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Speaker 1: What is up everybody. Welcome to a Friday issue of

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Speaker 1: Texas All Access from the Hounday Texans and Radio Studio

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Speaker 1: as we embark on a weekend, and a key weekend

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Speaker 1: at that legal free agent tampering period begins on Monday.

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Speaker 1: So a lot of things to do on this show.

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Speaker 1: Glad to be with you. I'm your host, John Harris,

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Speaker 1: football analyst and sideline reporter. We're gonna have Drew Doherty

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Speaker 1: on to play gut reaction later get his thoughts on

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Speaker 1: some of the things that have happened throughout the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Plenty of things have happened. My man David Fletcher, general

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Speaker 1: manager LSS Loan Star Sports Entertainment, is gonna join us

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Speaker 1: and talk about the greatest college football weekend ever and

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Speaker 1: an energy stadium coming up this year at twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: That's right, we will have that. But first we're starting

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Speaker 1: tonight's show with new quarterbacks coach Carl Smith. Now blot's

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Speaker 1: been written about coach Smith, Aaron Reese of The Athletic

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Speaker 1: and I actually sent him a text afterwards. It was

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Speaker 1: a really good article about Carl Smith. And we had

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Speaker 1: a blast talking with coach Smith earlier this week and here.

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Speaker 1: It is Mark vandermir and I sat down with the

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Speaker 1: new quarterbacks coach, Carl Smith, your Houston Texas coach. Great

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Speaker 1: to have you with us. How has it been so

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Speaker 1: far for you here in the building? Undefeated? Undefeated? What

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Speaker 1: are you making the rodeo here? I believe they do leave,

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Speaker 1: they're not around during football season. I like it. I

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Speaker 1: saw Casey Musgraves. I probably wouldn't have seen her otherwise.

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Speaker 1: She was fantastic. She was had a chance to see

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Speaker 1: her with my daughter. I didn't know who Casey Musgraves was.

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Speaker 1: It shows you how out of it I am. But

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Speaker 1: the rodeo people, they were outstanding. I hadn't I've been

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Speaker 1: to a rodeo it's been about twenty years. They were

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Speaker 1: really good. Coach, you been around a lot of different quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: If somebody came to you and said, what's the one asset?

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Speaker 1: What asset would you say that quarterback's got to have? Well,

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Speaker 1: I've got my whole evaluation down because they just came

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Speaker 1: able to survive in the jungle. So he has to

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Speaker 1: able to survive in the jungle. What does that a tail?

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Speaker 1: Because you got to keep your eyes downfield, you gotta

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Speaker 1: make throws, but you also have to keep your head

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Speaker 1: I mean, how do you read into that. I'm just

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Speaker 1: looking for somebody who's athlete enough to play in the game.

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Speaker 1: who's going to be able to you know, college guards, right,

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Speaker 1: the same thing here. There's really good college quarterbacks coming

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Speaker 1: You're gonna watch them? Coach. Last year when you were

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Speaker 1: You coached Chuck fiusinaim kind of a pocket guy. Drew

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Speaker 1: get get get to use to build their story heading

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Speaker 1: into a very important time in their lives with graduation,

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Speaker 1: combine and draft. So, UM, you know, we we we're

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Speaker 1: excited about what we've been able to build. We've got

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Speaker 1: a long term relationship with these conferences, um, and it's

431
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Speaker 1: only going to get better from here as we continue

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Speaker 1: to to move forward as an elite conference, i'd say

433
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Speaker 1: elite market for college football. Coming up in September, we've

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Speaker 1: got a weekend that I think is and you You've

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Speaker 1: said this, and I'm like, Okay, sometimes I think, all right,

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Speaker 1: Fletch is on point with this one. You called it

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Speaker 1: the greatest college football weekend in the history of Houston.

