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

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Speaker 1: inside n RG Stadium. I Mark Vandermier joined by John Harris.

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Speaker 1: Tonight as we get you going by the way. Tomorrow night,

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours from now, we will be at Food

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Speaker 1: Ruckers Wesleyan and fifty nine. It'll be fun, great show

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Speaker 1: with Cecil Shorts joining us. Dpcity who Drew Dorty will

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Speaker 1: Cecil on hand. It's a one hour show, so we'll

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Speaker 1: stay a little extra time to say a lot to

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Speaker 1: Downe in Wesleyan. That's Tuesday night, six o'clock with Cecil Shorts. Okay, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: here we go. As yesterday was a monumental day in sports.

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Speaker 1: Congrats to the Rockets for winning their opening playoff game

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Speaker 1: with their first round series with the Jazz. Of course,

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Speaker 1: the Astros looking good. They've won a billion games in

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Speaker 1: a row. It's early and Tiger Woods with the great story.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what a story. And I was thinking about this.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what your take is. You know, how

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Speaker 1: can I tie this into football. I don't even have

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Speaker 1: to try. There's no other sport like this. There's no

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Speaker 1: other sport where you can be forty three years old,

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Speaker 1: except maybe Tom Brady could do it eventually. But come

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Speaker 1: back from Yeah, I know he just did it. He

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Speaker 1: just did it, didn't he? I know. I was. I

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Speaker 1: was gonna go all high and mighty on goffing the

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Speaker 1: only sport where you can do this. But it's true.

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Speaker 1: I mean, forty one years old, he wins the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: Who's to say he can't do it when he's forty three.

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Speaker 1: But the story of Tiger though, in this sport, in

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Speaker 1: what he's meant to the game, coming out of not nowhere,

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Speaker 1: but coming out of the darkness of a decade without

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Speaker 1: a major and winning not just I always thought, and

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Speaker 1: I've said this, I was on the record saying this

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Speaker 1: that I thought he could at least win a British

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Speaker 1: might People said, well, Tiger win another major ever, and

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Speaker 1: I thought, well, I think it's gonna be tough, but

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Speaker 1: I think he can at least win a British because

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Speaker 1: the British is the one that you know, as an

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Speaker 1: older guy you can win. And he see Ernie Els

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Speaker 1: win one. You saw Tom Watson could fifty nine. He

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Speaker 1: came in second, lost in a playoff to Stewart's sink.

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Speaker 1: But I thought, yeah, British, sure, why not. But to

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Speaker 1: win the Masters, that's incredible. Congratulations to him. I was rivetted.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you were two. I was. I was up

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Speaker 1: early on Sunday. You know, it was sort of speaking

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Speaker 1: of the British, it was sort of the uh, the

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Speaker 1: it up because of whether that apparently was coming into Augustas,

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Speaker 1: so they wanted to make sure they got it in

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Speaker 1: and so guys started. I think it's seven thirty in

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Speaker 1: the morning, and I think Tiger ground in the course.

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Speaker 1: He was in the last threesomes. So they moved from

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Speaker 1: twosomes to threesomes, and then they moved it up to

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Speaker 1: they I think they twot off like nine yea, some

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Speaker 1: you couldn't you couldn't pull yourself away from it. I

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Speaker 1: tried just all these clans. I was gonna do all

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Speaker 1: these honey dudes. I was gonna be in the backyard

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Speaker 1: working on my yard never they Nope, couldn't do it.

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Speaker 1: Just couldn't do it. I mean you you had to

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Speaker 1: see what was going to happen. Both boys on my lap.

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Speaker 1: Both boys, I mean like forty five minutes, the last

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Speaker 1: forty five minutes, they were just glued. As I was

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Speaker 1: think about it this way, neither one of them was

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Speaker 1: born the last time Tiger and want to master It's

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Speaker 1: It's a great point. That's crazy. Luke was born in

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Speaker 1: Luke knows Tiger Woods, and he had the video game

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Speaker 1: for a while and everything, but this it really he

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Speaker 1: was so locked in. He's a big sports fan, obviously,

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Speaker 1: was really interesting. I'm glad you pointed at that out

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Speaker 1: and I just think we were all in the same situation,

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Speaker 1: you know, just locked in. I saw a lot of

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Speaker 1: I thought, no, no, no no, no, no no. The way

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Speaker 1: Tiger's playing this is more like when he was in

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Speaker 1: his groove in the early two thousands, because it was

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Speaker 1: the experience of watching him, and it really kind of

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Speaker 1: remember the shock of everybody that this man just won

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Speaker 1: this at forty six years old, and he hadn't won

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Speaker 1: a Masters I think in eleven years. I think seventy

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Speaker 1: in contention for some of them, but he had really

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Speaker 1: was like, well, this is pretty cool. You know, this

