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Speaker 1: by forty thirty forty ten time touchdown Joston. There is

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Speaker 1: no off season for your Houston Texans. Game Day is

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Speaker 1: every day. No, it's Texans All Elexans Welcome into Texans

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Speaker 1: All Access. Happy NFL Draft Day. We're kicking off three

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Speaker 1: days of coverage with tonight's All Access Mark vandamer John

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Speaker 1: Harris will be on a little bit later, but first

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Speaker 1: it's a Draft day tradition, myself and the General John

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Speaker 1: McLain for a little pre draft Texans All Access. John,

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Speaker 1: are you there? Hi'm here DP. How are you? I'm great.

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Speaker 1: I'm really happy that I'm not doing this show from

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Speaker 1: my bedroom like i was last year. So this year

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Speaker 1: where I'm in Sports Radio six ten, the studios here

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Speaker 1: off of inside of Greenway Plaza. You are where John, exactly,

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Speaker 1: I'm at home more. I've benned since we started doing

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Speaker 1: I do miss being in the press box for the picks.

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Speaker 1: Although Day three gets kind of slow with it being

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Speaker 1: tell you something a minute mentioned slow before you were born.

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Speaker 1: so it's a fine time of the year. And I'm

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Speaker 1: already thinking about the Texans draft in two thousand and

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Speaker 1: plenty to be interested in. Is just such such an

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Speaker 1: the Aaron Rodgers reports. It seems like they're really taking

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Speaker 1: Deep Yeah, you're right, John, and I you know, I

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Speaker 1: I think maybe he's just angling for a contract extension

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Speaker 1: you can't operate that way here. But what to Sarrio

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Speaker 1: has done by bringing in thirty seven new players, He's

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Speaker 1: made it where they they have needs almost every position,

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Speaker 1: but not one is so glaring that he and Matt

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Speaker 1: Bazigan at James Liftford they said, Okay, we got to

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Speaker 1: find a corner you know, I think their biggest needs

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Speaker 1: a cornerback. Even though they've signed four defensive line because

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Speaker 1: you never have enough pass rushers. I think they specially

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Speaker 1: need a guy to play tackle. And love Ee Smith's

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Speaker 1: four three. I think because they're going for two to

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Speaker 1: four to three for the first time since twenty ten

439
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Speaker 1: as the base defense, and they'll play three four as well.

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Speaker 1: But I think when you make that kind of change,

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Speaker 1: you got to have different kind of players in your

442
00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:26,679
Speaker 1: front seven, and they'll get smaller, they'll get faster, quicker,

443
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:28,600
Speaker 1: they'll get off the ball and get up the field

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Speaker 1: on the line. And they got a lot of candidates,

445
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Speaker 1: but not somebody where you go right now, uhha, that

446
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 1: guy is going to be great. You got outside linebackers

447
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Speaker 1: moving to defensive end. So I feel confident that they'll

448
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:45,920
Speaker 1: come away with more defense than offense. And if you

449
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Speaker 1: think about it, on offense, he needs a third quarterback. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm not counting to Shaun Watson because I don't think

451
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Speaker 1: he'll be on the team when the season starts, but

452
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Speaker 1: so you got to have a third quarterback. He signed

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Speaker 1: to Rod Taylor, he traded for Ryan Finley. So I'm

454
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Speaker 1: guessing he's going to draft a quarterback just because of interest,

455
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Speaker 1: you know, for to talk about to write about having

456
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Speaker 1: a quarterback in the third round would generate more of

457
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Speaker 1: a buzz, especially if it's Kellen Mahn from A and

458
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Speaker 1: M or Kyle Trash from Houston and But I don't

459
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Speaker 1: seem using that pick on a running back or a safety,

460
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Speaker 1: but just about any other position. But he signed so

461
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Speaker 1: many linemen, I'll say this, I don't think he'll draft

462
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Speaker 1: an offensive lineman. If they played tomorrow DP, their top

463
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Speaker 1: three receivers be Brandon Cooks, Randall Cobb and Kiqt, so

464
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 1: they need another receiver. Isaiah Coulter didn't get on the field.

