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Speaker 1: What's happened? Everybody? Welcome to Wednesdayedshit of Texans All Access

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Speaker 1: from Monday, Texans a Radio studio. I'm your host, Jean Harris,

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Speaker 1: football analyst, sideline reporter for your Houston Texans and glad

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Speaker 1: to be with you as always, and we're gonna make

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Speaker 1: a lot of Notre Dame fans happy on the show

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Speaker 1: this evening because we're gonna have two of the three domers,

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Speaker 1: actually four we have. We have Blake Fisher and Ben Skronic,

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Speaker 1: but the two you're gonna hear tonight are Jared Patterson

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Speaker 1: and Kurt Heinish. A little later in the show, you

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Speaker 1: also gonna hear from one of my favorites. We'll tell

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Speaker 1: the story a little bit later in the show, Khalil Davis.

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Speaker 1: He will join us as well. But we're gonna kick

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Speaker 1: off our Wednesday show with my man Drew Doherty and I.

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Speaker 1: We went in the lab.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: The impetus for our thoughts on in the lab today

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Speaker 1: stem from essentially a one word post on ex Twitter

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Speaker 1: by the Texans main account said underrated. Now you could

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Speaker 1: take underrated a lot of different directions, but Drew and

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Speaker 1: I decided to really kind of geek out on in

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Speaker 1: the Lab and discuss who we thought were some of

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Speaker 1: the great unknown, the underrated, if you will, the Houston

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Speaker 1: prior to that as well as we thought about them.

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Speaker 1: So we had fun. I post them on Twitter. Drew

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Speaker 1: will tell you one that when you hear it at first,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna be like underrated really, and then you think

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Speaker 1: So definitely stay tuned for that. It's time for in

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Speaker 1: the Lab under Rated.

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Speaker 3: Here we go, Hello, friends in the Lab time Me,

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Speaker 3: Drew Doherty, John Harris, and you, not y'all, but you.

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Speaker 3: So the three of us, we're enjoying this and we

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Speaker 3: appreciate you watching, appreciate you listening. But John, first things first,

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Speaker 3: it's good to be with you. How are you, my friend?

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Speaker 2: What's new?

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Speaker 1: Dude? Okay? Getting man? I'll tell you this. It's so

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Speaker 1: funny because in the last probably two three days, I've

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Speaker 1: had Hey, can I get at lunch with you? Can

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Speaker 1: I can I get Can I get a meeting with you?

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Speaker 1: Before you know camp starts? I'm like, man, this Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame game has just put a crypt in my

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Speaker 1: style for meetings, which is good and bad. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I can't, I can't get anything done. I'm like, well, okay,

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Speaker 1: if you want to do it. After the fourth I

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Speaker 1: go to Big twelve Media Days for three four days.

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Speaker 1: Then the next week I go to SEC Media Days

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Speaker 1: starting on that Thursday. So I'll let you figure it out.

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Speaker 1: So it's been tough trying to get anything done, which

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Speaker 1: is kind of good. So it's kind of the calm

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Speaker 3: How are you doing, I'm good. You just brought up

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Speaker 3: Pro Football Hall of Fame in the Hall of Fame game,

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Speaker 3: and I'm I'm gonna be a jerk. I'm gonna be

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna tease something I can't I can't live to

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Speaker 3: the public. But Andre Johnson, obviously he's going to the

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Speaker 3: Profooball Hall of Fame. It's inducted third. We got something

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Speaker 3: just gonna leave it at that, just like, yeah, there's

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Speaker 3: Andre Johnson. But John on social media. That's right on

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Speaker 3: social media. On Twitter recently the Houston Texans team account,

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Speaker 3: what I thought was a really good tweet and it

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Speaker 3: just was underrated. In quotes, which former Texans player comes

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Speaker 3: did other people think? Mark put up put a response

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Speaker 3: the stuff that's popping up, like how many people remember

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Speaker 3: the Ninja Assassin. That's a good one, Antonio Smith until

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Speaker 3: Jonathan Joseph came along. That's the greatest free agent signing

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Speaker 1: And I reacted to that. Because Ninja will join our

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Speaker 1: buddy Indy Kalou on Texas All Access on Friday. That

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Speaker 3: Was he in studio or was he on Zoom?

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Speaker 1: No, he was on zoom. He was on Zoom. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm on Green. Came in studio to chop it up

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Speaker 1: So Ninja Antonio Smith on Friday, I'm on Green on Tuesday.

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Speaker 3: That's awesome. You know, I want to stick with Antonio

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Speaker 1: He was.

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Speaker 3: He came in two thousand and nine, coming off a

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Speaker 3: a seas in twenty thirteen, and he was just so

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Speaker 3: much fun. But he was a Pro Bowler in twenty eleven.

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Speaker 3: People forget that he made the Pro Bowl. There were

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Speaker 3: Bowlers from a team that had Andre Johnson and Arian Foster.

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Speaker 3: But those were your three and Antonio Smith was a big,

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Speaker 3: That went nine and seven, and then he was here

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Speaker 3: very good, you know, and definitely I think that's a

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Speaker 3: great call. He is underrated. He was underrated as a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know. The the hard part to me is like,

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Speaker 1: how do you how do you assess the word underrated?

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Speaker 1: You know, it's somebody, yeah exactly, because everybody's got their

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Speaker 1: So some guys we feel like, oh they might this

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Speaker 1: but look, it's everybody's personal definition. I think Ninja falls

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Speaker 1: that sounds bizarre in some respects, but that was not

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Speaker 1: something First of all, it's not something that's done a

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: Secondly, it's not.