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Speaker 1: cool that he won the Masters, and then watching it,

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Speaker 1: I can imagine Luke watching it, going, hey, I've heard

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Speaker 1: of Tiger Woods. I've known of tiger Woods, but I've

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Speaker 1: never seen him play like that. That was kind of

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Speaker 1: like it was watching Jack. I had heard of him,

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Speaker 1: you knew of him, you had his golf clubs, the

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Speaker 1: Golden Bear golf clubs, you had those, but you had

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Speaker 1: never seen him play like Jack Nicholas. That's what it

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Speaker 1: was like in eighties. That's probably what it was like

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Speaker 1: from Luke watching yesterday. It's another thing how age is

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Speaker 1: not the same as it was then. Things have changed.

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Speaker 1: Athletes are bigger, stronger, faster. Tiger Woods looks like he's

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Speaker 1: twenty two years old, in the prime of his life. Physically,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure he doesn't feel that way. Infusion

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Speaker 1: surgery and everything. And when he takes the hat off,

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Speaker 1: just visually, he looks incredible, and a lot of these

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Speaker 1: guys do. A lot of these older guys look Michelson

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Speaker 1: the way he looks at his golf attire. But Michelson

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Speaker 1: is forty nine years old this June, and he's still

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Speaker 1: a contender. For sure. This was unthinkable in the Nicholas

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Speaker 1: era and that's why. And you have this in football too. Brady,

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Speaker 1: who's going to be forty two years old when the

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Speaker 1: Texans play him here at NRG Stadium this fall. You know,

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Speaker 1: we're not thinking that, oh he's gonna be too old

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Speaker 1: the field. I think that's the one thing with Brady.

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Speaker 1: Brady never lost that. Yeah, for the most part. And

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Speaker 1: I know some people each year, you know, twenty fourteen,

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Speaker 1: you know, twenty sixteen they didn't do that. Twenty eighteen

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Speaker 1: we're just gonna go win a champions Train has a

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Speaker 1: lot to do with it. No question that he's so good, right,

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Speaker 1: No, no no question that Tiger right. They talked about that

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Speaker 1: on twelve. You don't go for the flag, You hit

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Speaker 1: I went, he's got him, He's got him now. I

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Speaker 1: just got to watch this out. That's where I felt like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: he's got him now. I feel like maybe somebody could

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Speaker 1: thought kept Cup. I thought kept Cup. Maybe yeah, Brooks

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Speaker 1: felt like when he got to twelve was like, that's

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Speaker 1: they grew up watching Tiger thinking, yeah, I want to

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Speaker 1: Like these guys grew in the game and grew up

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Speaker 1: And now they're in contention with him for Championships. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'll never forget. I was standing there. I was doing

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Speaker 1: I'm just like I can't get enough just watching him. Man,

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Speaker 1: just watching. And I don't know that Tom Brady was

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Speaker 1: imagine Watson's five years old when Brady wins his first

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl something like that. Yeah. So Deshaun grew up

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Speaker 1: with Tom Brady as the pre eminent quarterback and now

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Speaker 1: the point where he'll knock him off enough for the

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Speaker 1: old guys winning, it's tough for the young blood, at

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Speaker 1: least in Tom Brady's case. I think the mental part

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Speaker 1: of it is so interesting when you look at Tiger's experience,

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Speaker 1: because what did they all say about Tiger when he

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Speaker 1: because of Tiger at Augusta National, all courses, he started

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Speaker 1: a boom in terms of building more. You know, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I can't say Brady is Tiger Woods of football. I

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Speaker 1: can't say that. But the run that Brady has been

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Speaker 1: on is incredible, and Brady went a decade between championships too.

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Speaker 1: I saw, I saw the stats flashed up there. You

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Speaker 1: know recently you look, you look at Chris Chelios in

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Speaker 1: how about that? Okay, good pull, Johnny. Trust me. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of really useless knowledge that. I mean, a

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Speaker 1: be a good day. So they're able to meet, they're

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Speaker 1: able to work out. Right now, they go on phases

426
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Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna list all of them for you,

427
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Speaker 1: but they'll be out of the field slinging the rock

428
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Speaker 1: pretty soon here. Within a few weeks. They got to

429
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Speaker 1: ramp up to that they're able to go out in

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Speaker 1: the field and do some non football stuff, workout, condition

431
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Speaker 1: and I always think of this as training camp the

432
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Speaker 1: way it used to be. We talk about the six

433
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Speaker 1: weeks they used to have in the preseason and everything

434
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Speaker 1: back in the day. This is what that is. This

435
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Speaker 1: is where you're installing so much stuff. If you have

436
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Speaker 1: until training cam to get in shape if you're a

437
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Speaker 1: player and install everything. If you're a coach, it's too late.

438
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Speaker 1: You only have two weeks before your first preseason game.

