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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, and welcome to the program that gets you

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Speaker 1: in touch with your Houston Texans and on a playoff week,

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Speaker 1: my goodness, two days away from all the activity here

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Speaker 1: at NRG Stadium where the Hunday Texans radio studio. Mark

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Speaker 1: vandermer with you with the General John McLean from the

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Speaker 1: Houston Chronicle. John, playoff football. You tweeted it, you said it.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing like it. Here we go. There is nothing

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Speaker 1: like it. This time last year we were writing the

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Speaker 1: post mortem on the season, which was a disaster because

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Speaker 1: of injuries. Four twelve. Now Indianapolis is coming to NRG Stadium,

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Speaker 1: first time the Texans to play the team three times.

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Speaker 1: I'm not so sure this is the best one to

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Speaker 1: play three times, but it is what it is. Two

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Speaker 1: great games in regular season. I think I don't see

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Speaker 1: any reason this is not going to be a great game.

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Speaker 1: And I'm still kind of mystified that the NFL would

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Speaker 1: put that, they would the ESPN would put this game

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Speaker 1: in the worst time slot for the playoffs. It's almost

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Speaker 1: like first Round Texans early Saturday, no matter either play

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Speaker 1: or how good and exciting they are. I totally understood

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Speaker 1: the Bears and the Cowboys getting the later games right.

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Speaker 1: But I didn't understand stand the Baltimore Chargers game because

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Speaker 1: the Chargers have no fans. They don't they're seven to

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Speaker 1: one on the road. They have no fans in LA.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how many people San Diego will watch them.

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Speaker 1: They certainly didn't go to games. And then Baltimore is

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Speaker 1: such a smaller market than Houston is. But hey, you know,

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Speaker 1: you assume they know what they're talking about. Yeah, they might,

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Speaker 1: because the top fifty television shows of the year, or

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Speaker 1: the top fifty sports broadcasts, I should say, they were

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Speaker 1: all either football games or Olympic events. That's it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's incredible when you think of it right there, I

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Speaker 1: mean more than the NBA MLB. They didn't. No Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball or NBA broadcast made the top fifty. Surprised

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Speaker 1: me at all. It might shock people like Mark Cuban

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Speaker 1: and Darryl Morey who predicted the NFL was gonna go down.

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Speaker 1: Of course, the NFL ratings went up. They did. One

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Speaker 1: reason is because of great young quarterbacks like Deshaun Watson

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Speaker 1: and Lamar Jackson. And it's funny, wasn't this thing The

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Speaker 1: top six highest paid quarterbacks are not. Yeah, yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: you have so many good young ones right now, and

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Speaker 1: then you have Brady who takes less money and everything

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Speaker 1: like that, so you do a breeze in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: But Andrew Luck is kind of the forgotten man here.

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Speaker 1: He's not young, he's not old, he's in between, and

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Speaker 1: he's back John and he's better than ever. Really, this

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Speaker 1: is a fantastic season for him. Took the team on

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Speaker 1: his back, carried them into the postseason and one in five.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's miraculous. Here, four games under five hundred

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Speaker 1: It's really impressive what they've been able to do, kind

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Speaker 1: being oh three going on a run like yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it is. But I think with Luck, we

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Speaker 1: kind of we didn't write him off completely, but until

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Speaker 1: you saw it, you weren't gonna believe it because he

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Speaker 1: missed all of last year and he was still throwing

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Speaker 1: a high school football or whatever. In June when the

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Speaker 1: Texas rowing three, they went to Indianapolis, I remember everybody

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Speaker 1: in Indianapolis was saying Luck could not throw the ball

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Speaker 1: down the field because Jacoby Brisette had come in to

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Speaker 1: throw a hell Mary Well. They said that Brisette has

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Speaker 1: such a great arm. He would throw most of the

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Speaker 1: hell Mary's And I remember they said he couldn't throw

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Speaker 1: it forty yards, and he came out and threw it

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Speaker 1: forty yards at t Y Hilton right off the bat.

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Speaker 1: And Luck turns thirty second week of September, I believe,

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Speaker 1: and he spent a year and a half off, so

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Speaker 1: that was time his body wasn't getting a lot of

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Speaker 1: wear and tear. Now I'm sure Andrew, if he stands

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Speaker 1: up physically, be one of those quarterbacks wants to play

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Speaker 1: into his forties. And he is a tremendous competitor. Bill

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Speaker 1: O'Brien said, it's obvious that he just loves the game.

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Speaker 1: JJ White talked about how the way he plays enthusiasm.

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Speaker 1: He'll congratulate you for sacking and knocking him down. He'll

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Speaker 1: get you up, tell you great head. And of course

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Speaker 1: I wrote about Drew Luck today and the first time

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Speaker 1: he put on his pads coming from they actually went

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Speaker 1: two years later Oliver came here as a head of

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Speaker 1: the Harris County Houston Sports Authority. Andrew's first day came

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Speaker 1: home almost in tears because they gave him alignment's pads.

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Speaker 1: His dad told him, son, go out early the next

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Speaker 1: day and throw the ball around with the quarterbacks and receivers.

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Speaker 1: See what happens next day. So happy because he had

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Speaker 1: a quarterback's pads. And the rest is uh Andrew Luck history.

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Speaker 1: And one time when he was in the playoffs for Stratford,

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Speaker 1: So t Y Hilton calls it his home away from home,

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Speaker 1: but the truth is it is Andrew Luck's home away

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Speaker 1: from home. Well, he's done well here, there's no question

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Speaker 1: about that. He lost in the Sun to that matchup

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Speaker 1: in two sixteen. Look, I wrote about this. It's up

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Speaker 1: there in Houston Texas dot com the history of this series,

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Speaker 1: and it's all Colts really up until the Bill O'Brien era.

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Speaker 1: Because the Texans all time are still eight and twenty

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Speaker 1: six against the Colts. That's the series. And in the

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Speaker 1: first sixteen games they were one and fifteen. That's how

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Speaker 1: bad it was with this franchise, and obviously Peyton Manning

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Speaker 1: had the most to do with that. But John, here

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Speaker 1: we are. I mean, it just seems fitting that these

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Speaker 1: two teams would meet on the postseason stage. And I

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Speaker 1: think if these two quarterbacks stick around, you're gonna see

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Speaker 1: this more often down the road. If you think of

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Speaker 1: what Indianapolis did to improve its offensive line, Chris Bounded,

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Speaker 1: their general manager, used first and second round pigs for

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Speaker 1: left guard and right tackle, and they went from the

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Speaker 1: most sacks to the fewest sacks. And the Texans have

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Speaker 1: a third of those sacks six out of eighteen, three

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Speaker 1: by one and two by Clowney. Their picks in the

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Speaker 1: first and second round are a lot higher than Brian

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Speaker 1: Gaines are going to be. But it does show you

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Speaker 1: what could happen in one off season. Ryan Kelly, the

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Speaker 1: center's supposed to be healthy, so that means they would

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Speaker 1: have three ones, two and a player claimed on waivers

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Speaker 1: starting in their offensive line. Texans are gonna shut down

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Speaker 1: gonna shut down Marlon Mack. It's he's gonna have to throw.

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Speaker 1: Luck will have to throw, and I believe the Colts

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Speaker 1: will shut down the Texans running game because everybody shuts

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Speaker 1: them down. Now, other than Deshaan Watson, we're gonna have

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Speaker 1: fifth game in a row, other than Baltimore. That's unheard of.

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Speaker 1: So it's gonna come down to me. It's not who

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be, but which quarterback plays the best. And

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Speaker 1: Watson's gonna be running a lot because he's gonna let

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Speaker 1: on the ground as well as through the air. Well,

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Speaker 1: that would be good. That's obviously something they need to do.

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Speaker 1: But he does have some playmakers through the air. Now.

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Speaker 1: Of course, Damarius Thomas was lost a couple of games

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Speaker 1: coming back in all likelihood, do we feel confident and

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Speaker 1: and he's going to be productive, because last time Bill

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Speaker 1: O'Brien used that word, he expects them or hopes him

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Speaker 1: trending in the right direction, But also he used the

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Speaker 1: word productive. He hopes that he's productive. He had eleven

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Speaker 1: I expected them to use him similarly, but use some

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Speaker 1: new wrinkles. I don't know what you're thinking with these

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Speaker 1: receivers the same thing. You can't do the same things

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Speaker 1: away from what brung you. They're not going to run

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Speaker 1: it fifty times unless it works. Colts are not gonna

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Speaker 1: of luck Sands. They got here because the Colts have

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Speaker 1: been solid in just about every area and they've improved

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Speaker 1: that the season went on. It would help the Texans

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Speaker 1: running game, didn't abandon them like they have recently and

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Speaker 1: let Lamar Miller now for Blue run the way they

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Speaker 1: maybe it's hard to beleave, but remember back in the

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Speaker 1: and ten point three knockdowns, and O'Brien said they can't

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Speaker 1: But I don't know if you can change it. If

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Speaker 1: you can change it now, why wouldn't you have changed

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Speaker 1: it then? If I'm the Colts, I'm coming after Watson,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to. Tanico Autry has four sacks. Yeah, who,

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Speaker 1: that's just it. One of the best free agents signings

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Speaker 1: Henry Anderson at Philadelphia, right, remember the big game. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I mean you have some guys who are who are

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Speaker 1: he cannot throw interceptions. If he's gonna throw picks, this

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Speaker 1: team's not gonna win the best chances. Yeah, you gotta

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Speaker 1: make some big plays downfield, but take a sack if

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Speaker 1: He just don't want taking those big sacks, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think Luck's from one in the last six one

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Speaker 1: in each of the last six games. In the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: Luck has more interceptions and touchdowns twelve and nine, which

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Speaker 1: I was surprised when I saw that, because I remember

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Speaker 1: that great playoff game against that against Kansas City when

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Speaker 1: fact that in his second season marked that he only

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Speaker 1: threw nine interceptions, and I remember in that three game

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Speaker 1: you don't see many where you go, oh no, he

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Speaker 1: shouldn't have thrown it. And you also haven't seen any

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Speaker 1: And this is amazing. Every quarterback is a victim of

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Speaker 1: interceptions in which balls ricochet off the receiver's hands, and

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Speaker 1: that hadn't happened here because the guy's got good heads

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Speaker 1: and Watson is accurate. Yeah, he's really learned as the

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Speaker 1: season has gone on. You're right, he doesn't throw those

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Speaker 1: double coverage sacks. He's trying to make plays in those

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Speaker 1: You've covered the game for a long time. We all

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Speaker 1: know what is this? How many years now? Because you

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Speaker 1: tweeted it the other day with the new year ringing

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Speaker 1: in first camp was seventy seven, but this would be

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Speaker 1: full time. This is forty years fortieth super Bowl, I believe.

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Speaker 1: And I get really fired up at this time of year.

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Speaker 1: I get fired up for the start of the regular

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Speaker 1: season and the start of the playoff, right because like

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Speaker 1: this weekend, are they all rematches of games? Settle Dowas, Yes,

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Speaker 1: Chargers Ravens, Yes. Did Philly play? Did Philly play the Bears?

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Speaker 1: the Rams and the Patrons. Wow, so you're still very

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Speaker 1: much alive. It's still very much alive. I had the

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Speaker 1: Texans making the playoffs and finishing ten six. I missed

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Speaker 1: one by one. Picked Jacksonville to win the division. And

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Speaker 1: I had the Texans and Titans as a wild cards.

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Speaker 1: So I came close on the Titans, but you know,

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Speaker 1: nobody who would have thought the Colts. And next year

436
00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,280
Speaker 1: think about how good this division is gonna be with

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Speaker 1: another offseason for Brian Gaine and Chris Ballard and John Robinson.

438
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Speaker 1: If the Jaguars getting Nick Foles and they're gonna go

439
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Speaker 1: after him, there gonna have to cut players to free

440
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Speaker 1: up cap money. The two teams were the biggest cap

441
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Speaker 1: issues right now, Philadelphia and Jacksonville. Well, you go free agents,

442
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Speaker 1: and that's that's what happens. And I think that Jacksonville,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if falls would want to go there,

444
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Speaker 1: Say Denver wantsing, would he want to play for John Elway?

445
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Speaker 1: But if Jacksonville solves that quarterback problem defense is going

446
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Speaker 1: to be even better. Are you surprised no coaching change

447
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Speaker 1: in Jacksonville? I know they're changing out assistance, but what

448
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Speaker 1: about the head coach considering some of the disciplinary problems

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Speaker 1: they appeared to have, And disciplinary might be too strong

450
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Speaker 1: a word. I know they had the London situation, but

451
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:39,359
Speaker 1: just four Nette on the bench and Ramsey pouting and

452
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Speaker 1: the whole bit the thing in London, Ramsey blasting players

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Speaker 1: and GQ before the season. Can you imagine somebody here

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Speaker 1: doing that. Yeah, I would would be clean up ais

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Speaker 1: all four As far as Bill O'Brien, I mean how

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Speaker 1: they just wouldn't do it. They just wouldn't do it.

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Speaker 1: And they Calais Campbell, who was a class act and

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Speaker 1: one of their best players, pointed out, you know, they

459
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:03,840
Speaker 1: got a lot of talent, but it takes more in talent.

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Speaker 1: They always say, we got to get on the page,

461
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Speaker 1: same page. Jaguars aren't even in the same book. Now

462
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Speaker 1: they're talking about getting rid of for NET and I'm

463
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Speaker 1: as far as not being I'm not surprised about Doug Morone.

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Speaker 1: He is Tom Coughlin's kind of guy. Conflin's got to

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Speaker 1: bear some responsibility because it's his players too, and I

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Speaker 1: look for those two to weed out some bad apples.

