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Speaker 1: Well, well, well, welcome into a Wednesday Nation of Texans

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Speaker 1: All Access, and you will remember where you were when

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Speaker 1: this happened. John Harris alongside the voice of the Texans,

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Speaker 1: Mark Vandermer. Mark, We're not going to say that we

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Speaker 1: saw this coming, but we knew. We knew something was happening,

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Speaker 1: not last night, but this morning. Every when you're in

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Speaker 1: a building, you get an inkling and you hear something.

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Speaker 1: You gobb something's bubbling up, something's going on. We don't

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Speaker 1: know what it is. If you've been under a rock

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Speaker 1: or you haven't been paying attention. The Bills have traded

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Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs All Pro Pro Bowl wide receiver to the

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans reportedly reportedly allegedly what Stefon Diggs now added

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Speaker 1: to the wide receiver mix. Mark, I'm just gonna start

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Speaker 1: with gut reaction and then we're just gonna talk.

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Speaker 2: Uh, this is going for it. That's that was my

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Speaker 2: gut n That's a good point. When you look at

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Speaker 2: the schedule, when you look at what happened last year,

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Speaker 2: when you look at who you have on the roster

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Speaker 2: right now, I felt really comfortable going in with what

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Speaker 2: they had. You and I were talking about this last night,

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Speaker 2: drafting another receiver, maybe acquiring another vet, whatever, But based

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Speaker 2: on the production last year, you go for over four

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Speaker 2: thousand yards with those guys, and we know about the injuries.

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Speaker 2: They had a healthy Tank Dell for fifteen to seventeen

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Speaker 2: games this year. What was that going to mean? Now

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Speaker 2: you add Stefan Diggs. This is ridiculous. This is an

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Speaker 2: embarrassment of riches. Think about this for a moment, Johnny

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Speaker 2: I went right here, Digs, Nico, Tank, Schultz, Mixon.

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Speaker 3: Think about that. All those guys, you have options galore.

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Speaker 4: Oh wait wait wait and who's the quarterback? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: CJ. Strad I didn't leave.

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Speaker 2: I just assumed everybody was going with me on this

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Speaker 2: train of thought, which is, think about the defenses. You

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Speaker 2: go into a game and you've got to face all

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Speaker 2: of that. This is almost a Pro Bowl thing right now.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Nico had a Pro Bowl caliber season. Tank

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Speaker 2: was on his way to a possible Rookie of the

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Speaker 2: Year consideration kind of season. And this is phenomenal stuff

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Speaker 2: that you bring in. Stuff on Diggs. And for those

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Speaker 2: who think, well is he getting older, of course he's

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Speaker 2: getting older, but look at the production.

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Speaker 3: He is a thousand yard one hundred catch machine.

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Speaker 2: Now he might have fewer this year because the ball's

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Speaker 2: gonna be spread around.

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Speaker 3: Look at the pass catchers on the Bills.

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Speaker 2: They don't have other guys who are capable of doing

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Speaker 2: what these guys can. You know, they have nice Gabe

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Speaker 2: all that, and Cook catching passes for them out of

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Speaker 2: the backfield. But it's not what the Texans have right yet,

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Speaker 2: they had enormous production in the passing game, relatively right,

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Speaker 2: and Diggs was the lion's share of that because he's

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Speaker 2: that good and he gets doubled, he gets bracketed. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: please continue to do that because other options are here

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Speaker 2: who can kill you as a defense. So let's have

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Speaker 2: some fun and watch this thing unfold.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I know there would be I thought this

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Speaker 1: thing through all day. I've thought it through all day,

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Speaker 1: from from the time that from the time that it broke, yeah,

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Speaker 1: from the time it broke it. Okay, Shifter Schefter was

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Speaker 1: the one that I saw had it. Yeah, he was

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Speaker 1: the one that I saw had it. There are a

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Speaker 1: number of there's so many different things to consider. Obviously

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Speaker 1: for me, you know, I'm a draft guy. So does

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Speaker 1: that just change your draft priorities in any way, shape

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Speaker 5: Uh?

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe not. You do all that work, maybe it

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Speaker 1: changes it. Maybe it doesn't. Maybe wide receiver just moves

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Speaker 1: there was a position to move back in the pack

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Speaker 1: a little bit more, I'd be wide receiver. Because it's

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Speaker 1: it's loaded the draft or the trade compensation.

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Speaker 4: How much did you have to give up?

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Speaker 5: Now?

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Speaker 4: Obviously Stefan is going to be pretty expensive.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what his contract situation will be when

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Speaker 1: don't know that yet, but it's gonna be expensive. But

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Speaker 1: the trade compensation what it turned into. So here we

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Speaker 1: Then today again we wake up you breakfast and go,

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Speaker 1: oh boy, Nick just traded Stefan Diggs. Here's how number

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Speaker 1: twenty three netted out, in case you missed it, Number

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Speaker 1: twenty three turned into Stefan Diggs, number forty two overall,

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Speaker 1: a twenty twenty four sixth rounder, and a twenty twenty

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Speaker 4: Twenty twenty five fifth rounder. That's phenomenal.

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Speaker 3: That's what number twenty three turned into. Phenomenal.

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Speaker 2: And we thought it might lead to something else, but

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Speaker 2: I thought it would be later. Maybe during the draft.

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Speaker 2: We talked about moving up in the second round. You

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Speaker 2: can still do that, by the way. Sure we'll still

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Speaker 2: be there Friday night wondering if Nick's gonna move up

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Speaker 2: earlier in the second round. Yeah, we'll be there Thursday night,

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Speaker 2: wondering if gonna find a way to get into the

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Speaker 2: first round late. But for now, you just said it,

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Speaker 2: it's a two next year, it's the Vikings too. It's

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Speaker 2: the Vikings two that you got in that trade. Still

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Speaker 2: have your two second rounders this year. It's phenomenal. It's

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Speaker 2: phenomenal what he's pulled off. Who was Executive of the

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Speaker 2: Year last year. I don't know, Troy, Yeah, Bradholm, that

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Speaker 2: was a year late. By the way, he deserved it

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Speaker 2: the year before. He didn't deserve it last year. He

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Speaker 2: deserved it the year before. Nick deserved it last year,

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Speaker 2: and Nick's gouldna deserve it this year. That's me being

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Speaker 2: Texans guy speaking. But why not look at this deal.

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Speaker 2: If this deal nets you at offense that is going

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Speaker 2: to go blitzkrieg on this schedule and get you a

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Speaker 2: divisional round game at home or better.