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Speaker 1: I think about him, like, you know, I think this

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Speaker 1: is right. I think this is dead. On On Friday night,

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Speaker 1: September thirteenth, you've got Washington State and the fighting Mike

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Speaker 1: Leach is coming to take on his former pupil, Daniel

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Speaker 1: Holgerson University Houston. And then the next afternoon you've got

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Speaker 1: the University of Texas taking out Rice University in back

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Speaker 1: to back nights and there might be a Texas game

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Speaker 1: after that Sunday, although I think we're working hard with

446
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Speaker 1: the NFL to try and make that not happen because

447
00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,760
Speaker 1: that would be way crazy. But if that did happen,

448
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Speaker 1: if you got Texans v. Question Mark on Sunday, it's

449
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:06,440
Speaker 1: without a doubt the greatest weekend in football. And used

450
00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:08,200
Speaker 1: to have those three back to back to back, but

451
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:10,440
Speaker 1: we do know that we've got those two college games

452
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Speaker 1: back to back. We talked about Washington State in Houston

453
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Speaker 1: would happened, Fletch, But to have those two games back

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Speaker 1: to back on a weekend here in Houston is a

455
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Speaker 1: huge feather in your cap. What kind of challenges does

456
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Speaker 1: that present? But all the flip side, what do you

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Speaker 1: gain in having those two games together? Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think it's an understatement to say

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Speaker 1: it is the biggest weekend at least at n RG. Ever,

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Speaker 1: I mean from a college football perspective, You've got what

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Speaker 1: will likely be two top ten teams in Texas in

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Speaker 1: Washington State. Yeah, You've got the two hometown universities. You've

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Speaker 1: got the excitement around Dana Holgerson in what it will

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Speaker 1: be his first opportunity on the biggest of stages here

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Speaker 1: in Houston, going against his his former or his mentor

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Speaker 1: and his former colleague, great friend, Mike Leach. You've got

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Speaker 1: Mike Leach coming back to Texas. That always that you

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Speaker 1: sold me stopped Mike Leach and I love Dana, I

469
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Speaker 1: love Dana. You got Mike Leach. You got Mike Leach.

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Speaker 1: And then and then you turned us to to Saturday. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and you get University of Texas. The Longhorns will be

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Speaker 1: coming off of a big game in Austin against LSU.

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Speaker 1: The week before they win that game, their their their

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Speaker 1: track is set for what could be a special season.

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Speaker 1: And look, Rice University is coming off of a down year.

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Speaker 1: But coach bloom grin his second year, UM got the

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Speaker 1: recruits that he wanted. UM this past offseason, He's got

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Speaker 1: another year with the with the guys in his system,

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Speaker 1: and what he's building over there from from a long

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Speaker 1: term perspective is is something that UM, you know, we

481
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Speaker 1: saw for years with coach Bailiff. UM. I think Mike

482
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Speaker 1: is the kind of guy that can absolutely build that

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Speaker 1: out in the long run. There's no doubt. It's tough

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Speaker 1: sledding to go against the University of Texas when you're Rice,

485
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Speaker 1: when you're where Rice has been. But UM, I think

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Speaker 1: it adds up for what will be a really exciting

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Speaker 1: weekend too, hopefully at two night games. We know this

488
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Speaker 1: It's a lot of fun. Flush You's done a great

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Speaker 1: it would be absolutely fantastic. Fletch, great job. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: my friend, and we'll talk to you. We're gonna be

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Speaker 1: talking to you more often this office. You have plenty

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Speaker 1: every chance we get. Thank you. I'm next, it's my

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Speaker 1: good friend Jude Dorty's gonna stop by for gut reaction.

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Speaker 1: What's been happening in the NFL. What happened today? Will

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Speaker 1: we project to happen in a few days. We'll do

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Speaker 1: that X right here in Texas Access, so everybody will

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Speaker 1: find a segment of Texas All Access from the Honday

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harrison. I'm joined

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Speaker 1: a good friend Abrosa, as he says about me my

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Speaker 1: in Lab pot though, which you hear on your iTunes

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Speaker 1: play a snippet of it. Budd JR. Dorty, what's up?

