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Speaker 1: Hello, Tech Sands, and welcome to the program. Great to

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Speaker 1: have you with us. Mark vander Meyer with you. A

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Speaker 1: little bit of a solo flight tonight. I miss Johnny,

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Speaker 1: but here we are. We are doing shows from the

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Speaker 1: NFL Annual Meeting in Phoenix. Now they call this the

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Speaker 1: Owners Meetings as a nickname, it's really the NFL Annual Meeting.

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Speaker 1: And there are a lot of different people here, of course,

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Speaker 1: the owners and coaches and general managers and many other

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Speaker 1: league executives as well, who play a large role in

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Speaker 1: the game that you enjoy so much, but you might

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Speaker 1: not be hearing so much about them unless you're into

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Speaker 1: industry buzz. For instance, a lot of the buzz around

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Speaker 1: here internally is about the kind of season it was

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Speaker 1: and where things are going entertainment wise, some of the

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Speaker 1: new programming options. You know about YouTube getting the Sunday

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Speaker 1: ticket program. What you might not know is it's going

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Speaker 1: to look a lot different than direct TV, and we

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Speaker 1: might talk about that in the next few days. Also,

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Speaker 1: some reflection on the year that was. How about this

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Speaker 1: that it was the lowest margin of victory in the

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Speaker 1: league since nineteen thirty two. That means lots of close

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Speaker 1: games in other words, that's the translation there. They had

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Speaker 1: two hundred three one score games. That's the most in history,

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Speaker 1: and the most in history of games that were decided

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Speaker 1: by eight or fewer points. So, in other words, a

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Speaker 1: lot of close games this past year, and you know

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Speaker 1: they like that a lot. Now, if you're rooting for,

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Speaker 1: say the Texans, because it's Texans Radio, obviously you want

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Speaker 1: to club or every opponent by four touchdowns. But in

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Speaker 1: a league sense, they love these close games. And they

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Speaker 1: had eighty five comeback games. That's the most in history.

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Speaker 1: Somebody said to me today, you mean blown leads. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's one way of looking at it. But the league

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Speaker 1: likes the drama. And believe me, I'm a broadcaster for

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Speaker 1: a local team, so I love the Texans to win

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Speaker 1: every game by four touchdowns, as I just said. But

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Speaker 1: the team that's trailing to catch up. All right. They

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Speaker 1: also had seven new playoff teams. You already knew that

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Speaker 1: rotating that postseason participation thing. For instance, the Jags, they

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Speaker 1: lot of stuff about that, and we'll get into some

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Speaker 1: brought up here at the NFL Annual Meeting. But what

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Speaker 1: better way to kick it off than a visit with

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Speaker 1: the head coach now, Demiko Ryan's here along with General

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Speaker 1: manager Nick Kasserio. Of course, chairman and CEO. Cal McNair

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Speaker 1: will catch up with him a little bit later on

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Speaker 1: this week. Vice President of the Houston Texans Foundation Hannah McNair.

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Speaker 1: Also Texans President Greg Grissom is here and we will

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Speaker 1: have Greg on tomorrow's program to talk about a number

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Speaker 1: of things, including the fan Council. That sounds so cool.

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Speaker 1: The fan Council. We put that out on social media

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Speaker 1: you want more information about the fan council. But Demko,

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Speaker 1: a building the Texans episode we're doing. But you know what,

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Speaker 1: this is a radio interview, so let's just hear it

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Speaker 1: as I've visited with the head coach today. Coach, first

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Speaker 1: of all, being at these meetings, what's it like to

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Speaker 1: What's that like for you? And it's a very cool experience.

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Speaker 1: themselves available to me for any questions I may have

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Speaker 1: or any anything I need help with. Guys have been

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Speaker 1: very helpful, So it's it's cool to see how tight

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Speaker 1: Is it personal stuff? Is there a lot of game

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Speaker 1: mix of both, but it's all great conversations. We're within

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Speaker 1: about your staff, coach, what's it been like working with them?

