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Speaker 1: Good evening everyone, and welcome to the program that keeps

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Speaker 1: you up to date with your Houston Texans. That would

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Speaker 1: be Texans All Access. Like you heard in the introduction,

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Speaker 1: I'm Mark vander Meer with you in the Hyunday Texans

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Speaker 1: Radio studio, joined tonight by, among others, John Harris. How's

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Speaker 1: it going, Johnny Do wal Mark? How are you doing? Great?

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Speaker 1: And just so people know they saw it on social

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Speaker 1: media that we had media days here today for the

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans. For those who don't know what happens is NBC, ESPN, CBS, Fox,

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Speaker 1: They all set up here and this is where they

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Speaker 1: take a lot of head shots and they put players

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Speaker 1: in front of the green screen, just tossing the football

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Speaker 1: hand to hand, that kind of shots you see the

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Speaker 1: game broadcast. Well, they shoot most of this stuff in

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Speaker 1: the offseason, and this would be the Texans day or

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Speaker 1: days to do it. They'll have this tomorrow as well,

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Speaker 1: and we interviewed a bunch of players today that you'll

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Speaker 1: be hearing from throughout the next few months, really until

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Speaker 1: How many months is it really, Johnny, it's just over

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Speaker 1: two months it's two and a half months, un dolt. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a little over two months, thankfully, because to me,

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of people talk about can it

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Speaker 1: be September yet? In fact, our Texas Twitter accompbot that

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Speaker 1: out today said can it be September yet? I just

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Speaker 1: needed to get to late July. Just get me to

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Speaker 1: late and I'm good. I mean, yes, it would be

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Speaker 1: fun to go right into the regular season. But I

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Speaker 1: tend to like the preseason. I mean impressed minority of

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Speaker 1: people who really enjoy the preseason, not more than the

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Speaker 1: regular season, but I like it as an or d'euvre

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Speaker 1: The preseason games themselves, okay, I mean, trust me, I

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Speaker 1: broadcast and get that down. But I love training camp.

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Speaker 1: I love I love training camp. I just there's something

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Speaker 1: the training camp. I love the fact that we do

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Speaker 1: before the first preseason game. I just I love being

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Speaker 1: just everybody's staying healthy. Yeah, that's the one thing I

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Speaker 1: how they handle the Sean. Yeah, really, everybody, but Deshaan

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Speaker 1: seen in the cafeteria, just the various food I've mentioned

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Speaker 1: The inches are everywhere. I quote that all the time

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Speaker 1: from a fictional movie. A great movie. Yeah, great, any

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Speaker 1: it is. There's some profanity, so don't just play it

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Speaker 1: He should read the book. No doubt he should read

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Speaker 1: the book. The book. Buzz Bissinger did it great chat.

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Speaker 1: him when he wrote that Lebron book. Because he wrote

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Speaker 1: But you absolutely read the book. Read the book there.

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Speaker 1: just TV show, but the film. No, you're right, Varsity Blues.

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Speaker 1: But we'll see how much. We'll see to what degree,

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Speaker 1: Although anecdotally it's already a success, and we heard about

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Speaker 1: Kaiimi Nuelua meki iki yo Fairbaron pressed off the bat.

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Speaker 1: with the new kickoff rules that are coming, you become

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00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:10,240
Speaker 1: obviously a pretty big factor in that where where the

425
00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:12,320
Speaker 1: ball can be kicked, where teams want to kick with

426
00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:14,640
Speaker 1: all the different rules. I don't know if that's something

427
00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:16,440
Speaker 1: that you followed or talk to with coach Ceely and

428
00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:19,560
Speaker 1: the new Special team's staff with rat See and Tracy Smith.

429
00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:21,520
Speaker 1: But how much have you followed that And how much

430
00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:23,280
Speaker 1: of a difference do you think it'll make with the

431
00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:25,800
Speaker 1: new rules that they're putting in the kickoff? Yeah, it'll

432
00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,120
Speaker 1: make a big difference. Um, you know, change the way

433
00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:31,000
Speaker 1: we kick off, you know, Um, where our guys can

434
00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:34,320
Speaker 1: cover down you know sometimes with dangerous returners back there,

435
00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:36,560
Speaker 1: we just want to touch back and then sometimes you

436
00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:38,040
Speaker 1: want to cover you know, we want to pin them

437
00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:40,439
Speaker 1: deep inside the twenties. So it just depends on what

438
00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:43,040
Speaker 1: route you want to take. You went to Ucla, what

439
00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:45,920
Speaker 1: were your other options at the time. Um, I had

440
00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:49,000
Speaker 1: a lot of Pac twelve options, but it really came

441
00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:52,159
Speaker 1: down to cal Berkeley and Ucla. How has the transition

442
00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:54,919
Speaker 1: been personally to the city of Houston being here for

443
00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:57,919
Speaker 1: I presume the first time basically when your first got here.

