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Speaker 1: Well, Kyle, welcome into the Honday Texans Radio studio. Great

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Speaker 1: to see you. The building is buzzing. Training cap starts

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Speaker 1: this week. And have you been I've been great, Mark,

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Speaker 1: I've been great. I'm glad to be back. I've been

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Speaker 1: back a couple of weeks. So Actually, we had a

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Speaker 1: nice time away and all the family was ready for

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Speaker 1: me to come back to the stadium. And that's how

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Speaker 1: it goes. That's how it is. I'm excited to be here,

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Speaker 1: get everybody here, get back on the field, and get

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Speaker 1: ready for the season. It's gonna be a fun yere.

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Speaker 1: I know it's been a super busy offseason for you. Now,

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Speaker 1: what can you tell me right now about the way

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Speaker 1: you've structured football operations. Well, we've been really busy working

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Speaker 1: on that this offseason. It's a flatter organization with a

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Speaker 1: faster management style. Mark. The organization is totally re energized

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Speaker 1: with the team based approach, in new leadership, based on

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Speaker 1: sub programs, with each subprogram being fully optimized as a goal.

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Speaker 1: And I know it's a lot, but it's a lot

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Speaker 1: of improvements and we can't wait to get out of

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Speaker 1: the office, back on the field and get back to

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Speaker 1: winning football games. Well soon enough, as cap starts Thursday,

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Speaker 1: can you expand on how you're setting up these departments will,

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Speaker 1: for instance, will have ten or twelve subprograms training, sports, performance, nutrition.

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Speaker 1: One of them is video and you can see what

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Speaker 1: video has been able to do with these virtual reality

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Speaker 1: walk through rooms that they were able to create for us.

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Speaker 1: That's really going to help us be about our team.

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Speaker 1: That's a great example of a subprogram. Your senior Vice

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Speaker 1: president of football Administration, Chris Alsen, He's had a major

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Speaker 1: role with the team behind the scenes for over ten years.

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Speaker 1: He's worked with the NFL's Management Council before that, dealt

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Speaker 1: with agents, contracts, manages the cap, among other things. Now,

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Speaker 1: how does his role in this new environment change, if

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Speaker 1: at all. Chris has been great for us for many years.

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Speaker 1: He's highly respected in the NFL and among the agents.

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Speaker 1: His activities really won't change that much, but he'll have

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Speaker 1: a little more leadership within the football Edmond and I

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Speaker 1: look forward to working with Chris as I had in

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Speaker 1: the past and we'll end the future. Okay, Cal, what

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Speaker 1: about decisions to extend contracts for players or if you

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Speaker 1: want to acquire a player from another team, make a trade.

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Speaker 1: How do you handle that? Well, you know, it's kind

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Speaker 1: of funny. I've heard on the radio where people are

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Speaker 1: worried that how will people know who to contact to

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Speaker 1: make a trade? I promise you if people will know

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Speaker 1: who to contact to make a trade, it's not like

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Speaker 1: there's thousands and thousands of people out there. There's thirty

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Speaker 1: one other clubs, thirty two including us, and the guys

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Speaker 1: know who to call, and they have in the past,

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Speaker 1: They've called different folks in our organization. They'll continue to

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Speaker 1: do that. Someone will get called if there's an interest,

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Speaker 1: we'll handle that call. We'll have a meeting to talk

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Speaker 1: about extensions. We'll get together as a group, we'll make

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Speaker 1: a plan, and then we'll go execute the plan. And

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Speaker 1: you know, you'll see that through this year as this

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Speaker 1: year unfolds, and as far as acquiring a free agent

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Speaker 1: or something, and I know it's not really happening much

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Speaker 1: this time of year, but sometimes it does. That could

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Speaker 1: be a collaborative thing too, right, I mean, you're never

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Speaker 1: going to sign a player without a group chins being

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Speaker 1: involved in that, right totally. We'll get input from the scouts.

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Speaker 1: It's a great group of scouts. We have over there.

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Speaker 1: They'll give their input and they'll be evaluating all the

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Speaker 1: available free agents and as the cuts come around and

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Speaker 1: evaluating that pool of players, evaluate possible trades through the

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Speaker 1: year that'll funnel up through the coach. We'll get together

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Speaker 1: with our group and make plans and try to improve

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Speaker 1: our roster every which way we can, whenever and how

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Speaker 1: or is available. I've had a number of meetings with

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Speaker 1: Jack Easter, be very positive guy. He's got an infectious

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Speaker 1: positive personality. What can you tell us about his role

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Speaker 1: with the team moving forward here? Cal, Well, we're really

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Speaker 1: lucky to have Jack with us. He is executive vice

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Speaker 1: president of team Development, so his role is to do

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Speaker 1: whatever it takes to make the organization grow and operate

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Speaker 1: at its absolute peak performance. You mentioned the virtual reality

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Speaker 1: other high tech developments here. What can you share with

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Speaker 1: the Houston Methodist Training Center. Yeah, we have added a

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Speaker 1: number of things. We've added a CRZ unit, which everyone

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Speaker 1: it's a cold recovery zone. We have it out by

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Speaker 1: the fields so the players can walk right out of

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Speaker 1: practice into this CRZ cool their temperatures down and aid

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Speaker 1: it with a new one has actually a treadmill on it,

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Speaker 1: and it's a wonderful piece of equipment. Last year, you'll

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Speaker 1: remember we rework the performance center, which used to be

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Speaker 1: called a weight room, but now it's a sports performance

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Speaker 1: center that's been wonderfully accepted by the players. And also

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Speaker 1: updated our cafe, so we're really state of the art

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Speaker 1: in a lot of different areas, and we'll just continuously

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Speaker 1: improve our facilities and just keep doing that as part

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Speaker 1: of our program. Well, cal what about your level of

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Speaker 1: excitement for the coming season. After last year's AFC South

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Speaker 1: Championship nine game winning streak, I know you want to

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Speaker 1: continue that level of success, but achieve even more so.

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Speaker 1: What about twenty nineteen. Well, hey, we're defending the AFC South,

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Speaker 1: looking forward to it, looking forward to getting out on

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Speaker 1: the field. I have a lot of excitement. We've bolstered

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Speaker 1: a lot of areas that we needed to do put

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Speaker 1: a lot of resources behind those and look forward to

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Speaker 1: going out and winning games. I know that doing great

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Speaker 1: things for Houston, being a strong player in the community

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Speaker 1: was so important to Bob McNair, and I know this

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Speaker 1: is important to you as well. What about that aspect

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Speaker 1: of the organization cal moving forward doing great things for

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Speaker 1: Houston on and off the field. Yeah, it's a real

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Speaker 1: joy to do. And speaking of Dad, really, even now

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Speaker 1: many months after he passed, Harley Day goes by that

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Speaker 1: someone doesn't express sympathy about his loss. And even just

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Speaker 1: I was buying gas at a local gas station yesterday,

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Speaker 1: Nflo at the other pumps said, you know, I'm so

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Speaker 1: sorry about your dad's loss. So it's very special to

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Speaker 1: hear how much he's remembered, and um, you know, Texans

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Speaker 1: fans and non fans really did enjoy him and miss him.

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Speaker 1: And now after a little bit of a break, we

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Speaker 1: are totally energized to go win championships, create memorable experiences

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Speaker 1: and doing great things for Euston. All right, cow, thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for your time, best of Lucket training camp

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Speaker 1: and the season. Thank you, Mark Rock and Roll