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Speaker 1: Welcome to everybody to a Friday edition of Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: I am your host, John Harris, football analyst and sideline reporter,

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Speaker 1: and I can't even begin to tell you how good

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Speaker 1: is to be driving the train again on Texans All

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Speaker 1: Access back in the lead seat. Oh. I've been gone

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Speaker 1: for well what seems like five or six days, dealing with, oh,

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Speaker 1: just a situation. If you follow me on Twitter, you

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Speaker 1: know it's been It's been no fun, but got it

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Speaker 1: done and finally was able to break away a little

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Speaker 1: for the first day and god knows how long and

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Speaker 1: signed for radio. So glad to be with you. And

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Speaker 1: we've got plenty to look at a little bit of

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Speaker 1: Texans news that came down today, which was kind of fun.

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Speaker 1: We'll discuss that in just a second. And I want

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Speaker 1: to build off of that news into how it is

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Speaker 1: that we think the offense will look from a personnel standpoint,

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Speaker 1: and I'll go through that. I've been kind of sitting

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Speaker 1: what this offense could potentially look like personnel wise, and

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Speaker 1: we'll get into that in just a little bit. Voice

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Speaker 1: of Texans. Mark Vandermir will join me later in the show.

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Speaker 1: I've got a few It is March Madness, and I

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Speaker 1: saw this tweet from and I don't remember who it was,

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Speaker 1: but you see these a lot on Twitter and ends

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Speaker 1: up getting a lot of reposts and retweets and all

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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, and I thought it was pretty interesting.

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Speaker 1: It was just name the most random NC double, a

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Speaker 1: tournament hero, or something along those lines. And I couldn't

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Speaker 1: stop myself at one because I thought of a few.

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Speaker 1: And so one of my favorite backcourt tandems, Carmelo Trevier Soo,

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Speaker 1: Padi and Trevier Soo, Karmen Padia, Karmen Treviso, trying to

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Speaker 1: remember for I just remember Padi and Trevier so they

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Speaker 1: were the backcourt of ninety six UMass and the voice

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Speaker 1: of the UMass minute man at that time and called

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Speaker 1: every game going to the final four and up through

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Speaker 1: the final four was Mark Vandermir. So I want to

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Speaker 1: get his thoughts on on that, and we'll talk about

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Speaker 1: a few Texans items as well, obviously, but it is

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Speaker 1: March Madness time, and so I've got to start the

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Speaker 1: show by wishing good luck to the Cougs taking on

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Speaker 1: Georgia's state. Looking forward to seeing what coug basketball does tonight.

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Speaker 1: That has been a very exciting team to watch, and

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Speaker 1: that thing is going to tip off at about six

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Speaker 1: twenty six, twenty five, So next twenty to twenty five

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Speaker 1: minutes they'll be tipping off and looking forward to it.

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Speaker 1: The three seat the Cougs, Eat them up, guys, go

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Speaker 1: get it. I saw a great video that CBS had

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Speaker 1: done kind of a team confidential with I think it

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Speaker 1: was Gailan Robinson, who is local and you know, doing

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Speaker 1: it for the city. That's been a mantra for the

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Speaker 1: coug So coog jogo get it. Best of luck and

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Speaker 1: hopefully by the time we have our next all Access

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Speaker 1: the show, we'll be talking about the Houston Cougar team

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Speaker 1: that's headed to the Sweet sixteen. That would be kind

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Speaker 1: of nice. Honestly, I don't know. March Madness on Thursday

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Speaker 1: night or Thursday in particular. Uh okay, Friday a little better,

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Speaker 1: I guess, but you know, nothing, nothing really. I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you this though. Thursday John Morant, who Wow, that dude.

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Speaker 1: I saw him play a couple of times. Once I

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Speaker 1: saw that highlight of the dunk, which everybody saw that

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Speaker 1: was on Twitter. I was like, man, this guy's a

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Speaker 1: as any basketball team I've seen all year. Murray State, Oh,

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Speaker 1: really fun to watch. So all right, let's get into

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Speaker 1: the football and talk about the Texans a little bit.

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Speaker 1: A signing today and I like it. I think a

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Speaker 1: And this morning when Joe was coming up here to

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Speaker 1: we're all going back up. And so Mike Eubanks, who

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Speaker 1: sports Performance, Mike saw him. Joe was like, oh, Mike, like,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's pretty amazing to kind of be around him.