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Speaker 1: The guys that are gone there, we're gonna know those

468
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Speaker 1: are the ones they thought were causing issues behind the scenes,

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Speaker 1: and I look for them to be more careful about

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Speaker 1: the kind of players they bring in. I don't know

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Speaker 1: how Dave Caldwell goes to work every day, and I

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Speaker 1: don't know how the I mean, I know he drives

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Speaker 1: there and he gets paid a lot of money. So

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Speaker 1: there's that. But as far as the differing opinions there

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Speaker 1: might be in the building, as far as the quarterback position,

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Speaker 1: I'm just curious to know there's no different opinions anymore.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they all agree he's gone. Yeah, and honest

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Speaker 1: in all honesty, Mark, you know, he had a lead

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Speaker 1: in New England an AFC championship game, and so I

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Speaker 1: understand them sticking with him another year. You don't just

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Speaker 1: cut a guy that did. Yeah, there's no good prospect

482
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Speaker 1: waiting in the wings now, that's yes, they could have

483
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Speaker 1: signed Teddy Bridgewater to a one year deal somebody like

484
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Speaker 1: that insurance policy of nothing else. And because Cody Kessler

485
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Speaker 1: shouldn't even be he should be an XFL Yeah, speaking

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Speaker 1: of the XFL, I think Andrew should go play for

487
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Speaker 1: his dad and the XFL already tried that one. He

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Speaker 1: said he doesn't believe in nepotism. I told him, I said, well,

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Speaker 1: you can come down here for the Houston team. It

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Speaker 1: would be reverse nepotism. It would be Luck helping out dad.

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Speaker 1: They need a big name. And I think if Luck

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Speaker 1: goes the XFL, that's that's good for him. That has

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Speaker 1: a nice ring to it. Andrew Luck is Houston's XFL QUARTERBA.

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Speaker 1: You know what, I'll root for him in the XFL.

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Speaker 1: In that case. Hard not to root for Andrew luck

496
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Speaker 1: kind of guy, is the kind of family he is.

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Speaker 1: He's a wonderful guys fourteen times year, not twice. No, No,

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Speaker 1: I don't root for them the other fourteen either. I

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Speaker 1: mean I like him, there's no question. But there's never

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Speaker 1: any time, under any circumstances unless we need one of

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Speaker 1: the other AFC South teams to lose. So actually, if

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Speaker 1: they happen to sneak through, I might root for them

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Speaker 1: against the Patriots. I don't even want to think about

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Speaker 1: that or give it any kind of brain. Just hate

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Speaker 1: the Patriots, don't you. I hate the Patriots. I hate

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Speaker 1: the Colts. I hate the tight Could you could you

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Speaker 1: even call the ending of a game in which the

508
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Speaker 1: Texans wont in Foxborough? Or would you be so in

509
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Speaker 1: shock you couldn't get out the words, oh my gosh

510
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 1: the game early on in twenty seventeen, I just it

511
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Speaker 1: was so exciting having the lead late in that contest

512
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Speaker 1: and just wanting that clock to speed up, and being

513
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Speaker 1: helpless watching Brady go down the field. I mean, doing

514
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Speaker 1: what I do. You just have to sort of take

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Speaker 1: it and like it. You know, whatever they do is

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Speaker 1: what they do. But I get emotional about it, no question,

517
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Speaker 1: all right around the league. We talked about this on Monday.

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Speaker 1: Of all the job openings, do we agree that Cleveland's

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Speaker 1: the best one. Yes, it is because they have the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: They got the quarterback, They got a lot of talent

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Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball. They got draft choices,

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Speaker 1: they got kept money. He got a good personnel department

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Speaker 1: in place. As long as the Haslem stay out of

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Speaker 1: it and let John Dorsey run it. This is Dorsey's

525
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 1: never hired a head coach. I keep wondering about Mike

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Speaker 1: McCarthy there since he and Alonzo Highsmith and Elliott Wolf

527
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Speaker 1: all worked with McCarthy in Green Bay, but his name

528
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:33,119
Speaker 1: isn't coming up. And I'm the one that mystifies me

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Speaker 1: the most. Is everybody talking about Adam Gaze like he's

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Speaker 1: a quarterback guru and he couldn't make Tannehill goal. He

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Speaker 1: couldn't make Tannehill and they said before the knee, Tannehill

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Speaker 1: was doing much better, thank you. And so does he

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Speaker 1: get credit for Peyton Manning? I don't think so. You

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00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,919
Speaker 1: and I could coach Peyton. So I'm wondering where does

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Speaker 1: it come from. And yet he's got multiple interviews and

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Speaker 1: even more mystifying as Cliff Kingsbury, the new offensive coordinator

537
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:02,160
Speaker 1: at us SEE now is supposed to get two interviews

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Speaker 1: to be a head coach in the NFL. What about

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Speaker 1: Chuck Pagano. I kind of like the idea of Chuck

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Speaker 1: working again as a head coluve. Chuck, he's a great guy.

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Speaker 1: If you look at his record from the time he

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Speaker 1: got there, the Colts did really well, and then he

543
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Speaker 1: had a bad year and he got rid of him

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Speaker 1: and for some reason people are looking down on him.

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Speaker 1: I think Chuck would be a tremendous addition to any franchise,

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Speaker 1: And I'm wondering if he'd want to bring his his

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00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 1: brother John Pagano from the Texans as his defensive coordinator.

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Speaker 1: That could happen. I suppose. The other thing is I'd

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Speaker 1: want to know if I was interviewing him, who's your

550
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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator? What's your plan on that side of the football?

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00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 1: If you like the plan? I mean, Chuck's a good leader,

552
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 1: and the other guy is a good leader or John.

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Speaker 1: Who I think that too many people dismiss quickly is

554
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Speaker 1: Jim Caldwell. Jim Caldwell has won some games in this league,

555
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Speaker 1: super Bowl. Yeah, he's done some things. I mean, Jim

556
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,239
Speaker 1: called Well with the right staff, I believe is a

557
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 1: good coach. Now at Detroit, you could say, oh, they

558
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 1: had to tear it down whatever, Matt Patricia. Look, they

559
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 1: went nine and seven last year with Caldwell. Not that

560
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 1: nine and seven. You're gonna throw a parade. But it's

561
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Speaker 1: better than what they are this year. I think they

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Speaker 1: would love to have that nine to seven. I think

563
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: he had two nine and seven records there. Stafford's performance

564
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: deteriorated and he still had his offensive coordinator, Jim Bob Cooter.

565
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 1: He got five favor quickly. But how is that that

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Speaker 1: they're throwing the ball all over the place with Cooter

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Speaker 1: and Calwell and then cal Well's five, Patricia takes over

568
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Speaker 1: and they go down the tubes with the same quarterback

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Speaker 1: in the same offensive quarter head coaching rumored candidate for

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Speaker 1: a long They didn't try. They didn't though, they didn't

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Speaker 1: make the decision to get rid of golden tape. You know,

572
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 1: there's some people there, boy Trisia and Quinn the GM

573
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 1: who deserve a lot of criticism, and they're getting it

574
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Speaker 1: for what happened to the Lions this season? What about

575
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Speaker 1: the Dolphins? Case is gone, Stephen Ross, Tannenbaum is out.

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Speaker 1: I never understood what Mike Tannenbaum is. Why don't you

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Speaker 1: hire me and give me a job like that, pay

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Speaker 1: me a whole lot of money, and I'll sit there

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Speaker 1: and talk to Luke when he comes in, because that's

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Speaker 1: all Tannanbaum did. Yeah, I think they make millions, and

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00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 1: now he's making millions not to be there for the

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Speaker 1: next two years. I think some owners want somebody to

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00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 1: talk to that knows about football, that they can just

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00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 1: communicate with, and maybe it just didn't work for it.

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00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 1: I guess. But I just now Greer, Bobby Greer's sons

586
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Speaker 1: the GM. Does he have total control? Gay said control.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how he got that when he's never

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Speaker 1: been a head coach. I don't think. I don't think

589
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 1: that's all that great of a job. But if you

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Speaker 1: got your quarterback into place like Arizona, people are, oh,

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00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: that's a terrible job. That fired to coach after one year.

592
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 1: Well he must have deserved it. But they've got a

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Speaker 1: quarterback they believe in. And Josh Rosen I asked Brian

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Speaker 1: Gaine today for my column for tomorrow, what is it

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Speaker 1: like for GM who doesn't have to find a franchise quarterback?

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Speaker 1: I feel bad for all these teams that are still

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Speaker 1: looking and knowing that you have Watson and you can

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Speaker 1: devote your resources somewhere else. It's just a's like he admitted,

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00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 1: it makes such a difference when you're scouting because you

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Speaker 1: build around him instead of trying to find him. General,

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Speaker 1: what do you have going out of the Chronicle? I

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00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: am writing for a thing with Brian Gaine, and then

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Speaker 1: I'm writing a thing with the shot about Watson. Saturday

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00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: Chronicle has a special section and it's about Watson in

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Speaker 1: big moments and where he gets the nerves to accelerate,

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Speaker 1: he does. And Aaron Wilson's got a big thing on

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Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien coming Saturday. And then Brian T. Smith has

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Speaker 1: a deal about Reich's call not to go for the tide,

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Speaker 1: how much it's changed, what has happened since then. And

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Speaker 1: so just like Houston Houston Texans dot com, we got

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Speaker 1: a lot on Houston Chronicle dot com. You guys, keep

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Speaker 1: up the good work and thank you all right. I

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00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: know John Harris is into professional football, college football, high

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Speaker 1: school football, all levels of football, and I don't know

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Speaker 1: if he's into flag football. Vander Kidd is in studio

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Speaker 1: observing today. He's a flag football expert. I love flag football.

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Speaker 1: In fact, that was the first That was the first

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Speaker 1: game I ever grew up playing, really back in the day. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I tried out for for hockey when I was five.

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Speaker 1: You did, because I was born and raise in Wisconsin,

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Speaker 1: and so I was five years old. I was younger

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Speaker 1: than everybody. A good skater. Well, they taught me how

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Speaker 1: to skate by pushing a chair on the rink. That's

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Speaker 1: how I learned how to skate. Oh, that's a good idea. Yeah,

625
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Speaker 1: So I did that for like two weeks and then

626
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Speaker 1: went to the first game and they said I was

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Speaker 1: too young to go. My dad said, all right, you're

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Speaker 1: done with hockey. We're going to basketball, and so basketball

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Speaker 1: was next. But flag football was what we did in

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Speaker 1: our town. Our elementary schools played flag football, and you

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Speaker 1: couldn't play tackle football until sixth grade. And then by

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Speaker 1: the time I was at sixth grade, I moved here

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Speaker 1: to Texas sixth grade. That sounds blasphemous. In Texas sixth grade, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there was no time retiring at sixth grade and at

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Speaker 1: the pension. I know. There was no tackle football in

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Speaker 1: our town until sixth grade, and then the middle schools

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Speaker 1: well then where the middle schools played it, and then

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Speaker 1: obviously tackle beyond that. So I love flight football. I

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00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 1: think flight football is hugely important. I mean, I I

640
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 1: just think it's funny. I didn't really appreciate flight football

641
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 1: until I started playing it after I got out of college,

642
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: and then I'm played routes, you know, I mean, it's football.

643
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 1: It's great. It's a certain aspect of it. I mean,

644
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: just the athleticism you need just to be able to

645
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: pull a flag I mean so incredibly difficult. I mean,

646
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 1: to make a tackle. Look tackling and open in the

647
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 1: open field is tough. But you can grab any you grab,

648
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 1: you can hold, you knew anything to get a flag.

649
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 1: You got an aim for one spot and then poom

650
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 1: and get You could be like some of my kids

651
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 1: who play both, and they tend to sort of not

652
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 1: wrap up but racket the guy while they're trying to

653
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 1: get the flag out and the guy stops and whatever.

654
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: All right, So it reminds me of that video that

655
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 1: we had in the preseason, the Boys of Fall that

656
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 1: Kenny Chesney saw. We made a big video to it

657
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 1: with all the high school stuff and flag and then

658
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 1: it sort of elevates into the Texans and it's kind

659
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 1: of like the NFL playoff campaign with you. You know.

660
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 1: It's that kind of thing where you start from a

661
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 1: grassroots level, but it's all connected and it connects to

662
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,320
Speaker 1: Saturday at three thirty, Johnny, as the Texans and Colts

663
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,919
Speaker 1: will get together. I wanted to ask you this. It's

664
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 1: time for me to understand a little bit here in

665
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 1: a very sort of verbal yet comprehensive way and comprehendable

666
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 1: way about what the Texans need to do to stop?

667
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,080
Speaker 1: All right, stop might be too much to ask to

668
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 1: hold Andrew Luck and company to Look, they scored twenty

669
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,879
Speaker 1: four points last time they were here. Let's let's play.

670
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 1: Let's make a football deal. If I tell you Colts

671
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 1: get twenty four, you're gonna take it, or take door

672
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: number two. I'll take it. You'll take it, yeah, because

673
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:47,760
Speaker 1: I think I think the Texans can get to twenty

674
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: five at least. What going back and watching game two

675
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,919
Speaker 1: in particular, I thought about going back and watching Game

676
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 1: one because the Texans were very successful, and I think

677
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 1: they'll have some personnel in that game that they didn't have.

678
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 1: I think the one biggest difference personnel wise, the offense

679
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 1: will have is the quickness they had Joe Webb Demrys

680
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 1: Thomas at receiver. They're gonna be so much quicker this time,

681
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 1: I would think. So they're gonna get guys open. I think,

682
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 1: a little quicker. That's a great point. But here's the

683
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:21,440
Speaker 1: other thing too. They had some deep shots available and

684
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 1: then they didn't hit them. They didn't hit them, or

685
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:25,919
Speaker 1: they ran out of time. There was one time where

686
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 1: Deshan was about to break free and hit one, and

687
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:29,879
Speaker 1: he couldn't. I think some of the deep shots are there,

688
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 1: So I think that's one of the ways that they

689
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 1: can get the running game to get going. Yeah, I

690
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 1: think offensively one of the things that they've got to

691
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: be able to do. The Colts do a good job

692
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 1: of this, and and I really have never seen this

693
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 1: until this year. They'll they'll have a four man front,

694
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:47,239
Speaker 1: but they'll take two defensive tackles and they'll put them

695
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 1: on the inside shoulders of the guards, basically right in

696
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 1: the A gaps. It's like a double a gap thing.

