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Speaker 1: Mark Vandermar John Harris with you. We were not on yesterday.

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Speaker 1: just a few moments from our special edition Texans podcast Belove.

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Speaker 1: Who's Better Today? Seventeen game schedule approved at the owners meetings.

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Speaker 1: the beauty for the Cougars back to the Final four

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Speaker 1: for the first time since nineteen eighty four. That's so

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Speaker 1: The city of Houston represented well by the City University,

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Speaker 1: but he's not hanging his hat on any particular signing

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Speaker 1: player position group. It's all really in flux right now,

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Speaker 1: despite the fact that he's made so many moves to

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Speaker 1: this point. You and I over the years have had

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Speaker 1: just there's no end to the free agent period. You know,

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Speaker 1: that that college kid that we liked from you know,

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Speaker 1: work him out. Let's maybe sign him. We got a

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Speaker 1: spot on the ninety man roster. There. It's going on

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Speaker 1: but remind listeners and fans of that. I don't think

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna have to remind anybody because hey and June, Hey,

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Speaker 1: look look we did in June. You know, a weekend

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Speaker 1: gonna to remind anybody. He is going to do it

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Speaker 1: has to find the right mix to make this a

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Speaker 1: championship ball club. All right. Well that was Nick Cassario

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Speaker 1: on that podcast. Is already up on the Texans app

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Speaker 1: reaction it's called Who's Better? And this week we feature

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks as we often do, but I want to make

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Speaker 1: it newsy. Okay, let's go cuzy, Who's better? Very newsy?

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Speaker 1: This week, the forty nine ers have to make it

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Speaker 1: their big deal with the Miami Dolphins and moving up

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Speaker 1: to the number three pick in the draft, and everyone's wondering,

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Speaker 1: and they had a media availability yesterday, what are you

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Speaker 1: gonna do with Jimmy g What are you gonna do

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Speaker 1: with Jimmy Garoppolo? And everybody wants to know. Are they

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Speaker 1: gonna trade him? Are they gonna hang on to them

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Speaker 1: and develop a young guy that they pick third? That's

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Speaker 1: coming up here. But here's your first question, who's better

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo or any their quarterback drafted in twenty fourteen

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Speaker 1: or twenty fifteen? Johnny, think about that for a moment. Okay,

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Speaker 1: it's better Jimmy Garoppolo or any other QB in twenty

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Speaker 1: fourteen and twenty fifteen. And it's Texans related because Bill

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Speaker 1: O'Brien takes over in twenty fourteen, match job has gone.

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Speaker 1: We're wondering, are the Texans going to draft a quarterback now?

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Speaker 1: They drafted Tom Savage in twenty fourteen. He wasn't drafted

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Speaker 1: to become the franchise, but he was drafted, and they

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Speaker 1: went with Ryan Fitzpatrick. You know the rest of the story.

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Speaker 1: Twenty fifteen, they go with Malletton Coyer. Those guys weren't

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Speaker 1: drafted that year, but Marcus Mariota, Jameis Winston, they were

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Speaker 1: drafted in twenty fifteen, twenty fourteen, Derek Carr, Johnny Manziel,

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Speaker 1: Blake Bortles, to name a few, who's better Jimmy g

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Speaker 1: or any other QB in those two drafts. Well, essentially

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Speaker 1: you're asking it comes down to meet two guys, Jameis

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Speaker 1: Winston being one. I oh, Derek Carr's the other one.

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Speaker 1: But I think Winston man. Okay, we'll see this way.

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Speaker 1: Winston card take Winston, I think more physically gifted, and

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Speaker 1: I think coached in a proper way to rain things

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Speaker 1: in which in San Francisco I would imagine is the

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Speaker 1: right thing. In the right coaching staff. There for him.