444
00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:00,560
Speaker 1: Oh excellent. I love it out here to see it's

445
00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:03,360
Speaker 1: you know, I've been real lucky to go to Hawaii.

446
00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:06,240
Speaker 1: From Hawaii to Ucla to Houston, like, you know, it

447
00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:08,680
Speaker 1: could be a lot worse for me, and um, I'm

448
00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,119
Speaker 1: not in Buffalo. Yeah, exactly. I didn't want to say it.

449
00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:14,880
Speaker 1: How much did it matter that you get to kick inside? Oh?

450
00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,639
Speaker 1: Matter at all? Yeah, it's every kicker's dream to you know,

451
00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,040
Speaker 1: kick without wind, you know, in the dome, you know,

452
00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:21,639
Speaker 1: nine times a year for us because we have to

453
00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:24,560
Speaker 1: play an indy when it is windy though, or maybe

454
00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:27,880
Speaker 1: not so windy, but just a little windy. How much

455
00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:29,880
Speaker 1: do you take that into a cat Do you think

456
00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:32,680
Speaker 1: I got to start this one left and then hopefully Yeah,

457
00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:34,719
Speaker 1: fade in. I mean, yeah, those like that, those are

458
00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:36,679
Speaker 1: the fun ones, you know. Um, you just got to

459
00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:39,640
Speaker 1: calculate for it in the pregame. You know where where

460
00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:42,119
Speaker 1: your target points? You know, that's that's what I really

461
00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:46,040
Speaker 1: take alignment when I'm back there taking my steps, That's

462
00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:48,720
Speaker 1: what I look for. Where's my target point? And just

463
00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:50,720
Speaker 1: trust that line. I would think the top of the

464
00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,040
Speaker 1: line place that you would want to kick his inside

465
00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:56,600
Speaker 1: easy conditions are pretty regular. I would think the next

466
00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:59,000
Speaker 1: place would be a place like Denver was just where

467
00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,199
Speaker 1: we're gonna go. Someone, did you kick at Colorado? And

468
00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,680
Speaker 1: what was the difference? I did? There's a big difference. Um,

469
00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,080
Speaker 1: kicked in Boulder. Yeah, that was a lot of fun.

470
00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:10,440
Speaker 1: That the air, the you know, the high altitude, it

471
00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:13,159
Speaker 1: makes difference. Did you just reel it back? Like I

472
00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:14,800
Speaker 1: want to see how far I can go with this? Yeah,

473
00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:16,600
Speaker 1: you gotta have a little fun out there. How far

474
00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:18,880
Speaker 1: did you go? How far could you push it out? Um?

475
00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:23,120
Speaker 1: I think sixty seven was that day? Yeah? It was. Yeah.

476
00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,000
Speaker 1: The whole pre game is that where they're getting a

477
00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:27,720
Speaker 1: gauge of of what you've got that day? Is that

478
00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:29,800
Speaker 1: what it works? Sort of? You know, you you go

479
00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:32,000
Speaker 1: out there and you're feeling good and coach comes up

480
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:33,280
Speaker 1: to you, what do you got today? And you know,

481
00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:38,359
Speaker 1: hopefully it's somewhere, you know, in the late fifties, So um,

482
00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:40,400
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to hear it forty three yet, all

483
00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:44,160
Speaker 1: that's it. I would not tell him that, Yeah, does

484
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,600
Speaker 1: that change throughout the game though? I mean I don't

485
00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:48,119
Speaker 1: know pre game, you know, you just get warmed up.

486
00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:50,000
Speaker 1: Does that changed out the game? Maybe if you hit

487
00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:52,320
Speaker 1: one and you hit it pretty good, do you go

488
00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:54,680
Speaker 1: to him and say, hey, coach, I know I told you,

489
00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:56,480
Speaker 1: you know, maybe a little fifties earlier, but I'm feeling

490
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,240
Speaker 1: pretty good that if we get yeah, you know, I'm

491
00:22:58,240 --> 00:22:59,800
Speaker 1: five plus, maybe I can hit it. You can't be

492
00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:02,560
Speaker 1: you know, it's never gonna be right down to that

493
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:05,359
Speaker 1: yard line. So whatever opportunity I get, you know, I'm

494
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,399
Speaker 1: gonna go out there with confidence and try to make

495
00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:09,840
Speaker 1: for the team as a place kicker. Do you like

496
00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:12,240
Speaker 1: the thirty three yard extra point or not? I mean,

497
00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:14,400
Speaker 1: it makes you more valuable, but it also puts extra

498
00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:16,199
Speaker 1: pressure on So how do you gauge that? You know,

499
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:18,000
Speaker 1: at this point is just part of a job. You know,

