

760
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 1: Birmingham parents too? I did. I watched him play when

761
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:51,359
Speaker 1: he played for the Barons. He went to the game

762
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 1: very cool. Was that weird to watch him play baseball?

763
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,879
Speaker 1: It was weird. He struck out a cup time? Hey

764
00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,799
Speaker 1: the guy this fans still tier where he struck out?

765
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,839
Speaker 1: Of course, I mean it's it's Michael Jordan. But all right,

766
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 1: all right, you kind of we're good. We started getting

767
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 1: some Lebrons. We did get a lot of Michaels. Of course,

768
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 1: Josh Ferguson was in here and he was from Chicago,

769
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 1: so he had the same Michael. So so it's pretty good.

770
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:16,239
Speaker 1: Last one old town road. Either country or hip hop,

771
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: I would say, I would say country, that exactly. Billy's

772
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: the one who changes. Billy makes a country. Well, Johnny,

773
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:31,880
Speaker 1: I have a man crushed out Joe Webb. That's all

774
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:33,879
Speaker 1: I have to say about Well, for good reason. Joe

775
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:38,279
Speaker 1: is fantastic on radio. He's a fantastic football player, and

776
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 1: I love having him on the team because there's so

777
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 1: much that you can do with him. And I've thought

778
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 1: about this concept at some point. Mark of the players

779
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:51,840
Speaker 1: on the Texans, what player could play every position on

780
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: the field if he had to, If you had to,

781
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 1: which player could play? Yeah? Why? JJ probably could. He

782
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 1: probably could. Look, he helped me work the espresso machine earlier. Okay,

783
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:04,839
Speaker 1: what can do anything? Yeah, that's true. Well, I think

784
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: Joe Webb can do anything too. Yeah, I think I

785
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:08,880
Speaker 1: don't think Joe can play off in the line. But

786
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 1: that's the thing. That's that's the thing about football. Oh

787
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 1: by the way, Okay, here my overtime thing. Yeah. So

788
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: we had the Vander Kid Flag Football League, the Go

789
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 1: Texan it's not a Go Texan league, it's an NFL

790
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 1: Play sixty league. I say, Go Texans. It's Texan flag

791
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 1: Football dot Com down a new territory. So we've been

792
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: fortunate to win this league twice in a row, three

793
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,880
Speaker 1: to the last four, four to the last six. Pretty good. Uh,

794
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 1: same core group of kids to get a lot of fun. Anyway,

795
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:36,400
Speaker 1: great kids. I love coaching them. So we had overtime

796
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 1: yesterday and in flag football for the championship for the

797
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 1: championship zero zero going into overtime, yeah yeah, zero zero.

798
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: So here we are and it's two good teams and

799
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 1: it's great, really high stress. I mean I'm just like,

800
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:54,719
Speaker 1: oh man, the stress. It was awesome, great feeling. So

801
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 1: the overtime rule, it's it's points, yes, but you keep

802
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 1: the ball for four players, so if you get extra yards,

803
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: it's a total number of yards and the points you

804
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 1: get whatever. The other coach took the ball first for

805
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 1: some reason, all right, whatever, So we knew exactly what

806
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 1: we needed. We were able to win the game. But

807
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:13,720
Speaker 1: the point was this, I started thinking if the NFL

808
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: goes to this, all right, each team gets a possession

809
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 1: no matter what, just like everyone wanted to see Kansas

810
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 1: City get a shot out of it in the AFC

811
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 1: shot at it in the AFC Championship game after the

812
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:28,479
Speaker 1: Patriots scored their touchdown. If that happens, would you say,

813
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:30,840
Speaker 1: all right, I'd rather go second. I don't want the

814
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:32,840
Speaker 1: ball right away because I want to see exactly what

815
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 1: I need to do with my possession if a field

816
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 1: goal is acceptable or not. Because if you drive down

817
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 1: the field and you have the ball first and you

818
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 1: have to kick a field goal, you're like, all right,

819
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: I get it. I got to stop them from scoring

820
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 1: a touchdown. But would you rather know or just take

821
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 1: the ball first? Is time still a factor? I think

822
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: it is because as we say this, I remember when

823
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:56,760
Speaker 1: they were floating all this stuff out there, and somehow

824
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:58,839
Speaker 1: this stuff leaks out there, and I think they want

825
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: to get a gauge. They want to here you know,

826
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:03,800
Speaker 1: a big crowd talk about it. Yeah, yeah, crowdsourcing, thank you.

827
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 1: And I think that the talk was around keeping the

828
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 1: overtime at ten minutes, to which I say, all right,

829
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 1: you're keeping it at ten minutes for safety and getting

830
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:15,319
Speaker 1: out of the game quickly purposes. Yet you're having them

831
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 1: play more football because you're giving them an extra possession

832
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 1: if the other team scores a touchdown. You know how

833
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:22,240
Speaker 1: I feel about overtime anyway, it should be sudden death period,

834
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 1: end of story. Next team that scores wins, thank you done.

835
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:28,840
Speaker 1: But it's not going to be that way now in

836
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:31,600
Speaker 1: college when you have that both team gets the ball thing,

837
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 1: there's the clock's not a factor, not a factor at all.

838
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:38,239
Speaker 1: But if the clock is a factor, I want the

839
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 1: ball first. It's like George Springer not as hurt, but

840
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 1: George Springer getting abs as the leadoff guy, he's gonna

841
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:47,360
Speaker 1: get more abs. Yeah, he's gonna get more at bats

842
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: hitting in the in the number one spot. So if

843
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: I get the ball first and in time as a factor,

844
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 1: I get the ball first, I'll get it a third time.

845
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 1: So like in the Colts Texas game, the game four

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Speaker 1: week four, they got the ball first for minute drive,

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Speaker 1: kicked the field goal. We got it back four plus

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Speaker 1: kept it kicked the field goal. I just you're probably

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Speaker 1: I'm just going analytics guy on you. I think the

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Speaker 1: most you'll get his three drives. Well, you going first,

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Speaker 1: we'll get two of them. Yeah, you want to make

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Speaker 1: sure you maximize your possessions. So if time is If

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Speaker 1: time's not the factor, I will always go second. I'll

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Speaker 1: like it, Johnny, Thank you. Mark. That is going to

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Speaker 1: do it for the show tonight. It's been a blast.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to Joe Webb and Julio and Davenport for being

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Speaker 1: on tomorrow. Plenty of talk about the OTAs as Bill O'Brien.

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Speaker 1: We'll get his reaction to practice. We'll hear from several

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Speaker 1: Texans players along the way as well. Big week for

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Speaker 1: us here obviously Memorial Day weekend for you, but you'll

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