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Speaker 1: They've signed three I think veterans, But if there was

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Speaker 1: somebody he really liked in the third round, I could

467
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Speaker 1: seem taking a receiver. But I still feel confident that

468
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Speaker 1: first pick is going to be defense. Yeah I would,

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Speaker 1: I would agree with you. But if you combine the

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Speaker 1: defensive lineman and the linebackers group together, the Texans have

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Speaker 1: twenty three players on their roster. But I think you're right.

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Speaker 1: I think moving from a three four to a four

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Speaker 1: three it's a different skill set. Maybe you've got a

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Speaker 1: different vision for what sort of player you want to

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Speaker 1: fit in those spots, so I would I would go

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Speaker 1: defense too, although I do always like it when we

477
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Speaker 1: draft offensive players. I think it's kind of exciting to

478
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Speaker 1: write about a new wide receiver running back. So we'll see.

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Speaker 1: We'll have to wait till tomorrow. Unless something crazy happens tonight,

480
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Speaker 1: which I'm not predicting or foreseeing for the Texans. Well,

481
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,600
Speaker 1: we'll keep watching tonight's draft and see what happens tomorrow. John,

482
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 1: You'll be watching the draft from tonight, and then you'll

483
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Speaker 1: be writing stories and where else can people follow your stuff?

484
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Speaker 1: Texas Sports Nation and everything we do columns, podcast, TV show, Twitter, Twitter,

485
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:49,640
Speaker 1: everything we've got goes on Texas SportsNation dot com. Thank

486
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 1: you very much. It's a tradition that I always enjoy

487
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,320
Speaker 1: have fun with a draft, and I'll hope to see

488
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Speaker 1: you very soon somewhere besides on a zooe. I agree, John,

489
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,159
Speaker 1: and my pleasure. It's always fun catching up with you

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Speaker 1: before the draft. Thanks so much. Have a great draft

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Speaker 1: week and coming up, we've got the very very the

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Speaker 1: one and only John Harris. He'll be joining me a

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Speaker 1: little bit later on the show. We've got Mark Vandermer.

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Speaker 1: We got more pre draft coverage right before Texans Draft

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Speaker 1: Live kicks off at seven pm. Right now, it's Texans

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Speaker 1: All Access. Will be write back with more draft coverage.

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Speaker 1: You don't go anywhere touchdown, Texans Radio continues in a moment,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the conversation. It's Texans All Excess on

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio. Welcome back to Texans All Access dpcity joining

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Speaker 1: you on a draft day pre Draft Texans All Access

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Speaker 1: as we head into what thirty more less than thirty

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Speaker 1: minutes until the twenty twenty one draft begins. And right

503
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 1: now I've got John Harris with me. It's Johnny. This

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00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: is the first time we have done radio in person,

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00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: face to face in an over a year. I just

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Speaker 1: realized that is so sad. Like that makes me truly

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Speaker 1: truly sad. I mean of and I'm not saying this

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00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:13,399
Speaker 1: because I'm on the air. You are one of my

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00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:15,400
Speaker 1: favorite human beings on the face of this earth, and

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Speaker 1: I just I hate that. I mean, that's what this,

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Speaker 1: that's what this has done. I mean, you know, Mark

512
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 1: and I we talk a lot. Obviously, we're you know,

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00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: we do zooms a lot. I mean, this is the

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Speaker 1: first time I've seen him and I don't know how long,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's just odd. I thought about this the

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Speaker 1: other day when I went into building and I was

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Speaker 1: in the building for the first time in a little while,

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Speaker 1: and I'd been talking to guys like Tyler Marcott and

519
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:38,959
Speaker 1: Tyler Shuttarth who do a lot of our do our

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Speaker 1: videography and do just a tremendous, tremendous job of all

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Speaker 1: our TV shows. And I saw them and I just

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00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 1: was kind of like, we're a like my little brothers

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Speaker 1: in some sense because they're way younger than us, and

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Speaker 1: I just I love seeing them. And it was like,

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Speaker 1: because I hadn't seen him in so long, I felt

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Speaker 1: like my social skills were like off. You know, I'm

527
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Speaker 1: just off. I was so happy to see them, but

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Speaker 1: it was like I was speaking Yoda to them. It

529
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 1: was like happy day you two. You know, have you

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Speaker 1: noticed that when you run into people like I spend

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00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: like I am a chatty person anyway, but now when

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Speaker 1: I see someone, I spend so much longer talking to

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Speaker 1: them because you just really like I didn't realize how

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Speaker 1: much I missed in person, Like I actually enjoyed being home.