500
00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,560
Speaker 1: that's that's where it is, and that's where you know,

501
00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,200
Speaker 1: I have to practice from. And uh, you know it's

502
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:24,840
Speaker 1: it's a challenge. You know, you can't just go out

503
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:26,359
Speaker 1: there and you know, put it on the line. You

504
00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:28,960
Speaker 1: gotta take it like a regular field goal, and um

505
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,680
Speaker 1: it's put in. You know, you gotta pay attention to details. Again,

506
00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:36,359
Speaker 1: growing up in Hawaii, was there anybody that you looked

507
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,439
Speaker 1: up to as a player, Maybe not in football, but

508
00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:40,600
Speaker 1: in other sports? Was there somebody that you looked up

509
00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:42,399
Speaker 1: to maybe from Hawaii? Know, a lot of kids in

510
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 1: Hawaii now talking about Marcus Mariota because he's from there.

511
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,920
Speaker 1: There's somebody for you when you were grown up. Um, yeah,

512
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:49,800
Speaker 1: there's a lot. I watched a lot of sports. I

513
00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:52,200
Speaker 1: watched soccer a lot. Um, Terry Andrie was one of

514
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,359
Speaker 1: my favorite players. Um, Kobe Bryant one of my favorite players.

515
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:58,640
Speaker 1: Those guys you just you know, best of the best.

516
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,880
Speaker 1: They come out there every day, always learning, always competing,

517
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 1: and um, you know I try to do that as

518
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,280
Speaker 1: much as I can in my job. In an emergency

519
00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,120
Speaker 1: that we don't want to see, but if you had

520
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:11,480
Speaker 1: to punt, you can punt right. You've worked on this

521
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 1: a little bit. You know, it's that natural ability of kicking,

522
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 1: you know from soccer days. Um, you know I'll be

523
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 1: able to get out there and get the job done.

524
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 1: Weeks makes it easy on me, puts it right there

525
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:24,200
Speaker 1: on the money. Every worry, he's gonna he's gonna shoot

526
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,919
Speaker 1: you some good snaps. Oh yeah, you know, we'll give him.

527
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:28,720
Speaker 1: We'll give him. We'll tell him that you gave him

528
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:30,360
Speaker 1: some grief in here, and then we'll see oh no,

529
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:33,200
Speaker 1: no, no no, I didn't give him, no gree he's he'll

530
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:37,000
Speaker 1: take that serious. Yeah, what he is? I mean, I mean,

531
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:38,680
Speaker 1: how often do we talk about him on the air

532
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,359
Speaker 1: during the game. Never? Yeah, no, that's that's what you

533
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:44,800
Speaker 1: wank on. Would just exactly what you want. So his

534
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:49,360
Speaker 1: wife cant because his wife is fantastic, I mean, obviously

535
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,000
Speaker 1: his better half. But but the fact that we don't

536
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,639
Speaker 1: mention him during a broadcast is the greatest thing, you know,

537
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:57,359
Speaker 1: is the fact that you don't have to worry about that.

538
00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:59,160
Speaker 1: I like, I like to call them the most slank

539
00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:02,760
Speaker 1: this jobs and f ball, right snapper and holder most thankless.

540
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:06,520
Speaker 1: It's funny because you guys, you three spend so much

541
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,160
Speaker 1: time together, maybe more than we talk about how close

542
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 1: the position groups are, but we never really talk about

543
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 1: the specialists because you guys are together all the time.

544
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:17,120
Speaker 1: I mean, we probably should. And then at rookie camp

545
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,320
Speaker 1: this past weekend, we had three players who had never

546
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:22,360
Speaker 1: met before, and Johnny was saying, those guys don't even

547
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,000
Speaker 1: know each other, and it's just funny in contrast to

548
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 1: what you guys expected. It matters, man. We have a great,

549
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 1: great room. You know, in addition to coach Seeley and Tracy,

550
00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 1: those guys are Those guys are the best. They have

551
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,960
Speaker 1: a lot of enthusiasm. Very good, Thanks a lot for

552
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:40,280
Speaker 1: joining us. Thank you guys there he is, Kaybe Fairbarn

553
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 1: and John Harris stays with us now, Johnny interesting to

554
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,840
Speaker 1: hear from Fairbarn because there's pressure on him. There's always

555
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:48,639
Speaker 1: some pressure on a place kicker. He didn't have the

556
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 1: kind of year he really wanted. And we'll see how

557
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:53,879
Speaker 1: it plays out as he continues his march forward here

558
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 1: with the Houston Texans. Yeah, he's got one thing. I

559
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 1: when I heard him say this, I thought it was

560
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:01,000
Speaker 1: pretty interesting. When you talk about the type of kickoff,

561
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 1: He's like, Hey, if they've got a good kick return,

562
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 1: and I always take a Tyreek Hill, Well, you bang

563
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 1: it in the back of the end zone and you

564
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:08,159
Speaker 1: don't worry about it, he said. But if it's a

565
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 1: team that you want them to return it and don't

566
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,880
Speaker 1: have a great and that's something that he can do.

