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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, and welcome to the program. We're in the

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Speaker 1: Hunday Texans Radio studio, Mark Vandermayer and John Harris with

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Speaker 1: you on the first day of offseason work for your Texans.

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Speaker 1: They got back in the building today. You've seen it

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Speaker 1: on the social media channels. Go to Texans Twitter check

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Speaker 1: it out. I've probably retweeted a few things that they've

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Speaker 1: getting to work conditioning. More videos coming out of seeing

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Speaker 1: football season, which before you know it will be here.

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Speaker 1: Johnny as it's exciting we've seen players here. I think

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Speaker 1: they've had I hate to say record numbers, although I'm

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Speaker 1: probably right if I do say it, record numbers of

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Speaker 1: and in the start of off season conditioning, which gets

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Speaker 1: to happen a week earlier because of the coaching change.

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Speaker 1: But the guys showed up today in force the maximum

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of guys. Yeah, it's a lot of guys,

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Speaker 1: and that's good. I mean, we're gonna take attendance gonna

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Speaker 1: get into that whole thing. Well, is this guy here?

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Speaker 1: Is that guy here? Look? I told the story Drew earlier.

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Speaker 1: I remember I was coaching. I had a kid who

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Speaker 1: So there fall over and I was like, his name

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Speaker 1: was Bubbo. I was like, Bubbo, you don't need to

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Speaker 1: trust you you're gonna be doing the work. I said,

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Speaker 1: if you show up the training camp fall camp out

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Speaker 1: of shape, I just won't hand you the football. I

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Speaker 1: know you want the ball, right, Yeah, I'm not giving

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Speaker 1: it to you. If you're gonna show up out of shape, Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: lo behold. I let him work out. Basically, I said,

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Speaker 1: when you can get in, when you're doing baseball and

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sweat because I was making a mandatory

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Speaker 1: He went for over a thousand yards. He was tremendous.

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Speaker 1: But how did the rest of the players react when

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Speaker 1: he wasn't there? Was it okay? Because Bubbo was special? Yes,

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Speaker 1: Because not only was Bubba special, they understood how he

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Speaker 1: would have their backsides had they not been there. Oh,

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Speaker 1: so he would. He was one of those guys. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he was in Alpha Alpha. He did say a whole lot,

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Speaker 1: but it was just his demeanor. He was like five

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Speaker 1: they were like, and they're gonna cross anybody that wasn't

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Speaker 1: said this to Drew. Also, you know, Bill Parcels, you

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Speaker 1: You don't treat Lawrence Taylor is the same way you're

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Speaker 1: You're just not going to you and you shouldn't um.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying to Miko's doing that or not,

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Speaker 1: but everybody's you know, for those are panicking who's not here. Look,

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Speaker 1: they're all kinds of reasons for guys not being here. Whatever.

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Speaker 1: Because I have to do a show tonight and I

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Speaker 1: can I have lunch with you? I think Case would

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Speaker 1: have been fine with it. He would have been like, whatever, yeah, sure,

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Speaker 1: Case goes back multiple eras in this organization, you know, true? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So with the Kubiakian era. I had some association with

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Speaker 1: that goes. In fact, Demko met with the media today,

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Speaker 1: They are entitled to thirty visits with draftable players, and

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Speaker 1: of course everybody wanted to talk about the quarterbacks, but

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Speaker 1: athletes involved in that equation as well. With the thirty

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Speaker 1: visits with not only with the quarterbacks, but with every

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Speaker 1: It's a time for us to get them in our building,

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Speaker 1: And you know, been happy with the thirty visits. We

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Speaker 1: getting to know these guys throughout the process. In the

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Speaker 1: So we're excited as coaches. We're excited to have the

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Speaker 1: how we organize the offseason. It starts just with first

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Speaker 1: So we will continue to be player focused and it's

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Speaker 1: And that's why our focus will be this offseason. The

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Speaker 1: But I know right after that was over, right, it's

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Speaker 1: You know, it's it's a lot of work and it's

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Speaker 1: it's great having a lot of really good people to

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Speaker 1: everybody's input has been valuable to me a right to

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Speaker 1: ready to pick. A rebuilding situation. You have some foundational

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Speaker 1: the quarterback questions from his inaugural press conference. He has

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Speaker 1: handled this stuff very well. Yeah, absolutely, I love it.

