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Speaker 1: In the Lab, a Texans podcast that takes a different

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Speaker 1: look at things to Doherty and John Harris have their

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Speaker 1: lab coats and goggles on and the Bunsen burners burning.

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Speaker 1: Here's Drew John.

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Speaker 2: I'm happy. I'm very happy. You know why?

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Speaker 3: Why?

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Speaker 2: Because why Nico Collins?

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, happy guy has been rewarded and he's going

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Speaker 4: to be around for a while and that makes me excited.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna go very in depth with Nico Collins and

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Speaker 4: you can kind of share a little memory or two

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Speaker 4: about them. But I'm also happy, John, because my twins,

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Speaker 4: Rie and Roberts, I'll say our twins, Gita and myself

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Speaker 4: my wife. He just turned eleven today, so it's a

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Speaker 4: big day for us. We're excited.

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Speaker 3: Birthday twins. Yeah, that's awesome.

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Speaker 4: It's a nice, uh double shot of good news because

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Speaker 4: the twins have their birthday and Nico Collins, which let's

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Speaker 4: talk about number twelve two years ago, had a solid

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Speaker 4: rookie year, but he was in and out because of injuries.

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Speaker 4: He didn't get to play, but we saw glimpses in

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Speaker 4: that season. Opener at Cleveland takes one about what twenty

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Speaker 4: thirty yards and he's instantly out, it's like, dang it,

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Speaker 4: that's just a glimpse.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 4: Always a good interview, always a fun guy to talk with,

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Speaker 4: really really cool learning the game second year in and out,

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Speaker 4: but still shows glimpses of maybe there's something there. And

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Speaker 4: then this year CJ. Stroud, Bobby Slowe come in and

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Speaker 4: they got the key and they unlock Nico Collins. Now

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Speaker 4: we knew, and I've said this many many times, but

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna say it again right now, we knew going

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Speaker 4: into the draft. Coming out of the draft, Nico Collins

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Speaker 4: is a tall, big bodied receiver. Hey, he's probably gonna

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Speaker 4: be able to win those contested balls. Let's see what

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Speaker 4: he does after that. So we knew he had the

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Speaker 4: big frame. And then seeing stuff like the Cleveland Browns reception,

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Speaker 4: and then his second year he was wearing you know,

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Speaker 4: they all wear those GPS devices, tracking devices, and there

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Speaker 4: was some play here in a loss. He had a

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Speaker 4: big gain and he was moving something like twenty one

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Speaker 4: to twenty two miles per hour, and its like, goodness,

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Speaker 4: he has speed. We forget he's a fast guy. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: legitimately he's a fast guy. But then when you saw

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Speaker 4: him add in the components of violence after the catch.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna call it vak, not yack, because he did

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Speaker 4: get yack, but he also tacked on vack to it. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: he even got the scepter for angry runs in the

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Speaker 4: game the season finale at the Colts. Everyone remembers the

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Speaker 4: first touchdown or you know, to start the game, the

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Speaker 4: seventy five yarder. But later, I mean he doubled up

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Speaker 4: on a guy and shoved him into the end zone

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Speaker 4: and got a big game gear down close to the

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Speaker 4: the goal line, and that got that that vac that

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Speaker 4: scepter for the angry catch. But I love seeing that

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Speaker 4: was not an isolated incident. He was punished guys after

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Speaker 4: the catch last year, and it was so much fun

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Speaker 4: to see because he's the damn nicest guy off the field.

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Speaker 4: He's always there to interview, He's always going to say something.

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Speaker 4: He's a stand up guy, win or lose. He's always

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Speaker 4: going to talk to the press. He's not just a

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Speaker 4: front runner in that regard. So I am happy. I

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Speaker 4: am happy to see good people who are good at

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Speaker 4: what they do get good rewards for that work, and

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Speaker 4: it's a happy day for me. I think you probably

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Speaker 4: echo a lot of those settlements, and I know you've

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Speaker 4: got some thoughts about Nico as well.

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Speaker 5: I was so happy when I saw this news, kind

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Speaker 5: of a peek behind a curtain.

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Speaker 3: You know. Mark had an event last night.

