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Speaker 1: can roll another group in there, then you know, I

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Speaker 1: think that's how we're ideally would like to be able

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Speaker 1: to play. Nick. I know, the ultimate goal is to

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Speaker 1: win a championship. To win a championship, you have to

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Speaker 1: have a certain type of team, a team that could

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Speaker 1: beat all these different types of teams. And you look around,

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Speaker 1: like to beat the Bills, okay, Josh Allen, they throw

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Speaker 1: the ball around, The Chiefs are gonna throw the ball around.

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Speaker 1: A lot of teams are throwing the ball around. And

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Speaker 1: then you look at Art Division and you gotta tackle

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Speaker 1: Henry twice a game, twice a year. You gotta tackle

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor twice a year, and then you gotta tangle

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Speaker 1: with James Robinson and Travis Eten twice year, that's six

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Speaker 1: out of seventeen games. Or you're facing some of the better,

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Speaker 1: if not the best running backs in the league. How

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Speaker 1: does that change in some sense the way you might

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Speaker 1: put this team together or how you've put it together

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Speaker 1: to this point and will in the future. No, it's

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Speaker 1: a good question, John, I'd say you have to just

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Speaker 1: look at your team, try to figure out are what

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Speaker 1: are the things that we think we want to be

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Speaker 1: able to do. We have to be able to do them. Well,

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Speaker 1: you're always cognizant of your opponent, You're always cognizant of

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Speaker 1: what's going on in the division. But then you just

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Speaker 1: have to figure out what gives us the best opportunity

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Speaker 1: to the best chance to win on Sunday and structure

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Speaker 1: the team accordingly. So where the team is now currently,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure there will be some changes here by the

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Speaker 1: time we get to the fifty three man roster and

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Speaker 1: then a practice squads as well. I think there's a

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Speaker 1: certain way that we want to play Love He's talked

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Speaker 1: about this, like the ability to be able to run

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Speaker 1: the ball more effective than we did last year. I mean,

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Speaker 1: look everybody. We didn't run the ball well enough, we

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Speaker 1: didn't really need to do much of anything well enough,

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Speaker 1: and we're all accountable for that. So we want to

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Speaker 1: try to make some improvements those areas. But I'd say offensively,

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Speaker 1: two jobs at the offense, moving ball and score points,

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Speaker 1: like however you do it like that's the goal. So

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Speaker 1: you know, there's situational elements that come up. Execution on

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Speaker 1: third down. Then once you get down to the red zone,

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Speaker 1: can you score touchdown instead of kicking field goals? And

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Speaker 1: then as you mentioned, defensively, you know, trying to tackle

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Speaker 1: Taylor every you know twice a year, trying to tackle

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Speaker 1: Henry twice a year, Etn who didn't even play last year,

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Speaker 1: and James Robinson. So at some point you're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to be able to stop the run, get a stop

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Speaker 1: and you need it, and then play good pass defense

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Speaker 1: when you force the other team to pass. So I'd

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Speaker 1: say the team building exercise, it's it's a fun exercise

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Speaker 1: to be a part of, and it's constantly changing and

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Speaker 1: you have to be adaptable. You have to really look

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Speaker 1: at your team, You have to know your team, try

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Speaker 1: to figure out what are the things that we do well, okay,

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Speaker 1: do we have the players that we were able to

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Speaker 1: do those things? And if we don't, we'll go out

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Speaker 1: there and find them. And if we think we're okay

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Speaker 1: with where we are, try to play a certain way

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Speaker 1: and if we have to adjust, then hopefully we can

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Speaker 1: adjust and again just figure out a way to move

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Speaker 1: the ball and score points offensively and get stops on defense.

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Speaker 1: How do you want to see the players spend their

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Speaker 1: time between mini camp and training camp. That's a big gap.