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Speaker 1: I would love to see Jameis Winston San Francisco. So honestly,

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Speaker 1: if I had to rank it, I would go Winston,

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Speaker 1: car Garoppolo, and Shanahan, which Jamis Winston would be really

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Speaker 1: fun to watch, to be honest, really fun to watch. Oh,

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Speaker 1: Shanahan and Jamis Winston. I you know I could sign

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Speaker 1: up for that. Turn turnovers really bother me. Jimmy g

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Speaker 1: went to a Super Bowl. I think there's something to

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Speaker 1: be said for that. So yeah, I could vote for

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Speaker 1: him in many instances. You forgot about Blake Portles. You

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Speaker 1: don't want Blake ports Johnny? No, come on her? He

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Speaker 1: thrumbled more interceptions than Brock did. So yeah, yeah, what

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Speaker 1: about what about Johnny Manzel? No, I can't interest you

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Speaker 1: in Johnny never mind? Okay, first, how fun? How fun

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Speaker 1: would it have been if Johnny would have worked out? Oh?

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Speaker 1: It would have been fun in Cleveland. I guess it

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Speaker 1: would have been fun. All right, let's go with our

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Speaker 1: second who's better question? It would be related to this story.

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Speaker 1: The Diners have the number three pick in the draft.

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Speaker 1: They moved up Daniel Jeremiah among others, swear that they

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Speaker 1: want Mac Jones from Alabama. They want Mac Jones more

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Speaker 1: than anybody else, Trey Lance justin Fields. I want to

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Speaker 1: go one on one. Actually, you know what, I'll throw

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Speaker 1: in fields too. You might like Fields better than Jones.

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Speaker 1: So who's better? Mac Jones or Fields or Lance? Who

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Speaker 1: do you got in order? I would go Lance, Fields, Jones.

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Speaker 1: I've had it that way and I'm not changing it.

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Speaker 1: And I've got two of those in my top ten,

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Speaker 1: and I've got one at number forty. And look, I

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Speaker 1: know Mac Jones like his ted degree. You know. He

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Speaker 1: came from the Bowls School in Jacksonville, which is essentially

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Speaker 1: like being the starting quarterback at Katie. He played for

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Speaker 1: a guy named Corky Rodgers who was maybe the greatest

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Speaker 1: high school coach in the state of Florida ever. He's

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Speaker 1: been coached hard. He is gonna be just beloved by

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Speaker 1: his teammates. He was that way at Alabama. He dealt

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Speaker 1: with adversity from the honestly just he had to sit

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Speaker 1: on the bench. He had to sit. He had Jalen Hurts,

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Speaker 1: he had to sit behind two a Tonga Bayla. He

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Speaker 1: was fantastic. He's got three top seventy five linemen at

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Speaker 1: the Heiser Truph winner receiver. He had a top ten

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Speaker 1: wide receiver, Jaalin Waddle. He's got a first round running

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Speaker 1: back to Naji Harris. He was the right quarterback for

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Speaker 1: the right time. I don't want to take away from

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Speaker 1: Mac because you know, look, Joe Burrow had a lot

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Speaker 1: of that around in two, and Joe was very successful

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Speaker 1: last year before he was hurt. However, I feel like

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Speaker 1: the ceiling is higher for Lance in Fields, and I like,

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Speaker 1: and I will roll the dice with higher ceiling guys

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Speaker 1: and believe in my coaching staff and my organization that

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Speaker 1: my players will get to their higher ceilings. And so

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Speaker 1: I'm going Lance Fields. Then I'm going Mac Jones. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I got a hard time believing you're investing all of

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Speaker 1: that to move up to number three to take Mac Jones. Now,

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Speaker 1: maybe I'm wrong about Mac Jones. Maybe the world loves

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Speaker 1: Mac Jones and they felt like we gotta have Mac Jones.

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Speaker 1: You really have to have Mac Jones that much more over,

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Speaker 1: Jimmy g Really, Yeah, I don't know what I'm doing here.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a talent evaluator, But I know what I see,

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Speaker 1: And we always talk about the crapshoot that quarterbacks are.

