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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, and welcome to the program coming to you

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Speaker 1: from n RG Stadium, the Hunday Texans Radio Studio. Mark

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Speaker 1: vandermer with you with John Harrison. We've got a good

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Speaker 1: one for you that i'd plenty to get to, involving

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Speaker 1: your Texans draft prep, draft party, schedule, prep, all of

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Speaker 1: it happening as you can just feel the season coming, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but this has been a

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Speaker 1: very fast off season. Oh yeah, did I just jinx

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Speaker 1: it by saying that, yeah, you did, you did? But

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Speaker 1: I actually, I'll be honest if it slows down now,

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Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. I want the draft to get here.

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Speaker 1: But there's always there's always little nooks and crannies you

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Speaker 1: want to try and fill in. I said the other day,

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Speaker 1: if I feel like I'm further ahead than I've ever been,

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Speaker 1: but you just never feel like you've done enough. Like

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Speaker 1: have you seen this guy from Mercer? Like, god, dang it, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I gotta go. Okay, I gotta go find film on

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Speaker 1: him and watch him. Jason Pope, by the way, interior

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Speaker 1: offers the lineman. Oh boy, yeah, I was gonna say

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Speaker 1: I was shocked that you very just I haven't studied him.

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Speaker 1: I've seen him a little bit, but I haven't I

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Speaker 1: watched a Mercer Alabama game, and so I'm just getting

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Speaker 1: to Thibodeau here myself, Caon Cavon Tibodeau, who I gave

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Speaker 1: to the Texans at number thirteen, which I talked about

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Speaker 1: this morning with Sean at Seth, which was how'd that go?

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Speaker 1: Did they strongly object to your trade? Falcons? No, not

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Speaker 1: at all. They mocked trade. No. They Sean texted me

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Speaker 1: later and said, man, that'd be bananas if that trade happened.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I know, I would love to see it happen,

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Speaker 1: and I think it would be I think it would

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Speaker 1: be a great deal. I think it would be a

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Speaker 1: great deal for Atlanta. I think it would be a

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Speaker 1: great deal for the Texans. And also because Atlanta has

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Speaker 1: multiple second in multiple third round picks in this draft.

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Speaker 1: What about the Saints? What about the Saints? Okay, now

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Speaker 1: this happened at the end of our show yesterday. The

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Speaker 1: Eagles had three first round picks fifteen, sixteen, nineteen, right,

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Speaker 1: So they traded sixteen and nineteen to the Saints and

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Speaker 1: got back eighteen in return. But then they got first

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Speaker 1: the year after that. So they essentially took one of

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Speaker 1: their first rounders this year, applied the time value of

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Speaker 1: a second the year after that. Yeah, I only dropped

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Speaker 1: two slots to do that. They took the Saints what

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Speaker 1: eighteen eighteen, But the Saints now have two picks to

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Speaker 1: wheel and deal. Yes, the Texans if they wanted. Okay, now,

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Speaker 1: of course that was one thing that I was The

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Speaker 1: first thing I thought of was that. The second thing

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Speaker 1: I thought of was typically, and going back to what

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Speaker 1: Nick talked about, if you make a trade up or down,

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Speaker 1: the team that's trading up is looking for a player. Yeah, typically, right, typically,

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Speaker 1: But this is a little different because this has happened

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Speaker 1: outside the draft time, the actual draft night. So are

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Speaker 1: they positioning themselves to be able to say, hey, we

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Speaker 1: got sixteen and nineteen, will shop to you at number three,

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Speaker 1: to the draft value chart, which I like to do

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Speaker 1: just to get a gauge, yeah, it's just one way

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Speaker 1: of getting some value interpretation. Picks sixteen and nineteen are

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Speaker 1: a thousand or nineteen hundred combined nineteen hundred, the number

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Speaker 1: three pick with the Texas tab. Right now, it's valued

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Speaker 1: at twenty two hundred, so the Saints would have to

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Speaker 1: sweeten it a little bit more. The difference is like

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Speaker 1: three hundred points, which is essentially a bottom and second rounder.

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Speaker 1: You mean two ones, the two ones that the Saints have.

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Speaker 1: You said, sixteen and nineteen sixteen is worth a thousand,

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Speaker 1: nineteen is worth I'm sorry, eight seventy five, the wrong one.

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Speaker 1: So you're you're thinking that those two don't add up

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Speaker 1: I mean based on based on the third, the third

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Speaker 1: see that. I could see them having to throw in.

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Speaker 1: I mean, hey, you want to do the deal, make

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Speaker 1: you Loomis, Yeah, I want sixteen nineteen, And I would

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Speaker 1: So you'd have to you'd have to throw some things

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Speaker 1: up with thirteen sixteen nineteen. Yeah, but do you really

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Speaker 1: want the talent, but they all come due, they all mature,

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Speaker 1: have to decide whether to cash them out, continue them.

