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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, and welcome to Friday. Okay, I'm a little

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Speaker 1: late on that because it was Friday for a long

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Speaker 1: time already. But here we are Texans Radio, Mark Vandermeyer

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Speaker 1: and John Harris with you, ready to do business. Two

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Speaker 1: weeks from tonight we will review training can't practice number one.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait, in Johnny, I am just done with

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Speaker 1: the waiting part of this. Yes, I thought I was

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Speaker 1: hanging in there pretty well this week. I thought, you

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Speaker 1: know what, I need the time to get some things done,

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Speaker 1: I really do. But now I'm just done. I want

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Speaker 1: to get to practice a SAP. I think a lot

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Speaker 1: of people feel that way. You know, I've been. I'm

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Speaker 1: with you. You know it's a turning point, and maybe

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Speaker 1: it's the same for you, because it was for me.

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Speaker 1: You and I. This morning had an opportunity to meet

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Speaker 1: one of our groups inside inside the building, but outside

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Speaker 1: the building, and we talked pretty in depth about the team.

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Speaker 1: And that got me going, Yeah, that got me charged up.

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Speaker 1: That really kind of got me excites. I'm the same way.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, I was doing fine, fun, i

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Speaker 1: was doing fine. I'm making it, I'm surviving. And then

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Speaker 1: when when we did that I just sense the excitement

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Speaker 1: from both of us as we were talking, yeah, and

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Speaker 1: to our the group we were talking to and our

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Speaker 1: buddy Johns Frieber had us over there to talk to him,

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Speaker 1: and I just sense the excitement and that got me

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Speaker 1: like two weeks. It's two weeks, let's go, and I

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Speaker 1: just I can't wait. Here's the other thing, the second

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Speaker 1: day of practice. The first day of practice is great.

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Speaker 1: I found this out in radio back in two thousand

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Speaker 1: had um Jerry Glanville, and it was like we prepped

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Speaker 1: for we got a ready, Sean Pendergast and I. We

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Speaker 1: did it, we got done, and we were just like,

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Speaker 1: oh man, oh yeah, we gotta do that tomorrow. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And it's like the first day of training camp is

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Speaker 1: kind of like that. You get so excited about it.

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Speaker 1: We do our show, we watched practice that we write

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Speaker 1: about it, we do all this, and then by the

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Speaker 1: But then the second day we put the red helmets on.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. I can't wait for that. I can't

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Speaker 1: wait to see them just in action, because everybody, Drew

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Speaker 1: Doherty We're gonna talk to a little bit later. He

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Speaker 1: went down to Mexico. And in Mexico with Garrett Wallow

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Speaker 1: a tremendous emend down in Mexico. Well, they had a

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Speaker 1: mannequin that had the full outfit on, the white pants,

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Speaker 1: heart just I could feel it, like whoa, I like this, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: looks good. I like this a lot. Can't wait for that.

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Speaker 1: Back Together Saturday is two weeks from tomorrow at the

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Speaker 1: Houston Methodist Training Center. Information available as always Houston Texans

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Speaker 1: dot com, the Texans app Johnny. This week I wrote

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Speaker 1: about key ingredients that go into a successful training camp,

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Speaker 1: and by that I mean a training camp that leads

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Speaker 1: to a successful Texans season. The best seasons in the

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Speaker 1: history of the franchise. I've laid them out there for you,

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Speaker 1: twenty eleven, twenty twelve, twenty sixteen, twenty eighteen, and twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: Right would you agree on that those are the five years?

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Speaker 1: Those are five winning season's divisional championships. We left out

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Speaker 1: twenty fifteen because I thought that was a clunky camp

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Speaker 1: with Ryan Mallett and Brian Hoyer and hard knocks. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but it led to a division championship ultimately, But a

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Speaker 1: horrendous start, right, a horrendous start. Now, twenty eighteen wasn't

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Speaker 1: a terrific start either at three, but then you won

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Speaker 1: But I'm going to go over the characteristics that all

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Speaker 1: those camps pretty much share, yes, and do they apply

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Speaker 1: to this year's team? All Right, you're following along, so

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Speaker 1: we can answer that. All right. One thing that each

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Speaker 1: You knew it was Shop at eleven and twelve twelve

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Speaker 1: An eighteen and nineteen. Oh by the way, disclaimer, not

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Speaker 1: going to talk about legal issues tonight. Yeah, just so

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Speaker 1: you know, I know there's legal news out there. Team

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Speaker 1: It's just not the thing we do in this particular program.

