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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, Welcome to the program here in the Hunday

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio Studio at NRG Stadium. Mark VanderMeer with you.

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Speaker 1: Johnny is out tonight, and d B Situ is in.

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Speaker 2: Good evening.

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Speaker 3: I'm in for a Friday night. I love it.

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Speaker 1: How about this? And we're going to talk OTAs. We're

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Speaker 1: also going to talk about what is it? The cool

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Speaker 1: one hundred in Houston?

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Speaker 2: What is this thing?

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Speaker 4: I'm like, I come to the show and this is

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Speaker 4: what I'm bringing, bringing the Cool one hundred list.

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Speaker 3: I wrote a story about it.

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Speaker 4: Dimiko Ryans made the list of Houston's coolest one hundred people.

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Speaker 4: It's the first time they've done this list. It's a

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Speaker 4: magazine called Houston City Book. So I thought we need

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Speaker 4: to talk about the coolest Texans.

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Speaker 1: Good idea for them, because everybody's checking that list to

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Speaker 1: see who's on it, and if you're on it, you

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Speaker 1: want it. I did check, but I wasn't really seriously

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Speaker 1: checking for me, although I was curious for yourself.

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Speaker 2: Am I going to get on this thing? You never know?

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Speaker 1: Of course I didn't what media members were. We got

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Speaker 1: to check this out. We'll do that in the next

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Speaker 1: segment or something down the line, the cool one hundred,

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Speaker 1: but Tamiko rans made it and he is cool. He's

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Speaker 1: kind of hot out there in the fields. Week two

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Speaker 1: is done for the team. They'll have another week of

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Speaker 1: OTA's than the mini camp, then the long break.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: I delved into this a tiny bit last night. The

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Speaker 1: most asked questions we get or that are in the

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Speaker 1: win about OTAs this time of year, everybody wants to

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Speaker 1: know what the record is going to be and whatever else.

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Speaker 1: But let's just get into it. Where we're at right now,

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Speaker 1: with a couple of weeks left of off season practices

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Speaker 1: and then the long break, and let's start here. You

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Speaker 1: and I listed these prior to the show, and you

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Speaker 1: just get right into it, don't you. When will CJ start?

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Speaker 1: I mean that was your first one.

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Speaker 3: That's everybody's asking me that.

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Speaker 4: And I think when you draft a quarterback number two overall,

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Speaker 4: that's people are just expecting he's going to start.

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Speaker 3: But when will it be week one? Will it be announced?

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Speaker 4: Before week one? Are we going to see him? I

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Speaker 4: think everybody just wants to see him flourish. Yeah, and

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Speaker 4: so they want to see that that decision is just made,

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Speaker 4: you know, and he just goes out there and he

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Speaker 4: commands that Well, there's not much you can see out

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Speaker 3: Maybe in training camp, well have a little bit better idea.

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Speaker 3: But I think that's the most asked question right now.

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Speaker 2: All right, so I haven't asked you this.

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Speaker 1: What's the vibe you get when you see him out

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Speaker 1: there at OTAs because he's running with the ones this week,

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Speaker 1: and you know, you hope that continues for him, that

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Speaker 1: they're not going to just go back and forth. But

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Speaker 1: if they do, I would think, all right, they just

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Speaker 1: want to dangle it out there for him, go get

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Speaker 1: it right. And I'm rooting for Mills to do great

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Speaker 1: because the better Mills does, the more it pushes CJ.

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Speaker 1: Stroud to be even better. Right, and it increases the

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Speaker 1: depth of your quarterback group. I love seeing that. We

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Speaker 1: all know cases capable and all that. So how do

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Speaker 1: you see it? What's your vibe? Because you were here

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Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen when Watson came in to me, that's

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Speaker 1: the biggest comparison. Highly drafted quarterback, highly touted quarterback. How

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Speaker 1: does he work his way up the depth chart?

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Speaker 4: You know, it's I just think that that Watson season

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Speaker 4: it was sort of known that he was not going

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Speaker 4: to be the starter. It was not a competition in OTA.

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Speaker 4: So I think you didn't you didn't think so high. No,

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Speaker 4: I mean that's I'm going on what we were told. Well,

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Speaker 4: I knew he was eventually going to be the starter,

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Speaker 4: but they were not going to advertise as such.

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Speaker 3: Okay, but I think we've seen a lot of rooky quarterbacks,

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Speaker 3: a lot of new quarterbacks come in OTAs, and I

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Speaker 4: To temper our expectations and OTAs of quarterback performance.

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Speaker 3: That being said, I think that CJ. Stroud surpassed that.

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Speaker 4: For me, I was expecting him to look really bad,

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Speaker 3: Of OTAs that we were out there.

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Speaker 4: And I think it's a really great sign that he

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Speaker 4: because in the end, that's what's important, right, I mean,

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Speaker 4: I think you can put a guy on second and

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Speaker 1: It took forever to get Watson up to the first team,

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Speaker 1: and he was on the third team forever going into

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Speaker 3: Well, even then, he wasn't Mark.

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Speaker 4: I remember at the Greenbrier watching because we were We'd

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Speaker 4: sit in those bleachers overlooking the fields and there'd be

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Speaker 4: at it, thinking I can't really tell a difference.

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Speaker 2: Savage looked good.

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Speaker 3: Savage was a camp guy.

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Speaker 4: He always looked good in camp, and Watson looked okay,

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Speaker 4: and I I wanted him to look great because I

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Speaker 3: To be made for him and he didn't really, it

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Speaker 3: wasn't really made. Now.

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Speaker 4: Wasn't that the year that will Fuller also left Camp Hurd, Yes,

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Speaker 4: he did, so you were without him, But then Savage

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Speaker 4: is also without will Fuller, so they were playing on

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Speaker 4: even footing. And I don't think that Watson really separated himself.

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Speaker 4: He played much better in games, and.

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Speaker 3: He never did it Camp.

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Speaker 1: But there were spike moments. There were flash where all

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Speaker 1: h And there was that day where with the threes,

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Speaker 2: Defense in there against the threes.

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Speaker 1: And just to see what was going to happen, I

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Speaker 1: it wasn't unbelievable statistically, but there was electricity in the

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Speaker 1: air and he looked pretty good. But then Savage ultimately

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Speaker 1: won the starting job. We bring that up because it's

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Speaker 1: the best comparison that we have to what's going on here.

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Speaker 1: You have a highly drafted quarterback and he's doing really

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Speaker 1: well in these practices.

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Speaker 2: So far.