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Speaker 1: And so Joe Webb comes back in I would assume

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Speaker 1: the same role he comes back in that third quarterback.

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Speaker 1: And see, hopefully Joe doesn't see the field at quarterback

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Speaker 1: the Joe websigning had not taken place, and I thought

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Speaker 1: who said all kinds of records at Mississippi State as

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Speaker 1: a running, as a runner, as a rusher, he was second,

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Speaker 1: the NFL is a copycat league. You do it, they're

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Speaker 1: he was very, very valuable, and I think Joe is

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Speaker 1: the feeling you have for a guy who's the third

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Speaker 1: he is somebody I think for what apparently one year,

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Speaker 1: So I got a little worried about it. Then they

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Speaker 1: they have. Now. They've got Buddy Howe, but Buddy has

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Speaker 1: for different reasons. And I know Elijah Holyfield didn't test

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Speaker 1: all that well, but man, Elijah Holyfield in this offense,

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Speaker 1: I think would be really good. David Montgomery of Iowa State.

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Speaker 1: Damian Harris is a guy. It's funny Damian Harris. Last

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Speaker 1: year I thought he was going to declare and he didn't.

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Speaker 1: He went back and I remember thinking he's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a Texan. I don't know what tells me that, just

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Speaker 1: weird hunch. Darrell Henderson Memphis, Devin Singletary from FAU. Trevion

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Speaker 1: Williams is the guy I told you I really like,

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Speaker 1: Miles Sanders from Penn State. Even Rodney Anderson from Oklahoma.

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Speaker 1: was fully healthy, Wow, he was dynamic in Oklahoma. And

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Speaker 1: he's from Katie High School, So I would I would

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Speaker 1: love any and all those places. I mean, then you

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Speaker 1: go beyond it. Dexter Williams would just missed out one

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Speaker 1: he's a big I mean, he's a big back. These

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Speaker 1: guys are like two o five to two seventeen to twenty,

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Speaker 1: somewhere in that range. So Alexander Madison, the guy from

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Speaker 1: not scared to give him the ballut Boise State. So

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Speaker 1: gonna rush over the center and he's gonna destroy that dude.

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Speaker 1: He did, and it was so fun to watch. I

428
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Speaker 1: think Antonio Smith was I think I wouldn't put him.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't put him ahead of yet John Joseph. I

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Speaker 1: think he's behind him a little bit, but he's definitely

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Speaker 1: in a team picture. Yeah. He made that Pro Bowl

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Speaker 1: in eleven with Johnathan Joseph. And I know that Pro

433
00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:55,440
Speaker 1: Bowls are not the end all bill, but you've done

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Speaker 1: something right if you're in a Pro Bowl, okay, and

435
00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:00,679
Speaker 1: he deserved to go to that one. He's another one

436
00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:03,520
Speaker 1: of those all time favorites to talk with. But yeah,

437
00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:07,480
Speaker 1: very very productive and it was fun seeing him that

438
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Speaker 1: second go round here twenty six ste because you know,

439
00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:12,119
Speaker 1: they put him next to they put him in between

440
00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:15,680
Speaker 1: JJ Watt and DJ Readers locker room, and that was

441
00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:18,520
Speaker 1: funny because that was Readers rookie year and then JJ

442
00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:23,080
Speaker 1: was established by that point and kind of along in

443
00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:24,879
Speaker 1: his career at that point. It was funny to see that.

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00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,520
Speaker 1: So it was it was really cool. Uh, it's really

445
00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:29,639
Speaker 1: cool having him back in the full I say that,

446
00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:31,879
Speaker 1: but JJ had already gotten injured, but he was kind

447
00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:33,399
Speaker 1: of on his rehab and it was he was kind

448
00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:36,639
Speaker 1: of happy to see face back in and it was

449
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Speaker 1: it was just really cool because we did a radio

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Speaker 1: show one year twenty thirteen. Oh man, gosh, if you're

451
00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:45,440
Speaker 1: gonna have to do a radio show on a weekly

452
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Speaker 1: basis during fourteen lost season, that's one of the guys

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Speaker 1: that you're gonna lean on. And uh, yeah, we got

454
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Speaker 1: into you know, Antonio Smith when he grew up in Oklahoma,

455
00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:58,359
Speaker 1: he was in high school for a time, he was

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Speaker 1: a cook at the Flehouse. So young, young Antonio. I

457
00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:05,399
Speaker 1: think I knew that, but I'm but you say that,

458
00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:06,960
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, wait a second, did I know that?