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Speaker 1: You hired people, You've got coordinators, Frank Ross Stage, what

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Speaker 1: a high, high, high energy group. A right guys have

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Speaker 1: great energy. Guys are dedicated to being their absolute best,

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Speaker 1: and that's each and every day. Guys are showing up

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Speaker 1: Guys are dedicated to finding the right guys, the right

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Speaker 1: So guys have been dialed in, studying a lot of

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Speaker 1: When you work with Matt Burke, you've been a coordinator,

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Speaker 1: And the thing about offense, defense and our special team's philosophy,

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Speaker 1: Right here, we are pre draft. The acquisitions you've made

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Speaker 1: the acquisitions we've made, it just it creates depth, It

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Speaker 1: working with Nick. Nick's very, very smart, detailed worker. He's

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Speaker 1: outstanding to work with me and Nick. We meet every morning,

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Speaker 1: So I'm happy to continue to work with Nick. Finally, Coach,

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Speaker 1: and everything like that. To be back in Houston, it's

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Speaker 1: let's visit with Adam Schefter first. Adam, for what you

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Speaker 1: never quite can tell what's going to happen. What's your

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Speaker 1: favorite offseason event to cover? Combine this draft? What is it? Draft? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Draft is the best. Combines fun, but it's always very

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Speaker 1: tiring because you stall late. You know, the draft is

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Speaker 1: the best. I mean, I just you know, it's every

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Speaker 1: part of it. I like like the you know, the

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Speaker 1: two minutes before the first pick is made and everyone

434
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Speaker 1: usually still doesn't know, and then like anything can happen,

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Speaker 1: and then it's you know, you also rarely do get

436
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Speaker 1: to see people's dreams come true, like in front of

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Speaker 1: your eyes and you get to see them walk on

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Speaker 1: stage and just the emotion and like, you know, there's

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Speaker 1: a humanity part of it that I really really, you know,

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Speaker 1: someone suffering in the green room and then they get

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Speaker 1: picked and it's the greatest moment of their lives. Like

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Speaker 1: I love that. That is so fun. Great Ian, thanks

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Speaker 1: to Left for joining us. We appreciate it, all right,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Then there's our fred Ian Rappaport from NFL Network.

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Speaker 1: Now more media guests. Diana Russini here from ESPN. You've

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Speaker 1: seen it her on NFL Countdown, NFL Live, a bunch

447
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Speaker 1: of other stuff, And I thought it was fun to

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Speaker 1: visit with her because, hey, she went to George Mason.

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Speaker 1: She's a Jim Larenega fan. He's going to be in

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Speaker 1: Houston this week for the Final Four. Let's start there,

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Speaker 1: shall we. Well, Diana, first of all, let's get the

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Speaker 1: important stuff out of the way. You went to George Mason.

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Speaker 1: Jim Larenega was the head coach of the men's basketball

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Speaker 1: team when you were there. He's now on the Final

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Speaker 1: Four with the Hurricanes. Your reaction are you pulling for him?

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Speaker 1: Of course I'm pulling for Jim Larnega. He put George

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Speaker 1: Mason on the map. For years I played women's soccer there,

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Speaker 1: people would say, Oh, you're playing soccer in college. How

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Speaker 1: is George Washington? How is James Madison, how is George whatever?

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Speaker 1: You know, it was just it was a school that

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Speaker 1: just really didn't have an identity just yet. And because

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Speaker 1: of Jim Larenega and that men's basketball team in the run,

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Speaker 1: that magical Cinderella run that they made, people now know

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Speaker 1: George Mason. So of course I will. I will always

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Speaker 1: support him, and our women's soccer program grew just because

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Speaker 1: of him. So yes, how did playing women's soccer in

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Speaker 1: college help you in your career? Oh my goodness, I

468
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Speaker 1: could talk for hours about it. You know, it teaches

469
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Speaker 1: you how to overcome failure. Actually, you know, I wasn't

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Speaker 1: the best player at Mason. In fact, I was a

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Speaker 1: walk on, and I learned pretty quickly that you know,

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna be given things that you're gonna have

473
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Speaker 1: to work really hard for it, and you're gonna be

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Speaker 1: told no a lot. And now as a as a

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Speaker 1: reporter covering the NFL, I'm continually told no, a lot,

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Speaker 1: but I've learned that you're going to make mistakes, but

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Speaker 1: if you don't, if you're not persistent and relentless, you're

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Speaker 1: never really going to get to where you want to get.

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Speaker 1: And I've been really lucky with great people around me

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Speaker 1: over the last few years to really support me and

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Speaker 1: help me, you know, just just push me in the

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Speaker 1: right direction. And now I'm at ESPN and it's been awesome.

483
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Speaker 1: We talked with Adam Schefter, so would you ever want

484
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Speaker 1: to do that kind of thing? Constant news breaking? No

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Speaker 1: sleep at night, he says, he does sleep, by the way,

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Speaker 1: but what are your thoughts on what he does? He does?