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Speaker 1: It's got to really not concern people in the organization

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Speaker 1: all over the league, but you know they're not under

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Speaker 1: your umbrella during that time for the most part, even

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Speaker 1: though I'm sure they can come in and do some things. Sure,

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Speaker 1: I'd say use your time wisely and judiciously, and I

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Speaker 1: think everybody needs a little bit of a time away

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Speaker 1: from football. It's good. But I'd say from the player's standpoint,

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Speaker 1: you have a four to six week window where you

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Speaker 1: have to maintain your strength, maintain your endurance, maintain your

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Speaker 1: physical performance. And we're going to give our players a

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Speaker 1: program and say if you do these things on a

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Speaker 1: weekly basis, structure your week accordingly, go out there and train.

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Speaker 1: Then when you show up for training camp. You should

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Speaker 1: be prepared to withstand the rigors of what we're about

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Speaker 1: to ask you to do. So I don't think there's

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Speaker 1: a concern of you know, hopefully they're going to run

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Speaker 1: wayward outside of the building. You know, again, make good choices,

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Speaker 1: use your time wisely, stay in your routine. You can't

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Speaker 1: just okay, go full bore football. You're in the building

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Speaker 1: every day, then all of a sudden do nothing. Like

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Speaker 1: you have to get into a routine. So like simulate

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Speaker 1: what a day would be like. All right, get up

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Speaker 1: Then when you're done at noon or one, okay, then recover,

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Speaker 1: get your sleep all right. Then the next day get

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Speaker 1: up and do the same thing. So the ability to

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Speaker 1: stay on task is important, and you have to make

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Speaker 1: a commitment to doing that. The reality is it's not

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Speaker 1: do football for however many months, or I do nothing

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Speaker 1: for four to six weeks and then come into training

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Speaker 1: camp and think you're going to be able to make

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Speaker 1: it through. I would say what's going to be probably

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Speaker 1: is difficult. A thing that you've done to this point.

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Speaker 1: You have to prepare your mind. You have to bare

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Speaker 1: your body accordingly, but you want to do it within reason.

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Speaker 1: You have a little more flexibility, but you still have

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Speaker 1: to get work done. I think that's the most important

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Speaker 1: thing that they have to realize. So is that sort

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Speaker 1: coach is kind of doing the same thing. You have

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Speaker 1: to get away, but you can't get away too much

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Speaker 1: from your routine. No, it's very true, you know. I

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Speaker 1: would say I try to stay on a routine. You're

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Speaker 1: maybe days structu a little bit differently, I think. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I look forward to the summer because it's an opportunity

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Speaker 1: to spend time with my daughters and my wife, and

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Speaker 1: we maximize our opportunities together. So and then when there's

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Speaker 1: windows or pockets of time, a little bit of downtime,

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Speaker 1: all right, there's something that maybe it can work on.

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Speaker 1: You know, go through some college players, go through some

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Speaker 1: of the college reports, start to think about or what

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Speaker 1: are some of the things in training camp that we

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Speaker 1: need to get done. So everybody needs to take some

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Speaker 1: time away to refresh. It's good for everybody's I would

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Speaker 1: say mine, it's good for your body, and we should

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Speaker 1: do that. I mean this way, when you come back

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Speaker 1: in training camp, you're reinvigorated, you're fresh, and you're ready

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Speaker 1: to go. So we all need time away, we all

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Speaker 1: need time to reflect, and we all need, you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of our time away. It's important to do and

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Speaker 1: there's absolutely nothing wrong. We should enjoy it. But you

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Speaker 1: also want to try to stay on track and try

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Speaker 1: to stay with your routine. I think the people out

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Speaker 1: to have routines. I mean it's that you're going to

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Speaker 1: stay on course regardless. Two quick questions for training camp.

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Speaker 1: Should I drink regular water or water with electro lights?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely okay, enhancement with electroc light absolutely okay. And will

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Speaker 1: you see Top Gun? Maverick? I actually already have you have?