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00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,760
Speaker 1: That's pretty interesting? Smothered and cover interesting due, So those

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00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:11,879
Speaker 1: are two I think those are really the far and

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Speaker 1: away best free agent signings. You could have some uh

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Speaker 1: you have some some arguments for Lamar Miller, for the

463
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Speaker 1: Wade Smith. Wait Smith, way, yeah, way, Smith was when

464
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Speaker 1: I was really good offensive lineman. Here. Now he's with us,

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Speaker 1: the Texans ambassador. Um, if you're gonna go just any

466
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Speaker 1: time free agent you want to include in season, you

467
00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:34,679
Speaker 1: want to include undrafted rookies, well, hey, then Arian Foster

468
00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:37,040
Speaker 1: rips up to the top of the list, and then

469
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Speaker 1: you got to think about uh A J. Boyer and

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Speaker 1: what he meant. Then you gotta think if you don't

471
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,200
Speaker 1: want to do one year, wonders. Bernard Pollard was a

472
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,000
Speaker 1: good in season acquisition in two thousand and nine to

473
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Speaker 1: stabilize the back of the defense. Tyrn Matthew was a

474
00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:52,879
Speaker 1: good signing last year. He was not in season, but

475
00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:55,639
Speaker 1: he was about a week into free agency around this

476
00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,280
Speaker 1: time last year he was. He was a good solid

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Speaker 1: pick up for the Texans. Did an job. Yo, who

478
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:02,920
Speaker 1: was a good free agent pickup? And I'm a little

479
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:08,040
Speaker 1: surprised it's your fishing buddy, Shane Leckler. That was a

480
00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:13,360
Speaker 1: mean for what he came in thirteen for five years,

481
00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 1: one of the better punters in NFL. I mean, he

482
00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 1: was fantastic. So, uh, that was another one. But Wae

483
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 1: Wade was the next one. We were gonna go another round.

484
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:24,440
Speaker 1: Wade was going to be the the next guy. Boy,

485
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:26,159
Speaker 1: it was really tough to leave Wade out of there.

486
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,560
Speaker 1: Wade Smith was a really good player for this organization.

487
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 1: Settled in at guard between Chris Myers and Dwayne Brown,

488
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,159
Speaker 1: did a really nice job for the years he was here,

489
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Speaker 1: and he continues to leave his impact on the city

490
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Speaker 1: of Houston. So glad that he is here. You can

491
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Speaker 1: listen to him on Sports Radio six ten. He pops

492
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:44,240
Speaker 1: up in the morning, he pops up at night with

493
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,680
Speaker 1: Trap Jay Travis Johnson, so you can listen to him there.

494
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Speaker 1: But Wade was a really good signing. So hopefully with

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Speaker 1: the guys that they have signed to Sean Gibson, Bradley Robie,

496
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:58,960
Speaker 1: Brian Body Calhoun, hopefully there is going to be a

497
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Speaker 1: guy you look back and go, hey, that was a

498
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:05,240
Speaker 1: good signing. Dared Fells, that was a good signing. So

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00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,119
Speaker 1: let's uh, maybe we have this discussion in year two

500
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,479
Speaker 1: we can look back and say, yeah, man, glad they

501
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Speaker 1: did that. Slam duck. All right, we get back the

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Speaker 1: Voice of Texas, Mark Vandomir, is going to join me.

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Speaker 1: I got a few things that we need to discuss,

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00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:20,760
Speaker 1: and we'll do that next NARI Final segment Texans All

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Speaker 1: Access one final segment of Texans All Access. On this

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Speaker 1: wonderful Friday afternoons slash evening, light still out, It's nice

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Speaker 1: to see the sun out and about I am your host,

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00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:35,920
Speaker 1: John Harris joining me right now, as promised, the Voice

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00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,440
Speaker 1: of the Texans, Mark Vandomir, Mark are you. I was

510
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,200
Speaker 1: complaining about spring forward in daylight savings when the weather

511
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:44,480
Speaker 1: was still yucky, and now it's beautiful, so it's okay. Yeah,

512
00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:46,560
Speaker 1: it's okay. Sorry. Did you see my tweet last night?

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00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:50,080
Speaker 1: Wait a minute? What oh about the All time NCAA. Yeah,

514
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,440
Speaker 1: so so here it is. Did I respond to that

515
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 1: or not? Because I was good? You did, you did good.