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Speaker 1: In other words, pay them. You have to decide whether

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Speaker 1: to pay those players, not exactly at the same time,

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Speaker 1: because you have the fifth year option, and you can

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Speaker 1: work with different things at different time and sign them

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Speaker 1: early if they're amazing or whatever. But I would think

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Speaker 1: that Nick would opt for picks later. He wants another

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Speaker 1: first I think he wants two firsts in this draft, yes,

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Speaker 1: but three gets a little heavy. I'd rather have another

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Speaker 1: that for later or picks when I would cross that bridge.

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Speaker 1: I'm with you and that I asked him the question.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I phrased it properly when I

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Speaker 1: the number of draft picks that you make. Is there

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Speaker 1: a sort of cap and I'm not talking salary cap.

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Speaker 1: I mean, is there a limit on the number of

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Speaker 1: picks that you actually want to make? Because to your point,

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Speaker 1: let's say that a number of them hit all of a

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Speaker 1: a sudden, they all become due. They're all good play like,

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Speaker 1: oh man, we've drafted and developed extremely well, and now

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Speaker 1: we got to pay all these dudes. Oh. At the

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Speaker 1: same time, that might not be exactly which want. I

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Speaker 1: think that same philosophy sort of applies to the first

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Speaker 1: reason why Philly was willing to do this, because it

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Speaker 1: did two things. Number One, they no longer have to

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Speaker 1: pay three first round picks, right, and they get ammunition

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Speaker 1: in a draft that is allegedly in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: They've got more ammunition. Now they've got two first round

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Speaker 1: there in twenty twenty three, that they can then move

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, like we're talking about the Saints doing,

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Speaker 1: and go get a quarterback. And there's a thought that

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Speaker 1: they're going to be a lot of good quarterbacks coming

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Speaker 1: why Philly did it. It makes a lot of sense. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. And again it's kind of the time

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Speaker 1: value of money. You want fifty dollars today or you

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Speaker 1: want seventy five down the road, and obviously at seventy

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Speaker 1: five split up because you don't get to make that

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Speaker 1: know what, eight nineteen, but at one of them you're

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Speaker 1: not making so you're moving that to twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: But then on top of that, you also get their

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Speaker 1: second rounder in twenty twenty four. The draft has not

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Speaker 1: been this discussed on sports talk radio, this debated in

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Speaker 1: the media, sports social media has changed over the years,

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Speaker 1: of course, so it's not a fair comparison. But since

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Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, since the Texans at the number one overall picks,

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Speaker 1: and at that point, at this point, I should say,

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Speaker 1: the twenty fourteen draft, I'm not gonna say it was

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Speaker 1: a foregone conclusion. You're taking Jadeveon Clowney, but it was

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Speaker 1: pretty much assumed you're gonna take Jadeveon Clowney, right, But

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Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about something else today, and I

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Speaker 1: brought up the term I believe I did yesterday. And

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Speaker 1: if I didn't sell what we're talking right now, quarterback inflation, Johnny.

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Speaker 1: So I need your perspective hat on right now. Okay,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna start with the twenty eleven draft, and I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna name some quarterbacks and you tell me, and I say,

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Speaker 1: your perspective had because you can't use hindsight here. You

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Speaker 1: tell me if these quarterbacks were inflated in value in

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Speaker 1: the draft, or you drafted the prospect based on you know,

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Speaker 1: where he was evaluated properly but he didn't pan out,

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Speaker 1: All right, twenty eleven draft, Cam Newton, I thought he

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Speaker 1: was right where he needed to go number one overall

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Speaker 1: Jake Locker going to the Tennessee Titans at number eight overall.

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Speaker 1: I feel like he was inflated, inflated, inflated. You could

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Speaker 1: see some traits, but I thought, man, whoever takes Jake Locker,

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Speaker 1: this is gonna be It's gonna be a work in progress.

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Speaker 1: He has athletic he's basically Taysom Hill and kind of

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Speaker 1: he's not a great thrower at all, so I thought

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Speaker 1: he was definitely inflated. Two spots down playing, Gabbert gets

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Speaker 1: But I at least thought Gabert could work through his

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Speaker 1: couldn't stamp Ponder, I couldn't stand Ponder. So uh he was,

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Speaker 1: he was, oh well over inflated. I did not like

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Speaker 1: that pick at all. On Minnesota. The next quarterback taken

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Speaker 1: I loved Mallet. Oh wait, wait, wait. I loved Mallet

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Speaker 1: on the field. Okay, off the field, Big Text was

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Speaker 1: kind of a mess, but God loved him. I mean

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Speaker 1: I loved sitting and talking ball. I remember we were

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Speaker 1: I just happened to be in there. And this is

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Speaker 1: in the off season between fourteen and fifteen, and he is.

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Speaker 1: He's out in the hallway taking some pictures or doing something,

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Speaker 1: and he sees me in there and he's like, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: what are you doing. I was like, oh, I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: doing some radio. And he goes, all right, man, let's

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Speaker 1: sit out, chop it up. And I'm like, wait what.