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Speaker 1: I Mean it's like old school Wonder Woman where he

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Speaker 1: just you know, with the bracelets and he just like wow,

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Speaker 1: or you felt like six inches tall for asking the question.

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Speaker 1: But the Miko handles it and just we're not going

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Speaker 1: to talk about that. We're not going to give up

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Speaker 1: draft strategy, and you can't glean any hints from anything

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Speaker 1: he's saying, like, no, oh he said this, Okay, what

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Speaker 1: does that? No, he doesn't give you those either. So

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Speaker 1: what they're looking for, they're looking for the headline Johnny, Yes, click, clickbait, headline, porn,

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Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it. Does not rule out trading.

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Speaker 1: He didn't do anything that would provoke that sort of headline.

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Speaker 1: There is nothing where you're like, and as a media member,

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Speaker 1: you're kind of there's a party that's frustrated. But yet

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Speaker 1: when you're in there with him, you kind of feel like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's answering my question with sincerity, and he's discussing what

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Speaker 1: I've asked him. Yeah, he won't talk about the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: But in some sense you shouldn't be upset about that.

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Speaker 1: He's not gonna give you draft strategy. Okay, Look, here's

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Speaker 1: and I hope he doesn't, but I understand you got

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Speaker 1: to ask questions. The quarterback's most important position. It's been

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Speaker 1: playing New Orleans at home. You got Tampa Bay and

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Speaker 1: Carolina on the road. Now you're playing the Tampa base

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Speaker 1: Come here, I'm sorry. Tampa Bay is at home, Carolina

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Speaker 1: is Carolina, and Atlanta. Did I say Atlanta at home?

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Speaker 1: So now I said Arizona at home, Atlanta at Atlanta's

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Speaker 1: on the road, Charlotte or Carolinas in road? Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: it's the first ever visit to Mercedes ben Stadium. Is

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Speaker 1: that the entire NFC South? You're playing the entire NFC South. Well,

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Speaker 1: Carolinas at one, Atlanta is at eight, New Orleans would

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Speaker 1: have been at ten, Tampa Bay is at nineteen. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay three three NFC South. So you got three

435
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Speaker 1: of the NFAC South in the top ten, three of

436
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Speaker 1: the AFC South at the top ten, and Tampa Bay

437
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Speaker 1: right down. What kind of team are they? Without tellings?

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Speaker 1: So my point is this at Devin White could be traded.

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Speaker 1: On paper, the schedule looks like it's gonna have a

440
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Speaker 1: lot of games where, hey, you should be competitive in

441
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Speaker 1: these games and who knows what happens in the press quarter.

442
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Speaker 1: Yet a lot of games like that last year unable

443
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Speaker 1: to close out? Are you going to be able to

444
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Speaker 1: close out those games this year? Because on an upcoming show,

445
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Speaker 1: I want to do Texans starting lineup as we see

446
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Speaker 1: it today and how many slots are up for grabs

447
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Speaker 1: and are going to be filled by draft choices or whatever.

448
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Speaker 1: Now sometimes injuries too, because an old lineman goes out,

449
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Speaker 1: you have to put another guy in who might not

450
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Speaker 1: have been a projected starter. You get my drift there,

451
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Speaker 1: but I find that interesting as well. How many new

452
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Speaker 1: starters are in the lineup for twenty twenty three for

453
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Speaker 1: this team? I think you'll have one at quarterback. I

454
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Speaker 1: think you'll have one at wide receiver eventually. I think

455
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Speaker 1: you'll have one on the offensive line eventually. That's three

456
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Speaker 1: tight end. No, I think TQ starts and then well

457
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Speaker 1: and in Dalton Schultz, I think you got Schultz TQ.

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Speaker 1: I do think a tight end will be part of

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Speaker 1: the offense. Ye a new rookies, and I think you

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Speaker 1: could call him a new starter. But I think you

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Speaker 1: could have an edge. So that's one. On defense, I

462
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Speaker 1: think interiors good. I think maybe linebacker, but I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to. I wish I could put a one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent truth Saramon Nick and ask him how much

465
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Speaker 1: did the Perraman was watching Pairman yesterday. I gotta tell

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Speaker 1: straighter coming out. I got to tell straighters coming out

467
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Speaker 1: on the free agents that we did that we signed,

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Speaker 1: so I do. So far, I've done Denzel Perriman, Dalton Schultz,

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Speaker 1: Jimmy ward Son, Ridgeway, Sheldon Rankins, and a two fur

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Speaker 1: on Devin Singletary back to back plays after he did

