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Speaker 1: Well, welcome in everybody. Today Wednesday night ed issue of

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Speaker 1: Texas All Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, John Harrison. I'm sitting next to the voice

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Speaker 1: of the Texans, Mark Van Meermark. They're always every day

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Speaker 1: in this building is good building, a good day, but

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Speaker 1: when there's a practice or there's actual football going on,

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Speaker 1: it's even better day. Well, I'll say this, it's week

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Speaker 1: two of these OTAs. It's a four week process. The

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Speaker 1: final week is minicamp, and I like seeing the improvement

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Speaker 1: how things evolve from week to week. And we saw

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Speaker 1: in certain areas anyway. And like I said last week,

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson getting all these first team reps in OTAs,

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Speaker 1: we mentioned it, first time this franchise quarterback has gotten

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Speaker 1: these first team reps, and the first time that you've

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Speaker 1: had a franchise quarterback getting the first team reps at

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Speaker 1: OTA since twenty sixteen. For this club, it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: so helpful. The seeds planted today will be harvested in September. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's no question. And we'll hear from a number of

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Speaker 1: the particulars. In the next segment here from Bill O'Brien,

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Speaker 1: you'll hear from Dante Foreman, Jumpton, Joseph they went to

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Speaker 1: Jonas for our in lab segment which we went, we

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Speaker 1: went a little bit in the way back machine. Mark

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Speaker 1: because we've got a really cool cool segment segments to

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Speaker 1: right word, we've got a cool thing coming out on

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Speaker 1: Texans dot com, uston Texas dot com, the Texans one

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Speaker 1: hundred Top Moments, and do not. In the lab, we

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Speaker 1: with a few of them that were that were our own,

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Speaker 1: Whether they make the list or not. We're we're not

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Speaker 1: the we're not the full committee, but there are a

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Speaker 1: few that were up there. You didn't talk about some

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Speaker 1: We didn't get into the bubble analysis, not yet anyway

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Speaker 1: to get outside the hundred. Well, that top one hundred list,

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Speaker 1: by the way Organizational moments. So it's not just football stuff.

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Speaker 1: Covers everything covers everything, covers hurricane relief, of ours, things

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Speaker 1: like that. The Texans were heavily involved in as an

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Speaker 1: me too. That's a very good one. That was way

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Speaker 1: and Mark there always as we watch ots and yes,

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Speaker 1: the last play that he's ever gonna play. And there

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Speaker 1: was a play today during OTA's where he thought he

427
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Speaker 1: could have made the play and he was kind of

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Speaker 1: over by us by the sideline. He was kind of like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm marrin. He's just kind of getting upset with himself,

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Speaker 1: and he said, look, I compete. That's what I like

431
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Speaker 1: to do. I'm just being competitive. I like to compete,

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Speaker 1: you know, whether it's in practice in game situations. That's

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Speaker 1: what get me going each and every time I'm out there.

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Speaker 1: I never want to lose a rep, always looking to

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Speaker 1: beat the guy across from me. And you know, at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, just being around a guys

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Speaker 1: in this locker room, being around a game of football,

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Speaker 1: this seve. If there is any lesson that rookies can

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Speaker 1: take from watching the veterans, I think that's it. No

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Speaker 1: matter the rep, no matter when it is, no matter

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Speaker 1: where it is, win that rep. And then when the

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Speaker 1: next one, and when the next one. And look, as

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Speaker 1: Kiki said about scoring every time he touches it, it's impossible.