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Speaker 3: Historically or currently historically or.

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Speaker 1: Correctly, and b or two it hadn't been done here

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Speaker 1: But Mario Williams, Antonio Smith and I'm trying to remember

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Speaker 1: In two thousand and nine, they're all jumping off side.

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Speaker 1: Ninja jumps off side, and all of a sudden, Antonio

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Speaker 3: No, let me let me add a corollary to that.

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Speaker 3: That's a great story. I love hearing that story. And

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Speaker 3: you talked about Bill Kohlar. Bill Colar was a really

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Speaker 3: good player in his own right, excellent assistant coach for

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Speaker 3: Smith being an odds that day that all got mended up.

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Speaker 3: Those guys I think are friends now. I know Colar

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Speaker 3: and a lot of former Texans defensive linemen. They still

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Speaker 3: never be able. I'll never be able to forget the

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Speaker 3: stay up Bill Cohlar always yelling stay up, like don't

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Speaker 3: fall down on the field because battles runs in practice

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Speaker 3: when you're on the ground, if you're a football players,

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Speaker 3: and then that's the idea him yelling, that's the idea

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Speaker 3: above above everything else at practice fields over at the

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Speaker 3: Houston Methodist Training Center. Good call.

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Speaker 4: I like that.

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Speaker 1: I like that as it pertains to that if we're

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Speaker 1: talking about underrated, maybe Bill Colar doesn't get his due

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Speaker 1: as a defensive line coach and how good he actually

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Speaker 1: was sure the guys that he got a chance to coach,

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Speaker 1: So maybe he can think about.

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Speaker 3: It, think about that he survived and was here for

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Speaker 3: three different coordinators. He was a Frank Bush defensive line coach.

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Speaker 3: Wade Phillips kept him on, and then Gary Kubiak the

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Speaker 3: a year with cronell So, and that's that's a four

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Speaker 3: to three to two different type of three fours. Yes,

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Speaker 3: Wade and Romeo ran three fours, but they're different. So

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Speaker 3: it's pretty I think it's a measure of who how

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Speaker 3: great he is as and was as a coach. That

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So mind that I had tweeted or boasted

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Speaker 1: made a Pro Bowl and I think that is an

431
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Speaker 1: absolute crime. And now he's with the line, so see

432
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Speaker 1: him at Energy Stadium. I think it's the first time

433
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Speaker 1: back at Energy Stadium for him as a player. He's

434
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Speaker 1: never made a Pro Bowl because you know, he's never

435
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Speaker 1: really had the numbers. You know, sacks won two, two

436
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Speaker 1: and a half, all that kind of stuff, TFLs, He's

437
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Speaker 1: got a few here and there, but he did all

438
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Speaker 1: the dirty work, and he always did it with a

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Speaker 1: smilest face, and he was just one of the most

440
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Speaker 1: stand up individuals you'd ever want to meet. I love

441
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Speaker 1: that dude, man. I wish him the best in the

442
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Speaker 1: Detroit except for one week this year, and I'll root

443
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Speaker 1: for Detroit solely because of him. So I'm going underrated.

444
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Speaker 1: DJ Reader.

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Speaker 3: I like that I'm glad you got to hug him

446
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Speaker 3: at the game because I was. You know, also, you

447
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,840
Speaker 3: don't always get that chance, you know, because you become

448
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Speaker 3: friends with players right that wind up leaving. And I

449
00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:52,000
Speaker 3: got it. I was going I was sort of in

450
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Speaker 3: the same situation. I was down at the end of

451
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Speaker 3: the field watching them as they're stretched and he was

452
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Speaker 3: sort of on the corner and I'm in the like

453
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Speaker 3: as close as you can get. But I was like, well,

454
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Speaker 3: he's not gonna he's not gonna be able to come over.

455
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:09,080
Speaker 3: He's too busy. And then and then Brad Wilson are paramedic,

456
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,800
Speaker 3: longtime paramedic. You see him on the Astros bench. You

457
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 3: see him on the Texans sideline. Great at what he does.

458
00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:17,159
Speaker 3: He's you know, he's close to the field, he's on

459
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Speaker 3: the field. He just like walks right over about two

460
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Speaker 3: yards from him, like waves and hej gets up and

461
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Speaker 3: gives him a hug. And as he's doing so, I'm

462
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Speaker 3: in I'm in DJ's sideline and I just kind of

463
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:30,439
Speaker 3: said what's up, and he came over and gave me

464
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Speaker 3: the bro hug too. But it was good. We had

465
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Speaker 3: a lot of fun doing radio shows with him. At

466
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Speaker 3: fudd Rockers over the years and doing fun interviews with him,

467
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Speaker 3: and yeah, he's.

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Speaker 1: He's totally underrated, man, totally completely underrated.

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Speaker 3: With a capital U. All right, man, well it's you're underrated, dude,

470
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Speaker 3: You're come on, So I'll put that out there. But

471
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Speaker 3: we we had fun doing this one. We back at

472
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Speaker 3: it again in a week and like I said, man,

473
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Speaker 3: the guy that I chose is underrated Andre Johnson. We

474
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Speaker 3: got something cooking with him. Trust me, you're gonna like

475
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Speaker 3: what you'll see you in particular, I believe you will

476
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Speaker 3: like it. John, have a go one, bro.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Man, all right, that was some fun stuff going

478
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Speaker 1: back and reliving those careers Ninja, Andre Johnson, obviously, Quinn

479
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Speaker 1: Dempse with my dude, DJ Reader man he and Alee McNeil.