439
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Speaker 1: You gotta go. That's why this time of year is

440
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Speaker 1: so utterly important for these guys. Think about it from

441
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Speaker 1: this standpoint mark because the current CBA does not allow

442
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Speaker 1: them really to hit and tackle and do certain physical

443
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Speaker 1: aspects in practice. Really, the only true practice that you

444
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Speaker 1: have in being physical basically happens in training camp. Now.

445
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Speaker 1: I mean, you do all the installation, like you said,

446
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Speaker 1: you have to do it no tas, and you have

447
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Speaker 1: to do it during mini camp. You have to do

448
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Speaker 1: it during that time. And I think about a guy

449
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Speaker 1: like Martine's rank and how valuable training camp is going

450
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Speaker 1: to be for him, because it really is going to

451
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Speaker 1: be the first time, really truly where he's practicing in

452
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Speaker 1: a physical practice where he's putting full pads on and

453
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Speaker 1: it is let's we're gonna hit all day, We're gonna

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Speaker 1: practice in full pads, because he those three weeks he

455
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Speaker 1: basically missed them last year and then you didn't get

456
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Speaker 1: much dirty season, and now he's turned around. Obviously, we'll

457
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Speaker 1: see what happens when we get a chance to go

458
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Speaker 1: see the team where he's gonna line up. I think

459
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be inside. I think some people think that

460
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Speaker 1: we'll see. But he's getting a training camp. When it

461
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Speaker 1: kicks off, he's gonna get the first, really the first

462
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Speaker 1: time in the NFL, the opportunity to be physical and

463
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Speaker 1: practice because that's really where you can start making the

464
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Speaker 1: changes and really making the adjustments and the improvements that

465
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Speaker 1: you can then carry over to your game. And I

466
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Speaker 1: think that's gonna mean a lot for a guy like that,

467
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Speaker 1: a guy that missed all that time at training camp

468
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Speaker 1: last year. I think it's gonna be a lot for

469
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Speaker 1: him year too. But well, obviously see but I think

470
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be huge. But but it's really the only

471
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Speaker 1: time you get to practice hitting, blocking, and tackling. Yep,

472
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Speaker 1: it really is the only time you get to do

473
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Speaker 1: it well. Plus you see who's really been working on

474
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Speaker 1: their game. And who has it now The coaches will

475
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Speaker 1: see the nuance of this, the nuances of this more

476
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Speaker 1: than others. You obviously one of these people. But to me,

477
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Speaker 1: even when you look at guys like Julian and Davenport

478
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Speaker 1: who last year played his first full season so meaningful,

479
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Speaker 1: and who knows how it all works out. Does Khalil

480
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Speaker 1: beat him out or does a rookie beat him out

481
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Speaker 1: or whatever, or does he become a swing tack. I

482
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Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know how it's gonna work. Or

483
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Speaker 1: does he win a starting job because oh my gosh,

484
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Speaker 1: he's jumped a level of play, a caliber has been

485
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Speaker 1: reached that he hadn't attained before, and now he's ready

486
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Speaker 1: to be the guy. I'm not saying this is gonna happen,

487
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Speaker 1: but things like this do happen in the world of sport.

488
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Speaker 1: We just saw forty three year old guy when the Masters,

489
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Speaker 1: who had a fused neck or whatever. Let's just see

490
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Speaker 1: how this thing plays out with members of this old line,

491
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Speaker 1: with more coaching, with more experience in the offseason, with health.

492
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Speaker 1: And that's to your point, that is so important your

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Speaker 1: best offensive player. I mean, look, some people can say

494
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Speaker 1: DeAndre Hipkins, but Your most important one is the quarterback,

495
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Speaker 1: and he's healthy this offseason. Your best defensive player is

496
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Speaker 1: healthy this offseason. They weren't last year, so now they

497
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Speaker 1: can participate all the way through. You're gonna have this

498
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Speaker 1: up and down the roster, up and down the lineup

499
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Speaker 1: much more health going into the year. And I know

500
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Speaker 1: we talked about this last year, but it's still a

501
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Speaker 1: theme for this team. So lets get these receivers out there.

502
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Speaker 1: I know Fuller is probably gonna be slower to get

503
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Speaker 1: out there than others, but this is gonna be good

504
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Speaker 1: to have everybody work on the timing, work on the knowledge,

505
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Speaker 1: work on all of it. So MMQB put together a

506
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Speaker 1: um they put together. They started with quarterbacks. They essentially

507
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Speaker 1: ranked the the situation at quarterbacks. So it's not just

508
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Speaker 1: your starter, it's your backup, it's the yeah's the whole,

509
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Speaker 1: the whole thing. So they started with quarterback and I

510
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Speaker 1: guess they got a bunch of clicks and then they

511
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Speaker 1: thought it was pretty good. So they were like, well, hey,

512
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Speaker 1: wait a second, let's get more clicks. So let's do

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Speaker 1: the offensive positions, all right, So where were the Texans

514
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Speaker 1: at quarterback? Though? Do you remember thirteen in their quarterback situation. See,

515
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Speaker 1: I could talk about this till the end of time.