516
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 1: But it basically somebody had put out there name just

517
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Speaker 1: a random NT double, a tournament basketball hero or something

518
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 1: along those lines. Yeah, and I couldn't stop myself at one.

519
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:07,879
Speaker 1: There's so many of them. So I put guys like

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00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 1: Finnis Dembo from Wyoming. That was cool u R. I

521
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,119
Speaker 1: had a backcourt of Tom Garritt and Silk Owens, who

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Speaker 1: I loved an eighty eight they played for Tom Penders

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Speaker 1: u R. Eighty eight. That team beat Derek Chiefs his

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Speaker 1: Missouri squad and then beat Syracuse with the lefty went oh,

525
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Speaker 1: Derrick Coleman. So you didn't want to go Tyson Wheeler,

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Speaker 1: Katino Mobley, that group Lavarodom Nope, not that group, Nope.

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Speaker 1: I was more. I was more a fan of the

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Speaker 1: eighty eight group, going way way back with Tom Penders

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Speaker 1: and then I put Harold the show Arseno. Well, one

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Speaker 1: of my favorite groups was Padien Trevier. You got a

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Speaker 1: chance to see they were so good. Edgar Pidia is

532
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:52,920
Speaker 1: my all time NCUBA basketball favorite player. He's the guy.

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00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:56,600
Speaker 1: He and that year, the ninety six season, he he

534
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 1: hit so many big shots people forget about, but obviously

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Speaker 1: to anybody involved with that program, they were number one

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00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:04,920
Speaker 1: of the country for most of the year. Are phenomenal.

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00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 1: I was telling my you know, my kid is finally

538
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 1: interested in this stuff. You know, because he is because

539
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 1: you know Vander Kidd. He knows all about the Texans

540
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 1: and everything, but you know, now he's getting into this

541
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: NCAA basketball zion and everything. Yeah, of course. Then he

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00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 1: said uh, and I said, well. He said, who's the

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00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 1: best player on that U MASS team? I said, Marcus

544
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 1: Canby And he said, well, I don't really know him too,

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00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: And I understand it because you know, he's thirteen, so

546
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 1: Camby really wasn't doing much and throughout much of his

547
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,880
Speaker 1: life he's just a solid NBA player. And I said, well,

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00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 1: you've heard of Tim Duncan, right, I said, well, Canby

549
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 1: and Duncan squared off at a game that year in December.

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00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 1: It was a huge game. You Mask versus Wake four

551
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 1: sports illustrate. Everybody was there at the time, remember that,

552
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 1: and uh and they squared off and neither guy played

553
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 1: that great, but you mass won the game. And I said,

554
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 1: we were thirty five and one, hang on a second,

555
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 1: thirty one in one entering the tournament, thirty one in one,

556
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 1: entering the NCAA Tournament as the number one overall seed,

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00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 1: and eventually lost to Kentucky in the semifinals at the

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00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:02,119
Speaker 1: Continental air Lines. And I was telling him about that season.

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00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: It was amazing. Padilla was such a huge part of it.

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00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:06,919
Speaker 1: I love the tournament, I love all this, all these games.

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00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 1: You don't have to know what's going on. I do

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00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,639
Speaker 1: criticize the radio guys sometimes, Johnny, I'm not doing that

563
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:15,160
Speaker 1: national stuff anymore. I'm so buried in the NFL. I'm

564
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 1: going to the owner's meetings on Sunday. I couldn't do

565
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 1: it anyway. But here the thing, here's the thing. When

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Speaker 1: you're calling a national game, just like when Lopez and

567
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,240
Speaker 1: I called the South the Conference final last Saturday, You've

568
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: got to say the name of the team more than

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00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 1: you say the name of any individual. Player or as

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00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: much because if Smith gets the rebound, well great, but

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00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:35,400
Speaker 1: what schools he playing for? Because I don't know any

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00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,879
Speaker 1: of these guys, right, It's a good point, you know,

573
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 1: like like it's okay to say Smith gets the rebound,

574
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 1: but Smith gets the rebound and Villanova as the ball

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00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 1: streaming up the floor. You know, whatever the case is,

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Speaker 1: You've got to be able to say the name of

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Speaker 1: the institution otherwise you can't follow along on the radio. Yeah,

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00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 1: that's true. It's a great point. I hadn't thought about that,

579
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: especially when you're calling Southland games and not a lot

580
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 1: of people and I do the football games, and so

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00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 1: the hardest the hardest part is making sure that because

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00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 1: a lot of times, as on the analyst side, I