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Speaker 1: Adam sleeps from nine thirty to midnight. And the reason

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Speaker 1: why I know that is because we text each other

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Speaker 1: a lot, and that's the only time he does not

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Speaker 1: respond to text messages. In fact, I joke all the

491
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Speaker 1: time that on my children's in case of emergency card

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Speaker 1: at school, it's actually Schefter's number, not my husband's, because

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Speaker 1: I know Adam will answer. Um. You know, he is

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Speaker 1: the not only just an incredible person, but he is

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Speaker 1: the best at what he does, and to even assist

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Speaker 1: on some stories work. We work together a lot it

497
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Speaker 1: has been incredible and the experience has been great. But

498
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Speaker 1: to to consume as much as he does and to

499
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Speaker 1: put out as much information, it really takes a certain

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Speaker 1: type of person and personality and lifestyle, and I like

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Speaker 1: pieces of it. I don't know if I want to

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Speaker 1: be a full blown shifter, though I probably should keep

503
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Speaker 1: the door opened before I'm at my life Right now,

504
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Speaker 1: I love just covering the league, telling the story, giving

505
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Speaker 1: some backstory to why certain transactions happened, and just really

506
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Speaker 1: sharing with fans how things come together. So what's your

507
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Speaker 1: favorite part of the gag at ESPN? I love breaking

508
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Speaker 1: story which go figure here we are I'm saying I

509
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Speaker 1: don't want to do it, but it's so much fun

510
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Speaker 1: to be able to get intel and share it and

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Speaker 1: be the first to know it. My background's actually in news.

512
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Speaker 1: I was a news reporter and I used to cover

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Speaker 1: tons of crime, and I still love hanging out with

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Speaker 1: the cops and the firefighters and hearing about all their

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Speaker 1: stories and and they would help give me information to

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Speaker 1: paint a better picture for the viewer. And I used

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Speaker 1: so much of that skill set and I applied it

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Speaker 1: to football, and I try to use the same skills

519
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Speaker 1: really of gathering, um to tell the whole to tell

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Speaker 1: the whole picture. And um, that's been really enjoyable. And

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Speaker 1: he Guspan's done a good job of a lot. I mean,

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Speaker 1: not only to break news, but to be myself. I

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Speaker 1: don't think you have to be just a machine. You know,

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Speaker 1: even Schefter has really loosened up over the years. You know,

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Speaker 1: years ago you look back at his work, he's a

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Speaker 1: little robotic. Now we know, we know a little bit

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Speaker 1: more about Adam, right, he shares more and took a

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Speaker 1: shirt off. Nobody wanted to see that, but he did that.

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Speaker 1: He did not consult with me on that. I would

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Speaker 1: have said, no way, what are you doing? Although for

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Speaker 1: fifty six years old. Credit to Adam, she looked really good.

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00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 1: I mean it's still dad bod but but but but

533
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Speaker 1: not not bad. And you know there are many levels

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Speaker 1: of dad body there are. But but he works out,

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Speaker 1: and I mean he's on the phone the whole time

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Speaker 1: he works out, but he at least he gets that

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Speaker 1: cardio in. So all right, well, tell me your thoughts

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Speaker 1: what the Texans have done so far this soft season,

539
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Speaker 1: Demiko Ryan some of the acquisitions pre draft. So first

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Speaker 1: of all, I think the higher is fantastic. And I'll

541
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Speaker 1: just put it on people around the league who have

542
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Speaker 1: told me about Demiga and and just why he was

543
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Speaker 1: He's such a good fit, just all the characteristics. When

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Speaker 1: it was leading up to him winding up in Houston,

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Speaker 1: I almost felt like there was just a bit of

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Speaker 1: a fight for him around the league too to bring

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Speaker 1: him into the building. That really was because there are

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Speaker 1: a lot of teams that had that interest just because

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Speaker 1: of his ability to connect with players, and you see

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Speaker 1: it in one conversation with him, and it really carried

551
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 1: when you're trying to build an organization, build a team,

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00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 1: and not from scratch, but we know there's been a

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00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 1: lot of holes that have been filled and are going

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00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 1: to be filled, and it's a team that's evolving and

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00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 1: getting the right leader can change. I mean, you look

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Speaker 1: in in the division right you look at what the

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans have done, and I think Mike Rabel is

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Speaker 1: a great example of a kind of coach that connects

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Speaker 1: with players and has been able to build something. And

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00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 1: I build an identity. I think that's the hardest part

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Speaker 1: for teams, and once you can figure out the identity,

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Speaker 1: then you start having success. Diana, thanks a lot for

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Speaker 1: joining us. We appreciate it. Thank you, Go Miami Hurricanes.