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Speaker 1: But if you if you think of football in that

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Speaker 1: way and you have that philosophy, no matter what, win

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Speaker 1: the rep. If you do that, as coach and Brian said,

447
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Speaker 1: you starts stacking him together for long. You're gonna be

448
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Speaker 1: a guy that's around an NFL football team for a

449
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Speaker 1: very long time. So, whether it's OTAs or it's training camp,

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Speaker 1: win the rep. I think Jonathan puts it perfectly right there. Now,

451
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Speaker 1: a guy that I know a lot of people in

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Speaker 1: this area are very excited about and should be second

453
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Speaker 1: year guy. I say second year guy third year guy

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Speaker 1: at the University of Texas from trip from Texas City

455
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Speaker 1: is Deonta Foreman and last year. Unfortunately, it was lost

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Speaker 1: year for Gionta because of the Achilles and were worried

457
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Speaker 1: about that because the timing of when the Achilles injury

458
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Speaker 1: happened back in twenty seventeen and then going into twenty

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Speaker 1: eight play in the Philadelphia game, but that was the

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Speaker 1: only game he played, score a touchdown on a reception.

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Speaker 1: But he mentioned in his press conference today, you know,

462
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Speaker 1: I didn't have a great game up to that point,

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Speaker 1: so I don't really remember it too much. But he's

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Speaker 1: still is confident going into twenty nineteen. Hey, I got

465
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Speaker 1: a lot to bring to this team. I'm a confident dude.

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Speaker 1: I know what I can bring and hopefully teammates and

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Speaker 1: coaches find that out in twenty nineteen as well. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've always you know, I've been a guy that, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's very confident in myself and confident in

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Speaker 1: what I could do and what I could bring to

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Speaker 1: the team. So, you know, I'm definitely confident in that. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I guess it's exciting to say that. I feel like

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Speaker 1: my coach isn't you know, are excited about me coming in. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, just the work that I put in the

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Speaker 1: offseason and what I'm putting out there right now. You know,

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Speaker 1: like I said, it's just kind of the beginning. So

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Speaker 1: we got a long way before we get to the season,

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Speaker 1: but you know, it just got to continue. It's that

479
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Speaker 1: good day, the type of good days now throughout all

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Speaker 1: last year, throughout OTAs, throughout training camp, throughout the season,

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Speaker 1: we got asked the question, what about Deante Foreman? How

482
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Speaker 1: does it look? How does he feel? What's going on

483
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Speaker 1: with him? I mean people wanted to ask that question

484
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Speaker 1: every single time we had that forum. Whether it was

485
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Speaker 1: cool or talk, whether it was radio, whether it didn't matter,

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Speaker 1: people wanted to know about Deanta Foreman. So at this

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Speaker 1: point in taste, you tell him her are you feeling?

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Speaker 1: So I was talking to somebody else about that, and

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Speaker 1: I would tell them, like, man, I felt coming into

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Speaker 1: this season or you know this ota, Um, I felt

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Speaker 1: way better than I even felt come and in any

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Speaker 1: season that I had at the University of Texas, possibly

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Speaker 1: even high school. To be honest, I mean, I just

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Speaker 1: I guess, like I said earlier, basically with the injury

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Speaker 1: that I went through, when just ups and dollars I

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Speaker 1: went through, Like you know, when you have an injury

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Speaker 1: like that, early. You know, you can tell that this

498
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Speaker 1: game come and go. You know, like anybody can get injured,

499
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Speaker 1: and you know you could be at your high end

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Speaker 1: and be at the lowest in a split second. So

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Speaker 1: you know, just me being able to understand that, you know,

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to come out and you know, put

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Speaker 1: everything on the line and you know, have a great offseason.

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Speaker 1: We heard from coach O'Brian talking about the rookie still

505
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Speaker 1: have a long way to go. But a couple of

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Speaker 1: rookies stepped up to the podium today to handle some

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Speaker 1: questions from the Houston media for the first time. And

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Speaker 1: let's start with Max Sharping, who has been playing tackle,

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Speaker 1: has been playing guard, He's been playing both sides. He's

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Speaker 1: all over the place. He's versatile. So how does it

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Speaker 1: help him? I mean, I'm just trying to do the

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Speaker 1: best I can. So when I go in there, you

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Speaker 1: know they tell me to go in that guard, tackle, whatever.