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Speaker 1: Love it? This is actually great. So I'm one of

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Speaker 1: the if you ask me about a movie, I'm one

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Speaker 1: of the worst. In the history of the world. I don't,

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Speaker 1: I haven't. I can't tell you the last time I

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Speaker 1: went to the movie theater or I've watched the movie

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Speaker 1: on TV. So my favorite movies of all time, I

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Speaker 1: would say the original, Top Gun, Hoosier's and a few

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Speaker 1: Good Men. I'd say those three. I mean there might

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Speaker 1: be some other ones. About that. So my wife and

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Speaker 1: I I said, look, we gotta go see this movie.

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Speaker 1: And she's like, all right, well we'll go. So we

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Speaker 1: theater and forever I loved it. It It was phenomenal. We

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Speaker 1: have my son and I went to see it. It's

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Speaker 1: interesting because seeing it the first time I was I mean,

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Speaker 1: I was sixteen, seventeen years old, and now I'm watching

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Speaker 1: it now. Tom Cruise is considered old and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: holy smokes, I know he looks the exact same. Not

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Speaker 1: to like go you know, movie analyst here, but there

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Speaker 1: maintained in the very well second version. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to like spoil marks thunder here. I haven't seen it yet.

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Speaker 1: Somehow I have not seen it. I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: don't do. The movie guy Drew Doherty said that it

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Speaker 1: is the best blockbuster hit ever. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: I go that far, but I enjoyed it. Again. I

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Speaker 1: but I did so. Nikeos Sario Movie Review and Team

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Speaker 1: Review Nick thanks a lot for joining us. Thanks guys

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. I love it. Nickos Sario went to a movie.

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Speaker 1: and a sideline reporter. Glad you are with me, and

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Speaker 1: crew with the Texans myself and my good friend your Doherty. Gosh,

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Speaker 1: I don't even know. I think we've been doing this

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Speaker 1: to geek out about a lot of different things. And

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Speaker 1: because quite honestly, there aren't a lot of people that

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Speaker 1: so does Drew. And one of the guys that's keys,

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Speaker 1: Titus Howard just had another baby, his second. He is

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Speaker 1: does the offensive line, where it does the run game,

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Speaker 1: chance to interview Titus Howard on Tuesday. Titus is one

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Speaker 1: of the best interviews you'll get on the team, maybe

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Speaker 1: the best. I will enjoyed talking with him. Just had

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Speaker 1: a baby, so we're chit chatting about pacifiers and sleep

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Speaker 1: and all that other stuff, of course, but tight Us,

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Speaker 1: piece of this entire football team, and I think we

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Speaker 1: got to talk about his importance to what the Texans

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Speaker 1: want to do on offense, in the run, in the

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Speaker 1: passing game. Leadership wise, I think he's a pretty valuable

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Speaker 1: valuable piece in the puzzle for the Texans. I don't

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Speaker 1: OTAs one of them. Just look at it, Titus. He

638
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,959
Speaker 1: looks like it's a great shape, tremendous shape, and he

639
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,639
Speaker 1: I would say he's probably three twenty five. Now that

640
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:44,880
Speaker 1: the roster, I don't know what the roster will say,

641
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 1: is you can see this right here. The roster says

642
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:51,200
Speaker 1: that he is three twenty two. I would say it's

643
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 1: probably probably about right. But they never update the rosters. Yeah, exactly,

644
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:58,440
Speaker 1: And that was gonna be my point. Where's it really

645
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:03,160
Speaker 1: really well? But I think what's really needed from the

646
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: tackles in particular, because you always think about tackles and

647
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:10,160
Speaker 1: you're thinking about their pass protection, how they protect the edge. Lammy,

648
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,159
Speaker 1: Tonzo and tight Us out when they were together in

649
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Twenty nineteen did a pretty good job of

650
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,880
Speaker 1: protecting the edge. They saw a lot of really good rushers,

651
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:19,919
Speaker 1: and this year they're going to see a lot of

652
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,360
Speaker 1: great rushers. I mean, the list of rushers I went

653
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 1: over with Mark last night. My gosh, just the AFC

654
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 1: West alone. You're facing two every week from the AFC