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Speaker 1: So just so you know we know about it, not

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Speaker 1: going there talking ball right, done and done. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: you know who your quarterback starter was in those camps.

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Speaker 1: You know who your quarterback starter is this year. I've

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Speaker 1: talked about the two thousand and seven season before, when

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Speaker 1: you acquired Match Shop from the Atlanta Falcons. He only

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Speaker 1: of time Sage Rosenfeld's played. Oh by the way, he

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Speaker 1: to really up your offensive production despite not having an

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Speaker 1: But you know your starter isn't That's a plus. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's absolutely a plus going in now. The first year

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Speaker 1: of that twenty eleven, you knew your starter, but it's

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Speaker 1: not the guy you finished with. In twenty sixteen, you

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Speaker 1: but you went to somebody different. So it doesn't automatically

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Speaker 1: guarantee quarterbacks six It doesn't. But I think going into

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Speaker 1: What do you think? Who's gonna start today? How are

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Speaker 1: And look, I don't expect Davis to go and have

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Speaker 1: Every time if Mills throws a pig, you get questions

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Speaker 1: the only way Kyle Allen starts with this team is

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Speaker 1: That's why it wasn't totally obvious that Watson should jump

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Speaker 1: It wasn't. It wasn't as good looking as it did

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Speaker 1: There's so many different you know, Like Zach Keefer's got

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Speaker 1: good we could probably do one on that night because

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Speaker 1: there were so many freaky, wild things that happened that

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Speaker 1: And then the third quarter, my wife text me a

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Speaker 1: It was anyways, point being there was the clarity to

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Speaker 1: nashvill people, I didn't see that, but we saw every practice,

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Speaker 1: We all knew Deshan was eventually going to be the guy,

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Speaker 1: know it's gonna be. That's good. I continuing with characteristics

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Speaker 1: some of the more productive seasons in the history of

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Speaker 1: have before. Lovey Smith and Gary Kubiak have scheduled the

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Speaker 1: earliest training camp practices for this franchise, and they happen

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Speaker 1: to be the two coaches in franchise history who hail

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Speaker 1: from Texas. Interesting, they played high school ball here. They

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Speaker 1: know what it's like. Practice early, then get out of

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Speaker 1: the heat. They'll extreme heat and go on with the

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Speaker 1: rest of your day. So he's gonna do that. I

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Speaker 1: mentioned the technology, the tracking stuff. Now, even for the rookies,

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Speaker 1: not all players necessarily have to go through a full

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Speaker 1: camp to be productive. Brian Cushing missed his first camp

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Speaker 1: with an injury, right, I mean, he just wasn't available

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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, not all of a sudden, actually,

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Speaker 1: comes up so often in Texans history that Cushing had

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Speaker 1: up in two weeks at the Houston Methodist Training Center.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, let's visit with buddy Drew Doherty who

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Speaker 1: did the Mexico thing. I think they still have a

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Speaker 1: contingent down there. But Drew came back, and he's gonna

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Speaker 1: share with us some of the reaction to the fans

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Speaker 1: players that were down there, Ross Blacklocke, Garrett Wallow, how

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Speaker 1: the fans responded to them, and also more peaks into

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Speaker 1: training camp coming up in a couple of weeks here

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Speaker 1: on Texans Radio. Great to have your listening Friday night

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Speaker 1: fun football festivities. Mark Vandermayer, John Harris with you, joined

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Speaker 1: now by your buddy Drew Doherty, who is back from Mexico.

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Speaker 1: He's back. I think there's still a contingent down there, Drew.

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Speaker 1: Big trip to Mexico as that is a marketing area

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Speaker 1: for the Houston Texans, a few other NFL teams as well,

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Speaker 1: but we know we have a lot of fans south

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Speaker 1: of the border. We're gonna talk some other things as well,

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Speaker 1: But first of all, how is the trip? How did

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Speaker 1: you like it? What did you see? Drew? It's awesome.