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Speaker 3: And you do well in those games.

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Speaker 2: But even if you don't, he's gonna deserve it because

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Speaker 2: this pick right this pick up right here, and you

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Speaker 2: just laid it out there for number twenty three. What

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Speaker 2: did people want them to do with the twenty third pick?

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Speaker 2: Maybe a defensive player, maybe receiver if it was a

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Speaker 2: hot receiver, whatever, But you got digs for it, and

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Speaker 2: you still have the forty second pick in the draft

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Speaker 2: to further fortifyve your defensive line or whatever the heck

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Speaker 1: Okay, so I want to go to this real fast.

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Speaker 1: So January what day was that? January eighth, twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 1: do you know where you were January twenty twenty three?

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Speaker 2: Ship was the overtime No, not overtime, it was a

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Speaker 2: two point conversion that when we get avoided overtime week team.

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Speaker 1: Right, that was we get Diianapolis Colts. I'm gonna read you,

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Speaker 1: Marigi a little something. Okay, Okay, here's the Texans starting lineup.

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Speaker 1: I want you to hear the starting lineup, the offensive

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Speaker 1: offensive starting lineup.

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Speaker 3: Oh boy, over, I mean just over a year ago.

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Speaker 1: Like what what do we like? Fourteen months ago? Your

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Speaker 1: quarterback was Davis Mills. Your running back was Darya Goombuwallee.

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Speaker 1: Your wide receivers were Chris Moore, Brandon Cooks. Your tight

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Speaker 1: Guarb's Kenny Green, center for Scotti Quisenberry, right guard, AJ Can,

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Speaker 1: right tackle Titus Howard. Now of that group, now, presumably

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Speaker 1: your lineup looks like quarterback CJ. Stroud, running back Joe Mixon.

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Speaker 1: Wide receivers Nico Collins, Tank Dell and Stefan Diggs, tight

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Speaker 1: end Dalton Schultz, left tackle Tunsel left guard. We don't

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Speaker 1: is right guard Shack Mason, right tackle Titus Howard. That's

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Speaker 1: all happened in fourteen months. Yeah, in fourteen months, almost

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Speaker 1: fifteen months. You went from that offense. Now, that offense

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Speaker 1: ended up generating thirty two points that game, that game,

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Speaker 1: that game. But think of the names that I just

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Speaker 1: threw out. What could be the starting offense to start

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Speaker 3: It's all star caliber.

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Speaker 2: Really, well, we're near and dear to Nico and Tank

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Speaker 2: and I just brought them up earlier. But their production

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Speaker 2: speaks for itself. You don't have to be an expert

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Speaker 2: to see what they've meant to this team. And we've

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Speaker 2: talked about him a lot because he's an acquisition, over

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Speaker 2: a thousand yard rusher and had caught more passes last

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Speaker 2: year than any Texans back had caught for Houston since

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Speaker 2: Arian Foster. So looks it's not like he's got to

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Speaker 2: go over fifty, that Nico Collins has to go over

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Speaker 2: one thousand again, that Stefan Diggs has to go over

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Speaker 2: a thousand yards again. It's not like any of these

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Speaker 2: things have to happen. It could be all less as

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Speaker 2: far as individual production. But the sum of the parts

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Speaker 2: is so great because you're spreading the ball around, just

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Speaker 2: inflicting terror in opponents.

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Speaker 3: I freaking love it. It's total team ball.

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Speaker 2: Now, I'm going to bring up one thing here, and

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Speaker 2: you helped me out with this because you're going into

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Speaker 2: the fourth year of Nico's deal, and with Nico you

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Speaker 2: had this breakout season and where's it going to go

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 2: Had they not made this move, you feel like, all right,

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Speaker 2: Belle cow, He's going to get the lion share all

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Speaker 3: I still kind of feel that way.

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Speaker 2: Nico, as young as he is, does dig see his

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Speaker 2: role differently. How are they gonna put all that together?

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Speaker 2: Is it one game he goes off, another game Nico

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Speaker 2: goes off. I mean, I think there are enough passes

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Speaker 2: to go around, right, enough targets to go around?

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Speaker 3: Or are there? The main thing that keeps it all

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Speaker 2: They know they're playing with one of the best quarterbacks

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Speaker 2: of the league who can absolutely torture defenses, So why

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Speaker 2: not just go with whatever he thinks is right? Along

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Speaker 2: with Bobby slowan coach in the offense. And speaking of which,

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Speaker 2: how happy is he today?

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Speaker 1: Here's something I think. I think all the guys understand

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Speaker 1: Matt being what it is. Guys are gonna get their

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Speaker 1: targets now. Simon Thing's got one hundred and sixty targets.

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Speaker 3: I think last year with the Bills end him catching

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Speaker 3: one hundred and eight passes.

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Speaker 1: Whatever it is, He's played a lot of football. Tank

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Speaker 1: and Nico have miss games. They missed games the last

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Speaker 1: couple of years. But they're gonna be games. We saw

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Speaker 1: this last year. There were games where in Cincinnati, Tampa

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Speaker 1: Bay where Nico wasn't available, he's dinged up. That would

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Speaker 1: be a game. Maybe you know, Dig steps up, has

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Speaker 1: a big game. Maybe there's game Stefan's banged up. Now,

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Speaker 1: Nico steps up, Tank steps up. The different ways they

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Speaker 1: can get each other the ball, it's all about playing together.

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Speaker 1: And I thought it was interesting when Joe Mixon tweeted

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Speaker 1: about I don't know, it was probably about eleven o'clock

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Speaker 1: this morning ish, and he said, at Stefon Diggs, just

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Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, you asked and we delivered. Now

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Speaker 1: let's get these rings and he rings with fire a

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Speaker 1: hashtag H town takeover. And when you get to a point,

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Speaker 1: what I've always seen with Stefan is it's always It's

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Speaker 1: What what does Noah Brown do? How do they all

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Speaker 4: See you throw it thirty times a game. Can you

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's not gonna happen all seventeen games. No,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be games where he's got hot hand, get

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Speaker 3: They're gonna be games like Tampa Bay last year.

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Speaker 2: And you have to have that as a bunch of

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Speaker 2: And they added a lot to the defense. They should

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Speaker 1: I just thought about this niche was wrecking my draft guide.

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Speaker 2: He almost wrecked the draft party again, but I don't

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Speaker 2: think he did anyway, he didn't at all. Next year's

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Speaker 4: A two number one next year.

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Speaker 2: That's incredible what he's done with this twenty third pick.