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Speaker 1: When Jimmy Gee's healthy, he's a good quarterback. Might not

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Speaker 1: be a great quarterback, but he did play the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: and I always say it. Everyone just torments him about

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Speaker 1: one missed throw. And it wasn't like he threw a

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Speaker 1: pick six or something. He just didn't hit the guy

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Speaker 1: and the defense didn't play well. All right, Next two's

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Speaker 1: better question. Well, we have a lot of talk with

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Speaker 1: this seventeen game schedule, Johnny and of the deal reported

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Speaker 1: earlier today, once every eight years because he get these

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Speaker 1: extra home games with the seventeen game schedule. Every other year,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to use a home game. So it's

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Speaker 1: really once every four years that you have to use

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Speaker 1: that extra home game for an international hosted game. Now,

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Speaker 1: who's better? What's better as an international site? I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: give you Germany, you take another one, all right? Where

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Speaker 1: do you want to go? Germany or somewhere else? Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans are going to host a game. You get to

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Speaker 1: decide where it is. Are you gonna take the field

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Speaker 1: to be specific here or Germany? And don't be boring

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Speaker 1: and picked London, even though I'd love to go back

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Speaker 1: to London because they see English and we know the

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Speaker 1: city now a little bit, and we know the bar

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Speaker 1: that we're gonna set up, the Texans bar at and

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Speaker 1: all of that other stuff. And I think the fans

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Speaker 1: would love that. But what do you think. I got

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Speaker 1: two places? I got two places, and I would be

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Speaker 1: awesome for either one Terrace or Rome. Those would be

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Speaker 1: my Those would be my selections. And look, I understand

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Speaker 1: the language barrier can be a little different. It was

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Speaker 1: in Mexico City too, um, but we we survived that.

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Speaker 1: And I man, you you put a game in Paris

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Speaker 1: in PSG stadium, soccer team, professional soccer team there or whatever.

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Speaker 1: Oh give me Paris or give me Rome. I would

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Speaker 1: take those. Now you're right. Germany Germany would be one

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Speaker 1: heck of a trip. Paris or Rome. I would I

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Speaker 1: would love to do that. That would oh man, that

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Speaker 1: would be outstanding. See. I think Germany would do the

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Speaker 1: best job. And NFL Europe was so popular there after

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Speaker 1: a while they were thinking of just NFL Germany because

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Speaker 1: they love NFL football. There, of the two choices you

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Speaker 1: gave me, if Paris or Rome. I'll take Rome all

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Speaker 1: day long over Paris. I've been to Paris, and oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, if you don't know French, they are just impossible.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to hear it. People don't tweet, don't

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Speaker 1: at me on this. It's like, oh, come on, it's

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Speaker 1: probably not a ton better in Rome. But I'd rather

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Speaker 1: go to Rome. I'd want to go to the college,

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Speaker 1: see him and play there. Now. I don't think it's

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00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: exactly the Wi Fi ready, so that could be a problem.

639
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: If you go to Grace the part that on. You

640
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: know they got all the electronics there because they were

641
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: way ahead of their time. I'm getting around, of course,

642
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 1: I think, um, I think, I know they want to

643
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 1: put a game in China eventually, but the way things

644
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 1: have gone the last couple of years, maybe they're gonna

645
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 1: wait on there. Yeah, it's it's funny. I'm I wouldn't

646
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: much rather. There are other places I would much rather go,

647
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 1: although I've I've heard and my wife worked at a

648
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 1: school and my daughter worked I went to a school

649
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 1: that had a number of um of Asian students came

650
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 1: from Roderford areas, and I mean China. I think would

651
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: actually be very very cool to do a game there,

652
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: Um or even Tokyo. I know colleges used to go

653
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 1: over to Tokyo playing at Japan Bowl. I remember, Yeah,

654
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: I think that would be that would be kind of

655
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 1: fun to go over there. And I'll tell you this,

656
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: my son would be begging, begging to be on the flight,

657
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: the cargo flights to get over Japan. He wants to

658
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 1: go to Tokyo so badly, the electronics aspect of it,

659
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 1: that's what he wants to do. So but to me,

660
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 1: Paris or Rome Rome would be cool to visit the

661
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 1: coliseum and then play a game there. That would be

662
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 1: That would be excellent, That would be really fun. I've

663
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,479
Speaker 1: got one more, Who's better for you? And the super

664
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Speaker 1: Bowl twenty twenty two year calendar year super Bowl. So

665
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 1: this coming season will be played with this new schedule