583
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: try and use some examples from other games, Hey I

584
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: saw this guy do that against this other team, and

585
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 1: make sure that you don't kind of incorporate that and

586
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 1: get it too confusing. But I when I when they

587
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: tweeted that out, they were one of my favorites. Part

588
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 1: of the reason I predicted them to lose in the

589
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Speaker 1: regional final to Georgetown. I had the whole bracket picked perfectly,

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00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:29,959
Speaker 1: and then I picked Georgetown to Beau Mass. I'll ever

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00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 1: get that. I watched the first half of that game

592
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: and it was close, and then for some reason I

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00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 1: didn't watch the second half, and it's a blowout and

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00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:38,719
Speaker 1: U Mass just ran away with it against Allen Iverson

595
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: in defense. Second half, Iverson shot like four for twenty six.

596
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 1: I want to say in that game, he was nowhere

597
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 1: to be found as far as shooting proficiency, and you

598
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 1: gotta credit the U Mass guys for getting on it defensively.

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00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 1: I just felt like those two that backcourt, Padi and

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Speaker 1: Trevier so just I love the story of them getting

601
00:29:57,520 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: getting to U Mass. Yeah, but then how they play

602
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 1: together and how they played off each other playing in

603
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 1: the Puerto Rican Superior League. They played there, and uh,

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00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 1: it's funny because GADeL Padilla, Edgar's brother, came off the

605
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 1: bench in the championship game and the semi final actually

606
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 1: did something and they made a little run on Kentucky,

607
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 1: but they couldn't beat They beat them opening night for them,

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Speaker 1: but then they lost to them in the semifinals. Only

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Speaker 1: two losses that year scared Now, that was one loss.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry that was I just said it was a splint.

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00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 1: George Washington was the other loss with all those international

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Speaker 1: kids like yeagor miss Cherikov. That was before it was

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Speaker 1: yeagormss Cherikov, Alexander Cool, Chante Rodgers, Yeah, George Washington team

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Speaker 1: that had I think they had kids from nine different

615
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: countries at one point, and they were getting them because

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00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:48,479
Speaker 1: the embassies in DC had these great pipelines to get

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Speaker 1: the kids into the nation's capital. Mike Jarvis had Jarvis

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00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 1: had a really good thing going for a while GW

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Speaker 1: and then he went to Saint John's. Yeah, Jarvis had

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00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 1: a Jarvis was I thought, a really good coach, and

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Speaker 1: he took the Saint John's job and you got Saint

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00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 1: John's back up to a particular level, and then just

623
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: couldn't get it players at Saint John's. He had some

624
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 1: good guys there for I mean, he had run our test.

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00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 1: That was a great team. Yeah, that was a great team.

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Speaker 1: Couldn't get it done. I saw this today and it's

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00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 1: by Chris Simms, and he just called it sims madness.

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Speaker 1: And they were doing a bracket why not? Why not?

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Speaker 1: I can't get it off, brat, but I like, but

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Speaker 1: I like this bracket, all right, what's this bracket? He ranked,

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Speaker 1: he had two sides rack tattoos of friends. He should,

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00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 1: he'd be an expert that he's got the NFC on

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00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 1: one side and AFC on one side. On the other side,

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00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 1: and he ranked the teams one through sixteen, he played well,

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Speaker 1: he's only played out. They've played out the first round

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Speaker 1: of games. I love this. So he ranked well, that's

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Speaker 1: all I was gonna ask you. He ranked the teams

638
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Speaker 1: as he sees them right now. All right, So each

639
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:00,959
Speaker 1: side of the bracket has its own. So are we seeding?

640
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Speaker 1: The AFC gets one seed one through sixteen, one through sixteen, NFC. So,

641
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Speaker 1: who who is the number one seed in the AFC?

642
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 1: The Patriots? Yes, who is the number one seed in

643
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: the NFC. That's a little bit surprising when I saw this.

644
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 1: Oh it's not the Rams, it's the Saints. No, Saints

645
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 1: are the four seed. Oh my goodness, Yeah, I know

646
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: Indy City. No, yes, no, no, no, I know. Bears

647
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 1: are the one. He's ranked. The Bears is the one seed.

648
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 1: If they can make a field goal, they should, they

649
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 1: could be the number one seed. Ye, Rams, the two

650
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: right Eagles, the three Okay Saints, the four Cowboys, the

651
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 1: five so Eagles, get their point guard back. Yep. Uh,

652
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 1: so he's that. That's how he's got him ranked. And

653
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 1: I wasn't too I didn't look too much at that side,

654
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 1: but I looked obviously a lot at the FC side.