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Speaker 2: character references for Stefan Diggs on this team Guys who

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Speaker 2: Minnesota miracle. Do they call it Minnia miracle? They called

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Speaker 3: That's true, but they called the Minneapolis all right.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for clearing that up. I just didn't want

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Speaker 6: Of those guys, Yeah, speaking of those guys, some of

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Speaker 4: Yeah, oh no, what.

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Speaker 3: Are you doing?

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Speaker 4: Because have you done think about this?

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Speaker 2: If you're those teams and you see what the Texans

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Speaker 2: hoping that it's a free agent meltdown in Houston. If

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Speaker 2: think of this? What do you think of this possibility? Anyway,

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Speaker 3: You got CJ.

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Speaker 2: Strapp, you got a young team, You got a team

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Speaker 2: this team. He immediately becomes as far as trade acquisition, Johnny,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know where I'm gonna put it

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Speaker 1: We talked about that this morning shortly after the trade happened,

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Speaker 2: Like how you felt during the trade or just how

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Speaker 1: How many there have been. Where do you remember where

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Speaker 1: during the games, right right right, that's when the categories

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Speaker 4: You know, we obviously had record We said that that story.

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Speaker 3: You'll always remember where we Labor day weekend stuff.

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Speaker 2: I remember brock Osweller was on the bridge going over Kirby, right.

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Speaker 3: And then we're like, Okay, let's see, let's see what

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Speaker 4: Maybe there'll be something.

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Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, this gets about an

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Speaker 1: I thought they were already primetime worthy the Bullets here, okay,

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Speaker 4: That's what I was thinking. I was thinking one game

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Speaker 2: No, they already have this mapped out pretty well, and

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Speaker 2: they're wondering, all right, what do we do with Caleb

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Speaker 3: Because the.

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Speaker 3: I think the Bears. Somebody proved the Bears are going

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Speaker 1: I think they're going to be improved anyways, and then

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Speaker 4: So I think the Panthers. You I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Like, oh my god, what are you all doing in Houston?

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Speaker 1: And they're still kind of feeling it from you know

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Speaker 1: I said that Bryce is going to be fine for Carolina.

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Speaker 1: They's tough, tough season all around, but the Bears, Bears

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Speaker 2: But I think as far as the Texans prime time prospects,

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Speaker 2: already productive pass catching unit and you're already out of

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Speaker 2: Joe Mixon and you did what you did on defense.

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Speaker 3: I think it's I think it's worth four. I just do.

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Speaker 2: I think the star power is there now, and the

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Speaker 2: opponents are there.

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Speaker 5: We need talk.

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Speaker 1: Ravens comin Bills, the quarterbacks obviously.

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Speaker 2: Aaron possibly, I don't know. Why I'm so hesitant to say,

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Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers, once somebody gets hurt.

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Speaker 4: We just never know.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if we play him later in the year again.

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Speaker 1: He's I mean, who's to say he's forty years old

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Speaker 1: coming off in a Hills tear. I'm gonna leave with

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Speaker 1: one final thing, Okay, because the Internet does allow for seats.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 1: August eight, twenty twenty three. Remember that was during training camp, right, Yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it was a couple of days before twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three. It's our buddy Eric out at home. His

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Speaker 1: power rankings for the Texans. Where do you think Texans were?

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Speaker 3: Oh, they were probably thirtieth or something.

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Speaker 4: Thirty first. Okay, thirty first.

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Speaker 2: So this is before the first preseason game and Stroud

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Speaker 2: through the pick in that game. So just before that, yeah,

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Speaker 2: thirty first in the power ranking.

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Speaker 1: This is what he said. He said, the light seeds

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Speaker 1: to be coming on for rookie quarterbacks CJ. Stroud, and

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Speaker 1: it feels like all signs pointing in being the week

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Speaker 1: one starter.

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Speaker 7: Oh.

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Speaker 4: Nice, new head coach Debiko ryans off.

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Speaker 1: It's coordinated Biby slogan, giving Stratupy a chance to win

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Speaker 1: the job and run away with it, and we'll see

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Speaker 1: him out there first in Thursday's preseason.

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Speaker 3: This is a day before Okay.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the Texans continue to turn through off its lone possibilities,

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Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Number thirty one. The

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Speaker 1: team behind us was the Arizona Cardinals. The team in

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Speaker 1: front of us was at Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Now, the

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers were much improved.

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Speaker 2: So you talk about two division winners at thirtieth and

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Speaker 2: thirty first, nice projection there, Bud.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the Rams were twenty eighth.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so playoff team, playoff team, playoff team. Colts were

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Speaker 3: twenty seventh.

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Speaker 1: Nearly winning season Bears were twenty fifth, Panthers are twenty six.

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Speaker 4: The Panthers are five spots.

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Speaker 1: Twenty ninth, right before the Las Vegas Raiders ended up

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Speaker 1: winning what seven eight games last year?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, so they did better than expect.

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Speaker 1: So you could take your power rankers with the great

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Speaker 1: of salt, but I guarantee you, which brings me to

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Speaker 1: the next point. Where do you think the Texans are

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Speaker 1: for their in their power rankings? I would imagine a

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Speaker 1: lot of them that have already been done they've been

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Speaker 1: top seven and one, they were top four. I think

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Speaker 1: Sean Pendergast did that one morning. It's gonna be interesting

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Speaker 1: where they put them now. What has been the greatest

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Speaker 1: trade in Texans history? Drew Doerty and I discussed that

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Speaker 1: and what more do Stefon Diggs bring to this offense?

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Speaker 4: That's next on Texans All Access.

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Speaker 5: What's happen?

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Speaker 1: Everybody walk back this Wednesday at issue of Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris. Still a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a surreal feeling. Stefan Diggs is a Houston Texan. My goodness, yes,

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Speaker 1: reported by I think it was Adam Schefter I saw

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Speaker 1: this morning who tweeted posted X did it first?

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Speaker 5: However you want to say it.

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Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs traded to the Texans, as the Deals reported,

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Speaker 1: the Texans traded a twenty twenty five second round or

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Speaker 1: which is the pick they got in the Vikings deal

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Speaker 1: to move out of the first round.

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Speaker 5: They use that sent that to Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: Buffalo in turns, since Stefon Diggs a twenty twenty four

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Speaker 1: to sixth and a twenty twenty five to fifth, as

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Speaker 1: they said in the previous segment, pick number twenty three

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Speaker 1: in the draft. The Texans got from the Browns into

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Speaker 1: Shaun Watson trade, so basically four picks higher than where

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Speaker 1: the Texans would have been with pick number twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: The Texans ended up with Stefan Diggs pick number forty

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Speaker 1: two overall. That's in the second round of twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four at twenty twenty four to six and twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: five to fifth.