666
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: during the Winter Olympics, right during the Winter Olympics. And

667
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 1: before people get all bent out of shape, we have

668
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 1: you really been that into the Winter Olympics lately? I mean,

669
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: you know, it's not nineteen eighty anymore. The Olympics are great,

670
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 1: They're not as good as they were during the Cold War. Actually,

671
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 1: I'll make this my question, what's better? Who's better? Winter Olympics,

672
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 1: Summer Olympics. Go Summer Olympics. I think Summer Olympics. First

673
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 1: of all, you got basketball. Now, there's some things in

674
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 1: the Winter Olympics I'm completely and totally mesmerized by. And

675
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 1: there was nothing I remember distinctly as a kid going

676
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: through the United States. The Miracle on Ice. I mean

677
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,720
Speaker 1: every I watched every game. I mean it was phenomenal.

678
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 1: I mean it was so fun to watch it as

679
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 1: a kid. We haven't been that good in hockey and

680
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 1: what the professionals playing that said, Summer Olympics. Speed. I

681
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: love watching fast people run. I'm a sucker for that.

682
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:32,800
Speaker 1: And the Summer Olympics. I mean seeing the speed and

683
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 1: the hundred to two hundred to four hundred, the hurdles,

684
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 1: watching people do the hurdles. By the way, our good

685
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 1: friend Patti Smith, her daughter Kennedy Smith, Oh my gosh,

686
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 1: she's unbelievable, She's incredible. What the hurdles in congratulations are

687
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: She's just having a bang up senior year. But the

688
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: I love watching I love watching speed, and the Summer

689
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 1: Olympics to me, is all about speed. So that's I'm

690
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Speaker 1: going with that. See, my favorite is winter, and my

691
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 1: favorite event of any Olympic events summer or winter is

692
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 1: the men's downhill. Just guys down. Yeah, it's speed. They

693
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 1: are flying down the mountain and I just love it.

694
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 1: And I had a chance to call it for Westwood

695
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 1: One Radio in the last Winter Olympics, which were in Korea,

696
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:20,879
Speaker 1: but it was I was gonna have to be gone

697
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 1: for a month, a month right in the middle of

698
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 1: like the combine, and you know, I'm a manager here,

699
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 1: so I got the budgets and all this other stuff,

700
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 1: and I know people still give me grief. Also, I

701
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 1: heard it wasn't a very cosmopolitan event. I mean, you

702
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: were gonna be out there hoeft in the snow. And

703
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 1: I thought, I was like, I'm okay, I'm okay. I

704
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: just got cold thinking about it, and so I didn't

705
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Speaker 1: do it. You know, I don't regret it. I don't

706
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 1: regret it. I would have loved to call the Men's

707
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 1: downhill on radio. Would have been kind of cool. I

708
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 1: don't know if they would have any any affiliates clearing

709
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 1: that or not. Like and now we pause from our daily,

710
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Speaker 1: massively revenue producing programming to have the Men's Downhill Radio,

711
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:03,239
Speaker 1: like this is programming you absolutely you would have call

712
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 1: the Olympics. That would have been a night I would

713
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Speaker 1: have been. Okay. Let's get to the seventeen game schedule next,

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Speaker 1: on the Houston Texans. Tixon's old exis It's Texans Radio.

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Speaker 1: Mark Vandermar John Harris with you. Welcome back to the show.

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Speaker 1: Not that you ever left you never should Johnny, seventeen games.

731
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 1: And look, we've talked about seventeen games for a while

732
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:17,839
Speaker 1: now because it's been in the wind and it's been

733
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: a foregone conclusion. A lot of people said, but they

734
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 1: made it official. So here we are. You get the

735
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,879
Speaker 1: three preseason games, you get an extra home game every

736
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 1: other year, and that's how it's gonna work. You get

737
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 1: one less home preseason game every other year when you

738
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:34,359
Speaker 1: get the extra home game, and that's how it's going

739
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: to operate, and the formula to play the NFC team

740
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 1: that you play with the extra game. It's like explaining

741
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 1: nuclear fission. The Texas will play Carolina this year. That's

742
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 1: all you need to know, really, and your thoughts. I

743
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:49,320
Speaker 1: don't have a problem with Look, it's still twenty games.