697
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 1: Now a lot of times you hear you hear people

698
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: talk about, oh, the linebackers are mugging in the A gaps.

699
00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:00,320
Speaker 1: These are actually the defensive linement up in the gaps.

700
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: And what it does is it almost creates a double

701
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 1: like you have to double those two guys, like you cannot.

702
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,319
Speaker 1: Those guys just shoot up field and if you don't

703
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 1: double them, they're creating all kinds of havoc with your

704
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 1: run game. So you've got to do something. And the

705
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 1: other thing it does is it allows fifty three to

706
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 1: run to the football where ever he wants. So that's

707
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: that I think is really tough. But I do think

708
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: the Texans have got some deep shots available to them.

709
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:26,319
Speaker 1: I think guys will be able to get open a

710
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: little bit quicker because you lost DeAndre Carternet game early,

711
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 1: got the concussion on the hit by Malie Cooker. I

712
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 1: think it was maybe there's gathers, maybe it gathers, but

713
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 1: either way, they lost him early. So if they're able

714
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 1: to keep him, I think getting those routes open, controlling

715
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: the football if they don't, if they're not running the ball,

716
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 1: just here, Lamar take it or Alfred you take it.

717
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: The short passing game can be the replacement of that.

718
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 1: That can be the replacement for the run game. Defensively,

719
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: the key to me is if thirteen is on a side,

720
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: you've got to devote more guys to that side. You

721
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 1: just have to. I mean, even if eighty fives on

722
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 1: the other side, you have to devote more guys to

723
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,720
Speaker 1: number thirteenth side. I mean, you have to account for Hilton.

724
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:08,400
Speaker 1: I don't care if he's got a bad ankle. And

725
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:11,399
Speaker 1: I saw a tweet earlier this afternoon that said, if

726
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: this were a regular season, t Y probably wouldn't have

727
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:16,839
Speaker 1: played a couple of weeks because his ankle is that bad.

728
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 1: All right, we'll test it. Well. I wonder if test

729
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 1: regular season and they don't need the game, what DeAndre

730
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 1: Hopkins status would be. I mean, he's always wanted to play.

731
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 1: What did he miss last year the finale? That was it? Yeah,

732
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: because you know it was the finale and it did.

733
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,360
Speaker 1: He's competing and doing what he's got to do weekend

734
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: and week out. So from from that perspective, just you know,

735
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: the thing about the thing that's troubling is how good

736
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 1: Reich and that Colt's offense are in isolating him when

737
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: they're when you're in man, they know how to get

738
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: him open. When you're in zone, they know how to

739
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: just settle up and find the zones. And I think

740
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 1: that's what's really problematic, because Andrew is doing something now

741
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:01,280
Speaker 1: that he's never done. He's getting rid of the football.

742
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 1: He's getting rid of it quickly. He knows where to

743
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 1: go with it, he knows where he wants it, and

744
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 1: he's getting the ball there. And one of the things

745
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: that the Jags did against the Colts I thought was

746
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 1: they were able to get pressure on Luck. They did

747
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 1: force him to move in the pocket a little bit,

748
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 1: but they were able to really clamp down on Hilton.

749
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: I mean he had I think eight catches, but they're

750
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 1: only for seventy seven yards. So when he caught it,

751
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 1: it was catching. Boom. They were there, they were on him.

752
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:27,759
Speaker 1: It wasn't catch. He's able to turn up field and

753
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 1: then make some moves and get some yards or catch

754
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 1: the deep ball down the field. The Jags completely eliminated

755
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:37,400
Speaker 1: that and that made Andrew go to Ibron sixteen times

756
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,920
Speaker 1: in that game, which is fine because Ibron had I

757
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:41,400
Speaker 1: can't remember what the number was. It was not a

758
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,320
Speaker 1: high number of catches. It was a high volume of targets,

759
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 1: but you didn't have a ton of catches. But that's

760
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 1: what the Jags did say, Look, if you're gonna throw

761
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 1: it the t why we're gonna hit him right in

762
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: the spot because we got two guys in his vicinity.

763
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 1: And I think that's what the Texas got to do.

764
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 1: I think if there's any game plan, any blueprint, that's

765
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 1: probably the closest ye're gonna get. Now, can you emulate it?

766
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:01,400
Speaker 1: You don't have a Jalen Ramsey, you don't have an

767
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,919
Speaker 1: Aja Boyer, you don't have a guy who just say

768
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,359
Speaker 1: at times, hey, just thirteen is yours? Go get him.

769
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 1: You don't have that, So this has got to be

770
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: truly a team concept of the secondary. But they're they're

771
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:14,919
Speaker 1: well aware of what Tis had to say this week

772
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 1: about this is his second home. He loves to come here,

773
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 1: he loves to play this Hilton Stadium. Yeah, the Hilton

774
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 1: Stadium was like, wow, okay, all right, let's go. I

775
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 1: need a line on that something about you know, no

776
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 1: disrespect to the hotel chain, but I need something. I

777
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:36,920
Speaker 1: need something. You'll find something. Yeah, you got less than

778
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:39,800
Speaker 1: forty eight hours, but you got something. Yeah, I'll figure

779
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 1: it out. I mean, there's got to be something. But

780
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 1: what about special teams and things like that? You know,

781
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 1: you have the leading score in the NFL on the

782
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 1: Texans team. Now in football, it's not quite the same

783
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 1: thing to say basketball, Hey, Kimie, go get us twenty right, right,

784
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:55,799
Speaker 1: But it's pretty cool that he got that honor. It

785
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 1: was it was excellent. I thought it was. That was cool.

786
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 1: And did you also see that he won a Polynesian Yeah, yeah,

787
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. What I mean that was really cool

788
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 1: as well. That was cool because you know that he

789
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:08,959
Speaker 1: knows what that means and what that is. Yeah, even

790
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:12,440
Speaker 1: though we might not. Yeah, good for him. Here's what

791
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:15,240
Speaker 1: you do not want to have happen is the balls

792
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 1: on the foot of number four on the other side,

793
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 1: because how many big kicks in the playoffs? Is that

794
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 1: a Minetarian made? I know, I don't. I mean, that's

795
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:23,720
Speaker 1: the last thing you want. The last thing you want

796
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 1: is twelve with the ball down or tied, where a

797
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 1: few goal can win it. And he just got to

798
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:32,799
Speaker 1: get vinetarian range. I mean, that's that's that's where they

799
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 1: were last time up there. Yeah, anyway, and they weren't

800
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 1: able to get it going. So there was that. All right, Johnny,

801
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,400
Speaker 1: thanks a lot, appreciate it. Mark, thank you. It's playoff

802
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 1: time in Houston, and because it's a national game, it's

803
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:46,400
Speaker 1: a playoff game. My goodness. We have people coming in

804
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:51,240
Speaker 1: to cover this thing from everywhere. ESPN has six trucks

805
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 1: outside NFL Network bringing a lot of people, including James Palmer,

806
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: our good friend, to cover the Texans and the cults. James,

807
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 1: how are you doing. It's good to be here. I

808
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 1: don't know why I missed yesterday. I wish I was

809
00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 1: here all week, but I came on. Was that New

810
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 1: Year's Day? Yeah, it was New Year's Yeah, I was

811
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,839
Speaker 1: in the airport five thirty am New Year's Day. Not

812
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 1: a rowdy group in the airport at five am on

813
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:17,760
Speaker 1: somebody's got to catch an early flight out or whatever.

814
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 1: Not happy about it. It's funny though you mentioned New

815
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 1: Year's Day. I'm thinking, yeah, it was the holidays. When

816
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 1: you're in this business, are you don't exist? Yeah? I

817
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:27,319
Speaker 1: don't want to say they're irrelevant, because if you have

818
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 1: a family, I know, you got a little guy you attend, Yeah,

819
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 1: you just you might be shift. I mean, if my

820
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 1: dad covered the Eagles, it was like, hey, guess what

821
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 1: Christmas is gonna be on the twenty third or Christmas

822
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 1: is gonna be on the twenty six. Yeah, you know,

823
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 1: it always varied. If he was on the road with

824
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:46,319
Speaker 1: those guys, it was like, we're gonna open presence, you

825
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 1: know here as opposed to Christmas. Wait, what was your

826
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:51,239
Speaker 1: dad doing covering the Eagles? He was a like a

827
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:55,240
Speaker 1: local sports anchor in Philadelphia, uh, and covered the Eagles

828
00:41:55,280 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 1: from eighty one to six. Wow? Yeah, all right. He

829
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 1: went through a lot of interesting times. Randall Cunningham, Cunningham

830
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 1: and Buddy Ryan and Reggie White and Drome. I remember

831
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,279
Speaker 1: I remember the day Jerome Brown died. He left one

832
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 1: of my little league games mid game when the news

833
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 1: broke and when he actually ended up going down South

834
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:20,800
Speaker 1: where it happened to do some So you're in the business,

835
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 1: let me just ask you this, because my family they

836
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 1: react to certain things. Are your kids emotionally I mean,

837
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:29,279
Speaker 1: are you emotionally scarred from your dad covering sports and

838
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 1: having to leave your game? Well, a little bit. He

839
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:34,439
Speaker 1: didn't tend much like yeah that it was a little

840
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:36,279
Speaker 1: bit like you know, he was always leaving, but he

841
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,719
Speaker 1: always would like leave notes in my room like how

842
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 1: to like write me back on how you know your

843
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 1: basketball game went or like you know how it went

844
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 1: down because she tried to stay involved as much as

845
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 1: he could. Um, so he made a really strong effort.

846
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 1: And now he's like super grandpa. So he's like he's

847
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 1: like making up for lost time. Oh that's correct, Yeah,

848
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:56,840
Speaker 1: that's good. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to delve. So, no,

849
00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:00,279
Speaker 1: the wounds are still fresh. Mark, I'm like Roy fire Stone.

850
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:02,720
Speaker 1: My goal is to make you cry during this session.

851
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 1: Here James James, pom NFL Network. So you're here, and

852
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 1: what do you think of this one? Colt Texans Part three. Yeah,

853
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 1: this is tough. I mean, anytime you play somebody three

854
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:14,080
Speaker 1: times is a bit odd. I think it's happened forty

855
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: seven times off the top of my head. But I

856
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:20,400
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be tough for us. I mean, I mean,

857
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:23,640
Speaker 1: the way Andrew Luck plays against this team is I mean,

858
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 1: for as as a fan of the NFL, I know

859
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 1: this isn't what everybody Houston wants to hear, but seeing

860
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck back playing at this level is really awesome. Yeah,

861
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:32,839
Speaker 1: I just think it's great for the sport, it's great

862
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:34,799
Speaker 1: for him. Everybody kind of wrote it, I mean, but

863
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:38,439
Speaker 1: right now, yeah, right now everybody. But I just think

864
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:41,239
Speaker 1: he has such a command against this defense that I

865
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 1: think Houston's gonna have to do something different, and really

866
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:48,719
Speaker 1: they're gonna need a game changing type play to really

867
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 1: help them out. Whether it's Clowney or JJ or I'm

868
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,319
Speaker 1: not seeing a pick. I'm I'm seeing if somebody can

869
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:56,239
Speaker 1: get him from the blind side and you can get

870
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 1: you know, a strip sack or something that he got

871
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 1: one they did, they did. I'm just saying what I've seen.

872
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:03,799
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just I think they need one of

873
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:05,840
Speaker 1: those plays to help them out in a sense. And

874
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 1: if you remember and he played a pretty well defense.

875
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 1: They got after de Shaan I did the Week four

876
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 1: team games. I mean, they got after them really well.

877
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 1: They blitz more than they you know, against their tendencies

878
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: that they don't usually do. Um And one of the

879
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:20,840
Speaker 1: things I got out of and I want to, you know,

880
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:22,239
Speaker 1: kind of keep an eye on this in this game,

881
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:23,799
Speaker 1: is when I went to the Colts locker room after

882
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:26,360
Speaker 1: that Week fourteen game, I talked to Eric Ebron and

883
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 1: t Y Hilton both separately, and both of them were

884
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 1: raving about what Frank Reich has done with the two

885
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,920
Speaker 1: of them and bunching them together and having the two

886
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 1: of them line up so close to one another that

887
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 1: it makes so different, makes it so difficult on defenses

888
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 1: and safeties. And I remember Ebron saying, if you want

889
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 1: to press t Y, go ahead, I'm just gonna run

890
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 1: right by it then. And then there there I am

891
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,239
Speaker 1: and and the and the growth that he's had in

892
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 1: this offense and the number of mismatches that they've started

893
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 1: to learn to create. As remember this as an offense

894
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 1: that's just evolving in its first year with Frank and

895
00:44:55,680 --> 00:45:00,200
Speaker 1: Andrew together. So um, it's gonna be interesting how the

896
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 1: Colts take that to another level to manipulate it, and

897
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: how the Texans adjust to it, hopefully in the third time.

898
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 1: Slow it down. I think I'm gonna throw up after

899
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:12,400
Speaker 1: what you just said there. And look, that's been a

900
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:14,400
Speaker 1: problem for a lot of teams. The Texans have to

901
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 1: get better in past defense, there's no doubt about it,

902
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 1: and hopefully they can get there with the rush. But

903
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:22,239
Speaker 1: Watson appears on the postseason stage for the first time.

904
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 1: I know Luck is back for the first time since

905
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, but the sean with the postseason lights on,

906
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 1: that could be interesting. Yeah, that's what I'm I mean,

907
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:31,839
Speaker 1: that's why I said this on NFL Network the other day,

908
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:34,760
Speaker 1: how excited I am to see him playing in the playoffs,

909
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 1: just because it's it's not just like, you know, just

910
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 1: the Texans organization hyping up, you know, their franchise quarterback.