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Speaker 1: Right all for Larenega. Good to catch up with Diana

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Speaker 1: or Roussini a VESPN now coming up next. You've heard

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Speaker 1: him on Serious XM NFL Radio. It's Alex Marvez and

567
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 1: it's kind of like turning on a podcast where you

568
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Speaker 1: can turn up the speed of the words per minute.

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Speaker 1: You get a lot of information from Alex. So that's

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Speaker 1: coming up next year on the NFL at large and

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans It's Texans Radio. Okay, I've promised one

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Speaker 1: more segment here tonight from the NFL Annual Meeting. We

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Speaker 1: will be back here tomorrow for more as league meetings

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Speaker 1: are under way, rules decisions, a lot of league business.

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Speaker 1: Like I pointed out at the top of the show

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Speaker 1: at a reception tonight, that the media is invited to.

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Speaker 1: This is an odd thing because you have media members,

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Speaker 1: many of them, you know, national media guys, some of

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Speaker 1: them we caught up with tonight, of course, and it's surreal.

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Speaker 1: You'll find yourself in the shrimp line with Andy Reid,

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Speaker 1: You'll find yourself at the dessert station with Sean Payton,

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Speaker 1: and maybe Arthur Blank stops by, and it's just an

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Speaker 1: array of people that you know being an NFL fan,

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Speaker 1: Yet here I am, and I'm thinking, geez, this is

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00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,959
Speaker 1: pretty cool, and I wish it was something every fan

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Speaker 1: could enjoy, but then it would be a mass amount

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Speaker 1: of humanity and really not doable for these guys. But

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Speaker 1: it's a cool event. We try to bring it to

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Speaker 1: you as much as we possibly can with guests and

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Speaker 1: other things. Texans President Greg Grissom will join us tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: but right now, let's catch up with our friend. Alex

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Speaker 1: Marvez from sirius XM NFL Radio. Knows so much about

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Speaker 1: this league and also participates in wrestling coverage for aew

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Speaker 1: He was quick to point that out when I intro

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Speaker 1: his NFL resume. Well, all alad wrestling as well, of course,

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Speaker 1: as you know, very popular in Houston by the way.

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Speaker 1: We look at the demographics each week, and you know

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Speaker 1: in Texas where we like to come like Austin May seventeenth.

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Speaker 1: Very fired up about that. But when it comes to

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Speaker 1: the NFL and free agency, I gotta tell you it's

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Speaker 1: over before it's over. Do you remember there used to

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Speaker 1: be a second wave and a third wave of free agency.

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Speaker 1: All those waves have crusted within five or six days now,

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Speaker 1: and really all the big name players are off the board.

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Speaker 1: And it's funny. People can't even wait now till the

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Speaker 1: legal tampering period begins. Before breaking news, Ala on NFL

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Speaker 1: Network reported Baker Mayfield was going to be signing with

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Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on a Sunday. So, you know,

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Speaker 1: you see teams champion at the bit to try to

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Speaker 1: get better. You can't blame him, but everything just happened

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Speaker 1: so quickly. It was so different back when I first

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Speaker 1: started as a beat writer back in the mid nineties,

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Speaker 1: when you're calling agents all day. Players had to take visits,

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Speaker 1: you know, with teams, they come four or five, six

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Speaker 1: different cities, then make a decision. All of these things

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Speaker 1: are fatal comployee, it seems before the legal tampering period

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Speaker 1: even begins. So it does create a different type of dichotomy.

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Speaker 1: And also another thing, you see teams more willing than

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Speaker 1: ever to swallow money and to make trades. You know,

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Speaker 1: teams are willing to absorb salary. You know, depocketed owners,

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Speaker 1: especially those types of franchises, they'll say we made a

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Speaker 1: mistake or this player isn't going to be as valuable

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Speaker 1: to us. So when you see a situation, for example,

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Speaker 1: where a player's salary part of it gets picked up,

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00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 1: you know that's a big deal. Or even the restructure

626
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Speaker 1: of a contract like a Jalen Ramsey so a deal

627
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 1: can get done. You know, the Rams take all this

628
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Speaker 1: dead money hit because they have one of the richest