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Speaker 1: So let's see, all right, other questions, who's going to

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Speaker 1: call play? You had this one. Who's going to call

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Speaker 1: plays on defense? You're getting that one a lot.

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Speaker 3: I am we went.

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Speaker 4: I feel like that's out there because it's not been determined.

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Speaker 4: I think every time the questions asked, it's you know,

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Speaker 4: it's yet to be determined. But I thought that was

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Speaker 4: Dimico took over, and it.

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Speaker 3: Hasn't quite been iron up.

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Speaker 4: But I think besides, you know who's going to start

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Speaker 4: plays on defense? Will it be Demico Ryans, Will it

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Speaker 3: How is that going to go?

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Speaker 2: I know when when.

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Speaker 4: Lovey Smith took over, he he came out in his

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Speaker 5: Yes.

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Speaker 3: So that's usually a question that gets answered very early.

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Speaker 4: On the fact that it's May almost June and we

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Speaker 4: don't have the answer to that yet, I think makes

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Speaker 4: it more of a question, and I think it like,

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Speaker 4: what do you I feel like out there, I see

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Speaker 4: Burke and I see Ryan's and maybe it's a little

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Speaker 4: bit more Burke calling plays on defense.

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Speaker 2: It looks like Burke is, but it's OTA's. It's practice

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Speaker 2: right now.

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Speaker 1: Dimico oversees a lot of stuff and he's moving around

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Speaker 1: to different areas and it's.

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Speaker 3: Seven on seven like the parts that I saw.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, even in team it looks like Burke

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Speaker 1: He's the coordinator, so he should.

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Speaker 1: As far as calling the plays, it's different because with

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Speaker 1: Slowick it's much more obvious with the walkie talking and

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Speaker 1: the way they handle it, and the defense they have

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Speaker 1: the green dot and the helmet as well.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It might have been determined already. They're just going to

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Speaker 1: handle practice the way they handle it. Whoever calls those plays,

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Speaker 1: and I think it is Burke because Dimico has to

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Speaker 1: be free. He has to be free to observe everything.

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Speaker 1: He's the head coach. So I don't know how love

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Speaker 1: he played it in practice, but I think Demico's playing it. Hey,

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Speaker 2: Eventually, we don't know yet.

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Speaker 3: We'll all be watching, but I believe said Burke said

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Speaker 3: after week one, you'll know.

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Speaker 2: He said that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, after week he was asked about it, he said,

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Speaker 3: how about.

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Speaker 1: I'll let you all know after we got Well, maybe

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Speaker 1: they don't know. Maybe they're going to play it by

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Speaker 3: It's kind of how I see it.

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Speaker 4: I think maybe they're they're sort of working out their

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Speaker 4: see how it works, what their system is. Burke's done

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Speaker 4: a lot of different things, you know, with his time

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Speaker 4: in the league, so I'm sure he's got ideas, and

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Speaker 4: I'm sure Dimiko's got ideas. But you know, Demiko's also

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Speaker 4: the head coach. Maybe he wants to see what, you know,

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Speaker 4: he's got. There's so many things as a head coach

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Speaker 4: you have to do out there on the field. Well,

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Speaker 4: maybe he wants to call plays, but maybe there's other

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Speaker 4: things he wants to do as well.

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Speaker 1: They could also organize it where you have a certain

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Speaker 1: look on offense. We're always going to do this and

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Speaker 1: these down and distance situations for the most part, right,

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Speaker 1: there could be some either or going on there. But

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Speaker 1: I think there has to be a trust there. There's

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Speaker 1: no question there has to be a trust. With offense,

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Speaker 1: there's got to be trust there between the head coach

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Speaker 1: The answer to that question is, we're not really sure.

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Speaker 3: But well, it's definitely something I'm going to ask him

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Speaker 4: It is hard for offensive and defensive linemen, and like

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Speaker 1: I will tell you this one of the sessions I saw,

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Speaker 4: I mean, I'm always I'm always looking at Tank Dell

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Speaker 2: I saw that. Yeah, Cougar to Cougar, Yeah, Cougar.

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Speaker 4: And then you know on kickoffs as well, you see

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Speaker 1: It depends on the context. Remember the video of Bryce

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Speaker 1: You need to got to go to get open. He's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, in the middle of the defense. I saw Demiico

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Speaker 2: I love this. I love seeing Dimico out there.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, did that really happen?

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Speaker 1: The colts in my face twice a year for them,

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Speaker 1: I am so glad. I am so glad that he's here.

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Speaker 1: All right, packed veteran edition. Just what we've noticed at

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Speaker 4: Okay, it has to be Jimmy Ward. Okay, Jimmy Ward

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Speaker 3: It was a one on one drill.

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00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:07,560
Speaker 2: Oh it was Ward. It was Ward. It was Ward.

443
00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:10,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was so physical and he was able to

444
00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:12,600
Speaker 4: be all over DeAndre Hopkins and they got into it

445
00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:15,800
Speaker 4: and they were rejected. I forgot that that was Jimmy Ward.

446
00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:18,640
Speaker 4: But he, I mean, he still looks ever youthful as

447
00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:18,919
Speaker 4: he was.

448
00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:21,360
Speaker 1: You think Hopkins wanted to get ejected from press.

449
00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:23,520
Speaker 3: We all thought that. We all thought that.

450
00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:25,400
Speaker 4: Because we thought maybe he's just like, Okay, great, I'm

451
00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:27,560
Speaker 4: you know, it's like the third week of camp and

452
00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:28,400
Speaker 4: I've really.

453
00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:29,960
Speaker 2: Just had it I've done enough out here today.

454
00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:31,520
Speaker 3: We've seen enough, and we had seen enough.

455
00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:34,240
Speaker 4: You liked a bubble wrap players, So I do maybe

456
00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:35,760
Speaker 4: that you know what, that's a camp question.

457
00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:40,600
Speaker 1: Like I've got it bubble I'm not going to reveal it.

458
00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:43,000
Speaker 1: I'm not going to reveal and people are going to

459
00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:46,639
Speaker 1: say what. I'm not revealing this for at least another

460
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Speaker 1: three weeks.

461
00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:48,920
Speaker 4: You've got to you got to put players in bubble

462
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Speaker 4: wrap at the end of every week.

463
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Speaker 3: Of training camp. I'm gonna make you pick players.

464
00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,320
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Yeah, all right, I'll do that during

465
00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:56,280
Speaker 1: training camp though.

