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Speaker 1: What's happened? Everybody?

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Speaker 2: Welcome into a wet Wednesday edition of Texans All Access.

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Speaker 3: John Harris alongside Mark Vandermier. Hopefully you are dry.

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Speaker 2: Made it through the storms the early afternoon, morning and afternoon.

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Speaker 1: It was brutal.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what you call these direct sho's or

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Speaker 2: just bad thunderstorms.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what they're called, but they are brutal.

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Speaker 2: My wife and daughter flew in from LA and they're

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Speaker 2: still heads, still spinning from everything they have seen the

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Speaker 2: last couple of days.

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Speaker 3: They're like, this is not the Houston that we left.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question.

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Speaker 4: Let me ask you a question right off the bat,

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Speaker 4: Johnny Direct Show. I don't even know what I got

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Speaker 4: to tell you. I don't think I've ever heard of

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Speaker 4: that yel this year me?

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Speaker 2: So?

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Speaker 4: Am I crazy? That's not I should be ashamed about this.

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Speaker 4: I'd never heard of it. Do I have Direct Show shame?

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 2: Apparently it's called dray sho is a widespread, long lived

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Speaker 2: wind storm that is associated with a band of rapidly

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Speaker 2: moving thunderstorms.

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Speaker 3: Showers or thunderstorms.

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Speaker 1: Well, I had never heard of it, never if I

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Speaker 1: I just never missed it.

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Speaker 4: It blew by me. But what was the Tax Day flood?

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Speaker 4: And what was the Memorial Day storm? Those two took

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Speaker 4: place a few years ago. They weren't we're getting faster

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Speaker 4: ones though. Now they come in for a half hour

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Speaker 4: recavoc leave.

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Speaker 2: Yes, they're brutal, it's not crazy. I remember when I

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Speaker 2: was in high school. You could time your clock to

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Speaker 2: the two thirty or three o'clock thundershow just thundershower, just shower,

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Speaker 2: you're gonna get It's nice.

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Speaker 1: You get that. That's Florida style.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you get the humidity ramp up, you get that storm.

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Speaker 2: It would cool everything off. You'd go back out for

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Speaker 2: the second day of two days.

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Speaker 1: It was great.

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Speaker 3: But you could tie. You could in the summer, you

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Speaker 3: could time it.

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Speaker 1: To the minute.

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Speaker 2: Okay, here comes and then it would get sunny after

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Speaker 2: that and it would be great. Uh, these things are

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Speaker 2: hitting almost every day and they are ruthless. We were

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Speaker 2: out of practice practice starting a nine to forty five,

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Speaker 2: so we got out there. They had the lights on.

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Speaker 2: It felt like a night practice. It was wild all right.

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Speaker 4: First of all, I was about fifteen minutes late because

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Speaker 4: they were just stretching. When I can watch the whole practice.

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Speaker 4: You know my routine. You don't need to see stretching.

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Speaker 4: I want to see some action, and that's what we

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Speaker 4: got to see the last couple of days. Anyway, i

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Speaker 4: walk out there, and as I walk toward the door,

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Speaker 4: I'm thinking it's dark out because here in the NRG Stadium,

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Speaker 4: in our offices and studios and stuff, it's like being

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Speaker 4: in a cave. You just don't know what it's doing outside,

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Speaker 4: and it's dark out. I go out there, the lights

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Speaker 4: are on, like you said, the scoreboards up. It does

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Speaker 4: look like a night practice. It really does. And then boo,

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Speaker 4: the horns go off. Everybody goes inside because of lightning warnings.

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Speaker 4: But why are all of these storms they approach and

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Speaker 4: not only is it thunderstorm's coming, it's dark out?

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Speaker 1: Yes, Why is it so dark where?

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Speaker 4: It just seems like night We're just getting a lot

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Speaker 4: of that stuff lately.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not one of.

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Speaker 4: These conspiracy theorists. Oh they're messing with the ionization of

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Speaker 4: whatever weather and causing No, I don't think that's happening.

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Speaker 1: But it feels like it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been just brutal storms. I mean he rated storms,

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Speaker 1: Okay, oh that was a good thunderstorm. That's good.

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Speaker 3: A lot of lightning, thunders loud.

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Speaker 2: These things are coming in with wind that you just

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Speaker 2: can't even comprehend.

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Speaker 1: It's nuts.

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Speaker 4: I got to tell you the professional football players that

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Speaker 4: we have here and because that's what they are and

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Speaker 4: they should be this way, they're pros. The speed with

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Speaker 4: which they went into the practice bubble at the Houston

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Speaker 4: Methodist Training Center and bam got right to work in

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Speaker 4: an intense practice, a really good practice. I was impressed

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Speaker 4: with the let's not even break stride in the routine

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Speaker 4: of it all.

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Speaker 1: They might have lost thirty seconds.

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Speaker 4: They all went in the building and then bang, bang, bang,

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Speaker 4: And they have all the gear and equipment they need

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Speaker 4: in there. All the video stuff was in there already.

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Speaker 4: They just went right to it and it was a

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Speaker 4: good practice. And I was kind of chilly this morning

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Speaker 4: walk it out and in the bubble, I thought, this

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Speaker 4: is bizarro world.

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Speaker 1: Man, it's June.

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Speaker 4: But it's great and it was fun to see them

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Speaker 4: in their final day before the big break.

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Speaker 3: Really was and it was it's fun to watch, you know.

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Speaker 3: The offense.

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Speaker 2: We talked about it yesterday. The offense kind of had

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Speaker 2: a down day on Tuesday. Defense they got there.

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Speaker 1: Let's make it positive. The defense had a great.

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Speaker 4: Day of defense had a great day, and the offense

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Speaker 2: They did it flipped on Wednesday, and it's the exact

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Speaker 2: same way you just said it. The offense really there

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Speaker 2: was there was intentionality. There's intention of what they were doing.

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Speaker 2: They got after it, hit a couple of deep balls,

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Speaker 2: won a Nico Collins that was just sweet.

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Speaker 4: C J.

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Speaker 2: Strout dropped in the bucket. But the defense had moments. Oh,

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Speaker 2: they did had some big time moments. People Henderson knocked

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Speaker 2: one away. Certain rookie dB knocked a few away. Oh

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Speaker 2: I think Will Anderson said he ended up being the

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Speaker 2: swarm player of the day.

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Speaker 1: Oh really yeah, the swarm player, yeah, Kamari Lassiter. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: we're going to most people.

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Speaker 4: That are with interesting names that are going to make

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Speaker 4: a lot of plays this year. And Johnny, look, I

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Speaker 4: know that we do these shows, and you and I

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Speaker 4: have been doing these shows for over a decade, and

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Speaker 4: I've been talking about the textans since O two. People

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Speaker 4: who listen closely know that I tend not to hype

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Speaker 4: things up too much. I I'm more of the when

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Speaker 4: things are going bad, hey wait a minute, let's just

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Speaker 4: give it a minute. I'm that kind of guy for sure.