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Speaker 1: It's just doing the best I can do it at

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Speaker 1: that And you expected a different answer. That was the

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Speaker 1: answer he was supposed to give, and he gave a

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Speaker 1: good answer. Now, one answer I thought that was very

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Speaker 1: interesting was the difference in playing tackle versus guard. This

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Speaker 1: is pretty interesting, especially coming from a rookie who's played

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Speaker 1: his entire career at NIU. I think minus a few

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Speaker 1: games that guard, he played a right tackle and mostly

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Speaker 1: left tackle. It's a pretty interesting answer to the question

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Speaker 1: of what really is different about it. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: everything just kind of happens quicker inside. You know, you

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Speaker 1: don't have as much space as you do at tackle,

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Speaker 1: so it's just a little bit. Everything happens just a

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Speaker 1: little bit faster. But like I said, I tried to

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Speaker 1: train a little bit. But obviously these guys are pretty good,

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Speaker 1: So I like that last part. These guys are pretty good. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: everybody in the NFL is pretty good. I think Max

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Speaker 1: is finding that out. But the big boy can hold

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Speaker 1: his own. There's no doubt about that. Last guy we're

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Speaker 1: gonna hear from is Well. I'll let him tell you

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Speaker 1: what his first name is. My full first name is

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Speaker 1: Kah and I can handle last name Wearing. That's Kylie

536
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 1: Wearing giving his first name. Now it's not Cayimi's middle name,

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Speaker 1: but was interesting that he was asked that today. Now,

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Speaker 1: both the rookies and the veterans had a chance to

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Speaker 1: hear from Marcus Luttrell who is just an unbelievable speaker,

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Speaker 1: an American hero. He's a guy that's been in this

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Speaker 1: building a number of times. I think he actually was

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Speaker 1: on a team flight one time. And he's just very

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Speaker 1: highly thought of in this building. And the rookies had

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Speaker 1: a chance to hear from him, I believe yesterday or

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Speaker 1: earlier this morning, and the veterans later today. But here's

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Speaker 1: what Kylie had to say about Marcus Latrelle talking to them.

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Speaker 1: It was awesome American hero. He taught us a lot

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Speaker 1: of different things, you know, taught us his story and

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00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,679
Speaker 1: taught us ways that his path can help help us

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Speaker 1: as a football team. Well, Kylie was drafted on Friday night.

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Speaker 1: We were talking to him. I mentioned when I saw him,

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Speaker 1: I thought of Travis Kelsey and I said, look, that's

553
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Speaker 1: that's a mouthful that I see Chivis Kelsey and you.

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Speaker 1: And one of the things that he said back to

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Speaker 1: me was, look, I studied tight end. This is what

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Speaker 1: I do. I really kind of dive in and I

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Speaker 1: study tight ends. There are actually a couple of different

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Speaker 1: guys that he mentioned that he watches to pattern his game.

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Speaker 1: After Yeah, I mean I study tight ends. I watch

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Speaker 1: every single one that I hear about and I study,

561
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 1: and I see what they do well, and I try

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Speaker 1: to do the things that they do well, and that's

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Speaker 1: something helping in my game. So there you go a

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Speaker 1: lot of sound from today's press conference after OTA number five,

565
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Speaker 1: our second opportunity to see the team in action. We'll

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Speaker 1: have another opportunity next week, and then minicamp the week

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Speaker 1: after that, and then the desert, as Mark affectionately calls it,

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Speaker 1: the time frame when coaches and players are all out

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Speaker 1: of the building and we get ready for training camp.