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Speaker 1: I've been lucky enough to go three times now with

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Speaker 1: the team. One of them was with the club and

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Speaker 1: the Texans played the Raiders on Money and Football back

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Speaker 1: in sixteen. That was a November trip, But before that,

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Speaker 1: in June, I'd gone with Whitney Merciless and I think

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Speaker 1: a couple of cheerleaders and toro and contingent, and we

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Speaker 1: saw a lot of fun stuff and you just it's

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Speaker 1: it's eye opening. And I say it. Garrett Waller, who

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Speaker 1: was on the trip, he said it. Ross Blacklock, also

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Speaker 1: on the trip, has said it, it's just eye opening

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Speaker 1: how much you see and realize that there are people

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Speaker 1: way outside of Houston who really have no business being

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Speaker 1: fans of ours, but are and are seriously invested in

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Speaker 1: the Texans and love every bit of content, every bit

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Speaker 1: of a visit that they can get with him. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we we like made some days, made some some weeks

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Speaker 1: for a lot of folks down there, and it was awesome.

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Speaker 1: It was really cool to see the love that just

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Speaker 1: kind of poured out for all these players and cheerleaders

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Speaker 1: and toro and everybody else. Drew the premise of going

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Speaker 1: down there was was what what was the premise? Because

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of people were like, wait, just say,

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Speaker 1: you're not playing in Mexico City this year, You're not

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Speaker 1: playing down there? Why go down there? What was the

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Speaker 1: premac that going to Mexico? I think it's why not?

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Speaker 1: And I think it's why don't you go more often?

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Speaker 1: Because there's a lot of fans down there. You've seen

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Speaker 1: the team do this in trips to Beaumont and trips

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Speaker 1: to the valley here in South Texas, San Antonio, Austin.

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Speaker 1: Over the years, they want to go out and reach

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Speaker 1: fans that aren't in the city. You know, they do

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Speaker 1: a lot of events in the city, and hey, you

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Speaker 1: could always technically do more, but there's only so many

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Speaker 1: hours in a day. But they want to. They want

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Speaker 1: to make sure that they recognize and appreciate the people

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Speaker 1: who aren't in the seven one three, or the eighth

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Speaker 1: three two, or the two eight one or the whatever

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Speaker 1: the fourth or fifth zip code we have now is

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Speaker 1: they just like getting out there. And the Texans are

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Speaker 1: gonna play in Mexico again very very soon. It's not

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Speaker 1: this year, like you mentioned, but pretty darn good chance,

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Speaker 1: it's the year after or the year after that. They're

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Speaker 1: gonna be back, and they're gonna be back multiple times

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Speaker 1: over the next decade or two, I think, so why

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Speaker 1: not try to build something something up. You went to

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Speaker 1: two of the bigger cities. One is the largest in

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Speaker 1: Mexico City. Monterey is a growing, growing spot and it's

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Speaker 1: a very historical spot it's a beautiful area. Man. You're

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Speaker 1: surrounded by mountains in this valley. It's really really impressive.

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Speaker 1: But I think it's a question to answer your questions,

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Speaker 1: why don't you go there more? Because hey, if you

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Speaker 1: can meet your fans and some of your most passionate

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Speaker 1: fans one to one, it's a win for everybody. I think, yeah,

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Speaker 1: no question about that. I mean, I'd love to go

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Speaker 1: to Monterey. I have not done that it, man. I

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Speaker 1: love the old architecture. When I came here. I always

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Speaker 1: talk about how I read James Missioner's Texas, that's block

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Speaker 1: sized book, and after that it finished it. I did.

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Speaker 1: I finished it impressive three and a half years, but

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Speaker 1: I finished it, and he wrote one called Mexico. And

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Speaker 1: book Texas has so much that reaches through and into

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Speaker 1: Mexico and even back to Spain. Actually inspired me to

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Speaker 1: read the book Mexico, which is awesome and has so

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Speaker 1: much history in there along with a fictional story. It's great. Anyway, Drew,

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Speaker 1: A lot of people might not realize they do see

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Speaker 1: the videos with you and Enrique, and we play a

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Speaker 1: lot of your video audio on the air, but we

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Speaker 1: don't play the stuff with Enrique because it's in Espanol,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of people don't realize you used to

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Speaker 1: do sports in Spanish when you're doing TV work in Lubbock.

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Speaker 1: So two things, how's your Spanish and what was that

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Speaker 1: like doing the sports in Spanish? Well, goodness, gration is

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Speaker 1: the first part of that question. It is rusty, as

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Speaker 1: you know what. And I'm embarrassed, but I need to

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Speaker 1: get back on the horse because I was able to

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Speaker 1: use it when I was there this week, but gosh,

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Speaker 1: I was stumbling over some stuff and having to say

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Speaker 1: colmost a d say to some people. So I mean

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Speaker 1: I was able to get by and I did an intro.