466
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Speaker 4: We're I think Jimmy Ward might be on that list

467
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Speaker 4: because I think he's play a lot of a lot

468
00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:03,720
Speaker 4: of years in this league, and I think we're gonna

469
00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:04,400
Speaker 4: know he's good.

470
00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:07,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, and to have him and Petris.

471
00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:08,760
Speaker 3: And you want him to be healthy more than strong.

472
00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:12,080
Speaker 1: Combo with safety Denzel Peraman. I haven't seen him out

473
00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:15,160
Speaker 1: there yet, but when we do, he's got something when

474
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Speaker 1: we do that's going to be interesting. They're getting they're

475
00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:21,280
Speaker 1: getting a little thick at the linebackers spot. McClay made

476
00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:23,040
Speaker 1: a good point earlier, and we do this from time

477
00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:25,240
Speaker 1: to time. Johnny always talks about it. Look, you're a nickel,

478
00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:27,520
Speaker 1: so you're playing two linebackers, right. A lot of the

479
00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:30,679
Speaker 1: time you're a nickel, So who are the linebackers to be?

480
00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:33,240
Speaker 1: Is it Kirksey toe a toe? The list goes on

481
00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:36,959
Speaker 1: at Paramount they have linebackers for datis all of a sudden,

482
00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:39,800
Speaker 1: I'm looking at Blake Cashman, Jake Hanson. They're still on

483
00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:41,840
Speaker 1: this roster, and you know they can do some things.

484
00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:44,919
Speaker 3: Significant reps they are, and a lot.

485
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Speaker 1: Of that is because they've been around here they understand things.

486
00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:50,840
Speaker 1: But also you have injuries to other players and this

487
00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:52,760
Speaker 1: is going to be interesting to watch at that group.

488
00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:56,000
Speaker 1: But my guy, my Impact VET edition. Look, I love

489
00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:58,880
Speaker 1: seeing Singletary out there. I always make the point, you've

490
00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:01,920
Speaker 1: got the Bills starting running back, You've got your starting

491
00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:04,640
Speaker 1: running back. That's a pretty good combo right there to start,

492
00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:06,480
Speaker 1: all right, So let's get to the next one.

493
00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:08,920
Speaker 2: Impact incumbent.

494
00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:12,480
Speaker 1: Somebody's been here for a while, but they're really catching

495
00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:15,560
Speaker 1: your eyes at OTAs anyway, it's like, ooh okay, it's

496
00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:19,040
Speaker 1: almost like it's almost guy, it's almost don't forget about me, guy,

497
00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:20,600
Speaker 1: And I've got a strong one here.

498
00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:22,359
Speaker 3: Oh okay, I've got a strong one.

499
00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:26,320
Speaker 1: Too, Nico. Nico to me, that was my guy. Oh well,

500
00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:29,840
Speaker 1: you share him. We'll share Nico because Nico to me

501
00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:34,560
Speaker 1: is having a nice OTA and it's really good to see.

502
00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:36,280
Speaker 2: You know. I look at that.

503
00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:39,480
Speaker 1: His long body always reminds me of AJ Green. I'm

504
00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:43,160
Speaker 1: not saying he's Aj Green, stop it, but he reminds

505
00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:44,280
Speaker 1: me of him.

506
00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:45,560
Speaker 2: And he can catch.

507
00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:48,560
Speaker 1: He's got good hands, he can catch fifty to fifty balls,

508
00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:51,000
Speaker 1: he can sky. This is going to be a quarterback's

509
00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:53,680
Speaker 1: good friend. He's got to stay out there health wise.

510
00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:56,160
Speaker 1: We always talk about that. But I like the OTAs

511
00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:56,960
Speaker 1: he's having so far.

512
00:19:57,200 --> 00:19:59,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's he's really made some nice catches out there.

513
00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:02,160
Speaker 4: And I think he catching him from CJ as well,

514
00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:04,400
Speaker 4: so it makes them both look good. And I think

515
00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:06,440
Speaker 4: we really wanted to see him make that jump last year.

516
00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:08,840
Speaker 4: I want to seem to stay healthy, but he looks.

517
00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:11,800
Speaker 4: He made a phenomenal catch the other day in practice

518
00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:14,360
Speaker 4: and it was from Stroud and I was like that,

519
00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:15,200
Speaker 4: you know, we all.

520
00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:16,359
Speaker 2: Sort of nice combo.

521
00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:18,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, we sort of inhaled a little bit. I would

522
00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:19,639
Speaker 4: like to see more of that.

523
00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,080
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, is there an underrated player you have

524
00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:26,280
Speaker 1: somebody that nobody's talking about me, guy kind of thing.

525
00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:30,160
Speaker 2: I don't forget about me. Guy. Nobody's talking about this guy. Guy.

526
00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:32,359
Speaker 3: Nobody's talking about this guy. Guy.

527
00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:37,960
Speaker 1: I'll throw you one. Mike Boone, running back who caught

528
00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,360
Speaker 1: some passes the other day, number twenty two and really

529
00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,879
Speaker 1: in traffic, look good, look good out there with the

530
00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:47,639
Speaker 1: ball in his hands, And I thought, I don't know

531
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Speaker 1: how this is all going to shake out. Running back wise.

532
00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,280
Speaker 1: You've got Valide, that rookie from Arizona State I keep

533
00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:57,399
Speaker 1: talking about. You have Singletary Pierce. Obviously, I still have

534
00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:01,560
Speaker 1: Daria good Bale on the team. You have some players

535
00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:04,840
Speaker 1: here that make for a pretty deep Did I say

536
00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:06,920
Speaker 1: that word related to the running.

537
00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:09,000
Speaker 2: Back group deep in your tongue?

538
00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:09,320
Speaker 3: Yeah.

539
00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:14,200
Speaker 1: Look, injuries tend to affect the situation. You gotta hope

540
00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:16,280
Speaker 1: of where everybody stays up right here. But I like

541
00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:17,560
Speaker 1: what I see so far out of him.

542
00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:20,840
Speaker 4: You know, the other day, Jared Wayne, number eighty nine,

543
00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:22,960
Speaker 4: made a catch. We see a receiver with the last

544
00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,080
Speaker 4: name Wayne, and I was staying next to be Scott

545
00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:28,000
Speaker 4: Brenda Scott, and we both looked at our roster like

546
00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:31,159
Speaker 4: he was so funny because Brandon said.

547
00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:32,640
Speaker 3: Excuse me, sir, you.

548
00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:35,040
Speaker 2: Are you are? Like who are you? And who are yet?

549
00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:35,919
Speaker 7: And who are you? All right?