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Speaker 1: What's going on? Dude? A lot going on, a lot

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Speaker 1: going on? Day rip Jan Michael Vincent from Airwolf. WHOA, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I didn't hear that one. Dan Jenkins that he well,

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Speaker 1: that was I mean, what a great writer, A great

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Speaker 1: writer college football golf, I mean he was. He was phenomenal,

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Speaker 1: really really good. All right. Brought you on obviously to

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Speaker 1: give out our ips, you know, But I do a

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Speaker 1: thing with Mark I called gut Reaction. Mark's pretty good

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Speaker 1: at It also gives Mark kind of the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: just kind of vent on things, which he seemingly likes

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Speaker 1: to do. So I'm gonna hit you with a comment

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Speaker 1: headline something that's happened, and I'm just getting your gut

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Speaker 1: reaction to it. You can expand on it. If you

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Speaker 1: said all you wanted to in two or three words,

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Speaker 1: we can move on. But it's called gut reaction. You're ready,

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Speaker 1: I'm ready, Okay. ESPN dot Com as an article our

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Speaker 1: good friend Sarah bar bar shop titled resigning Tyrann Matthew

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Speaker 1: and Kareem Jackson a priority for the Texans. Dr Doherty,

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Speaker 1: what is your gut reaction to that? Yes, it is,

552
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Speaker 1: but they're not both gonna be back now. I think

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Speaker 1: you're gonna see Matthew back. I think Kareem probably not

554
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:34,119
Speaker 1: gonna be around. I mean he's already I think in

555
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 1: his mind he's already determined that he's not coming back.

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Speaker 1: I think I think the Texans would like them both.

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Speaker 1: But she just you know, economics, you can't. Yeah, business

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Speaker 1: of football. Yeah. Um. That being said, I think Matthew's

559
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Speaker 1: a likelier one. I would not be surprised if we

560
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Speaker 1: don't see either back, though, that's my that's my gut,

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Speaker 1: your gut. Yeah, would not be surprised we don't see

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Speaker 1: either back. But if if one's back. It's Matthew and

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Speaker 1: I think that's that'd be fun. I'm cool with I

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00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 1: wish both could come back. I was I was there

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Speaker 1: at the airport when Kareem flew in the morning after

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Speaker 1: the Texans drafted him in the first round, and nobody

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Speaker 1: really the only person in the run up to all

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Speaker 1: that publicly that said the Texans would draft him. The

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Speaker 1: only person that called that, Spencer Tillman, only guy in

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Speaker 1: the mock drafts that had the Texans taken Kareem Jackson. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that sec tie. Yeah, that's uh, that's interesting. I didn't know,

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Speaker 1: but that I didn't see him. I didn't see Kareem happening. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I didn't think a dB. In fact, I thought Devin mccordy.

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Speaker 1: That's the one that I was thinking, because you lost

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Speaker 1: Dante Robinson dog at Corners, got to replace him. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: mccordy was a popular name. Kyle Wilson from Boise, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was the other one. Kyle Wilson and Devin mccordy,

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Speaker 1: and obviously Devin mccordy and Cream Jackson have had much

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Speaker 1: longer careers than Kyle Wilson. Uh. But yeah, look, I

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Speaker 1: think a lot of people had to have had a

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Speaker 1: hard time in some sense because you know, first impression

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Speaker 1: for them couldn't change the impression. I mean, a lot

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Speaker 1: of people just couldn't come around on the fact that

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Speaker 1: Kareem was a really good player for this organization, even

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Speaker 1: though he struggled in twenty ten. Okay, at about ten

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Speaker 1: o'clock last night, Antonio Brown was to be a Buffalo bill.

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Speaker 1: Wake up this morning, I'm seeing tweets. Oh no, the

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Speaker 1: trade has fallen through. I was asleep that whole time

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Speaker 1: because I've been taking these pretty powerful prescription jokes from

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Speaker 1: my doubt. So they knocked me out about Oh man,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's bad. Yeah, yeah, that's bad. Um, Antonio

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Speaker 1: Brown almost a bill, but he's still a stealer. So

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Speaker 1: this thing continues on, even though today was the deadline,

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Speaker 1: at least self imposed deadline for Antonio Brown. Her thoughts

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Speaker 1: about Antonio Brown almost being a bill a Buffalo bill,

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Speaker 1: your gut reaction, gut reaction. First thing I think is

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Speaker 1: it's a little harder to trade that great a player

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Speaker 1: than uh than I think some people think it's a

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Speaker 1: little I mean, that's it's just you have got to

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Speaker 1: get a whole hell of a lot in return for yes,