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Speaker 1: There was a press availability at this clinic on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: When we got there, there was a clinic. There's two

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Speaker 1: hundred plus kids in we are Texans battle red T shirts.

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Speaker 1: There's about fifty to seventy five girls doing cheerleader drills

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Speaker 1: while the boys were going through American football drills. And

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Speaker 1: before that, there was a group of a pride about

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Speaker 1: I don't know a dozen media members Print Digital that

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Speaker 1: were there, and I kind of had to preface things

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Speaker 1: by saying, Hey, guys, thanks for being here. We're excited

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Speaker 1: to be here. We love being here. Ross and Garrett

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Speaker 1: don't speak Spanish, so please just ask those questions in English,

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Speaker 1: one at a time and we'll get through it. So

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Speaker 1: I did that in English, I did that in Spanish,

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Speaker 1: and you know, they were great, but my Spanish is

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Speaker 1: not as good as it once was. You know, I

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Speaker 1: was lucky at great Spanish teachers growing up in high school,

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Speaker 1: missus bick shout out, and then I got to I

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Speaker 1: got to major. I was so well prepared by her

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Speaker 1: that I tested out of a year and a half

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Speaker 1: of it at SMU, and so I was able to

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Speaker 1: pick up a Spanish degree in college and then didn't

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Speaker 1: use it after I graduated for about five years. And

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Speaker 1: I was when I was in love it. From five

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Speaker 1: to oh nine, I was the sports anchor at the

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Speaker 1: Fox affiliate and in the same building was the Telemundo

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Speaker 1: affiliate and they would broadcast once a day at five

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Speaker 1: o'clock do the news, and I would. I had struck

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Speaker 1: up a nice little friendship with everybody that was associated

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Speaker 1: with Telemundo, and about six months in the guy who

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Speaker 1: did the news, weather, and sports, so he did all

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Speaker 1: three of them. There wasn't like a news team like

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Speaker 1: an anchorman there was no champ kind. It was just

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Speaker 1: one guy all by himself, Ron Burgundy, doing everything. He said, hey,

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Speaker 1: would you be willing to do the Spanish sports cast?

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Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, I'd be willing, but I mean,

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Speaker 1: have you've heard my Spanish? She said no, no no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: you would just write it out, we would fix the grammar,

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Speaker 1: it would be in the teleprompter and then you could

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Speaker 1: do it. And I did and it was fun and

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Speaker 1: it worked out great, and you're you learned. You pick

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Speaker 1: up a lot having to use colloquialisms, having to use

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Speaker 1: sports terms, you know, quadrangular for home run or hone

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Speaker 1: run for home run. You know, it's a it's a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun. I had a great time with it,

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Speaker 1: and sadly a lot of that has slipped away with misuse.

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Speaker 1: I just haven't used it as much. But with Enrique

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Speaker 1: on a weekly basis, I get to talk with him

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Speaker 1: and do punt us extra. But it's me just basically

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Speaker 1: putting the ball on a tea and letting him swing away.

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Speaker 1: You know, there are a lot of things I want

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Speaker 1: to get to. When to save someone from the lab

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Speaker 1: all right, as it pertains to that. But Gary Wallow

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Speaker 1: and Ross Blacklocke ended up going on a trip. Yeah, dud,

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Speaker 1: it's their first time in Mexico as members of the

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Speaker 1: Texans were what did you sense their overall feeling wasn't

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Speaker 1: making that trip down to Mexico as representatives of the team.

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Speaker 1: I think they probably and understandably went in thinking we're

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Speaker 1: going down here, but how many people are really going

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Speaker 1: to know much about us and much about the game

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Speaker 1: of American football. Well that got turned on its ear

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Speaker 1: first day. I mean they got there, they go to

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Speaker 1: this clinic and there's all these kids that are that

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Speaker 1: are going through these drills, but really the drills were

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Speaker 1: being run by a lot of the players from the

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Speaker 1: college team right there. It's I don't know how to

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Speaker 1: clearly describe everything, but Te Grace, which is the main

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Speaker 1: soccer team there in Montrey. There's like this whole complex,

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Speaker 1: there's a baseball team close by, there's an American football

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Speaker 1: team from college right on the premises, and those college

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Speaker 1: players were running the drills. Basically, they were they were

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Speaker 1: going through everything and they were there along with just

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Speaker 1: a whole swath of coaches, and they were they were very,

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Speaker 1: very excited to have the Texans there with them. So

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Speaker 1: I think the guys saw that in that I say

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Speaker 1: it again, that was eye opening. And you know, there

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Speaker 1: was a guy who I was standing back watching the

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Speaker 1: signings and the photographs happened after the clinic was over,

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Speaker 1: just kind of waiting and they had Slim Thugs Houston

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Speaker 1: playing on a loop. I mean it finished, and then

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Speaker 1: they had the Fox intro start back up and they

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Speaker 1: started back Houston Ticks. So they had that plan on

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Speaker 1: a loop. But there's a guy that came up to me,

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Speaker 1: probably in his fifties, and he kind of pointed at me.