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Speaker 1: And I look over at the time of our PR

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Speaker 1: guy and it was Brett. My Couse gases Brett and

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Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, I guess, so let's go go ahead.

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Speaker 1: Now these are in the days of Bill O'Brian, so

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Speaker 1: we had to tread lightly, but we had a great conversation. Man,

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Speaker 1: we just sat there in Chatti for all. I loved him.

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Speaker 1: I loved him. He he just had a few things

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Speaker 1: alarm clock. And look after they beat Cleveland and fourteen

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Speaker 1: when the Browns were six and three and Mallet wins

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Speaker 1: the game. Of course, Alfred blue Health running for like

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Speaker 1: a buck fifty in that game, but I won't about that. J. J.

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Speaker 1: prospects going in the twenty fifteen I didn't mean to

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Speaker 1: make this about the tech back to the quarterback inflation

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Speaker 1: would go early third. I was earmarking at sixty fifth

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Speaker 1: pick or whatever it was in the third round. That's

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Speaker 1: where I thought Garoppolo could go right, and then the

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Speaker 1: Patriots ended up taking him into fifties and thought a man.

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Speaker 1: But again, when it comes to quarterbacks, you better struck,

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Speaker 1: strike fast, strike quickly, strike hard, and go get that guy.

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Speaker 1: And that's what the Patriots, the Patriots. Patriots had to know,

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Speaker 1: they had to know, they had to know that we

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Speaker 1: would have taken him at sixty five, that's way something

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Speaker 1: something like that. All right, So Jamis Winston, Arcas Mariota

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Speaker 1: go one and two in the twenty fifteen draft, and

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Speaker 1: I don't think that was inflation going in. They were

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Speaker 1: picked where everybody thought they should be picked. No one

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Speaker 1: was reaching for them. Now. I know hasn't worked out

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Speaker 1: the way you wanted it to Tampa Bay and Tennessee Titans,

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Speaker 1: but those players were properly picked for less of a

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Speaker 1: good way of putting it, and crazy as it sounds,

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Speaker 1: those two are presumably starters in twenty twenty two. As

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Speaker 1: crazy it sounds, because as it sounds, because look, those

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Speaker 1: guys have value, they have ability, so you're gonna stick

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Speaker 1: around for a long time, even if you're a reserve.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna be serviceable. We were just talked about some

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Speaker 1: of the other guys who were still in the league,

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Speaker 1: Jared Goff, Carson Wentz one in two in the twenty

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Speaker 1: sixteen draft inflation are not picking them there? I think

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Speaker 1: they were properly rated. They were. I think they were

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Speaker 1: properly I mean again, properly I should say properly drafted.

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Speaker 1: They obviously weren't properly rated because you shouldn't have picked

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Speaker 1: them right there, because they weren't the guys. I know.

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Speaker 1: You went to a Super Bowl with Goff but got

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Speaker 1: a big second contract. Was worth the number one overall pick,

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Speaker 1: right same with Wentz, it was he worth the number

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Speaker 1: went again a hard one. Kind of going back to

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Speaker 1: the Bridgewater thing. If Wentz doesn't tears ACL twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 1: what are we talking about? Are we talking about? We're

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Speaker 1: talking about a whole different situation. Does it play out

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Speaker 1: the same way? Yeah, exactly. I mean you don't know,

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Speaker 1: do they win a Super Bowl? I mean, who knows?

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Speaker 1: They don't because the magic of Nick falls would not

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Speaker 1: have been able to occur. I think that's true, and

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Speaker 1: I think that we would have started seeing some of

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Speaker 1: the Carson Wentz issues come through. But if you remember

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Speaker 1: in that game out in LA when he hurts his ACL.

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Speaker 1: LA was great that year and the Eagles went out

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Speaker 1: there in December and put it on them, and Wentz

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Speaker 1: was a big part of that. They put it on

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Speaker 1: the Rams and then struggled to finish this the regular season,

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Speaker 1: but then Foals got hot in the playoffs. I'm curious

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Speaker 1: to see what Wentz would have done had he stayed

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Speaker 1: healthy through that rest of the regular season. What you

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Speaker 1: have won the MVP, How does that change things? How

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Speaker 1: has he perceived? And at that point are the Eagles

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Speaker 1: going to even think about letting go of an MVP

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Speaker 1: who won a Super Bowl? They wouldn't even so I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I'm and I don't know how much that

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Speaker 1: took away from Wentz his confidence, how much it took

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Speaker 1: away from his throwing and running ability. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: But it definitely deteriorated in Philly, it deteriorated in Indiapolis,

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Speaker 1: and he's got one final shot with the Commanders. This

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Speaker 1: is interesting because Paxton Lynch goes later in the first round.

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Speaker 1: Obviously that was a reach, but with Christian Hackenburg getting

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Speaker 1: drafted in round two. I'll say this about Bill O'Brien.

