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Speaker 1: be a good way to go is to get a

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Speaker 1: lot of you know, maybe two, two or three joint practices,

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Speaker 1: two preseason games sounds good to me. But that's not

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Speaker 1: anything that that I'm going to be in the process,

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Speaker 1: the decision making process of how I feel about where

429
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Speaker 1: y'all stand right now at cornerback. I think it's improved. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it's improved. I think j Joe has been

431
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Speaker 1: steady for us. I think Robie's more more accustomed to

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Speaker 1: our system. He's played well in the snaps that he's

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Speaker 1: had in the preseason, played well, versatile guy. He's played

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Speaker 1: well in practice. I think Lonnie Johnson's come on and improved.

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Speaker 1: I think he's got a ways to go, but he's improved. Um,

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Speaker 1: And I think there's other guys I think at the

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Speaker 1: safety position. You know, I think guys are getting better.

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Speaker 1: They're getting more accustomed. When I say getting better, I

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Speaker 1: mean getting more accustomed to our system. Whether it's Gippy

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Speaker 1: or or julil Ade, aj Moore, you know, Justin's been

441
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Speaker 1: in the system so um. You know, Look, we all

442
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Speaker 1: have a way to go, but I feel good about

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Speaker 1: where where they're at. Yeah, the fifty three. Do you

444
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Speaker 1: have a certain number of players you wanted each position

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Speaker 1: of ballpark or doesn't matter to you more when a

446
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Speaker 1: role player is gonna play regards on special teams, regardless

447
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Speaker 1: of that. Yeah, I mean it's definitely more the ladder

448
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Speaker 1: than the what you what you said earlier in your question.

449
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Speaker 1: It's more about like, Okay, there's a lot of things

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Speaker 1: that go into it. Okay, special teams is a big deal, Like,

451
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Speaker 1: you know, are you keeping this many offensive lineman and

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Speaker 1: does that mean that you you can't keep as many

453
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Speaker 1: inside linebackers. You know, people think it's just position, you know, offense, defense.

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Speaker 1: It's really that side of the ball affects the other

455
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Speaker 1: side of the ball affects special teams on all and

456
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Speaker 1: all decisions. You know, I think that, Um, you know,

457
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Speaker 1: there's a lot that goes into it. You say to

458
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Speaker 1: yourself sometimes, hey, you know, with the scouting staff, you know,

459
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Speaker 1: I don't I have a lot of help. And Matt Bazergan,

460
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Speaker 1: Rob Kissel, these guys are gonna we're all gonna work

461
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Speaker 1: together on it, um, and we're gonna sit there and say, okay, like,

462
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Speaker 1: are we releasing this guy and he's a really good

463
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Speaker 1: player only to keep this certain number of players at

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Speaker 1: another position? Like to me, you know, I don't know

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Speaker 1: if we want to do that. You know, I think

466
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Speaker 1: we need to keep the best players and the guys

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Speaker 1: that have earned the right to be on the team.

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Speaker 1: We try to do the best we can and doing

469
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Speaker 1: that it's not easy, but we try to make the

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Speaker 1: best decisions for the team. Expecting mccaren to be back

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Speaker 1: is the backgup for the New Orleans game. I think

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Speaker 1: that AJ's on the right track. I do. I think

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Speaker 1: that he's on the right track. So I would say,

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Speaker 1: as I stand here right now, I would say yes,

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Speaker 1: but I always reserved the right to change my mind.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. All right. That's Bill O'Brien up at the

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Speaker 1: podium post practice today, and we didn't get to some

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Speaker 1: of the stuff in the beginning, but we've got it

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Speaker 1: for you, all right. So, considering we're getting close to

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Speaker 1: break time again, I think we're gonna take a break

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Speaker 1: and then we're gonna get back to some of the

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Speaker 1: earlier parts of the press conference that you missed because

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Speaker 1: he went up. He had the audacity to get up

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Speaker 1: there while we're in commercial now. He's not doing it

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Speaker 1: for us, like he's ever worried about us. Like it's

486
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Speaker 1: not tell us that show. We're just taking the press

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Speaker 1: conference live. He doesn't even know what he would say.