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna if you're gonna let him go, because

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't see it's gonna be trade or

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Speaker 1: he's sticking around, meaning he doesn't play for them next year,

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Speaker 1: or he plays for them, he's they're not cutting him,

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Speaker 1: They're not. You can't cut that guy. You're gonna lose

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Speaker 1: way too much if you do, both in terms of

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Speaker 1: money and in terms of a great player, but getting

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Speaker 1: what you want back and him agreeing to go wherever

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Speaker 1: he's gonna go. I think is uh is a lot

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Speaker 1: tougher than what you imagine. Now, Ultimately, I think he

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Speaker 1: is gonna get traded, but it's gonna have to. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna have to be a side that both got

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Speaker 1: a deal that both sides agree on. And what have

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Speaker 1: they agreed on right now, right up to this point. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I mean that there's so many teams that have

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Speaker 1: been kind of well, we'll dip our toe in the water.

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Speaker 1: Who knows what they're they're asking for at some point.

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Speaker 1: And I saw article yesterday Drew talking about the Raiders,

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Speaker 1: because the Raiders have been the one team everybody seems

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Speaker 1: to think, Okay, it's gonna happen. You know, Gruden likes

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Speaker 1: his veterans and all that kind of stuff. And then

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Speaker 1: you step back at this article did a really nice job,

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Speaker 1: and I can't remember who wrote it, but it was

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Speaker 1: somebody from I think maybe in like Sentator's Mercury News.

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Speaker 1: He talked about it said, look, Gruden ended up trading

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Speaker 1: Khalil Mack, he ended up moving on from some veterans

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Speaker 1: last year, and they did all of that so that

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Speaker 1: they could build a foundation for the future. Now going

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Speaker 1: out and trading one of those first round picks for

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Speaker 1: Antonio Brown, isn't staying along the course. Yeah, And then

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Speaker 1: one other thing they brought up I thought was interesting

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Speaker 1: was what's the impact of Mike Mayock? Is the GM

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Speaker 1: on Gruden in that situation is what does he have

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Speaker 1: to say about it? So it's it's a tricky position

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Speaker 1: because he's thirty one years old. You start to think, Okay,

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Speaker 1: does he still have another couple of years at that

637
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 1: level if he's not with Ben Roethlisberger. And I know

638
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: there have been a couple couple of people out on

639
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 1: Twitter in particular that I've said he's gone back to

640
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 1: the Steers. I've said along I just can't see how

641
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 1: the Steelers do not want some sort of competent as

642
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: I'm with you, I don't think there's any way he

643
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 1: just gets flat out released. Yeah, because there's too much

644
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 1: on the line. I mean, they've got they're looking at

645
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 1: a twenty one million dollars cap hit, So you're gonna

646
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 1: take a twenty one million dollar cap hit roughly around

647
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 1: that number and not get anything back and return in

648
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 1: that And if you're the Raiders, the Raiders, you see,

649
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 1: you understand like why people say, oh, well, Raiders have

650
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: three first rounders, why not just part with one of them? Well,

651
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 1: suppose you hit on all three first rounders and get

652
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 1: really good players. You've got three dudes that potentially you

653
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: won't have to pay that much. And there's the there's

654
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: the possibility that Antonio Brown being thirty one, he doesn't

655
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 1: his career ends before you even have to pay any

656
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 1: of those other three guys. In theory, you could you

657
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: got all that time with them. I mean, yeah, I

658
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 1: could see why they don't. They don't want to pull

659
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: the trigger coming up to Vegas. I mean, and the

660
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: twenty one you know, all the all the money in

661
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: the correct point and think about it. They've got with

662
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: those first rounders, you've got the fifth year option. Ye Now,

663
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 1: things could ultimately change with the new CBA, but that's

664
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 1: not for a couple of years. So these guys, I

665
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 1: imagine are going to stay in the current CBA. So

666
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:22,959
Speaker 1: they've got them on our team control for five years,

667
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: so that's fifteen years. You get total with three players,

668
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 1: and if you hit on them, you've got them for

669
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: that long. So it's a very it's a very interesting point,

670
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 1: drew The Denver Broncos, after trading earlier this year for