516
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Speaker 1: All right, let's reset that. We'll get to that, plus

517
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Speaker 1: your draft evaluation of a certain NFL team's prowess in

518
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Speaker 1: a certain position group, and a little bit on the schedule. Boy,

519
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Speaker 1: we have a lot to cover today. Let's just keep

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Speaker 1: it rolling here on Texans All Access. Every night at

521
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Speaker 1: six o'clock we bring it to you Texans All Access

522
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,879
Speaker 1: here on the flagship Sports Radio six ten and on

523
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Speaker 1: the Texans App. And Tuesday night six o'clock will be

524
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Speaker 1: at fud Ruckers a special offseason show. Cecil Shorts is

525
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Speaker 1: the guest fud Ruckers fifty nine in Greenway, Tuesday night,

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Speaker 1: six o'clock. We will see you there. I'll have a milkshake.

527
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun. Oh man, my streak will end

528
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Speaker 1: your streak of I got a six day streak of

529
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Speaker 1: every minute of every show. Oh, I got a street

530
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Speaker 1: a streak going breaks the streak. It breaks the streak, man,

531
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Speaker 1: that's six straight days. Yeah, just like Francesco mullinari bogey

532
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Speaker 1: free streak broken badly rude all, I mean, what are

533
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Speaker 1: you gonna do? You hit it in the water not good.

534
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Speaker 1: Did he a tree or a pine coning a tree

535
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Speaker 1: or something like that? You know, I don't know how

536
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Speaker 1: that happens to these guys. I don't know how you

537
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Speaker 1: hit in the water on twelve. I know it's hard,

538
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Speaker 1: believe man, I play golf. I know it's hard. But

539
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Speaker 1: oh I would have found it that. Remember, speed smelt down.

540
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Speaker 1: And by the way, when we're talking about mental strength

541
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Speaker 1: of athletes, wow, now it's not like Spee's awful. I mean,

542
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Speaker 1: when you're minus anything at the Masters, you're playing really well.

543
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Speaker 1: But it looked like he was gonna go on this run.

544
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Speaker 1: It was gonna be unparalleled, maybe even by Tiger, but

545
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:21,800
Speaker 1: not so fast. You know, these guys who come out

546
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Speaker 1: of the gate really fast, Rory him, it doesn't always

547
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Speaker 1: work out the way you think. I think he came

548
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Speaker 1: out a lot better than Rory did. Yeah, but and

549
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's over for either one of those guys,

550
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Speaker 1: But it's just it's fascinating how much better Tiger is

551
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Speaker 1: than these guys. And you know, for a while you're thinking, wow,

552
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Speaker 1: it was just a great run of domination and now

553
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Speaker 1: it's over. Well, maybe it starts up again. Who knows.

554
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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it does. But the other thing too is

555
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Speaker 1: you know Speth and Rory sort of well, Rory kind

556
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Speaker 1: of opened the door for SpeI. Spieth has sort of

557
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Speaker 1: opened the door for Brooks Kepka. Now Keepka has won

558
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Speaker 1: three majors. Yeah, so I'm glad Kepta kept Kepka kept

559
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Speaker 1: winning because it validated sometimes when these guys just flash

560
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Speaker 1: and win one major and then they go away, like

561
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Speaker 1: Danny Willet, where are you or have you joined the

562
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Speaker 1: Federal Witness Protection Program even though you're not an American citizen.

563
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Speaker 1: He won the Masters like two or three years ago

564
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Speaker 1: and ruining my Sunday because I wanted, you know, one

565
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Speaker 1: of the big guys to win it. And I liked

566
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Speaker 1: the stories, the like that Patrick Cantile or can't l Yeah,

567
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Speaker 1: he come from I read about him as he was playing,

568
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Speaker 1: you know, because Google. I went Patrick, as you're typing

569
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Speaker 1: something into Googles, I Cantile because they know that everybody's

570
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Speaker 1: googling this guy at this time. And he'd been he

571
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Speaker 1: had been through a lot of stuff medically and in

572
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Speaker 1: his life, and he was a great amateur and then

573
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Speaker 1: he dropped off and now he's coming back. So he

574
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Speaker 1: was a good story. He would have been a good story,

575
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Speaker 1: but I obviously know what the biggest story was, and

576
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Speaker 1: the best story was all right, we didn't have to

577
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Speaker 1: get to the wide receiver rankings by MMQB. What do

578
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Speaker 1: you got? All right? So they did quarterbacks. We said

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Speaker 1: that Texas came up thirteen number one, the New England Patriots.