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Speaker 1: I was cool with it. Yeah, and then I started

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Speaker 1: going back to the office. And then I came home

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Speaker 1: and I told my husband. I was like, I really

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Speaker 1: like being in the office just for the socializing, Like

539
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Speaker 1: I still can get work done. And he said, do

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Speaker 1: you not know who you are? Like, why are you

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Speaker 1: surprised that you like being around people? Yeah, I guess

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Speaker 1: I just sort of forgot. But now that we're actually

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Speaker 1: doing radio and person, I'm excited. I'm excited that you

544
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Speaker 1: guys get to do the draft in person and not

545
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Speaker 1: from your respective homes for the next three days, because

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Speaker 1: I don't know how. I think it's it's just hard

547
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 1: to do radio like that anyway, and then you know,

548
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Speaker 1: you want to bounce things off of each other, and

549
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 1: you just you guys naturally have that report anyway. But

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Speaker 1: I want to ask, you know, heading into draft week,

551
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Speaker 1: this is this is really your time to shine, Johnny.

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00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 1: We all joke about it for like a leading up

553
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Speaker 1: to the draft, like it's John Harris time, He's got

554
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Speaker 1: the John Harris one hundred. That is um, in my

555
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Speaker 1: husband's words, the best the single best piece of content

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Speaker 1: that anyone produces anywhere, anywhere, and and we all and yeah,

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Speaker 1: Sean's and I totally agree with you with him as well.

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Speaker 1: But how do you prepare for these next three days?

559
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 1: I know it starts like last It started like last year,

560
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Speaker 1: but just for the draft and knowing all these guys,

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Speaker 1: the recall, remembering who gets drafted when, because I know,

562
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Speaker 1: names start to jumble together in my mind. How do

563
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,719
Speaker 1: you keep everybody straight and what you want your You're

564
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Speaker 1: talking points about each particular player. It's so funny you

565
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Speaker 1: say that, because the other day I had had a

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Speaker 1: thought as I looked at my Harris one hundred and

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Speaker 1: so I have a sheet I haven't excelled. Uh I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: Google sheet, but I have every position kind of broken down,

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Speaker 1: and then I've got to, you know, all their different heights,

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Speaker 1: weight speeds, all that kind of stuff. And then I've

571
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Speaker 1: got a column in which I've got an evaluation, you know,

572
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Speaker 1: right up on them, and a lot of them are long.

573
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Speaker 1: But I've got so many players in there that I'm like, man,

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Speaker 1: should I take some of these and to shorten them

575
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Speaker 1: to like, you know, three words short stout, which you

576
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Speaker 1: know something, you know, that makes for the radio a

577
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 1: little bit easier, But there's so much time on the

578
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Speaker 1: radio to expand on it. I don't really feel like

579
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Speaker 1: I've got to do that. But there there are times

580
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Speaker 1: where where I'm like, Okay, wait a second, when did

581
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Speaker 1: I watch that guy? I watched him back in Okay,

582
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Speaker 1: I watched I study in February. So some guys I

583
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Speaker 1: go back and I watch again, and then some guys

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Speaker 1: I go back and I end up just watching them

585
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Speaker 1: because I'm watching somebody else. You know, I'm getting my

586
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Speaker 1: final pieces together on a particular player, and it's like

587
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Speaker 1: this other guy keeps showing up, like, Okay, are my

588
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 1: notes right on this guy? Do I like? Do I

589
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Speaker 1: like this guy? There are always guys I say for

590
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Speaker 1: the very end. Collie Wearing was one of those guys

591
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Speaker 1: because I had heard hi him at San Diego State,

592
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Speaker 1: but he was a junior. I knew he hadn't played

593
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Speaker 1: a lot of football, so I was I was not

594
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Speaker 1: expecting him to player. So he then does, and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: oh crap. So I knew I was behind the eight

596
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: ball on him, and so I was like, you know what,

597
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Speaker 1: He's gonna be one of those guys I just have