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Speaker 1: He's like, people don't understand American football has been played

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Speaker 1: in the country of Mexico for over one hundred years.

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Speaker 1: We love football. It's wow. I didn't know that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I knew there was always people playing it, but I

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Speaker 1: didn't know to this degree. I mean, these guys that

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00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 1: we're playing it, we're saying, yeah, we used to play soccer,

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Speaker 1: but we switched over to this in high school. So

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00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: there's a there's a pretty sizable chunk of the population

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Speaker 1: it's actually playing American football. Now. It's not more than

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00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 1: you know, let's playing soccer, but you know, it's a big,

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Speaker 1: big country and a lot of them. There's a portion

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Speaker 1: of it that are playing our game, all right, drew

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Speaker 1: a couple of questions on the way out. We're goarding

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Speaker 1: training camp two weeks from tonight. We will be reviewing

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Speaker 1: our first training camp practice that we all saw together,

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Speaker 1: so we're super fired up about that. Last night, Johnny

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Speaker 1: and I had to predict, and it's a crazy prediction.

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Speaker 1: Once they get into eleven on eleven contact drills, who's

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Speaker 1: gonna catch the first touchdown pass in that situation? And

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Speaker 1: you can't pick one of the guys we have already.

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Speaker 1: Johnny took Brevin right, Okay, I took Pararell Brown, All right,

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Speaker 1: who are you gonna take? Well, I'll be Clinton contrarian,

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Speaker 1: and I'll go with either Marlon Mack or Damian Pierce link.

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Speaker 1: They'll swing one out of the backfield and one of

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Speaker 1: those guys, because you know, everybody knows Brandon Cooks, he's

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Speaker 1: gonna get his in the season. He's gonna get targeted.

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Speaker 1: So I think there will be a focus on him

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Speaker 1: and somebody else. Maybe one of your guys or maybe

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Speaker 1: one of my guys is gonna get get a little

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Speaker 1: opportunity there. You know, Cooks and Nico Collins are listening

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Speaker 1: to this like hey, hey, hey, hey, we're gonna catch

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Speaker 1: the first That's why I said they're gonna get theirs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but you know the first time. First one

637
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Speaker 1: is the true because if they go down there and

638
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Speaker 1: they do go line, yeah, that counts. Then I'm it

639
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Speaker 1: is I'm taking Janovitch or I'm taking Quessenbury a little

640
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: fullback leaking out on fake power. It's got to be

641
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Speaker 1: a pass, I know. That's what I'm saying. That's a

642
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Speaker 1: possibility too. It's the perfect Johnny. They're not doing goal

643
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Speaker 1: line before they get to whoa, whoa? Who's your head coach? Oh? Yeah,

644
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 1: you're right. You never know. We might watch five head

645
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 1: coaches not out always want to start now with goal line?

646
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Speaker 1: Can I say this in pads? Speaking of the head coach?

647
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Speaker 1: So the players they did two press conference, two formal conferences,

648
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Speaker 1: one in Mexico City, one in Monterey. They did two

649
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Speaker 1: other press gatherings sort of at the events you know

650
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 1: in Monterrey as well as you know a handful in

651
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Speaker 1: Mexico City. So they met with the Mexican press quite

652
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 1: a bit. Every single time they were asked two main things,

653
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Speaker 1: what do you think of the new battle red helmets

654
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 1: and what sort of scheme is Levey Smith going to run?

655
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 1: And it was funny to see they gave great answers,

656
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: but it's like, hey, we know what he's what he's

657
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 1: wanting to do. We're excited about it. But the Mexican

658
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: media was very intent on finding out the thoughts on

659
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 1: the helmets and the thoughts on the new head coach.

660
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: It was pretty cool to see. I like that a lot.

661
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 1: Give me a player or two that you're most excited

662
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 1: about seeing in training camp. Pearce is one of them.