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Speaker 4: But I don't hype the team too much. I really

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Speaker 4: don't even going into big work. Big years are projected

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Speaker 4: to be big years. I'm not saying, oh, this is

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Speaker 4: gonna happen, that's gonna I don't do that. But I

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Speaker 4: will say this, this is a squad.

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Speaker 3: They've got talent, man.

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Speaker 4: I mean I hesitate to use the word loaded because

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Speaker 4: it's you know, the media here, this is sports media.

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Speaker 4: This is where we need to analyze the situation, present

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Speaker 4: all the facts. But the fact is they're pretty freaking

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Speaker 4: loaded at a lot of spots, at a lot, not

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Speaker 1: They're pretty loaded.

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Speaker 4: And it's gonna be fun to watch, and they've got

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Speaker 4: to stay healthy then we can see the full potential

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Speaker 3: Okay, So that leads me to this.

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Speaker 2: I'm watching practice and I would call this if I

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Speaker 2: if I had an award, I feel like I would

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Speaker 2: call this the Desmond King Award. But I asked you

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Speaker 2: a question, and I said, outside of the guys that

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Speaker 2: you believe.

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Speaker 1: Are going to be starters.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's probably depending on how you go personnel

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Speaker 2: groups and all that kind of stuff. It's probably twenty

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Speaker 2: I said to you, outside of those guys that you're

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Speaker 2: pretty sure are going to be starters, which guys on

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Speaker 2: this ninety man roster do you absolutely, without question have

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Speaker 4: Can I give you a player that a lot of

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Speaker 4: people think might not be here, people meaning outside of

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Speaker 4: the build. Yeah, because there's cap savings and everything. Absolutely,

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Speaker 4: his position group happens to be loaded. It's wide receiver,

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Speaker 4: right receiver. They're pretty freaking loaded. We went over yesterday

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Speaker 4: of nine guys that you could name before you get

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Speaker 4: to players that might have played for this team two

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Speaker 4: three years ago. But we'll have a difficult time because

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Speaker 4: of all the talent here. But I am telling you

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Speaker 4: right now, Robert Woods has got to be on this

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Speaker 4: football team. I know they have talent for days at receiver,

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Speaker 4: and I know that they haven't seen the full potential

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Speaker 4: yet of John Metchi and Noah Brown had those monster

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Speaker 4: days and I'm not saying those guys can't be here,

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Speaker 4: but I'm saying Robert Woods has to be here. He

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Speaker 4: is where he's supposed to be. He's reliable for the quarterback,

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Speaker 4: he is a great leader. Robert Woods should be on

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Speaker 4: this football team. I'll campaign for him.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 1: I might end up being wrong.

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Speaker 4: Who knows, but to me, Woods Bobby Trees is a

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I think without question.

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Speaker 2: You know, I called this Desmond king Wood because I

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Speaker 2: watched Desmond and Desimon could do something different.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for your football team.

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Speaker 2: When you think about this, the years he's been here,

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Speaker 2: whether it's playing corner, whether it's playing nickel, whether it's

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Speaker 2: learning safety at some point, whether it's returning kicks.

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Speaker 1: You think they overthought it last year maybe or something

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Speaker 1: a little bit, maybe a little bit.

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Speaker 4: Who knows, because clearly the way they treat him now

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Speaker 4: treat him. I don't know how they think they treat him. Well, fine,

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Speaker 4: they feed him, they pay him. But my take is

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Speaker 4: that he comes back. He's invaluable. Yeah, and you saw

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Speaker 4: I'll always go back to the Titans game where he's

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Speaker 4: playing linebacker. Basically, he'll do anything for you for this

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Speaker 1: He wasn't a fit in Pittsburgh. He's a fit here.

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Speaker 1: He belongs here, and I think about desmid King.

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Speaker 2: He comes back and he gets back and I can't

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Speaker 2: remember what week it was, week eleven, week twelve, whatever,

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Speaker 2: and he's up.

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Speaker 3: I think he was at that time.

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Speaker 2: They brought him back to the practice squad, so I

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Speaker 2: think at the time he's a practice squad call up.

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Speaker 1: Either way.

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Speaker 3: He played one game or one play in the loss

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Speaker 3: to Jacksonville.

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Speaker 1: One play.

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Speaker 3: Do you remember what it was? Tell me was to

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Speaker 3: play on a goal line.

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Speaker 2: Oh, and he makes the stop, makes the stop at

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Speaker 2: the goal line. He makes that one play before the

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Speaker 2: half before right before the half. Yeah, one play. He

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Speaker 2: played one play. There was that play. The next week

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Speaker 2: we played and you remember what happened in that game.

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Speaker 2: He's all over the place. He got a touchdown taken

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Speaker 2: away from him, but he's all over the place in

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Speaker 2: that particular game. Then we played I think Tennessee shortly thereafter,

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Speaker 2: game against Derek Henry and you're like, God, dang, we

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Speaker 2: can't do this thing without Desimond King. I kind of

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Speaker 4: Look, I know it's a lot of money and you

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Speaker 4: relatively late. Third year back from Arizona. He's got three

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Speaker 1: He can still play. He looks good out there too.

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Speaker 4: He's making plays, he can still play, he's a leader,

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Speaker 4: so banged up. So I love Derek Barnett, But my

444
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Speaker 4: guy in the D line is Khalil Davis, who does

445
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Speaker 4: get some love. I think he gets media love, but

446
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Speaker 4: maybe not enough. And you and I talked with him

447
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Speaker 4: up close and personal the other day. You'll hear that

448
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Speaker 4: interview in the next weeks. In the next few weeks

449
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Speaker 4: here on Texans All Access. Look, Khalil Davis. He's one

450
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Speaker 4: of the few D linemen actually listed above three hundred pounds,

451
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Speaker 4: by the way, but he doesn't move like he's three hundred.

452
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Speaker 4: He moves like he's two eighty, very quick, quick, makes

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Speaker 4: plays from the defensive tackle position. You know you need

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Speaker 4: people you can count on there. You have a lot

455
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Speaker 4: of question marks there in that you have new players.

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Speaker 4: You know Deniko Autry has heard from today. I know

457
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Speaker 4: he can play outside inside. We talk about some of

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Speaker 4: the players fully, Fatacasi, we discussed him yesterday. Not that

459
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Speaker 4: you don't think those guys can play. You know they

460
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Speaker 4: can play, but they're new to the team. You know

461
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Speaker 4: that Khalil Davis is not new to the team. He

462
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Speaker 4: can make plays in this system. He'll be successful. You

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Speaker 4: need him in that room.

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Speaker 1: So you just joined us.