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Speaker 1: the dive into the telestrator footage, who did you get

472
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Speaker 1: more excited? He? The play that I ended up doing

473
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Speaker 1: was early on against the Broncos, and they run kind

474
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Speaker 1: of his counterflip play, so they run motion away and

475
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Speaker 1: then it's the play Derreck Henry scored the seventy five

476
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Speaker 1: yard or on us in seventeen member. We throw the

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Speaker 1: interception and he goes on third and short and we're

478
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Speaker 1: all running one way and he goes the other, and

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Speaker 1: it's you know, it's that play. Perriman sees it from

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Speaker 1: jump and then you see speed. They're like, whoa like

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Speaker 1: speed for a TfL that. I came out of there

482
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Speaker 1: probably more excited about Pairman than than anybody else. But

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Speaker 1: I love the interior guys. But I think if you

484
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Speaker 1: add perm and Pairman's can stay healthy. With Christian Harris,

485
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Speaker 1: You've still got Christian Kirksey, You've got Wallow, you got

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Speaker 1: handsOn Um Littleton is added to the linebacker group. I

487
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Speaker 1: don't know that you you're gonna get a start there,

488
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Speaker 1: but if you got ten picks, you're probably gonna draft

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Speaker 1: a linebacker because hes gonna help you on special teams too.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that guy starts right away. And

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Speaker 1: I think in the secondary, I think gets on lock.

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Speaker 1: I think with Jimmy Ward, jay Ley Petrie, Stingley Nelson.

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Speaker 1: I think right now it's good. So I think you

494
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Speaker 1: could have I think you could have one, potentially two

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Speaker 1: on defense, rookies, rookies, new players. So that's different because

496
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Speaker 1: I think you could have rank and start um. I

497
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Speaker 1: think Winevich could maybe end up starting. I think Perriman's

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Speaker 1: gonna end up starting, Jimmy Ward's gonna end up starting.

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Speaker 1: So I think you could have We're to five different players,

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Speaker 1: but I think rookie wise, I think you're gonna have

501
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Speaker 1: more rookie starting on the offense, new players, new rookie

502
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Speaker 1: starting the offense, and you want defense. Last year was

503
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Speaker 1: defense was Petriots, Stingley, Christian Harris, it was the guys inside.

504
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Speaker 1: So I think this year it's gonna flip. I think

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Speaker 1: you see more on the offense. Aside, by the way,

506
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Speaker 1: Steven Nelson is a video on social media that's doing

507
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Speaker 1: very well of him and his pig at the rodeo. Right,

508
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Speaker 1: good for you, And our digital team is very upset

509
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Speaker 1: because all the analytics they have and everything, and then

510
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Speaker 1: you have Steven Nelson with a pig doing well at

511
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Speaker 1: the rodeo on a video. So there's that. I could

512
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Speaker 1: have told them that though that pigs, puppies, and babies

513
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Speaker 1: equal high numbers. That's how you have to look at

514
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Speaker 1: it all. Right, coming up, we've got more conversation. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna go around the league in our last segment here,

516
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Speaker 1: Johnny's to stick around for that. But let's catch up

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Speaker 1: with some media members as we've been doing. We caught

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Speaker 1: up with Big Sargeant Jonathan Alexander. But Kim Davis comes

519
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Speaker 1: up today. Used to do broadcasting for the Comets, covered

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Speaker 1: the oilers back in the day. She doesn't look like it.

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Speaker 1: She covers the tech sans now. She does a daily

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Speaker 1: show called choc Talk. Let's get to her and get

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Speaker 1: to know her and her thoughts on these Texans coming

524
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Speaker 1: up here on Texans Radio. It's Texans Radio. Okay. We've

525
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Speaker 1: been doing this series where we get to know members

526
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Speaker 1: of the Texans media. Let's get to know Kim Davis.

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Speaker 1: She has worked for numerous outlets in the Houston area

528
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Speaker 1: TV stations, radio stations, daily sports Talk, lived in other

529
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Speaker 1: parts of the country doing different things in sports media.

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Speaker 1: Has a daily show called chok Talk and also covered

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Speaker 1: the Comments back in the day. She was in the

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Speaker 1: broadcast booth for the Comments who won the first four

533
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Speaker 1: WNBA championships, so she covers the Texans on a daily basis.