663
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: I'm definitely excited to see him. Just just after he

664
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Speaker 1: was picked, when he met with the media, he's he's

665
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: a real kind of seems like a bright, shining star

666
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 1: off the field, and then you watch what he did

667
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 1: on the field at Meat at Florida. You know, he's

668
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: pounding the rock, he's a great blocker. He's good catching

669
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Speaker 1: the ball out of out of the back field too.

670
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Speaker 1: So I can't wait to see him. He's he's somebody

671
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 1: that's got me excited. And then I'm probably going with

672
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 1: the chalk here. But Jalen Petrie, goodness gracious, So I

673
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: mean everything we saw and then even more importantly the

674
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 1: stuff we heard about on the days that we weren't

675
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 1: out there in May and in June, he made some

676
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 1: plays and I'm hoping to see that continue in August, September, October, November, December, January.

677
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Speaker 1: All Right, Drey, I rute my daily broute today kind

678
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 1: of along the same lines. I'm gonna read you a

679
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: player at each position. Okay, I could surprise right seed,

680
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,600
Speaker 1: some undrafted free agents. Some guys come in now we're

681
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:34,919
Speaker 1: just off the street signings, and you're like, ohoh wow,

682
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 1: this guy popped out of nowhere. You know, the A

683
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 1: J Boyya, Yeah, you know Eric Foster, you know, it

684
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 1: was kind of that guy. Dylan Cole was definitely that

685
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 1: guy in twenty seventeen. That Dal was a rookie, but

686
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:49,280
Speaker 1: AJ had been here, but he still really hadn't established himself,

687
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: so he kind of a big surprise in twenty sixteen.

688
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 1: So you picked the guy at the position quarterback and

689
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: picked Kyle ALLENX. I had to pick one running back

690
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Speaker 1: Darius Jed Anderson, wide receiver Davion davi Is, tight end

691
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 1: rookie Seth Green, Olon, Jordan Steckler, d Lion, Kurt Heinish

692
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 1: linebacker Blake Cashman, and then defensive backfield Kendall Sheffield. You

693
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:12,759
Speaker 1: got picked one of those guys that's going to be

694
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 1: the surprise of training camp. Which guy would you pick?

695
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: Or is there a guy that I missed from one

696
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 1: of the position groups. See when you said surprises, I

697
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 1: kind of instantly went back to a guy who's a

698
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:29,320
Speaker 1: real veteran in Dorset, but he's kind of forgotten about

699
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 1: at receiver, Philip Burset. But he's probably a little too prominent.

700
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 1: I'm guessing for you, right, That's what I thought because

701
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: I wrote about Philip Dorsets, because I think OT as

702
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 1: a mini camps put Dorsets squarely in a number four

703
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: spot at worst. Oh yeah, three spot when Mitchie's not ready.

704
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,359
Speaker 1: I think he's in the fourth spot at worst. I

705
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 1: think you can climb all the way to two perhaps.

706
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: I mean, I think there's a chance of that even Yeah,

707
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 1: based on what we saw the in the limited action

708
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 1: last year and then what we saw in the May

709
00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: in June, Yeah, I could see that. I gotta go

710
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 1: with Dorset so out of that now that I think

711
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 1: about it. Okay, So a lot of good ones there,

712
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 1: Johnny I'm saying, which one of those would you pick

713
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: and say that guy would be this. I'll tell you what, Cashman,

714
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 1: is this good a pick as a lot of them,

715
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: because based on what I saw OTAs just the way

716
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:20,799
Speaker 1: he was lining up and where and he could it

717
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,439
Speaker 1: just felt like the coaches kind of like him. Yeah

718
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 1: he can run. He can't run. It is just a

719
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 1: matter of staying he That's a no one's talking about

720
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 1: guy Guy for sure. The training camp grew. Look forward

721
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 1: to getting together next week as we get the final

722
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:37,800
Speaker 1: week of no training camp before we get into the

723
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Speaker 1: first week of camp, which begins two weeks from today

724
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Speaker 1: at the Houston Methodist Training Center. Thanks a lot, Buddy,

725
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 1: good to see him coming up. We'll go around the league.

726
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:49,799
Speaker 1: It is franchise deal deadline day for the tagged players,

727
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 1: among other things happening in the NFL. We'll talk about

728
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: it here on Texans All Access final segment on a

729
00:36:56,160 --> 00:37:00,040
Speaker 1: Fun Football Festive Friday, Mark Vandamarin John Harris with you.