671
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco, seemingly made Case keenum expendable. At that point,

672
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 1: would he stay as a backup? They're paying him a

673
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:45,320
Speaker 1: lot of money. Well, yesterday they agreed with the Washington

674
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 1: Redskins to send Case and they're splitting the money they're

675
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:51,359
Speaker 1: gonna pay Case. So essentially the Redskins are paying about

676
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 1: three and a half million dollars in this trade. A

677
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 1: sixth rounder will go to Denver, a seventh rounder, and

678
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 1: Case will go to Washington. Washington gets a quarterback in

679
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 1: Case Keenham. With Colt McCoy Alex Smith on the roster,

680
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:10,359
Speaker 1: don't think we're gonna see him in twenty nineteen, Case

681
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:13,239
Speaker 1: Keenham traded through Washington Redskins. Your gut reaction to that

682
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 1: was good for the Redskins. I mean, I think Case

683
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 1: can do some nice things. We've seen We've seen Gruden's

684
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 1: quarterbacks do all right. I mean Alex Smiths people forget

685
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 1: and people kind of knocked the Texans and say they

686
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:31,399
Speaker 1: played this easy schedule last year. Well, the Redskins wound

687
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: up having a bad year. But when the Texans were

688
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: in Washington, which was the week before Thanksgiving, the Redskins

689
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: were in first place. Yeah, they were three games over

690
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: five hundred, and they were They dominated Alex Smith and

691
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,839
Speaker 1: they they made hit him look bad in that game

692
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 1: and then before he got hurt, I'm saying before he

693
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,319
Speaker 1: got her and then they they you know, they hit

694
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 1: the unfortunate injury. But go to that game. That was

695
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 1: a pretty good Redskins team and you beat him up. Now,

696
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 1: what happened three years prior to that, Cousins played pretty

697
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 1: darn well there, So what happened what happened two years

698
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:05,360
Speaker 1: ago with Case Keenum played pretty well and took the

699
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 1: Vikings to the Final four. Now had a lot of help,

700
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 1: had a lot of great players around him. But who's

701
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: to say that Case in that system can't With Darius Geiss,

702
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: by the way, coming back, who I think that guy

703
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 1: is gonna be before the injury. I thought he was

704
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 1: gonna be awesome. Who's to say that they can't play really,

705
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 1: really well. You have a run game, you have a

706
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: dynamic back there. That was my gut reaction was like,

707
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: that's a good situation for Case. I think, yeah, I

708
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 1: Washington's in a in a tough spot in some sense

709
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: because of the Alex Smith situation, obviously him not being

710
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,879
Speaker 1: able to play in twenty nineteen. They're on the hook

711
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 1: for sixteen and a half million to him, and they

712
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 1: gotta find somebody that can help them win games. I'm

713
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 1: not totally sure that's Colt right, but I do think

714
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,319
Speaker 1: Case can win some games for you. And I think

715
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 1: the NFC East got better last year. But still it's

716
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 1: not you know, the the Eagles. You know what happens

717
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 1: to them. You know they don't have foals anymore. So

718
00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 1: some happens with Carson Wentz s it's Nate Sudfeld. Bennett's

719
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 1: crying a little bit about money, and well he come back.

720
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 1: So I think the Eagles will still be good. I

721
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys have taken a step. They were still

722
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:11,879
Speaker 1: gonna be tough. But I still think the Redskins are

723
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 1: with Case, have an opportunity to all. He's beat in

724
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 1: that thing for a while. But you're gonna mess with

725
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 1: some people when you have when you have him around. Yeah.

726
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 1: The thing about Washington though, the one thing that I

727
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:26,240
Speaker 1: noticed while we were there, they don't have any weapons

728
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: on the outside. That's I think the one thing. Now.

729
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: Your boy from from SMU, Trey Quinn. I think he's

730
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: a good He's a nice slot receiver. He did a

731
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 1: good job against us. They could actually move him to

732
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 1: the outside and be okay. He runs four three eight.