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Speaker 1: Let's get into it with her, starting out with the comments.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to the rest of the Kim Davis

536
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Speaker 1: conversation on a vanderpod podcast coming up this week, but

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Speaker 1: let's start out with Van Chancellor's comments and what that

538
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 1: was like to cover them. It was amazing. I did

539
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,199
Speaker 1: the broadcast with two years and then I left and

540
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Speaker 1: went to New Orleans. But the games was sold out.

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Speaker 1: You got seventeen thousand fans. It was a family event.

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Speaker 1: People were on their feet the entire time. The team

543
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Speaker 1: won the first four championships. Right, I got to cover

544
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 1: two championships, so the Ryl Slups and the Cynthia's Coopers

545
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 1: and Tina Thompsons and then the whole Kim Parade story. Right. Yeah.

546
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Speaker 1: City was really drawn to this organization, and I'm amazed

547
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Speaker 1: now with people who covered the Rock the comments, We're like,

548
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Speaker 1: how can this team? How can this city not have

549
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Speaker 1: a w NBA team? It was electrifying, Right, It was

550
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Speaker 1: just it was fun and it was such good basketball,

551
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 1: but a fun time, a fun a fun team to cover,

552
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Speaker 1: and just fun to be in the city for that.

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Speaker 1: All right, Before I ask you some texts and stuff.

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Speaker 1: What's more fun? And you're not pandering if you answer

555
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Speaker 1: at this correctly, But what's more fun? Radio or television?

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Speaker 1: Kim go So, Actually, for me, it's radio because I

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Speaker 1: get to have whole conversations. I mean, you know, I'm

558
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Speaker 1: making a TV newscast, I may have two minutes. The

559
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Speaker 1: real estate is just not that big. So unless I'm

560
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Speaker 1: doing a talk show, which I did that also at

561
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Speaker 1: Channel eleven with Giff Nelson and those guys at the

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Speaker 1: end of The Texans, you know, era Math, the Texans,

563
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Speaker 1: the Oilers era. So I enjoy that, but I like

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Speaker 1: having conversations. So radio is a lot of fun. Yeah, So,

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Speaker 1: good answer. That's the right answer, ladies and gentlemen. Excellent.

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Speaker 1: All right, So let's zoom it into the Texans now, Kim, Kim,

567
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Speaker 1: David's with us. What about Demiko, Ryan's head coach. We've

568
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,200
Speaker 1: seen him speak a few times, hasn't coached a game

569
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Speaker 1: yet for this franchise, but we've seen him play before.

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Speaker 1: We know a lot about him. Your thoughts on Demiko's

571
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Speaker 1: version of The Texans so far? So so far, it's exciting,

572
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Speaker 1: you know, I think it allows us, allows us to

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Speaker 1: cover the team as well as fans to be hopeful.

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Speaker 1: He's just got this energy about him and he has

575
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Speaker 1: a player and he has it as a coach, and

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Speaker 1: you can't help but really be drawn to him. The

577
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Speaker 1: reality is, we know that people are waiting to see.

578
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 1: We're excited now, but what's it gonna look like on

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Speaker 1: the field? And so I often tell people I think

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Speaker 1: it's a step in the right direction, Like I'm excited

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Speaker 1: about Demiko, but don't have super super lofty expectations because

582
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Speaker 1: this team is still rebuilding and it's gonna take a minute.

583
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 1: Expect that they're to be progress, but don't expect something miraculous.

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Speaker 1: That way, you're not disappointed right when they're not playing

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Speaker 1: for the ac AFC Championship next year. Well, I'm sure

586
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Speaker 1: everybody asks you who are they going to take in

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Speaker 1: the draft, right because they ask me this, and I

588
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: ask everybody this, Like your thoughts? How do you answer

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Speaker 1: the question? Anyway? Because I know people approach you all

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Speaker 1: the time, Kim, You're always there. You must know something now,

591
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Speaker 1: But what are your thoughts of what they might do?

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Speaker 1: So what I say is I'm just honest, I have

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Speaker 1: no idea, right and anybody who tells you otherwise, I

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Speaker 1: think they're not telling the truth. Matt, maybe you know

595
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Speaker 1: because you're a lot closer, But I don't think we know.