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Speaker 1: You guys said that I stiffed you on the airtime. No,

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Speaker 1: we didn't we never said that. We're just having fun. Yeah. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: By the way, he was in a good mood today.

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Speaker 1: I think it's because all those guys are back at practice.

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Speaker 1: But even though you'll lose the far, which is terrible obviously, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but you know, seeing a lot of faces come back

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Speaker 1: to practice will definitely cheer the head coach up. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And I mean somebody asking in there about the health

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Speaker 1: of the team. Hey, you came out of training camp

497
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Speaker 1: relatively healthy. The first thing you did was what because

498
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Speaker 1: it's a huge loss. It's a big loss. I mean, look,

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Speaker 1: it's not losing to Shaun Watson. I get that, but

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Speaker 1: he's a big loss for this football team. And there's

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Speaker 1: some comments in there about Duke Johnson that we have

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Speaker 1: to get to and the guys returning to practice. How

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Speaker 1: the coach feels about that. Also, a little Andre ware

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Speaker 1: reloaded from this morning. Let's get to it all as

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Speaker 1: we continue the conversation, more on the Luck retirement and

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Speaker 1: how it affects the landscape of the division as well.

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Speaker 1: It's Texans Radio. Can't get enough Texans Radio. We've got shows,

508
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Speaker 1: we've got podcasts, we've got interviews. It's all on Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans don now back to more Texans Talk on Texans

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Speaker 1: All Exis. Oh Yes, like the band said, we're here

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Speaker 1: in the Huntday Texans Radio Studio. Mark Vaderman, John Harris

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Speaker 1: with you Live Now. Bill O'Brien, you just heard some

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Speaker 1: of what he had to say at the podium, but

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Speaker 1: we joined him late, so we grabbed whatever we missed,

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Speaker 1: and here's some of the stuff at the beginning. Just

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Speaker 1: a couple of minutes of comments from O'Brien, and he

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Speaker 1: leads off with Andrew Luck because he was asked about

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Speaker 1: it Saturday, but he just stepped off the field. He

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Speaker 1: really didn't know much about it. Here's Bill O'Brien on

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Speaker 1: Luck's retirement. I just would like to say that, you know,

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Speaker 1: I just think it was a very courageous and tough

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Speaker 1: decision I'm sure for Andrew to make. I don't know

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Speaker 1: him that well, just know him from shaking his hand

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Speaker 1: after many battles against him on the game field. Great player,

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Speaker 1: fierce competitor, played the game with a lot of class

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Speaker 1: and played the game as tough as you can play

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Speaker 1: that game at that position. So, UH just want to

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Speaker 1: make sure that on behalf of the Houston Texans that

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Speaker 1: we wished him best in the next phase of his

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Speaker 1: life on the roster. Uh So, sure you guys already

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Speaker 1: saw this, but we we we put Lamar Miller. Test

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Speaker 1: showed that Lamar towards acl uh. You know, tough loss.

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Speaker 1: You know, obviously a guy that we're gonna miss in

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Speaker 1: the meeting room. We're gonna miss uh on the practice field,

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Speaker 1: and obviously we're gonna miss on the on the game field.

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Speaker 1: But uh, um, so we put him on injured reserve,

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Speaker 1: and we also put tackle David Steinmetz on injured reserve.

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Speaker 1: Today we waved corner cornerback Doante Burton, and we waved

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Speaker 1: with an injury settlement cornerback Derek Jones. Um. And then

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Speaker 1: that's basically an update. So whatever you guys have walk

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Speaker 1: through deal, is that encouraging that they were Yeah? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think they're on the right track, headed in the

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Speaker 1: right direction. Um you know say that. You know, obviously

544
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Speaker 1: neither one of them would play Thursday night, But I

545
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Speaker 1: think they're they're headed in the right direction. Bill is

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Speaker 1: on the running back front. The more out do you

547
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Speaker 1: have what you need here to get the job to

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Speaker 1: do it, I feel like you met to go outside

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Speaker 1: the club. You look at that right now, I think

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Speaker 1: as you look at our running back situation right now,

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Speaker 1: we have a we have a good situation. I think

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Speaker 1: adding Duke Johnson was a good move. He's he's been good,

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Speaker 1: you know, in the meeting room in practice, very professional attitude.