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Speaker 1: I like the desert because to me, when that's over,

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Speaker 1: training camp is here. It's coming soon, people, It's coming

572
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Speaker 1: sooner than you think, coming sooner than you think. Now,

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Speaker 1: it's one hundred anniversary for the NFL this year, and

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Speaker 1: teams shot out the league are doing a celebration using

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Speaker 1: a number one hundred. So we figured we get involved

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Speaker 1: as well, and we came up with a feature that

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Speaker 1: we're calling the Texans Top one hundred Moments, not only

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Speaker 1: on the field, but off the field. What we've done

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Speaker 1: in the community with charity endeavors anything and everything related

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Speaker 1: to the Texans fall into this category. True. Dorty and

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Speaker 1: I on our end of lap podcast decided that well,

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Speaker 1: we were gonna go in the wayback machine and talk

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Speaker 1: about a few of our favorite moments and whether they

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Speaker 1: should make the Texans Top one hundred Moments. We'll do

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Speaker 1: that next right here in Texas All Access. One final

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

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Speaker 1: I am your host, John Harris. Glad to be with

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Speaker 1: you on this Wednesday evening, A beautiful evening. No matter

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Speaker 1: where you are, hopefully you all are safe and sound

590
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Speaker 1: or there was some bad weather that's been going through Oklahoma,

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Speaker 1: I think on into the Panhandle, so you guys be safe.

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Speaker 1: We're thinking about y'all. I know I got some friends

593
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 1: up in Tulsa. I know they've been going through it.

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Speaker 1: So you guys all stay safe. At this time of year,

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Speaker 1: I know it's been really, really tough. I think we've

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Speaker 1: had tornadoes in the US for twelve eight days and

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Speaker 1: it's just it's crazy. So you guys in the Midwest,

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Speaker 1: you guys take care of yourself now. I mentioned in

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Speaker 1: the last segment that we are this year it's one

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Speaker 1: hundredth anniversary of the NFL, and so teams are engaging

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Speaker 1: in Top one hundred moments, players all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: So we decided to get involved with our own, calling

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Speaker 1: it Texans Top one hundred Moments, and Drew, Dorry and

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Speaker 1: I just on our end of Lap podcast, decided to

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Speaker 1: talk about some that matter to us that we think

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Speaker 1: will be in this one hundred, that we'd like to

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Speaker 1: see in the one hundred, and it sort of merged

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Speaker 1: into interlap storytime. Hope you enjoy. Here's Drew and I

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Speaker 1: in Lap today. We're talking about a few and this

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Speaker 1: is here. Let me set the parameters. It's gonna be

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Speaker 1: our remembrance, our personal experience of a few Texans Top

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Speaker 1: one hundred moments. What what's a Texans Top one hundred moment?

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Speaker 1: Oh well, friends, glad you asked here. Pretty soon, in

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Speaker 1: the next week or so, we'll be one hundred days

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Speaker 1: away from the season opener, right Monday Night football. It

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Speaker 1: gets the Saints. And so to celebrate that, in union

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Speaker 1: with the hundredth anniversary of the league, the NFL, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna have a countdown of sorts, you know, one hundred

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Speaker 1: moments in Texans history. Now, it's kind of a nebulous thing.

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Speaker 1: It's just top moments you know, we're not saying it's

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Speaker 1: a definitive ranking my best great ist. Just you know,

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Speaker 1: you're right, it's not really it, right, It's just these

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Speaker 1: were moments that happened that we think were worthy of celebration.

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Speaker 1: And since it's one hundredth year anniversary of the NFL,

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Speaker 1: come up with a hundred. Look we've been we've been

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Speaker 1: an organization since too, well even before that, because I

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Speaker 1: would imagine one of the moments, if not very very

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Speaker 1: high on the list, yeah, happened before any of the

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Speaker 1: football was played, before the Texans name was came into existence. U,

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Speaker 1: there were moments before that. So it covers everything you

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Speaker 1: might see on this list. You might see the celebration

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Speaker 1: of community events, the celebration of Salute the Service Day,

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Speaker 1: which was one of the uh weird I think. I

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Speaker 1: think Bob McNair was the first owner who had come

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Speaker 1: up with that, and it was taken over by the

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Speaker 1: NFL to salute our servicemen. It's kind of all encompasses, right,

637
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Speaker 1: So it covers everything. It's mainly football. I mean, we're

638
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 1: not gonna go overboard. Well, yeah, it's all connected. You know,

639
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 1: forty five of those, you know, it's gonna be mainly

640
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 1: football things. We'll sprinkle in a few stuff like you're

641
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 1: talking about it. But what I want to start with,

642
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to reveal where on the list

643
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 1: it is, but I'm gonna go with the Hopkins touchdown

644
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 1: catch at Cincinnati on Monday Night football in twenty fifteen.