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Speaker 5: Season ticket member of event on Tuesday night, so we're

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Speaker 5: recording this on Wednesday, so we had that event, so

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Speaker 5: we had to record a little bit early. So we

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Speaker 5: got it all set, all done. So I'm driving to

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Speaker 5: get food and I look and it was like the

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Speaker 5: best of the best of times, worst at times because

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Speaker 5: I was like, hell yeah, Nico, Oh God, we got

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Speaker 5: By the way, in twenty nineteen, when Nico is at

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Speaker 5: the University of Michigan, he averaged nearly twenty yards to

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Speaker 5: I remember thinking, this dude is on the verge. This

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Speaker 2: Wasn't what it was in twenty three was it?

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Speaker 5: So then COVID hits, and I think this is where

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Speaker 5: Nico got short change, and everybody in the Big ten

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Speaker 5: said no, we're not doing anything. So Nico goes to

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Speaker 5: start his draft prep and then weeks later he's like.

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Speaker 3: Oh, no, no, no, we're gonna play. We're gona play. Everybody

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Speaker 5: And I was like, I've already committed to doing my

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Speaker 5: So he misses a whole year of football twenty twenty.

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Speaker 5: So then in twenty twenty one one banged up, doesn't

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Speaker 5: But one of those games, like you said, was the

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Speaker 5: Browns game where he played one play, caught that slant

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Speaker 5: right across the middle, started smoking, dude, smoking dudes, gets tackled,

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Speaker 3: He's out for a few weeks.

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Speaker 5: So I think a lot of people what got frustrated

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Speaker 5: for me was a lot of people talking about Nico. Well,

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Speaker 5: he's not he's not at number one, he's not this,

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Speaker 5: he's not that, And I'm like, let's let's hold off. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: because he was injured those two years, and obviously he

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Speaker 5: so those things weren't happening.

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Speaker 3: He missed all of twenty twenty.

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Speaker 5: When he went to the Senior Bowl in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 5: I remember watching him thinking, oh, this was rough, but

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was the full year of football and over

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was well over a year.

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Speaker 4: He's late January. Mean it's yeah, thirteen fourteen, really months.

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Speaker 5: Right, And so he hadn't played since that year of

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Speaker 5: twenty nineteen when he had thirty seven catches for seven

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Speaker 5: and I'm glad you did, because that's the play to

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Speaker 5: me that gets forgotten because when you talk about that

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Speaker 3: Out and makes that catch and a lot of people

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Speaker 4: Those two and justifiably so, Yeah, absolutely tremendous play. Think

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Speaker 4: about that game. That's because you're about to add in

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Speaker 4: this third one. That's three huge, huge plays, just one

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Speaker 4: of them alone. You've had a great game, right, You've

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Speaker 5: But I felt like, to me, Play three really encapsulated

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Speaker 5: everything about Nico because it showed it showed a couple

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Speaker 3: One is comfortability in this offense.

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Speaker 5: Two, it showed that vakyak violence after the catchyards after

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Speaker 5: what I think of the Colts thirty or something like that,

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Speaker 5: maybe closer to the red zone, but he catches a

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Speaker 5: got paid. He runs away from Zaire Franklin and he

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Speaker 5: Franklin dives and Nico has to kind of hop out

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Speaker 5: and tackle and take on Nico, and Nico just says

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Speaker 5: It slows Nico down obviously. Jones then spins back inbounds.

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Speaker 5: Three yards later, Nico runs him over again. A couple

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Speaker 5: of plays later, CJ Hitch Andrew Beck for the touchdown

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Speaker 5: that gave the Texts a bigger lead in that game.

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Speaker 3: I don't remember what his numbers were.

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Speaker 5: like that, and I just remember the Colts had no

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Speaker 3: Even a big catch.

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Speaker 5: Right before Devin Singletary's touchdown that gave us the twenty

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Speaker 5: some penalty that got added on top of it, right,

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Speaker 5: and as another massive catches like every catch that game, it's.

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Speaker 2: Like an asterisk two hundred some yard day. Yeah, ad

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Speaker 5: It's it's just amazing what he was, what he was doing.

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Speaker 5: He's not a diva. No, he doesn't sit there and

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Speaker 2: No, John John, John John, he is far from that.

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Speaker 4: Okay, we all talked to it this time a year ago.