580
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Speaker 1: Even though the backup quarterbacks situation isn't that good, That

581
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Speaker 1: doesn't doesn't matter here what they say, the best quarterback

582
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 1: of all time for less money per year than any

583
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 1: Dalton still can't beat it, even if he has forty

584
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Speaker 1: one which, by the way, speaking of federal investigation, that's

585
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:11,920
Speaker 1: that's wrong. There should be one. There's society taking less

586
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 1: money than everybody. You know, there's a side deal. You know,

587
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:20,359
Speaker 1: there's been a handshake agreement. When you're done, you're a

588
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 1: paytriot for life. Texans came in thirteen on that they had.

589
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,760
Speaker 1: This is what they said about Deshaun and company. They

590
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:31,040
Speaker 1: said Texans also grabbed quickly on the backup market. While

591
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,639
Speaker 1: the room doesn't exactly mirror DeShawn watson skill set. To

592
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Speaker 1: hope is that he's running less than twenty nineteen anyways,

593
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 1: all right, So Then they did running backs. Where do

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Speaker 1: you think we fare with the running backs? Probably middle

595
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Speaker 1: of the pack. Keep going down bottom third, you're getting there,

596
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Speaker 1: bottom five, ye number twenty eight. Now I don't tend

597
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Speaker 1: to agree with this. So what they did with the

598
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Speaker 1: running backs, and they did this with the receivers too,

599
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 1: is they put how much money was devoted to the

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Speaker 1: running backs of the team total. So they've got some

601
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Speaker 1: in front that I would go, come on, man, really,

602
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 1: I don't know they cost less money? So Texas twenty

603
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Speaker 1: eight Lamar Miller is a cheap and he's about turned

604
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Speaker 1: twenty eight. Maybe this is unfair placement for a Backwood

605
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 1: nearly had a thousand yards season. Here we're evaluating current situations.

606
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Speaker 1: What would you rather have right now? Texans or some

607
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,000
Speaker 1: of the others above them, something that may soon need replacing,

608
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:26,640
Speaker 1: or something brand new? Uh So twenty eight was where

609
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: they put the Texans running backs. Then they got the

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Speaker 1: wide receivers. Where do you think the wide receiver wide?

611
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Speaker 1: Where do you think the wide receivers would go? Where

612
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 1: do you think they go? I think there should be

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Speaker 1: no lower as a as a total wide receiver situation

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Speaker 1: than six good? But they did even better oh really,

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Speaker 1: number four? Good? All right, I'm glad Number one, Number

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Speaker 1: one Cleveland. I got it up right here. I just

617
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Speaker 1: I just pulled it up. Thirty six point two million

618
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Speaker 1: dollars they have devoted to the wide receivers, and I

619
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Speaker 1: think that if if anything is going to get them

620
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Speaker 1: and nab them in the backside a little bit, it's

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Speaker 1: going to be that. Keep in mind the Texans thirty

622
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Speaker 1: six point two for Cleveland. The Texans have twenty one

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Speaker 1: million devoted to their receivers and get just as much value,

624
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Speaker 1: especially if we'll fullish on the field. Now, Will is

625
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 1: going to get to a point where he's gonna need

626
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Speaker 1: a new contract here if he can stay healthy, and

627
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Speaker 1: if you can stay healthy, then obviously you're talking about

628
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 1: a much higher number. But what I like about Cleveland

629
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Speaker 1: is if the other two guys are playing well, they

630
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Speaker 1: also have Antonio Callaway, who can be pretty good. He

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Speaker 1: does good at number three, as you're gonna find a

632
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Speaker 1: league if not the best Atlanta Falcons number two, which

633
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Speaker 1: makes sense, and this goes back. This goes back to

634
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Speaker 1: our discussion on Brady Julio Jones was asked about a

635
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Speaker 1: new contract because apparently I wants a new contract. I said,

636
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Speaker 1: I don't need to be the highest paid receiver in

637
00:29:54,120 --> 00:30:01,000
Speaker 1: the league. Like really, okay, that's music to organization's ear

638
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 1: number three. I don't know if I agree with this one.

639
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings look digs and theealing. Yes, I'll give you

640
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: Dis'll give you digs and theeling a lot. They're very productive.