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Speaker 1: owners in sports, and Stan Cronky. Other owners aren't operating

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Speaker 1: under that same type of financial budget. So it's just

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Speaker 1: very interesting to me to see how the league, you know,

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Speaker 1: comes together each year and it's evolution, so to speak,

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Speaker 1: in free agency. All Right, we hear you all the

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Speaker 1: time on Serious Sex M NFL Radio. What do you

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Speaker 1: do to keep the topics interesting? Because it's always interesting

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Speaker 1: to listen to your show, and I know there's always

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Speaker 1: a hot story in the NFL, but you don't want

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00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 1: to beat it to the ground, So how do you

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00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 1: handle that part of it? Well, that is interesting because

640
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 1: I learned a lesson back in the mid nineties, and

641
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: I wish I would have used it earlier in my career.

642
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: But there's a guy named Joe Sanchez who worked at

643
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: the Denver Post and his theory was he was a

644
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 1: backup writer, Adam Schefter, and they were might compete the

645
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: people I competed against. And his theory was play the hits.

646
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 1: You know, it's great to write a beautiful, flowery story

647
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: on a backup offensive lineman. But you know what, honestly,

648
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: most people want to know about star players. You just

649
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,880
Speaker 1: have to keep you know, reinventing the wheel, so to speak,

650
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 1: when it comes to certain topics. People want to talk

651
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 1: about Lamar Jackson. Of course, Lamar Jackson giving a lot

652
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 1: of folks things to talk about on Tuesday with his

653
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 1: raid request. But you know, you can approach that topic

654
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,719
Speaker 1: from different ways. I mean, we have to remember too,

655
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 1: on a three hour show that I host on Serious XM,

656
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 1: the average listener stays for twelve minutes. That's the average

657
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: length of segment. People are getting in and out of

658
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 1: their cars. You know, people just simply move on to

659
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 1: something else, so you know, oftentimes or switch channels, however

660
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: it goes. So you know, you're always having a fresh audience.

661
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 1: So you need to continue to talk about what people

662
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: what's on their mind without complete overkill. I mean, if

663
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 1: I did three hours of Aaron Rodgers Radio at this point,

664
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 1: I mean even that's a lot for me. But I

665
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 1: think though you do have to think. You have to

666
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: think about it from what is the average fan most

667
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 1: talking about? And star players really are what drives this league.

668
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: What stories do you find most fascinating this offseason? Give

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Speaker 1: me one or two that you've really enjoyed following and

670
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: talking about. I don't know if I enjoy it, but

671
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 1: the Lamar Jackson situation is so fascinating to me in

672
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 1: his stubbornness, his refusal to hire an agent to do

673
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 1: to help him with this. And I understand when players say, oh,

674
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 1: I negotiated my own contract, and that's all well and good,

675
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: but you're not a quarterback. You're not a quarterback that's

676
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 1: playing under a franchise tag and all the things that

677
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 1: go with that. You know, there's so much that you

678
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: know when now Lamar Jackson requesting a trade, well, who's

679
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: reaching out the teams on his behalf quietly? Because Lamar

680
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 1: Jackson can't reach out to teams themselves. He's under contract

681
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 1: to the Baltimore Ravens, to a franchise tag. So that's

682
00:32:57,880 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: a fascinating story. How is this going to end up?

683
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 1: Is he going to play for the Baltimore Ravens again

684
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 1: or is he going to move on? I also think

685
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: too the Aaron Rodgers situation to see history repeat itself

686
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 1: alive Brett Farve right, and to see this is almost

687
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 1: the same exact thing. A quarterback who outstayed is welcome

688
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 1: with the team, and once the play started to go

689
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: down a little bit, maybe you know, they had another option.

690
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 1: Then they were willing to move on from a player

691
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 1: who is obviously high maintenance type of players. What we

692
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 1: would say about Aaron Rodgers, So the fact that he's

693
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 1: going to the Jets and the fact that no one

694
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 1: else was interested, really Mark think about that. I mean,

695
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 1: is this a thirty nine year old Aaron Rodgers whose

696
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 1: performance diminished so much in twenty twenty two that all

697
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: these quarterback star of teams don't want him that they'd

698
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 1: rather draft sight unseen a rookie quarterback. And I understand

699
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 1: the deal with the salary cap, but you're taking such

700
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: a big chance. Is this really what Aaron Rodgers has

701
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 1: left with the New York Jets? You know, It's just

702
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 1: that to me is interesting onto itself. How much of

703
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 1: this is sticker shock in your opinion, Alex, because of

704
00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 1: the Watson deal that took place last year with the Browns, well,

705
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 1: I mean, and by the way, tip of the captain

706
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 1: at Cassario for you know, holding fast and not trading

707
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 1: to Shaun Watson prematurely and getting the bounty that he did.