730
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 1: Two weeks from training camp. I keep saying it because

731
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,240
Speaker 1: it's so there. You can reach out and touch training

732
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 1: camp and it's gonna be hot and beautiful out there

733
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 1: at the Houston Methodist Training Center. I heard the guys

734
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:14,760
Speaker 1: on the morning program on Sports Radio six ten payment Pedergash.

735
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 1: You might be familiar with their work. They were talking

736
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 1: about the Greenbrier, and I have to credit them because

737
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 1: they were talking about how great it was for the

738
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 1: fans to be there, and you and I are incapable

739
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 1: of getting into a conversation with that topic coming up

740
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 1: without just talking about the pizza place and all the

741
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 1: great fun things we did there, and yeah, it was

742
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 1: terrific to watch practice from the high angle view in

743
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 1: the end zone seats and even our broadcast position. And

744
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 1: I'm doing it already, why didn't you go there? And

745
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 1: the weather and us being called out by Texans business personnel,

746
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 1: like you guys are talking about the weather way too much.

747
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:53,439
Speaker 1: You can't talk about the seventy eight degrees in the morning,

748
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: or torture to the Houston listeners that you guys are

749
00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 1: there like bathing in cool weather. It was just such

750
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 1: a different vibe at the end of practice because we

751
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: always get interviews, and you get an interview, and I

752
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 1: remember one of my first ones, I think was a

753
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,759
Speaker 1: DJ reader and I just looked at him, he looked

754
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:14,360
Speaker 1: at me. He goes, dude, this isn't about survival. This

755
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 1: is about actually getting stuff. Talking about talking to the

756
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 1: players after practice at the Greenbrier, I was like, hey,

757
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,359
Speaker 1: what's up, how are you doing? Yeah, it was just

758
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 1: normal here. It's just okay, all right, I have to

759
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 1: cool down, hold on, I need an IV I need now.

760
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding around there. These guys are warriors and

761
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 1: they can survive. But it's no joke, man. I don't

762
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: know how they do it. They just do it somehow.

763
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 1: I don't know how the high school kids do it,

764
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 1: but it happens. Oh, you need to help me solve

765
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:44,360
Speaker 1: this little issue I'm having, which is I know this

766
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 1: sounds pretty that sounded pretty well. It's it's not that

767
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:51,839
Speaker 1: big an issue. But you know what, the Greenbrier had

768
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:55,240
Speaker 1: my bicycle right at Barti the statistician on the Mountaineer

769
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 1: radio broadcast team. He works with Tony Kredi. Mountaineers listening.

770
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:03,880
Speaker 1: I'm sure there many are familiar with Tony, former Syracuse student,

771
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 1: but he's been the voice of the Mountaineers forever, right.

772
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 1: I think he's got a great gig. He's had a

773
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,280
Speaker 1: great life there. You know, he carve out your Niche.

774
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 1: It's kind of like what I wanted Bill Roth to

775
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: do it Virginia Tech, the Voice of the Hokeys. He

776
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,360
Speaker 1: took the UCLA job, but then he kind of, I

777
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: don't know, it didn't work out or whatever. Then he

778
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: came back to be a professor in Virginia Tech. Now

779
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:23,799
Speaker 1: he's back in the booth, which is awesome for him.

780
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys are legends. They gotta be there,

781
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 1: you know. I love that stuff. Anyway, I bought a

782
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 1: bicycle from one of the crew members who happened to

783
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 1: live in the area, and it was awesome. Right And

784
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 1: here at Texans practice camp last year, OTAs you notice,

785
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: and I know you have that Peth Hamilton bike's over

786
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 1: there from here. It's not that far, but it's kind

787
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,840
Speaker 1: of fun to zoom over there on a bike. And

788
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 1: who else has Danny Barrett has a bicycle as well,

789
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 1: the running backs coach. Yeah, Coach Barrett had been on

790
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 1: a golf cart because he was dealing with a knee problem. Yeah,

791
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:58,239
Speaker 1: I bet he's back at the bike though. By camp.

792
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 1: I bet he is. So you thinking, should I bring

793
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:04,800
Speaker 1: my bike? Should I do it? Is that too much?

794
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:08,880
Speaker 1: Can I be so presumptuous that I have bicycle status

795
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:12,319
Speaker 1: as well. It's not a status thing per se, but

796
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 1: I think it does send a little bit of a

797
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,520
Speaker 1: message like, Hey, I'm on a bike, just like the coaches.