641
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 1: I'll give you digs and theealing. They've been productive with

642
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 1: cousins and keenom. But their number three treadwell hasn't turned

643
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 1: into anything. They haven't haven't gotten anything out of the

644
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 1: number three. It's basically a two man operation, which the

645
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:31,040
Speaker 1: Texas being. No. I don't, I don't. I don't doubt

646
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 1: that whatsoever. But if Fuller and a cute are healthy,

647
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 1: you're taking those three over those two. Like with health,

648
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 1: I take the Texans crop if you will. Yeah, nice

649
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,320
Speaker 1: to see Vincent Smith make their list, by the way,

650
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 1: because they listened them as the number four guy. Here's

651
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 1: some of the teams they put the Texans ahead of

652
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 1: the Saints. Now, this is this is what happens when

653
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 1: you hit big on rookie contracts. You know how much

654
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 1: money the Saints had devoted to wide receivers, how much

655
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 1: twelve point nine million dollars. That's it because Ted Ginn

656
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: is on a cheap, betterand deal, because yeah, Ted gives

657
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 1: on a cheap Michael Thomas. Michael Thomas on a rookie deal,

658
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 1: Trai Kwon Smith on a rookie deal, and Camera Thomas

659
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 1: was a cheap free agent, relatively cheap freight. Here next

660
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 1: team here, number six, the Los Angeles Rams. I think

661
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: the I think the big you know, people talk about

662
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 1: Girly being hurt Mark, and that was a big problem

663
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 1: because then Rams did like to run a ball, and

664
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 1: do like to run a ball. I thought a bigger

665
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 1: problem for the Rams was they didn't have Cooper Cup

666
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. Now, they made a nice run,

667
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 1: and I think they they when they had Cup for

668
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 1: the game against the Saints and scored forty five points

669
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: in the regular season game, but a no scored thirty

670
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 1: five in that game. And I think Cup played that game.

671
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 1: I can't remember. Maybe he did, but no, the Rams

672
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: lost that Cup didn't play that game. I had reversed,

673
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 1: but I think they missed Cup badly. I don't think

674
00:31:55,600 --> 00:32:00,240
Speaker 1: he's at the explosive level that Will is, but this guy,

675
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 1: it was so very good I mean, he can go,

676
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 1: he gets anywhere in the field. To me, is the

677
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:08,720
Speaker 1: most complete receiver to have. That I thought was huge

678
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 1: six million. So Kansas City next at seven and the

679
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: MMQB Wide Receiver Ranking List, Wide Receiver Group Ranking list,

680
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 1: So Tyreek Hill. There's been some noise off the field.

681
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you want to catch the Chiefs in the

682
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: first half of the season or second half? Yeah, I

683
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 1: want him early? Do I want him early? I kind

684
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 1: of want him early. I don't want him that early, though, Johnny,

685
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 1: I don't want him. I'll tell you what. Last week

686
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 1: I always beg for that tough Week one matchup. I

687
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 1: don't know anymore because I mean the preseason goes. Now.

688
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 1: My opening game is the first time I get sixty

689
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 1: minutes with everybody hitting and everybody out there, and now

690
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, I want somebody. You know, there's nobody soft

691
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: in the NFL does not want them softer or opening

692
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 1: if it's at all possible. Look, once upon a time

693
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 1: I thought the Jets here in oh nine, I thought

694
00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: that was a soft opening. Not so much. I thought

695
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: Jacksonville in seventeen would be no, not so much. So

696
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 1: you never know how it's gonna play out. But yeah,

697
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 1: going up to New England last year, I was all about, oh, yeah,

698
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 1: get him right now, surprise them. Well, the Texans clearly

699
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 1: needed to get some mojo going, maybe not so much

700
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 1: mojo but precision going before they went up to Foxborow

701
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 1: for the rematch. Well, I think, I think in theory,

702
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 1: getting the Patriots up there, yeah, I don't think there's

703
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: any any question you'd like to catch them early in

704
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: the season if you could. But there was especially offensively,

705
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: there were so many inexperienced parts out there. I mean,

706
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: think about it. Will was not healthy for that game,

707
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: so he can't. He started Week two. So you're out

708
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 1: there with Vincent Smith, that wide receiver. You're starting an

709
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: offensive line. Think about the offensive line it started that day.

710
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 1: Not one except Nick Martin had ever well, Julian had

711
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: started a few games. But other than that, Sunil Zach,

712
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 1: Sean Treille all starting for the first time. Ye Dashawn

713
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 1: hasn't even played a full year in the NFL. I

714
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 1: think in theory, catching them week one would have been

715
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 1: fine if you had an offense not explosive like Kansas Cities,

716
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,960
Speaker 1: but experienced like Kansas Cities. I think that had it

717
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: been to Shaun with an offensive line had been together

718
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 1: for four or five years, that he had had his

719
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 1: wide receivers that he was accustomed to throwing in the

720
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 1: half season. You know, with Will and DeAndre out there,

721
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: if you had experience out there, I think that would

722
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: have paid off. But I felt like there was just

723
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 1: too many, too much experience to tackle him in Week one.

724
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 1: But look how it played out. Both teams end up

725
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,600
Speaker 1: eleven and five. Both teams end up eleven and five.