567
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 1: He's got to be more accurate on This is extra

568
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 1: poiction fuel goals, and I think he's gonna be able

569
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,240
Speaker 1: to do that and do time. But he's got the

570
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 1: leg to be able to do the things you want

571
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 1: with the kickoff. If you don't want Tyree Hill to

572
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 1: run it back, kick that thing through the end zone,

573
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,919
Speaker 1: he's got the leg to do that. But on the kickoffs,

574
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,119
Speaker 1: when he can put it right there at about the

575
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 1: one yard line, just inside the pylon, that is such

576
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,359
Speaker 1: a huge asset. That's a huge asset. We've seen the

577
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,000
Speaker 1: Patriots use that a number of times. Last year. The

578
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 1: Jaguars did that to us right one time because there

579
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:45,880
Speaker 1: was a penalty after an extra point and they moved

580
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 1: the ball to fifty and whoever kicked for them just

581
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:49,719
Speaker 1: popped it up and put it right in at corner

582
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 1: and it was perfect. Couldn't fair catch it because you're

583
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:54,719
Speaker 1: out of the end zone, couldn't take a knee I mean,

584
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 1: and so he had to run it out, got into

585
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:58,359
Speaker 1: the ten yard line. I mean, it's so huge. I

586
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,760
Speaker 1: found it interesting that he said the bulk of his

587
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 1: practice time air quotes, practice is mental, is about the

588
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,919
Speaker 1: mental stuff, is about putting himself in pressure situations and

589
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 1: learning to deal with the pressure. I mean, if that

590
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,400
Speaker 1: doesn't paint the picture for you as far as life

591
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,399
Speaker 1: as a kicker goes, I mean nothing else. Well, I

592
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 1: think I mentioned this to you before. I used to

593
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: do a show with Chris Barr and Happy Valley, the

594
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,439
Speaker 1: former NFL kicker who went to Penn State, and he

595
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 1: was retired at the time, and I just used him

596
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,400
Speaker 1: as an analyst because he was around, he was available,

597
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 1: and he had an interest. Anyway, he told me at

598
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,679
Speaker 1: the time, and I never forgot it. It's all mentally.

599
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 1: He said, you get to this level, we can all

600
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 1: kick the ball through the uprights. We can all do it,

601
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 1: you know, probably nineteen times out of twenty if you

602
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 1: just line us up, maybe twenty out of twenty. The

603
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:46,879
Speaker 1: question is can we do it with pressure? Can we

604
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: do it with the game on the line, with your

605
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: job on the line. That is the differentiator there. The

606
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 1: one thing I always find I think about what kickers

607
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 1: in a game. When you're playing a game as a

608
00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,880
Speaker 1: position player, you just go from one play to the next.

609
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,600
Speaker 1: Your brain never stopped. Your brain never stops, but it's

610
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 1: always going from one to the next. And so in

611
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 1: some sense it sort of does because you gotta erase

612
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,400
Speaker 1: what you just did, go to the next play, race

613
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 1: just did, go to next play. Well, sometimes for a kicker,

614
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 1: that can be thirty forty minutes. Yeah, you know it

615
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,639
Speaker 1: can be. It can be a long time before you

616
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,959
Speaker 1: have to get back out there, and that can end

617
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 1: up being a huge problem because then that just sits

618
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,360
Speaker 1: to man, I just missed a thirty yard or oh man,

619
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 1: and then you sit and you stew and like how

620
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 1: do you get over that? Like how do you get

621
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,360
Speaker 1: over that hurdle of man, I just blew a really

622
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:36,439
Speaker 1: big kick? How do you get past it? Was a player?

623
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 1: Oh man, I just missed a tackle that went for

624
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 1: a fifteen yard game, you just go play the next play,

625
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 1: right in the next play, the next Even a basketball player,

626
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 1: if you're cold shooting, I mean, that's gotta be miserable

627
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 1: as well. But at least you're out there on the floor.

628
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 1: You're running. Maybe you can get a layup, you get reboud,

629
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 1: get you self going in some other way. He can

630
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 1: all right, maybe I have a kickoff or whatever if

631
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: it comes on something, I mean something but that, But

632
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 1: that's really the thing. He may not kick another field

633
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: goal of that game, I mean, be to the next game.