744
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:51,239
Speaker 1: When you look at it, you look at it from

745
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 1: that perspective, and it's one more game that means something.

746
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:58,360
Speaker 1: I know, the players are. I know how Camara reached me.

747
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:03,360
Speaker 1: Adam Schefters. I had some choice words about it, but

748
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:09,280
Speaker 1: I think, and look coming from me, the sixteen game schedule,

749
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 1: thirty two teams, how symmetrical it was. You know how

750
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: well that played into my OCD. You know it so

751
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: you would think I would totally be against this, but

752
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 1: I'm not. We were going here anyways, we were going

753
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:27,840
Speaker 1: to seventeen. I just wish, I just wish that that

754
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:34,800
Speaker 1: seventeenth game could be that built in every year rivalry

755
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: US Cowboys, Jets, Giants, you know, Redskins rape excuse me,

756
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:47,840
Speaker 1: what dang it it, Washington football team, Ravens. If you

757
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:51,400
Speaker 1: could just figure out a partner that you could have

758
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:55,439
Speaker 1: that rivalry game with, that would be so much fun.

759
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 1: But you mentioned a little while ago it's gonna be

760
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: an international game. You're giving up in an actual game

761
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: basically every four years. Yeah, I listen. I when we

762
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 1: were going to Mexico City, you know, before twenty sixteen,

763
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 1: I remember thinking, I am not. I was not going

764
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:15,800
Speaker 1: to rain anybody's parade. I thought it'd be cool, but

765
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 1: like whatever, we didn't win that game. Obviously. That is

766
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:23,280
Speaker 1: one of my favorite road trips of all time because

767
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 1: it was so different. It was so incredibly different. The

768
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 1: stadium was different, the fans were different. There was such

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00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 1: an incredible atmosphere that night down in Mexico City. It

770
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 1: was so different. And to be able to say, yeah,

771
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 1: we called the game in Mexico City. It was awesome.

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00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: When we were getting ready to go to London, I

773
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 1: kind of had I kind of felt that trap again, like, oh, man,

774
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Speaker 1: I don't want to take a long flight. We're only

775
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 1: gonna be there for a couple of days. I don't know, man,

776
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 1: that was the most fun trip YEP that we've had.

777
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 1: That was unbelievable. And then of course we capped it

778
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 1: off with the win, which was really really cool. It's

779
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 1: made the flight back down much easier. Travel is tough,

780
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 1: especially if you're doing the turnaround where we left on Thursday,

781
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 1: got you know, came back right after the game Sunday,

782
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:13,360
Speaker 1: got back early Monday morning. That turnaround is rough. But

783
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Speaker 1: I would do that trip. I would do that trip

784
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 1: one once a year if if ast we got an

785
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:21,920
Speaker 1: international game once a year. Cool, all right, let's do it.

786
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: Where are we going this year? We're going to London,

787
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:25,359
Speaker 1: We're going to Mexico City, We're going to Paris or France.

788
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,840
Speaker 1: And we just talked about I would be in Paris

789
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:31,320
Speaker 1: or Rome. I should say Paris in France when you

790
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 1: get the point. Um, yeah, I don't have I don't

791
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 1: have a problem at all with the seventeen games. It

792
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:40,359
Speaker 1: is gonna matter. Hey, all the team's gonna finish five

793
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 1: hundred eight and eight. Oh, we're gonna have to change

794
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 1: that thinking and that'll take a little while. Um. But

795
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 1: then again, if we can go from the San Diego

796
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 1: Chargers to LA Chargers, we can go from Oakland to

797
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:52,320
Speaker 1: LA to Oakland to Las Vegas for the Raiders. We

798
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 1: can go from Washington formerly known as the Redskins to

799
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 1: the Washington football team. We can adapt and go from

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Speaker 1: eight and eight to eight nine or nine and eight.