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Speaker 1: Ooh boy, that's gonna be.

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Speaker 2: Tough, all right.

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Speaker 1: Some careers that are in motion here with the Texans,

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Speaker 1: a couple of Notre Dame guys. They're gonna join Mark

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Speaker 1: player or former one, always Irish, but well former player

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Speaker 1: because now they're Texans, you could sit with either Jared

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Speaker 1: Patterson or Kurt Heiinez. You could take your pick. Well,

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Speaker 1: I took the pick, and we're gonna kick off our

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Speaker 1: two on one Mark and I see down with Notre

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Speaker 1: Dame former Notre Dame football players. We got a Ben

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Speaker 1: Scronick interview somewhere too as well. Uh and I think

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Speaker 1: we have a draft night with Blake Fisher, so that

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Speaker 1: would be all four, but we're gonna hear it to

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Speaker 1: them tonight. Let's start with starting center to kick off

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Speaker 1: last year, Jared Patterson. We had a good time the

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Speaker 1: first time we had a chance to talk to JP

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Speaker 1: and he was a great interview to take a listen

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Speaker 1: right here.

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Speaker 4: Jared Patterson with us. Okay, JAREDT you did some really

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Speaker 4: good things last year. What's it like heading into year

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Speaker 4: two this offseason, now that you're not a rookie anymore

527
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Speaker 4: and all that pre draft stuff, post draft stuff is

528
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Speaker 4: out of the way now you're a veteran. What's that

529
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Speaker 4: like for you?

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Speaker 5: Oh man, it's a lot nicer, Like have like a

531
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Speaker 5: whole off seating to yourself. Don't like the combine training

532
00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:58,720
Speaker 5: pre draft pro day, like just be on the fogus,

533
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Speaker 5: like no one what to expect. Like the biggest thing,

534
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Speaker 5: I mean, first comers a rookie got, like all the

535
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Speaker 5: extra meetings, you know, staying, staying after all the vets,

536
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 5: get the leave for summer break, stuff like that. But

537
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,919
Speaker 5: like now knowing what to expect, it's so nice, like

538
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 5: being able to get like a taste of NFL playing

539
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 5: speed and strength, Like I know, I now know where

540
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Speaker 5: I need to focus on going into my second year.

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Speaker 1: So one of the things that we heard, I think

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Speaker 1: Will talked about it a lot. He said, your rookie

543
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Speaker 1: group was pretty close. He said, you guys were pretty tight.

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Speaker 1: Obviously you know CJ's quarterback, you're a center, so you

545
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Speaker 1: guys I could see getting close. But did you feel

546
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Speaker 1: that way like last year's a rookie group one that

547
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Speaker 1: is going to leave a mark on this organization in

548
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Speaker 1: a positive way. That you guys were that close. So

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Speaker 1: that was a good group. And how did that chemistry

550
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Speaker 1: kind of help your group kind of filter through to

551
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Speaker 1: the rest of the team and build that camaraderie you

552
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Speaker 1: guys had last year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty cool.

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Speaker 5: I mean, we were like a really good rookie development

555
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 5: staff here in Houston, and they played like probably a

556
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Speaker 5: big part of us, like bonding together. I mean this

557
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 5: time for these guys now, like we're meeting every Monday

558
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Speaker 5: for Friday, every single day together, so we're getting that chemistry.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna know each other what we're about.

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Speaker 5: And then we had a lot of guys last week,

561
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Speaker 5: a pretty big class of draft and undrafted guys, so

562
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Speaker 5: it really all bonded together because for all of us,

563
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Speaker 5: this is brand new, no matter if you know CJ

564
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Speaker 5: the second overall pick or guys who aren't drafted, we're

565
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Speaker 5: all learning this together. So our experiences every day we

566
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Speaker 5: kind of have to talk about it and laugh at

567
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Speaker 5: at the end of the day. But now, I mean,

568
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Speaker 5: this is a really tight knit group and guys are

569
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Speaker 5: still close. We're always checking on each other and there's

570
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Speaker 5: really a special group of guys.

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Speaker 4: Give me the scouting report on Blake Fisher please, Well Blake, Yeah, Blake, Blake,

572
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Speaker 4: he's my guy.

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Speaker 5: He's a young buck. I mean I remember when he

574
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Speaker 5: came in Notre Dame early in role. I mean he's

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Speaker 5: only seventeen and he was young. Really he's had allowed

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Speaker 5: to figure out. But I remember he learned so fast,

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Speaker 5: and you know he knew he specially I mean his

578
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Speaker 5: I think he's the first ever Notre Dame freshman to

579
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Speaker 5: start left tackleing like program's history.

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Speaker 4: So he came in pretty big, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he was large. Yeah, they put it nicely. He

582
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Speaker 2: would say thing too. He had to He had a

583
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Speaker 2: little baby fat to shut off, for sure.

584
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Speaker 4: But a lot of old linemen go to college and

585
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 4: they're not where they quite need to be yet. Right,

586
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 4: It's not just Wade, it's muscle and all that. How

587
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Speaker 4: hard is it to get up to speed, especially that

588
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Speaker 4: I know at the NFL level it's a whole other dimension.