708
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 1: I mean, at some point there is going to be

709
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 1: the conversation about guaranteed money with a player. But you

710
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 1: know what, and it's great for people to talk about that,

711
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 1: what ends up happening if a player gets injured at

712
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 1: that point and you're carrying all this money on your

713
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,360
Speaker 1: salary cap and there's nothing you can do about it,

714
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,359
Speaker 1: that's a tough deal. And I'm not saying that there's

715
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 1: any you know, there may be there are ways around

716
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 1: that that the NFL and the NFL Players Association can negotiate. However,

717
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: the NFLPA signed off on a labor deal that's going

718
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 1: to take them through the rest of this decade. So

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00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 1: I think that's what's tough. I'm sticker shot. Yes, you

720
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 1: just have to be able to make you have to

721
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 1: balance your cap. There's some people that are good at it.

722
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 1: You know, some people are also willing to try to

723
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: you know, for example, the Rams, they finally had to

724
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 1: you know, to pay the piper, so to speech. So

725
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three is a reset year for them. Others

726
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:53,880
Speaker 1: try to keep that window open as long as you can,

727
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 1: you know, for New Orleans for example, you know, and

728
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 1: constantly restructuring contracts and kicking the can down the road,

729
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 1: hoping for a big salary cap spike one year that's

730
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: going to help get them out of this cap situation

731
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 1: that they're in. That's all well and good, but the

732
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 1: problem is that they're sort of a five hundred team.

733
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Speaker 1: While keeping this window open, It's almost like you have

734
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: to get bad to get good again. Sometimes in the NFL,

735
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 1: it does make me appreciate sustained success, like the Pittsburgh

736
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:18,399
Speaker 1: Steelers to Mike Tomlin, but it's been in six years

737
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 1: since they want a playoff game. It's been a while

738
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 1: since it's been to a super Bowl. I mean, what

739
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 1: are you winning for? Is it just you know too?

740
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: I mean, and listen for losing teams. Having a winning

741
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 1: season is incredible in Jacksonville. Obviously, they're thrilled with what

742
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,239
Speaker 1: they did, but now the bar has been raised, they

743
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 1: need to get better. But you see what I'm saying

744
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 1: it it's very interesting because you know, thirty two teams,

745
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:39,840
Speaker 1: thirty two different ways of doing business around the NFL.

746
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:41,879
Speaker 1: It's one of the things that fascinates me about this league.

747
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 1: Alex Marvez joining us, all right, never mind what they

748
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 1: do here? Are you in favor of the fourth and

749
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: fifteen option instead of the odd side kick? I'm just

750
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:54,399
Speaker 1: so tired of gimmick football. It's just to me. I mean, listen,

751
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 1: maybe I'm older, maybe you could get used to this

752
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: type of rule. I mean, but do we want to

753
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 1: really reward teams that are down by a lot of

754
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:03,880
Speaker 1: points by putting them in a position that they can

755
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 1: win a game and come back and essentially steal it

756
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 1: off of one or two plays. That's why I don't

757
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:10,880
Speaker 1: mind the onside kick situation. If you're lucky enough to

758
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: be able to execute the play properly and the other

759
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 1: team isn't able to defend it, well, then you're going

760
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: to have that type of chance. I just feel like

761
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:19,839
Speaker 1: we're just adding certain things to the game that maybe

762
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,399
Speaker 1: don't need to be there. Maybe we're just overthinking these things.

763
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: I think it's healthy conversation about it, But you know,

764
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 1: I think you can convert fourth and fifteen a heck,

765
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,319
Speaker 1: of a lot easier than you can an onside kick,

766
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 1: especially in a league with all the penalties, and you know,

767
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:35,239
Speaker 1: you draw one flag on a defensive back for a

768
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,359
Speaker 1: hold and think about how it can change the game.

769
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,759
Speaker 1: Oh wait, super Bowl fifty seven, think about that one.

770
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying the call was wrong, but I

771
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:43,719
Speaker 1: just I'm not big on that one. I just think

772
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 1: keep it as it is because the teams that played

773
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 1: better for the majority of the game usually deserve to win.