655
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 1: So number one is the Patriots, all right, number two

656
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: seed in the AFC is going to be Let me

657
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: think about this, it'll be the Colts. No, no, he'll

658
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 1: be the Chiefs. It'll be the Chiefs. Good, then the Colts. Nope,

659
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: really nope. You will be surprised about that one. It's

660
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: not the Charger. Hold onto the Colts for a while. No, boy,

661
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 1: the cults. You know, far be it from me to

662
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 1: complain about the Colts not getting respect. They add justin Houston.

663
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 1: So chargers, very good chargers are the three, the four.

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Speaker 1: It's not the Colts. It's the Colts. It's not the Texans.

665
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: It's not the Texans. Hottest thing going in. You can't

666
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: you know? I was, no way, I'm not gonna do it.

667
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: Cleveland is the number four seed, number four. Brackett, Yeah,

668
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 1: he's number four seed. He's got do you know? The

669
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Speaker 1: Browns is the number four and the Texans are number five? O.

670
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 1: B J is already unhappy. Well, I thought about it.

671
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: I thought about this. You think he's getting it out

672
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 1: of the way early. Who knows. I mean, that's that's

673
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: the upside or the the positive way of looking at

674
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 1: it for the Browns fans. But here's the way I

675
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 1: looked at I was thinking about this mark. In twenty seventeen,

676
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 1: the Bears, the Texans, and the Chiefs all made deals

677
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 1: to move up in the first round to go get

678
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 1: a quarterback. In twenty sixteen, the Rams and the Eagles

679
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 1: made deals to go up and get quarterbacks. They all

680
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: moved up and get quarterbacks. Great for everybody. Yeah, In

681
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, teams were moving around the draft board to

682
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 1: go get quarterbacks. One team went up and got a

683
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: pass rusher, developmental pass rusher, and that was the Saints.

684
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 1: And the Saints up and got Marcus Davenport from UTSA. Essentially,

685
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:48,399
Speaker 1: the Browns gave up their first rounder for a wide receiver. Now,

686
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 1: for all the love that John Dorsey gets, what I

687
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:57,359
Speaker 1: don't understand is that's not that's not a perfect team

688
00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,839
Speaker 1: on the front seven, and it's not a perfect team

689
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. But yet they traded away a

690
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 1: first rounder where at pick seventeen. They could have drafted

691
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 1: one of these tackles, one of these good young tackles,

692
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 1: put them over left tackle. Now that means they're gonna

693
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 1: go with Greg Robinson again, Which you know Greg's got

694
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,479
Speaker 1: his moments, but he definitely didn't have He definitely didn't

695
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 1: have him against us. Right, So I just trading away

696
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 1: a first round pick for a wide receiver, I don't now.

697
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I know the Cowboys did it too, and

698
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 1: I don't agree with that either. One give up a

699
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,320
Speaker 1: first round pick for a wide receiver anywhere. Obj's great

700
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,720
Speaker 1: and everything, but it's not like you're drafting someone who's

701
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:39,399
Speaker 1: automatically a great fit for you in the locker room

702
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: and maybe even on the field, considering if the ball's

703
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 1: not coming his way, how's he going to react, how's

704
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: that gonna go down? With Landry? There are a lot

705
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 1: of different dynamics here, and Mayfield's only in year two.

706
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if Bayfield is is evolved enough as

707
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,279
Speaker 1: a leader to straighten all this out if it does

708
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:57,360
Speaker 1: need straightening out. So they're the fourth seed, where the

709
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:02,879
Speaker 1: fifth five Texans, or five ahead of the Colts. They're

710
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 1: seated ahead of the one other team is ahead of

711
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,839
Speaker 1: the Colts too in the Chris Simms poll here. Yes,

712
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,800
Speaker 1: well it's not in the AFC East, it's the Steelers. Nope,

713
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 1: it's the Ravens. It's the Ravens. He's got the This

714
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 1: is nuts. Do you not see this division and how

715
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: good it is? So then he's got so the Colts

716
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 1: at seven, and then the Steelers. He's got the Steelers

717
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 1: at eight. Mm. He's got the Jets at number nine. Yeah,

718
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,359
Speaker 1: they're gonna be a sexy pick to do something. He's

719
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 1: got the Titans at ten. So Titans gonna feel so disrespected.