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Speaker 4: But what about that getting into the proper size and

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Speaker 4: frame to play high level college.

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Speaker 2: For Yeah, yeah, he had to learn a lot.

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Speaker 5: I mean it's fundamentally like his stance, need to work

593
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Speaker 5: his sets his hands, but I mean me, stay consistent

594
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 5: every day and took the coaching and got a lot better.

595
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Speaker 5: And to see him progress the years I was there

596
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Speaker 5: is pretty cool. And I remember we we had talked

597
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 5: right before the draft. He said, you know, he thought

598
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Speaker 5: there's a chance he leaned in Houston and I was like,

599
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Speaker 5: I'm like, i'd be awesome, but there's thirty one other teams,

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Speaker 5: Like what are the odds?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember he was.

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Speaker 5: You know, he called me right before they announced it

603
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Speaker 5: like liters, you got the fund with a coach and

604
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Speaker 5: Nick Man.

605
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he was. He's excited.

606
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 5: It's it's so surreal to see you guys, you know,

607
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 5: in the meeting room with in college and sitting next

608
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Speaker 5: to him in meetings now in the NFL, Like it's

609
00:29:58,200 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 5: pretty crazy.

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Speaker 2: I'm super happy for him.

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Speaker 1: We must have been a third call, Mark, yeah, because

612
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Speaker 1: we interviewed on the draft, so coaching.

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Speaker 5: Definitely a second third.

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Speaker 1: Last year as a rookie, imagine everything goes on in

615
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Speaker 1: the trenches. Do you have kind of a welcome to

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Speaker 1: the NFL moment, whether it was just kind of looking

617
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Speaker 1: around at stadium like, oh my god, I'm playing in

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Speaker 1: the NFL, Like did you have a welcome in the

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Speaker 1: NFL moment, and what was it? Maybe it happened in camp.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean playing, Yeah, I.

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Speaker 5: Knew, like going to Week one, starting on like allright,

622
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Speaker 5: I'm a six round pick. I'm like, I know the

623
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Speaker 5: bar for me, I'm always gonna say to high, but

624
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Speaker 5: I know the narrative.

625
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Speaker 2: Yeah, when I'm not blind, I gout supposed to be too.

626
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Speaker 5: But like the narrative is like people don't have expectations

627
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Speaker 5: for me, so I can go and just play the

628
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Speaker 5: worst game ever and it's like, oh, we're not surprised

629
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Speaker 5: his rookie six round pick. But I knew for myself,

630
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 5: I'm like I can do this, like there's no pressure

631
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,479
Speaker 5: on me at all. Right, So that's kind of my mindset,

632
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 5: but I'm probably might welcome the NFL. It was probably

633
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Speaker 5: a Week two against the Colts, playing Grover Stewart. Yeah yeah,

634
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Speaker 5: Like I remember guys were telling me, like the story was.

635
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Speaker 5: I remember I was like in the locker room and

636
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Speaker 5: Malie Collins like never really talked to him, like he's

637
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 5: more reserve, quiet guy, and he just walked by me.

638
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 5: He's like got Grove this week, huh. It just kept

639
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 5: walking like what I remember the first place I got

640
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 5: lit up. I was like, all right, like I gotta

641
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 5: buckle up. Now, that's something one else. Stick with me

642
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 5: for a while, Patterson with us.

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Speaker 4: All Right, in your bio, you spend time in England.

644
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Speaker 4: You were born in Miami, but you went to England.

645
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Speaker 4: What's the background on that.

646
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Speaker 5: Yeah, So both my parents met in uh, Miami, Florida.

647
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 5: I was born there along with my brother, older brother.

648
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 5: There After my dad got the military, he kind of

649
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 5: got into like like computer technology work, and then after

650
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 5: there i'd lived there Miami for a few years, we

651
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 5: had moved to England.

652
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 2: I was young.

653
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 5: I don't really know much at the time, but like

654
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 5: now reflecting on it, it was a crazy experience. I mean,

655
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 5: we have to go with like Europe. I mean went

656
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 5: to Italy. It's like an hour or something flight. Wow,

657
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 5: took a ferry across water to France. So I got

658
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 5: to see a lot of cool stuff when I was younger, Like,

659
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 5: I'll never forget that. A lot of people don't have

660
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 5: that chance to do, so it's pretty surreal. And live

661
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 5: there for a couple of years and moved to California

662
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 5: and my parents' mo out there ever since.

663
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: So is California where you consider home? You went to

664
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 1: Mission Viejo. Yeah, yeah, I could say California home. Okay,

665
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: So I'll ask a question Texas high school football California

666
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 1: high school football. I know a lot of California high

667
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 1: schools have played Texas high schools and vice versa. Did

668
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 1: you ever have a chance to do that? And how

669
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: many arguments were critics? I know Notre Dame's got some

670
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 1: Texans in that roster that get that fight going about

671
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 1: Texas high school versus California high school Jared Patterson.

672
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 5: Your response, I will say, knowing driving by like through

673
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 5: Texas seeing the high schools, I don't obviously anything like

674
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 5: that in California. Plus I know here they have padded

675
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 5: springball practice. It's not like yeah, I don't think that's

676
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 5: allowed in California. I mean that's legal, So they're not

677
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 5: doing that. As far as competition, I mean there's some

678
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 5: I mean I don't know. Then there's obviously a couple

679
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 5: of the power high houses. Yeah, like the training leagues

680
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 5: was like modern day Bosco and even some years probably

681
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 5: like data sounds pretty good. I mean as far as

682
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 5: like over, I mean there's so many great Texas schools

683
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 5: throughout the state.