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Speaker 5: That is extremely well done. Well done.

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Speaker 1: And Drew Dordy and I talked about that on in

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Speaker 1: the Lab all of it.

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Speaker 5: Stefan Diggs is a Texan.

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Speaker 7: Let's go in lab times now, John, what emoji are

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Speaker 7: you right now? Oh boy, it's Wednesday morning, ten thirty five.

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Speaker 4: There are a lot of emojis right now. What's the

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Speaker 4: It's the head blown one.

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Speaker 7: That one, the head blown.

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Speaker 3: Head blown one. That's probably one, uh the one.

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Speaker 7: Eyeballs emoji is a good one.

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Speaker 1: Eyeballs emoji is a good one for a number of reasons.

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Speaker 1: There's probably like the laughing the laughing crying emoji.

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Speaker 7: Yep, you know, like sideways left.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, like that.

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Speaker 1: I wish there were a emoji for kept receipts, like hey,

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Speaker 1: I've kept There is there a mooji for like kept receeats.

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Speaker 3: I would like to I would like to have all.

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Speaker 1: The receipts from everything everybody was saying about this organization

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Speaker 1: last time, at the last year, at this time last year,

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Speaker 1: at this time, what were everybody what was everybody saying

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Speaker 1: about this organization? Oh, I mean there were a lot

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Speaker 1: of people saying, we're not even gonn take CJ.

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Speaker 4: Shroud.

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Speaker 1: They're not even gonna take a quarterback. They're not even

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Speaker 1: gonna do that. Fast forward one year, Fast forward one year,

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Speaker 1: and now you've got national analysts that are like, that's

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Speaker 1: the best offense in the league. It's the best offense

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Speaker 1: in the league bar none. So you still have the draft,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, you still have the two second rounders. Where

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Speaker 1: you say, and if you're on an island and you

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Speaker 1: just are tuning in just for this segment, thanks first

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Speaker 1: of all you yes, thank you. Second, there's news out

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Speaker 1: there that the Texans have traded for Buffalo Bill's receiver

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Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs.

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Speaker 7: He's really, really good. He is coming to town in

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Speaker 7: exchange for reportedly a second round pick next year, but

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Speaker 7: he's also coming with a fifth this year and a

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Speaker 7: sixth next year or is it a six this year

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Speaker 7: to fifth anyway.

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Speaker 3: So it's a sixth this year of sixth next year. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: sixth and nine.

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Speaker 1: So here's here's my tweet the post whatever you wanna,

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Speaker 1: whatever you wanna, you know, call it, but this is

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Speaker 1: what I posted earlier today.

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Speaker 3: My math is correct, which I'm pretty sure it is.

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Speaker 1: Number twenty three in the draft this year, Texas right

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Speaker 1: number twenty three that they got in the Cleveland Browns

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Speaker 1: trade for DeShawn Watson. So number twenty three was a

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Speaker 1: result of that trade. Number twenty three in this draft,

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Speaker 1: remember that was the pick that got moved to Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: So stay with me. We kind of lumped this together

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Speaker 1: in one thing. Number twenty three in this draft turned

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Speaker 1: into Stefon Diggs, number forty two overall in this draft

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Speaker 1: m HM, a twenty twenty four sixth round pick and

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Speaker 1: a twenty twenty five fifth round pick. That's how number

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Speaker 1: twenty three nets out with number twenty three. Instead of

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Speaker 1: picking one player, the Texans got Stefon Diggs, number forty

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Speaker 1: two overall, a sixth this year and a fifth next year.

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Speaker 1: I finished my tweet by saying, Holy Casario, Batman, never shocked,

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Speaker 1: Never but this one, Wow, let's bleep and go.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was my tweet.

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Speaker 7: There's lots of good wide receivers in this draft, you know,

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Speaker 7: deep into the draft, but are there any that you

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Speaker 7: are certain are absolutely one zillion percent certain as effective,

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Speaker 7: as accomplished, as talented as Stefan Diggs. Maybe Marvin Harris.

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Speaker 7: He might be there one day, you know, nover No,

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Speaker 7: but he's not done it. He's not done it like

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Speaker 7: Diggs has done it. He doesn't have the NFL experience

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Speaker 7: like Diggs has. I'm not saying. I'm not saying that,

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Speaker 7: you know, Harrison's gonna not be digs, but he might

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Speaker 7: be better. But this is a known quantity you got

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Speaker 7: in exchange for a first round pick and all that

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Speaker 7: other stuff you mentioned too, Johnah, the really really fascinating thing,

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Speaker 7: and you brought this up off the AAR. I wonder

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Speaker 7: how much input case Keenum Houston Texans quarterback had in

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Speaker 7: this decision. Because he threw to digs in Minnesota and

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Speaker 7: in Buffalo. You know, he was a backup in both places,

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Speaker 7: started a few games in both places, started a lot

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Speaker 7: of games in Minnesota, so he's got some experience with

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Speaker 7: this guy. Aaron Wilson had a really good tweet about

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Speaker 7: Nick Cassario at the Pro Day back in fourteen, throwing

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Speaker 7: two Stefan Diggs in College Park, Maryland. He played for

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Speaker 7: the Terrapins, so he knows a little bit about him.

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Speaker 7: He knows a lot about him. He scouted him. You know,

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Speaker 7: they do a lot of background work on these guys

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Speaker 7: when they're run up to the draft. They've done it,

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Speaker 7: got a lot of intelligence. Those are just two guys,

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Speaker 7: Casario and Kingdom. Who knows who else they've relied upon

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Speaker 7: they've leaned on for information for intel, but there's a

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Speaker 7: lot out there. They don't make this move without feeling

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Speaker 7: really good about things. And I wonder who feels the

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Speaker 7: best right now? Is it CJ. Stroud, Is it Stefan Diggs?

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Speaker 7: Is it Joe Mixon? Who feels the best? We saw

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Speaker 7: Laramie Tunzel's tweet. He's really excited. Who feels the best

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Speaker 7: about this right now? You think, well, it's interesting. You

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Speaker 7: know we're doing obviously the show in the building. You

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Speaker 7: can see that Drews and his spot. I'm in my spot.