550
00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:38,480
Speaker 1: So he's from Canada, played at pitt Johnny talked about

551
00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:42,080
Speaker 1: him a bit. He's six three, two ten and the

552
00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:44,640
Speaker 1: two ten might be more like two point fifteen because

553
00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:47,919
Speaker 1: when he's out there, it kind of looks like a

554
00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:50,160
Speaker 1: tight end catching the ball, but a guy who can

555
00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:54,840
Speaker 1: really run. And this is a big receiver. Let's see

556
00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:59,119
Speaker 1: preseason games. It's interesting because like last year of Johnny

557
00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:01,440
Speaker 1: Johnson catching, then he catched a game winning TD in

558
00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:03,959
Speaker 1: a preseason game, and Johnny Johnson's out there, I want

559
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:04,240
Speaker 1: to see you.

560
00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:08,760
Speaker 2: He's eighty eight. That doesn't mean anything to you people.

561
00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,720
Speaker 1: You people listening right now, you're not able to watch OTAs.

562
00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,000
Speaker 4: That'd be cool a lot of high numbered receivers because

563
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,040
Speaker 4: all the low numbers are gone.

564
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Speaker 1: Let's stream OTA practices. That would get some looks, but

565
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Speaker 1: I don't think the coaches would like it.

566
00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,879
Speaker 4: Jared Wayne's father was a linebacker in the Canadian Football League,

567
00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,360
Speaker 4: so he comes from a football family and his dad

568
00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:27,399
Speaker 4: is not Reggie Wayne, his dad is Patrick Wayne.

569
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, people were wondering about that I mean, I

570
00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,000
Speaker 2: hate I also as well you might as well. In

571
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:34,760
Speaker 2: this day right age, in this.

572
00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:36,760
Speaker 1: Day and age in the NFL feels like somebody is

573
00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:40,280
Speaker 1: a former player's son, like every player, every other player

574
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:42,200
Speaker 1: or something as a dad who played in the NFL.

575
00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:46,160
Speaker 1: But that's that's an undrafted rookie that has caught our eye.

576
00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:49,679
Speaker 1: All right, joint practice. You wrote a story about this. Yes,

577
00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:51,680
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the Dolphins and the Saints.

578
00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:55,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, Dolphins and Dolphins. Here, Saints and New Orleans. The

579
00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:58,080
Speaker 4: last time we went to New Orleans was Hurricane Harvey. God,

580
00:22:58,200 --> 00:22:59,840
Speaker 4: so it would be nice to sort of erase that.

581
00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:04,040
Speaker 1: You know, that is not my prevailing memory of going

582
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:06,440
Speaker 1: to New Orleans and having joint practices, which has happened

583
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:07,880
Speaker 1: at least three or four times in France.

584
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,879
Speaker 4: We have, but that was the last one, and it

585
00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:13,640
Speaker 4: was such a great trip up until the actual game

586
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:15,119
Speaker 4: when we're all stressed out about Harvey.

587
00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:16,040
Speaker 2: I feel like.

588
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,560
Speaker 1: That trip to New Orleans was I don't want to

589
00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:20,280
Speaker 1: call it overkill.

590
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,920
Speaker 2: But I'm wondering if even I'm wondering.

591
00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:25,800
Speaker 1: If even they were thinking, you know what, we don't

592
00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:27,280
Speaker 1: need to get on the road again, do we.

593
00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:29,080
Speaker 2: It's not like you're going to a cool place.

594
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,520
Speaker 1: New Orleans is hot in the summer, hot and humid,

595
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,560
Speaker 1: and we had just been at the Green Bryer for

596
00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,359
Speaker 1: a long time, right, remember the first year there was a.

597
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:39,280
Speaker 3: Lot always a long time mark.

598
00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a long time. And we joint practiced

599
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:47,320
Speaker 1: with the Patriots there, got back here, played them, played

600
00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:48,520
Speaker 1: somebody else, then had the same.

601
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:50,679
Speaker 4: I feel like it was less than a week turnaround.

602
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:52,280
Speaker 4: And then we were packing up and going to New

603
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,920
Speaker 4: Orleans and the hurricane was forming. So I remember asking

604
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,760
Speaker 4: Greg Bailey we were getting on the buses to get

605
00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:00,920
Speaker 4: on the plane. I said, Greg, I'd be worried about

606
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 4: this hurricane. That's for me, And he said the same thing.

607
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 4: He said, well, yeah, it's kind of headed our way,

608
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,440
Speaker 4: but maybe we can get through the game and then

609
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 4: it'll hit next week.

610
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:11,000
Speaker 3: But we all know how the timing went.

611
00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 2: It next rank, not.

612
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,040
Speaker 4: Next week, but like after the game is end game.

613
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 4: It was like a Saturday night, maybe Sunday, but it

614
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 4: ended up being right at the end of the game.

615
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:21,200
Speaker 2: So it was way worse than we thought.

616
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:23,639
Speaker 1: Because I remember being on the phone with ABC thirteen

617
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,920
Speaker 1: because we were talking about the broadcast the preseason TV broadcast,

618
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:27,800
Speaker 1: which we handle.

619
00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:29,400
Speaker 2: What are we going to do about that?

620
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,639
Speaker 1: Should we go box game in a box and weather

621
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 1: in another box? Because it's monumentally important to give people

622
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:38,639
Speaker 1: the weather. You know, my thought is always the other

623
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:42,040
Speaker 1: channel's got it too, right, khow you and KPRC. They

624
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:45,399
Speaker 1: don't want to hear that, because when you have a

625
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:48,639
Speaker 1: news operation, you want to use the news operation and

626
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,359
Speaker 1: you feel this public service, this public duty to do

627
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:51,720
Speaker 1: it it.

628
00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:55,679
Speaker 3: Remember the NFL game that got preempted? Was it?

629
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 4: It was like Christmas or gosh, I'm drawing a total

630
00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 4: blank where Khou gave us weather for like thirty straight

631
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,879
Speaker 4: minutes and it was the fantastic game. It looks like

632
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,400
Speaker 4: Thanksgiving Day or something. It was one of the holiday

633
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:10,600
Speaker 4: games because I was home watching.

634
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,200
Speaker 2: Yes, I remember it well.

635
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:13,680
Speaker 3: The Lions.

636
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 4: We thought the Lions were going to pull out the win,

637
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:18,359
Speaker 4: and then they went and it was like, you know,

638
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 4: it was.

639
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 1: The last They went on and on and a guy

640
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:26,120
Speaker 1: in front of a monitor instead of the whole crew. Thanksgiving.