655
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 1: West alone, and you play those four teams so and

656
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 1: they're they're obviously not the only ones. But to me,

657
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:39,479
Speaker 1: it's about what those two Laramie and Titus provide in

658
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 1: the run game, especially tight Us, because he's got the

659
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 1: ability to be an excellent run blocking tackle. I still

660
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: think he's got the feat to be able to protect,

661
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: and he's worked on his technique over the years as

662
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 1: a pass protector. But last year you played a lout

663
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 1: of it at guard. I don't know that that was

664
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 1: a fit. I don't know that he really kind of

665
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 1: understood playing guard the way that probably you'd like to

666
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 1: see the interior player play. But look, the guy's been

667
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: playing tackle his career and then you put him at

668
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 1: guard and you're trying to get the best five you

669
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 1: can on the field just I don't think it worked

670
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 1: for him. But now at tackle, and I go back

671
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 1: and I told the story last night. He moved out

672
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 1: to left tackle for the Chargers game because there was

673
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: some there were some hiccups along the way. There was

674
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:27,719
Speaker 1: some injuries, obviously Laramie, there was COVID situations, and then

675
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:29,959
Speaker 1: there was just not great play left tackle, and so

676
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 1: inside in the Chargers game, we're gonna put him out

677
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 1: a left tackle. And he had a great game. Now

678
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,719
Speaker 1: he didn't face either Joey Bosa or Khalil Mack like

679
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 1: he's going to this year, but you don't have the

680
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 1: left tackle and held it down. And I saw him

681
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 1: the next day on Monday, and I was walking on

682
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 1: the cafeteria he used from my locker room, and I

683
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 1: just kind of looked at him and said, kind of

684
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 1: like riding a bike. He knew exactly what I was

685
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: pertaining to. He goes it was. It was my highest

686
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 1: grade of the year. And if you watched, he didn't

687
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 1: need the grade to know, if you just watch with

688
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 1: your own two eyes is how well he played. But basically, yeah,

689
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: I mean he just hopped right back up on the

690
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: bike and just kept pedaling like it was nothing, Like

691
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 1: you haven't missed any time at all a tackle. So

692
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 1: I think that game, in particular is why those in

693
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 1: the media start thinking out loud like, hey, that guy

694
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 1: could play left tackle. Maybe they're gonna move there in

695
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 1: Matunso I'm glad they didn't that because I think in

696
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 1: combination Tunsol and Tynus Howard can be very very good.

697
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 1: I think on Titus it's the run. It's the run

698
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: game aspect. The ability to control really strong edge setters

699
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 1: in the run game is gonna be very key, and

700
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 1: I think that's something that he's gonna be able to

701
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 1: do pretty well, because if there's something about when he

702
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 1: was drafted, I remember thinking, boy, he moves pretty well

703
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 1: for a tackle, but police got some nasty and he's

704
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 1: got the ability to move guys off the ball. So

705
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be a really added benefit. You

706
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 1: want those guys to pass protect and be great at it,

707
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 1: but man, if you get them to move some dudes

708
00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 1: off the ball, and I think that's just gonna be

709
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 1: the paradigm shift if there is one in the run game.

710
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 1: But George Warhop as the offensive line coach, he's not

711
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 1: gonna sit back and Okay, well we're gonna position block

712
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 1: these guys or you know, we're gonna do nothing but

713
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: zone block here. No, they're gonna come off and they're

714
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 1: gonna get people in the mouth, and if they don't,

715
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: they're probably not going to be in the five that

716
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 1: goes out on the field. And so I think Titus

717
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 1: fits that paradigm shift very very well. Okay, switching gears,

718
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:29,120
Speaker 1: which New Texan and it can be a rookie, but

719
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 1: which New Texan on the defensive side of the ball

720
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 1: is the guy to watch as far as breakout dependability,

721
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 1: He's one of the most valuable. Who's that going to

722
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,479
Speaker 1: be for you? I think it's easy. Yeah, I think

723
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: it gets Jaylen Petrie. Yeah, out of Baylor everybody. I mean, look,

724
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 1: when you watch a practice, and I've spent a lot

725
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 1: of my time watching the offensive line, defensive line work

726
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: down to the other end of the field because you

727
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,720
Speaker 1: know me, I just love watching the trenches. And I

728
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:01,239
Speaker 1: know we're going with this. I know where you're going.