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Speaker 1: Taiwan Jones. That edition in the off season was a

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Speaker 1: good one. Um, Buddy Buddy Howell has been really steady

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Speaker 1: guy for us on special teams. Uh. You know, we

557
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Speaker 1: got Higgden Crockett battling it out. We've got Glaspia, so

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Speaker 1: you know, we'll see what happens. Mark, Anything can happen.

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Speaker 1: But are concerned are you that bringing in three new

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Speaker 1: linement but because of injuries you haven't been able to

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Speaker 1: have the line you want as you get closer to

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Speaker 1: regular season. I worried something's that. Yeah, I mean, you know, look,

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Speaker 1: I think that there's really not too much you can

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Speaker 1: do about that, you know what I mean. So instead

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Speaker 1: of you know, worrying about it, you just try to

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Speaker 1: do the best you can to to to keep figuring

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Speaker 1: it out and trying to get the right guys out there,

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Speaker 1: and you keep you keep working at it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's really not too much you can do about you know,

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Speaker 1: whether guys gets injured or not. That's kind of the

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Speaker 1: nature of the game. You have to be ready for it.

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Speaker 1: You have to have the depth for it. Um, and

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Speaker 1: I think we're on the right track there. So you

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Speaker 1: watched the team now and you never watched the offensive line,

575
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Speaker 1: So she really is the game when you was happening

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Speaker 1: with these situations pass rush and also just guys getting

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Speaker 1: pushed backward. You know, some plays in the Dallas game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so the first play was a play action passed that

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Speaker 1: the ball has to come out, you know, so really

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Speaker 1: they actually blocked that one pretty well, but it's you know,

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Speaker 1: the nature that the play was the ball's got to

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Speaker 1: come out, So we got to design a better play there. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, on the running play, we got blocked the

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Speaker 1: back side of the play better, didn't block the back

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Speaker 1: side very well. And then um, on the there was

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Speaker 1: another play there where again it was a play action

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Speaker 1: pass and just you know, again they did a good

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Speaker 1: job covering it and it wasn't there and we've got

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Speaker 1: to do a better job getting rid of the ball.

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Speaker 1: So m you know, overall, we just gotta we just

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Speaker 1: have to do a better job we're just gonna try

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Speaker 1: to get better. Could you talk about times pasback and

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Speaker 1: a chance he places thurfy present doubtful in places Thursday

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Speaker 1: titness will not play Thursday. Yeah, like dude, he has

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Speaker 1: progressed that he's joined your team. I don't finished your time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's done a good job. He's learned well. He's um,

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Speaker 1: he's good in the meeting room. He's been good when

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Speaker 1: he's practiced, he's been good on the practice field. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's been good so far. Yeah, no doubt. It's been

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Speaker 1: a little bit of overlap from what schemes he's playing

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Speaker 1: him before with what you're doing, and so maybe it's

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Speaker 1: not a huge Um. I think he learns well. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think there are some similarities and you know, in

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Speaker 1: a lot of different schemes that he's played in. But

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Speaker 1: I think he learns well. He's able to pick up

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Speaker 1: what we're what we're asking to do. It's just maybe

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Speaker 1: a different terminology, but he's doing he's doing a good job.

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Speaker 1: He's a smart guy, a guy when his rushes go

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Speaker 1: up from his production as we severs efficiency as a

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Speaker 1: receiver fresh going down say that again, Eric, and just

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Speaker 1: generally with a running back if there sometimes the third

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Speaker 1: down backs that the Russians go up. Yeah, I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: call him a third down back. You know, I know

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Speaker 1: that he is a substituted back, so he plays in

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Speaker 1: the past. He's played a lot against subdefenses, but you

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Speaker 1: can see subdefenses on first, second, or third down, so

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't I wouldn't call him a third down back.