641
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,479
Speaker 1: I'm in so, by golly, I'm going to be out

642
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:30,160
Speaker 1: of the air.

643
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 3: Five ten minutes to fame.

644
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,920
Speaker 4: We're not, but you know, I will say My favorite

645
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:36,840
Speaker 4: joint practice memory has to be going up to Green

646
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 4: Bay Bay where the players came out on bicycles, yes,

647
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,600
Speaker 4: with the kids. That's such a cool tradition that the

648
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 4: Packers have every single year, and Aaron Rodgers was there.

649
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:47,639
Speaker 4: I thought that was a lot of fun trip. It

650
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:49,159
Speaker 4: was a great trip, and you know, it was just

651
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,399
Speaker 4: such a quaint little ton as what. I really liked

652
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:52,120
Speaker 4: that little town.

653
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 2: Everybody should do it, even if you're not a Packer fan.

654
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 1: Go up there because the Packer Hall of Fame is

655
00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,919
Speaker 1: NFL history fleshed out for you, and lambeau Field all

656
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,399
Speaker 1: the history there. It's a terrific road trip no matter

657
00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 1: what team you love. My favorite preseason joint practice memory

658
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,359
Speaker 1: Saints and eight when I was still at six '

659
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 1: ten and I was able to trade hotel rooms for

660
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:19,719
Speaker 1: the entire crew free meals. That's where we met Tommy

661
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:23,119
Speaker 1: Stanovich and Drago's and got into that hole.

662
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Speaker 3: Which we have benefited from ever since.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's a wonderful place to go. Tommy will see

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Speaker 1: us soon and it's a wonderful place to.

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Speaker 2: Go stuff ourselves and just.

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Speaker 1: Being there for the whole week was terrific, and they

667
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 1: were so accommodating everybody in New Orleans because it's only

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Speaker 1: a two three year period removed from Hurricane Katrina and

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Speaker 1: they were still rebuilding the city. So it was a

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Speaker 1: wonderful trip. Good practices, great preseason game, Texans won shop

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Speaker 1: and Rosenfeld's going nuts.

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Speaker 2: That's mine worst memory. What's that?

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Speaker 3: What's your worst memory?

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Speaker 2: Worst joint practice?

675
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Speaker 3: I have my worst joint practice.

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Speaker 2: Jimmy Warden DeAndre Hoe into a fight.

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 3: No, Richmond, Oh, Richmond.

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Speaker 2: You didn't like that at all?

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00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 3: Dogs, It was freezing, It was like sixty.

681
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Speaker 2: We were dressed in appropriately, we.

682
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Speaker 3: Were dressed for summer weather.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I thought Richmond was going to be hot and humid,

685
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:13,919
Speaker 1: and it was cold and rainy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they had the big fight.

687
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 3: And we were huddled into this tiny little tent.

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00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 4: Couldn't see the fight, but the entire both fields got

689
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,120
Speaker 4: into the fight, and then practice was canceled.

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Speaker 3: It just seemed was such a waste.

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Speaker 1: You didn't like that trip, but I kind of liked it.

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Speaker 1: I remember we ate at Chili's every day. You didn't

693
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 1: like that, Okay, Next up the cool one hundred in Houston, Damico.

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Speaker 2: Ryans is part of it? What is it?

695
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Speaker 1: And then coming up later in the show, Ben McDaniels,

696
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 1: who is the passing game coordinator, and Steven had a

697
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:45,679
Speaker 1: Goke who's the safety's coach. They both visit with Drew Doherty.

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Speaker 1: That's in the final segment. It's Texans Radio. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's get into this Texans All Access this evening, Mark

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Speaker 1: vandermindp City with you.

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Speaker 2: Johnny is off the Cool one hundred. What is this again?

702
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 3: It's a list of the exclamatory.

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00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 2: Mark, who's the coolest in Houston?

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Speaker 8: It is?

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00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 4: It is the Cool one hundred. It's the coolest one

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00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 4: hundred people in Houston. It's it just came out on

707
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,960
Speaker 4: newsstands this week, so it's got the it's got the

708
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 4: coolest people in Houston. You have to live and you

709
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 4: have to work in Houston. You can't be like Beyonce's

710
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:19,680
Speaker 4: not on the list.

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00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 2: So wait, wait, why isn't Beyonce on the list because.

712
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Speaker 3: She doesn't primarily work and live in Houston.

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00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 2: I see she's from Houston's from Houston.

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Speaker 4: So just because you're from Houston doesn't make you you

715
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,439
Speaker 4: have to, you know, be sort of stationed here. So

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Speaker 4: Demiko Ryans made the Cool one hundred list.

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Speaker 2: It would be great at.

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Speaker 3: Number thirty four.

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Speaker 2: Thirty four is pretty.

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Speaker 4: But you asked me who number one was, Yeah, let

721
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Speaker 4: me look it up. It was a skateboarder, Jordan Santana.

722
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 4: She's like an Olympic hopeful. She's training to be in

723
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Speaker 4: the Olympics. But Simone Biles was also on the list.

724
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 4: Toby knew Wigway was on it. Bun Bee, our very

725
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 4: own Texan super fan, and Troelberger's creator was on the

726
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 4: list as well.

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00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 1: So Demiko is not the only sports figure in the story.

728
00:28:56,360 --> 00:29:00,040
Speaker 1: I see Jeremy Pania checking in at number two. A

729
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 1: rise he has had so quickly, MVP of the Alcs

730
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 1: of the World Series, and he's in the Houston cool one.

731
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Speaker 3: Hundred yeah, and he always looks.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he would list those three as the top

733
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 1: three things to happen to him since he's been in

734
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Speaker 1: the market. Oh yeah, and winning the World Series. So

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Speaker 1: Simone is number four. Megan the Stallion, so she's.

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Speaker 3: Cool, totally cool.

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Speaker 4: Number five, Uh, let me see, Oh, Moe Ammer, this

738
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 4: is I told you about the show MO when it

739
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 4: came out on Yes.

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Speaker 2: So tell people about MO.

741
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Speaker 1: This is a Houston guy who's in a show on Netflix,

742
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: and it's unusual.

743
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 4: It's the first scripted show to take place in Houston.

744
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Speaker 3: It's on Netflix.

745
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 4: The season one is done, but I think they're currently

746
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 4: working on season two. He's a comedian, so he actually

747
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 4: had opened for like Dave Chappelle and John Stewart, and

748
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 4: I'd see him at random. Can you go see a

749
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 4: comedy show, he would be like an opening act because

750
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 4: you know, they usually bring in like local comedians sort

751
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 4: of warm up the crowd. I had seen him, and

752
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 4: he does all these different impressions and accents, and he

753
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 4: knows the landscape of Houston so well since he grew

754
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 4: up here. He's just so likable in his entire show.