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Speaker 1: I think we don't know, and I'm okay with not

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Speaker 1: knowing as long as whatever choice they make the right one,

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Speaker 1: you know, And I even I don't even know that

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Speaker 1: they're definitely going to take a quarterback. I don't know

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Speaker 1: that we know that for sure. You know. I think

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Speaker 1: that they're going to that. Nigg and Demiko are set

602
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 1: down and they have a vision for what it takes

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Speaker 1: to move this team forward now the challenges and a

604
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Speaker 1: lot of fans and media vote have their vision of

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Speaker 1: what they think the answer is. But they've got to

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Speaker 1: be committed to whatever their roadmap is. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what that is. I would think it's probably a quarterback,

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Speaker 1: but I just I wouldn't bet anything on it. So

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm as excited and as anxious about

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Speaker 1: this draft as the next person. I think Demiko handles

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Speaker 1: these questions really well, and we just were at a

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Speaker 1: press conference recently where he had to handle more about

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Speaker 1: what they might decide to do. What the strategy is

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Speaker 1: and the draft and he's not having any of that.

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Speaker 1: I think he handles himself pretty well for a rookie

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Speaker 1: head coach, and clearly he's had some media experience as

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Speaker 1: a player as an assistant coach. But your thoughts on

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Speaker 1: that and also some other coaches that you've been around,

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Speaker 1: because I know, doing what you do, Kim, you have

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Speaker 1: to evaluate how coaches are in front of the camera.

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Speaker 1: You have to evaluate this in a different way than

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Speaker 1: a lot of people because you're a professional evaluator and

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Speaker 1: a media coach. Yeah. So I think Demiko does a

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Speaker 1: great job. He's comfortable with himself, right, He's comfortable. He

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Speaker 1: has a level of integrity that I think shows through

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Speaker 1: and he's authentic, so it's easy to be yourself. That's

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Speaker 1: what I get from him when I see him at

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Speaker 1: the podium and he says, listen, we're not going to

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Speaker 1: talk about draft strategy. And you know how we do

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Speaker 1: in the media, three or four people will ask him

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Speaker 1: the same question a different way and he still says,

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Speaker 1: very politely but very honestly, we're just not going to

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Speaker 1: talk about our draft strategy. And I think he does it.

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Speaker 1: He handles it really well, you know, I have had

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Speaker 1: a chance to cover some coaches throughout my career. I

636
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 1: mean I covered Jerry Glanville, right, But you know, one

637
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: of my all time favorites was Buddy Ryan. I got

638
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: a chance to cover him when he was defensive coordinator

639
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 1: of the Oilers, and back then we had a lot

640
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: more access, right, So I would sit around and sometimes

641
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 1: with Buddy after practice and we talked, right, so a lot.

642
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 1: You know, I got to learn a lot from guys

643
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 1: like a Buddy Ryan. And in fact, until he got ill,

644
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 1: he used to send me Christmas cards every year, like

645
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: he was one of my favorite people. So having a

646
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 1: chance to sit with people like that and talk about

647
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 1: defense and how they kind of started this whole what

648
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 1: really is was a three four or four three and

649
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 1: learning from a person who has to implement it, you

650
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: just had a different I had a different appreciation for it,

651
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: you know, covering guys like one Moon and listen, I

652
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: covered the Oilers with John McLean. I'm not as old

653
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: as him, but I told this story. When I covered

654
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 1: the Oilers, they were down Holly Hall was where the

655
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 1: practice field was and we practice cover practice and if

656
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 1: I had to go use the restroom. There was no

657
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: media restroom or ladies rooms. Somebody to walk me into

658
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 1: the locker room, stand outside the door and I go

659
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 1: into the restroom. That was how it was back then, right.

660
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 1: There was none of this fancy ladies room stuff, which

661
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 1: I do appreciate. But we've come a long way. We've

662
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 1: come a long way, indeed, all right, So help me

663
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 1: out with this one, Kim, because I have young people

664
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: approaching me all the time who want to get into

665
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: the business, they want to excel, they want to have

666
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 1: a career. And sometimes people write but not really do

667
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 1: the on air thing very well, or maybe don't have

668
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: as much of an interest. Do you feel like writing

669
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 1: is not dead exactly? Because it's not dead, but how

670
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 1: has it changed? You have to be more of a

671
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 1: I don't know, jack of all trades more than ever.

672
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 1: Right when you get into this business, you do. But

673
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 1: I still think that writing is the key to everything,

674
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 1: right because if you think about it, if you look

675
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: at somebody that you like on television and you're like, oh,

676
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: I like Bill Work, what you really probably like is

677
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 1: the way they've written that story. Right, They've told the story.

678
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 1: If it's TV, they put some they put the right

679
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: pictures and the elements with it to tell the story.