634
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 1: Until you just got to sit with that sitting on

635
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 1: the back of your mind, like, oh man, I can't

636
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Speaker 1: believe I mess that up. Well, some guys get the

637
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 1: opportunity to game to kind of write that and go,

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00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 1: you know, take the next kick within the next quarter,

639
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 1: or take a couple of kicks and you not come

640
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 1: home and you okay, good now I feel all right

641
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 1: now I'm back in it. But that to me is

642
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 1: the biggest mental challenge. Yeah. I mean I look back

643
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 1: at a guy like Neil Rackers, who had kind of

644
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 1: that edge to him, you know, not that he didn't care,

645
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 1: of course he cared, but he just sort of went

646
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Speaker 1: out there and did it, you know. And I think

647
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,239
Speaker 1: Kym has got all the ability in the world. So

648
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:38,040
Speaker 1: you definitely want to see and the fact that he's

649
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Speaker 1: so focused and everything. You want to see that that

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Speaker 1: jump that he's gonna hopefully have between his first full

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00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 1: year of action and year two. All right, let's do

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Speaker 1: this now. I mentioned this to you motivator in college

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00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 1: that the Texans can use as a professional team. And actually,

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Speaker 1: as I say this, let's do this after the break,

655
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 1: I it's the next thing. Also, have a question for

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Speaker 1: you on rushing yards for the Houston Texans. Yeah, they

657
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 1: ran the ball really well when Watson was starting. How

658
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Speaker 1: did they do it? Where did the numbers come from?

659
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Speaker 1: You might be surprised. It's Texans Radio. All right. Finally,

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Speaker 1: as promised, college motivators were welcome you back to the

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Speaker 1: show Texans All Access here in the hunday Texans Radio studio.

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Speaker 1: College motivator that the Texans can use so colleges when

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Speaker 1: they have an upcoming season that begins with a very

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Speaker 1: difficult opponent. The battle cry all offseason long is Alabama

665
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 1: or whoever they're gonna play to open the season. And

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00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 1: it keeps you laser focused because you know, you get

667
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Speaker 1: to have your best foot forward in the NFL. Look,

668
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Speaker 1: it's pros. It doesn't matter who you're opening with. You

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00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 1: could open with Cleveland. Cleveland is going to be better

670
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 1: opening day than you might think. They might. Surprise you,

671
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 1: but to open at New England, Johnny, I think this

672
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: is maybe the toughest opener they've had on paper since

673
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Speaker 1: two thousand and eight at Pittsburgh probably. So the thing

674
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Speaker 1: about it is is crazy. It sounds. It's not a

675
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 1: bad position to be in, I think, because you'll have everybody,

676
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: all things considered and knock on wood, you have everybody

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00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: all back healthy. Right, You're going to a place where

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00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: you haven't won before, so nobody expects you to go

679
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 1: up there and win, even though you went up there

680
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: September and should have won that game last year. So

681
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 1: in some sense, I don't want to say that you're

682
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 1: you're playing with house money, But there's also that thought

683
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 1: of you're eventually gonna beat those guys. I mean, right,

684
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 1: you eventually have got to knock them off, especially when

685
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 1: you've got the talent that you do. If it's all

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00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 1: coming back healthy. So to me, if I know a lot,

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00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 1: as we get closer to that game, there will be

688
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Speaker 1: a lot of excitement I think in the city about

689
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,719
Speaker 1: that game. The one thing I don't want to have happened.

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00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 1: And obviously the season took a turn in two thousand

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00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: and eight because of Hurricane Ike. The second week. But

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Speaker 1: I remember there's a lot of talk about the Texans

693
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Speaker 1: going in two thousand and eight to Pittsburgh and the

694
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 1: nationally there's a who's gonna be the surprise team this

695
00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 1: year and everybody's like, oh that you would look up

696
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 1: for the Houston Texans building match shouts back in the

697
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: second year Andrew Johnson. There's a lot of talk about

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Speaker 1: what they were doing. What the Pittsburgh and got slacked. Now,

699
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 1: that was a good that was a good stealers team,

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00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 1: a team that won the championship that year, but it

701
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 1: was a team that was it was a team that

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Speaker 1: the Texans at that point, it was really tough to

703
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Speaker 1: face them. And I think there was a lot of

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Speaker 1: pressure on the Texans in two thousand and eight because

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Speaker 1: of that, because people were kind of building that up.

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Speaker 1: And I think there will be a lot of pressure

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Speaker 1: on this team to go there, But they've been there

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00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 1: so many times, yeah, and they haven't come through. They

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Speaker 1: haven't won that game. So I feel like at that point,

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Speaker 1: and what's to lose if you go up there and

711
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: you lose what everybody's expecting you to go up there

712
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 1: and lose, right, So you knock this thing out and

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00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: get a win. Surprise that everybody go to Tennessee and win.

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00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 1: That you start towing. Oh, but to me that that

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Speaker 1: game can't be. That game can't be in two thousand.