755
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 4: It's strip malls and him driving around Houston and selling

756
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 4: stuff out of his trunk and growing up as an

757
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 4: immigrant of Palestinian He's Palestinian American, but he speaks fluent

758
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 4: Spanish because he grew up in Houston. Very likable, very Houston.

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00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 4: He's always reppering Houston teams. He had the Astros, the Rockets,

760
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 4: the Oilers. He wrapped every single team in season one.

761
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 4: He did not I think the Texans. There was like

762
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Speaker 4: a flag or a poster in one of the scenes.

763
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Speaker 4: But then he was in our hype video. Yes, and

764
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Speaker 4: so hopefully we'll see much.

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Speaker 1: From last year. Yeah, that set me down a quick

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Speaker 1: wormhole here. You said the first scripted show based in Houston.

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Speaker 1: That's not true on Netflix?

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Speaker 2: Oh on Netflix? Okay?

769
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Speaker 3: Was what were the other ones?

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Speaker 1: Well, there's not a ton here. Reba Reba McIntyre show.

771
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Speaker 1: Was that based in Houston?

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Speaker 7: Guess it was.

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Speaker 1: I never watched it, so I don't know. Judd for

774
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 1: the defense, I don't even know what this is. Oh

775
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:57,960
Speaker 1: At debuted in nineteen sixty eight.

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Speaker 2: That's why I don't know.

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Speaker 1: But that was based in Houston, And they say this

778
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 1: is according to the Houston Press. They had an article

779
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: about this, a column Houston Knights with a k O

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Speaker 1: running on CBS in the late eighties for thirty one episodes.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, did great? Thirty one sounds like.

782
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 3: A lot down Houston.

783
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Speaker 1: How about this thirty one episodes back then was basically

784
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Speaker 1: a season.

785
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 2: Thirty one episodes now.

786
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Speaker 3: Is three seasons, three seasons.

787
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Speaker 1: That's a great success, right right. That's the funny thing.

788
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: You go to these old shows, even Gilligan's Island and stuff.

789
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: I watched these with Lee and my ten year old

790
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 1: Batman stuff like that season two twenty seven episodes. I'm thinking, Man,

791
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 1: they made a lot of episodes back then. They still

792
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 1: do for network television, but I don't think it's that many.

793
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 3: I think it's less.

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00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:42,959
Speaker 4: I always felt like this TV season would start what

795
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 4: in September, Yeah, an end in May, and then you'd

796
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 4: get a bunch of reruns in the middle of.

797
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 2: September to May. Is a long stretch because now a

798
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 2: lot of.

799
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Speaker 4: Because remember the like four weeks and then they start rerunning.

800
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,719
Speaker 4: You think, oh, it's a repeat. Because I'd look at

801
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 4: the how old I am? You get the TV Guide

802
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 4: on Sunday and it would have a description of all

803
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Speaker 4: your all This is.

804
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 3: How we knew kids what was on TV. Yes, we'd

805
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Speaker 3: have a guide.

806
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 4: We had a piece of paper that told us it

807
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 4: was a little book, and I would go through and

808
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 4: I'd look at all my shows for the week, and

809
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 4: it would put a little r next to my favorite shows,

810
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 4: especially like the primetime shows. And you know if it

811
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Speaker 4: was a repeat, Look, I watched that much TV that

812
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Speaker 4: I knew.

813
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: I still follow all these retro Twitter accounts and they'll

814
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,719
Speaker 1: they'll print, well, print, Did I just say print?

815
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Speaker 2: They'll show the.

816
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Speaker 3: Print print mark.

817
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 1: No, no, no, they'll post I didn't mean they print

818
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 1: still print. They'll post something about a TV guide entry

819
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: and they'll have it. It just looks so familiar. It

820
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 1: looks so familiar when you see that.

821
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Speaker 3: It's too familiar.

822
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 4: Like someone tweeted you could only play video games on

823
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 4: channel three. It's like, remember that you can only watch

824
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 4: movies on channel three too, if you had a VCR.

825
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: Sure this is not on channel three. Somebody put the

826
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Speaker 1: TV on Channel three.

827
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 4: Get up, walk across the room, turn the little knob

828
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Speaker 4: to channel three three.

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Speaker 1: People know what we're talking about. No, there's more than that, right,

830
00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 1: Who else is in this cool one hundred?

831
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Speaker 7: Oh?

832
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 2: Alex Bragg and Reagan Bregman.

833
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 3: And his wife. They made like a duo.

834
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 1: She looks great, but why is she cool? Didn't she

835
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 1: fill it on that show? You filled it?

836
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, a Houston Life.

837
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 4: She was on there for a few days, But I

838
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 4: don't really follow her that much. Maybe she's got like

839
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 4: a big instat following. Maybe they're just like a power couple.

840
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm trying to see how many people actually know

841
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 1: in the Houston Cool one Oh Lauren Anderson Ballet dancer.

842
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: I once had dinner with her, uh huh and a

843
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 1: bunch of other people, like semi celebrities. I was the

844
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Speaker 1: semi celebrity. She's a true celebrity.

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Speaker 2: Chris Shepherd, Chris Shepherd, and know him. He's cool. He's

846
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 2: in the Cool one hundred. Is he cool? Yes?

847
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 3: Chris, your Chris chef from Lucille's.

848
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Speaker 4: If you want to go to this list, I've got

849
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Speaker 4: a story up on Houston texans dot com. Dimiko Ryans

850
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 4: makes the Cool one hundred. At the bottom of the

851
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Speaker 4: story there's the link to the list. So, oh, Washington

852
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 4: Hoe from House a Hoe. Okay, watch House a Ho

853
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 4: on HBO.

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00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: No, but I have seen Brian Sching on the pitch before.

855
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: He's in the Cool one hundred all time leading score

856
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: for the dynam And he's the Houston Dash managing director.

857
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 1: And they say nightlife impresario.

858
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 2: What does that mean? Look for Ching?

859
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:11,440
Speaker 1: This is according to the magazine. Look for Ching to

860
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 1: enter the medical marijuana arena later this year. All right,

861
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:15,839
Speaker 1: good luck to him. That'll be good. There's a lot

862
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 1: of money in that.

863
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 4: Christine ha first blind constant on Mastership. I actually met her.