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Speaker 1: I think that he's a sub back in some things

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Speaker 1: that he does, because you know, that's how he's been

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Speaker 1: used in the past. I think with us, he'll be

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Speaker 1: used in a lot of different ways. Um, and he's

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Speaker 1: had a lot of snaps. You know. All right, that's

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Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien at the podium, and that's pretty much all

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Speaker 1: he did. I know I cut off that last little

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Speaker 1: comment there. But we have a special guest here at studio.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Peanut Butter. Jordan Thomas is joining us

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Speaker 1: live here in the Hunday Texans Radio Studio. I can't

628
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Speaker 1: believe we don't have peanut butter jelly time ready to go.

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Speaker 1: I know we need to get that. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: not a lot of time to plan. We really appreciate

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Speaker 1: you visiting. By the way, I appreciate. So, all right,

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Speaker 1: so we saw how you guys getting ready for practice

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Speaker 1: out there. This is probably a little bit of a

634
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Speaker 1: lighter practice today considering you played a game less than

635
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 1: forty eight hours ago. Right, Yes, sir, yes, sir. It

636
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 1: was a very good day outside. It was very light.

637
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 1: You know, we didn't do too much. So do you

638
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: feel at this point training camps over? Or is it

639
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 1: over when Thursday hits and then you're really onto the

640
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: regular season? That's one Thursday hits after that game, so

641
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 1: and then we get in a regular season. So for

642
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 1: now in your second year, now you can compare the two.

643
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 1: How much different is a preseason game versus regular season game?

644
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: I know you and I would have talked about this

645
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 1: when you're a rookie about what this place is like

646
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 1: when it's full for a regular season game. Is it

647
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: that completely different? Game speed? How different is it the

648
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 1: game speed? It's very slowed down like rookie rookie year, Um,

649
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: it was very fast. It wasn't that fast because you

650
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: know SEC and the NFL was it's similar. You know,

651
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 1: it's not that big speed wise, but it's very slowed

652
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 1: down because now you know, you know what what everything's

653
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 1: where everything's going, what movements going, So it's it's not

654
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: that fast anymore. Did you play Game four last year preseason? Yes, sir? Okay, yes, sir,

655
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: I did, all right. I was just trying to remember exactly.

656
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 1: You know, I know a lot of guys sit out

657
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 1: that game. But yes, sir, yes, sir, I did. Mean

658
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: Aikins did, right, You both did, sir, rookies. Yeah, gotta

659
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,440
Speaker 1: gotta do the job, no doubt about it. But what

660
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 1: does that atmosphere like? Because you know, you guys were drafted,

661
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: which is great. Guys who are undrafted. A lot of

662
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 1: players who are undrafted are really up against it. Not everybody,

663
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 1: but some. So what is that game like? I mean,

664
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 1: there are a lot of guys are kind of fighting

665
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 1: for their careers in that particular contest. For me, I

666
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: take it as you know, Um, I'm I'm undrafted too,

667
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm fighting for my spot too. So

668
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 1: last year I was fighting for a spot on the

669
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 1: fifty three. This year, I'm still fighting for a spot

670
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 1: on the fifty three. So I look at as, you know,

671
00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 1: another opportunity to go out there and get better, you know,

672
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 1: and and and and try to you know, make my

673
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 1: spot on the fifty three. How tough has it been

674
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: in some sense Jordan to think ahead? Not think ahead

675
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:13,239
Speaker 1: to New Orleans. Where I would imagine New Orleans growing up,

676
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 1: was that in your area where you grew up. I

677
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 1: would imagine New Orleans was pretty high on everybody's fandom

678
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 1: list there. I would imagine You're gonna have some family,

679
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: some friends in the area when we go to New Orleans. Yes,

680
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,479
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna have a lot of people there, a

681
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 1: lot of people. Everybody's coming down, and I have family

682
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: in New Orleans, so everybody's coming to that game. So

683
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 1: it's hard not to think about it. Yeah, you know,

684
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,040
Speaker 1: but I take it there at a time, you know,

685
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: So it's very hard, you know, because I'm excited about it.