645
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: Texans went into that game. They were underwater. Man, they

646
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 1: were struggling. Two and five. I believe it was there

647
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: were three and five, because it two and five going

648
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: into the Tennessee game right before the break, Okay, And

649
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 1: what I remember about that Tennessee game was Whitney going off.

650
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 1: Whitney had like three and a half sacks that day

651
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: and just sack Zach Mettenberger. All right, I mean it

652
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: was let's not get into that. Guy is the three

653
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 1: and five. That guys the three and five. So the

654
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: Texas are still they're they're still under five hundred by

655
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 1: quite a bit. Bengals are undefeated. It's about mid season,

656
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: and we weren't the Texas. We're not supposed to win

657
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 1: this game, not at all. But then what happens, John,

658
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 1: tell me about what you saw? Well, I was, I

659
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: just remember there's so many different things about that game.

660
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: But I remember, I remember Brian Hoyer sliding. We were down,

661
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 1: we were uh, we were down six to nothing and

662
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 1: Brian Hoyer on a third quarter drive is a good drive.

663
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 1: And Hoyer got a drive going, but on on a

664
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: scramble he slid, and when he slid, he got hit

665
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 1: and he popped right back up and went back to

666
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: the huddle and finished the drive. We kicked the field goal,

667
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: made it six to three, and next thing I know,

668
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 1: Lawyer's going into the locker room and I'm thinking, oh

669
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: my god. The next guy on the list is t

670
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 1: J Yates, and TJ had been in the had been

671
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: back in the building for what three weeks maybe at

672
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: that point he had the bye week. I remember that.

673
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 1: I remember he had the bye weeks, so he'd maybe

674
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 1: been in three weeks because Mallet had been discarded. Yeah,

675
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 1: Mault had been discarded and TJ had come along. So yeah,

676
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 1: you're right, so Mallett was gone. That was after the

677
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 1: Miami game. That's when we went to two and five.

678
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 1: So he had been back for like three weeks. Now.

679
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 1: He had had some experience with it before because he

680
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 1: had been in training camp with the Texans while Bill

681
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: Lebriant was here. I'll never forget his first throw. They

682
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: ran a little mini boot and he rolls to the

683
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 1: right and I swear to you he threw the ball.

684
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 1: It was about a ten yard throw and he threw

685
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 1: the ball five yards just as the dirt and I

686
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: just remember, I remember, you know, I'm always in que

687
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 1: with Mark and so I can. That's become one of

688
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 1: my favorite things to do, is I try and make

689
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 1: them crack up if I can while they're talking. And

690
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 1: I did that last year in a Dallas game. I

691
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: get that in a second, but I just was like,

692
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 1: oh God. And that's all I said, was like okay,

693
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 1: and then it was like this is gonna be a disaster. Well,

694
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: then on the third down, he hit a big throw

695
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 1: to Ryan Griffin for a first down and moved him down.

696
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 1: And then I don't think they scored in that drive,

697
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 1: but they moved it well enough that they got the

698
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: ball back in the fourth quarter. And so they were

699
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: in man coverage, single safety high and hop is right

700
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 1: next to me. He's got pac Man Jones one on one.

701
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: And this was before teams were really putting and devoting

702
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 1: two guys to Hopkins. They should have done it before,

703
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: but Hop runs he runs by his breakout year by

704
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 1: the way he runs by me, and I could just

705
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: tell by the coverage. I knew where TJ was going.