864
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 4: She owns a Vietnamese restaurant Blind Goat, and then she

865
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 4: opened a new one in the Spring Branch. When I

866
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 4: was on Houston Life, she was actually on it. She

867
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 4: gave us a cooking lesson.

868
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,080
Speaker 2: Way too cool for me, the cool one hundred. So

869
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 2: Demiko's on this.

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00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 1: He's the only Texan that we see Andray Johnson is

871
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: so cool he needs to be in the cool one.

872
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,280
Speaker 4: So who would you rank as the cool one hundred

873
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:41,240
Speaker 4: Former Texans?

874
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 3: I agree with you. Andre Johnson should be.

875
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:46,800
Speaker 1: On there, all right, so cool Former Texans. Arian Foster.

876
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 1: You and I discussed this a little bit. Arian Foster

877
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 1: is so cool.

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00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 4: We just had so many interests, the podcast, poetry, the music,

879
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 4: and I have a photo something.

880
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 2: Maybe I'll put this on Twitter, huh.

881
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 1: I have a pick of Arian at the Arian Foster

882
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 1: show in twenty twelve.

883
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 2: We did it for one year.

884
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 1: Drew was on the show too, but he and I

885
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:09,759
Speaker 1: are sitting there and somebody took the pick and it

886
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: was probably on a camera. It was so long ago,

887
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 1: remember what cameras were. But Arian's definitely one of the

888
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 1: coolest text saying I.

889
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 3: Put DeAndre Hopkins on there.

890
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 4: I remember after games he would come out and just

891
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 4: everybody wanted to seez out there. And one time he

892
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 4: just put a scarf on his head and said he

893
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 4: was the Sith Lord and it went viral, and I'm like,

894
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 4: he literally just took a normal scarf and put it

895
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:30,720
Speaker 4: on his head.

896
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 2: He is the coolest, Yeah, he was.

897
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,799
Speaker 4: Really he was not wearing suits before anyone else was

898
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 4: not wearing suits.

899
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,360
Speaker 1: If you can arrive at the game in a kimono

900
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:43,360
Speaker 1: and go out and reak havoc on the defense, that's cool.

901
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: So what could you imagine if I arrived at the

902
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 1: game in a kimmode.

903
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 4: You would just have to own it. Mark, You could

904
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 4: totally do it. You just have to be like, yes,

905
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 4: I'm wearing a Kimona to the game.

906
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to happen. But Andre Johnson's

907
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 2: super cool.

908
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 4: Andre Johnson's cool because he just is really great and

909
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 4: everybody sort of gravitates towards him and he doesn't really

910
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 4: have the same.

911
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 2: He's literally cool.

912
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 1: He could just like stroll into a room and light

913
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 1: it up and not have to say much.

914
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty cool.

915
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 4: That's pretty cool about old old Texans is really old

916
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 4: old Texans that you'd put on this list.

917
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 1: But as far as offensive lineman, Chester Pitts is pretty cool.

918
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:17,880
Speaker 1: He dresses well.

919
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 2: I mean that's a big that's a big part of it.

920
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 2: Not David carr.

921
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:25,360
Speaker 3: Uh, although now he looks super cool.

922
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 1: I mean he's always looked good. He's always been the

923
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 1: male model.

924
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 3: Get a little bit of a glow up.

925
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 4: I'd like to say after the NFL A glow up?

926
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 2: What's a glow up?

927
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 3: He just looks really good, like you know, you go,

928
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 3: not that he looked awkward.

929
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:37,359
Speaker 2: Glow up.

930
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 3: I don't know, you wear suits. His hair looks really good.

931
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 3: He always looks super sharp on TV.

932
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, he does. He does.

933
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 1: I think that's a big reason why he's still up.

934
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's bad on those shows. He's fine.

935
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 1: But when you look great on TV, that.

936
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 2: Is current just going to keep watching. Yeah, that's currency

937
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 2: that's going to keep them going.

938
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:56,919
Speaker 7: All right.

939
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 1: Next up, let's go back down onto the field, or

940
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 1: at least clothes to it. As Drew Doherty visits with

941
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 1: Steven at a Goke safety's coach and also Ben McDaniels

942
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 1: passing game coordinator. It's coming up here on Texans Radio.

943
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:13,320
Speaker 1: Jumping right into the quickie interview, Fray here on Texans

944
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 1: All Access. It's two minutes with a Texan. In this case,

945
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 1: Texans assistant coaches Drew Doherty checks in with wide receivers

946
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 1: coach and passing game coordinator Ben McDaniels.

947
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,760
Speaker 8: Well, coach, you got a nice varied group of guys

948
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 8: in the room, young experience. Let's start with the experienced guy,

949
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 8: Robert Woods. How valuable is he with his knowledge, with

950
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:33,359
Speaker 8: his experience for a guy like you as a coach.

951
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 5: He represents a lot of things.

952
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:38,319
Speaker 9: The more experience you have, the more you're able to

953
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 9: feed that experience to other guys in the room. To me,

954
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 9: he's been really great to have in the building. I

955
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 9: had heard that. Didn't know Robert prior to come in

956
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 9: into our building, but had always heard that. And he's

957
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:53,280
Speaker 9: been a great pro in every way and really excited

958
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:55,720
Speaker 9: that we have him. He represents a lot of things,

959
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,840
Speaker 9: all of which are kind of what we're talking about.

960
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 5: Is just a pro every way.

961
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 8: And what's he mean to a quarterback, especially maybe a

962
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 8: young quarterback like CJ. Young quarterback like Davis Smills, or

963
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 8: even a quarterback like case Keenum.

964
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 9: Yeah, you just you hope that he's seen some things

965
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 9: that he can filter to everybody, whether it's guys in

966
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 9: the receiver room or the quarterback, have experienced a lot

967
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:20,879
Speaker 9: of snaps that provide you an opportunity to maybe think

968
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,759
Speaker 9: about something a certain way and help the offense. And

969
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 9: that's certainly what he's doing.

970
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 8: Even nice history with Nico Collins. What do you see

971
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 8: growth wise year two to year three? Now, as far

972
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,960
Speaker 8: as some of the best things you've seen after a couple.

973
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 9: Of weeks, I see a great confidence about him, in

974
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 9: which he should.

975
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:38,240
Speaker 5: You know, this is year.

976
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 9: Three and he's played good football in this league at

977
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 9: this point at different stretches. You know, he'll continue to

978
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 9: try and make those long stretches, you know, but he's

979
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 9: he's confident. I love his confidence right now. He's still

980
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 9: growing and he's ready to do that. That's that's all

981
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:56,839
Speaker 9: I could want from him right now in year three.