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Speaker 1: He recruited Hackenburg. Hackenburg played well enough at Penn State,

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Speaker 1: where he was drafted in the second round of the

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Speaker 1: NFL Draft. That's unbelievable. He was general. Whether that's a

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Speaker 1: credit to O'Brien or not, I know he didn't have

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Speaker 1: him for his entire college career, but it's interesting to

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Speaker 1: point out well Hackenburg was throwing Alan Robinson in twenty

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Speaker 1: thirteen at Penn State. That always helped him when Robinson

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Speaker 1: was gone. No, I don't know. Maybe Robinson was there

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Speaker 1: one more year. No, I can't anyway. Point being boy,

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Speaker 1: it was not I mean Mark when he got to

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Speaker 1: the Jets, he was so flawed. I mean the Jets

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Speaker 1: are like, what is this? And they never got it.

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Speaker 1: It just he didn't have a second round pick. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he was the second round pick. But my, oh my,

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Speaker 1: oh my goodness. But to your Paxton Lynch thing. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: sometimes luck plays a role. Jerry Jones was dying for

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Speaker 1: Paxiston Lynch. He was doing everything imaginable to make a trade.

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Speaker 1: He was trying to find every single way that he

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Speaker 1: could get to Packiston Lynch, and he couldn't do it.

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Speaker 1: And finally the fourth round, Stephen says, Stephen Jones says, hey,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna take that Prescott. He's like, all right, let's

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Speaker 1: do it. They were dying for Paxiston, Lynch, dying and

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Speaker 1: they couldn't get it. All right. Next up, more on

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Speaker 1: the draft drafts of days gone by at NRG Stadium,

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Speaker 1: some of the memories because there's a draft party revolution

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Speaker 1: going on. It's gonna be awesome and we'll talk about

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Speaker 1: it next here on Texans Radio. Mark Vandamarin. John Harris

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Speaker 1: with you on Texans Radio as we bring it from

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Speaker 1: the Hunday Texans Radio studio here at NRG Stadium. Johnny,

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Speaker 1: we are going over draft inflation for quarterbacks going into

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Speaker 1: the draft and are they taken too high or not. Look,

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Speaker 1: it's easy to see in hindsight, but at the time,

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Speaker 1: did you know it was too high to take these

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Speaker 1: guys based on where they're rated. I brought that whole

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Speaker 1: topic up because here we are in this draft and

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Speaker 1: is someone going to reach on Willis Yes. I mean

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Speaker 1: we're talking about all these possibilities of teams maybe wanting

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Speaker 1: to trade up to as high as number three with

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Speaker 1: the Texans, maybe higher and grab Malik Willis or is

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Speaker 1: it pick it or is it Ritter? Does Ritter stock

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Speaker 1: rise in the next couple of weeks to stratospheric heights. Look,

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Speaker 1: I see Ritter mocked in the first round all over

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Speaker 1: the place right now? Did you feel like it? Did

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Speaker 1: you feel like it was going to be that way

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Speaker 1: coming into the offseason for Ritter? You know, it's interesting

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Speaker 1: going back, you know how I do. I'm always thinking,

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Speaker 1: you know, ahead, and there there was a thought a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago and watching Ritter like hey, maybe

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Speaker 1: this guy's got something, maybe this guy can end up

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Speaker 1: being a first rounder. But then you play a tough

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Speaker 1: I mean a huge amount of college games, everybody sees

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Speaker 1: all the warts, and you're like, nahna, he's not gonna

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Speaker 1: be a first rounder. Now I'm not saying it doesn't

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Speaker 1: Ritter is gonna be a first rounder, but the arc

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Speaker 1: of the path to get to this point at some point, yeah, desn't.

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Speaker 1: Ritter showed he's got traits, he's got some things that

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Speaker 1: you like to see in a first round quarterback. And

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Speaker 1: then you play a bunch of more games and you're like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: well I saw this ward and I saw this ward,

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Speaker 1: and I saw this wart. You saw everything. But I

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Speaker 1: do think even at that point, desn't Ritter comes in

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Speaker 1: as one of the most skilled quarterbacks in this draft,

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Speaker 1: and he's also one of the most mature and one

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Speaker 1: of the biggest film rats you're gonna find. He's got

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Speaker 1: a wife, he's got a daughter that he during the season,

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Speaker 1: he said that just changed everything for him. That he

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Speaker 1: is dialed in, and when you talk to the Cincinnaty coaches,

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Speaker 1: they tell you that exact thing. So from that perspective,

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Speaker 1: Desmond Ritter going in the first round. The arc like

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Speaker 1: where we were kind of in January, maybe before the

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Speaker 1: Senior Bowl was kind of you know, Desmond's maybe in

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Speaker 1: the second round sort of thing. That's kind of where

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Speaker 1: I had him. But due to the over inflation and quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: I think Desmond Ritter's probably best served going late in

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Speaker 1: the first round. From twenty five to thirty two, that's