706
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 1: So when TJ backed up, he's holding the safety of

707
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: his eyes and his Hop runs by me. I was like,

708
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: go get it, Hop because I knew it was to him.

709
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 1: And then Yates just lofts it and I just see

710
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: this ball going over and you see it. There's a

711
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 1: picture of me, and I'm just like looking at the ball,

712
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: and Hot makes this catch, And what was fascinating was

713
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:15,440
Speaker 1: my angle. I remember they reviewed it because they want

714
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 1: to see where they got both feet down. What's fascinating

715
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 1: about that catch was when he makes the catch, he

716
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: kind of crails against his body. When he was getting

717
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:25,920
Speaker 1: his feet down in bounds. His right foot was behind

718
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 1: his left, so he'd gotten his left in bounds. But

719
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: when he went to go put his right down, he

720
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 1: clicked it on his left heel and it was like,

721
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 1: oh no, he's not gonna get it down, And then

722
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: he was able to that slowed his foot down, and

723
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:38,399
Speaker 1: so he's able to then just pop it back down

724
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:40,879
Speaker 1: and get the right toe and bounds and make the catch,

725
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: and I happened to see that he's a wizard with stuff.

726
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,360
Speaker 1: I saw that perfectly from like mediu way. I was

727
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 1: not far away. It was maybe five seven yards away,

728
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 1: and I saw that. So Mark throws it down at

729
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 1: me like I was in the mosh pit with the players.

730
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 1: So what happens on Monday Night football is they've got

731
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 1: two rolling cameras on Monday at football when you're on

732
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 1: the road and there's not a money at the game,

733
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: like I have all kinds of room in the sidelines,

734
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 1: like you know what was like, there's all kinds of

735
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,800
Speaker 1: room Monday night football, They've got these the rolling cameras

736
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 1: on both sides. So there was a rolling camera like

737
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:18,840
Speaker 1: down on the goal line. So when Hot makes the catch,

738
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 1: I go nuts, and so I started kind of going

739
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 1: down like I'm celebrating. So I'm looking back at like

740
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 1: at the sidelines, and then I look back and that

741
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 1: rolling thing is like I'm like right up against it,

742
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 1: like I can't I can't really move, and all the

743
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 1: players are coming like into me. So there's like this

744
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 1: big mosh bit and I'm literally like right in the

745
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 1: middle of it, and I'm just going nuts, and I'm

746
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 1: like oh my gosh. And so I'm freaking out and

747
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,399
Speaker 1: Mark throws it down to me and I'm like, oh

748
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 1: my god, I've just like I've lost my voice. I

749
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,319
Speaker 1: don't know what to say. And then I remember, oh

750
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: my god, I saw him get his feeding bounds, and

751
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,319
Speaker 1: so I was able to like transition into that and

752
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 1: say he definitely got his feeding bounds. This is what

753
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: I was. I was five yards away. I tell the

754
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 1: story about how I saw click his feet and bounce.

755
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,880
Speaker 1: Got in the locker room after the game, and it

756
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 1: was it was such a loud it was such a

757
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: joyous locker room. It was really cool, and I was

758
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 1: I was kind of going up and shaking hands to

759
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:14,879
Speaker 1: everybody for the media got in there and I got

760
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,880
Speaker 1: to Dwayne Brown Never Forget, and Dwayne smiled and he

761
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 1: looked at me. He goes, I saw you, bro, And

762
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 1: I was like what, He goes, I saw you celebrating

763
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:25,800
Speaker 1: with us. I was like, oh man, I'm so suchaues no, no, dude,

764
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 1: that was really cool. And I was like, dude, I

765
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 1: got trapped in there and like, oh you guys like

766
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 1: ended up like kind of pinning me up against the

767
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 1: camera basically, and he goes No, dude, I thought it

768
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 1: was really cool that you were in there. So I

769
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,319
Speaker 1: think it was interesting because me, Dwayne I had a

770
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 1: really good relationship years after I had my little freak