598
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: to save to the very end. He goes to combody

599
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 1: crushed the combine. Now I'm even more intrigued. I watched him,

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Speaker 1: I think three days before the draft, at three games

601
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Speaker 1: of him, and I watched him. I'm like, oh, man,

602
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Speaker 1: I love this guy. I love him. I love everything

603
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Speaker 1: about him. Collie just hasn't been able to stay in

604
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Speaker 1: the field as too healthy, and I think if he can,

605
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Speaker 1: I think we'll see something from him. It's no matter

606
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Speaker 1: whether he could stay healthy. And I mean that's a

607
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 1: big factor. Kyle Shannon talked about it with Jimmy Garoppolo.

608
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Speaker 1: We talked about it for years with Will Fuller. If

609
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Speaker 1: a guy could just get on the field, we could

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Speaker 1: see what he could do. And I think ye. But

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Speaker 1: Collie was one of those guys I just I say

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Speaker 1: for the very end, and that's happened a few times,

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Speaker 1: guys at the very end where I'm like, oh wow.

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Speaker 1: Breshott Perriman was another one of those guys. I remember

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Speaker 1: watching Brashote Perriman the very and going, Wow, this guy's

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Speaker 1: got he's got some ability. And he's been around the

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Speaker 1: league I think now for six seven years and done

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Speaker 1: a very good job, but it's hard. It helps to

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Speaker 1: have that document in front of me just to make sure,

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Speaker 1: like I know, I know, I think I know what

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Speaker 1: I want to say, but I got to make sure

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Speaker 1: that it jabs with up my notes. Say so, I've

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Speaker 1: always I've got that with me at all times, and

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Speaker 1: I'll share it with you and Mark and Drew if

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Speaker 1: you want it. I would be thrilled. Okay. The other

626
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Speaker 1: the other question I have because I feel like now

627
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Speaker 1: in the last few years, we've kind of gotten a

628
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Speaker 1: sense of the sort of players that Texans would draft.

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Speaker 1: Now you've got Nicko Sirio, you've got David Culley, you've

630
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Speaker 1: got a brand new coaching staff, you've got Lovey Smith.

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Speaker 1: Do you still feel like you have a good sense of, Hey,

632
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Speaker 1: this is a guy that would fit this team or

633
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Speaker 1: is it? It just seems like there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: intangible qualities that coaches and general managers and scouting departments

635
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Speaker 1: look for. Now the scouting department for the Texans, there's

636
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Speaker 1: a lot. There's a lot of playover. There's Matt Basserger

637
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Speaker 1: and this James Lippworth. There's still some of the same

638
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Speaker 1: guys that you've seen in the past. If they've looked

639
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Speaker 1: at how hard is it this year heading into this

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Speaker 1: year's draft to sort of know, hey, this this would

641
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 1: be a good a good player that the Texans might want. Well,

642
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing is the change in defense,

643
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: going from a three four to four three. I asked

644
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 1: love you about that. I said, is too much made

645
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 1: about that? And you said no, I don't think. So

646
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: he goes, it's a it's a different it's a different animal,

647
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: especially for those outside guys. There's a different type of

648
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:10,280
Speaker 1: player that you're you're looking for in four man fronts

649
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,879
Speaker 1: versus three man fronts. It's just that that's the way

650
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:14,879
Speaker 1: it is. He said, no, I don't think. I don't

651
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 1: think too much is made of it. I think it

652
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 1: is a legit thing. And so you start looking at guys.

653
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 1: For example, I was talking to a buddy of mine,

654
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 1: today's agent. He's asking me about quitty pay defensive end

655
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: from Michigan, and a lot of times I just have

656
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 1: a column called edge, and that's where I put guys

657
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: that are four three defensive ends three four outside linebackers,

658
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 1: and there's a distinct difference between them. You know, A

659
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,240
Speaker 1: Zizos large from Georgia he's a three four outside linebacker.