680
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: If you are a good storyteller, I still think that

681
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: Trump's everything else. You can learn how to talk to

682
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:12,359
Speaker 1: the camera and fix your hair and what to wear,

683
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 1: but being a storyteller, I mean, think about it. Bryant Gumble,

684
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 1: who's one of the greats. He started in news. He

685
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:21,399
Speaker 1: started telling stories when you had five minutes to tell

686
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 1: a story in a newscast, which is a whole like

687
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: two segments of a show now, because he was such

688
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 1: a great storyteller. So I encourage people to be one,

689
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:32,799
Speaker 1: to be good students of what they want to do.

690
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:34,959
Speaker 1: Where you want to talk about sports or something else,

691
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 1: So you need to read a lot. You need to

692
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 1: pay attention and find somebody who's work you like and

693
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 1: try to figure out what it is you like about

694
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 1: it and become a good writer and producer because the

695
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 1: other things you can learn. I love that you've brought

696
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: up Briant Gumble because people see him on Real Sports

697
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: still on HBO, but a lot of people don't realize

698
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 1: what he's done in this business. But Kim, give me

699
00:34:57,920 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 1: two or three of your other heroes and no to

700
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 1: to the order, who who pops into your mind as

701
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 1: heroes in the business of yours. So there's a guy

702
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 1: that I really liked, and his name is Bill Rodan's.

703
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 1: He was a columnist for the New York Times, right,

704
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 1: and got a chance to, you know, meet Bill early

705
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: in my career, and I just really respected his work

706
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: and his ability to tell stories and kind of breakthrough.

707
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: So I always really liked him a lot. Obviously. I

708
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 1: not obviously, but I liked Robin Roberts. I knew Robin

709
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:33,280
Speaker 1: when she was on the sports side, and I actually

710
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: had a chance to meet her a few times as

711
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,839
Speaker 1: a sportscaster. So I liked and respected the work of

712
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 1: like a Robin Roberts. And I mean, I'm an Oprah fan, right,

713
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 1: I think just managed the way that she tells stories

714
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,839
Speaker 1: and interviews people. And then my last one, I would

715
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 1: have to say as a Barbara Walters, because I like

716
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:58,840
Speaker 1: interviews and I think you when you can have organic

717
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:01,319
Speaker 1: conversations with Pete, well, you get so much more out

718
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: of than your audience wins. You're fascinated. They don't feel

719
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 1: even if you're asking them tough questions. If you're good

720
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: at it and you're fair, they're okay. With it. So

721
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:15,800
Speaker 1: those are people that I really like. I love them all.

722
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: I mean, Robin made the crossover into news and the

723
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:23,919
Speaker 1: morning show broadcasting so well. And I mean, over Mark,

724
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,960
Speaker 1: you can do news, Come on, we can. It's true.

725
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 1: It's true. We don't have to do work on scripts, right,

726
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:33,839
Speaker 1: we don't have scripts. And you know how you can

727
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: tell when there's a disaster of sorts and then a

728
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 1: sports person has to go live for a continuous time.

729
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 1: They're way better at it than some of the news

730
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 1: people who just read the telepropter. That's all I'm gonna

731
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 1: say about that, all right, Kim, a couple more, Give

732
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 1: me a couple of your favorite athletes to cover or

733
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,840
Speaker 1: just to be around. And it doesn't have to be

734
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,359
Speaker 1: the best because people ask me. You know, Demiko Ryans,

735
00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:59,399
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it was the best player the Texans ever,

736
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 1: hat he's one of them, right, He's definitely one of

737
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:03,879
Speaker 1: my all time favorites. And I would have said that

738
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: before he got hired. I'm not just pandering right now,

739
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 1: although if he's listening, that's probably beneficial to me. But

740
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:13,320
Speaker 1: you tell them so I will tell you. I really

741
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 1: enjoyed covering a Kimo La Juan he was. I think

742
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: that those of us who lived in the city when

743
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: he played here and who covered him, you almost take

744
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,480
Speaker 1: for granted how good he was. But I like covering

745
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:29,360
Speaker 1: him because it was really the conversations we had outside

746
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 1: of sports. Like we'd sit around sometime and he talked

747
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 1: to me about Islam, right, and and why he felt

748
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:41,239
Speaker 1: the way he did and how he moved, and he

749
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 1: wanted me to understand it, but he was never trying

750
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 1: to convert me, right, So we would have these really

751
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 1: thought provoking conversations. So he was one of my favorites

752
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 1: to cover. Let's see you cash, There's so many, you know,

753
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 1: I'll go with the Texans. One of the guys I

754
00:37:55,719 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 1: always really like to cover is Jonathan Joseph Right. One

755
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 1: of my favorites because he understood the game in a

756
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 1: way that he and he articulated it in a way

757
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 1: that made it easy for the audience to understand. And

758
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 1: when loser draw, he was always the same level of

759
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:19,240
Speaker 1: professionalism and so I really really enjoyed that about him.