771
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,280
Speaker 1: out about him being drafted. But I think that moment

772
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:48,399
Speaker 1: was kind of like this dude really wants us to win,

773
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,359
Speaker 1: like he wants us to win. He's all for us,

774
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:52,319
Speaker 1: and so I think that probably resonated with him. But

775
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,359
Speaker 1: that was the one that I remember that distinctly because

776
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 1: I was able to see that so clearly. It was

777
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,239
Speaker 1: fun because you mentioned how that they were a few

778
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 1: games under five hundred, but two of those losses had

779
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: come in the month before, in a two three weeks

780
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 1: span brutal at Miami at Atlanta where they just got

781
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 1: carpet bombed. I mean they lost something like eighty something

782
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 1: to So I was you talked about being in the

783
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:20,839
Speaker 1: locker room. I was. It felt a lot like in

784
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: the situation was totally different, but it felt and there

785
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 1: were so many similarities to the playoff win excuse me,

786
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 1: the wind to get into the playoffs that had happened

787
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,439
Speaker 1: four years prior to twenty eleven, YEA, and the same

788
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,360
Speaker 1: sort of reactions as these guys were coming off the

789
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 1: field and running into the locker room. I was in

790
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: the same spot both times, and it was just kind

791
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 1: of an incredulity, uh A wonder And it was really

792
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 1: fun to see that because it was so similar. And

793
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 1: both times t J. Yates was the guy under center,

794
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:56,479
Speaker 1: and they were both and neither one of them made

795
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,839
Speaker 1: sense that he was under Neither time made sense. You're right,

796
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 1: and it was. It was just such a fun, fun night.

797
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: And it's it's funny how they've had that situation with

798
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: Cincinnati throughout the years, because then you do the thing

799
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:13,959
Speaker 1: with DeShawn Watson twenty seventeen. I mean, Texans were down, man,

800
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,880
Speaker 1: they had gotten killed the week before, four days before

801
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 1: by Jacksonville, and now you're starting to Shaun Watson. He

802
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: doesn't have any tight ends. I mean you're having a

803
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 1: play guy like offensive lineman at tight end. And he

804
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 1: had that run and ever since, I've never doubted him.

805
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 1: He came into that game in twenty seventeen, he was

806
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 1: he gets on the bus, he's wearing sunglasses, a tuxedo.

807
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: It's a birthday. But since Natty trips have been I've

808
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:42,880
Speaker 1: been pretty pretty memorable. They've always been fun. Okay, Texans

809
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,440
Speaker 1: won there in O nine. This is my experiences. Yep,

810
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 1: they won their A O nine. They won their in eleven,

811
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:49,839
Speaker 1: such a big one there in fifteen, they won their

812
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 1: in seventeen. They've all they've all been fun trips. Yeah,

813
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 1: they've all been yeah, really good trips. I regret that

814
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: I didn't make that that twenty e love wish I

815
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 1: would have been on the silence for that because that

816
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 1: was about to get to the playoffs for the first time.

817
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 1: Let me tell you about though. And they they led

818
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:10,240
Speaker 1: that game for two seconds. It was the final two secons.

819
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:12,319
Speaker 1: It's the only time they led in that entire game.

820
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 1: They were down in it. They're kind of It was

821
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: a comfortable lead for for Cincinnati, and it was late

822
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:21,880
Speaker 1: in the season, and for some reason, Cincinnati did not

823
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 1: sell that game out. There were a lot of empty seats.

824
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 1: It was a gorgeous, chilly day. It was cold, but

825
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: it wasn't awful, but it was sunny. And I remember

826
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 1: I went to I always leave with about six seven

827
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:36,760
Speaker 1: minutes to go in the game from the press box,

828
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 1: come down to the field, and you know me, I'm

829
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:42,320
Speaker 1: semi superstitious. Even though it doesn't matter on the outcome.