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Speaker 1: It can't be like in two thousand and eight where

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden you go because you lose that

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00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 1: game to Pittsburgh and you lose the momentum from that game. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think it's a great thing to say in the

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Speaker 1: weight room or out of the field, wherever you are,

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Speaker 1: wherever you're conditioning, getting some work in, to remind yourself

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00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 1: off anyway that you're playing the New England Patriots opening day, Johnny.

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Speaker 1: As far as rushing yards go, we talk about this.

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00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 1: The Texans during that Watson stretch were third in the

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00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 1: league and running the football. And when you look at

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00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 1: the big three running it, and that's Watson, Lamar Miller,

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00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 1: and Deante Foreman, they combined for about one hundred and

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Speaker 1: forty yards per game. And that's big Watson did about

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Speaker 1: forty of it. Now, I'm taking this Cincinnati game as

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Speaker 1: part of that. He had a big day against Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: He ran for fewer yards against the other teams. He

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00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 1: had a big day running the ball. Against Seattle, but

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Speaker 1: he didn't need as big a day obviously against Cleveland, Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: So we're taking averages here. It's not a huge sample,

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00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 1: but it is a sample. Lamar Miller is a player

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Speaker 1: I'm curious about because even though Miller and Foreman didn't

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Speaker 1: average a lot per Carrie, I credit Bill O'Brien with

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Speaker 1: staying with the run, staying with those guys along with

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Speaker 1: Watson in the offense, because if you don't have them

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Speaker 1: trying to run the football, you're not gonna keep that defense,

741
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: to use the cliche, honest, you're not gonna keep that

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00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 1: defense chasing against those guys, which opens up some other

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00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 1: things in a passing game or for a Watson run

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00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:15,320
Speaker 1: on occasion or whatever. Yeah. I think the other aspect

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00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 1: of it is if you're not running the ball, well,

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00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:19,800
Speaker 1: if you're not hammering at least a little bit, then

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00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 1: you're gonna see a lot of either either small nickel

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00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: or dime, and you're gonna let five six dbs be

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Speaker 1: on the field and you're just gonna, you know, run

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Speaker 1: everything to space. Well, you're running into a bunch of dbs,

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00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: you know, five six dbs out there. That's what you

752
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 1: don't want that. You want to be able to say, well,

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00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: look man, it's it's second and four, and you leave

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00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 1: that defense in a quandary like, Okay, well they got

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00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 1: forming in the backfield. Well man, Miller's in the backfield. Now, okay,

756
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 1: we gotta leave our base unit out there, or we

757
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 1: gotta leave our big nickel unit out there. And now

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00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: you can dictate to them what they should be in.

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00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 1: And if you're if you're not running the ball at

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Speaker 1: least inside and keeping teams honest to what you said

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00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 1: a little while ago, then you don't allow them to

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Speaker 1: do that. And that made that ends up being you know,

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00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: they dictate to you, and you don't want that. You

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Speaker 1: want to be able to dictate to them. And if

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Speaker 1: you're able to pound inside, and that's why I think

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00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:15,640
Speaker 1: guy like Deante Foreman ends up being huge if he

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00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 1: comes back healthy, because he can take that pounding inside,

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00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 1: he can pound the rocket inside, but he's also got

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Speaker 1: the speed to bounce outside, which we saw against the Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: But how do you if you're facing the Texans and

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00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:28,720
Speaker 1: you're sitting back there and Watsons and the backfield with Foreman,

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Speaker 1: just those two guys alone, I mean, I'm not even

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Speaker 1: concerned about what else is there. How do you play that?

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00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:37,720
Speaker 1: If you're a defense, how do you play that? Because

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00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 1: that's a definite play action set because you fake foreman

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00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 1: in also and everybody's gonna button. You play a lot

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Speaker 1: of linebackers against that. If the Texans have Anderson and

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Speaker 1: Griffin on the field, what ends up with your defensive front?

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Speaker 1: Do you? I mean, that's more with two tight ends.

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00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 1: Are they gonna run the ball? But boy, they're really

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00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 1: good pass receivers. I think this offense can put people

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00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:01,239
Speaker 1: on a lot of different off situations. And I think

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Speaker 1: a great example of what happens when you run the

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Speaker 1: ball and run it well is what happened against Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: Because against Tennessee, when they came off and bang bang

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Speaker 1: bang scored the first three drives, Tennessee came down and

787
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: scored it made twenty one seven, and I remember Bill

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Speaker 1: Brian went run, run, run, run, and they took chunks

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Speaker 1: of yards. Yeah, and just ran Lamar Miller and just

790
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: chunk chunk chunk, And it was like they went right

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00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: down the field. Now, they kicked the fuel goal, but

792
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,920
Speaker 1: they just took huge chunks and kind of took the

793
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:36,319
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage back over with the run game, and

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00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 1: then when they wanted to open it up a little

795
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:39,400
Speaker 1: bit later on, they were able to open it up

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00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 1: later on. But to be able to have that to

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00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,880
Speaker 1: go to the well and find it, it's like a pitcher.