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Speaker 1: Being in the building is kind of interesting in a

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Speaker 1: day like this, you know, seeing the response now not

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Speaker 1: a lot of players are not in here. But when

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Speaker 1: you walk into the cafe and you see players sitting

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Speaker 1: around and they're having breakfast, and you look up and

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Speaker 1: you go, oh my god, holy cow, what does this mean.

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Speaker 1: My first reaction I said this to you was case Keenum.

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Speaker 1: That was one of the first things that popped out,

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Speaker 1: because obviously they have the connection from the Minneapolis Miracle,

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Speaker 1: and they have that in Minnesota. The other Minnesota connection

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Speaker 1: is Daniel Hunter. Daniel Hunter was there in sixteen. He

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Speaker 1: started there sixteen, So there's there's connections with Stefon Diggs.

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Speaker 1: Because I think a lot of people and this happens

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Speaker 1: a lot, this happens a lot think about and I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm just go, man, is Nick Cassia worked for Bill

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Speaker 1: Belichick for a long time, right, what does everybody outside

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Speaker 1: the building think about Bill Belichick? Or he's Darth Vader,

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Speaker 1: he's you know, he's this just rigorous, you know, just

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Speaker 1: doesn't say anything to the media, et cetera. When you

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Speaker 1: talk to Nick Sirio about Bill Belichick and you're like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: what people know outside the building is not quite what

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Speaker 1: people know inside the building about Bill Belichick.

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Speaker 3: And I think there might be some of that. With

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Speaker 3: Stefon Diggs.

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Speaker 1: I think there is that thought of you know, people,

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Speaker 1: people are on a building and people have seen some things.

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Speaker 1: They see him get you know, over emotional on the sidelines,

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Speaker 1: and they think, oh, he's got to be this kind

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Speaker 1: of guy. I think back to you know, his college days,

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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. But the people inside the building

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Speaker 1: may know him to be different and may know him

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Speaker 1: getting in a different situation might be like Houston might

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Speaker 1: be a little bit better one.

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Speaker 3: Maybe it just ran its course in Buffalo. Who whatever.

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Speaker 1: Just know that when you look at this passing game,

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Speaker 1: you just look at this offense now and you throw

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Speaker 1: Stefan Digs into it with Tank, Dell, Nico Collins.

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Speaker 4: And here's the thing.

653
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Speaker 1: I don't think that any one of them takes away

654
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Speaker 1: from the other two.

655
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 7: If they're they're all different. Yeah, they different the way

656
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 7: they do things exactly. I've already seen some some people

657
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 7: say on Twitter, oh, week, okay, you gotta you gotta

658
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 7: make Tank in the put Tank in the slot. It's like,

659
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 7: I mean, he can play there, but that's not He's

660
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:47,960
Speaker 7: not a slot receiver. If you watch this team, if

661
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 7: you watched him in college, Tank's not a slot guy exclusively.

662
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:55,960
Speaker 4: So I mean, from that standpoint, the stuff it's really drew.

663
00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: It doesn't it needs interior passing weapons, right, but it

664
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be your traditional Well you just put

665
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 1: Wes Welker in a slot and he runs all pivots

666
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,840
Speaker 1: and jukes and and whip routes and all that about.

667
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 7: All the stuff over the middle in short, that Nico

668
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 7: Collins taken and punishing people with.

669
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 3: And what gives you, what gives you pack game, what

670
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:17,959
Speaker 3: digs will give you on the end, what you might

671
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 3: do right exactly?

672
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 1: Wow, I just I'm I've said this often. I'm never

673
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: I'm never shocked. I'm never shocked when I saw this.

674
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 7: Now shocked today.

675
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 4: Though I was shocked today. I just didn't I didn't

676
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 4: hear with.

677
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 7: I mean, we were we were about to press record

678
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 7: on this, and we were going to go in a

679
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 7: totally different direction, and I was going to push my

680
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 7: glasses back up on the bridge of my nose that

681
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 7: I don't.

682
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 3: Have right now, I'll do it.

683
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 7: Let's consider the picks that the Texans might use on

684
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 7: a defensive tackle in the There's value in that, there is,

685
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:55,719
Speaker 7: But this is a this is a monster. I mean,

686
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 7: right off the bat, I thought, Okay, this has got

687
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:00,160
Speaker 7: to be the biggest trade in team history, right yea.

688
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 7: Only they could come close would be the move up

689
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 7: last year during the draft to get Will Anderson, the

690
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 7: Tunsel trade trade, and then after that the Drew Henson deal.

691
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 7: Oh three. I'm sure I'm missing some, I know.

692
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm sure there have been some drafts.

693
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 7: Chris Myers, Like, Chris Myers was a trade, I believe.

694
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 7: So that's a big deal because he was a good Yeah. Yeah,

695
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 7: but back in the day you gave up.

696
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 1: Back in the day, Chris Myers was an unknown product,

697
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: and so you didn't give up much for Chris Myers.

698
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 1: Now turned out great for the Texans, but it was

699
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: he was an unknown product. I mean, I think the

700
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 1: Tunsil trade, the trade last year for will Anderson, and

701
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 1: this one.

702
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, those are the ones that like whoa, And.

703
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 1: This is one in which you know, obviously, the Laramie

704
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 1: one is one people talked about for a long time.

705
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 1: It just coincided with you bring in Laramie and you

706
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 1: just have three of the toughest seasons that you've had

707
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: and now you look at it and go, man, where

708
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: would you be without Laramie Tunsel.

709
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 3: Yeah.

710
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 1: So yeah, you had to give up a lot, and

711
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 1: but you weathered the storm to get through the other side.

712
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 1: And now because you have weather that storm, and because

713
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 1: Nick made that deal with the Cleveland Browns for DeShawn Watson,

714
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 1: and what that deal has continued to allow Nick to do.

715
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 4: Wow, I'm stunned. Now.

716
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: We talked about Case having a potential impact having played

717
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 1: with Stefon Diggs in both Minnesota and Buffalo. You know

718
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 1: Daniel Hunter potentially, I mean, who knows, but just bringing

719
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 1: in and I know Digs is thirty. I know he's

720
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 1: put in a lot, a lot of big time work.

721
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 7: But that's still young though for these guys. But I

722
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 7: know you're not saying.

723
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 3: That Keenan Allen.

724
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 1: You've made an offer for Keenan Allen, didn't work out,

725
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 1: he ends up going to the Bears.

726
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 4: Keenan is thirty two ish. The thing is is you

727
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 4: have young receivers.

728
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: NCO's going into year four, right, yeah, year four, tanking

729
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 1: your two.

730
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 4: You know, Diggs comes in.