760
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: And then you know, with the Astros, one of the

761
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: guys that I always really enjoyed covering was Kevin Bass.

762
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:29,359
Speaker 1: Really dating myself now, oh yeah, Kevin Bass was just

763
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,879
Speaker 1: you know great. I mean, I think about it. I've

764
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:34,880
Speaker 1: covered some of these guys, now Kevin is not, but

765
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,320
Speaker 1: even like a Warren Moon, who's a Hall of Famer,

766
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 1: like covering guys like that who wanted a level but

767
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 1: always showed up in a way that was respectful in

768
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 1: genuine I appreciate that there's a lot of guys that

769
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 1: are talented, but they're not all that forthcoming. Well, Kevin's

770
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 1: been such a great visit and I really enjoyed it.

771
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 1: Look forward to seeing you around around campus here with

772
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,919
Speaker 1: the Hey, these next few weeks will be exciting. Thank

773
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 1: you for having me, and I look forward to seeing

774
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 1: you around campus too. All right, there's our visit with

775
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 1: Kim Davis. Kim y Davis dot com is her website.

776
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 1: You can check out her work there as a media

777
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 1: coach as a sports journalist, and she does such great

778
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 1: work covering the Texans on a daily basis. All right,

779
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 1: coming out, Johnny and I go around the NFL as

780
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:24,760
Speaker 1: it pertains to your Texans. What's the latest, it's Texans Radio.

781
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 1: Oh man, what a healthy show we've had here tonight.

782
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: Lots of great talk and running out of show, Johnny.

783
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 1: So let's go. You are preparing a draft guide, and

784
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:36,320
Speaker 1: among other things, in that draft guide, you will list

785
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 1: the priorities, yeah, for each team in thirty two teams.

786
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 1: I think one of the things I love to do

787
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 1: this a little different from others, Like I know my

788
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:45,800
Speaker 1: buddy Dave Bruder will put together what he calls the Beast,

789
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,320
Speaker 1: and that's just all the prospects. But one thing a

790
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:49,840
Speaker 1: lot of people don't do is they don't do the

791
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:53,800
Speaker 1: actual team needs, which I think is hugely important, hugely important.

792
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 1: I mean it's massively important. So what I've done is

793
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:59,239
Speaker 1: I've come up with a sheet, basically one page for

794
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 1: each team. Here's who's on a depth chart right now,

795
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna go and color coded like these are

796
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:08,839
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl type players, these are key acquisitions. And then

797
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 1: the prospects that they could be looking at those at

798
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 1: those particular positions trying to match up. Here's who's already there.

799
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:16,520
Speaker 1: Here's like tight ends. Okay, they got a couple of

800
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:19,880
Speaker 1: tight ends, but they're more move tight ends. I'm gonna

801
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna project them some hy tight ends, et cetera.

802
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 1: So all on that one page is everything you would

803
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 1: need to know about that particular team. Um, that's gonna

804
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,720
Speaker 1: be my draft guide hopefully coming out. I just happened

805
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:31,839
Speaker 1: to lose the entire AFC South today after I put

806
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:34,239
Speaker 1: in hours of work, But you still know it. I

807
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 1: still know it. It's all up here, But you know

808
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 1: that's only helpful for me on draft night. You're like

809
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 1: Mozart writing it down his secondary although if he hadn't

810
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 1: written it down, then we wouldn't know about Mozart. But Johnny,

811
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 1: the Texans top priority other than quarterback? What did you list?