911
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 1: This is something people around the league thought prior to

912
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:47,240
Speaker 1: him getting drafted. This is something around the league people

913
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:49,959
Speaker 1: think right now. Is the guy just plays better when

914
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 1: Moore is on the line. I mean, when it's bigger

915
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 1: and brighter. It's one of the reasons why the Texans

916
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 1: traded up to get him. When Rick Smith was sitting

917
00:45:56,719 --> 00:45:59,359
Speaker 1: there watching in the stands, I think because there wasn't

918
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: enough room in the press box in the stands watching

919
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:06,399
Speaker 1: Clemson play and going, well, you know, you see those

920
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 1: those comebacks against Alabama and go, oh, this is the

921
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 1: kind of guy we want, and it just seems you know.

922
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 1: I was on the sideline in Philly, even though they

923
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:16,919
Speaker 1: didn't win, that was unbelievable, and talking to Chris long

924
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 1: after the game, who had his you know, entire body

925
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 1: rapped around. Yeah, one of three guys I think to

926
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: Haveean Watson on that one play. He was just like,

927
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 1: you know, he's a magician back there. I mean, there's just,

928
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 1: you know, there's something about it that just you know,

929
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 1: he has this vibe that he's just like, there's no

930
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 1: way you're gonna stop me. And I thought this week

931
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:39,759
Speaker 1: when he said what the way I carry myself, it

932
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 1: spreads throughout the entire offense and he doesn't in such

933
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 1: a you know, I compare him. And here's a good story.

934
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 1: I was talking to Doug Peterson before the Eagles game

935
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:56,520
Speaker 1: against the Texans on the sideline and Doug said, you know,

936
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 1: we're talking about Foles versus Wentz, and he said, our

937
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 1: guy talking about Wentz is a lot like this guy

938
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:06,040
Speaker 1: talking about Watson. He goes, both of them are unbelievably talented.

939
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:08,200
Speaker 1: They can do things that nobody else can do with

940
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 1: the quarterback spot, but they're both learning how they're gonna

941
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 1: do it. They're still very young and learning the position

942
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:16,719
Speaker 1: at the NFL level. So he said, there's times where

943
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:18,839
Speaker 1: Carson should probably throw the ball away and it drives

944
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:20,880
Speaker 1: me insane. And there's times when Deshaun should throw the

945
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:23,479
Speaker 1: ball away and it probably drives Bill insane. But there's

946
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:26,280
Speaker 1: also times where one of them does something where you go, well,

947
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:28,399
Speaker 1: if I had any other quarterback, he can't do that.

948
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:30,600
Speaker 1: So you got to try to find he said, both

949
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 1: of these guys are finding that balance. But both of

950
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:35,759
Speaker 1: them are so good at what they do. It's just

951
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:40,600
Speaker 1: you're trying to mold that guy into what you know,

952
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:42,920
Speaker 1: as a head coach he can be. And that's kind

953
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:44,440
Speaker 1: of the way Doug described. He made a lot of

954
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 1: comparisons between went and Watson. Do you think the position

955
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:51,239
Speaker 1: has changed forever or is about to change forever? With

956
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 1: Watson and Lamar Jackson and Baker Mayfield and whole breed

957
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks. That's just lighting it up at a young age. Yeah,

958
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: I think, you know, there's a couple of things that

959
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:04,719
Speaker 1: I really like about it, and it's one is it's

960
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 1: it's the athletic ability that a lot of these guys have,

961
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 1: and and you know, Mahomes's you know, past baseball experience,

962
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:13,759
Speaker 1: you can just see when he plays the position. And

963
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:15,319
Speaker 1: this is why when Bucky Brooks is one of our

964
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: top you know, draft analyst guys over NFL Network and

965
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 1: him and I were talking about how it's it's so

966
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:22,400
Speaker 1: great to see guys that play multiple sports and you

967
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:25,400
Speaker 1: can see some of the skills translate into making them

968
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:28,400
Speaker 1: play the position differently than you've seen other guys in

969
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,879
Speaker 1: the past. And the other part about it, I think

970
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,440
Speaker 1: is these guys have like as we're talking about Wentz

971
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:35,839
Speaker 1: and Watson and wanting the foot like, they have this

972
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 1: ability and Mayfield's in that, Mahomes is in that that

973
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:40,760
Speaker 1: just like if I have the ball in the fourth quarter,

974
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna score. And it's like and it's not in everybody.

975
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:46,400
Speaker 1: I remember DeShawn saying several weeks back where he was

976
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 1: where I was asking him about Baker and how Baker's

977
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:51,839
Speaker 1: trying to win over Cleveland, and he's like, very few

978
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:54,480
Speaker 1: people can win over a city and have that ability

979
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:57,279
Speaker 1: because he's done it here. And I think, you know,

980
00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:59,359
Speaker 1: you've seen Mahomes doing in Kansas City, and you've seen

981
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 1: these young guys come and just put their own spin

982
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:06,240
Speaker 1: on the quarterback spot, which is interesting because like Dwayne

983
00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 1: Haskins coming out of the Ohio State University, greatest school

984
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: in the in the world, has an announced but most

985
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 1: likely coming out, he plays it like a true pocket

986
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:17,560
Speaker 1: passer and he can barely move. So it's gonna be

987
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 1: interesting to see how he's evaluated against all of these

988
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:23,120
Speaker 1: guys that are so you know, so nimble in the

989
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:25,359
Speaker 1: pocket and so creative in the pocket. That's the other

990
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 1: part of it. It's the creativity to just make the

991
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:31,239
Speaker 1: off scripted plays that I think is hopefully, you know,

992
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:34,440
Speaker 1: we're losing we've lost Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Tom Brady

993
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 1: or towards the end of their careers. We need to

994
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:38,960
Speaker 1: get fans around this new group that I think is

995
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:40,920
Speaker 1: going to carry the league for the next twenty years.

996
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 1: Awesome for the NFL, there's no doubt about it. On

997
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:46,400
Speaker 1: the subject of Philadelphia, you just brought them up with Peterson.

998
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:48,920
Speaker 1: Here they are on the postseason. Now, I got to

999
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:50,920
Speaker 1: think the Bears, I mean they went all out, not

1000
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 1: all out, but they really played hard against Minnesota, won

1001
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 1: the game, knowing that if they lost, they would get

1002
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 1: Minnesota at their place. Now they got the Eagles at

1003
00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:00,160
Speaker 1: their place. How do they feel about that? Yeah, that's

1004
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:03,279
Speaker 1: gonna be I mean, that's that game has so many storylines. Listen,

1005
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:06,399
Speaker 1: I'm very happy I'm here. I love covering games here.

1006
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 1: But if I could be anywhere else, I would maybe

1007
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:10,879
Speaker 1: be in the game. You get the Long brothers going

1008
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 1: against each other. You have the history of Matt Naggie

1009
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:15,800
Speaker 1: and Doug Peterson together. There was a great story that

1010
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 1: Naggie told this week about he was watching film of

1011
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:23,400
Speaker 1: Nick Foles college film of Nick Foles with Doug Peterson,

1012
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:27,640
Speaker 1: both of them on Andy Reid's staff in Kansas City,

1013
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:29,960
Speaker 1: and Andy walks in sees a little bit of the

1014
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:32,759
Speaker 1: film and tells Naggie, re change your flights. You're going

1015
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 1: now to Arizona. Go take a look at this Nick

1016
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 1: Foles kid. So Naggie knows Foles real well and these

1017
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 1: two guys know each other really well. And you know

1018
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:45,759
Speaker 1: how Foles, a little bit banged up, handles this. This front. Now,

1019
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:48,279
Speaker 1: the Eagles offensive line has had a real chip on

1020
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 1: their shoulder in the last several weeks. I mean, Lane

1021
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: Johnson not going to the Pro Bowl has made that

1022
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 1: guy like a man possessed. And he had opened about

1023
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:56,400
Speaker 1: saying how pissed off he was he didn't make the

1024
00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:59,400
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. That guy at right tackle has done unbelievable

1025
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:01,440
Speaker 1: things against guys like Von Miller and stuff, and doesn't

1026
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:03,280
Speaker 1: go to the Pro Bowl. He was so nervous about

1027
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 1: making the Pro Bowl he left his house like two

1028
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 1: in the morning, slept at the facility and just waited

1029
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 1: all morning to see if he made the Pro Bowl

1030
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:12,360
Speaker 1: and didn't. And he has been a man on fire

1031
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 1: since he didn't. And them going against Khalil mackin coompany upfront,

1032
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:19,400
Speaker 1: I think is going to be, you know, really interesting

1033
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: to watch. And everybody wants to see the Nick Foles

1034
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 1: magic and see if it continues. It's just it's just

1035
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 1: cool to see. And and I think, you know, the

1036
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:30,280
Speaker 1: Bears being back in the postseason, the Bears being relevant,

1037
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:31,839
Speaker 1: I think is as we say, things that are good

1038
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:33,719
Speaker 1: for the league. I think that's something that's that's real

1039
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 1: good for the league. You were telling me. And back

1040
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,799
Speaker 1: to here, DeAndre Hopkins brought Drey Johnson up to the

1041
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:41,280
Speaker 1: podium the other day and that was real special to see.

1042
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:43,799
Speaker 1: And I'd been spending some time here and we were

1043
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:46,320
Speaker 1: talking about possible roles for Andre just us, you know,

1044
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 1: just a couple of guys decisions, but we hypothesize and

1045
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:52,879
Speaker 1: have a lot of ideas. But what about DeMarcus Ware

1046
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:55,080
Speaker 1: what he's doing in Denver exactly? That's what and that's

1047
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:56,879
Speaker 1: why I brought this up to you, is I could

1048
00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:59,880
Speaker 1: see Dre doing something in the capacity that DeMarcus does

1049
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:03,440
Speaker 1: with the Denver Broncos. And what DeMarcus does is he's

1050
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:05,799
Speaker 1: a pass He's considered a pass rush consultant. Now. He

1051
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:07,840
Speaker 1: used to go around to you know, they used to

1052
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 1: play in Dallas, obviously, so he would go help out

1053
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:12,239
Speaker 1: in training camp at times with the Cowboys or help

1054
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:14,319
Speaker 1: out with the Broncos. Well, the Broncos locked him up

1055
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:16,279
Speaker 1: to where he couldn't go do that with anybody else

1056
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:18,640
Speaker 1: around the league. And it's almost on a it's like

1057
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 1: a part time coaching type of thing you're not putting

1058
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:22,880
Speaker 1: in the hours that everybody else on the staff is.

1059
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 1: You're not there every day, you're not in the team meetings.

1060
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 1: You have one specific skill, like Dre has one of

1061
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 1: unbelievable route running and weighing to play the wide receiver

1062
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 1: position the way DeMarcus does on the pass rushing side

1063
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:35,879
Speaker 1: of things. So he just spends time with the pass

1064
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:38,080
Speaker 1: rushers a lot of time during training camp and then

1065
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:41,319
Speaker 1: probably half the week during the season, and it's really

1066
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:43,240
Speaker 1: kind of up to him on how much he wants

1067
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:45,600
Speaker 1: to be there. But it's it's on a lesser form

1068
00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 1: of a coach, but you are locked up to that organization.

1069
00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 1: You can't really teach anyone else, which I think would

1070
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 1: be cool for Dre. I mean, I talked to Bradley Chubb,

1071
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 1: who's the fifth overall pick, almost breaks the rookie sack

1072
00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:58,200
Speaker 1: record for the Broncos, and he was like, and because

1073
00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 1: d wears on the sidelines during aims as well, and

1074
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 1: he goes, he said, I can't remember which quarterback it was.

1075
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 1: It might have been lying, so he doesn't tip a quarterback,

1076
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 1: but he goes, I can't remember which quarterback it was,

1077
00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 1: but Deware was telling me in game, take a look

1078
00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:13,200
Speaker 1: at his hand. His bottom hand starts to move about

1079
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:15,759
Speaker 1: a half a second before the ball is snapped, and

1080
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 1: he has a little hitch in his hand. You got

1081
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:19,879
Speaker 1: to start looking at that, and you're gonna be able

1082
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:22,520
Speaker 1: to get an extra jump. Well this and he goes.

1083
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:25,759
Speaker 1: He sees things, speaking of you, where trumb goes that

1084
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 1: I would never think of. And we're watching it on

1085
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:29,600
Speaker 1: the sideline when I'm off on a play I got,

1086
00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:31,239
Speaker 1: he goes, and I ended up getting a sack later

1087
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:33,920
Speaker 1: that game because I got a jump because of what

1088
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Ware told me on the sideline. If if, if

1089
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:39,319
Speaker 1: Drake can do that for guys like Hop and I

1090
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 1: mean he's already arguably the best in the league, but

1091
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:44,320
Speaker 1: anybody part of that receiving crew or anything he sees

1092
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:47,600
Speaker 1: in defensive backs, tendencies or anything that he kind of

1093
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:50,800
Speaker 1: sees eyes of a guy who's, in my opinion, should

1094
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:52,640
Speaker 1: go to the Hall of Fame. And Dwear's definitely going

1095
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:54,920
Speaker 1: to the Hall of Fame. Having that just a round

1096
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 1: your organization and just those little nuances that make those

1097
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:00,799
Speaker 1: guys great, I think it's invaluable now if Drey wants

1098
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 1: to do it. I don't know, but I mean I

1099
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:04,439
Speaker 1: think that would be a really kind of cool role

1100
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:07,360
Speaker 1: to have him kind of around what's the best job

1101
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:11,440
Speaker 1: opening coaching wise in the league. And it's also structure

1102
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:15,239
Speaker 1: of organization, not just personnel that's in existence with that

1103
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:17,799
Speaker 1: organization right now, what do you think it's Cleveland? I mean,

1104
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: it's easy. I mean, it's it's the number of young

1105
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:23,759
Speaker 1: talented players you have, It's an unbelievable amount of cap

1106
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:26,879
Speaker 1: space that you have. You have a really really good

1107
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:30,719
Speaker 1: general manager in John Dorsey, and you have a quarterback

1108
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:33,120
Speaker 1: lined up. Now that's why you look at all these

1109
00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 1: I mean there are a lot a lot of them

1110
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:38,000
Speaker 1: are intriguing. You have Aaron Rodgers, who can be your quarterback. Obviously,

1111
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 1: you have you know, Sam Darnold, Josh Rosen, Baker Mayfield,

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00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:44,000
Speaker 1: all guys taken this year. That's why Denver's a little

1113
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:45,680
Speaker 1: bit different. Don't know what's going on the quarterback and

1114
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:48,879
Speaker 1: same with Miami. But I think that's just that's just

1115
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:52,200
Speaker 1: the spot because they've already put it in the right

1116
00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:55,440
Speaker 1: direction in the back half of this season. I mean,

1117
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:57,919
Speaker 1: what a turnaround. And so you look at the most

1118
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:00,959
Speaker 1: important positions in all of football is the quarterback spot.