684
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 4: Kurt Heinish one more offensive lineman personality or no, what.

685
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 2: Do you think?

686
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 5: Oh come on, yes, not close. He always jokes. I

687
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 5: remember college used to always juggle out, you know, playing

688
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 5: some center.

689
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 2: Today.

690
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 5: I'm like, Kurt, be careful. I'm like, you know you're

691
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 5: gonna snapping the football the rest of your career. He's

692
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 5: a great deal. He's definitely offensive line person.

693
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, we definitely have got an ordinary flavor. So we're

694
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: gonna ask you. Marcus Freeman and the Irish this year,

695
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 1: big year. They start the year at A and M.

696
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 1: It's gonna be huge. Thoughts on the Irish going into

697
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 1: the season.

698
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, that first gamesud be tough.

699
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was playing on telling Freeman, I'm like, you

700
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 5: better get those guys out there for the hottest practice.

701
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 2: I mean South Bend it gets humid.

702
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 5: But oh yeah, this is a different conversation. No, it's different.

703
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 5: I remember we played Florida State. We opened in Tallahasse.

704
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 5: I was like, we got off the plan. I was like,

705
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 5: oh my goodness, I'm like this you mad and it's

706
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 5: gonna be worse there new coaching staff, obviously, I know.

707
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 5: I text a and m is like one of the

708
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:11,799
Speaker 5: craziest places to play in all of America. So then

709
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 5: for a challenge if they can pull that one off though,

710
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:15,959
Speaker 5: I mean they got a chance with the new college

711
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 5: football playoff expansion.

712
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 2: Yep, that's exciting.

713
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 4: We'll see soon enough. Jared, thanks a lot for joining us, Good.

714
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 2: Luck, thank you, appreciate you guys.

715
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 1: Yeah. I love the fact that Jared Patterson was the

716
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,799
Speaker 1: first guy on the phone with Blake Fisher and then

717
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,839
Speaker 1: hearing the excitement of those two being back together. Very

718
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 1: very cool. Now, Kurt Heinis has been with his team

719
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 1: since twenty twenty two. He was undrafted free agent out

720
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 1: of Notre Dame and I remember thinking, man, this is

721
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,280
Speaker 1: a good signing. I like this signing at the time,

722
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 1: and it's gotten better and better and better. Hi spakes

723
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 1: the team in twenty twenty two. He then takes his

724
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:48,359
Speaker 1: game to a higher level in twenty twenty three, and

725
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 1: he's got more in store, I think for twenty twenty four.

726
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 1: So I'm excited. Let's listen and here from Kurt Heinis

727
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:54,879
Speaker 1: with me and.

728
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 4: Mark mister Heinish and studio with us. Okay, salty veteran, Now,

729
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 4: what's this soft season, like for you getting ready now

730
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:05,839
Speaker 4: that you're fully acclimated. I mean it feels like you've

731
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 4: been in for a while now. How does it feel

732
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:07,759
Speaker 4: to you?

733
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it definitely feels like I'm going on

734
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 6: to year three for sure.

735
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:12,800
Speaker 4: Uh.

736
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 6: You know the off season was just full of, you know,

737
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,320
Speaker 6: just sharpening your tools that you kind of already created

738
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 6: for yourself and getting bigger, faster, and stronger. You know,

739
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 6: I put on some weight this offseason, like good weight

740
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 6: that I feel like, and uh, I feel like I'm

741
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 6: as strong as I've ever been, So feel good.

742
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 4: How do you go about doing that? How do you

743
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 4: put on good weight?

744
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 6: Eating correctly? Shout out to Lad Harris, Yes, Jacob and

745
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:40,439
Speaker 6: Amy and the nutrition office. Uh, you know, our our

746
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 6: support staff does a great job. Mike you Banks and

747
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 6: his crew does a great job. So I mean just

748
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 6: a combined effort of all them and myself. You know,

749
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,400
Speaker 6: they kind of, you know, show me the way and

750
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 6: I kind of just have to walk. That's pretty much

751
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:55,360
Speaker 6: how it's done.

752
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 1: You have been the I don't want to call you

753
00:35:57,960 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: the o G, but you've really kind of been the

754
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:01,879
Speaker 1: push for all these notre dame players getting in the building.

755
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 1: Because you get in here at twenty twenty two, and

756
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 1: then Patterson comes into twenty three, then Blake comes in,

757
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,400
Speaker 1: and then Skirnic comes in. I mean, what is it

758
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,359
Speaker 1: that you did that got this organization so hopped up

759
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:14,959
Speaker 1: on Notre Dame Irish coming in here.

760
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 6: I just think I don't think it's anything that I did.

761
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 6: I just think it's kind of, you know, what's been

762
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:23,399
Speaker 6: kind of instilled in me, you know, going there from

763
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 6: you know, Brian Kelly to you know, my defensive line coach,

764
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,720
Speaker 6: Mike Elliston who's with the Chargers now, and Matt Baileys.

765
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 6: They kind of just the being a consistent player and

766
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 6: that relentless mindset to show up every day and do

767
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 6: your job at a high level. I think that that's

768
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 6: something that you can see across the NFL NFL that

769
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 6: not Dad got Notre Dame guys display.

770
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 2: You know.