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Speaker 4: Really basically at Demico Ryans is intro press conference swarm

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Speaker 4: that became a big deal swarm mentality. And if you're

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Speaker 4: the first thing when you think of swarming and you

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Speaker 4: then pretty soon you see a couple of linebackers and

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Speaker 4: they're pushing the pile backwards.

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Speaker 2: It's a defensive thing.

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Speaker 4: Well, when Nico Collins, Nico Collins is the swarm mentality

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Speaker 4: at the wide receiver spot. You don't think about wide

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Speaker 4: receivers and being but what he did on that play,

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Speaker 4: what he did throughout the season after the catch and

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Speaker 4: using all his talents and skills, he was a swarm mentality.

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Speaker 2: I talked about it a little bit with him.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

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Speaker 4: I talked about a little bit about it with him

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Speaker 4: at the uniform kind of photo shoot.

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Speaker 2: The guys I was at one night. You guys were

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Speaker 2: the next night, and he was like.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you know, and and he he embraces that,

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Speaker 4: And I mean, how can you not get excited about

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Speaker 2: It's just it's a happy day for me. I'm pumped

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Speaker 3: So you know, this is kind of longer story.

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Speaker 5: But I for some reason when I went to my

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Speaker 5: like post game and we did it for the Jaguars. Now,

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Speaker 5: for some reason, it was showing that as a podcast

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Speaker 5: Jack's home game, the one we lost. He has a

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Speaker 3: Ah, why is it showing me this one?

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Speaker 1: Why?

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Speaker 3: There were so many other great ones like why not

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Speaker 5: I don't know why, but Nico was the player that

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Speaker 5: back and Andrew was the greatest, and he was just like, man,

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Speaker 5: I just appreciate the softball questions, like mah, man, what

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Speaker 5: not going to ask that. This is not not what's

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Speaker 5: but I just remember Nico always has that spirit with him. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: and he was I said, you know, I saw I

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Speaker 3: We talked to John after gave me, hey, I had

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Speaker 5: And he just answered my question straight up, what do

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Speaker 3: And it was just his spirit.

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Speaker 5: And we got done with the interview and I just,

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Speaker 5: I'm so sorry for that.

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Speaker 3: He goes, he said, John, I understand, you gotta do

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Speaker 3: your job. I get it. We'll be okay.

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Speaker 5: And I was like it was just the reassuring nature

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Speaker 5: from that. When he's on the same page with with CJ,

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Speaker 5: it is, it is magical. And when he is making

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Speaker 5: plays after k we're seeing your OTAs you know. Last

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Speaker 5: I think the contract is warranted. I think for people

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Speaker 5: that are like, well, you listen, contract is paid.

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Speaker 3: For what you think guy is going to do.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And I got a feeling in a short amount

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Speaker 5: of time, we're gonna look at that contract.

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Speaker 3: Go man, did we get a steal?

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Speaker 5: And Nico ends up getting twenty four million dollars a year,

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Speaker 5: which is gonna you know, for the next how many

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Speaker 3: It's gonna change his life, you know.

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Speaker 5: But I just wanted him to stay at Textan because,

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Speaker 5: like you said, Drew, he's got that swarm mentality, but

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Speaker 5: yet he's on the offensive side, but he's carrying that

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Speaker 5: of follows exactly what the Miko ryans.

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Speaker 3: Nick Cassari. Everybody's organization want it to be.

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Speaker 4: And it's cool to see somebody who got here during

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Speaker 4: the darkest of times, yes, succeed come through all that

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Speaker 4: absolutely great things. Yeah, I'm humped for the guy and

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Speaker 4: we're not gonna talk about it today, but you're adding

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Speaker 4: him or you're not adding him, but he's in there

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Speaker 4: with Tank Dell, stuff on Diggs, Felton Schultz, and I

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Speaker 4: think there's gonna be one or two other wild cards

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Speaker 4: who emerge as really productive pass catchers this year that

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Speaker 4: we're not thinking about initially.

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Speaker 2: Can't wait. I cannot wait. It's gonna be fun. John.

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Speaker 4: It's always good to talk with you, especially when it's

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Speaker 4: a happy subject like this.

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Speaker 2: Speaking a happy happy birthday again to my twins.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, happy birthday twins, y'all enjoy.

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Speaker 4: It, Love y'all so much, and we'll see you. We

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