1119
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:03,160
Speaker 1: They have it, star pass rusher, they have it. Knocked

1120
00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:06,640
Speaker 1: down corner, they have it. They have a pretty good

1121
00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:08,400
Speaker 1: offensive line. I mean, look at the spots that you

1122
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:12,799
Speaker 1: pay players. They have those locked up on rookie salaries. Yep.

1123
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Speaker 1: So it's it's it's really, it's a really who would

1124
00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:18,360
Speaker 1: have ever thought we'd be saying it, But it's a

1125
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:22,360
Speaker 1: really marketable job in a division. Also that's changing that

1126
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:25,759
Speaker 1: you can probably own for the next six seven years

1127
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:27,800
Speaker 1: if you look at the direction that the chaos and

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00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:32,520
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh has and since I mean, I mean you could

1129
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:35,120
Speaker 1: really in Cleveland, if you get this together right away

1130
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:37,239
Speaker 1: and build off of what they did the second half,

1131
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:38,920
Speaker 1: you might be able to own that division for the

1132
00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:41,960
Speaker 1: next couple of years. Oh my gosh, what an opportunity.

1133
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:43,279
Speaker 1: All right, So what do you have coming out by

1134
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:45,480
Speaker 1: the NFL network? This we have also, I mean, we

1135
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:47,719
Speaker 1: have so many people coming to this game. I might

1136
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:50,000
Speaker 1: get lost in the shuffle we have, like I think,

1137
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:53,719
Speaker 1: like Amos, there like five people coming for this game.

1138
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:56,879
Speaker 1: But I know that we're gonna be doing um, I'm

1139
00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:59,279
Speaker 1: gonna be here on the sideline Saturday morning, I think

1140
00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:02,760
Speaker 1: starting nine Eastern all the way up to kickoff. Okay,

1141
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:05,319
Speaker 1: so we're gonna be I mean we're gonna be. There's

1142
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:06,719
Speaker 1: not a lot of games to talk about, so we're

1143
00:56:06,719 --> 00:56:09,279
Speaker 1: gonna be talking a lot of Texans football. And I'm

1144
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:11,560
Speaker 1: doing something on Hopkins too for NFL dot Com, which

1145
00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:14,279
Speaker 1: should be pretty uh pretty cool. Excellent James tex for

1146
00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:16,719
Speaker 1: joining us, No problem, Mark anytime, Mark Vandamer with you

1147
00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:19,720
Speaker 1: in the Hunday Texans Radio studio with Eric Son and Asensio,

1148
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:22,800
Speaker 1: who we've had on from time to time, the senior

1149
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:25,960
Speaker 1: director of Digital Media and Strategy for the Texans. How's

1150
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:27,960
Speaker 1: it going, Eric? Who would have thought it enough? It

1151
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:29,920
Speaker 1: was it one in three or one of five Colts

1152
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:31,560
Speaker 1: and no in three Texans meeting in the first round

1153
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:34,560
Speaker 1: the playoffs just bizarre, really. I mean I think back

1154
00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:36,359
Speaker 1: to when the Colts were one in five and I thought, oh,

1155
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:38,359
Speaker 1: they're buried. Forget about it. There's no way you can

1156
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:40,040
Speaker 1: come back from that. I mean, you might be able

1157
00:56:40,040 --> 00:56:42,200
Speaker 1: to go on a run, but maybe maybe nine and

1158
00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:45,040
Speaker 1: seven if you just light it up. But the fact

1159
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:46,719
Speaker 1: that they came all the way back to ten and

1160
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:48,840
Speaker 1: six and made it in I mean, that's been phenomenal

1161
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:51,520
Speaker 1: for them, but I don't like it when they do

1162
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:55,440
Speaker 1: phenomenal things. So there's that. Anyway, let's talk about social

1163
00:56:55,480 --> 00:56:58,279
Speaker 1: media and this game in the NFL plays. First of all,

1164
00:56:58,560 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 1: I find it interesting when we just talk digital stuff

1165
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:06,279
Speaker 1: streaming of NFL games, that the stream does better than

1166
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 1: most NBA tell of telecasts and Major League Baseball at

1167
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:14,799
Speaker 1: all of that. Just the NFL streamed everybody TV broadcasting. Now,

1168
00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:16,560
Speaker 1: I think it's you know, it just shows you the

1169
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:20,120
Speaker 1: power you know, football, especially in the United States of America, it's,

1170
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:22,280
Speaker 1: you know, pretty clearly the most popular sport. I still

1171
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:24,880
Speaker 1: think people debate, you know, like what the future will be, obviously,

1172
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:28,360
Speaker 1: and nobody knows because the way the viewing habits are changing.

1173
00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:30,120
Speaker 1: You know, it's really interesting right now. And not to

1174
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 1: take it to entertainment, but you know, with the Oscars

1175
00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:34,600
Speaker 1: coming up, one of the big favorites is a movie

1176
00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:38,480
Speaker 1: called Roma and that's exclusively on Netflix, like it's something different.

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00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:40,640
Speaker 1: And then you have a movie like Birdbox, which has

1178
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:43,920
Speaker 1: become a phenomenon, and that's really exactly and they released

1179
00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:46,160
Speaker 1: at forty five million people watch that, you know, over

1180
00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:48,800
Speaker 1: the past couple of weeks, So you're starting to see

1181
00:57:48,840 --> 00:57:53,240
Speaker 1: this traditional TV merging with streaming because for us, we

1182
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:55,320
Speaker 1: experience it all the same. Like, right, we watch Netflix

1183
00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:57,600
Speaker 1: or we watch a television show, it's still on the

1184
00:57:57,600 --> 00:57:59,280
Speaker 1: same TV in our living room for the most part.

1185
00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:01,360
Speaker 1: I mean, it's mobile, but we're having the same experience

1186
00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:03,760
Speaker 1: even though there's two completely different pathways of how they're

1187
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:05,120
Speaker 1: getting the content to you. So I think you're going

1188
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:07,000
Speaker 1: to start to see that in sports as well. I

1189
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 1: think the movie thing is interesting because forty five million

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00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 1: people to get forty five million people to go to

1191
00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:14,160
Speaker 1: the theaters, I mean, that just doesn't happen. They don't

1192
00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:15,480
Speaker 1: measure it that way. They measure it, you know, off

1193
00:58:15,520 --> 00:58:17,400
Speaker 1: ticket sales and how much you make, and that's how

1194
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:20,360
Speaker 1: it's you know, received. Where Netflix is specifically, we're trying

1195
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:23,240
Speaker 1: to get as many eyeballs on every type of content

1196
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 1: you know, that we produce. And it's funny because I

1197
00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:27,360
Speaker 1: was just joking on my Facebook page. I put all

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00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:29,400
Speaker 1: the top things I watched on Netflix this year, and

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Speaker 1: within two comments, they were people saying, you didn't see this, well,

1200
00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:33,960
Speaker 1: you didn't see this, well you didn't see this, And

1201
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:36,400
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, I feel so out of it because there

1202
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:38,640
Speaker 1: were a lot of name now soa I've seen Ozark

1203
00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:40,280
Speaker 1: and a few other things, but there were some things

1204
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:42,000
Speaker 1: I hadn't seen, so I need to go back to that.

1205
00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:44,520
Speaker 1: And people are still telling you all of all the

1206
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:46,640
Speaker 1: things you missed. But that's the beautiful part of it, right,

1207
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:48,480
Speaker 1: Like we're all experiencing it the way that we like

1208
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:50,720
Speaker 1: to and the type of content. And Netflix's job is

1209
00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:52,320
Speaker 1: to put so much content up there. I think the

1210
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:54,280
Speaker 1: number that they said, well, they're going to spend over

1211
00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:56,640
Speaker 1: twelve billion in content next year. Billion with a B.

1212
00:58:56,880 --> 00:59:00,680
Speaker 1: Did you see the SNL television parody Netflix? And they

1213
00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:03,360
Speaker 1: how they're well, but by the time you're done with

1214
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:05,760
Speaker 1: the scroll, new content is coming out and they have

1215
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:08,480
Speaker 1: this infinity sign and everything explodes. I believe, you just

1216
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:10,640
Speaker 1: can't keep up with it. And they showed a pitch

1217
00:59:10,720 --> 00:59:13,120
Speaker 1: meeting where the guys just the woman's going through the

1218
00:59:13,160 --> 00:59:15,200
Speaker 1: pitch and before she can get through the first sentence,

1219
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:17,640
Speaker 1: the guy's just literally throwing money. Yes, go ahead and

1220
00:59:17,720 --> 00:59:20,320
Speaker 1: make it. We love it. And you know, you and

1221
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:25,560
Speaker 1: I were at Netflix. We were in California meeting at Netflix.

1222
00:59:25,760 --> 00:59:28,320
Speaker 1: We had coffee there. I mean, it was delightful, really,

1223
00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:32,800
Speaker 1: I mean it's wonderful place to be. And I asked

1224
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:35,880
Speaker 1: about live events, live sporting events, because as we talk

1225
00:59:35,920 --> 00:59:38,800
Speaker 1: about all this stuff, the NFL does bring all these

1226
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:42,000
Speaker 1: eyeballs in one spot in a three hour window to

1227
00:59:42,160 --> 00:59:45,240
Speaker 1: an event and to your point, live but they said, no,

1228
00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:47,240
Speaker 1: that's not what we do. And I got to credit

1229
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:50,840
Speaker 1: them because, you know, unlike certain retail outlets or other

1230
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:53,280
Speaker 1: businesses where they might spread themselves too thin, I mean,

1231
00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:54,960
Speaker 1: they pretty much know what they want to do right

1232
00:59:55,200 --> 00:59:58,480
Speaker 1: well for now, you know, like they weren't about prestige television,

1233
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:00,320
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of years ago. Then the ground

1234
01:00:00,320 --> 01:00:02,880
Speaker 1: happens and then you know, Game of Thrones obviously started

1235
01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:04,520
Speaker 1: it and they're paying millions of dollars and you see

1236
01:00:04,520 --> 01:00:06,440
Speaker 1: this event and so now they have the crown and

1237
01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:09,240
Speaker 1: now they have House of Cards are you know, and

1238
01:00:09,280 --> 01:00:11,640
Speaker 1: like prestige televisions become a big deal, like when they

1239
01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:14,320
Speaker 1: are pitching Alfonso Quran, who's the director of Roma, to

1240
01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:16,520
Speaker 1: come do this, you know, big budget thing. You know,

1241
01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:18,400
Speaker 1: we talked about this as a movie called The Irishman

1242
01:00:18,480 --> 01:00:20,240
Speaker 1: coming out this Martin Scorsese, and that's going to be

1243
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:22,800
Speaker 1: specifically on Netflix, you know, and that's like De Niro

1244
01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:25,120
Speaker 1: and Pacino. So you're starting to see these merging of

1245
01:00:25,160 --> 01:00:27,560
Speaker 1: these two worlds. And usually entertainment is before sports if

1246
01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:29,880
Speaker 1: you look at the history of how things work. Entertainment

1247
01:00:29,960 --> 01:00:32,760
Speaker 1: is always looking for revenue streams, so they're they branch

1248
01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:34,480
Speaker 1: out a little faster than sports to because sports have

1249
01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:36,720
Speaker 1: a traditional revenue stream. Every time somebody comes to the

1250
01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:39,640
Speaker 1: game or we host an entertainment event, there's revenue to

1251
01:00:39,720 --> 01:00:41,800
Speaker 1: be made there, so they're kind of trailing. And so

1252
01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:43,600
Speaker 1: you'll see now how entertainment is going to start to

1253
01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:45,480
Speaker 1: branch in these different directions. And if you're the NFL

1254
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:47,640
Speaker 1: of the NBA or Major League Baseball or European soccer,

1255
01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:49,240
Speaker 1: which I've kind of gotten into in the past year.

1256
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:52,800
Speaker 1: So you know, all these opportunities to broadcast your events

1257
01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:55,280
Speaker 1: are available, which one do you pick? How do you

1258
01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:57,440
Speaker 1: decide where to go? You know, how how do the

1259
01:00:57,480 --> 01:01:00,000
Speaker 1: dollars follow? How does the revenue model change you? All

1260
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:01,720
Speaker 1: things are going to happen in the next five years,

1261
01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:03,960
Speaker 1: And you know, I can give you what I think

1262
01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:06,720
Speaker 1: might happen, but nobody knows they're gonna be the first

1263
01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:09,280
Speaker 1: time they sit down for these negotiations when maybe the

1264
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:12,120
Speaker 1: traditional television companies won't have as much. But then Netflix

1265
01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:13,920
Speaker 1: may jump in, or maybe it's Facebook, maybe it's a

1266
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:16,040
Speaker 1: company we've never heard of before that you know, shows up,

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Speaker 1: whether it's Apple. Apple is spending a ton of money

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Speaker 1: in the space. They're developing some prestige content around Jennifer

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Speaker 1: Aniston and Steve Correll. So, like, you see all this

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Speaker 1: stuff starting to happen, and everybody needs content, and so

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Speaker 1: where is it all going to end up? Because eventually

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have ten different services where you're paying ten

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Speaker 1: dollars a month and that's not gonna last because we're

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Speaker 1: not gonna want to do that. You're gonna get into

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Speaker 1: a different version of the cab and then you know,

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Speaker 1: that's where the NFL and the NBA will decide. Okay,

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Speaker 1: how are we being viewed? Because so much of it

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Speaker 1: now is about I want my content now in any

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Speaker 1: place that I go. I want it portable with me. Right.