660
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 1: I don't know that he could hold up as a

661
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: four three defensive end. So as much as I love

662
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:48,880
Speaker 1: him and said the Texas did have a pick and

663
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 1: at range where he would be available, it would be

664
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 1: tough because he's two hundred and forty three pounds. Now,

665
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: he's physical, everything you want and an outside guy, but

666
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: I just don't think he could hold up in a

667
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: four to three quit. He pays two hundred and seventy

668
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,319
Speaker 1: two pounds. Now, that's a four three defensive end. So

669
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 1: that change right off the bat. That's there. But Mike

670
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 1: Guy tells me that the same sort of things that

671
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:15,879
Speaker 1: they were looking for, you know, tough m guys that

672
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 1: were versatile, guys that could do a few different things,

673
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 1: but guys they could rely on, guys that didn't have

674
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,720
Speaker 1: a lot off the field red flags, those sort of things.

675
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 1: I think that's still going to be there. So I

676
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:30,840
Speaker 1: think there are some guys that I kind of I

677
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,279
Speaker 1: kind of have over the side that I've I've put

678
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 1: in the Harris one hundred or in my hairs to

679
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 1: fifty actually, and and I've studied them because I've tried

680
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 1: to have a holistic view on everybody. But I got

681
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 1: a feeling that guy's not going to be a text

682
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 1: and that doesn't that guy doesn't fit what it is

683
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 1: that we're about. I don't think that's the kind of

684
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: guy we're gonna get. But I do think from a

685
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: you know, twitchy, explosiveness, those sort of things, I think

686
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 1: those are going to be pretty similar across the board.

687
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:01,759
Speaker 1: I think the biggest change will just be that on

688
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 1: the defensive line in particular, and at the linebacker position.

689
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 1: I think that's the other one, because you were looking

690
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: at guys that could play inside linebacker or what we

691
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 1: perceives inside linebacker. Now, if you're in a four to

692
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: three and you're in your base set that will linebacker, it,

693
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,319
Speaker 1: it can be really interesting what you do with that

694
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 1: will linebacker could be a guy that's, you know, two

695
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:21,800
Speaker 1: hundred twenty five, two hundred and thirty, can run a

696
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: little bit. Can also be a guy that's maybe like

697
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:27,360
Speaker 1: two fifteen and really can fly. And it's kind of

698
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 1: a hybrid safety linebacker mix sort of thing too. So

699
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 1: that's another thing. We didn't really kind of have that

700
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: with the three four in a Romeo, but we could

701
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 1: have it in a four to three under Levey, So

702
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:41,839
Speaker 1: there are gonna be some some subtle differences in what

703
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:46,320
Speaker 1: they're looking for looking for from that aspect, but my

704
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 1: gut tells me that they'll be looking for players that

705
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:55,359
Speaker 1: they got trustworthy information from from people on the road.

706
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 1: Because that's the trickiest part I think of this draft

707
00:36:57,719 --> 00:36:59,880
Speaker 1: is that they the scouts, weren't able to get on

708
00:36:59,920 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 1: the wrote as much. So who did they trust for information?

709
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: And that's where Lovey Smith comes into because, first of all,

710
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:09,760
Speaker 1: love he coached Illinois. Illinois got some prospects of positions

711
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,839
Speaker 1: that would make sense for us, and the Lovey coached

712
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,319
Speaker 1: against guys in the Big Ten, so he has a

713
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 1: pretty good knowledge. I would think love He's gonna be

714
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 1: a pretty good resource as this draft goes on. And

715
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 1: I asked him about that and he was like, yeah,

716
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: you know that, really that helped being in college and

717
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 1: seeing some of these guys up closely. He brought up

718
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,440
Speaker 1: Desmond King in the game that Illinois played against in

719
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 1: Love's first year Illinois, Desmond King had a pick in

720
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 1: that game, and love you remembered it. And so I'm

721
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 1: not gonna say that's why he's here, but that was

722
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: one of the things. I'm sure that Lovey was like, hey,

723
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:44,360
Speaker 1: locked it away, And I'm sure there are probably some

724
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,359
Speaker 1: players he did the same form in the Big Ten

725
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 1: and with at Illinois because he's got a few. He's

726
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,400
Speaker 1: got a few players from Illinois for sure. All Right. So, Johnny,

727
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,360
Speaker 1: when when you were coming up with your Harris one hundred,

728
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:58,360
Speaker 1: how hard was it for you this year with obviously

729
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 1: no NFL combine and the season. John McClinton and I

730
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 1: were discussing this, how last season, for a lot of

731
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: players they either opted out due to COVID concerns or

732
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 1: like the Big Ten, they had a different season than

733
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 1: the SEC, different number of games. How hard was it

734
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 1: for you to evaluate because you didn't have that same

735
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:17,840
Speaker 1: number of games to look at as you have in

736
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,360
Speaker 1: the past. It wasn't It wasn't hard from that standpoint

737
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 1: because I could always go back. My man Tommy over

738
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:24,879
Speaker 1: in our film department, hooks me up for anything I need.