733
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 1: He can run, and you got Jameson Crowder. But I

734
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:41,879
Speaker 1: don't know how long Crowder stays around. But you gotta

735
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 1: give Case some weapons to throw to him. He's got

736
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: Jordan Reads at a tight end, but he's got to

737
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,320
Speaker 1: stay healthy. For the record, My boy from SMU is

738
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:52,839
Speaker 1: Don Meredith. Okay, another rest in pieces Cole Beasley also,

739
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 1: uh yeah, he's good. He's after me. Also, Josh McCown,

740
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 1: he was he's a contemporary, that's true. V Sam Houston

741
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 1: State Yeah, you still claim I won't do my rant

742
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:04,279
Speaker 1: right now? You won't do that. Uh, that's a rant

743
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 1: supporting Joshua Cleveland. Browns have traded Kevin Zeitler guard to

744
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:14,919
Speaker 1: the Giants for pass rusher Olivier Vernon. This really isn't

745
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 1: about those two players. But we don't see this a

746
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 1: lot in the NFL. Drew's Player for Players Trades. What's

747
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 1: your gut reaction player for player of Trades. Man, they

748
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 1: must like him, I'm okay with it. They must be

749
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: the Cleveland must be very confident in the guy that

750
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 1: bringing up I can't remember the name, but the guy

751
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 1: that plays Zeiler Corbett Corbett, Ye, because Ziler was when

752
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: he was coming out of in the draft, was a

753
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,359
Speaker 1: guy that a lot of people had peg coming here. Yeah,

754
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 1: and I liked him. You know, he's one of those

755
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 1: Wisconsin lyman. So um good for the Giants Gee whiz

756
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: they needed help up front, Yeah, no doubt that's so.

757
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:54,359
Speaker 1: That's good for them and Browns adding some more weapons. Man,

758
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:58,319
Speaker 1: looks like they can get some help there. Olivier gets

759
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:00,320
Speaker 1: back to what he was and the end of it

760
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: in Miami. He they got an opportunity with him and

761
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:07,359
Speaker 1: Miles Garrett coming off the edge, Steve Wilkes defense two

762
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 1: four three. You know Greg, Greg Williams no longer there,

763
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 1: he's gone to the Jets, But my goodness, yeah, you

764
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:15,720
Speaker 1: throw him in the mix. You still got a manua agba.

765
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: You just I looked at it as strengthening, as strength

766
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 1: from that perspective, and you knew you had Corbett sitting

767
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 1: in the wings, and Zieler was a signing from the

768
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 1: previous staff or the previous regime in the front office.

769
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 1: Corbett was drafted by this front office. They want to

770
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 1: see what they've gotten Austin Corbett, So you go with that.

771
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 1: I wasn't too surprised by that. The player for player trade,

772
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: I like, I like player for the player trum. Yeah,

773
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 1: I think it's really cool, especially when you cross positions.

774
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 1: It's like right guard for pass rusher, right to kind

775
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 1: of show. Yeah, they're a different value. But Zeitler is

776
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: such a good guard. That's the only way you're giving

777
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,279
Speaker 1: up a pass rusher and get him. And I know,

778
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 1: I'm sure you got asked this and have been asked

779
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: this a lot on the cooler talks that we do,

780
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: because I know in the deer Drew mail Bags and

781
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 1: I get every week somebody's asking, what do you think

782
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 1: you think the Texts are gonna pull off a trade

783
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 1: before the deadline? And they're not always talking about uh,

784
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 1: I say, before the deadline, before the draft. You're not

785
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:12,439
Speaker 1: always asking about draft pick trades or they're asking about

786
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 1: player for player of trades. And it's it's a question

787
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 1: that is a good one. I mean, it's it's kind

788
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 1: of out there and not as common, but yeah, it

789
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 1: makes sense. I mean, the Texans need help off offensive

790
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: line wise, they want to get better in the secondary.

791
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 1: Hey have you thought about doing this? I get that

792
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 1: question yea almost every week, if not every other week,

793
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 1: for sure. To you one I got I'll get your

794
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:32,360
Speaker 1: gut reaction on this. I got this this morning and

795
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 1: I was on on sport Trade of six ten. They

796
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 1: said if the Texans, if the Texans went out and

797
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:40,839
Speaker 1: say they were able to get Trent Brown and free

798
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 1: agency left tackle. So they were able to get Trent Brown,

799
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 1: and they were able to sign a couple of mid

800
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 1: level corners, maybe not the top end because it really

801
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:53,880
Speaker 1: on a ton of top corners in this free agency thing.

