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Speaker 1: With coach Lovey Smith and Palm Beach NFL annual meeting. Coach,

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Speaker 1: what's this like for you? What do you get out

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Speaker 1: of this experience? Well, a lot of things. Uh. You know,

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Speaker 1: first off, you know, we as coaches, you don't get

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Speaker 1: a lot of time to really socialize where it's just

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Speaker 1: not you know, by winning that game that day and

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Speaker 1: through the years, you kind of build up relationships. You

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Speaker 1: a chance to see people in that light helps. But

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Speaker 1: for us, it's about you know, the new years started,

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Speaker 1: new rules that might come into play. Just listen to

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Speaker 1: the NFL going over all the dudes and dawn'ts a

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Speaker 1: little bit on our job that helped an awful lot,

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Speaker 1: and then just start to you know, talk about you know,

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Speaker 1: our team. There's of course there's media sessions too to

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Speaker 1: get the message out to our fans on on how

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Speaker 1: we're gonna change this program around and how we're gonna

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Speaker 1: how we're working to get back on top. Well, we

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Speaker 1: were in the kickoff meeting and they were talking about

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Speaker 1: the fans and I wanted to say say, fourth phase,

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Speaker 1: fourth phase, that's your thing? Well, uh, that is and

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Speaker 1: uh and I thank everybody. You know, from going through

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Speaker 1: all those meetings, you see how important the fans really are.

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Speaker 1: They really do make the game. And uh, I'm a coach,

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Speaker 1: but I'm a fan too. I'm going to be involved

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Speaker 1: in football all my life, and so I understand exactly

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Speaker 1: what you know when you can't be inside like we

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Speaker 1: it to know as much as you possibly can about

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Speaker 1: your favorite team. I felt that throughout from the time

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Speaker 1: I've been I've been named I was named the head

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Speaker 1: football coach for the Houston Texans. The fans will let

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Speaker 1: me know that advice. You know, people that really know

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Speaker 1: the game and a lot of people that really know

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Speaker 1: our our our Texans football team, and a lot of times,

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Speaker 1: you know, what we're trying to do is kind of

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Speaker 1: ligne with what they they know that we need to do. Also,

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Speaker 1: all right, at the combine a few weeks ago you

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Speaker 1: talked about that's where you got your job interview to

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Speaker 1: get into the league with Monty Kiffin. Yes, what are

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Speaker 1: your memories of this meeting? Because this is for head

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Speaker 1: coaches and gms, and I know you've been to many

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Speaker 1: of these, So do you have any memories from the

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Speaker 1: OS or any other time. Yes, I mean on a

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Speaker 1: personal front and how times of change. I remember my

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Speaker 1: first one down. A matter of fact, the first one

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Speaker 1: was actually here at this same facility. So you know,

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Speaker 1: you bring your families down. And I know one thing

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Speaker 1: from a personal point, my kids, we forced them to

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Speaker 1: on spring break. But now what I remember as much

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Speaker 1: as anything, is just starting the process being in the

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Speaker 1: you know, thirty two owners, really counting hours and seeing

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Speaker 1: exactly how the inner workings go in the NFL and

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Speaker 1: realizing two of of how much of a you know,

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Speaker 1: threal but blessing it was to be amongst this league

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Speaker 1: group of guys. I know, you're putting together the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two Texans with Nick as Sario, and you've resigned

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Speaker 1: some players that you had last year and who did

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Speaker 1: you to be able to bring some guys back who contributed,

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Speaker 1: especially on the defensive side of the ball, and they're

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Speaker 1: back for you. Well, you know, last year when we

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Speaker 1: came in, it was about hey, watching a little bit

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Speaker 1: of video and making some decisions. I think it's really

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Speaker 1: neat when you get a chance to work with somebody,

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Speaker 1: you know, in our case for a year, and a

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Speaker 1: I mean we all were interviewing for a year, so

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Speaker 1: I guess I was interviewed. I didn't know it, but

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Speaker 1: our players were also, And it's always good when you're

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Speaker 1: respond unfortunately or fortunately maybe after loss, how they held wins,

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Speaker 1: certain look, certain type of athletes we wanted in our system,

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Speaker 1: know you've been going to a bunch of pro days.

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Speaker 1: So when you go to a pro day and you're

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Speaker 1: observing somebody up close, are you looking at what they're

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Speaker 1: Coach A combination of both. There's an awful lot you

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Speaker 1: me in detail. And again, when you go through a game,

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Speaker 1: don't get a chance to see every little movement that

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Speaker 1: you would like to see a player mate, and when

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Speaker 1: last three or four years. Yeah, I don't think most

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Speaker 1: you feel about getting all these extra picks now that

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Speaker 1: all these draft selections this year and in the coming years, Well,

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Speaker 1: And I'm talking Nick and I in every one I

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Speaker 1: finality to it. I mean, now you know exactly what

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Speaker 1: we're going forward with, who we're going forward with. Good

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Speaker 1: for the Sean, of course, good for us. Sometime divorce

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Speaker 1: So how do we get better? One way to get better,

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Speaker 1: you know, more picks this year will help a lot.

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Speaker 1: When you bring all those young players in and way

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Speaker 1: or whatever, but it'll be more than last year. What

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Speaker 1: does it like to coach young players and get them

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Speaker 1: assimilated quickly too? What you like to do? We just

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Speaker 1: in young players, especially players that don't know anything about

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Speaker 1: the league, they're they're eager. I mean, what do I

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Speaker 1: need to do? Coach? Everybody wants to get into the NFL?

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Speaker 1: What do I need to do? I think they're more

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Speaker 1: open and in my dealings. In time, you can have

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Speaker 1: more of an influence on the player this younger. So

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Speaker 1: that would be the case. You need that veteran leadership,

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Speaker 1: and we have it established right now. Now. It is

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Speaker 1: about bringing in as much young talent as we possibly can.

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Speaker 1: Every pig allows us an opportunity to do that. We're

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Speaker 1: almost in April. What can you tell us about when

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Speaker 1: players get back and what you can do with them?

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Speaker 1: What your plans are to bring the veterans back and

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Speaker 1: start coaching them. Well, I mean that's exciting part, you know,

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Speaker 1: it was about you know, for me, getting on the

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Speaker 1: job is about the staff. Getting the staff in plays

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Speaker 1: than free agency, you know, evaluating our roster and in

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Speaker 1: free agency combine. Of course you mentioned the draft. We're

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Speaker 1: still it preparing for it, but it's still about our players.

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Speaker 1: So that's why excitement. To answer your question, April eleventh

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Speaker 1: is the first day. For the first day, we start

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Speaker 1: all season program, four days a week. There are three

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Speaker 1: different phases. You know. The first phase will be a

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Speaker 1: what type of shape they're in, strength and conditioning and meetings.

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Speaker 1: Second phase, now the coaches get a chance to work

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Speaker 1: on the football field, so we'll have two weeks Phase one.

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Speaker 1: We'll have a voluntary mini camp the third week, the

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Speaker 1: next the following three weeks after that we'll be able

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Speaker 1: them with different techniques. That's when the football parts start.

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Speaker 1: And then the last three weeks will be our version

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Speaker 1: of college springball. No hitting anything like that. But now

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Speaker 1: way we'll finish up our all season workouts. Coach, thanks

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Speaker 1: allot for joining us, good luck, thanks for having on