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Speaker 2: We're discussing the players that may not be starters, but

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Speaker 2: you absolutely have to have them on this team. Robert Woods,

467
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Speaker 2: Desmond King, Dargonbwally Case, Keenum.

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Speaker 3: Derek Barnett, Khalil Davis.

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Speaker 2: As Mark just said, mark your next one of what

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Speaker 2: pick your position?

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Speaker 1: Group? O line, O line. Okay, I got one on

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Speaker 1: the old line too.

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Speaker 4: It's probably too obvious. I should probably go with somebody

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Speaker 4: who's not a draft pick. But he was not a

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Speaker 4: high draft pick from last year, and there would be

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Speaker 4: Jared Patterson. He's too valuable for you and at this

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Speaker 4: point he's a former starter. Well, he had to start

478
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Speaker 4: for you last year because you were so depleted at

479
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Speaker 4: center with Quessenberry going down in camp, and then Juice

480
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Speaker 4: is not available, and then you know the rest of

481
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Speaker 4: the story, and eventually Dieter had to start there for you.

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Speaker 4: But Patterson was good, and you told me Patterson and

483
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Speaker 4: correct me if I'm wrong. Juice a better guard prospect

484
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Speaker 4: than Patterson. But Patterson has thickened up a bit, and

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Speaker 4: you never know if he could play some guard for you.

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Speaker 4: I assume he would be available if you needed him to.

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Speaker 4: But the prospect of backup center and then some I

488
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Speaker 4: think that's important for Patterson. And you want to continue

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Speaker 4: to develop and nurture players that you drafted players in

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Speaker 4: your system.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and talking to Jared the other day and just

492
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Speaker 2: seeing him up close, like, man, he's got bigger, he's

493
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Speaker 2: got ticker, and I think that's gonna end up helping him.

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Speaker 2: Just give him that position flex. So I agree with

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Speaker 2: Alvin Hoole Harley. Here's here's one kind of along those

496
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Speaker 2: same lines. It's a guy that when he was drafted

497
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Speaker 2: in the fourth round, you thought, Okay, we hope that

498
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Speaker 2: this guy never sees the field, But injuries have happened.

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Speaker 2: Injuries have happened to the two starting tackles over the years,

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Speaker 2: Titus Howard, Leimy Tunsel and Charlie Hack has had to

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Speaker 2: go in the lineup and has given them really good

502
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Speaker 2: snaps over the last four years. You gotta have a

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Speaker 2: swing tackle. You know, Blake Fisher was drafted and all that,

504
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Speaker 2: but you know what you're getting with Charlie. Heck, you know,

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Speaker 2: Charlie can go in there and either left or right tackle,

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Speaker 2: and you know he's gonna know what to do.

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Speaker 1: And look, Charlie will be the first.

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Speaker 2: One to tell you you know, he's not as athletically

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Speaker 2: gifted as Titus or Larim or whomever, but he gets

510
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Speaker 2: guys blocked and he's been doing it for four years

511
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Speaker 2: and he's had to play and start in every single

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Speaker 2: one of his four years.

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Speaker 4: Who's the sixth man in this Soul line room? All right,

514
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Speaker 4: regardless of position, is it him? It's probably him? It's

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Speaker 4: probably probably him. So to me, you got to go

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Speaker 4: deeper than that for this category.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good that's a good point, because a

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Speaker 2: good point I think you hit on the next guy

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Speaker 2: that I would say that's Jared Patterson.

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Speaker 1: So if you had to go seven, Patterson's the next one,

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Speaker 1: I mean I would maybe.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think Kendrick Green, Kenyan Green, trying

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Speaker 2: to pick between those two is gonna be the left guard.

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Speaker 3: I think that's I think that's gonna be pretty tough.

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Speaker 4: Because Kenyon, they've been moving him around a little bit,

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Speaker 4: not moving positions, but like what group he's out there with.

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Speaker 4: I think they're just trying to get him extra reps. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: we ever get him in certain arrangements because you don't

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Speaker 4: have Laramie out there, you don't have Titus out there,

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Speaker 4: So get him in there with different groups of people.

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Speaker 4: But they keep talking about his body, how it's changed

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Speaker 4: and everything, and so let's just continue to hope for

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Speaker 4: the best.

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Speaker 6: There.

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Speaker 1: We got to see it in pads.

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Speaker 3: This is it.

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Speaker 1: We got to see it in pad.

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Speaker 4: I got to see him PA four or something or

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Speaker 4: three or four of training camp.

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Speaker 1: We'll see how they organize it.

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Speaker 4: Maybe they don't get at the pads as soon as

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Speaker 4: they usually do because they have that Hall of Fame game.

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Speaker 1: We'll find out.

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Speaker 2: See what your buddy, Aaron Glenn said. He was asked

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Speaker 2: about a second year defensive lineman and how much has

546
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Speaker 2: he progressed. He said, I don't know. He's running around

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Speaker 2: in underwear. Yeah, it's like that. That sounds like something

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Speaker 2: Aaron Glenn would say. Okay, I I have one more. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I don't want to. I don't want to. We talked

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Speaker 2: about this guy the other day and I dB, no,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go linebacker. I'm going linebacker on this one.

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Speaker 2: And I don't know exactly how this is gonna go.

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Speaker 1: You can't pick him. He might start. I know where

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Speaker 1: you're going.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say Jacob Phillips.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know Phillip. Listen, that's the low hanging fruit here.

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Speaker 4: To me, Jacob Phillips and Bass could be a star.

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Speaker 4: I'll give you another one a linebacker.

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Speaker 1: I agree with me. You're gonna be like, yes, Nevill Hewett.

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Speaker 2: Oh, that was gonna be the guy can play.

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Speaker 1: He's the best.

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Speaker 2: Yes, he's awesome. He's one of the best special teams

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Speaker 2: guys we've had in this building.

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Speaker 4: At this point, I'm contractually obligated to mention again that

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Speaker 4: once upon a time he led the Jets and tackle.

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Speaker 1: That's right, for whatever that's worth. That's right.

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Speaker 4: But Neville Hewitt can help this football team and he

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Speaker 4: should be on it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, Now the last one listening like.

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Speaker 3: You guys, you guys are killing you guys.

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Speaker 1: You don't know.

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Speaker 3: Your job is tough.

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Speaker 1: Your job is tough. NK, you made it down.

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Speaker 4: Feel free to decide for yourself. Do not be influenced

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Speaker 4: by Texans Radio.

577
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Speaker 2: The comments heard on Texans Radio, the opinions of Mark

578
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Speaker 2: and John and Mark and John only.

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Speaker 1: Were you still when Rick Smith was here?

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Speaker 4: I told Rick, you know, because he said, you guys

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Speaker 4: are writing articles with opinions and things. I said, yes,

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Speaker 4: but Rick, that matters, And I said, well, we'll put

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Speaker 4: a little a little disclaimer at the end of each article.