731
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 1: So if you've got a little bit of you know,

732
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 1: a few rings around the tree, Now what this does

733
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 1: to the remainder of.

734
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 3: The receiver receiving group shakes it up, shakes up a

735
00:33:59,160 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 3: little bit.

736
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 1: So we'll we'll say how that goes and also how

737
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 1: does it impact the drafts, you know, priorities and all that.

738
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:11,440
Speaker 1: My guess is receiver moved down maybe a step because

739
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 1: you have younger receivers already and Xavier Hutchinson and John

740
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:18,879
Speaker 1: Metchi that maybe you want to see what you've got.

741
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,799
Speaker 7: Let me, Noah Brown, let me be well, actually, guy there,

742
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 7: I'm with you, but well, actually this just gives you

743
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:32,399
Speaker 7: all the more flexibility to go best player available, because like, sure, sure, hey,

744
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 7: say you do have all these guys, but say there's

745
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 7: one of these these receivers that's way up on your

746
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 7: draft board that just hasn't been picked, and then you

747
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 7: got a clump of guys who I guess outside the

748
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 7: building people might think, well, you got to get one

749
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 7: of those guys for that position. Man, this gives you

750
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 7: that gives you that flexibility just say, what the hell

751
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 7: why not take him? And then you you are really

752
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,879
Speaker 7: really if you're sitting on a powder kke You're sitting

753
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 7: on a powder keg right now, and then you've just

754
00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:58,319
Speaker 7: added another I.

755
00:34:58,239 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 1: Feel like I feel like it really is kind of

756
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 1: narrowed down for me because I just have done mock

757
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:04,800
Speaker 1: drafts and draft priorities and draft needs and all that.

758
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 1: I'm working on my draft guidet Football takeover dot Com

759
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:09,359
Speaker 1: to have that ready, and so I'm going through every

760
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 1: single team and looking at the rosters and how they're built.

761
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 3: And obviously the Texans are one of those teams.

762
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 1: And to me, forty two and fifty nine come down

763
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 1: to quarterback, defensive tackle, right, That's to me what it

764
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 1: comes down to. I feel like you have fewer unknowns

765
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:29,839
Speaker 1: at positions throughout the squad. Now that's just my interpretation

766
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:31,879
Speaker 1: of it doesn't always work out that way. You might

767
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 1: look at a player and go, WHOA, we did not

768
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: expect that guy to be there at forty two.

769
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 4: We're jumping all over that.

770
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:40,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, But to me, if there are any question marks

771
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 1: that you look at the roster and go okay, I

772
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 1: still feel like left guard is question mark. But there

773
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 1: are a lot of guys in this building that they

774
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 1: brought to this building with the thought of being that

775
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: left guard. Whether it's Kenyan Green, whether it's Kendrick Green,

776
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 1: whether it's Too Scrugs, whatever the case might be. Defensive

777
00:35:57,600 --> 00:35:59,760
Speaker 1: tackle they brought in bodies. They brought in Tim Settle

778
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 1: and fully fought tu Kasi. Depending on how you classify

779
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 1: Mario Edwards Junior, how you classify Autry, et cetera. They've

780
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:10,720
Speaker 1: brought in players at defensive tackle. But I still feel

781
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: like there's still another nugget or piece missing there. Corner staying,

782
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 1: staying healthy. He's going to be an all pro. I

783
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 1: don't think there's any question. We saw the beginnings of

784
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: that in twenty twenty four. Now you look at you

785
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 1: look at the other side. You go, O Kuda Henderson lottery.

786
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 1: You call it this, and I think you're dead on

787
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 1: These are lottery scratch off tickets.

788
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 3: If it hits man, you haven't given up much to

789
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 3: gain a lot.

790
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: But to me, there's still that question of can you

791
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: get out of akudah Henderson?

792
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 3: Can you can you bank on it? I don't know

793
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 3: that you can.

794
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:45,879
Speaker 1: So to me, it feels like defensive tackle corner kind

795
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 1: of kind of rounds into shape. Those are the picks

796
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: and the fact that you didn't have to give up

797
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:54,799
Speaker 1: forty two to fifty nine for for in the DIGS deal,

798
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: and not only that, you get a sixth back this

799
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,319
Speaker 1: year in a fifth and that two. Look at this

800
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 1: way two you never had. It's like it was just

801
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 1: kind of a you know, passing through town, sure on

802
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: its way from Minnesota to you to Buffalo.

803
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:11,439
Speaker 7: So it can help and you get one of those back.

804
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:15,400
Speaker 7: Knowing the way Nick Cassario operates during the draft weekend,

805
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:17,839
Speaker 7: he might emerge with one of those and it pops

806
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 7: up on these draft simulators.

807
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 1: Like you said, forty two and fifty nine, do you

808
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 1: anticipate Nick staying at forty two and fifty nine?

809
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:28,759
Speaker 7: Sure, maybe it wouldn't stunt you thought. I mean I would.

810
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,440
Speaker 1: I would bet every dollar I had, which is much,

811
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 1: but I bet every dollar I have that forty three

812
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 1: and fifty nine.

813
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:34,840
Speaker 4: There's no way.

814
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 3: There's not a chance in hades that he's drafted at

815
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 3: forty two and fifty nine.

816
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 4: Well, way, we.

817
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 7: Were gonna talk about the mock draft simulator or she

818
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 7: excuse me, a mock draft roundup for this, and then

819
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:46,799
Speaker 7: I was like, no, we got to talk about digs.

820
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:48,800
Speaker 7: But you just kind of segued us into it naturally.

821
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 7: So the latest one came out yesterday. The mock draft

822
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 7: roundup a week or two ago. Two weeks ago, there

823
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 7: were only eight that had the Texans picking at forty

824
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 7: second because of the big train had just happened. And

825
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 7: mainly people do mock drafts for just the first round,

826
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:06,879
Speaker 7: right right, right, but more have emerged in which there

827
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:10,839
Speaker 7: are more than two rounds. So there's twenty. Yeah, yours, Well,

828
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 7: you were always there. You're leading that charge man. Eighteen

829
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 7: of the twenty have the Texans taking a defensive tackle

830
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 7: or a corner correct ten d tackles, eight corners. The

831
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 7: most mocked player though, was a corner. He's a guy

832
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:32,840
Speaker 7: you had chosen Iowa State, Yeah, corner corner, TJ Tampa.

833
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,760
Speaker 7: He had four different mock drafts having him come to Houston.

834
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 7: And then Braden Fiskey was also at forty two on three.