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Speaker 1: about where he should go, but he'll go I think

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Speaker 1: a little higher than that. All right now, I want

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Speaker 1: to do one more year of that quarterback inflation before

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Speaker 1: we talk about NFL Draft and draft party and things

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Speaker 1: like that. This is the NFL Draft talk But when

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Speaker 1: you look at the twenty seventeen draft, what's interesting is

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Speaker 1: that Mahomes and Watson based on ability. I know Watson

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Speaker 1: there are some issues there, but that's deflation. Okay, that

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Speaker 1: is not rating them properly. Because Cleveland took Myles Garrett

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Speaker 1: number one, not a bad number one overall pick, but

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Speaker 1: considering what they just gave up for Deshaun Watson, hindsight,

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Speaker 1: you should have taken Mahomes or Watson period. All right.

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Speaker 1: Chicago took Mitchell Trubisky. Do I need to say anything

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Speaker 1: right here? They moved up to do it. The forty

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Speaker 1: nine ers took Solomon Thomas based on what they did

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Speaker 1: trading for Garoppolo. They didn't give up much, only a two, right,

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Speaker 1: but what they did to get Trey Lance obviously should

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Speaker 1: have taken a quarterback right there. I don't care who

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Speaker 1: they had on the roster at that point. Leonard Fournette

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Speaker 1: goes to the Jags. I rest my case. I know

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Speaker 1: they went to the AFC Championship game that year, but

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Speaker 1: come on, Tennessee, Corey Davis. We all know what happened

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Speaker 1: to Mariota, but they had just taken Mariota two years

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Speaker 1: prior you couldn't take a quarterback right there right there,

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Speaker 1: So I get that that's the first team that did

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Speaker 1: not take him. That I feel like, okay, they did

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Speaker 1: the quote right thing based on where they were at

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Speaker 1: the time. The Jets taking Jamal Adams next, all right,

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Speaker 1: the LA Chargers they had Philip Rivers still, they took

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Speaker 1: Mike Williams, good pick. Carolina still like Cam Newton, Christian

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Speaker 1: McCaffrey's to pick, good pick, right, you got quarterback come up? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right? And then you have Cincinnati taking John Ross next.

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Speaker 1: Now Andy Dalton's still playing in Cincinnati at this point?

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Speaker 1: Are you giving up on Andy Dalton in twenty seventeen?

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Speaker 1: Should you have seen the Forest of the trees? We

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Speaker 1: can talk about that. Kansas City is next. They traded

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Speaker 1: up to take my homes. Then the Saints Marshawn Lattimore,

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Speaker 1: good pick, great pick, they got Drew Brees fine, and

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Speaker 1: Watson goes to the Texans at twelve after they moved up.

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Speaker 1: So you get my drift here. Those guys were available

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Speaker 1: to all these teams that eventually would be aching for them.

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Speaker 1: But again, I'm using hindsight right now. At the time, though,

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Speaker 1: could they should they have seen it. Should they have

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Speaker 1: evaluated them better based on the materials, the information they had.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's not a fair question. Maybe I'm judging them unfairly,

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Speaker 1: and I probably am, because look, look how many people

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Speaker 1: were quote wrong about those two. Here's the thing about

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Speaker 1: those two. And I always like talking about twenty seventeen

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Speaker 1: draft because I feel like I got I got it,

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Speaker 1: I got it. I feel like I got that one

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Speaker 1: right because third or something. I had mocked Mahomes February twelfth,

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Speaker 1: it was even before the combine. I mocked him third

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Speaker 1: overall to the Chicago Bears and to that and of

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Speaker 1: course the Bears did take a quarterback. They just I

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Speaker 1: thought took the wrong one. When I did my Harris

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Speaker 1: one hundred, I had Watson fourteen overall and I had

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Speaker 1: Mahomes like fifteen sixteen. So even where they were drafted,

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Speaker 1: I was probably a little bit. But I can guarantee

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Speaker 1: I was a lot higher on those two guys than

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Speaker 1: a lot of people were because I was willing to

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Speaker 1: live with a few of the warts that they had.

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Speaker 1: If you remember, we all know about Mahomes. Mahomes was

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Speaker 1: a total wild card. I mean, you'd watch him in

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Speaker 1: a Texas Tech game, and it's like, he's not gonna

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Speaker 1: be doing that in the NFL where he's running sideways

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Speaker 1: and flipped behind his back eighty five yards for a time,

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Speaker 1: He's not gonna do that. And it's like, well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he is. He is. He's pulling it off. And to

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Speaker 1: Mahomes credit and he should thank Brett Veach and Andy

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Speaker 1: Reid for this. He went to the Chiefs, but you

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Speaker 1: should sit they were loaded and he could sit beyond.