729
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: Five boys and all those guys in the seven on

730
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: seven they can do all they they can whatever. I

731
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 1: gotta watch the trenches, even without pads. I gotta watch

732
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 1: the trenches. And so you're watching the trenches, but your

733
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 1: ears and the movement of your peripheral vision keeps telling

734
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 1: you Jallen Peats making plays every single day. And so

735
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 1: coming off the field the other day, just have to

736
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 1: be talking with with Cal and with Mark and with

737
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 1: Lovey Smith, and we're just kind of talking and chit chatting,

738
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 1: and and I think it was Mark said something to

739
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: coach Smith about Jalen Peetrie and he was like, you

740
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,040
Speaker 1: guys have only been out of here, you know, one

741
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: day a week. Every other day he's coming up with

742
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: a pick. And I was like, yeah, you almost got

743
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: that one on in the flat, and he was, yeah,

744
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 1: he's gotten that a couple times. And you just can't

745
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: miss him. Just the speed with which he plays, the explosiveness,

746
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 1: the ability to cover in the slot. I mean, if

747
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: there's if there is a two, I mean in football,

748
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: there's so many different difficult things in football, but when

749
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 1: you play defensive backfield, one of the hardest ones is

750
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: to play is to cover in the slot because those

751
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: guys in the slot are so quick, they knew exactly

752
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 1: what you're doing. They do everything based off of what

753
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: you're positioning and leverage is and then you have to

754
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 1: react to that and you got to do it right now.

755
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 1: That becomes so difficult. But Petree seems to have a

756
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 1: knack for doing that. Now, will he step right in

757
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 1: and be Tyra Matthew two point zero? That's a lot

758
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: to put on a guy. But if I were going

759
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 1: to le as you said, you're gonna ask me who's

760
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 1: the guy that could do that, not just with the Texas,

761
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 1: anywhere across the league, I would tell you it's Jalen Petrie.

762
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 1: So last you know this week, So we went on

763
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, so I think it was a Monday. I

764
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: was actually watching the Baylor Oklahoma game from last year

765
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 1: because I was wanting to look at the two tackles

766
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: Aunton Harrison from Oklahoma and Connor Galvin from Adah Baylor.

767
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 1: The same thing happens. This guy Petrie's ripping your eyes

768
00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 1: away from that action, indn't he? Yeah? I mean I

769
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 1: found myself after about ten twelve plays, going, hey, dummy,

770
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 1: while you turned us on to watch the tackles, not

771
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: to watch Petre. He's already in the NFL place for

772
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 1: your team. So but your eyes keep going back to

773
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:12,879
Speaker 1: that and whether it's in coverage, whether it's the way

774
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 1: he makes sound tackles out of space, whether it's the

775
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 1: way he gets off a block, whether it's the way

776
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 1: that he blitzes and understands. Like there was one play

777
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,880
Speaker 1: where he was on the far side of the field.

778
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:27,760
Speaker 1: Oklahoma ran like a zone read play and Caleb Williams

779
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,840
Speaker 1: pulled the ball and the guy that was supposed to

780
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 1: be that was accounting for Caleb Williams had jumped on

781
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 1: the dive. Jalen came from all the way the other

782
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,840
Speaker 1: side of the field just wove himself like all the

783
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 1: way through the traffic and got to Caleb Williams and

784
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 1: ended up pushing him out of bounce for a one

785
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:52,320
Speaker 1: yard game. And he's the backside blitzing safety from the field,

786
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 1: so he had a long way to run. But you

787
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 1: just and you can just see him seeing the game