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Speaker 1: We did something like what you just said.

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Speaker 2: Definitely, obviously they definitely went at the end of Harris

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Speaker 2: Hits observations.

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Speaker 1: For sure.

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Speaker 2: These are the thoughts of John and John only, Uh

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Speaker 2: you got any more?

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Speaker 3: You got one more?

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Speaker 6: Uh?

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Speaker 4: dB this is kind of under the radar. Slash should

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Speaker 4: be on the team. I don't know if he's going

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Speaker 4: to make the team, but I am eager to see

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Speaker 4: Mike Ford out there in real action with the pads

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Speaker 4: and preseason games and what he can add to this team.

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Speaker 4: I think they like him and it's gonna be fun

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Speaker 4: to watch him try to become a part of it.

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Speaker 2: I think from he knows his role special Team's part,

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Speaker 2: that he's got to take care of that, and then

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Speaker 2: if he's got to get on the field, he'll get

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Speaker 2: on the field. It's funny because I didn't bring this

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Speaker 2: up with him, but during the playoff game, I was

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Speaker 2: hanging out down by the Browns. I was hanging out

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Speaker 2: down on that edge of the field, which is just

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Speaker 2: down from our radio boost. So sometimes I have better

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Speaker 2: connection when i'm just down for you. So I'm kind

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Speaker 2: of watching man Obo Coronquo is talking trash and Mike

609
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Speaker 2: wasn't really talking trash, but I just kind of made

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Speaker 2: a note like okay, very excitable, lot of energy.

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Speaker 3: And then when he saw it with us, I was.

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Speaker 2: Like, all right, cool with the Browns, I'm like, oh no,

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Speaker 2: we'll show him, but he's gonna be a fun and interview.

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Speaker 2: We'll have our interview with Mike Ford Junior a little

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Speaker 2: bit later in the show. How about this A Houston resident,

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Speaker 2: A Houston resident before he even joined the Houston Texas

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Speaker 2: by choice, Yeah, by choice.

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Speaker 4: Could have lived anywhere any of those two people who

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Speaker 4: live here involuntarily.

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Speaker 1: And my point is not for the job. He chose

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Speaker 1: to have a place, all right.

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Speaker 2: We did not ask Mike Ford about Dracho's We did

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Speaker 2: not ask him that, but I did speak with your

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Speaker 2: Doherty on in the lab. That is all for you.

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Speaker 2: Next right here on Texans All Access, it's time to

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Speaker 2: go in the lab. Welcome back to another edition of

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Speaker 2: Texans All Access on this Wednesday evening. I hope you

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Speaker 2: all are doing great, hope we survived the storms from

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Speaker 2: earlier today and you're locked into Texans All Access with

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Speaker 2: me John Harris Football and I'll side the reporter and

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Speaker 2: my pal Drew Doherty going in the lab talking.

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Speaker 3: OTA's right here.

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Speaker 6: So what I want to talk about today is the

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Speaker 6: pass rush. Because we heard from presumably your three leading

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Speaker 6: sack artists for twenty twenty four. Now there could be

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Speaker 6: some surprises, or there could be a guy like Derek

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Speaker 6: Barnett who rises up but at the podium following Dimico

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Speaker 6: Ryans on Wednesday, the Texans trotted out Will Anderson, Junior,

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Speaker 6: Denico Autry, Danil Hunter, three pretty salty defensive linemen, and

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Speaker 6: I want to start with Will Anderson Jr. He got

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Speaker 6: pretty in depth about what he's worked on this offseason.

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Speaker 6: Somebody said, you know, what were your what did you

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Speaker 6: try to get better at? What did you do about

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Speaker 6: d dad? And he gave this answer.

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Speaker 5: Pass rush is so many different things, and you really

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Speaker 5: don't know like how to put it all in once

647
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 5: until you finally get like a chance to talk to

648
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Speaker 5: other pass rushers and Mouth Garrett and d'anil and working

649
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Speaker 5: on your ankle flex and working on your hips, all

650
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Speaker 5: those different things just to loosen you up to be

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Speaker 5: able to be more bandy around the edge.

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Speaker 7: So we had to open up more moves for you.

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Speaker 5: So for me, like that was my biggest thing. Is

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Speaker 5: like working with my ankle mobility, working in my hips,

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Speaker 5: arm strength, grip strength, all those things to like, those

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Speaker 5: are areas that I've really been focusing on in this ota.

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Speaker 5: I've had the privilege to, you know, learn from Danil

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Speaker 5: and see how he works and try to some of

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Speaker 5: the moves and stuff like that, and they're working because

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Speaker 5: I've learned how to take care of my body, how

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Speaker 5: to do those things to help me turn the corner,

662
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Speaker 5: how to help me get off blocks, how to help

663
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 5: me escape, how to use a long gom and things

664
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 5: like that.

665
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 6: Which is pretty detailed. John that that's pretty cool stuff

666
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 6: to hear from number fifty one. I'm excited because you've

667
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 6: got Autrey in there, and where you get to Autrey

668
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:17,879
Speaker 6: in just a moment, You've got Danil Hunter, who is

669
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 6: an absolute forced to be reckoned with and has been

670
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 6: so for a long time now in the NFL. But

671
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 6: when you hear Anderson described in describing such details some

672
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,640
Speaker 6: of that stuff he's talking about ankle flextion, I mean,

673
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:34,439
Speaker 6: it's got to get you pretty excited. Because he was

674
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 6: a monster last year. He was defensive Rookie of the Year,

675
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 6: and you presume he's going to get better, and then

676
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 6: you factor in what you just heard or saw there

677
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:45,479
Speaker 6: with Anderson describing all those things, I'm pretty pumped. Are

678
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 6: you pumped on?

679
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 3: Yeah?

680
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 2: I think about a lot of times try and relate,

681
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 2: and it's hard to but you just try and relate

682
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 2: your first year doing any kind of job, and you

683
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 2: just you fly by the seat of your pants and

684
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 2: you're just trying to stay one day head.

685
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 1: Of everything else.

686
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 2: I used my teaching analogy all the time, you know,

687
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 2: I was teaching calculus. I stayed one day ahead of

688
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 2: my class the entire time. That was it until I

689
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 2: got through the year. And then I got done with

690
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 2: the year and look back and say, okay, now I've

691
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 2: kind of got this down a little bit. Now I

692
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,719
Speaker 2: can be a little bit more focused on this area.

693
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 2: I can be a little bit better with this. And

694
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 2: you start to then focus on those and make those

695
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 2: part of your repertoire, and away you go.

696
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 3: I think last year Will was just firing. I think

697
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 3: Matt Burke put it best.

698
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 2: Last year, Will Anderson was just throwing fastballs.