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Speaker 1: Alex Smith loaded the Sean if you if you remember

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Speaker 1: the Sean, I think was thirty five touchdowns and he

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Speaker 1: obviously they won a national championship. He had thrown seventeen

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00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: interceptions that year, ouch, So there was a there was

636
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: a big concern about, man, there's a lot of interceptions

637
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 1: for a really good quarterback. How do we feel about this?

638
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: The law said Pitt that year he threw a couple

639
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: just bone in interceptions against Pitt and you're like, man,

640
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 1: what is going on? So if you got bogged down

641
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: in that, then you weren't going to see the magic

642
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 1: that was the final drive against Alabama, The toughness, all

643
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,719
Speaker 1: the different things that we knew about the Sean and

644
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: that we got to see, but we also saw it here.

645
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 1: There were moments of like remember the LA game at

646
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, very early in the game, he makes like

647
00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: a throwbackwards, yeah, and it ended up Desmond came picked

648
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 1: it up and started running the other way, and luckily

649
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 1: Max Sharping ran him down. Because I think it's saved.

650
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 1: I think it saved a few points because I think

651
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: they had to start for a field goal. But the

652
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: way you're like, what are you doing? What was that?

653
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 1: There were some there were a few decision making things,

654
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 1: but if you if you kind of sifted through that

655
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: and went I like everything about like what this guy

656
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 1: can bring. I can live with the interceptions. I can

657
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 1: live with Mahomes thrown one sideways falling out of bounds

658
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 1: eighty yards because man, he's physically talented. And that was

659
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Speaker 1: the reason why I was willing to live with it.

660
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 1: And I think it's kind of the same from a leak.

661
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 1: Willis I when I we got back from the combine.

662
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:39,719
Speaker 1: We got back from the combine, I'm like, man, Willis

663
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: is hot, Willis's I need to I want to go

664
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Speaker 1: watch a couple more games. I gotta I gotta make sure.

665
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 1: So I watched a couple more games, and it's exactly

666
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Speaker 1: what I thought. But as I'm watching it, maybe I'm

667
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: looking at it through an over inflation prism because I'm thinking, yeah,

668
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 1: he's I think if he's in the right spot, maybe

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00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 1: he doesn't do you're making a case. They're making a

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00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 1: case for a number one or a first round draft

671
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 1: choice right exactly, and so maybe you're not looking at

672
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: it with unbiased eyes. I still saw some of the

673
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: things that he needs to improve on. I don't blame

674
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 1: teams for doing it. John, I don't either. It's too

675
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 1: important a position. I don't blame teams for jumping up.

676
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:17,720
Speaker 1: I don't know as we do this whole segment, two segments,

677
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 1: whatever it is, I feel that way that you do

678
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 1: need to step forward and go ahead and take some

679
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 1: chances here. And I think the Texans did the right

680
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:29,479
Speaker 1: thing last year, picking Davis Mills, getting the bananas before

681
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,919
Speaker 1: they're right, that was their best shot at making Look,

682
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 1: Nick is very much well. He tries not to do

683
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: it anymore, making these startup references or slicing on value,

684
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:42,319
Speaker 1: But look, you're trying to get something low that's going

685
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 1: to mature and be great, that's going to end up

686
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:48,760
Speaker 1: being a really high value proposition. And if it doesn't

687
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: work out with Mills, what did you really do anyway? Right?

688
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:53,839
Speaker 1: It cost you, it didn't cost you had no first

689
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 1: or second round draft choices. Let's go ahead and take

690
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 1: Davis Mills right here. He'll mature with us, will be

691
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,359
Speaker 1: to develop him for a year. However that works out,

692
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:04,800
Speaker 1: however much playing time he gets, and he got plenty,

693
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: and he looked good in that second segment, and we'll

694
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Speaker 1: take it from there. People ask me all the top,

695
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 1: what do you think of Mills? I keep saying, Look,

696
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 1: the arrow's going up, like Dom Capers would say, he

697
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 1: continues to trend up words. You don't know how high

698
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: it's gonna go. You just hope he keeps going. Yeah,

699
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 1: and that's all you can ask for right now. Let's

700
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:22,399
Speaker 1: see him do well in the off season here. You're

701
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,360
Speaker 1: not going to see much action out here. These OTAs

702
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 1: are structured so differently. Now they're not even full speed

703
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 1: right now because of the union. But training camp and

704
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,280
Speaker 1: take all the steps and we'll all be watching together,

705
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: right and you just hope that that arrow, the slope

706
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 1: of that arrow is more vertical than its horizontal, So

707
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 1: you just want that high slow that's what that's what

708
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 1: you want. You want that high slope. You want it

709
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 1: going this way as I do my arm kind of

710
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 1: ale as opposed to ten degree angle or it's like

711
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:51,959
Speaker 1: this is really good on the radio. Yeah, that's great.