788
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 1: at like a different pace and vision than everybody else

789
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 1: on the field, and he just it was as if

790
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: all the other white shirts were off the field and

791
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: he was just running this path to get to kill

792
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:11,720
Speaker 1: the will he wass to make a play. Jamen Petrie

793
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: is definitely gonna be fun to play the other one

794
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 1: is somebody that you talked to the other day and

795
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 1: the Jews doesn't with I'm really excited about And that's

796
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:25,720
Speaker 1: him Green his length, size, athleticism, smarts. I think he's

797
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: got what this team, a four three team is looking for,

798
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 1: and the ability to bounce inside outside. Yeah, for what

799
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 1: he can do. And when I watched the trenches, yes,

800
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 1: he's a guy inside. Boy, they really have a hard

801
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 1: time with him inside because he's so each, so long.

802
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 1: And I get to ask this question a lot. Well, okay,

803
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,399
Speaker 1: so what he's got long arms, what does that allow

804
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,880
Speaker 1: a guy to do? Well, the more separation you get

805
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: from a guy, I mean, if you're a short armed

806
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 1: guy and you keep blooding, guys get into your body,

807
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 1: they have the opportunity to maneuver you. But if you

808
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 1: have that separation, you have that length, it's so hard

809
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 1: for an offense linements and then get hands on a

810
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:04,239
Speaker 1: guy to control them. You're controlling it because your length

811
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:06,840
Speaker 1: gets on him. And I've seen that happen to a

812
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: lot of guys over the years, and they faced longer

813
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 1: defensive vans, they try and get their hands to him,

814
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 1: and then they just can't. And and then the defensive

815
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,799
Speaker 1: ended the edge player, whatever, defensive linements just control of

816
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:19,839
Speaker 1: him because he's got that length and he's got that length.

817
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 1: But I'm really intrigued with what Rashim Green brings to

818
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 1: the defense as well. What do you think I like that?

819
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 1: You know, when I see Green, I think it's it's

820
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 1: kind of they're not the same. They're different ovelsy obviously,

821
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:35,360
Speaker 1: but in a way, it's sort of like he's a

822
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 1: more fully realized and more accomplished so far, and he

823
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 1: might get there eventually, but more accomplished. Omena Who, Charles

824
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: Omena Who? Yeah, Yeah, you know, like Charles, there were

825
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,840
Speaker 1: there were things Charles did, He had some flashes, but

826
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 1: I think Rashim's done it a little bit, you know,

827
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 1: more consistently, and to be fair to Rashimi has had

828
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 1: different chances and different opportunities, and that might comfort Charles.

829
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: I'm not at all writing him off, but I do

830
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:04,360
Speaker 1: think because of the length and because of the ability

831
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 1: to kind of go inside and outside at times, it

832
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 1: sort of seems a little bit like what what the

833
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,720
Speaker 1: Texans were envisioning what they could do or some someday

834
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 1: do with Omena Who. And perhaps that's that's a bit

835
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:18,799
Speaker 1: of a reach in comparison, but it was cool talking

836
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 1: with him last week, and he's excited about being here.

837
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 1: I mean he was, he's really um. I think he

838
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 1: kind of because of the changes going on in Seattle.

839
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: He was sort of out of a spot, you know,

840
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: they've been taking away and now he's in a spot

841
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: that is probably better suited for him. So I'm excited

842
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 1: about that. I'm really curious, like Petre, I love Petrie.

843
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 1: I'm really curious about what Stephen Nelson does to help

844
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 1: solidify things out on the edge at Corner because we

845
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 1: heard Levey Smith in the run up to the draft

846
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:50,760
Speaker 1: talking about how, hey, we got to get better at Corner.