720
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,800
Speaker 1: Which but then again, and I've said this for a

721
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:44,400
Speaker 1: couple of years, we sort of know what the Titans are.

722
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 1: The Titans are, you know, grind, You know, the Titans

723
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: are sort of like Wisconsin basketball. They beat you and

724
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 1: you look around going out. Yeah you have been Hang

725
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 1: on a second, though, the Titans, don't you think? I

726
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,320
Speaker 1: hear you. Don't you think the Titans will finish ahead

727
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 1: of at the very least one of those three AFC

728
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 1: North teams in that mix? Right? Oh? Yes, yeah, I don't.

729
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 1: I don't dispute that, Yeah, I don't dispute that. But

730
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 1: I think everybody wants the Titans to be eleven and

731
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 1: five and twelve and four, And I don't think the

732
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:14,920
Speaker 1: Titans are the town no. No. I think the Titans

733
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 1: are the nine to sevent team that when they when

734
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 1: the plant, when you make mistakes against them, they can

735
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: invoke their plan, which is they're gonna run Dereck Henry

736
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: on you and they're gonna play pretty good defense. Forget

737
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 1: about it. Then then you got it. Then if you

738
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 1: play solid, don't turn a ball over, don't make mistakes,

739
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: and create a couple of plays like we did even

740
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 1: by seventeen that night, and I don't even know that

741
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 1: we played all that. Well, then how many starts for

742
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill this year? Well, that's my other problem with them.

743
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 1: I think bringing Ryan Taniel. I know a lot of

744
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: people are like, well, it's a win win situation. I

745
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 1: don't know because if because if Taniel could have done it,

746
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,919
Speaker 1: you've done it down in Miami, right, he was given

747
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 1: every opportunity to do it. We all agree that it's

748
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 1: Mariota or Bust sort of right, and the bust has

749
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 1: to be a backup quarterback who could possibly win some

750
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 1: games for you. And I think that is Tannehill in

751
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:04,799
Speaker 1: many ways. Look, they were kind of getting by. I'll

752
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: put it in the air with Tannehill, who can't run

753
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: around a little bit, and you know, but look down

754
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:14,279
Speaker 1: in Miami. I mean, he's throwing to Corey Davis and

755
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:17,440
Speaker 1: he's got Derrick Henry. But you know, this past year

756
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 1: in Miami, he had am At Dolai and Kenny Stills.

757
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 1: He had some guy you know, his running backs, Kennyan Drake,

758
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: Frank Gore. Mean, he had some weapons around it and

759
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 1: still didn't didn't get it done. And I know as

760
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 1: part of that was injury. Like I mean, I understand that,

761
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 1: but I just I feel like Tanney Hill leaves a

762
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 1: lot to be desired, to be honest. Now, yeah, if

763
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 1: the Titans needed receiver, you can step out there and

764
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 1: play wide receiver again like he did. I just I

765
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 1: just think that situation is it's I want to know,

766
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 1: I just feel like it's not gonna go. Well. Maybe

767
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 1: I'm wrong on that. I think they're gonna continue to

768
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:49,799
Speaker 1: give Martin Mariota shots, and I think what they're gonna

769
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 1: find at the end of the day is that Mariota

770
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 1: and Tannie Hill are essentially the same guy. Wow, they're

771
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:58,919
Speaker 1: essentially the same guy. Wow. I think that's what they're

772
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 1: gonna find at the end of the day. Interesting. So

773
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 1: who would the Texans play in the first round. Well,

774
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 1: knowing college basketball the way you do, you know that

775
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,919
Speaker 1: one place sixteen two plays fifteen. So the Texans would

776
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 1: play the twelve seed and that would be the Oakland Raiders.

777
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:16,320
Speaker 1: So seed at twelfth and Simms AFC Brackett is the

778
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:19,359
Speaker 1: Oakland Raiders and Texters slay them, and the Raiders are

779
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,840
Speaker 1: going to implode. But it's a one game deal like

780
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: it always in the NFL and the NCAA. I see

781
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 1: the Raiders, I just think is I don't think it's

782
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 1: gonna work. I think it's a total wild card. I

783
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be days. I think you're gonna be

784
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 1: days the Raiders where you might not be able to

785
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:39,359
Speaker 1: stop them. But I still think defensively they're not They're

786
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,720
Speaker 1: not there yet, They're not quite. They brought in Vantes perfect.