712
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 1: I described what my arm was doing. I did that

713
00:35:55,800 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 1: at least. But that's the only cost is for for

714
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 1: Davis is do you pass on quarterbacks in this draft

715
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:11,919
Speaker 1: that you have an opportunity to draft because you want

716
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 1: to see what you have David's there's an opportunity cost

717
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:18,240
Speaker 1: for that. But great question. I am not. I don't

718
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,880
Speaker 1: think that cost is heavy in this draft. Yeah, now

719
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 1: you get to twenty twenty three on the surface, on

720
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:26,840
Speaker 1: the surface, I know how I know you don't like

721
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 1: it when I start talking two years, No, when this

722
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:31,359
Speaker 1: guy gets the league, because I know the answer. Well,

723
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,319
Speaker 1: you never know how they're gonna turn out, Johnny, I know,

724
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: I know. But it's a forecasting business, right you have

725
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: the forecast. Yeah, and that's what you're trying to do

726
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:41,439
Speaker 1: with twenty twenty three. So that's the opportunity cost. Are

727
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:46,400
Speaker 1: you going with Davis such that you pass on quarterbacks

728
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 1: that are gonna turn it? You know, it's like I

729
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: think back to the Aaron Rodgers draft. Texas an opportunity

730
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,240
Speaker 1: to draft Aaron Rodgers. Yeah they did. They dressed Travis

731
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 1: Johnson and he'll remind people of that, right, whoops. But

732
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 1: they had David Carr and so they're like, we have David,

733
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 1: want to see how this goes, right, and we love Travis.

734
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Speaker 1: By the way, all coming up Draft party talk and

735
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,799
Speaker 1: then some here on Texans All Access. Great to have

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Speaker 1: you listening tonight Texans All Access from the Honday Texans

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Speaker 1: Radio studio. All right, draft party. You saw the announcement,

738
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Speaker 1: you know about it. It's happening at the Miller Outdoor Theater.

739
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: The Texans very first draft party was at the AstraDome.

740
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 1: I was there doing a show with Charlie Polilo and

741
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: Rich Lord. No, Rich actually didn't do the show that day.

742
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,320
Speaker 1: I think it was Grenado and Polilo. I think Gronado

743
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: left at some point. Anyway, it was a I don't

744
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: know what happened. You know, he didn't like walk out

745
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 1: in the Huffer anything. There's some story there. I'll have

746
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 1: to ask him. The second year was at the Bubble.

747
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go through the mall here but

748
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: was at the bubble when Andre Johnson was picked, and

749
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,399
Speaker 1: then it went to the club level for years. Then

750
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 1: at twenty fourteen, like we said, went to the first level.

751
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: We did the virtual draft in twenty twenty that was

752
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: really cool under the circumstances. Roger Goodell's basement is nicer

753
00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: than my house. And then last year again COVID we

754
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 1: couldn't do any Friday night event, but you had no

755
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 1: first or second round picks anyway. But now, Johnny, I

756
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:09,360
Speaker 1: feel like the draft is gonna feel like it's in Houston,

757
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 1: the entire draft. The setup is so beautiful there at

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00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,719
Speaker 1: the Miller Outdoor Theater. I'm not just blowing smoke here.

759
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: Take a look at our video that we put out,

760
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:20,359
Speaker 1: but we can't really simulate it better than what it's

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00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 1: gonna be on April twenty eighth. And so you come

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00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: out and you enjoy, and you hang out, and hopefully

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00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: April twenty eighth, you'll have a great night of weather.

764
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Speaker 1: Which the only fear that I have is that we

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00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,280
Speaker 1: get a ninety degree night and it's one hundred percent humidity.

766
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 1: I'm sweat through my suit and you know what, but

767
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 1: here's the thing, I won't care right, I won't care.

768
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:46,799
Speaker 1: I will be sweating. I don't care. The fact that

769
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:50,400
Speaker 1: we're doing a draft party again is gonna be outstaying tis.

770
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: Our heads are gonna get a swivel because they're gonna

771
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:57,839
Speaker 1: pick third. Let's say they don't trade. They're gonna pick third.

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00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:00,720
Speaker 1: We're gonna get the choice draft choice on the phone,

773
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: all that stuff, or on the zoom, and it's gonna

774
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:04,880
Speaker 1: be wild. We're gonna put them on the big screen

775
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 1: there at the middle of outdoor theater. We're gonna be

776
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 1: talking to him. It'll be craziness, and we'll have to

777
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: keep our eyes on what's happening because there might be

778
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:15,480
Speaker 1: trades going on. Of course there will be probably, and

779
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 1: it is gonna be mass hysteria, suspense, anxiety, angst. And

780
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 1: then you get picked umber thirteen. It's gonna be awesome.

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00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: You know, one thing I didn't do in my mocket.

782
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:26,759
Speaker 1: I don't know if we talked about this yesterday. What

783
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 1: you know one thing I didn't do in the mock

784
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 1: that I gave a lot of consideration to doing. But

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00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 1: it kind of goes back to our talk about Philadelphia

786
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 1: not wanting three picks in the first round. I thought

787
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 1: about trading back into the bottom of the first round

788
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 1: because there were a couple of players the bottom of

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00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,279
Speaker 1: Moss round in my mock. Then I looked at it went,

790
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: oh boy, I think they'd be really good. I think

791
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 1: they'd be really good here. But do you want to

792
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 1: three guys on rookie contracts? Yeah, that's dude, it's dicey.