847
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: So what they do they sign Nelson, They use the

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Speaker 1: first pick that they have on Derek Stingley, who I mean,

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Speaker 1: he should be the obvious choice for what we're doing,

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00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: but that's kind of too obvious. So plus, you know,

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00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:04,279
Speaker 1: he's coming back and he's not fully participating, so we

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00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:06,399
Speaker 1: haven't gotten the full look at him. But everything we've

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Speaker 1: heard from his teammates, from the coaches, heck, even from

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Speaker 1: Andre Johnson who was out at practice the other day,

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Speaker 1: is there's a lot of people really really impressed by him.

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Speaker 1: But Stephen Nelson is the guy based on the experience,

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Speaker 1: based on the way he's played the last few years,

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Speaker 1: the leadership that he's going to provide. I'm pretty excited

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Speaker 1: about what he can do and what he can bring

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00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 1: to this team because Texans are gonna need it if

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Speaker 1: they want to get better. And he's already talking and

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00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: you hear the same mantras being repeated as last year,

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Speaker 1: gotta get the football, I gotta get the football loose,

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Speaker 1: gotta get takeaways, and that was that was huge for

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Speaker 1: the Texans after having just nine in twenty twenty, they

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Speaker 1: jumped up. They were in the top ten last year

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Speaker 1: with twenty five, and they want that number to grow. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: no doubt. Steve Nelson's a great one. A great one.

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Speaker 1: On Rashee Green, as you were talking about him, maybe

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Speaker 1: I think your comparison to men, who's a great one.

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Speaker 1: I think there's one major difference. And this is why

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Speaker 1: I think Rashid Green fits. I think I think Lovey

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Speaker 1: Smith and this defensive staff in the organization as a whole,

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Speaker 1: love the idea of a man of who a guy

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Speaker 1: that could go inside outside that length. But one major

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00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 1: difference was Charles did not want to play inside. Charles

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Speaker 1: wanted to be a four three defensive end and that's

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Speaker 1: what he wanted to be. Did not want to play inside.

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Speaker 1: That was fairly well known to him coming out of

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Speaker 1: the University of Texas. It's just that he would win

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00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: against guards Russian in sad, but he didn't want to

882
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 1: be there when he had to play there significant amount.

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Speaker 1: Now he's playing the run. He never played it well

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Speaker 1: with the Niners. I don't think he even went inside.

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Speaker 1: I think Rashem Green will go inside willingly and will

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Speaker 1: be a factor if he's inside and still gets a

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Speaker 1: run play. So I think the idea of a guy

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00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 1: like men and who and that's why they went after

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00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 1: and found a guy like Rashie Green, which I absolutely love.

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Speaker 1: Now I know there's a fair Well wait a second,

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00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 1: it took after the draft to get him signed. Look,

892
00:39:56,680 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 1: you never know why, but that happened. Who knows, you know.

893
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 1: Maybe the right fit just wasn't there, Maybe Seattle couldn't

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00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:05,239
Speaker 1: make up its mind. Maybe he was waiting looking for

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00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,759
Speaker 1: a better fit and it just so happened to come

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Speaker 1: in the form of the Texans. It doesn't matter how

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Speaker 1: you get here, well, way you got here, Now that

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Speaker 1: you're here and you got the opportunity to make the

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Speaker 1: most of it. And Rashie Green's not complaining about it.

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Speaker 1: I'm starting to not complaining about it. And one of

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00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: us are. He's here now. It's maximizing. But I think

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Speaker 1: you're right. I think it's the idea of a guy,

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Speaker 1: like a man of who really attracted them. It's just

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Speaker 1: a men who wasn't gonna be a fitness because he

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Speaker 1: didn't really want to play inside. But I think Rasheem

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Speaker 1: will play inside outside with the same fervor, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: And let's wrap things up. It was nice seeing Andre

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Speaker 1: Johnson out there the other day. It was also nice

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Speaker 1: seeing the other nine former Houston Texans. We saw guys

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Speaker 1: like Wade Smith who we talked with all the time,

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00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 1: Chester Pitts, so Mike Quinn, the old quarterback. Yeah, he's

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00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: a good Dude's running that seven on seven youth football

913
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Speaker 1: league and I hear it's a tremendous one. Need to

914
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 1: talk with him about that because I've got some knuckleheads

915
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: in my family that want to play a little football.