686
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 1: You grew up a Saints fan? Uh, yes, sir, because

687
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: I was a big Jimmy Graham fan, gotcha, So, uh yeah,

688
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 1: I did grew up with a Saints fan. I mean

689
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: Jimmy Grant Graham fan growing up. It feels like ten

690
00:33:53,000 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: minutes ago. Jimmy Graham, Bobby Abear, I loved it. Archie

691
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: Manna was great, all these guys, Timmy Graham, Yeah, I mean,

692
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 1: Reggie Bush is probably old school the year yeah, you know, yeah,

693
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 1: but I mean I did see him play growing up,

694
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 1: So I'm a Reggie Bush fan, you know that was

695
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: that was like in my middle school. I want to say,

696
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:23,360
Speaker 1: I was just getting the course. So so it was

697
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 1: counting me too, by the way count But I mean

698
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 1: I'm a big Reggie Bush fan. To induce McAllister, I

699
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 1: used to play with him on Oh yeah, absolutely, I

700
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 1: think that was like an O six. So did you

701
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 1: did you go to did you go to any Saints

702
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 1: games growing up? Were you able to get there? No, sir,

703
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 1: I was I was heavy in the sports, so I

704
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,359
Speaker 1: never really got a chance to go and visit, you

705
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 1: know anything growing up. You know, like Houston is the

706
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: first city I've ever been to my whole life. Really, yeah,

707
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 1: this is the first city I've Okay, so whether than traveling,

708
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 1: you know what, ye sports, you know, this is the

709
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 1: first city I've ever been to. So so what's the

710
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 1: biggest thing that stood out to you? Like? Whoa bright lights,

711
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,319
Speaker 1: big city? Like, what's the first thing that stood out

712
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:10,319
Speaker 1: to you, Like, I'm in a different place than I've

713
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:16,760
Speaker 1: ever been everything. Traffic, traffic is the worst, uh, because

714
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:18,400
Speaker 1: then back home I get to any of the v

715
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 1: in like thirty seconds. Yeah, like you know, you you

716
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: just trying to go to Kroger down the street that

717
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:28,880
Speaker 1: takes thirty minutes. What you know, you get it. You know,

718
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,879
Speaker 1: you say, I don't get angry like that. But man,

719
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: Houston will have you angry that traffic. What what area

720
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 1: of town do you live? It, sir, what area of town?

721
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 1: What part of town do you live? Okay? So all right,

722
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 1: so sometimes I mean, but your schedule, you guys get

723
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:47,880
Speaker 1: in so early and probably miss all that traffic. I

724
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 1: got to all the constructions down there, all those ramps.

725
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:55,280
Speaker 1: I was just there yesterday. It's it's it's brou It's crazy.

726
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,439
Speaker 1: It's crazy. I saw a population side for apparallyn I said,

727
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty something thousands. What one hundred and

728
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 1: twenty something happened? I mean, Paland was probably the size

729
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 1: of your town growing up. Plan was tiny when I

730
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,479
Speaker 1: moved here many many many years ago, okay, like thirty

731
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 1: five years ago, it was probably about that. So yeah,

732
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,400
Speaker 1: now it's different. It's like a metropolis. But but you

733
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 1: really want you wanted to be out there in the

734
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 1: suburbs and live that kind of life, because I'm sure

735
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 1: you weighed all the options. A lot of guys live

736
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 1: here in an apartment building or whatever. The city life

737
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 1: is not for me. Okay, this is Green Acres. This

738
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 1: is not for me. So I was like, man, I can't,

739
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 1: I can't, you know, So I moved away. You know.