699
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:34,479
Speaker 1: He's just doing fastball as fastball as fastball now.

700
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 2: His fastballs ninety eight, ninety nine, it's a good fastball.

701
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 2: It was a great fastball. I think as the year

702
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 2: wore on you could see him try and change speeds

703
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,200
Speaker 2: a little bit. But it was kind of a two

704
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 2: pitch repertoire, if you will, and it was good enough

705
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 2: because Will is that talented, he's that relentless to the

706
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 2: quarterback him talking about those other little things.

707
00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 3: That's like a pitcher adding a third pitch.

708
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 6: Yeah wow, Like you say, the fastball is nice, but right,

709
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 6: why aren't you add in a circle change.

710
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: And throwing a sweeper? Well?

711
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 2: The six whatever you got in a curve and you throw.

712
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 2: You got three pitches now that you can beat people with.

713
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 2: And now you're thinking more technically about, Okay, this is

714
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 2: where I want to spot this pitch. I'm really good

715
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 2: at throwing this pitch. Now this I want to put

716
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 2: it here. So I think about that in kind of

717
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 2: terms of pitching. You know, he's added a few pitches,

718
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 2: trying to add a few pitches. Here about pictures all

719
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 2: the time. You know, hey, I'm working on a change

720
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 2: up this down spring training. You know I'm working on

721
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 2: working on a changeup. Well, none of those other pitches work.

722
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 2: If your fastball sucks. If you're throwing an eighty six

723
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 2: mile on hour fastball, you got issues. Will doesn't. Will's

724
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 2: got that fastball, and now he's adding to the repertoire.

725
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 2: So that's kind of the way that that I, you know,

726
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 2: analyg you know, make an analogy to baseball and that

727
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 2: in that sense a lot of people understand baseball. So

728
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:53,719
Speaker 2: it's like, just think about pictures adding pitches. I think

729
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 2: that's Will what Will's talking about. And it's very very technical.

730
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 2: You think about pictures and you know where the elbow

731
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 2: has to be, where the hand has to be where

732
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 2: the grip is, where you want to grip it. You know,

733
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 2: just the risk, you know, the tork that all that

734
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. Those are all things Will's talking about.

735
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 2: But it's just in a football sense, but that's kind

736
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 2: of how you can think about it in a baseball sense.

737
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 2: That's exactly what Will is doing. When you've been around

738
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 2: like a guy like Daniel Hunter, and you've been able

739
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 2: to work on that change up, and you know, in

740
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 2: some cases you might be able to throw a couple

741
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 2: of different.

742
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 1: Types of changeups.

743
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:29,120
Speaker 2: Maybe you throw a circle change, maybe there's a different

744
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 2: kind of four seamer that you like to throw. Those

745
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 2: are the things Daniel Hunter's done and he's mastered those.

746
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 6: And the interject here, so he's Anderson's a round hunter

747
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 6: and picking his brain and all that stuff and learning

748
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 6: from him. He also spent a lot of time with

749
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 6: Miles s. Garrett that this offseason working out with Miles

750
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 6: Scarrett maybe the best pass rusher in the league right now.

751
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 6: Maybe not, you can argue, but there's strong arguments either

752
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 6: way on that one. So my point is he is

753
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:58,239
Speaker 6: surrounding himself mentally, yep, with ways to get better and

754
00:31:58,360 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 6: hopefully putting that into action.

755
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 1: Go back.

756
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, and to that point, you know Miles Garrett, You

757
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 2: know people, Miles. Miles might be the freakiest dude in

758
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 2: the NFL. I mean he's six six six seven two

759
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 2: sixty five and he runs like Tank Dell.

760
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:15,719
Speaker 3: I mean he is as fast. I think he ran

761
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 3: in the four four four five range.

762
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 1: I mean he could fly.

763
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,719
Speaker 2: I've almost I've almost gotten hit by him running full speed.

764
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 2: Was after the A and m Arizona State text kickoff

765
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 2: game that we had here. I happened to be on

766
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 2: a field. I was doing some tech sag stuff. I

767
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 2: turned around and all of a sudden he was flying

768
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 2: by me to get away from the reporters, and he

769
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 2: almost hit me. I thought, man, God, how do you

770
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 2: play against a dude like that?

771
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 1: But here's the thing about Miles, And I.

772
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 6: Think, did he if he had a hit you, would

773
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 6: it have been as hard as he hit Mike Bercovicci

774
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 6: that day?

775
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 1: Yeah?

776
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 2: Probably did he hit Mike Berkovicci. Yeah, he hit Mike

777
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 2: Bercovicci a lot in that game. But I think the

778
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 2: one thing about Miles, and I've heard him miked up.

779
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 2: I've heard him talk and speak about past rushing.

780
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 1: He is.

781
00:32:56,520 --> 00:33:00,719
Speaker 2: He's very astute, very smart about how he about his

782
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 2: rushes and what he's what he's trying to do. He

783
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 2: has a plan every single time he fires off the ball.

784
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 2: When you watch a game, you don't think, Okay, this

785
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 2: guy's just firing off the ball as fast as you can.

786
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 2: He don't really have a plan. These guys have plans,

787
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 2: the great ones do. The great ones have a plan

788
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 2: for how they're going to attack and set up a tackle.

789
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 2: I think Will's kind of in the process of learning

790
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 2: how to do all of that. He did it at

791
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 2: the college level, but now he's he's taking all the

792
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 2: information he gathered as a rookie and now he's just

793
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 2: storing it, saying, Okay, against this guy can do this,

794
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 2: against these kind of guys, I can do that.

795
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 3: And I think he's.

796
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 2: Kind of storing that, and then he's also trying to

797
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 2: pick the brain to those guys. Hey, you know, this

798
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 2: is the kind of guy that gave me some issue

799
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 2: last year.

800
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 1: How do I what do I need to do?

801
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 6: What?

802
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 3: What's the best way to go about this? What do

803
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 3: my feet need to be?

804
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 2: You know, we talk about the hands all the time,

805
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 2: but where the feet need to be and that was

806
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 2: one thing that the Neil Hunter talked about, was you know,

807
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 2: connecting your hands and your feet on your rush, and

808
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 2: I thought that was very astute kind of coming from

809
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:00,520
Speaker 2: Neil Hunter. So I think Will has got kind of

810
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 2: the best of all worlds. And Will also knows in

811
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:07,719
Speaker 2: certain cases that he can fire off the ball and

812
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 2: just long arm or bull rush a tackle and he's

813
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 2: probably going to get somewhere near the quarterback because that's

814
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,319
Speaker 2: just the kind of tower, uh and leverage that he

815
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:17,879
Speaker 2: plays with.

816
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 3: And Mike God, I'm so glad that Will Anderson Junior's attacks.