916
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:03,880
Speaker 1: But yeah, those were those guys, Earl Mitchell, Jonathan Wells.

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of them. Out there. It was

918
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Speaker 1: It was fun seeing them and Kylie Wong Man, I

919
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 1: miss Kylie comes on the TV show from time to time.

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00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: We got to get him back on because he's he's

921
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 1: a fun guy to talk with. But lots of them

922
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 1: are out there. I did you get to chat chat

923
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,080
Speaker 1: with any of them? I did for a little bit.

924
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 1: I talked to Chester Pits for a little bit. And

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00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 1: it's always great to get Chesters a few, especially on

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00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 1: the big guys up front. And if there's somebody's opinion

927
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Speaker 1: that I trust more than Chester Pits, I don't know

928
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 1: who that is. That man knows it, plays it, and

929
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Speaker 1: I love to get the chance to talk to him

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Speaker 1: about it. So there you go. All right, we got

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Speaker 1: one second left. We'll go round the NFL next right

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Speaker 1: here on a Friday edition of Texas All Access. Stay

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to this final segment of this Friday edition

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Speaker 1: of Texans Ball Access. I'm your host, John Harrin's football

948
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Speaker 1: analysts sideline reporter somed go around the NFL. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: start right here in Houston, where earlier today I wrote

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Speaker 1: a tight end position breakdown. And I should say earlier today.

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Speaker 1: I only set it earlier today because I forgot all

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Speaker 1: day Thursday to send it. I had it done Wednesday night,

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Speaker 1: Polly forgot to send it Thursday. Realized that Friday morning went,

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Speaker 1: oh man, I gotta send this thing. So I said it.

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Speaker 1: My good friend A Navliebwitz, who runs our Twitter accounts

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00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 1: and our social just incredible director of social media, posted

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Speaker 1: it I'm not talking. Two minutes later, I see that

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Speaker 1: the Texas have a transaction and they've waived one of

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00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 1: the guys I mentioned, Darryl Daniels, and they've brought in

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00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 1: another tight end, Mason Shrek rendering my article. No, I'm

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Speaker 1: not useless, but needing it edit so if you read it,

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Speaker 1: realized that thing was posted about two minutes for the

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00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 1: transaction was made. The Las Vegas Raiders always called the

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Speaker 1: Elia Raiders. I still want to call them Elia Raiders,

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00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 1: even though they're only there for a short time. The

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00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 1: Las Vegas Raiders, maintaining the sign your wide receivers to

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00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 1: an extension tradition, gave Hunter Rentfrow a two year, thirty

968
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Speaker 1: two million dollars extension, then includes twenty one million guaranteed.

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00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:59,399
Speaker 1: Now Hunter still has eighteen nineteen twenty twenty one to think,

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00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 1: Yeah so this I think this starts the new Maybe

971
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:06,319
Speaker 1: he's got one more year under his rookie contract in

972
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 1: the two year extension will start off that either way,

973
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:11,799
Speaker 1: twenty one million dollars for Hunter Renfro. I think that's

974
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:14,440
Speaker 1: getting off cheap if you want to be God's honest truth.

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Speaker 1: But good for Hunter Renfro. I remember seeing him in

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Speaker 1: that championship game against Alabama. I think he was a

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Speaker 1: sophomore at the time, and he was a former quarterback.

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Speaker 1: And of course you see all the pictures of him,

979
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 1: you go, how's that guy do it? That guy does

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00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:28,319
Speaker 1: it every single week. He's arguably the best route runner

981
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Speaker 1: in the League's incredible and he is getting paid for it.

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Speaker 1: That we'll do it for tonight's show. Appreciate you guys

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Speaker 1: being here. Thank you so much to Teddy's Howard, to

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Speaker 1: Drew Doherty, to Mark Vandamir and of course GM Nick Cassaria.

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Speaker 1: Will see you on Monday. And it's always go Texans.

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