835
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:42,560
Speaker 7: He was the next most mocked player. He's at Florida

836
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:47,359
Speaker 7: State defensive tackle. At a Dear Drew question comparing him

837
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:48,919
Speaker 7: to JJ Watt and I was like, hold on, now,

838
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 7: like let's take it easy.

839
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,359
Speaker 1: I understand, but there's one major similarity, but there are

840
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 1: some other similarities just from an athlete standpoint, but from

841
00:38:57,239 --> 00:38:59,240
Speaker 1: a play on a field standpoint, it's just totally different.

842
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:02,279
Speaker 7: Call your jets there. And then we had Mike Hall

843
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 7: junior defensive tackle from Ohio State. Yeah, and Chris Jenkins,

844
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 7: a defensive tackle from Michigan. They were each draft or

845
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 7: mocked to Texans to by two different mockers. Everybody else

846
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:14,280
Speaker 7: was just like one player apiece. But eighteen of twenty

847
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:17,880
Speaker 7: had those two positions, just like you were mentioning Horner

848
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 7: in defensive tackle. And it makes all the sense in

849
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:23,400
Speaker 7: the world. So we'll see what happens. I wonder what

850
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 7: this does. Does this trade only winnow that down because

851
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 7: key On Coleman, Florida state wide receiver, somebody had him

852
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 7: coming here. Yep, Yeah, that's a possibility. I'm not ruling

853
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:38,760
Speaker 7: out wide receiver as a possibility.

854
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, one of those guys they really like

855
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 1: and they think could fit down the road. I'm not

856
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:47,319
Speaker 1: I'm not ruling that out. I just feel like that

857
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 1: probably gets moved down just because you're bringing in you know,

858
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 1: you're bringing in digs. Yeah, So I just feel I

859
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 1: feel like it moves down. And if there's a position

860
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 1: in this draft where okay, we can wait till later,

861
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: we're gonna look at receiver in the fourth round, and

862
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:06,879
Speaker 1: maybe you don't target it that way. You just look

863
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:08,880
Speaker 1: at you know, groups of players or pods of players

864
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 1: as Nick talks about. But if you just use that, Hey,

865
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 1: we're just gonna look at it later. We'll look at

866
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 1: it on day three. Receiver is that position you can

867
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:18,880
Speaker 1: look at on day three and still find a dude?

868
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:19,320
Speaker 7: Yeah?

869
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:20,759
Speaker 4: That that that can happen in Yeah.

870
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:23,360
Speaker 3: Draft, Absolutely, his wide receiver group is as good as

871
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 3: i've seen.

872
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,440
Speaker 7: Hey, one little other thing to remember, you brought up

873
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 7: Case Keenum having played with him both those places. Well,

874
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,280
Speaker 7: you're playing both those teams this year. You're playing the Vikings.

875
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 3: Yep.

876
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 7: That's a road game.

877
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 3: Yep.

878
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 7: You're playing the hit the Bills here at Energy Stadium.

879
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:37,359
Speaker 5: Yeah.

880
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:40,400
Speaker 1: Adam Chefter tweeted about that Bills game, yeah, saying that

881
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 1: there's a potent.

882
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:43,880
Speaker 3: You know, hey, that needs to be factored in by

883
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 3: the schedule people.

884
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:46,040
Speaker 4: You know, you don't want that to you know. It's

885
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 4: the digs revenge games, you want to call it that.

886
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 7: And on a bigger scale, just having Digs on this

887
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 7: team does that Does that affecture prime time games for

888
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,839
Speaker 7: the Do they get more? Maybe not? Maybe it makes

889
00:40:57,880 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 7: them all the more interesting.

890
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 3: It's the expectations for this offense have just gone through

891
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:03,479
Speaker 3: the roof.

892
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, gone through the roof. So they got to make

893
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: sure that they manage those. People have got to manage those.

894
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 1: It's going to take a little while for you know,

895
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:14,319
Speaker 1: digs to get incorporated. But the other the other side

896
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 1: of digs is you got digs v digs up in Arlington,

897
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:19,440
Speaker 1: Texas taken on the Cowboys.

898
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 7: There we go.

899
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:20,840
Speaker 4: That's gonna be interesting.

900
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:21,239
Speaker 3: Steven A.

901
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 1: Smith said it on his his show. He said, uh,

902
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 1: you know what, Yeah, this what this means? This is

903
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:34,439
Speaker 1: his one thought. What this means Texas are the best

904
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:34,839
Speaker 1: team and.

905
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:35,840
Speaker 4: He in Texas.

906
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 7: That's funny stuff.

907
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 3: I'll take it. Okay, take it, thanks Steve, and I.

908
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 7: Let's end on this note. I went to SMU. I'm

909
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 7: from Houston, went to SMU, and I've got a group

910
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 7: of college friends that I text with. We all have

911
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 7: these different text threads in our lives, high school friends,

912
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 7: college friends, whatever, we're work friends. So it's me one

913
00:41:56,280 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 7: other guy who's from the Woodlands originally, and then everyone else.

914
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 7: They're like Dallas people, they either live there now or

915
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,399
Speaker 7: they're from there. And the Woodlands guy who's a big

916
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 7: Astros Texans Rockets fan, just said this on the group

917
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 7: text Stefan Diggs Doherty question mark and I responded with

918
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 7: correct And then another guy from Dallas said, you had

919
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 7: another baby? Cool name. Congrats that's good.

920
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's good. That's that's a good text.

921
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:30,359
Speaker 7: Are if I were to have another baby, yeah, we'd

922
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 7: have that in the mix. I don't know that it'd

923
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:33,359
Speaker 7: make the final cup, it would be in the mix, right.

924
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 1: You know what you need to make this deal with

925
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 1: your wife that if there is, if there is another

926
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 1: Doherty and the Texans win the Super Bowl before that

927
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 1: baby is born, you gotta name it Stefon all right?

928
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,359
Speaker 1: J Stroud out there and how you want to do it?

929
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 1: How do you want to do it? Will Will Doherty,

930
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 1: Will Doherty Junior. I don't whatever you want.

931
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 7: To do, options abound, all right, John? This has been fun, man.

932
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 7: What it's time to be alive after everything we've seen

933
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 7: around here the last few years. This reminds me of

934
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 7: twenty twelve going into twelve but on overdrive.

935
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:06,359
Speaker 5: Man.

936
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:10,239
Speaker 7: This is exciting, just exciting. So this has been in

937
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 7: the lab.

938
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 3: We get back, we'll go around the NFL.