793
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 1: He's gonna make seals, he's gonna what's the over under?

794
00:39:55,080 --> 00:40:01,360
Speaker 1: Un trades? Four? Four? Got eleven picks right now? Right? Yeah? Yeah, four,

795
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 1: that's a that's a high number for over under. Okay,

796
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 1: set at three and a half, set at three and

797
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 1: a half, I'll go four. I think four is fair

798
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,479
Speaker 1: because and I was thinking three threes in my head.

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00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:15,719
Speaker 1: All right, well the first one might not have at

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00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:21,399
Speaker 1: difference till day two. Yeah it could, but Nick might

801
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:23,919
Speaker 1: be I don't need those six round picks, and that's

802
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 1: I don't know, let's just do this. But I mean

803
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:29,920
Speaker 1: they traded. They traded up and down for Nico. I

804
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:31,879
Speaker 1: want to say there was a trade involved in there

805
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:34,719
Speaker 1: that got them to Brevin, and I think there was

806
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:36,839
Speaker 1: one involved with Wallow to get Garrett. I think they

807
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 1: went up a few spots to go get Garrett. I

808
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,759
Speaker 1: think there was three last year and eight picks. Mark

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00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:42,800
Speaker 1: my words. There will be a player in the fifth

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00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:45,320
Speaker 1: that they want to grab, and he's gonna use whatever

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00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,799
Speaker 1: he have to with the later rounds because he doesn't

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00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 1: want to have to deal with drafted rookies. Maybe yeah,

813
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:52,879
Speaker 1: he's got all. He's got a little six round picks too,

814
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 1: and he's gonna like the player, and he's gonna go

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00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:56,759
Speaker 1: ahead and make the deal. Well, like you said, if

816
00:40:57,160 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 1: that's why he would trade up, he likes the player.

817
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 1: They like Nico went and traded up, dude like Wallow

818
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 1: went and traded up. And then we're done after five rounds.

819
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:07,759
Speaker 1: We could do our interviews right about these guys. Get

820
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 1: ready go home. It'll be awesome. That would be fantastic.

821
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 1: But I'm okay staying the full draft and waiting. You

822
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 1: mentioned twenty fourteen draft, mister irrelevant that year, did we not?

823
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:22,439
Speaker 1: In twenty fourteen it was Lonnie Ballentine waited all that time.

824
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: I was here for like ten years and could whatever's

825
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 1: body could never stay healthy. She just couldn't stay He

826
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 1: want to talk all airport. Lonnie Ballantine walking through the

827
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:38,799
Speaker 1: airport looks like the greatest safety that ever lived, and

828
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 1: who knows how good he would have been had he

829
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 1: been able to play and hold up healthwise, that would

830
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: have been. I mean, you get something like that seventh

831
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 1: rounder you had, Andre Howe's seventh rounder. I mean, think

832
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 1: of what you got. A Trey is a seventh rounder.

833
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 1: I mean the sexis have hit in those back end

834
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:57,879
Speaker 1: Derek Newton, Bryce McCain six, I think for y Yeah, TJ.

835
00:41:58,040 --> 00:41:59,719
Speaker 1: Reader was the fifth rounder, but he was the last

836
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:02,320
Speaker 1: pit of the twenty sixteen draft. How about that twenty

837
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 1: sixteen draft? Think about that, Will Fuller, Nick Martin, Braxton Miller. Oh,

838
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,720
Speaker 1: you also had Tyler Irvin. You had all the speed

839
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: and talent. And who's the best player of that draft?

840
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 1: And it's not even close? The guy at the end,

841
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 1: DJ Read DJ Reader is not amazing. Crazy to think about,

842
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 1: But that's why I don't mind having fifty six seth

843
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 1: round picks. All right, come on, you'll find a guy

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Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for the show tonight. You know,

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Speaker 1: Wednesday is normally known as Draft Wednesday, but we did

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Speaker 1: heavy draft tonight. But that's what the season is, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we've got it coming up April twenty eight. Like we said,

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Speaker 1: Draft Party at Miller Outdoor Theater presented by Miller Lyte

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Speaker 1: and you know what, you can go to Houston Texans

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Speaker 1: dot com get a lot more information on that. We've

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Speaker 1: got a contest coming out later this week where you

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Speaker 1: predict the first five games of the schedule which is

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Speaker 1: coming out of May, and you're gonna win. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be fun. Johnny, dB, Drew and I will all play

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Speaker 1: along with you. So details coming up a little bit

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Speaker 1: later in the week on that. We'll have mcleanon on

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Speaker 1: Thursday as well. Have a great night everyone, thanks for listening,

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Speaker 1: and go Texans.