817
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 6: Yeah, Okay. Another thing that really intrigued me was Deniko. Well,

818
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 6: just I'm intrigued by what he's going to mean to

819
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 6: this defense this year on the whole, Deniko Autrey, because

820
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,239
Speaker 6: he can play you know, a variety of spots on

821
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:37,760
Speaker 6: the defensive line very very effectively at a very high level,

822
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 6: and he causes problems. And it's fun here from from

823
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 6: Demico Demiko ryans today about what other people around the

824
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 6: league think of Denico Autry and Demiko said, this one.

825
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:53,240
Speaker 8: Of the toughest and most respective players across the league.

826
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 8: Like you talk to any offensive lineman. That's win against him.

827
00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,879
Speaker 8: They he has their utmost respect. So and you see

828
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:03,799
Speaker 8: the way he plays, he plays the game the right way.

829
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 8: See he plays hard, he plays with the intensity that's unmassed,

830
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 8: and he still finds a way to get in the backfield,

831
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:15,279
Speaker 8: moving over, moving around, playing multiple spots. Weather is at

832
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,839
Speaker 8: the interior on the edge. He's just a tough, hard

833
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 8: nosed football player and that's unbreakable.

834
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:24,839
Speaker 6: But then when Denico Autry spoke, that guy doesn't mess around.

835
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 6: That guy hits the hole, he does his job and

836
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:34,799
Speaker 6: gets out of there. He's not go into pontificate. He's

837
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,240
Speaker 6: not long winded. He's just he's very matter of fact.

838
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 6: He's all business. And it was cool hearing from him today.

839
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 6: And it was cool hearing him when he was asked, Hey,

840
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 6: what about how are you gonna do on the inside,

841
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 6: how are you gonna do with the outside? What are

842
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 6: your thoughts on that? And this is what he had

843
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 6: to say there.

844
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 5: They really don't change if you're just getting off an

845
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 5: attacking I mean, I'm just gonna attack every position I'm

846
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:53,799
Speaker 5: met and it should work out for me.

847
00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 6: We touched on Denico Autry a few months ago, right

848
00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:00,919
Speaker 6: after he signed here. But seeing what you say over

849
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 6: the last few days, over the last week or so

850
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 6: of OTA's John, how optimistic, How excited are you? We

851
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 6: just heard about that excitement with Will Anderson, But what's

852
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:14,319
Speaker 6: the excitement level sprinkling in Deniko autry when you have

853
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 6: Anderson and you have Daniel Hunter.

854
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty high.

855
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 2: Denko didn't do a ton in the mini camp this week,

856
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 2: but look, he's a what ten eleven year vets he.

857
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:29,840
Speaker 2: I don't know if the interview got off on a

858
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 2: good foot when he corrected somebody about his age. Somebody

859
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 2: tried to make him a little bit older. I don't

860
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:36,439
Speaker 2: know who it was, trying to make him a little

861
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 2: bit older than he was. He was like thirty three,

862
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 2: not thirty four. I thought that was a pretty funny

863
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 2: moment in his press conference, and Denko didn't say anything,

864
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 2: and I go back.

865
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 1: I remember this. It was date.

866
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:51,719
Speaker 2: I think it was day two free agency, and on

867
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 2: day one Denko had agreed to sign here with the Texans.

868
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 2: And on day two, Jeffrey Simmons took to ex Twitter posted,

869
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:02,439
Speaker 2: oh no, don't tell me that the Texans got Nico. Yeah,

870
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:04,320
Speaker 2: And I was like, well, wait, we already got Nico.

871
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 2: Oh he's talking about the Nico. Okay, I got it.

872
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 2: That's that's pretty high praise. I mean, that's a guy.

873
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 2: Those guys, I feel like there's another teammate er two

874
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 2: that were probably so they're like, damn it, what are

875
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:16,799
Speaker 2: we doing. That's the one that I go, Yeah, that's

876
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 2: the one that stood out to me with Simmons that

877
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 2: I remember them. Then there might have been others, but

878
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 2: I think that's what Deniko has meant to his teams,

879
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 2: the Raiders, the Colts, and the Titans.

880
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 3: I'm glad that he finally ends his AFC tour here.

881
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 2: Uh with the best of the lot being in the Houston, Texas,

882
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 2: You do you start thinking about man? Okay, So Mark

883
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 2: and I talked about this, you know, at practice a

884
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 2: little bit. We talked about players that might not be starters,

885
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 2: but you know you have to have them during the season,

886
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 2: and one of those was Derek Barnett. So, okay, let's

887
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 2: say you get in a third Let's say you get

888
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:56,799
Speaker 2: a third down and say twelve situation, you run. If

889
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 2: you want, you pick up nine yards, you have to

890
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 2: punt third down twelve situation. You can go back to

891
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,839
Speaker 2: the throw and on one end you got you got

892
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:07,720
Speaker 2: Will and then inside you got Dannico Autry. You've bumped

893
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 2: Derek Barnett In's side and then Daniel Hunter's on the

894
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:12,319
Speaker 2: other side, or you flip flop some of those guys.

895
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:13,320
Speaker 1: But those are the four guys.

896
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 2: Those are the four guys rushing the quarterback at that

897
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 2: point when was third and twelve and oh, by the way,

898
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 2: you're gonna bring a fifth guy on a blitz or

899
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,280
Speaker 2: some sort of pressure or however you're gonna put it together.

900
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 3: That gets to be really really fun when you think

901
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 3: about it.

902
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 2: And Denico Autry is when you see him, you're like, man,

903
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 2: is that a defensive end?

904
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 1: Is that a tackle? Is that? You know?

905
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 2: He's both? He can play both. He's not a permanent tackle,

906
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 2: He's not a permanent end. But he's a guy with

907
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 2: that inside outside flex that that the scouts and NFL

908
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 2: teams are always looking for. Hey, man, can we get

909
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 2: a guy that plays two or three different positions all

910
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:48,919
Speaker 2: in one guy?

911
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 1: I mean, Danik Autry is that.

912
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 2: And last year I know he us double digit sacks

913
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 2: might have been his best sack year and he had

914
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 2: a couple of those.

915
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:57,320
Speaker 1: He gets the Texans.

916
00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 2: But he's always done that against the Texans, so now

917
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 2: hopefully he's doing it for the Texans. But Drey, I'm

918
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 2: just I'm thrilled when I see him just being just

919
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,839
Speaker 2: on the field with the rest of the defensive line.

920
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 2: And at one point I saw the defensive line walk

921
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 2: by me and there was Heinish, there was Barnett, and

922
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 2: in front of them Daniel and Will and so the

923
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 2: four of them were kind of having a conversation as

924
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 2: they were walking together from one drill to the next.

925
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:23,879
Speaker 2: I'm like, man, that group on the defensive line is

926
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 2: such is so different from what was here just a

927
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:30,959
Speaker 2: couple of years ago, what was here even last year,

928
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 2: and it even look there's gonna be some question marks

929
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 2: about it.