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00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 1: When I go to the I can find the change up.

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00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 1: I can go find it when I need it. I

800
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 1: don't need it all the time, but when I when

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00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 1: I need it, I know it's there. And I think

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00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 1: that's the big thing about the running game. If you

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00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:55,799
Speaker 1: know it's there and you can go to it, then

804
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 1: you have that advantage against the defense that at that

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00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,239
Speaker 1: point he's like, man, they've hit us with everything, and

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00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 1: now they're gonna bury us with the run game. A man,

807
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: We're in a lot of trouble. We mentioned big takeaways

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00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 1: from interviews we did during Texans Media Days, which are

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00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 1: really internal media days or for the national networks NBC, CBS, Fox, ESPN.

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00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 1: One other takeaway I had is meeting Sammy Coats for

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Speaker 1: the first time, talking to him for the first time

812
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: I've seen him in the building. But you know, he

813
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 1: was always with the group of wide receivers, never had

814
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 1: a chance to really say hello and introduce myself. And

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00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 1: he is a big individual. I think that he's the

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00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 1: biggest receiver here since I don't know Andrey Johnson. I mean,

817
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 1: and I'm saying he's Adrey Johnson, but he's that kind

818
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 1: of guy size wise. And Dorin Dickerson did they draft

819
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 1: him as a wide receiver. It was like wide receiver

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00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:46,760
Speaker 1: tight end, yeah, h back kind of. I mean, Doran

821
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,400
Speaker 1: was kind on the size of Stephen Anderson. Yeah he was.

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00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 1: I mean he really was. And so they try to

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00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: make him a tight He just never really, you don't

824
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: really fit well. Dorn never caught the ball that well,

825
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: and he didn't catch it like Stephen. And that's why

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00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 1: Stephen's gonna end up be in his league for a

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00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:00,879
Speaker 1: long time because he can catch the foot ball. But

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Speaker 1: I can't wait. I mean, look, we've seen Sammy play

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00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: for other teams, but we see speed now, and we're

830
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 1: used to seeing guys with speed. We've seen Will Fuller run, right, Look,

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Speaker 1: nobody runs like will Sammy Coats can Sammy Coach can fly.

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Speaker 1: It's just a matter of can he do it? A,

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00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 1: can you stay healthy enough to do it right? And

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Speaker 1: b once he's got a guy beat. Can you go

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Speaker 1: catch the football and do it consistently, because if he does,

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00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 1: that's a gem. That's a gem as a waiver claim

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Speaker 1: if he can do that. Because you have a downfield

838
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:33,320
Speaker 1: threat at his size who can play in special teams,

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00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 1: they can run the way he can. I mean, that's

840
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 1: that's fine. That's found money in your pocket. Whether he

841
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 1: can catch or not. Obviously you'd prefer him snaring the football, yes,

842
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,399
Speaker 1: but the thing is you've got to cover him. You've

843
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,839
Speaker 1: got an oh my gosh, you know, let's watch out

844
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:50,279
Speaker 1: for him. So he's gonna draw attention from safeties from

845
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: time to time because they're not gonna want to leave

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Speaker 1: him a little. You get Fuller and him in the

847
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Speaker 1: game along with DeAndre Hopkins. We talked about the other weapons. Wow, look,

848
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Speaker 1: this could be really special, and you got the feeling

849
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 1: that the players are very excited about what they're being

850
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,359
Speaker 1: taught about this offense. Bill O'Brien said they were going

851
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 1: to revamp the offense, or he didn't use that word

852
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Speaker 1: he said. I mean, he didn't say redesign either, but

853
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Speaker 1: he talked about it being new, brand new offense. Look,

854
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be brand new, but they're gonna be

855
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Speaker 1: some brand new items to it, some elements to it

856
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Speaker 1: that are really gonna make a difference out on the field. Yeah,

857
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Speaker 1: no question. I'm I'm excited to see. And I've said

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Speaker 1: to a lot of people when they asked me, I said,

859
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Speaker 1: my gut tells me that it's building off of what

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Speaker 1: they've done, because why what you did with Deshaun, Why

861
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Speaker 1: would you want to go away from that? I don't

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Speaker 1: think you will, but I think it'll just be building

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Speaker 1: on what you've done. Now, the question becomes how many

864
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: different layers can you take? I mean, does end up

865
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:42,359
Speaker 1: being like a tree that grows off in so many

866
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 1: different You have so many different things that you can

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Speaker 1: pull from. That, to me is what I think could happen.