740
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 1: That's that's like Palin is like, well, I grew up,

741
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 1: you know, in a suburb, you know, back home. You

742
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 1: see you see a couple of trees, you know out there,

743
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 1: you know. So, I mean, it's not home, but it

744
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 1: makes me feel like I'm there, you know. I remember

745
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 1: we watched the Texas Technold Miss and I was talking

746
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 1: to you a little bit about when when you were

747
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: here and we hadn't played a regular season game here,

748
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 1: and we're talking about the crowd and everything, and I

749
00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 1: was like, you know, you were on the Old Miss

750
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 1: sideline you played Mississippi State. I was like, but you

751
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 1: know people from a yeah, yeah, I know the Twins.

752
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 1: I know the Twins. At the time, it didn't register

753
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 1: like who the Twins were. And then against Detroit, the

754
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,439
Speaker 1: Twins are actually in the building with A. J. Moore

755
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:15,280
Speaker 1: on our side and CJ. Moore on the other side.

756
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 1: They had to be like equal parts weird but cool

757
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 1: at the same time. And I know A J didn't

758
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 1: play in that game, I asked aj I said, I said,

759
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:24,800
Speaker 1: has it ever happened where you two are on the

760
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 1: opposite side? He goes, it is the only time in

761
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 1: my life. But how cool is that to have the

762
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:30,800
Speaker 1: three y'all because y'all grew up together in the same building,

763
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: in the same game. You know, I know the whole

764
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,760
Speaker 1: town of Bassfield was here. I know that for a fact.

765
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 1: So it's amazing to see, you know, guys from you know,

766
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 1: He's they're not from my hometown, but they are in

767
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:50,240
Speaker 1: a certain part right because they stay like ten minutes

768
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 1: down the street, so it's like, you know, we're from

769
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 1: the same area. So it's like it's amazing to me,

770
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 1: you know. And then you got Martinez. He stays thirty

771
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 1: minutes from me, So it's amazing, you know, to have

772
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:04,879
Speaker 1: guys you know around me that's that that that grew

773
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 1: up like, yeah, you know, so it feels good. It

774
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 1: feels good. It's kind of like a little bit of

775
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 1: home with you. Yeah, yeah, so it feels good. What's

776
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 1: it like to work with Will Long? Is it his

777
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: first year as the tight ends coach. It's great, you know,

778
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 1: Will Will shows me a lot, you know, because he

779
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 1: played receiver, UM, and and and and he shows me

780
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: a lot in my route running, you know. And then

781
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 1: UM coach Dev he shows me a lot in my

782
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 1: run game foot work. So it's it's it's great getting

783
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: in there with Will, you know, seeing and then he

784
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: teaches me a lot about coverages and and and seeing

785
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 1: coverages pre snap, you know. So it's it's it's good

786
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 1: to have him in there, in there with us. Which

787
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 1: part of kind of the football IQ aspect of your

788
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,319
Speaker 1: life would you say was most different from being in

789
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:54,319
Speaker 1: college and then playing in the NFL? Uh football I Q, um, Like,

790
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,319
Speaker 1: what's the thing you felt you get to brush up

791
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,240
Speaker 1: on the most when you got here? Like, whoa, that's

792
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 1: that's really different in front and and and just because

793
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,400
Speaker 1: I didn't play that much of it in college at

794
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:08,879
Speaker 1: tight end, uh, but seeing fronts, you know, I can

795
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 1: recognize coverage pretty pretty good because I played receiver. Yeah,

796
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: and then I definitely had to lock in on fronts

797
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:19,880
Speaker 1: this offseason, so um, definitely fronts all right. Jordan, Hey,

798
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:21,800
Speaker 1: thanks a lot for joining us. We do appreciate it.

799
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 1: I'm fly all right live here in the Hunday Texans

800
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 1: Radio studio, Jordan Thomas stopping. But I told you we're

801
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 1: right across the hall in the locker room, so you

802
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 1: never know who's showing up. You never know it's shoeing up.

803
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 1: Never And he came right across the hall to join us.