830
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: So I come down to the field and that that

831
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 1: final drive starts and I'm about at the twenty and

832
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,399
Speaker 1: they get the ball. They start marching down the field

833
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 1: and I just stay in the same spot. So I

834
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:57,319
Speaker 1: kind of have this odd perspective. The throw that TJ

835
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 1: made to Owen Daniels and the catch Owen Daniels made,

836
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 1: it's a one handed grab. My vantage point of it

837
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 1: it was it was an amazing catch by OD because

838
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 1: it was a one handed grab. He's in traffic, he's

839
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 1: got a guy draped all over him. I mean, he

840
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 1: hauls it in and it was so bang bang because

841
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 1: it was a two minute drive that there wasn't a

842
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,759
Speaker 1: lot of replays on it, but the image I was

843
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 1: looking right up the field at it. It was such

844
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:26,919
Speaker 1: a great catch. And then TJ has the run where

845
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 1: he kind of he looks like a drunk guy at

846
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 1: times in that run and he scrambles gets the first down,

847
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:36,840
Speaker 1: and the whole time the crowd keeps getting loud, and

848
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 1: then he keeps silencing him because like he keeps they

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Speaker 1: keep making plays. Right, they get a PI. Jacoby Jones

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Speaker 1: draws a PI that gets him in position, and then

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Speaker 1: it's funny. I've got the picture of the touchdown up

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Speaker 1: on my office wall and a couple of different versions

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Speaker 1: of it. TJ came into my office about a month

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Speaker 1: or two ago. He was he saw that and he's like,

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Speaker 1: you know, on the throw before, that should have been

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Speaker 1: a pick six the other way and it should have

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Speaker 1: killed us. He was throwing to the right side, and

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Speaker 1: he said, right as he was unleashing, he slipped and

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Speaker 1: the ball did what you talked about and did the

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Speaker 1: you groaned into the queue. Yeah, it skipped away. You know,

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Speaker 1: it hit the dirt before. But he said, had had

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Speaker 1: he thrown it, thrown it the way it should have

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Speaker 1: been thrown, patn and Jones would have taken it six

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Speaker 1: the other way. So that happens, and then he hits

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Speaker 1: Walter for the touchdown, and it was just it was

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Speaker 1: so weird how it would roar and get quiet, roar

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Speaker 1: and get quiet. It was. It ebbed and flowed and

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Speaker 1: they didn't even have a full crowd there. And then

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Speaker 1: the Texans go in. They watched Drew Brees and the

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Speaker 1: Saints take care of the Titans to fully clinch it.

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Speaker 1: It was a fun day. It was a fun time.

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Speaker 1: If There's one moment I wish I had been on

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Speaker 1: the sidelines for, Actually wish I would have been in

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Speaker 1: the locker room. It was that one the twenty eleven

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Speaker 1: that went over Cincinnati. There have been some great wins

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Speaker 1: since then, but that one over Cincinnati is one I

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Speaker 1: wish I would have been in the locker room for

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Speaker 1: it to be there for the first time and they

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Speaker 1: had done it with TJ and the way that they

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Speaker 1: did it, I mean it is. It's funny how t

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Speaker 1: J Yates, assistant football coach for this team now, is

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Speaker 1: involved in so many of those those moments. And there's

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Speaker 1: more too. Our in Lab podcasts. You want to go

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Speaker 1: check it out, go to our app Houston Texas dot Com,

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Speaker 1: go to our Twitter. However, you know how to get

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Speaker 1: it and get it you guys probably know better than

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Speaker 1: I do, but go check out in the Lab podcast.

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Speaker 1: We had a really good time with that one, and

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Speaker 1: we've had some really good ones lately, so go check

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Speaker 1: it out. Drew Doherty and I are in the Lab.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys being here tonight. Got to thank the

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Speaker 1: players and coaches who all contributed sound from Today to

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Speaker 1: Mark to Drew, all of you listening. Thank you so much,

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Speaker 1: we'll see tomorrow and as always, go Texans.