774
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:50,720
Speaker 1: I think, if anything, back it up to the fifteen

775
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 1: or ten if you're going to do that, Okay, alex

776
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,880
Speaker 1: AFC South. The Jags want it, as we all know.

777
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: Are they here to stay? Is there any one of

778
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: the other three teams that can threaten them this year?

779
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 1: Tennessee Never, you can never count out because Mike Rabel

780
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 1: is such a great tactical coach. I mean, outside of

781
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick, I don't know someone who's able to execute

782
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,840
Speaker 1: the rules and find little nuances in the game to

783
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 1: be able to take advantage of like Mike Rabel. I mean,

784
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 1: his team's practice hard, maybe a little bit too hard

785
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 1: when you look at the injury rate, But I just

786
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: think you just can't discount them, and when they're running

787
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: what they want to run, you know, Derrick Henry running

788
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 1: downhill and Ryan Tannehill off the play action pass and

789
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 1: what should be an improved defense, especially getting Harold Landry back.

790
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 1: I've got to put them probably at number two in

791
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: this division, but it's Jacksonville's to lose at this point.

792
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:39,320
Speaker 1: And you know, I have to give Trent Bockey a

793
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 1: heck of a lot of credit, someone who drew a

794
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 1: lot of criticism, you know, from those on the outside,

795
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,359
Speaker 1: even in the NFL. Remember we had Byron Leff, which

796
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,880
Speaker 1: reportedly pulled out of the consideration for the head coaching

797
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 1: job because he didn't want to work with Trent Bockey. Well,

798
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 1: Trent and Doug Peterson had made quite the couple and

799
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 1: essentially every free agent signing they made last year was

800
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: a hit. That's hard to do. As you're going with

801
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 1: sighte un scene, you don't know how these players, what

802
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,800
Speaker 1: their work ethic is, You don't you know, sometimes there's injuries.

803
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:06,839
Speaker 1: You know, you don't know how they necessarily fit because

804
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 1: you know, Trent and Dug and never worked together before,

805
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 1: and so you know, I'll give you an example. Mike

806
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,919
Speaker 1: Kisicki gets franchise tagged by the Miami Dolphins. Okay, in theory,

807
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 1: that sounds great, right, but guess what, Mike McDaniel had

808
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:18,359
Speaker 1: no way to use Mike gisicky and you waste more

809
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 1: than ten million dollars in salary cap space and a

810
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:23,359
Speaker 1: guy who called like what eight passes? I mean, that's bad.

811
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 1: When Cedric Wilson bad signing because you didn't know how

812
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 1: to use him. Chase Edmonds, you didn't even keep him

813
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 1: for a whole season. You trade him to Denver. That's

814
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 1: a head coach and a GM who aren't on the

815
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 1: same page about the type of personnel they want in Jacksonville.

816
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 1: They were on the same page in free agency. They

817
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:37,359
Speaker 1: were on the same page in the draft. And I'll

818
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 1: tell you a Trayvon Walker. I think he's going to

819
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 1: be an absolute monster next year. You started to see him,

820
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,280
Speaker 1: come on, you know, he's only started one year at Georgia,

821
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 1: but he started to play a lot better as a

822
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 1: season went along. And I think Trevor Lawrence now blossoming.

823
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:50,360
Speaker 1: And what's interesting is there's an analogy here to the

824
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 1: Houston Texans, who I think will end up it's them

825
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis trying to fight to stay out of the base,

826
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: out of the basement. But my point though is with Houston,

827
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Speaker 1: if indeed a quarterback has taken a number two, I'm

828
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 1: not looking at twenty twenty three for this incredible breakthrough season,

829
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 1: But when I'm looking at it in twenty twenty four,

830
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: it's a Texans team that opens up the pocketbook. It

831
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 1: starts to spend some serious money, starts to bring in

832
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:15,839
Speaker 1: some foundational pieces and really surround Bryce Young or c Strap.

833
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:17,400
Speaker 1: But I would think Bryce Young with a heck of

834
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 1: a lot of talent to be able to excel, much

835
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 1: like what the Jaguars are doing right now with Trevor

836
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: Lawrence and his rookie deal. I thought you knew something

837
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:25,720
Speaker 1: for a second. You are breaking some news here, Alex

838
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 1: Alex Marvez joining us, all right, So what you do

839
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 1: with all elite wrestling aw and your NFL coverage? How

840
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: hard is it to shift gears between the two. I'm

841
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 1: so blessed to do things I loved. I mean, I've

842
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:38,399
Speaker 1: been watching pro wrestling since I was six years old.