771
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 4: So we were asking Tim Settle about this play in

772
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 4: your position, how do you get better during OTAs because

773
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:51,720
Speaker 4: the contact is minimal.

774
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, you just try to focus on using your hands more.

775
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:55,879
Speaker 6: It's not necessarily just coming off the ball and trying

776
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 6: to like, you know, just absolutely punish the dude in

777
00:36:58,200 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 6: front of you. Kind of try to hone in on

778
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 6: your craft on your hands, so you try to be

779
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 6: more technical and what you do. And it's not necessarily

780
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 6: just being a bullying a china shop. It's kind of,

781
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:09,799
Speaker 6: you know, just just being very fundamentally sound.

782
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 1: Kurt Rookie. Year you learn one defense, second year you

783
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 1: learn another defense. Now you're coming in and you've got continuity.

784
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 1: It's a defense that you guys, Ran I would imagine

785
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 1: the calls sound very similar. How's that kind of helped

786
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:24,760
Speaker 1: you through? Ota? Is the fact that there is comfort

787
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 1: with the defense even though things look similar from your

788
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:30,439
Speaker 1: one to year two was obviously I would imagine different

789
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: verbiage and things like that, and maybe a different mentality definitely,

790
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 1: But how does it make for you year three a

791
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:37,399
Speaker 1: little bit more comfortable? The fact that you know kind

792
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: of all those things.

793
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 6: There's definitely more of a comfort level when you know

794
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:43,919
Speaker 6: what you're doing versus when you have to think about

795
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 6: what you're doing and then how you're going to do it.

796
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 6: So now that it's kind of like second nature that

797
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:50,879
Speaker 6: I know what I'm doing, I can read you all

798
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,919
Speaker 6: my assignments off the back of my hand right versus

799
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 6: last year when I had to think about what I

800
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 6: had to do. Okay, what I have on this play?

801
00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 6: And okay, all right, how am I going to execute this?

802
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 6: Now I can kind of just execute because I know

803
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 6: what I'm supposed to do and now I just have

804
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 6: to execute it.

805
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:06,399
Speaker 1: Did you it's just me outside watch it. It felt

806
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 1: like this defense is a natural fit for you because

807
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:10,919
Speaker 1: you're quick, you can penetrate, you can get up, feel

808
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 1: you can create chaos. Is that the right way of

809
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 1: looking at it? Because it feels like this defense fits

810
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:15,719
Speaker 1: for you pretty well?

811
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:16,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does.

812
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 6: You know, like since I was since I was young,

813
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,360
Speaker 6: my dad said, one of the biggest best things that

814
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 6: I do is you know, just getting off the ball

815
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:24,839
Speaker 6: and going forward. You know, it's just hard to stop

816
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:27,280
Speaker 6: the momentum that I felt I can create for myself.

817
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:29,719
Speaker 6: So this is definitely a system that I feel like

818
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 6: I can thrive in and definitely a system that is

819
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 6: built for someone like a player like me.

820
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:38,400
Speaker 4: Has Juice given you grief about not attending Penn State?

821
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 6: Oh boy, No, he actually hasn't, But you know I was.

822
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 6: I was so close to going there.

823
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:45,839
Speaker 1: Uh.

824
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 6: You know, I think that Franklin is an incredible head

825
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 6: coach and on all my recruiting visits, he did nothing

826
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 6: but show me and my family love. And I, you know,

827
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 6: I before I committed the nerd Dame, I called him

828
00:38:58,120 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 6: and his staff that recruited me just to tell them

829
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 6: thank you. And uh, they're just such a such a

830
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 6: class act of an organization and a coaching staff that

831
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 6: he's put together up there. So I got the utmost

832
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 6: respect for that program. And like I said, I I

833
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 6: really almost went there. But no, Juice hasn't said anything

834
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:15,480
Speaker 6: about that.

835
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 2: Now.

836
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:17,400
Speaker 6: We joked back and forth because you know, he played it.

837
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 6: He he played Erie Cathedral Prep right which after the

838
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 6: year after I left Central Catholic, they played each other

839
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 6: and Erie Cathedral Prep just wiped the floor with us.

840
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 6: But I wasn't there, so I told me it doesn't matter.

841
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 6: So but yeah, it's you know, he doesn't really bring

842
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 6: up too much about that, but we we jack He's

843
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 6: from Erie and I'm from Pittsburgh kind of deal.

844
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,839
Speaker 1: So now you're going into year three off season, what

845
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? You're going back home, you stay

846
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 1: in here. What's the off season gonna be like for you?

847
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 1: Before training camp?

848
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 6: I'm going back to Pittsburgh and uh, get back into

849
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:52,880
Speaker 6: my high school weight room, got my workout planned, and uh,

850
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:57,760
Speaker 6: just kind of get back into the gritty, nasty, rusty

851
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 6: weight room of Pittsburgh Central Catholic, you know, underneath the church,

852
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 6: you know, the auditorium like a rocky movie, and uh,

853
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:08,319
Speaker 6: you know, just kind of embrace that.

854
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 7: Uh.

855
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:11,359
Speaker 6: You know, I go home and you know, I stay

856
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 6: with my parents and I sleep in a twin sized

857
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 6: bed to kind of to kind of to kind of

858
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 6: feel back, you know, to kind of feel like I'm

859
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 6: the Mike Tyson, you know, my my my sweatshirt and

860
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 6: sweatpants running down the road, you know, flipping tires and

861
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 6: all that. You know, just kind of get back to

862
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 6: the basics of where I started. And I've been doing

863
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 6: that area off season.