726
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 1: What was the deciding factor a week one matchup? When,

727
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 1: as Bill Lebriant tells us all the time, you don't

728
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: know what kind of team you have until Thanksgiving? And

729
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,280
Speaker 1: it was a week one matchup that ended up changing everything.

730
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,720
Speaker 1: If I could give you the choice, what's your opening

731
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 1: week opponent and where? Well, I think, well, I hope

732
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:52,840
Speaker 1: week one is here, and here's my theory on that.

733
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: There are two college games Thursday, Friday Saturday. What I

734
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 1: think will be Week two, So my guesses were more

735
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 1: than likely on the road for that one. Yeah, you're right,

736
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 1: and I don't gonna open at home, so I don't

737
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 1: think they're gonna put us on the road to start

738
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,879
Speaker 1: again two weeks in a road like they did last year.

739
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 1: That was a killer to start with Patriots and the

740
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 1: Titans two four playoff teams. I mean, that was tough.

741
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,400
Speaker 1: So I think we play the opener at home, and

742
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 1: at that point, you know what I want? I want Denver.

743
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,320
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, give us Denver Joe flacc

744
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 1: right away. Yeah, I'd like Denver right away. Give me

745
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:36,320
Speaker 1: Denver Vic Fangio coaching debut back here. Yeah, that'd be

746
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:39,760
Speaker 1: good Denver here. Again. There's nothing easy in the NFL,

747
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying that would be hell. It could

748
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:44,800
Speaker 1: backfire on you very easily. But if I have a choice,

749
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: I think that's the one. Here. It goes Denver at

750
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:54,359
Speaker 1: home to start Kansas City week two, Monday night. See, oh,

751
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 1: I like that. You get the extra day, go up

752
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: there and take them on. Just go ahead and do it. Yep,

753
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: m I like that. All right, let's go West opponents

754
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:09,719
Speaker 1: to open up the season right off the bat. I

755
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna do it. I promise you this

756
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: good segue. All right, So the schedule is gonna come out.

757
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 1: I think this week. I don't know. Last week I

758
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 1: was convinced it was gonna be this week. Here's the

759
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 1: big delay. And Seth pain asked me about this. I

760
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 1: believe it was on the air on Friday. It was

761
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 1: a good question. Why does it take so long? That's

762
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 1: one question. The other question is why can't they just

763
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 1: determine a date well at advance and get you ready

764
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 1: for that date, count you down, which I think this

765
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: league needs to do. For all the great things this

766
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: league does, and the way they hype things, the way

767
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 1: they set the appointment for great things to happen, for

768
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 1: big things to happen, why can't they do this? The

769
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 1: answer is to me, they can, They just don't. What

770
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 1: happens is the schedule. They have subtle targets and they

771
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 1: send the t and Seth asked, do they get the

772
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,359
Speaker 1: schedule to the owners and then the owners complain about

773
00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 1: the schedule or they want a tweak for this or

774
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: that other. No, that's not it. It's not in the

775
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:04,839
Speaker 1: building yet, it really isn't. What they do is they

776
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,359
Speaker 1: give it to the networks and then the networks start

777
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: fighting about it or putting in their request like do

778
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: you know what we'd rather have this as the Monday

779
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 1: night game? Can you slide that one over here and

780
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 1: give us that that's what happens, and it's logical that

781
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: they would want this because they're paying a lot of

782
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 1: money for these games, and I get it. However, there's

783
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:25,800
Speaker 1: a saying that was presented to me when I was

784
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,279
Speaker 1: in college and I had this huge project and I

785
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,879
Speaker 1: said to the professor, I really could have used another week.

786
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:35,240
Speaker 1: He said, work fills the time allotted. If I told

787
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 1: you if I gave you another week, you'd still be

788
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 1: slammed for that deadline because this is just how you are.

789
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 1: And he was dead right on me. Yeah, I think

790
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:46,439
Speaker 1: it's that way for a lot of people today say

791
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 1: deadline spur action. Yep. I mean it's the same same

792
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 1: sort of thing. I look at it this way. There

793
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 1: are thirty two teams in the league, and obviously there

794
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: are weeks in which I we just mentioned week two.

795
00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's a week the Texas were like, look,

796
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 1: we don't want a Sunday game here with those two

797
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 1: college games before. That's just gonna be too crazy. They're

798
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:08,799
Speaker 1: there are thirty two teams, and my guess is they

799
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,360
Speaker 1: make a run through this. They make a run through it.

800
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 1: And I think about it like this. When I did

801
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:16,479
Speaker 1: my mock draft and hopefully that'll be up on It'll

802
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 1: be up soon on Houston Texas dot com. If you

803
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 1: forget one name, the whole thing's dead. Oh yeah, wherever

804
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: you feel like, oh I forgot this guy, the whole

805
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 1: thing is dead because it's this whole big dominicanmino. Well,

806
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 1: what happens if you accidentally, uh you know, and we

807
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 1: three you have a team playing Oh my gosh, they

808
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: were not supposed to be playing at I know they don't,

809
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:47,919
Speaker 1: but I would imagine that's pretty sticky. Yeah, that's pretty different.