804
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 1: And thank you Omar from PR for escorting him. And

805
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 1: he's welcome here any time he'd be as in the hallway. Yeah,

806
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 1: I know it'd be tough. You gotta gotta look out

807
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: for that. Yes, absolutely, that's interesting about recognizing fronts. I

808
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 1: always wonder about that with young guys. He's only a

809
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 1: second year. Like he said, he was a receiver in college,

810
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 1: so he was coverages. But now you're looking at guys

811
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 1: like J. J. Watt if you are playing J. J.

812
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 1: Watt in the Texans. So yeah, he's looking at Von Miller.

813
00:39:57,600 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 1: He's looking at players like that, and he's got to

814
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:01,320
Speaker 1: figure out how to blo them and deal with them. Yeah,

815
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:04,320
Speaker 1: and what and where they line up? What that means

816
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 1: on that particular play, If the guys on his inside,

817
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 1: if the guy's on the outside, if the guy's head

818
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 1: up and the guy's looking at him, if the guy's

819
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:12,920
Speaker 1: looking at the quarterback. There's so many different things that

820
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 1: you've got to try and understand. But I always wonder

821
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:18,759
Speaker 1: about that with young guys. You know, how much of

822
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:21,360
Speaker 1: their football IQ? You know, they have a certain amount

823
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:23,919
Speaker 1: when they get here, but then of their football knowledge,

824
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 1: I should say, and then they get here and it's like, whoa,

825
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 1: we never saw that in college or we didn't talk

826
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 1: about that in college. And for him it's it's a

827
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 1: different deal altogether because he did he played a lot

828
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 1: of receiver at miss Sippi State, so he didn't put

829
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:38,319
Speaker 1: his hand in a dirt next to a tackle and

830
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 1: then look up and go, okay, wat's head up on me?

831
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 1: Or what's outside of me? What does that mean? Okay?

832
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 1: Is that? Is that an odd front? Is that even front? Okay?

833
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 1: Are they in nickel and dime? What does that mean?

834
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:51,359
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of things that that go on

835
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:54,920
Speaker 1: with that, but the understanding of coverage. But also I'm

836
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 1: glad you mentioned route running because you see a route

837
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:01,240
Speaker 1: on a whiteboard and you see that route and you're like, Okay,

838
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,839
Speaker 1: this is how it's supposed to be run. But if

839
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 1: you get this, you do this, If you get that,

840
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:07,880
Speaker 1: you do this, if you get this, you do that.

841
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 1: I mean, it's there's so many different options, and they

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Speaker 1: really kind of came to me even more so when

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Speaker 1: I was talking with with Bill. We're doing some tellustrators

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Speaker 1: that you've seen at halftime, and I don't know if

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Speaker 1: the one that we did on Will Fuller's touchdown against Miami,

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Speaker 1: but I thought it was really interesting because he showed

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Speaker 1: the route, and I know the route. I mean, we've

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Speaker 1: seen it. It's just a deep oh it's a deep

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Speaker 1: over route, but it can convert into like four different

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Speaker 1: routes based on what Will sees as he's running the route.

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Speaker 1: The quarterbacks got to see it too, right exactly, and

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Speaker 1: that's why it's important to see the game through the

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Speaker 1: same set of eyes and and so the on the

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Speaker 1: white board, it just looks like this long arcing line,

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Speaker 1: but they're like four different things that can happen. And

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Speaker 1: I can imagine for the tight ends it's the same thing.

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Speaker 1: They have so many different options to their routes depending

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Speaker 1: on the coverage they see. But I thought that was

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Speaker 1: kind of cool with him talking about the fronts and

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Speaker 1: understanding what the fronts mean, especially in the run game. Well,

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Speaker 1: peanut butter, and I guess Aikens is claiming to be

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Speaker 1: peanut butter too. We have a peanut butter and jelly controversy.