787
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:44,719
Speaker 1: That tells me everything I need to know about how

788
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,839
Speaker 1: they respect of their culture or don't so in Chris

789
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 1: Sims Brackett, as we're talking about over in the AFC,

790
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 1: So just one word answers Patriots Dolphins, first Round one

791
00:39:56,680 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 1: sixteen game Patriots eight nine games, Steelers, Jets, Steelers, Texans, Raiders, Texans, Browns, Jaguars.

792
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 1: He's got him as the thirteen season. See that could

793
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:10,759
Speaker 1: be a thirteen four upset, right. I think I'd rather

794
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:12,840
Speaker 1: seen the Raiders in the first round of the Jaguars

795
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Speaker 1: with Nick Foles. Yeah, so, Browns Jaguars. Much more faith

796
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: in the Jags getting their act together with with de

797
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 1: Filippo and Foles, with that defense, with that defense, which

798
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 1: was the top five defense. We talked to Frank Frangi

799
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 1: earlier this week, voices of the Jags top five in

800
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Speaker 1: scoring and yards with no offense, beating the Colts six

801
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 1: nothing late in the season, and I gotta have a

802
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:38,240
Speaker 1: game for Indie. They put up a goose egg. Jags

803
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 1: have some, they have some Jews. If good Foals shows up,

804
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: I think he could beat the Browns. There. Ravens Broncos

805
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 1: and six to eleven match up Ravens, Chargers, Bills three

806
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 1: fourteen matches. The Ravens are gonna kill Joe Flacco. Chargers,

807
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 1: Chargers Bills, Chargers, Colts, Titans. The Titans are the ten Colts,

808
00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 1: Chiefs Chiefs Bengals. The Bengals are the fifty seed. How

809
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:04,359
Speaker 1: about that? Yikes. So your second round matchups, which haven't

810
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:08,720
Speaker 1: played out yet, would be Patriots, Steelers, Texans. We'd go Jags,

811
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 1: they went Browns, Ravens, Chargers saw that one already and

812
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 1: Colts Chiefs. Yeah. So the Texans versus the Jags or

813
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 1: the Browns take the Texans to get to the next

814
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: round to face and face in the final four. Well,

815
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:23,319
Speaker 1: it's really the final eight because you have the other

816
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Speaker 1: bracket going. I love this stuff. I just love love

817
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 1: to think about this. I'm gonna good. It's a power ranking.

818
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:32,919
Speaker 1: It really is just a power ranking in the each

819
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 1: conference and then how those teams would match up. I mean,

820
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 1: I love this stuff, so I thought it's fascinating. I

821
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,239
Speaker 1: figured I can bounce it off you. Mark appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thanks Johnny. And a reminder, as Mark mentioned earlier,

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Speaker 1: he will be at the owners meetings next week, So

824
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 1: Monday and Tuesday shows of All Access will emanate from

825
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 1: the owners meetings a fc NC coaches breakfast, so a

826
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Speaker 1: lot of sound from Bill O'Brien. Other luminaries will be

827
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Speaker 1: there as well, so Mark will be on hand to

828
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Speaker 1: go through all of that, and he will have the

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Speaker 1: shows for you Monday Tuesday, and he'll send back stuff

830
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 1: for me on Wednesday. So we got plenty of stuff

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Speaker 1: from the owners meetings coming up the next few days Monday, Tuesday,

832
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,279
Speaker 1: Wednesday of next week, and then it is going to

833
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,960
Speaker 1: be all about the draft. Once we get into next week,

834
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Speaker 1: we are going to be less than a month away

835
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Speaker 1: from the NFL Draft. Who will become Texans? All that's

836
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,399
Speaker 1: coming very very clear. Well, by the way, you want

837
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:33,759
Speaker 1: to read more about the draft prospects that Texas could

838
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 1: potentially look at, the Harris one hundred Version two is up.

839
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Speaker 1: Go check it out at Houston Texans dot com. Harris

840
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:43,440
Speaker 1: one hundred is available for you all kinds of stuff.

841
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Speaker 1: I don't know how many hours I put into it,

842
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 1: but I know my potnas the Leibwitz's have done a

843
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Speaker 1: tremendous amount of work on it, so go check it out.

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Speaker 1: They've done a great job. It is so easy to

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Speaker 1: read and use. Go check it out at Harris the

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Speaker 1: Harris one hundred at Houston Texans dot com. We will

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Speaker 1: see you on Monday from the owners meetings. Thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for listening, and as always, Go Texans.