798
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:19,800
Speaker 1: I could park it in here in the Huntley, Texas

799
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Speaker 1: Radio studio, no one, you know, it's not going to

800
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 1: be out there on their bike exclusive parking area. Part

801
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:27,759
Speaker 1: of the issue when you'll be walking out there is

802
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 1: when a lot of the personnel and a lot of

803
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 1: the players and all that'll be going out there. So

804
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:34,759
Speaker 1: in years past, you could have gotten away with it

805
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,919
Speaker 1: because you would have been going out before everybody else. Yeah,

806
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 1: and then they wouldn't have seen it as much, it

807
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been as prevalent. But now you're gonna be

808
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,839
Speaker 1: zooming right through them. Well, we go on at eight

809
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 1: for our shows. They're practicing at eight, which means they'll

810
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 1: be out there at seven fifteen. And you know me

811
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 1: for an eight o'clock show, I show up at seven

812
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 1: fifty eight thirty good, and I'm like, all right, you

813
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 1: got this this, this let's go boom. That's because I'm

814
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 1: prepping feet. You're ash lead here before I say it.

815
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 1: Why not? Maybe I'll think about it. It's a five

816
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:07,759
Speaker 1: year anniversary of doing it, so do it. Oh, it's

817
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 1: like an anniversary. I see yeah, I like the way

818
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 1: you think it's a five year anniversary. I I'm celebrating

819
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: five years of being away from the Greenbrier by bringing

820
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 1: the bike back. Johnny following players did not get a

821
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:22,880
Speaker 1: deal done. They're franchise tagged. Jesse Bates, safety for the

822
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 1: Bengal says he's not going to camp. Who did the

823
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 1: Texans face on this list? Cowboys tight end Dalton Schultz.

824
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 1: He hasn't said he's not going to camp. I would

825
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:32,319
Speaker 1: have presumed he's not said that. But he didn't get

826
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Speaker 1: a deal. You're gonna get a good of chunk of

827
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Speaker 1: money though being tagged, and I know you'd rather have

828
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 1: a long term deal. I get it, folks. Mike Aasecki,

829
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Speaker 1: Texans will see him right right, and Texans will see

830
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Speaker 1: Chiefs offensive tackle Orlando Brown. So three of these players, Yeah,

831
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Speaker 1: Orlando Brown just reading the t leaves basically with the

832
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 1: Chiefs and how they negotiated, he said. The agent said,

833
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:54,840
Speaker 1: we got close. He said, but I'm not allowing my

834
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Speaker 1: agent or my client to sign a deal. And I

835
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:00,440
Speaker 1: don't think he used the words funny money, but essentially

836
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs were trying to get to, hey, look, we

837
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 1: just gave you a contract that made you the highest

838
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:08,759
Speaker 1: ap y of all the tackles in the league. Yeah,

839
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Speaker 1: but the last year was forty million dollars that Orlando

840
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:16,080
Speaker 1: Brown was never gonna see. So they basically used the

841
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:18,400
Speaker 1: math to get to that. In the age was like,

842
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 1: you want to guarantee that forty then we're in right, right,

843
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:24,800
Speaker 1: But the problem didn't happen, so Jesse Bates has already

844
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 1: said I'm not playing until this thing is taken care of.

845
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Speaker 1: So at that point, a trading um. That's a lesser

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Speaker 1: news story we're waiting to drop, but it's one to

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Speaker 1: watch because the Bengals are AFC champions, defending AFC champions,

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Speaker 1: arguably their best defensive player, so that's interesting. Obviously, we're

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Speaker 1: still watching the Garoppolo situation because it's a high profile,

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Speaker 1: relatively quarterback. You want to see where he's gonna go.

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Speaker 1: Mayfield's already been settled, so all very interesting and by Garoppolo,

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Speaker 1: I didn't bring it up for here purposes, Believe me,

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Speaker 1: I didn't. We've got over that many times this week.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's gonna do it for the show tonight.

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Speaker 1: In this week, all the shows are on the Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans app, which you should have in your phone, and

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Speaker 1: on Houston Texans dot com. Check out Johnny's article today.

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Speaker 1: It's really awesome. Position breakdowns, right, yes, position breakdowns on

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Speaker 1: the secondary. Also my daily brew on one player from

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Speaker 1: each position group. That could be the surprise of camp. Okay,

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Speaker 1: and are you gonna do your ninety man roster next week?

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Speaker 1: All right, that's gonna be awesome. All right, thank you

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Speaker 1: very much Cynthia for producing. Have a great night everyone,

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Speaker 1: and go Texans.