864
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:31,720
Speaker 7: I go home for the summer.

865
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:32,840
Speaker 6: In the winter time, when I go home, I'll go

866
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 6: and I'll get a nice apartment and I'll stay there.

867
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:37,400
Speaker 6: But but when I when I go back this you know,

868
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 6: this time, it's it's business.

869
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 2: You know.

870
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:40,359
Speaker 6: I got to get back to being the nitty Grady

871
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 6: the foundation that I built from a lot outstanding Kurt

872
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:43,879
Speaker 6: with us good.

873
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 1: Luck All Rights is absolutely fantastic. We had a good

874
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 1: time talking with those two Notre Dame graduates and we

875
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: had a blast talking with Khalil Davis. Came to his

876
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 1: team from the Birmingham Stallions of the UFL. He's got

877
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl ring, He's been around, He's seen some things,

878
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 1: and last year I was so excited to see what

879
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:04,879
Speaker 1: he was able to do during this year and by

880
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: the end of the year he and Heinich on that

881
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:11,239
Speaker 1: second rotation of the defensive line. We're absolutely fantastic. Let's

882
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 1: hear it, bro Khalil Davis and go round the NFL

883
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:16,240
Speaker 1: to finish up on our final SEBJET next on Texans

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Speaker 1: All Access. Hopefully you guys are having a great Wednesday.

885
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining me. John Harris Football I know

886
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Speaker 1: a sideline reporter for your Houston Texans right here on

887
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Speaker 1: Texans All Access from the Honday Texans Radio studios. Time

888
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 1: to talk with one of our favorite.

889
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 4: Guys, Khalil Davis, joining us in studio. Khalil Man, you

890
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 4: were one of those I have a category in training

891
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 4: camp and beyond it's called impossible not to notice. You

892
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:42,320
Speaker 4: were one of those impossible not to notice guys started

893
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,839
Speaker 4: making plays pretty much right away. How did you see it?

894
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 4: Acclimating and being a part of this thing and making

895
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 4: a big impression.

896
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 8: Really, I kind of just tried to figure out what

897
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 8: my role was going to be. You kind of have

898
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 8: been in it for a couple of years, so I understood,

899
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 8: you know, what I had to do to be seen

900
00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 8: and what I had to do on the field. So

901
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 8: kind of just figured out, Okay, I got to make

902
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 8: plays every day, and if I don't, then it's gonna

903
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 8: hurt me. But I try to just make plays every

904
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 8: day and then, you know, hope that they can figure

905
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:11,319
Speaker 8: out a role for me on the team. And I

906
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 8: really just tried to take advantage of every opportunity that

907
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:16,800
Speaker 8: they gave me. So and then it worked out into

908
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 8: a role with the you know, the starting four, and

909
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 8: then I kind of just tried to take off from

910
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 8: there and just out outperform the role they had for me.

911
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 1: And you did that, but you did that before you

912
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 1: got here playing in the USFL. So I'll ask you

913
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 1: a math question. How many games do you play in

914
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 1: the USFL before you got here? How did you play

915
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 1: that summer?

916
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:43,839
Speaker 7: I played with like ten or ten or eleven.

917
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 1: Games, So you played ten or eleven games. Then you

918
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 1: follow that up with three preseason, seventeen regular season and

919
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:55,239
Speaker 1: two playoffs. How is your body feeling at the end

920
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:55,839
Speaker 1: of all that?

921
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 8: You know, once once I got here, you know, once

922
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 8: I left the UFL, I got with a guy that

923
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 8: strengthen you know, the knees, that joints, things that really

924
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 8: matter for me to be able to play. I strengthened

925
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 8: that back up. And then it was a lot going

926
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 8: through the season. But you know, they have a they

927
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 8: do a really good job, Mike and the strength staff

928
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Speaker 8: keeping your body put together. So I just tried to

929
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 8: hold on as long as possible. So your body has

930
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 8: finally gotten some rest, it has it has. I really

931
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 8: didn't take that much rest though. It took like two

932
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 8: weeks off. Yeah, yeah, and then went right back into it.

933
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 4: And why was that? Why did you only take two weeks?

934
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Speaker 8: It's just the fear of I didn't want to I

935
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:36,360
Speaker 8: don't want guys to outperform me. Yeah, and so I

936
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 8: just have a fear of I always got to do more.

937
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 8: So two weeks was all I needed.

938
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Speaker 2: All right.

939
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 4: So Birmingham Stallions, you won the championship last year, right, Okay?

940
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 4: Was that back to back? That was back to back?

941
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 2: All right?

942
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 4: So anyway, you win the championship. How is life different

943
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 4: in the NFL as far as just the amenities and everything,

944
00:43:56,600 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 4: because I know Birmingham probably in the US of well anyway,

945
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:02,919
Speaker 4: might have had the best of everything because the whole

946
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 4: league was based there when it re emerged. But tell

947
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:07,320
Speaker 4: us a little bit about that, Khalil.

948
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Speaker 8: It's it's two different ends of the spectrum. Once you go,

949
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:13,800
Speaker 8: you know in that league, is there the resources that

950
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 8: really I felt like you had to go find them

951
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 8: on your own and you had to go outside the

952
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 8: facility to go take care of your body, which is

953
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,279
Speaker 8: I was already I'd already been in the league, so

954
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 8: I'd already, you know, known how to do that.