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Speaker 1: You know, you may start watching your Netflix show on

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Speaker 1: your TV, but then you may continue it on your

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Speaker 1: iPad and download it and then you make it to

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Speaker 1: your hotel room and stream it up there. I watch

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Speaker 1: on my phone. That's what I'm saying so like, there's

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Speaker 1: so many options available and it's a fun time now

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Speaker 1: to be a content creator or consumers. So much out there,

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Speaker 1: but in the end there's gonna be some atrophe and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have to figure out from a league perspective,

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Speaker 1: you know, which way are we going to go and

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Speaker 1: what makes the most sense. And there's gonna be so

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Speaker 1: many options, more than ever before. Just think like twenty

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Speaker 1: years ago you hit three options, you know, and that

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Speaker 1: was it. Now you've got everybody has a streaming platformers

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Speaker 1: coming with Disney's coming one next year. Like, it's it's

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Speaker 1: a lot. Hey, I'm old enough to remember five channels. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Eric sat In a Senseio, Senior Director, Digital Media Strategy

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Speaker 1: for the Houston Texans. Okay, so what's the latest on Facebook?

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Speaker 1: What I'm noticing in my personal experience, Instagram to me

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Speaker 1: is a little bit more. I know, you have the

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Speaker 1: stories and everything and video, but it reminds me a

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Speaker 1: little bit in tone of the earlier days of Facebook.

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Speaker 1: There's less political stuff and everything. I guess you can

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Speaker 1: follow all that, but the way it's happening for me,

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Speaker 1: it's a little lighter than say Facebook, which you know

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Speaker 1: it can get a little too deep in the weeds

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Speaker 1: uncertain topics for me. What do you think? I think

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Speaker 1: Instagram is obviously the most popular platform in the world today,

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Speaker 1: and it's probably the smartest investment that Facebook's ever made,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think the most popular platform. I think

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Speaker 1: when you look at people across all ranges and spectrums.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're gonna have Facebook with more users obviously,

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01:03:05,840 --> 01:03:08,720
Speaker 1: but just from interaction, positivity, the way people interact what's

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Speaker 1: most valuable to us in the social space, and the

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Speaker 1: fact too that you can't post a hundred times on

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01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:15,040
Speaker 1: there in a day. You know, there's some you know,

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Speaker 1: there's some exclusivity to that. You know, like we may

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Speaker 1: post as the Texans three or four times a day,

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Speaker 1: and that might seem like a lot depending on your

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Speaker 1: feed and stuff like that. So I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: you put your best stuff there and it's just a

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Speaker 1: little bit more interactive. But again, you don't A lot

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Speaker 1: of people don't know because they will say, oh, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna delete Facebook because the things that have happened, and

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Speaker 1: if you feel that way, that's great, But Instagram is

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Speaker 1: owned by Facebook. You know, it's like the smartest decision

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Speaker 1: Facebook ever made. Is to not put their branding all

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Speaker 1: over Instagram like they try to keep it separate so

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Speaker 1: that most people can feel like they're having a different experience.

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Speaker 1: So you can still be on Instagram and feel how

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Speaker 1: you feel about Facebook. But you know, they're all derivatives

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Speaker 1: of Facebook if you think about it, right, Because Facebook,

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Speaker 1: when it started, it was status updates, which essentially what

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Speaker 1: Twitter is short little you know, anecdotes of what you're doing.

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Speaker 1: And then you've got the photo galleries, which were big

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Speaker 1: when Facebook first started and then pulled off and became Instagram.

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Speaker 1: So it's like Facebook has the whole thing, and to

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Speaker 1: your point, it gets a little hairy, and you know,

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Speaker 1: there's different ways to communicate, and that's where you can

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Speaker 1: kind of get into some you know, some places you

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Speaker 1: don't want to be. But Instagram and Twitter for the

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Speaker 1: most part, in the Twitter's i mean obviously negative as well,

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Speaker 1: but you've got a simple thing that you're going there

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01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:16,800
Speaker 1: for content, news or picture, you know, So it simplifies

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Speaker 1: it a little bit and makes it easier to interact

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01:04:18,920 --> 01:04:21,120
Speaker 1: with or as a post Facebook, you're giving everything and

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Speaker 1: that can open up all kind of doors, all right,

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01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:25,919
Speaker 1: So Twitter is different now than it was even maybe

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Speaker 1: a year ago, right, because what I notice is I

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Speaker 1: log on, And it used to be if somebody likes it,

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Speaker 1: if you like a tweet, for instance, it'll pop to

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Speaker 1: the top of my feet. Oh, Eric liked this, even

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Speaker 1: though I might not be following that particular tweeter if

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01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:43,040
Speaker 1: you will that twitterer, and it exposes you to different things.

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Speaker 1: But it used to just be a straight line, chronological feed.

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Speaker 1: Now it's all over the place. So what's happening there? Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm now they had to go back to both. So

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Speaker 1: there's an option. Now if you open Twitter on your

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Speaker 1: phone and the top right there it looks like these

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Speaker 1: kind of little sparkles. It'll give you the option to

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Speaker 1: either see tweets chronologically because a lot of people, especially

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Speaker 1: like us who are on it more, want that version

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Speaker 1: of it and want that platform where we can just

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Speaker 1: see it in order. But then some people that don't

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Speaker 1: sign in a ton maybe sign in once or twice

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Speaker 1: a day. You still have the top tweets option, which

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Speaker 1: means that you'll get you know, what they think algorithmically

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Speaker 1: fits with you know, who you follow or what you've

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Speaker 1: interacted with before. So there's kind of two versions going

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Speaker 1: on at once. Twitter's you know, really interesting spot because

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Speaker 1: you know they've got some issues as well. They don't

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Speaker 1: get as much negative publicity, but obviously, you know, like

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Speaker 1: the negativity and we know this, you know, just in

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Speaker 1: a little but we use it and the followers that

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Speaker 1: we have. It's a place where everybody feels like snark

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Speaker 1: is okay and like it's not the most positive place sometimes.

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Speaker 1: And so you know, I think all these social and

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff going on with what is

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Speaker 1: the psychology behind that? Well, you know it's still and

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Speaker 1: people should know better because people lose their jobs now

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Speaker 1: left and right over things that they put on social media,

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Speaker 1: but they still feel like some level of anonymity towards it.

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Speaker 1: So like I would never say something to your face

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Speaker 1: that I may you know, some people feel comfortable saying

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Speaker 1: online because there is that kind of mask there. I mean,

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01:05:57,640 --> 01:05:59,960
Speaker 1: it's changing because now when you you know, make comments,

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Speaker 1: sticking easily track or at least if they really want

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Speaker 1: to find out who you are and then it gets

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Speaker 1: back to you. I mean you've seen, you know, tons

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Speaker 1: of people lose their job. But the thing is, you know,

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Speaker 1: like in a perfect world, social would function in this

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Speaker 1: kind of you know, utopic way, but it just doesn't

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Speaker 1: because that's the way people are, right, Like, we've all

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Speaker 1: got things that we're passionate about, whether we disagree with you,

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Speaker 1: and now we all have voices. You know. The best

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Speaker 1: thing about social is that now everybody has a voice.

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Speaker 1: The worst thing is that everybody has a voice. So

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Speaker 1: you know, like there's just kind of huge collection of

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Speaker 1: noise that's going out there. You're just trying to filter

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Speaker 1: through and figure it out. How big a week is

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Speaker 1: this for the Texans on the social media platforms? It's huge, right,

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01:06:32,840 --> 01:06:34,720
Speaker 1: you know, I wish we play Sunday selfishly just so

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01:06:34,760 --> 01:06:37,640
Speaker 1: we can get the extra time period. It almost feels

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01:06:37,640 --> 01:06:40,240
Speaker 1: a little rushed, especially when you're you know, we coordinate

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01:06:40,280 --> 01:06:42,240
Speaker 1: a lot, and we've talked about this before with marketing

1405
01:06:42,280 --> 01:06:44,400
Speaker 1: and corporate. You know, our partners want to be involved.

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01:06:44,440 --> 01:06:46,200
Speaker 1: We're doing great stuff in the community this week. So

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Speaker 1: so social is distribution channel that lets you know what's

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Speaker 1: going on. So we almost run out of spots in

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Speaker 1: some degree because you're trying to pump out so much content.

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Speaker 1: You want to enjoy this moment because, as you've mentioned before,

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Speaker 1: you wrote a great you know You've wrote great articles

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Speaker 1: about this. Once the season ends, it's over. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: God forbid it, and you know, knocking well, we do

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Speaker 1: not lose on Satday. But if we do Sunday, the

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01:07:02,800 --> 01:07:04,680
Speaker 1: season is over. It's no like we got three or

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Speaker 1: four days to keep this going. Like you see the

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Speaker 1: Hountain and then you drop. So you're trying to maximize

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Speaker 1: everything you can. And you know, we did some great

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Speaker 1: videos that we're Houston Basis week, the little flip stuff

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Speaker 1: we did, you know, the stuff we do with j. J.

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Speaker 1: Watt and his strut and Connor McGregor. I mean, we're

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Speaker 1: trying to do some interesting things to keep people excited

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Speaker 1: and get people pump because to your point, we're not

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Speaker 1: in this spot. Often there's no guarantee you make the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: and this year more than any And I'm sure you've

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Speaker 1: covered this on lots of different shows this week. Every

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Speaker 1: team is flawed. You know, I could easily see us

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Speaker 1: making the Super Bowl. I can easily see us losing

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Speaker 1: this weekend like that. Every team has all these different

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Speaker 1: things that don't make them perfect. Like the Patriots seem

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01:07:39,080 --> 01:07:41,360
Speaker 1: more vulnerable than ever. Kansas City's defense struggles, but they

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01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:43,280
Speaker 1: can score fifty on you. You know, like all these

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Speaker 1: different teams have these things where you can see them succeed,

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01:07:45,560 --> 01:07:47,560
Speaker 1: sameything with the Colts, right, and then you can also

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01:07:47,600 --> 01:07:49,320
Speaker 1: see them, well, they have this thing that doesn't work

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01:07:49,360 --> 01:07:51,280
Speaker 1: well for them. You know, their defense doesn't play well

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01:07:51,400 --> 01:07:53,400
Speaker 1: or their offensive line is struggling. So like to me,

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01:07:53,440 --> 01:07:56,840
Speaker 1: there's never been a more imperfect AFC. And that's an

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Speaker 1: exciting thing, but it's also a little frightening because you

1440
01:07:58,720 --> 01:08:00,360
Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen which and make it

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01:08:00,400 --> 01:08:03,080
Speaker 1: fun to watch. You started here in twenty thirteen, so

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01:08:03,120 --> 01:08:05,160
Speaker 1: that five years already. That wasn't a great year to

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01:08:05,240 --> 01:08:08,640
Speaker 1: start record wise, but mattch Shop was the quarterback going

1444
01:08:08,640 --> 01:08:10,280
Speaker 1: into that year. And then you look and he was

1445
01:08:10,320 --> 01:08:12,640
Speaker 1: on Twitter I think for a while, maybe a little

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01:08:12,880 --> 01:08:15,040
Speaker 1: by then he was already backing off. He had an

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01:08:15,040 --> 01:08:17,560
Speaker 1: account though I know that, and you know Arie and

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01:08:17,640 --> 01:08:20,800
Speaker 1: at an account still does obviously. But when you look

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01:08:20,800 --> 01:08:23,160
Speaker 1: at these guys now, Eric, when you look at Deshaan

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01:08:23,240 --> 01:08:26,080
Speaker 1: Watson and the way he's on social media and Hopkins,

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01:08:26,120 --> 01:08:28,680
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys are are out there with it.

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01:08:28,840 --> 01:08:30,960
Speaker 1: That's where the news happens, That's where the news happens.

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01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:32,800
Speaker 1: You know, we talk about this a lot. There's two

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Speaker 1: different types of people when it comes to social media.

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01:08:34,600 --> 01:08:36,960
Speaker 1: There's immigrants people you know, my age and your age

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01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:38,920
Speaker 1: that happened during our lifetimes. And then there's people like

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01:08:38,960 --> 01:08:41,639
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson and his group that have never known anything

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01:08:41,720 --> 01:08:44,960
Speaker 1: other than this, right, so like it's their way of communication,

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01:08:45,040 --> 01:08:46,840
Speaker 1: you know, it's their first thing that they want to do.

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Speaker 1: You know, we talked about this all the time. You

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01:08:48,280 --> 01:08:51,040
Speaker 1: go to a concert, instead of actually watching the concert,

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01:08:51,040 --> 01:08:53,439
Speaker 1: the thing you see everybody with their phone up recording

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01:08:53,439 --> 01:08:54,960
Speaker 1: the moment so that they can show off to their

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01:08:54,960 --> 01:08:56,800
Speaker 1: friends that they were here. And that's just kind of

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01:08:56,800 --> 01:08:59,360
Speaker 1: the nature of where we are now. And you know,

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Speaker 1: it's if you don't feel good about what you're doing

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01:09:01,680 --> 01:09:03,360
Speaker 1: in the digital space, if you're a business or anything

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01:09:03,400 --> 01:09:05,719
Speaker 1: like that, that concern is never going to get any smaller.

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01:09:06,400 --> 01:09:08,120
Speaker 1: You know, we can be like, oh, I wish you know,

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01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:10,000
Speaker 1: we could put the things this is the boat has

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01:09:10,040 --> 01:09:11,560
Speaker 1: left the dock. You know, this is the way that

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01:09:11,600 --> 01:09:14,479
Speaker 1: we're going to operate as a society. So we've got

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01:09:14,479 --> 01:09:16,400
Speaker 1: to find these ways to either you know, be smart,

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Speaker 1: be creative about it. But the way people feel like you.