930
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 1: You know.

931
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 2: Obviously, can everybody stay healthy, and that's always an issue,

932
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 2: There's no doubt about that.

933
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 3: But you know, are the interior guys gonna step up?

934
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 2: You know, as uh Flarunzo fi the Cassi, is he

935
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 2: gonna be able to step up into It's that role

936
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 2: Tim Settle, who is a lot bigger than I expected.

937
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 2: By the way, I don't know why I had this

938
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 2: image that'll be in like three zero five, Ish was

939
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 2: like three twenty.

940
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 6: I didn't get a chance to listen, and I apologize

941
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,239
Speaker 6: it's it's on me. But did you and Mark get

942
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 6: to talk talk about his rapping?

943
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:02,320
Speaker 1: Who Tim Settle?

944
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 6: And yeah, he's got a Spotify channel.

945
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 2: Okay, you're gonna have to hear the rest of that

946
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 2: on our podcast page in the lab, it's fantastic. But

947
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 2: Tim Settle, we had a backloger, guys like three or

948
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:14,719
Speaker 2: four guys deep, and they were like, you gotta go,

949
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 2: you gotta go. We are in a great time with

950
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:19,320
Speaker 2: Tim Subtle. We'd have definitely gotten into his Spotify page

951
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 2: for sure. We definitely you're gonna hear that interview and

952
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 2: love it. But we asked him about one of the

953
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 2: greatest interested entrances in college football, the Ander saman and

954
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 2: Virginia Tech. He talked about how hype that is to

955
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 2: be in the tunnel and to feel at shake. He said,

956
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:36,320
Speaker 2: it's very very cool. And Tim Settles a big, big dude.

957
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 2: He is a lot bigger than I even expected. He's

958
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:42,720
Speaker 2: a he's three twenty, but not a fat three twenty,

959
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 2: if that makes sense. I mean, he's a put together dude.

960
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 2: He's gonna be really fun to watch no question about that.

961
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:50,320
Speaker 2: Another guy's gonna be fun to watch is Mike Ford Junior.

962
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:52,400
Speaker 2: You may see him on special teams. He was a

963
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,239
Speaker 2: key to the brown special teams last year. He's gonna

964
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 2: be key to the Texas special teams this year. Mark

965
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 2: and I caught up with Mike Ford Junior. Houston citizen. Yes,

966
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 2: over the last couple of years, he became a Houston citizen,

967
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:06,760
Speaker 2: even before he became a Texan.

968
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 3: We'll talk with Mike Ford next right here in Texantal Access.

969
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 2: We got one find a segment of this Wednesday in

970
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,359
Speaker 2: issue of Texans All Access. It is time to talk

971
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 2: to our new friend, Mike Ford. Now we say new friend,

972
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:20,800
Speaker 2: he's new to Houston, Texas, but he's not new to Houston.

973
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:23,319
Speaker 2: He actually moved to Houston a couple of years ago

974
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 2: and it just worked out that he ended up with

975
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 2: the Texans after the last few years with the Cleveland Browns.

976
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 3: So really glad that Mike is here.

977
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 2: And here's our conversation with the defensive backslash special team

978
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 2: or extraordinator, Mike Ford Junior.

979
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 1: Mike Ford joining us in studio.

980
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 4: Mike, Welcome to the Texans, Welcome to the hun Day

981
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:46,319
Speaker 4: Texans Radio Studio, your maiden voyage here. How's the adjustment

982
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 4: been so far?

983
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:49,319
Speaker 7: It's been pretty good.

984
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:51,799
Speaker 9: You know, I actually own my home out here for

985
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 9: a couple of years, so, oh, nic it's kind of

986
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 9: been easy, you know, just to be able to drive

987
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 9: from home home and then come into work.

988
00:41:58,040 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 7: You know, I kind of like it. I like it

989
00:41:59,480 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 7: a lot.

990
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:01,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean obviously we know about that.

991
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 1: But why did you choose Houston as your home?

992
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:10,399
Speaker 9: Well, you know, a lot of land for you know, yeah, right,

993
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 9: no stand income tax all that.

994
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 1: Yeah.

995
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 2: Had you had any experience in Houston or is it

996
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 2: just kind of looked around at that's the place I

997
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 2: want to be.

998
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:18,439
Speaker 7: Yeah.

999
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 9: I had came out here a little bit, you know,

1000
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:22,399
Speaker 9: a couple of times, and I really liked it a lot.

1001
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 9: And then I was just speaking with her. My brother

1002
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 9: had got a job out here, and we're real family.

1003
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 1: Ore got it.

1004
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,319
Speaker 9: So then I just got everybody to come out here

1005
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:32,720
Speaker 9: and we all moved to Texas.

1006
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,839
Speaker 1: So you're a Houston guy. This is good. So tell

1007
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:36,920
Speaker 1: us about your game.

1008
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:40,240
Speaker 4: When people watch your play preseason games coming up sooner

1009
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 4: off August first, what are they going to see from

1010
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 4: Mike Ford?

1011
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:43,240
Speaker 7: Energy?

1012
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 9: Energy they're gonna see splash plays, you know, something that

1013
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 9: get you up out your seat, and you're gonna you

1014
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 9: don't see me celebrating.

1015
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 7: So let's all just have fun. Let's have fun, Mike.

1016
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 2: You also with the Browns really really good on special teams.

1017
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 3: How much does special teams play a role for you?

1018
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 9: I think that's that's probably my main role, you know.

1019
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 9: That's that's what I hold my shield on.

1020
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 6: You know.

1021
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 9: I go out there and I honor myself to be

1022
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:07,919
Speaker 9: the best special teams player in the league.

1023
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 7: You know, So that's that's my.

1024
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:10,399
Speaker 1: Role, Mike.

1025
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:13,839
Speaker 2: There's We've talked to guys about this over the last

1026
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 2: few years, and the Texas have had special teams at

1027
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:17,359
Speaker 2: the top of the league.

1028
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:18,840
Speaker 1: I mean, they've been been really really good.

1029
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,319
Speaker 2: Part of the reason that they've had that is they've

1030
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 2: had guys that have truly and completely bought into the

1031
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:27,400
Speaker 2: fact that they know the importance they bring to special

1032
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:29,279
Speaker 2: teams and then it shows the way they play. But

1033
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:31,320
Speaker 2: there are a lot of guys that don't. They don't

1034
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 2: I want to be a defender. I want to play

1035
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 2: on offense. How tough is it to say, you know what? Yeah,

1036
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:39,920
Speaker 2: I will specialize on special teams. I'll get my time

1037
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 2: on defense whenever, but I'm gonna make sure special teams

1038
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 2: are the best. How tough is it to kind I

1039
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:45,799
Speaker 2: don't want to say accept that role, but to dive

1040
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 2: into that role full full speed.