939
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 1: What else happened other than the Stefon Digg's trade to

940
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 1: the Texans? What else happened, and well, what's been the

941
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 1: reaction from people around the league about.

942
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:23,439
Speaker 5: This particular trade? That's next? The Texans all.

943
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 1: Access tap and everybody walking back to Wednesday at issue

944
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:29,360
Speaker 1: the Texans all Access John Harris football on a sideline

945
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: reporter and just got a very angry text from one

946
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:38,280
Speaker 1: Mark Vandermer saying that we missed a very key trade.

947
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:41,399
Speaker 1: Drew Doridy and I did on in the lab and

948
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: he's right because whenever you trade for a quarterback, and

949
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about trading a quarterback, because the Texans

950
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 1: have done that and that's kind of led us to

951
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:52,399
Speaker 1: where we are today. But the Texans back in two

952
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 1: thousand and seven traded two second round picks to the

953
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:59,760
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons for Matt Shop Now, where does that rank

954
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 1: amongst the trades? Laramie Tutsell trade, the trade up for

955
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: Will Anderson the draft? Obviously, this one is fun Diggs.

956
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:11,319
Speaker 1: I mean, this one for Diggs probably is just I

957
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 1: think it's it's the one that will stand out I

958
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 1: think for me, just because Diggs is such a well

959
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 1: known name. Laram Me obviously was one that I loved

960
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 1: because I was a big fan of Laramie.

961
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 5: I've been for a long time. I mean's he'll be

962
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 5: one of my favorite players for a long time.

963
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:30,240
Speaker 1: I mean I followed him from Lake City, Columbia High School,

964
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:33,200
Speaker 1: which I was familiar with, han't been in Jacksonville, then

965
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 1: to Ole Miss just I've never seen a tackle like that.

966
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:38,279
Speaker 1: He was number one of my Harris one hundred and

967
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:42,280
Speaker 1: twenty whatever's draft year was twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, twenty sixteen.

968
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,920
Speaker 1: So I was enamored and have been enamored with that

969
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 1: guy for a long long time.

970
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:50,719
Speaker 3: The Will Anderson trade last year.

971
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:55,320
Speaker 1: Obviously there's still some more work that's got to be done, obviously,

972
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 1: but Will is the rookie of the year.

973
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 5: Pretty damn good trade.

974
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:01,279
Speaker 1: But this one, yeah, I don't want to say it

975
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: came out of nowhere, but like it sort of came

976
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 1: out of nowhere. I mean, I know there was some

977
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:09,840
Speaker 1: talk after the Keenan Allen deal the Texans were, you

978
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:13,720
Speaker 1: had we structured some contracts, so okay, they were doing something,

979
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 1: but what is it gonna be? And I started thinking, man,

980
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:17,879
Speaker 1: what receiver could it be that would fill that spot?

981
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 1: And then when I heard Stefon Diggs, I went, oh,

982
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:22,840
Speaker 1: oh oh yeah, So yeah, that was gonna be. But

983
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: Mark's pretty mad because we didn't put in the match

984
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 1: shop trade, so that's on us. It would have been

985
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 1: in there, it'd have been into consideration, but I don't

986
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 1: know if it's number one. Yeah, I know, trade for

987
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:36,479
Speaker 1: a quarterback, I gotta get all that. But Van Diggs,

988
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 1: four time pro bowler you're trading for, Uh, that's pretty incredible.

989
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:41,319
Speaker 1: Even Laramie had not gone to the Pro bow when

990
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 1: he's in Miami.

991
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 5: You know, Will.

992
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 1: Anderson was just a pup coming out of Alabama. You

993
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:48,240
Speaker 1: just traded for a four time pro bowler, Stefan Diggs.

994
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:52,280
Speaker 1: It's kind of interesting to see the reaction throughout after

995
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 1: that deal happened. Laramie obviously reacting to it, you know,

996
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:59,360
Speaker 1: with tweets or posts or I don't know whatever whatever

997
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 1: you call him, but.

998
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 5: He responded, it's up for real, so pretty excited.

999
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:11,240
Speaker 1: Titus was tweeting or posting or xing about it, whatever

1000
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:11,799
Speaker 1: you call it.

1001
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:14,320
Speaker 5: Uh, the guys were tweeting about it. Pretty excited.

1002
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 1: So really just kind of crazy, amazing day to be

1003
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 1: honest with you, to see what's what's going on through

1004
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 1: this whole situation. Apparently now I'm reading this from Ian Rappaport.

1005
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:32,520
Speaker 1: I missed this earlier. Today, Texas get forty second overall

1006
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:35,360
Speaker 1: picked this year. Oh, they're combining the two trades that

1007
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 1: they got with Minnesota. So the Texans have picked nine

1008
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 1: this year and a twenty twenty five to fifth. So

1009
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:44,480
Speaker 1: I forgot about that one eighty nine. But that's a

1010
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 1: pretty good haul for a trade for Stefan Diggs. I

1011
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 1: mean to turn pick number twenty three into now. They

1012
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:56,400
Speaker 1: did have to give up that second rounder, but essentially

1013
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:58,960
Speaker 1: it cancels out on the you know, on the flip side,

1014
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:02,400
Speaker 1: because essentially I pick just went from Minnesota straight to

1015
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 1: Buffalo on the way. But Nick Casario making moves, making moves,

1016
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:12,160
Speaker 1: And if you said hesitation in my voice, it's not

1017
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:15,399
Speaker 1: out of disappointment anything. It's just still shock. I tell

1018
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:17,840
Speaker 1: you guys all the time, I'm never shocked by anything.

1019
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:21,759
Speaker 1: I was shocked by this, and I shouldn't be. I

1020
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:24,920
Speaker 1: shouldn't be, But man, you started hearing some of the

1021
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:26,800
Speaker 1: things people are saying nationally men and Texans are a

1022
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 1: Super Bowl contender. I wish I had kept all the

1023
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 1: receipts from last year at this time, all of them

1024
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 1: one year's time in fact, fifteen months. As I mentioned earlier,

1025
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 1: fifteen months. The Texans played on just January eighth, twenty

1026
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 1: twenty three, in Indianapolis. Think about what that's sixty minutes

1027
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 1: meant and where the Texans are now. It's unbelievable to

1028
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:54,359
Speaker 1: think about. Thank you Nick, thank you Stefan Diggs, thank

1029
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: you to Mark and to Drew and all of you

1030
00:47:56,200 --> 00:48:00,319
Speaker 1: will see tomorrow and as always, go Texans. Yah