810
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 1: I think they have some software they plug everything in

811
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:54,839
Speaker 1: and then they basic that a basic lineup, and then

812
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: they start tweaking it around from there. I'd like to

813
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 1: I'd like to take a crack at coming up with

814
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,400
Speaker 1: the schedule. I know you would. I would love be

815
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 1: good at this. I would love it you'd sit in

816
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 1: your office there come up with some algorithm of what

817
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 1: it should be. Would Yes, I would love that. The

818
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:10,839
Speaker 1: person you don't want doing the schedule is me, because

819
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 1: I'd be like, I forgot about Cleveland. They gotta play,

820
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 1: see you, That's what I'm saying. What I'm saying, we

821
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 1: were supposed to play Patriots but I switched out the

822
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 1: cards and Patriots, nobody will notice. Nobody's gonna find out.

823
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 1: So all right, So then the London trip. I get

824
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 1: asked about that all the time. You'll find out when

825
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,440
Speaker 1: it comes out. I really don't know what else to say.

826
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: It'll be soon. How about that it has to be

827
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 1: before the draft. Well here's one this week, but you

828
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,279
Speaker 1: never know. Here's one thing that I'm I'm ninety nine

829
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,919
Speaker 1: point six percent, Sharon, and that is we will play

830
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:50,640
Speaker 1: Wembley Stadium that I'm almost positive of because it happen,

831
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: that's become the Jaguars de facto home in London is

832
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 1: to play Wembley stage the air to talk about that

833
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 1: when the date comes out, yeah, we can talk about

834
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,360
Speaker 1: I want to I want to get and maybe Frank's

835
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 1: not even the right guy. I think maybe JP somebody's

836
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 1: been there a lot and can tell us and the

837
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 1: fans of traveling Texans who want to know. I got people,

838
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:13,440
Speaker 1: like I said, I got friends who are all over

839
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: me for this date because they want to put flights

840
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 1: and everything. They all want to go over and this

841
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 1: is uh, you know, I hate to say, once in

842
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:24,800
Speaker 1: a lifetime, but it's one of those bucket lists and

843
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,800
Speaker 1: watch your team play in London. Enjoy London. There's so

844
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,320
Speaker 1: much to do there. Never been there. They can go

845
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 1: to wester Ross. They can't know that's actually a fictional place.

846
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 1: It's not over there, folks, didn't I all right, We

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Speaker 1: don't have enough time to do justice to your take

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Speaker 1: on how the Patriots draft wide receivers not so well.

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Speaker 1: So we'll go over that at our next show together,

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Speaker 1: which I think is gonna be Wednesday, because tomorrow we

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Speaker 1: are at fund Rutgers. Now the way out here, the

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Speaker 1: Texans have come to terms with three players who have

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Speaker 1: signed their qualifying offers. That would be Brandon Donne, who

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Speaker 1: started a bunch of games last year at nose, tackles

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Speaker 1: great at DJ Dunney back in the fold officially, Brennan

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Speaker 1: Scarlett outside linebacker. You know, he made a bunch of

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Speaker 1: noise in the twenty sixteen preseason. He's turned into a

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Speaker 1: good player for this team, so it'll be great to

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Speaker 1: have him in the fold. And Cayamee Fairbairn, who has

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Speaker 1: never missed a big kick for the Texans. Now some

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Speaker 1: of you have said he's never kicked like a fifty

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Speaker 1: yard or to win a game. But he's kicked some

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Speaker 1: game winners. Cowboys overtime, call its overtime. I mean that's

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Speaker 1: back to back weeks right there. He's made some big ones.

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Speaker 1: He hasn't made a big long fifty two fifty plus

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Speaker 1: yard field goal to win a game, but I'm okay

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Speaker 1: with that. He just hasn't been in that situation because

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Speaker 1: he's never missed a big kick to win a game.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's a stat or notable point when

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Speaker 1: you're evaluating a place kicker. All right, Tomorrow thud Rutgers,

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Speaker 1: that's Tuesday night, six o'clock with Cecil Shorts Greenway location.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna see out there. We're giving away draft party

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Speaker 1: tickets there while supplies last. I got a bunch of them,

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Speaker 1: but it's not an endless supply. So if you are

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Speaker 1: in need of Draft party tickets, I'm going to have

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Speaker 1: them for you in fud Rutgers Greenway Tuesday night, six

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Speaker 1: to seven o'clock. Why don't thank everyone who worked on

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Speaker 1: the show tonight. Have a great night everybody, and go.

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Speaker 1: Text ends