739
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,359
Speaker 1: If i'd like, Tommy, look this guy apped out twenty twenty,

740
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,359
Speaker 1: I need some of his twenty nineteen film, He'd get

741
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: it for me. So I was able to, you know,

742
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 1: look at guys that that adopted out in twenty twenty.

743
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:38,280
Speaker 1: We made it tricky for me, and I'll use Rashod

744
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:42,799
Speaker 1: Bateman as an example. Rashod was tricky because when the

745
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 1: Big ten said we're out, he had this, he had

746
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,880
Speaker 1: this statement He's leaving. Then the Big ten came back,

747
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:54,360
Speaker 1: and then he said, okay, I'm coming back. Then he played,

748
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:56,839
Speaker 1: and then he left with two or three games left

749
00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:59,279
Speaker 1: in the year, and I was like, ah, that just

750
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 1: feels like I don't like that. I didn't like it.

751
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,319
Speaker 1: We'll come to find out. He actually had COVID and

752
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 1: so he played with it during the year, and he

753
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:10,320
Speaker 1: just felt like he was never right from COVID, and

754
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:11,840
Speaker 1: that's why at the end of the year he was

755
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: just like, I need to shut it down. And they

756
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: had already missed like two or three games in a

757
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 1: row because of COVID issues, and so he decided to

758
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 1: shut it down. But he also was having and so

759
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: at first where I looked at it as that that

760
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 1: seems kind of hope. You know, you leave with two

761
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 1: or three games left, that's I don't care for that

762
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 1: too much. But then when you find out and dig

763
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 1: a little deep run, I'm like, oh, you know, maybe, okay,

764
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 1: maybe I shouldn't be as harsh on him because, but

765
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,720
Speaker 1: I see in the field there's a late first early

766
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:38,360
Speaker 1: second round player. But how do I factor that in?

767
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 1: How does that opt out thing come in? I asked

768
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 1: Nick about that. He said, look, you just look at

769
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 1: what you got. If they played three games, you look

770
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 1: at three games. They played twenty games, Look at twenty games,

771
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 1: he said, you just look at what you got. So

772
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 1: it doesn't affect you. Don't think it'll hurt a player

773
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 1: that offered. Oh I do think it will. I think

774
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:57,359
Speaker 1: there's not gonna tell me that. Nick's not gonna say, yeah,

775
00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 1: we're right. Yes. Kevin Colbert from the Pittsburgh steel is

776
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: Jim for the Steelers. Set it point blank. If two

777
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 1: guys are even and one guy afted out and one

778
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 1: guy played, we're taking a guy that played. Interest. I

779
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 1: guarantee you that thirty two teams to go look at

780
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 1: it differently, but they'll all have a thought on the

781
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: guys that opted out. All right, Johnny, Any big predictions

782
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:18,759
Speaker 1: for tonight, because we're all talking about trades. Who's gonna

783
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: move up? What's gonna be the big surprise of tonight?

784
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 1: Who is it going to be? Is it going to

785
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 1: be someone not taking a quarterback in the first three picks,

786
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 1: there's gon be someone else moving up to get a quarterback.

787
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 1: What are you What is your prediction for the big

788
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:33,839
Speaker 1: surprise for time, Well, the Baron Rodgers. Yeah. The one

789
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,919
Speaker 1: that would really I mean wow, the one that would

790
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:39,319
Speaker 1: really kind of throw us off our Axel is San

791
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine Ers drafting a non quarterback at three.