801
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 1: We'll say year, how about this? I mean, this league

802
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 1: is all about change, right, It's just that we've been

803
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:08,839
Speaker 1: so accustomed to sixteen games since nineteen seventy eight. Yes,

804
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay and Seattle they come into the league, they

805
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 1: go to sixteen games. By the way, Brady was actually

806
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 1: born before the Bucks started, which is amazing. I'm sure

807
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:22,960
Speaker 1: that came up during the Super Bowl pregame hype, but

808
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 1: that really is incredible that they have a player that's

809
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 1: older than the franchise playing for the relatively young franchise.

810
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: Actually it's an old franchise now because it's in the seventies. Anyway,

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00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:34,319
Speaker 1: you get my point. That was just kind of an

812
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: interesting tidbit to me. But the point is this the

813
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 1: league prior to nineteen forty six, they would play eleven

814
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 1: games one year, fourteen games another year because they had

815
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,320
Speaker 1: a they didn't know who was going to be in

816
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 1: the league. This is pre TV revenue, massive money haul

817
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:53,359
Speaker 1: from the networks and whatever else you're making money from.

818
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 1: They had ticket sales, of course, but you know the

819
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 1: Decatur Staley's moved to Chicago, you know, you have stuff

820
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 1: like that. Going out nineteen forty six, they go to

821
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 1: the twelve game schedule until the AFL decides to go

822
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 1: fourteen and the NFL says, we gotta go to fourteen.

823
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 1: Now we have to go to fourteen. They go to

824
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Speaker 1: fourteen to nineteen seventy eight when they go to sixteen,

825
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 1: and we've had it like that ever since. But we've

826
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 1: had out of balance schedules. And people don't remember the

827
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,279
Speaker 1: AFC Central that the Oilers played in, and you have

828
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:20,879
Speaker 1: got five teams in that division, right did you have five?

829
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 1: So eventually, yeah, so that's that's how it worked out.

830
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 1: It's so it's changed. It happens, and you just have

831
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 1: to embrace it. And I know it's gonna be rough

832
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 1: on the players. But Johnny, if Texas high school kids

833
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 1: play sixteen games to participate in the state championship game,

834
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: the NFL players can do seventeen. Now, I know you

835
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 1: have preseason, but I think that third preseason games you're

836
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,759
Speaker 1: gonna drop that fourth game. I think that third preseason

837
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:48,399
Speaker 1: game is gonna look not exactly like the fourth game,

838
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:50,919
Speaker 1: but you're gonna be pulling guys pretty early in that game,

839
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:53,359
Speaker 1: because again, even though you have the buy next week,

840
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:55,399
Speaker 1: you're gonna say, listen, let's just take it easy here.

841
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 1: Make sure nobody gets hurt. They'll want to get their reps,

842
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: but they're gonna be careful about and you'll have two

843
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 1: full weeks to get ready for the regular season after

844
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 1: that third preseason game. I kind of like the way

845
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: it's all gonna work out here. Yeah, I did cue.

846
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:12,759
Speaker 1: I like that time frame between between those games. I

847
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 1: would imagine if that was something we could have asked

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Speaker 1: Nick about. From a player valuation standpoint. It gets to

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Speaker 1: me a little vice year, I guess because you lose

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Speaker 1: that one final competition aspect, that final pivot point where

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Speaker 1: you could look at and go, okay, one final chance.

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Speaker 1: I mean, think about all the guys that we've seen

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Speaker 1: Mark over the years make this roster in week four. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they put together one final performance and they made this roster.

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Speaker 1: So it's just gonna it's gonna be different and everybody's

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Speaker 1: gonna have to get used to it. Here's the question

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Speaker 1: I have, how do the joint Hopefully the joint practices

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Speaker 1: if everybody's vaxed, they're back. I think they'll adjust. With

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Speaker 1: what you said about the fourth game, and after having

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Speaker 1: of preseason games this year. Johnny, thanks a lot for

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Speaker 1: being with us. As always. Thanks to a night more

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Speaker 1: on the program. Let's catch up with Marcus Cannon. I

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Speaker 1: think that will be our night maybe more ingroom. We've

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Speaker 1: got some stoff happening here on Texans Radio this week.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. Have a great evening everyone, and go Texans.

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