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01:09:19,200 --> 01:09:21,280
Speaker 1: You know, your kids are probably upstairs or at their

1476
01:09:21,280 --> 01:09:24,400
Speaker 1: home watching iPads. They can probably use technology better than you,

1477
01:09:24,400 --> 01:09:26,040
Speaker 1: and this is just what they're going to become comfortable

1478
01:09:26,040 --> 01:09:27,439
Speaker 1: with in ten or fifteen years from now. It's going

1479
01:09:27,479 --> 01:09:30,120
Speaker 1: to be even more than norm So college football, the

1480
01:09:30,240 --> 01:09:35,679
Speaker 1: championship is Monday back, so it's very different social media wise,

1481
01:09:35,800 --> 01:09:40,479
Speaker 1: how NFL teams handle their business and college football programs

1482
01:09:40,520 --> 01:09:43,519
Speaker 1: handle their business. And recruiting is the main thrust behind that,

1483
01:09:43,640 --> 01:09:46,080
Speaker 1: for sure? Yeah? For sure? I mean, and so explain

1484
01:09:46,200 --> 01:09:48,160
Speaker 1: that now? Is that that's the way you get kids

1485
01:09:48,280 --> 01:09:53,200
Speaker 1: or that's a legal way to consistently publicize yourself, right, Yeah,

1486
01:09:53,280 --> 01:09:55,320
Speaker 1: haven't worked in both. I was at the SEC before this.

1487
01:09:56,080 --> 01:09:58,840
Speaker 1: The way college views it is there's buying. They may

1488
01:09:58,880 --> 01:10:01,000
Speaker 1: not want to do it, but they understand the importance

1489
01:10:01,040 --> 01:10:02,519
Speaker 1: of it because they look at it as a strict

1490
01:10:02,520 --> 01:10:05,280
Speaker 1: way I can recruit. I'm Dabbo Sweeney, I'm Nick Saban.

1491
01:10:05,640 --> 01:10:07,479
Speaker 1: You know, I know the way that I'm going to

1492
01:10:07,520 --> 01:10:10,439
Speaker 1: connect or get attention for the young kids that are

1493
01:10:10,439 --> 01:10:12,160
Speaker 1: fifteen to seventeen that I'm trying to recruit. Where are

1494
01:10:12,200 --> 01:10:13,960
Speaker 1: They're on social media? So I need to be there

1495
01:10:14,000 --> 01:10:17,639
Speaker 1: as well. Doesn't mean that, you know, they do fantastic stuff,

1496
01:10:17,640 --> 01:10:20,280
Speaker 1: but they understand the space is valuable, whereas in the NFL,

1497
01:10:20,880 --> 01:10:23,439
Speaker 1: you know, you're still trying to approach it form more

1498
01:10:23,479 --> 01:10:25,360
Speaker 1: of a storytelling aspect. You know, we want to tell

1499
01:10:25,360 --> 01:10:27,840
Speaker 1: the stories of our players. Bill O'Brien doesn't necessarily see

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01:10:28,040 --> 01:10:31,559
Speaker 1: a functional advantage in us using social media for Sunday, right,

1501
01:10:32,320 --> 01:10:34,639
Speaker 1: But it's it's not just him, I mean, yeah, most

1502
01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:36,599
Speaker 1: NFL coaches are like that. They view it more as

1503
01:10:36,600 --> 01:10:39,240
Speaker 1: a distraction because for them, you know, I don't see

1504
01:10:39,240 --> 01:10:41,439
Speaker 1: a tangible benefit from us doing this. I think that's

1505
01:10:41,479 --> 01:10:42,880
Speaker 1: our job, and you do a great job this as

1506
01:10:42,880 --> 01:10:44,800
Speaker 1: a leader of our department of explaining the importance of

1507
01:10:44,800 --> 01:10:48,160
Speaker 1: it within our organization so that we can then you know,

1508
01:10:48,200 --> 01:10:50,439
Speaker 1: tell stories, connect with our players and it's you know,

1509
01:10:50,479 --> 01:10:52,519
Speaker 1: it's a fun way to do that. Whereas in college

1510
01:10:52,800 --> 01:10:54,760
Speaker 1: they do all that, and you know, they also have

1511
01:10:54,840 --> 01:10:56,680
Speaker 1: the opportunity to say, listen, you know, this is the

1512
01:10:56,680 --> 01:10:58,599
Speaker 1: way that we're going to recruit x y Z Kid

1513
01:10:58,920 --> 01:11:01,360
Speaker 1: because they see it. So we're going to put resources

1514
01:11:01,360 --> 01:11:03,240
Speaker 1: into it because you know, that's something that we can

1515
01:11:03,280 --> 01:11:05,600
Speaker 1: see a tangible benefit from. Eric that's a lot for

1516
01:11:05,680 --> 01:11:08,240
Speaker 1: joining us. Great stuff. We are less than forty eight

1517
01:11:08,280 --> 01:11:11,759
Speaker 1: hours away from kickoff the Texans and the Colts fifth

1518
01:11:11,840 --> 01:11:14,840
Speaker 1: playoff game ever at NRG Stadium, and what a great

1519
01:11:14,840 --> 01:11:17,400
Speaker 1: opportunity to bring in the president of the Houston Texans,

1520
01:11:17,840 --> 01:11:20,559
Speaker 1: Jamie Roots. And Jamie five out of the last eight

1521
01:11:20,680 --> 01:11:22,759
Speaker 1: years the Texans have been in the postseason and hosted

1522
01:11:22,800 --> 01:11:25,760
Speaker 1: a postseason game, and that's really remarkable stuff. Yeah, it's great.

1523
01:11:25,760 --> 01:11:28,400
Speaker 1: It's a testament to the job that Bill O'Brien's done

1524
01:11:29,240 --> 01:11:33,120
Speaker 1: with Brian Gaine helping to solidify the talent on our team.

1525
01:11:33,160 --> 01:11:34,799
Speaker 1: You look at all the young kids that are stepping

1526
01:11:34,840 --> 01:11:36,720
Speaker 1: in and making a big difference for our football team.

1527
01:11:36,840 --> 01:11:38,640
Speaker 1: Some of the things that we're able to do in

1528
01:11:38,680 --> 01:11:42,559
Speaker 1: free agency that really bolstered our roster, and certainly Bill

1529
01:11:42,600 --> 01:11:45,200
Speaker 1: and his coaching staff deserve a tremendous amount of credit

1530
01:11:45,240 --> 01:11:47,120
Speaker 1: as well as our players. I mean, we've had a

1531
01:11:47,160 --> 01:11:49,600
Speaker 1: lot of the same faces around making an impact for

1532
01:11:49,640 --> 01:11:52,320
Speaker 1: this football team and welcome new faces that are making

1533
01:11:52,360 --> 01:11:56,080
Speaker 1: a difference. I know that it's not just because of this,

1534
01:11:56,160 --> 01:11:58,439
Speaker 1: but Bill O'Brien and Brian Gaine have talked about it.

1535
01:11:58,479 --> 01:12:01,200
Speaker 1: All the changes in the building. It's been very public

1536
01:12:01,240 --> 01:12:05,360
Speaker 1: about the sports performance that are the nutritional upgrades and

1537
01:12:05,439 --> 01:12:08,120
Speaker 1: everything that makes a difference over the law Hall. Physical

1538
01:12:08,160 --> 01:12:11,120
Speaker 1: facilities absolutely make a big difference. I mean, you want

1539
01:12:11,120 --> 01:12:12,680
Speaker 1: to feel proud of where you are. You want to

1540
01:12:12,680 --> 01:12:14,800
Speaker 1: make you want to be you want to be assured

1541
01:12:14,840 --> 01:12:18,240
Speaker 1: that you have all the resources you need to be successful.

1542
01:12:18,479 --> 01:12:21,040
Speaker 1: And fortunately for us, the mcnairs have always been so

1543
01:12:21,160 --> 01:12:24,320
Speaker 1: generous and gracious and whatever it is that we need

1544
01:12:24,360 --> 01:12:26,320
Speaker 1: in order to get our job done on the field.

1545
01:12:26,360 --> 01:12:29,280
Speaker 1: Off the field, they've invested in it because they want

1546
01:12:29,320 --> 01:12:33,040
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's not a line that most respected,

1547
01:12:33,120 --> 01:12:36,160
Speaker 1: most valuable professional sports franchise in the world. That's the vision.

1548
01:12:36,240 --> 01:12:37,519
Speaker 1: So if you're going to do that, you have to

1549
01:12:37,560 --> 01:12:40,320
Speaker 1: invest behind it, and absolutely have so. Hosting for the

1550
01:12:40,400 --> 01:12:42,880
Speaker 1: third time in the last four years, it's a habit

1551
01:12:42,960 --> 01:12:45,479
Speaker 1: that we want to really be in, right, I want

1552
01:12:45,479 --> 01:12:47,519
Speaker 1: to see this a lot. Well, winning is a habit,

1553
01:12:47,560 --> 01:12:49,680
Speaker 1: I mean it is you got to learn how to win,

1554
01:12:49,800 --> 01:12:52,160
Speaker 1: and then you know you've got to stay disciplined and

1555
01:12:52,200 --> 01:12:54,920
Speaker 1: focused and continue to work because the work is what's

1556
01:12:54,920 --> 01:12:56,920
Speaker 1: gotten you there. And certainly we have a team that

1557
01:12:56,960 --> 01:12:59,280
Speaker 1: does that. Off the field. We've got the same kind

1558
01:12:59,280 --> 01:13:03,040
Speaker 1: of crew. I mean, we realize that these opportunities to

1559
01:13:03,160 --> 01:13:06,400
Speaker 1: host playoff games are limited and it's a wonderful chance

1560
01:13:06,400 --> 01:13:09,040
Speaker 1: for us to bring our fans in and celebrate the

1561
01:13:09,040 --> 01:13:11,800
Speaker 1: most awesome time of the year. Well, you and I

1562
01:13:11,840 --> 01:13:13,840
Speaker 1: have been seeing it all week, but fans coming to

1563
01:13:13,880 --> 01:13:16,439
Speaker 1: the game, we'll see it. Anybody driving by Energy Stadium

1564
01:13:16,439 --> 01:13:20,080
Speaker 1: sees the gigantic banners, the vertical ones as they playoffs,

1565
01:13:20,120 --> 01:13:21,559
Speaker 1: and there's a whole lot of other stuff as well,

1566
01:13:21,600 --> 01:13:24,240
Speaker 1: but those things really stand out to me. And let's

1567
01:13:24,240 --> 01:13:26,960
Speaker 1: you know where we're at here at this time of year. Well,

1568
01:13:27,160 --> 01:13:29,120
Speaker 1: and our fans will be coming out early and we

1569
01:13:29,200 --> 01:13:31,280
Speaker 1: encourage them too. I mean, we have the best tailgators

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01:13:31,280 --> 01:13:33,839
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. We'll be having the playoff

1571
01:13:34,000 --> 01:13:37,559
Speaker 1: edition of Tailgator of the Year. We'll have a chance

1572
01:13:37,600 --> 01:13:39,640
Speaker 1: to take the cap to Joe con who was the

1573
01:13:41,080 --> 01:13:44,360
Speaker 1: commissioner of Tailgating of unfortunately passed away this week, but

1574
01:13:44,439 --> 01:13:48,479
Speaker 1: he had a tremendous impact on the tailgating culture that

1575
01:13:48,560 --> 01:13:51,160
Speaker 1: we have established here. I mean, we have a role

1576
01:13:51,200 --> 01:13:54,240
Speaker 1: to play, but our tailgators are so incredible they'll be here.

1577
01:13:54,280 --> 01:13:56,920
Speaker 1: But we have ask fans getting your seats early. We

1578
01:13:56,960 --> 01:13:59,680
Speaker 1: need a tremendous home field advantage. The whole theme is

1579
01:13:59,720 --> 01:14:03,080
Speaker 1: going to be about three words, beat the Colts and

1580
01:14:03,120 --> 01:14:05,240
Speaker 1: you're gonna hear that over and over. Got some great

1581
01:14:05,360 --> 01:14:07,559
Speaker 1: entertainment for the fans. Flow Rider, who I'm a big

1582
01:14:07,600 --> 01:14:11,639
Speaker 1: fan of, multi platinum recording artists. Over one hundred million

1583
01:14:11,720 --> 01:14:14,839
Speaker 1: records sold by flow Rider. He's going to perform at halftime,

1584
01:14:14,920 --> 01:14:17,280
Speaker 1: high energy, you know, just to It's gonna be buzzing

1585
01:14:17,360 --> 01:14:19,240
Speaker 1: all day long. So make sure you get your rest

1586
01:14:19,320 --> 01:14:21,080
Speaker 1: here at the end of the week so you're ready

1587
01:14:21,080 --> 01:14:23,519
Speaker 1: to go for three hours strong for the Houston Texans,

1588
01:14:23,840 --> 01:14:26,080
Speaker 1: hopefully walk away with a victory over the Colts. Well,

1589
01:14:26,080 --> 01:14:28,360
Speaker 1: it's a big week in the NFL, no doubt. These

1590
01:14:28,360 --> 01:14:31,639
Speaker 1: matchups are terrific, starting with the Texans and the Colts.

1591
01:14:31,680 --> 01:14:33,840
Speaker 1: But what about the year that the NFL has had

1592
01:14:33,920 --> 01:14:36,120
Speaker 1: Jamie as a league. This has been a banner year

1593
01:14:36,200 --> 01:14:38,320
Speaker 1: for the National Football League. Well, hats off to the

1594
01:14:38,640 --> 01:14:42,600
Speaker 1: league staff, particularly the broadcast department. You know, guys like

1595
01:14:42,640 --> 01:14:46,880
Speaker 1: Howard Katz and and the whole crew that have really

1596
01:14:46,920 --> 01:14:50,160
Speaker 1: done a deep dive into how do we, you know,

1597
01:14:50,360 --> 01:14:53,080
Speaker 1: keep people and bring people back into the fold and

1598
01:14:53,120 --> 01:14:56,320
Speaker 1: get the next generation into the National Football League. Nice

1599
01:14:56,400 --> 01:14:59,400
Speaker 1: ratings bump this year with five percent year over years.