955
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 7: So that's what I did.

956
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:31,279
Speaker 8: I got my IV's on my own, massages, PT work,

957
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:32,319
Speaker 8: I did all that.

958
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 7: On my own.

959
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 8: That just that's not cheap, it's not you gotta do it.

960
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 8: You gotta do it if you want to stick around.

961
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 8: So I did what I had to do. And it's

962
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 8: night and day that it was not nowhere near what

963
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Speaker 8: the resources the NFL has.

964
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Speaker 1: Khalil market speak to this. I think it was the

965
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 1: there's the day you got here, the second day you

966
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:52,920
Speaker 1: got here, And I remember We were in a radio

967
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 1: break and I think marked through to an interview and

968
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 1: Mark said, hey, go watch one on once. So I

969
00:44:57,520 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, go down and watch one on once.

970
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 1: I come back and he's like, all right, what're you thinking?

971
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:05,200
Speaker 1: I said, Hey, Clyt Davis has got something, man, we

972
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 1: need to keep an eye on this dude. When for

973
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,840
Speaker 1: you did you feel like and maybe it didn't happen,

974
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:13,399
Speaker 1: but it sounds like maybe it didn't happen. But when

975
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,359
Speaker 1: did you feel like maybe not, I got this thing, like,

976
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: I got this thing lick, like I know what I'm doing.

977
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:22,399
Speaker 1: When did you feel like, Okay, I'm making an impact here,

978
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 1: like I'm I'm making an impression on the coaches, like

979
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 1: they know that I can go out there and I

980
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:29,600
Speaker 1: can play and I can ball for this team. Did

981
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 1: you ever did you have a moment? Did that moment

982
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:33,720
Speaker 1: come in training camp? Did he come during the season?

983
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:35,920
Speaker 1: Did you have that moment at any point last year?

984
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:39,120
Speaker 7: It happened in the Falcons game.

985
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you would play a game. Yeah.

986
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 8: I talked to you after that game. Yeah. So up

987
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:45,720
Speaker 8: until camp, I didn't know if I was making an impact.

988
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:48,239
Speaker 8: I just did my best to make plays. I know,

989
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 8: if you can make some splash plays, you can you know,

990
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 8: get noticed. But that Falcons game is when I really,

991
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:58,160
Speaker 8: you know, felt like I had the confidence that Okay,

992
00:45:58,480 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 8: I know I can do this, yep.

993
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:01,800
Speaker 7: And then I felt it from the coaches as well.

994
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 4: What was it like being part of the super Bowl

995
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 4: team in Tampa?

996
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 8: It was I can't even explain it, man, it was

997
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:11,439
Speaker 8: I was young, but I was on a team full

998
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 8: of like probably the most heaviest VET team you could

999
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 8: ever think of, you know, Sean McCoy, he was on

1000
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 8: his last year at the DOAM against Sue, a bunch

1001
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 8: of veteran guys. So it was just I just got

1002
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 8: to soak up a bunch of experience and just watch

1003
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:25,799
Speaker 8: those guys work.

1004
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 4: Give me a nugget or two of what you learn

1005
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:29,760
Speaker 4: from those guys.

1006
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Speaker 8: Sue I would say Sue was the biggest influence on me.

1007
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 8: I was with him every day and he a Braska guy, yeah,

1008
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 8: picking the breast guy.

1009
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:37,880
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1010
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:40,919
Speaker 8: But he just taught me you always have to do more,

1011
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:44,319
Speaker 8: don't ever. You know, even for him, he always like,

1012
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:46,400
Speaker 8: I don't think I made it. I just always have

1013
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:48,719
Speaker 8: to do more, and he would he I would go

1014
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 8: up there, I would try to, you know, beat him

1015
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 8: to the facility, and I never could. He was always there.

1016
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 8: If workout started at seven, I'd get there at six

1017
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 8: forty six fifty and he was finishing a workout by

1018
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:03,719
Speaker 8: six o'clock and I'd be like, wow, So yeah, just

1019
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 8: you always do more always, you know, and one percent

1020
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:09,560
Speaker 8: better or you know, don't ever get complacent.

1021
00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:11,320
Speaker 1: So you didn't get a chance to see it before,

1022
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 1: but you've seen it now and going forward. What does

1023
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 1: this team have that makes it special or that you

1024
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:19,760
Speaker 1: think makes it special going forward?

1025
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:22,359
Speaker 8: Just from what I've noticed from different teams, they make

1026
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 8: it only about football here, and you know the players

1027
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:27,759
Speaker 8: can sense that. And then if they know that they

1028
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:29,919
Speaker 8: can just go out there and play and have fun

1029
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:32,400
Speaker 8: and you know, enjoy each other, it makes you know

1030
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:35,280
Speaker 8: that that camaraderie with the team just that much stronger.

1031
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 8: And I feel like that's the what you need to

1032
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 8: you know, be able to go into the playoffs and

1033
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:41,839
Speaker 8: win the Super Bowl. So you know, players actually care

1034
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:42,480
Speaker 8: about each other.

1035
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 7: Here. We joke, we laugh, but when it's time to work,

1036
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:45,520
Speaker 7: we work.

1037
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Speaker 1: And that's gonna do it for the show. Big thanks

1038
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:51,399
Speaker 1: to Khalil, to Kurt to JP to tru to all

1039
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:53,760
Speaker 1: of you will see tomorrowybody, and as always go Texans.