843
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 1: To be able to call Sting one of my co workers,

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Speaker 1: it just still boggles my mind to be able to

845
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Speaker 1: be on air doing backstage interviews, you know, even despite

846
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: the abuse I take, but nonetheless, just that to me

847
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,240
Speaker 1: is just something I could have never in a million

848
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 1: years dreamt of that my life would take me in

849
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,479
Speaker 1: this direction. This is now my twenty ninth season coming

850
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 1: up covering in the NFL. I get paid to talk

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Speaker 1: about football. What's better than that? Right? I mean? I

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Speaker 1: do the homework, as you know, Mark, I You know,

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Speaker 1: I try to study the game as much as I can.

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Speaker 1: I make my own opinions based upon what I've seen

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Speaker 1: through the years. But I just feel like I'm so lucky.

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Speaker 1: Is it a lot of work? Is it demanding? Yes?

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Speaker 1: But you know what I mean, it's this isn't I'm

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Speaker 1: not out in the sun breaking rocks. I just have

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Speaker 1: to you know, I just and I'm doing two things

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Speaker 1: that I love. So that's why I'm just I'm very

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Speaker 1: blessed to be doing what I'm doing. Alex Marvez with us,

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Speaker 1: you and I go back to South Floridaday, So what's

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Speaker 1: your reaction to the Miami Hurricanes and FAU both being

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Speaker 1: in the Final four. It's bizarre, I know, and people

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Speaker 1: are wondering what does FAU stand for? It? Right, because

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Speaker 1: they're just such a small school and unless you know

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Speaker 1: them from a little bit of football success or Howard

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Speaker 1: Schnellenberger building that program from the ground up football wise,

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Speaker 1: it's been remarkable. And you know, Mark, to be quite honest,

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Speaker 1: you know, when I was growing up in the eighties,

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Speaker 1: stars from South Florida make it to the pros. We

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Speaker 1: had Mitch Richmond, who is from Fort Lauderdale. We had

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Speaker 1: Chris Corciani who played a bit in the league, but

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Speaker 1: we didn't have in Doug Edwards. But it was like

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Speaker 1: just basketball was not a big you know. Then the

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Speaker 1: Miami Heat came along, and then you know now when

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Speaker 1: you meet the hires that they do, by the way,

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Speaker 1: with these coaches, I mean Jim Laer and Yaga at

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Speaker 1: the University of Miami, the right guy at the right place,

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Speaker 1: and you know, he was steady and consistent, and the

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Speaker 1: school is stuck with him throughout. I think they've had

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Speaker 1: realistic expectations that he has now exceeded. You know, you

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Speaker 1: build a nice basketball arena and coral gables, which they

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Speaker 1: didn't always have. I mean they've had to play games

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Speaker 1: around it. It's just insane. I don't. I mean FAU,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what their stadium looks like. Nobody does.

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Speaker 1: I think they're the mystery team really of this whole

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Speaker 1: Final Four. But that's been a great program as well.

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Speaker 1: And if it increases the love of basketball in South

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Speaker 1: Florida and you know, gets more young people playing, and

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Speaker 1: you start to build that pipeline to the pros, I mean,

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Speaker 1: what could be wrong with that? You know? Absolutely, Alex

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Speaker 1: Nis a lot for joining us. We appreciate it, and Martha,

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Speaker 1: thank you. All right, there's my friend Alex Marvez, and

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Speaker 1: that's going to do it for the program tonight. As

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Speaker 1: we've had good visits with Diana Rossini, Adam schefter I

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Speaker 1: and Rappaport, Alex Marvez who we just heard from, and

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, head coach Dmiko ryans As. We'll see more

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Speaker 1: of hand probably on three sixty this week Texans three sixty, ABC,

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Speaker 1: thirteen Sunday nights at eleven o'clock. We've got a feature

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Speaker 1: that the guys did this weekend at MALIEK. Collins Gym

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Speaker 1: here in Phoenix. They were here early for that and

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Speaker 1: it's just amazing stuff he's doing. You have to see

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Speaker 1: it to know it, and we'll be writing stories about it.

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Speaker 1: It's very cool stuff. Anyway, tomorrow we'll be back Texans

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Speaker 1: president Greg Grissom on the show. Have a great night everyone,

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Speaker 1: Thank you Chris for producing, and go Texans.