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01:14:59,439 --> 01:15:02,920
Speaker 1: It's trending right direction. Digital streams are, you know, doubling

1601
01:15:03,000 --> 01:15:05,160
Speaker 1: year over years, so that and those aren't even counted

1602
01:15:05,200 --> 01:15:08,160
Speaker 1: in those ratings. So the league's done a great job

1603
01:15:08,200 --> 01:15:10,280
Speaker 1: bringing the fans back to the game that they love

1604
01:15:10,360 --> 01:15:12,599
Speaker 1: so much. And here in Houston, our fans are back

1605
01:15:12,640 --> 01:15:15,120
Speaker 1: in a big way. Twenty two percent ratings increase year

1606
01:15:15,160 --> 01:15:18,160
Speaker 1: every year for the Houston Texans. Our priority wait list

1607
01:15:18,360 --> 01:15:23,080
Speaker 1: is approaching thirty thousand, beyond the sold out audience that

1608
01:15:23,160 --> 01:15:26,320
Speaker 1: we have here on game day. So things are heading

1609
01:15:26,320 --> 01:15:28,759
Speaker 1: in the right direction. You can never take anything for granted.

1610
01:15:28,840 --> 01:15:31,320
Speaker 1: Every game is an opportunity for us to earn the

1611
01:15:31,400 --> 01:15:34,679
Speaker 1: loyalty of our fans. You feel it here in the building.

1612
01:15:34,760 --> 01:15:36,920
Speaker 1: Sure everybody's working their tail off to make sure that

1613
01:15:37,040 --> 01:15:40,160
Speaker 1: Saturday is the best performance we've ever had and then

1614
01:15:40,160 --> 01:15:42,519
Speaker 1: we'll move on from there. Jamie Roots, president of the

1615
01:15:42,520 --> 01:15:45,160
Speaker 1: Texans with us. You mentioned the priority wait list and

1616
01:15:45,400 --> 01:15:48,400
Speaker 1: it's no small thing that the Texans have this gigantic

1617
01:15:48,479 --> 01:15:51,040
Speaker 1: list of names of people who are waiting to purchase

1618
01:15:51,080 --> 01:15:54,200
Speaker 1: season tickets if they get the opportunity, and they often

1619
01:15:54,560 --> 01:15:56,920
Speaker 1: most often don't get the opportunity. It might happen, it

1620
01:15:57,000 --> 01:15:59,679
Speaker 1: might not. But what do you attribute that to, Jamie?

1621
01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:02,559
Speaker 1: All the sellouts and everything besides the team doing well.

1622
01:16:02,600 --> 01:16:04,840
Speaker 1: We mentioned five out of the last eight years in

1623
01:16:04,880 --> 01:16:07,679
Speaker 1: the posties. That's great stuff, But how do you account

1624
01:16:07,760 --> 01:16:10,479
Speaker 1: for that? Well, Mark, I'll tell you you go from

1625
01:16:10,520 --> 01:16:15,320
Speaker 1: two years ago a playoff team right to four and twelve.

1626
01:16:15,720 --> 01:16:19,080
Speaker 1: With all the issues we faced. Last year, our turnstyle

1627
01:16:19,080 --> 01:16:23,439
Speaker 1: attendance only went down by point five percent, same number

1628
01:16:23,439 --> 01:16:26,040
Speaker 1: of people in the building, and then this year it's

1629
01:16:26,080 --> 01:16:28,639
Speaker 1: only gone up by point seven percent, because it's never

1630
01:16:28,680 --> 01:16:33,439
Speaker 1: gone down. And so I just think we've really listened

1631
01:16:33,479 --> 01:16:36,679
Speaker 1: closely to our fans. I've read over and over whoever

1632
01:16:36,720 --> 01:16:39,599
Speaker 1: owns the customer, the voice of the customer wins the day.

1633
01:16:39,640 --> 01:16:41,920
Speaker 1: And so we work very hard to make sure that

1634
01:16:41,960 --> 01:16:45,360
Speaker 1: the experience we provide for our fans is exceptional, something

1635
01:16:45,560 --> 01:16:48,960
Speaker 1: they crave, something they can't get anywhere else. And certainly

1636
01:16:49,000 --> 01:16:51,280
Speaker 1: the core of it is the game of football. Football.

1637
01:16:51,840 --> 01:16:54,519
Speaker 1: Everybody loves the game of football, but what else because

1638
01:16:54,560 --> 01:16:57,000
Speaker 1: you can watch at home, and so we're providing an

1639
01:16:57,000 --> 01:16:59,479
Speaker 1: experience here that's so engaging that people choose to get

1640
01:16:59,479 --> 01:17:01,920
Speaker 1: off their co to purchase tickets and come out and go,

1641
01:17:01,960 --> 01:17:04,360
Speaker 1: and we are so thankful for it. They provide a

1642
01:17:04,360 --> 01:17:08,600
Speaker 1: tremendous home field advantage. I love personally interact with our fans.

1643
01:17:08,240 --> 01:17:11,640
Speaker 1: They're they're so great. Yeah, I send you videos and hey,

1644
01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:14,760
Speaker 1: here's the Texans lifer, right. I mean, these people live

1645
01:17:15,360 --> 01:17:18,800
Speaker 1: for the opportunity to connect to something bigger than themselves,

1646
01:17:19,120 --> 01:17:22,480
Speaker 1: and it's our responsibility to ensure that we conduct ourselves

1647
01:17:22,640 --> 01:17:25,120
Speaker 1: at the highest level so that what they are affiliating

1648
01:17:25,120 --> 01:17:28,679
Speaker 1: with is of the greatest value possible. Well, no small

1649
01:17:28,720 --> 01:17:31,320
Speaker 1: thing in the building, and you know, people might look

1650
01:17:31,360 --> 01:17:32,840
Speaker 1: at it as a small thing, but it's really not.

1651
01:17:32,880 --> 01:17:36,080
Speaker 1: As the food and the food has really I mean,

1652
01:17:36,120 --> 01:17:38,599
Speaker 1: it's always been good, but it's unbelievable now. I mean

1653
01:17:38,680 --> 01:17:40,760
Speaker 1: I had some killings last week and I thought, you know,

1654
01:17:40,800 --> 01:17:43,760
Speaker 1: I just want to eat here, never mind restaurants around town. Well,

1655
01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:48,000
Speaker 1: you you have killings, you have ninfas on navigation, you've

1656
01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:51,559
Speaker 1: got food ruckers, you've got antones, po boys, and then

1657
01:17:51,560 --> 01:17:54,200
Speaker 1: in various places you've got throughout the year, we've had

1658
01:17:54,240 --> 01:17:58,160
Speaker 1: four James Beard award winning chefs preparing food for our

1659
01:17:58,200 --> 01:18:00,320
Speaker 1: fans here you know, Chris Shepherd, and then on down

1660
01:18:00,360 --> 01:18:03,479
Speaker 1: the line justin you and the whole crew. So anyway,

1661
01:18:03,479 --> 01:18:07,280
Speaker 1: we're trying to provide the finest dining experience that could be.

1662
01:18:07,400 --> 01:18:11,200
Speaker 1: That is a celebration of the culinary capital of the South.

1663
01:18:11,600 --> 01:18:14,000
Speaker 1: That's what our fans are expecting. Again, you're here to

1664
01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:16,360
Speaker 1: see the game, but all these other things that are around,

1665
01:18:16,360 --> 01:18:18,720
Speaker 1: the way people treat you, how easy it is to

1666
01:18:18,760 --> 01:18:21,280
Speaker 1: get in and out, the quality of the entertainment that

1667
01:18:21,280 --> 01:18:23,400
Speaker 1: we provide an addition to the game, all makes a

1668
01:18:23,439 --> 01:18:26,120
Speaker 1: big difference, and so we sweat the details. We have

1669
01:18:26,200 --> 01:18:29,960
Speaker 1: several programs throughout the offseason called one's called STEP, which

1670
01:18:30,040 --> 01:18:32,880
Speaker 1: is Success through Excellent Planning, which brings everybody involved in

1671
01:18:32,960 --> 01:18:35,200
Speaker 1: game day, figures out how we can get better and

1672
01:18:35,240 --> 01:18:37,800
Speaker 1: goes about making that happen big changes from year to year.

1673
01:18:38,040 --> 01:18:41,160
Speaker 1: And we have something called the Game Experience Management System GEMS,

1674
01:18:41,479 --> 01:18:44,960
Speaker 1: where we're always thinking about interactivity and engagement and you know,

1675
01:18:45,000 --> 01:18:46,800
Speaker 1: getting fans. You don't want to just watch the game,

1676
01:18:46,840 --> 01:18:49,800
Speaker 1: you want to participate, and those teams really do an

1677
01:18:49,800 --> 01:18:52,800
Speaker 1: excellent job your you know, Bills, it's a get better league. Right.

1678
01:18:52,960 --> 01:18:54,960
Speaker 1: It's the same thing for us off the field. You know,

1679
01:18:55,000 --> 01:18:57,160
Speaker 1: you can never ut you're either getting better or getting worse,

1680
01:18:57,200 --> 01:18:59,360
Speaker 1: and so our focus is always on Okay, that was

1681
01:18:59,400 --> 01:19:01,439
Speaker 1: really good. How do we do it even better? What

1682
01:19:01,520 --> 01:19:04,320
Speaker 1: about the bowl game? Both start sports and entertainment. You're

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Speaker 1: also the president of that. Now that was like six

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Speaker 1: months ago, right, It seems like it seems like forever,

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Speaker 1: but it was. It was a great experience. We had

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Speaker 1: a we had a great game, and two outstanding institutions

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Speaker 1: represented great student athletes in Baylor and Vanderbilt. In fact,

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Speaker 1: today it was rated the number one game of all

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Speaker 1: the college bowl games inclusive of the college football playoffs

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Speaker 1: by College College Football News. Our average attendance now is

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Speaker 1: at sixty six thousand, which LEAK keeps us as the

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Speaker 1: number one non CFP game for the last five years.

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Speaker 1: We're top five overall. And we had a spectacular, energized

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Speaker 1: crowd and that's what's most important. I mean, people want

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Speaker 1: to come back to energy and excitement and enthusiasm, and

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Speaker 1: we absolutely delivered it. And then outside the bowl week,

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Speaker 1: being both teams set and these athletic directors and the

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Speaker 1: people involved in the administration have been to bowls all

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Speaker 1: over the country, including the very best, like the Rose

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01:19:58,320 --> 01:20:02,000
Speaker 1: Bowl said the best bowl experience that they've ever had.

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Speaker 1: And that's really important to us, not only because that's

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Speaker 1: our job, that's what we're trying to get accomplished, but

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Speaker 1: it helps to build the brand of Houston. These are

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Speaker 1: people coming from all over the country, may have never

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Speaker 1: been here before, and if they're treated with truly authentic

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Speaker 1: Texas style hospitality, they're gonna go back and tell their

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Speaker 1: friends how great Houston is. The economic impact is absolutely unquestioned.

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Speaker 1: And so this is our thirteenth year, but I think

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Speaker 1: the best is the best is yet to come. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a big year for Lone Star Sports

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Speaker 1: and entertainment with the Texas Kickoff, the Advocate of Texas Kickoff.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be Washington State and the University of Houston's

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Speaker 1: you have Holgerson versus Mike Leach. This is awesome. Cougars

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Speaker 1: versus Cougars. I guess you can't use that when you're

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Speaker 1: calling the game right and then so that is a

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Speaker 1: great way to start the college football season for us.

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Speaker 1: And then of course we're bringing Texas and Rice. You know,

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Speaker 1: an old Southwest Conference showdown that will have to day.

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Speaker 1: It's back to back days, so we're gonna we're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to hump it. So but anyway, when you have

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Speaker 1: those opportunities, you got to slot them in and that

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Speaker 1: so that first game is going to be great with

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Speaker 1: Washington State and University of Houston. Anytime we can have

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Speaker 1: our two great institutions in our building, we want to

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Speaker 1: do that battle the Ponnie Woods. You know, it continues

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Speaker 1: right here. We've got Gold Cup that'll be coming to Houston.

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Speaker 1: We'll be hosting one of the opening round matches probably

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Speaker 1: do include Mexico, although we haven't heard that one hundred

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Speaker 1: percent for sure yet. And then and then the Bowl

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Speaker 1: game and who knows what else we'll pull off. All right, Jamie,

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Speaker 1: thanks allot for joining us. Good luck this Saturday. Thank

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Speaker 1: you Mark. So our two hour adventure comes to it,

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Speaker 1: and what a show this was with John McClain, John Harris,

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Speaker 1: James Palmer, Eric Sono the Cencio. Jamie roots a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun stuff, a lot of deep dives and do

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Speaker 1: a lot of different things, and that's the way we

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Speaker 1: like it. Tomorrow night, Johnny Harris, has you Matt Taylor,

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Speaker 1: Voice of the Colts, among others, will be on. Andre

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Speaker 1: Howe at DPCITO. We've got a great show for you.

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Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien, we'll be on as well, So let's get

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Speaker 1: into that tomorrow and all the TV shows we have

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Speaker 1: starting out Saturday. I'm just gonna promote one here nine

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Speaker 1: thirty am on KPRC Local two. It's Texans Game Day

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Speaker 1: with Bill O'Brien, Randy mcilvoy and me. Geez I promoted

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Speaker 1: something with me and and how dare I? This is

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Speaker 1: what I do? Okay, anyway, it's great to have you listening.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for being a part of it. Tonight,

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Speaker 1: Go Texans.