1041
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:49,440
Speaker 9: I mean I just approached the game with you know,

1042
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 9: every rep I get out there, I gotta I gotta make.

1043
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 7: It my best.

1044
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:54,399
Speaker 9: So no matter if I'm on special teams, I'm on

1045
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 9: defense wherever I have to play, you know, I got

1046
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 9: to help my team, yep. So I just got to

1047
00:43:59,239 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 9: go out there and give them.

1048
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 4: My So, Mike Ford with us, you were undrafted, how

1049
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:05,919
Speaker 4: hard is it to get noticed from Southeast Missouri State?

1050
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 9: I would say it's pretty difficult. Say, we don't got

1051
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 9: too many people right now in the league. I mean,

1052
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:17,440
Speaker 9: I think we have our receiver, Christian Wilkinson, Yeah, Drew Forbes.

1053
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 7: So I mean it's pretty difficult.

1054
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 9: We only get you know, a select field guys that

1055
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 9: make it out of there, so you know, it's it's

1056
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 9: difficult to get it.

1057
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 4: What was that pre draft because you were undrafted? What

1058
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:29,359
Speaker 4: was all that like for you?

1059
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:33,440
Speaker 9: I would say I had some good notice, you know,

1060
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 9: coming out it worked out well for me. Because I

1061
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 9: was able to test well and my pre draft so

1062
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 9: I had quite a few teams there. My class was

1063
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:47,759
Speaker 9: pretty full with dbs, so ended up falling undrafted. But

1064
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 9: I'm here now.

1065
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:50,279
Speaker 4: You've been in the league for a while. I mean

1066
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 4: that was twenty eighteen. So what's the key to lasting

1067
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 4: so long?

1068
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 7: I would say staying healthy?

1069
00:44:56,960 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 9: You know, find an a vet, somebody to learn learn from,

1070
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:04,799
Speaker 9: you know, I a would say, work, Like every day

1071
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 9: is work. You know, you have to you got to

1072
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 9: put your best before every day. You gotta you gotta

1073
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 9: learn and you got to apply yourself.

1074
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 2: Mike, I would imagine you know, some of the guys

1075
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:16,279
Speaker 2: that come in, they signed free agent deals here, don't

1076
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:18,399
Speaker 2: know a lot about the Texans. You know Daniel Hunter.

1077
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:19,840
Speaker 2: We haven't seen Daniel in a long time. I know

1078
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 2: he's from Houston. But you play for the Browns. You

1079
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,879
Speaker 2: saw this team up close and personal. Did that make

1080
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:27,880
Speaker 2: it that much easier that you had seen the progress

1081
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 2: this team had made and the fact that you were

1082
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 2: now living here to decide to come to Houston play

1083
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 2: for the Texas?

1084
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:33,680
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, it was a no brainer.

1085
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:36,240
Speaker 9: Like I want to say, even before we had talked

1086
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 9: and like had any offer out on the table.

1087
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 7: I literally told Drew.

1088
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:42,160
Speaker 9: I text him, like in text message, I was like, hey, man,

1089
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:44,800
Speaker 9: if we can like let's see, let's see if Houston

1090
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 9: wants to come around.

1091
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1092
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:48,800
Speaker 7: So, I mean it was it was a blessing.

1093
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 2: I know that playoff game didn't sit well for the

1094
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 2: people of Cleveland, but did that open your eyes a

1095
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:53,720
Speaker 2: little bit to what is here in Houston?

1096
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 1: Oh?

1097
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 7: Yeah? Okaeah. So like the first.

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Speaker 9: Game, you know, we kind of got on them, and

1099
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 9: then we go back to the playoffs and we see

1100
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 9: like how resilient the team in it. I was like, man,

1101
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 9: that's a resilient team that that's young, you know, and

1102
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:07,160
Speaker 9: they got a lot of potential and I want to

1103
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 9: be a part of it, you know.

1104
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:11,239
Speaker 4: So all right, So sometimes I ask the Houston guys this,

1105
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 4: if a player is not from Houston and they want

1106
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:16,319
Speaker 4: to know about Houston, what are you going to tell

1107
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:18,799
Speaker 4: them about Houston? Give me a little snapshot of what

1108
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 4: you feel makes this city a great place to be.

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00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 9: I would say it's welcoming. You know, there are a

1110
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 9: lot of friendly people. You know, there's a lot to do.

1111
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:29,640
Speaker 9: You know, they'll never be bored. Like we have concerts,

1112
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 9: all the time. We have like little events. The rodeo

1113
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 9: is amazing. So I just like there's always something to do.

1114
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 9: So I feel like that's what makes it makes the city.

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00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 1: I like that.

1116
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:40,759
Speaker 2: That's that might be my favorite answer, that is that's

1117
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:41,959
Speaker 2: one of the best answers we've gotten.

1118
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 1: There there is there's always there's always something to do.

1119
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 1: But in your downtime, you binge watch anything.

1120
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 3: What's your favorite show?

1121
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:49,680
Speaker 1: You movies you're watching? What are you interested in?

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00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:53,360
Speaker 9: Uh So, I don't really watch too much TV, but

1123
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:56,440
Speaker 9: I gain a video game a lot. So right now,

1124
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 9: right now, I'm playing Call of Duty a lot. And

1125
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 9: then I'm kind of I'm a waiting on the college

1126
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 9: football to come out. So I've been I've been throwing

1127
00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 9: going back and playing n CUAA fourteen.

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Speaker 3: Oh wow, Now I hear the gameplay for this one's incredible.

1129
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I've heard.

1130
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:12,840
Speaker 2: I've seen some of the videos. It looks it looks

1131
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:16,880
Speaker 2: absolutely incredible. I think I might go and get a

1132
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 2: machine just for that. Like, I don't game, it's been

1133
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:20,919
Speaker 2: a long time. I'll put it to you this way.

1134
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 2: I played Sega Genesis that was mine. That shows the

1135
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:26,879
Speaker 2: old played Sega Genesis when that college football game comes out,

1136
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 2: I'm curious to see how many people are gonna end

1137
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:30,359
Speaker 2: up getting because it sounds it sounds nice.

1138
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:32,360
Speaker 9: Say, don't we no knock on the sega, say I

1139
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 9: have my Nintendo sixty four upstairs.

1140
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 1: Oh nice, nice, nice. Mike, thanks a lot for joining us.

1141
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:38,399
Speaker 1: Good luck.

1142
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:40,440
Speaker 3: Now that's a dude.

1143
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:42,840
Speaker 2: If you've got the Nintendo sixty four, you're an absolute

1144
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 2: dude in our book. A big thanks to Mike, to

1145
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 2: Mark for being here, to Drew for in the lab.

1146
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 2: We'll see you guys tomorrow, and as always, go Texans,