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Speaker 1: Nobody wants to be jelly. Nobody wants to be jelly,

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Speaker 1: and I don't understand why though. Is jelly considered soft

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Speaker 1: or feminine or something? I don't know, there's anything, no

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Speaker 1: I you know, the way Jordan Nakeds put it to

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Speaker 1: me was that he's like, you know, you've seen Jordan.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's kind of got a little wiggle like jelly.

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Speaker 1: You want to have wiggle. That's twitch, right, I guess

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Speaker 1: I think you're talking about a different wiggle. Oh is

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Speaker 1: that what it is? I think I don't know, but

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Speaker 1: Jordan is is it's thunder and lightning, right, that's good enough.

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Speaker 1: Is it okay to be referred to as lightning? I

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Speaker 1: would think so lightning is good? Well yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: now in some cases everybody wants to be thunder, but

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Speaker 1: lightning precipitates the thunder, and lightning is fast, quick, right,

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Speaker 1: and very powerful and more dangerous than thunder. That's just

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Speaker 1: a noise, right, Thunder's just the result of lightning. I mean,

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Speaker 1: come on, everybody wants to be flush, and then you

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Speaker 1: hear the thunder later sound travel slower than light. Thank

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Speaker 1: you very much. That's today's lesson. There's your science lesson, folks.

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Speaker 1: By the way, Andrew Luck retired. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you've been aware of this news, but yeah, I'm still

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Speaker 1: in a saficial I'm still in a state of shock

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Speaker 1: about it. I honestly, Mark, it will not It will

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Speaker 1: not hit me until week one the Colts play the Chargers, Chargers.

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Speaker 1: It won't hit me until that, until I see Wolf. Listen. Why.

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Speaker 1: I know it's sad for the Colts fans, but I

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Speaker 1: have to say one thing about this retirement. I'm so happy.

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Speaker 1: I'm so happy. I'm this is the best news for

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Speaker 1: this franchise. This is I'm sorry, I cannot, I cannot

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Speaker 1: hide it. I'm so happy about it. And and look,

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Speaker 1: this is a I'm just gonna say this, this is

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Speaker 1: a Texans miracle. Okay, this would be like being a

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Speaker 1: Dolphin fan and Tom Brady retires in two thousand and four.

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Speaker 1: That's what it would be like. The luck Rain of

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Speaker 1: terror is over. Now. The culture is still gonna be good, yes,

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Speaker 1: but they're not gonna be Luck good. They'll beat Jacoby Prossetta.

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Speaker 1: They're they're gonna be good. You might lose to them.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. You've lost the Jacoby Prissette three times.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't guarantee anything. It does make your life a

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Speaker 1: little bit easier. It has to. That's all I'm gonna say.

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Speaker 1: Watch watch them drafted quarterback in the sixth round returns

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Speaker 1: out to be Tom Bridge. Part two. No, watch Chad

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Speaker 1: Kelly turn out to be Tom Brady. Well, that's not

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Speaker 1: gonna happen. That's a whole different story. It's not gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: But I gotta say this, Uh, I look, I like Andrew.

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Speaker 1: I've talked about him a lot. I've talked about Oliver

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Speaker 1: a lot. I like Oliver a lot um And it

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Speaker 1: is a very serious thing. And you know, I'm just

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Speaker 1: talking in a sheer football sense. Sure, I understand. I'm

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Speaker 1: so happy in a football sense. So has the luck

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Speaker 1: to the Luck family. That's all I have to say

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Speaker 1: about that. All right, Johnny, thank you very much, Mark,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Nice impromptu kind of show. Because we had

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Speaker 1: the bill O Brian press conference. Didn't know they were

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Speaker 1: gonna practice this flight. We had Jordan Thomas on. It

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Speaker 1: was great. The show will be available on Houston Texans

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Speaker 1: dot com in the app soon enough. We'll be back

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Speaker 1: tomorrow night at six Team Lunch and tomorrow I have

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Speaker 1: a great night. Thank you Brian for producing Go Texans.

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Speaker 1: This is Whitney Merciless and you're listening to Texans Radio.

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Speaker 1: Don't touch that dog. Ain't no mercy around Mercy