812
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:51,359
Speaker 1: What are you going to list in your draft? So

813
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 1: if you if you want to hear my draft guide

814
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 1: for the Texans quarterback, it's high priority. So I've kind

815
00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 1: of had high, mid, low, right quarterback priority. What else

816
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 1: is high priority? Running wide receiver's high. Yeah, I think

817
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 1: that the offensive line is low, but center is very high. Okay,

818
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:12,799
Speaker 1: so I gave it a low and I said minus center,

819
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 1: center is high. I think getting an edge player is

820
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 1: absolutely and I do think there's some depth there, but

821
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of playing experience beyond your top

822
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: three guys. What about the Jaguars, what is their top

823
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 1: priority in this draft? They have the quarterback. They have

824
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:29,760
Speaker 1: so many things hard. This is really really hard. I

825
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 1: I think I was gonna put receiver, but then Calvin Ridley.

826
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:35,359
Speaker 1: They made the deal for Calvin Riddle. Last year they

827
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,840
Speaker 1: lost Marvin Jones. That lose Marvin Jones. They got a

828
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: bunch of number two's they need number one. But I

829
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:43,320
Speaker 1: felt like, you know, beyond Evan Ingram, tight end was

830
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:46,399
Speaker 1: still in need. And I think offensive line, they lost

831
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 1: Joan Taylor. We don't know whether Walker Little can be

832
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:51,839
Speaker 1: that guy or not. I still don't know whether Luke

833
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:53,919
Speaker 1: Fortner is the guy at center or not. Ben Bartch

834
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 1: is still a question mark. So I do think that

835
00:41:55,680 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: the offensive line. But defensively, man, they're they're really good.

836
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 1: I think what could be surprising, a surprising need for

837
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 1: them is safety. I know they like Andre Cisco. I

838
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 1: think he's too reckless. And the reason I think it

839
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 1: could be a higher priority this year for them is

840
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:13,759
Speaker 1: because the safety class isn't great. This is not a

841
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 1: great safety class. So the fact that it's not a

842
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: great safety class means that might get bumped up in priority.

843
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:20,760
Speaker 1: So I could see them looking at you a Brian

844
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 1: Branch if he's there at twenty four from Alabama. He

845
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 1: would be a really good fit for them. Unfortunately, I

846
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: think ray Sean Jenkins is completely underrated. I think he

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Speaker 1: was fantastic in twenty twenty two, but there's really not

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Speaker 1: much else there. So I think safety is a definite

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Speaker 1: need for them. I don't. I think the offensive line

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Speaker 1: is a high need. I think tight end is there,

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Speaker 1: and I also think wide receiver. I think they still

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Speaker 1: need an alpha even though they got a bunch of

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Speaker 1: number twos. They need an alpha number one, which I

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Speaker 1: hope they don't find, but I think they need it.

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Speaker 1: Is there any human on the face of the earth

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Speaker 1: who covers this league who after the draft will not

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Speaker 1: project the Jaguars to finish first in the AFC South?

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Speaker 1: That is an interesting question. Or maybe it's not. Maybe

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Speaker 1: it's a stupid and of course they're gonna be rejected

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Speaker 1: to finish first because they have the established quarterback. Although

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Speaker 1: what if the Titans like blow it up here in

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Speaker 1: the draft. Well, the offensive line, that's gotta be their

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Speaker 1: top priority, right Yet, it's interesting to go back and

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Speaker 1: look at each unit because you're like, Okay, running back,

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Speaker 1: they're fine. They have Henry and Haskins, wide receiver, Man

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Speaker 1: they have a big need. They have Trailon Burkson. That's it.

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Speaker 1: What's bigger though, offensive line? Offensive line, Yeah, that's it.

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Speaker 1: I mean now they did attack it with Dowart and Brunskil,

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Speaker 1: but that's it. They haven't done much else, so they

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Speaker 1: got to figure all that out. So we had to

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Speaker 1: dive deeper into that with the Colts, etc. And some

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Speaker 1: of the other Texans opponents. And you're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: give me your guests as to who the Texans will

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Speaker 1: open with when we get to schedule all these time,

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Speaker 1: because did you and I both get that right? I

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Speaker 1: think we both got it right. We did. Okay, we

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Speaker 1: guess the Colts last year. I think you guess the

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Speaker 1: top two or three. Yeah, that's pretty good. All right,

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Speaker 1: we'll get to that anyway. Thanks for listening, Thanks to

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Speaker 1: Kim Davis for being on, and it was great to

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Speaker 1: hear from Demiko Ryan's at the press conference today. All

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Speaker 1: this stuff will be on the Texans app up and

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Speaker 1: other podcast platforms. Go to the app and go to

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans dot com for everything involving your Houston Texans.

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Speaker 1: Have a great night, Go Texans.