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Speaker 1: Because you could play with Bruce Ellington and Kiqtiana Field together,

869
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Speaker 1: both them in the slot, with DeAndre and Will out wide.

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00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,359
Speaker 1: You could put Stephen Anderson Ryan Griffin in those same

871
00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 1: spots with two tight ends, or you can Jordan Thomas

872
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 1: Jordan Aikins in those spots but your tight ends. You

873
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 1: can put two running backs on the field with two

874
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:06,879
Speaker 1: wide receivers in the tight I mean, there's so many

875
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,239
Speaker 1: different things that you can do with the personnel. It's

876
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:11,799
Speaker 1: the matter of keeping everybody healthy and then making sure

877
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,399
Speaker 1: everybody's on the same page, and then protecting number four.

878
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 1: I mean, look, we can talk about running game, we

879
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:17,840
Speaker 1: talked about our receivers, were talking about everything, but you

880
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 1: better protect number four. Seeing Watson take his photos with

881
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 1: some of the network people in a full uniform, I

882
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 1: was just thinking, Oh my gosh, can we please kick

883
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 1: the ball please? All right? Johnny, thanks a lot, Yeah, Mark,

884
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 1: thank you. Finally tonight, we did tell you that it

885
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,720
Speaker 1: was media days where we do a lot of video

886
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 1: stuff with the players for NBC, the major networks, Fox, ESPN, CBS.

887
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 1: They're all here shooting the video board intro for games.

888
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 1: And the kid reporters were at it again season three

889
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,799
Speaker 1: and VK is here otherwise known as Vander Kid, but

890
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 1: he's sort of elevated his game to VK. How is

891
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 1: kid reporter? Today? It was really good, you know, like

892
00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 1: we got the same we got different people, but some

893
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 1: people you've had every year, right like JJ Watt, Yeah,

894
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 1: pretty much, and some people leieve some people come over

895
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:13,480
Speaker 1: to the team from other places. Now, what about Deshaun Watson,

896
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: What was that interview? Like it was like a lot

897
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 1: of positive vibes. Basically, do you feel it aura being

898
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 1: around him? You? Did you feel his presence? Yeah? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Who else? Now, you did talk to Christian Covington? I believe, Yeah,

900
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 1: he's always good. Yeah. What about Honey Batcher? Did you

901
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 1: speak with him? Yeah? He was our first first We

902
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 1: were a little bit rusty and like warming up, but

903
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 1: his was pretty good. He got the idea. Now, last

904
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: year training camp you interviewed Bill O'Brien. Yes, and are

905
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 1: you going to do that again this year? Is that

906
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 1: something that you would like to do? Why wouldn't I? Yeah,

907
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:53,840
Speaker 1: that's a good that's a good response, I guess. And

908
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:56,839
Speaker 1: the video game talk, I know you've been asking them

909
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:58,919
Speaker 1: about video games since you started this thing a few

910
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,880
Speaker 1: years ago. What's the hot video game right now? I

911
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 1: already know the answer to this question. Fortnite? So do

912
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 1: they play Fortnite? Do these players participate in from I

913
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 1: would say most players do. I heard a rumor that

914
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Speaker 1: you were getting their video game Fortnite handles. Yes, all right,

915
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 1: so you might be able to play online with these

916
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:20,839
Speaker 1: guys now yes, Oh my gosh, do you think they're

917
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Speaker 1: any good? Like? Are you good? At Fortnite said Will

918
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Speaker 1: Fuller was really good. So all right, did you talk

919
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Speaker 1: to Will Fuller or no? Yeah? And like I figured out,

920
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:35,280
Speaker 1: the majority of people most slabs are like on PS four,

921
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: but actually a lot of them were on Xbox. Okay, good,

922
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: so you're on Xbox two, right, yeah, all right, cool,

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Speaker 1: all right, thanks a lot. VK all right. VK, otherwise

924
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:46,359
Speaker 1: known as Vander Kid, joining us here to close out

925
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Speaker 1: this show. So look for Kid reporters throughout the summer.

926
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Speaker 1: We're gonna start rerunning some of the classic ones to

927
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Speaker 1: get you ready for that. And let's get you ready

928
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Speaker 1: for a lot of things like tomorrow night's show with

929
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Speaker 1: John Harris, and we'll do a lot of fun things

930
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Speaker 1: in that program. Trust me. Follow the Texans at Texans

931
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 1: or at Houston Texans on Twitter and go to the

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Speaker 1: website Houston Texans dot com. Download that app. That's the

933
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 1: best way to follow. Download the Texans app wherever you

934
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:14,399
Speaker 1: download apps. Have a great night everyone. Thank you Eddie

935
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Speaker 1: for producing, Thank you John Harris for being on the show.

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Speaker 1: Callamy Fairbairn for being on the show. Gallant at Night

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Speaker 1: is next. Go Texans,