982
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 7: You think that confidence is just coming from the experience.

983
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 9: I would think so. I mean, you know, I think

984
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 9: we can all relate to that. You know, the more

985
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 9: experience you have, the more have confidence in who you

986
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 9: are as a as a person and as a professional.

987
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:11,799
Speaker 9: And yeah, I don't think there's any question that some

988
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:15,279
Speaker 9: of it's from his experience. I hope we provide some

989
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 9: of that from our building. He's got some folks around

990
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 9: him that he's constantly been around for the past couple

991
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 9: of years.

992
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:22,879
Speaker 5: Hopefully we're contributed to that too.

993
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 8: We just heard from Bobby Slow talking about Tank Dell

994
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 8: and how it's a very different offense in what he

995
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 8: was running in at U of H. But to his credit,

996
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:33,919
Speaker 8: he said, Tanks attacked the learning process and he hasn't

997
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:35,959
Speaker 8: skipped a beat on the field. What have you seen

998
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 8: in that regard because he's a different type of player.

999
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:40,399
Speaker 5: YEP, I echo what Bobby said.

1000
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 9: If that's the case, I've been really impressed with him

1001
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:44,840
Speaker 9: coming in mentally and physically.

1002
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 5: He's been ready kind of all the way along.

1003
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 9: He's five practices into his NFL career, and he's he's

1004
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 9: done a good job of just being prepared.

1005
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 5: That's what you're doing as a rookie.

1006
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 9: You're just trying to be as prepared as you can be,

1007
00:39:57,600 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 9: both mentally and physically, and I think he's done that.

1008
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:02,760
Speaker 1: Right now, there's Drew and Ben McDaniels. Now Steven Adagke

1009
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:05,839
Speaker 1: is the safeties coach, and Drew visited with him.

1010
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 8: What's been like good to be a part of this

1011
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 8: coaching staff and one notus.

1012
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 6: Definitely a blessing just from the opportunity for the McNair

1013
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:14,440
Speaker 6: family from Demico all the way down. Just working with

1014
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 6: these other coaches has been just a great opportunity first

1015
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:20,360
Speaker 6: and foremost, and you know, it's just been it's just

1016
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:22,760
Speaker 6: been a good process. It's been smooth transition and everything

1017
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:23,240
Speaker 6: like that.

1018
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:24,880
Speaker 8: From the time you got hired to the time you

1019
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 8: actually got to get on the field. Of the last

1020
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:28,919
Speaker 8: couple of weeks, I mean, how tough was that, because

1021
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:30,320
Speaker 8: how much do you want to just get on the

1022
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 8: field and started coaching these guys.

1023
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 6: I mean, as soon as you get here, you want

1024
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 6: to be hands on, you want to be in the

1025
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:37,800
Speaker 6: classroom all the time, but you know, the rules are different,

1026
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:39,439
Speaker 6: so like just one day at a time, as each

1027
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,960
Speaker 6: phase goes okay, you go from a classroom, okay, now

1028
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,200
Speaker 6: we're on the grass we walk through then to practice.

1029
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 6: So it's been a smooth process and there's nothing more

1030
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:50,120
Speaker 6: gratifying than seeing guys get better one day at a time.

1031
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 7: So that's that's been the most rewarding thing.

1032
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:55,399
Speaker 6: And just knowing that in the end they're gonna be better,

1033
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:58,440
Speaker 6: got better men and better players, like you can be patient.

1034
00:40:58,520 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 7: It's not too tough.

1035
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 8: And on top of that, that's going to be exciting

1036
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 8: coming in and having a gully Jalen Petrie who comes

1037
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 8: in at a high level and you see him getting

1038
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 8: better on a daily basis.

1039
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 6: I imagine, right, Yeah, he works, he puts in the work.

1040
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 6: That guy's head's in the right place. He's a great man,

1041
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 6: first of all, and he's even better player.

1042
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,879
Speaker 7: So the ceiling, I mean, there's no ceiling for that guy.

1043
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 8: First glance, when you were interested in this job and

1044
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 8: getting this job, when you first saw him on tape

1045
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 8: and looked at the stats and whatnot, what were your

1046
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 8: first impressions of him? Who was he as a football player?

1047
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 6: The impressions of him were made last year when I

1048
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:30,800
Speaker 6: evaluate him in the draft.

1049
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:32,720
Speaker 7: I thought he had a tremendous skill set.

1050
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 6: And then just getting to him now as the person,

1051
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:37,719
Speaker 6: like I see why he's gonna have success in life.

1052
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 6: No matter what he did, he was gonna be successful.

1053
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:42,359
Speaker 6: And so Jalenes are just a tremendous person. I can't

1054
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 6: say enough good things about him.

1055
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:45,240
Speaker 8: And then you get to contrast that with a veteran

1056
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 8: like Jimmy Ward, how helpful is.

1057
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 7: That for you?

1058
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 6: And you come with any guy that has experience in

1059
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:51,399
Speaker 6: the league and then experience in this.

1060
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 7: System, it helps tremendously.

1061
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:56,920
Speaker 6: So like sometimes players don't feel comfortable asking questions to

1062
00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 6: a coach, Like you could talk to your teammate and

1063
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 6: he's right there, a guy who's been the league going

1064
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 6: on ten years. Like that's a that's a great thing

1065
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 6: for Jalen and the rest of the room.

1066
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 7: Did they pepper with you with questions? Though?

1067
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:10,319
Speaker 6: I don't think more so than anybody else. Guys who

1068
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 6: are inquisitive or just that's who they are. They want

1069
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:15,800
Speaker 6: to know, whether it's a coach with thirty years of

1070
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 6: experience or coach with five years of experience.

1071
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:20,399
Speaker 7: Like if they have questions, they'll ask.

1072
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:22,239
Speaker 6: And that's that's one thing I think that helps our

1073
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,800
Speaker 6: guys tremendously, is like they're not scared to ask questions

1074
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 6: because they see the success they want to have and

1075
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 6: so it doesn't stop them from being hesitant. I mean

1076
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 6: they're not hesitant, you know, so they're good with asking questions.

1077
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Speaker 1: Drew Doherty with Steven Adigoke, the safeties coach, and Ben

1078
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 1: McDaniels before that, this show is done, it'll be up

1079
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 1: on podcasts soon enough. Check out Texans three sixty Saturday Night,

1080
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 1: eleven pm on ABC thirteen. Have a great week at everyone,

1081
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 1: Go Texans