792
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,360
Speaker 1: That would be that would throw everybody off for Axel, like,

793
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,600
Speaker 1: oh wow. Last year's draft really kind of the twenty

794
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 1: twenty draft kind of just stayed on course. I'm I'm

795
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 1: kind of checking them off as I went, like, oh,

796
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 1: I'm doing pretty well. And also the Packers took Jordan

797
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: Love and it was like, that's where it took a

798
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:01,879
Speaker 1: left turn. That was a massive surprise, and that's where

799
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 1: it really took a left turn. I don't know, man,

800
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 1: there's so with the quarterbacks, you just don't know which

801
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:09,920
Speaker 1: one one of them will will start to fall a

802
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: little bit and then which team will then trade up

803
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 1: to go get that guy. That's that's the one I'm

804
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:17,839
Speaker 1: looking for, because there will be a quarterback that will

805
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: fall a little bit. Five m. Somebody's gonna fall. What

806
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:23,880
Speaker 1: team moves up to go get that guy. If it

807
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:25,840
Speaker 1: is Mac Jones and teams like, man, I don't know

808
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,320
Speaker 1: does Mac how far does he fall? How far do

809
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 1: is justin fields fall? That's the one to me. But

810
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 1: if San Francisco takes no quarterback, oh my god, totally sideways.

811
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:39,319
Speaker 1: That wasn't even on my radar, Johnny, But thanks for

812
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 1: pointing that out. All right, you can listen to John Harris.

813
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 1: He's coming up here and about what ten fifteen minutes

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00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:46,040
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00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,880
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00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:51,040
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00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:52,640
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00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 1: a break. But when we come back, we got one

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Speaker 1: great to see you too, Mark, and uh and it's

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Speaker 1: been fun listen to you at John McClean. You had

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00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:20,239
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847
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 1: to be crazy. Look, I know you want to ask

848
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:25,480
Speaker 1: me about the vandermock. Vandermock is crazy, of course, not

849
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 1: that I do it for clicks or anything, but you know,

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Speaker 1: and then two one with Sam Ellinger from the University

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Speaker 1: few minutes. It's gonna be awesome, all right, So how

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Speaker 1: do you prepare for the draft? Mark, Because when you

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Speaker 1: don't have a pick in the first or the second round,

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Speaker 1: do you practice pronunciations like you do on the road?

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Speaker 1: I actually have a pronunciation guy with me. Well, you

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Speaker 1: know how I think about you. I bring in the Henchman. Okay,

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Speaker 1: the best in the bids, John Harris Andre where these

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Speaker 1: guys know these players? I'm like, guys, what do you think.

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Speaker 1: It's the easiest job in the world. I got Robert

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Speaker 1: news and information that breaks, so we can't go wrong.

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Speaker 1: I'm just a point guard, and I'm a point guard.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't score. I'm just distributing the ball tonight. Really

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Speaker 1: good team player is what you are. Everybody's pat moving

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Speaker 1: in right now. We've got Andre Robert Hensley. It's so

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Speaker 1: nice to see everybody back. I'm sure you guys are excited.

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Speaker 1: Gosh to so excited day. It is like game day,

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Speaker 1: except it's been two years since we've had a game

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Speaker 1: because last year were all we were all doing this

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Speaker 1: from our homes last year. Mark So with with the

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Speaker 1: NFL Draft coming up, with three days of coverage, no

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Speaker 1: draft party obviously, so you're here doing it in studiou

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Speaker 1: what are you most looking forward to tonight? And sir

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Speaker 1: Arno picks the Texans aren't on the board unless something

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Speaker 1: crazy happens. What are you looking for? I think the

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Speaker 1: big stories Aaron Rodgers. Does anything happen with that tonight

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Speaker 1: other than what we heard today? Right? And I think

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Speaker 1: goes with number three in the draft San Francisco. Are

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Speaker 1: they gonna take Mac Jones, are they gonna take Field?

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Speaker 1: Are they gonna do something else with the pick? Is

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Speaker 1: Rogers involved? We'll find out soon enough. All right, Mark,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much. You can listen to Mark Vandermere, John Harris,

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Speaker 1: andre Ware. They're coming up at seven o'clock Texans at

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Speaker 1: Draft Live. The twenty twenty one NFL Draft coverage starts here.

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Speaker 1: for a draft and everything Texans related. It's right here

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Speaker 1: year's draft. Thanks so much for listening, and as always,

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