802
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:56,360
Speaker 1: Maybe you signed Pierre to see her and maybe you

803
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:58,840
Speaker 1: sign one other one, but you get a couple of

804
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,880
Speaker 1: corners to go with John Joseph and Jermain Kelly, and

805
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 1: you're sitting there with a pick number twenty three, what

806
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 1: would you do with it? Still take if some if

807
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 1: there's just a freak, here's all that slips got the

808
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: freak can't say any position. I think you're I think

809
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 1: you're right. Gut reaction to this, I said, well, if

810
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 1: you aren't able to bring back Brandon Done, Angelo Blackson,

811
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 1: Christian Cummington or any combination of those, I think one

812
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:26,839
Speaker 1: of them. I think one of those. But is that enough,

813
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 1: because now you've got Watkins reader in one of those guys,

814
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 1: I think you signed two of them. Then maybe this

815
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:32,840
Speaker 1: is moot. But I said, if you're not able to

816
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 1: bring those guys back, I said, you really need an

817
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: interior pass rusher. You really need a guy that gets

818
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 1: after it. A lot of them in the draft. The

819
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:40,839
Speaker 1: guy that I said was Jerry Hillory from Notre Dame.

820
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:44,319
Speaker 1: Now he's having shoulder surgery. But I think which means

821
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:45,879
Speaker 1: you might be able to get him in the second round.

822
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: But maybe that fifty four fifty five, But it depends

823
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 1: on how teams look at him. He should be ready

824
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: to go by training camp. But I said Jerry Hillory

825
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 1: from Notre Dame, a guy like that, they can get

826
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:56,840
Speaker 1: up the field. Very interesting guy too. But I just

827
00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:59,320
Speaker 1: think interior pass rusher. Look, we've got the guys in

828
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,879
Speaker 1: the outside, and it's like, well, you can't get greedy.

829
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 1: I'm like, well why not, Eagles can? The Eagles last

830
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 1: year put four guys on the field that are Pro

831
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 1: bowlers with Michael Bennett and Chris Long on the outside

832
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:10,800
Speaker 1: and Fuch your Cox and Brandon Graham on the inside.

833
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 1: If you're not gonna ball loose and you're harassing the quarterback, yeah,

834
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 1: your coverage is gonna look a lot better. Your cornerbacks

835
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:17,359
Speaker 1: are gonna look look a lot better. You're gonna get

836
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 1: the ball back, yeah, And you're gonna be able to

837
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: run the ball more. You're gonna be able to protect

838
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 1: your quarterback. Your offensive line's gonna get better. I'm fine with.

839
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,439
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, is there any any any

840
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:30,959
Speaker 1: chance at all that Ed Oliver slips that I've thought about?

841
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:33,399
Speaker 1: Could you even I mean, if he's at twenty three,

842
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 1: how do you justify not taking him, especially if you're

843
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 1: not able to bring back a bunch of guys on

844
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 1: the indie. I mean, it's tough even if you are

845
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 1: able to know, can you I've thought about that. I

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Speaker 1: thought about that flying home from Houston, Indian thought about that.

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Speaker 1: What what do we say all the time about about

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Speaker 1: Romeo Cornell's defense, It's it's guy. You got guys that

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Speaker 1: are flexible, that can move around. What does that Oliver

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Speaker 1: do and what does it look like he can do?

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Speaker 1: That's what he's doing around? And what did I mean

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Speaker 1: he's think about it. I don't think he gets that far.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think so were It's an interesting decision

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Speaker 1: by oh my good and that's an elite guy, elite

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Speaker 1: talent that. Yeah, I don't think he's gonna. He's not gonna.

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Speaker 1: There's no way he falls appreciate it. Drew thing anytime, dude.

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Speaker 1: That's the show, folks. A big thanks to Carl Smith,

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Speaker 1: to Mark Vanimer, to David Fletcher, to Drew Doherty, to

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Speaker 1: all of you for listen. We'll be back on Monday

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Speaker 1: as free agency period comes near. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for listening. There's always go Texans