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Speaker 1: Hello, Texans, Welcome. It's the Junday Texans Radio Studio. That's

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Speaker 1: our location right inside NRG Stadium, right across the hall

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Speaker 1: from the locker room. Mark Vandermayer, John Harris with you.

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Speaker 1: Happy Friday, and I hope it's gonna be a great

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Speaker 1: that for us, there's no draft this weekend, although, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: the CFL Draft is taking place or was last night?

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Speaker 1: Is that more than two one day? I mean, is

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Speaker 1: that like the NFL draft, they drag it on forever.

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Speaker 1: It might go a little bit faster. They've got different

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Speaker 1: they've got different rules of players they can draft and

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Speaker 1: all the different things that they can do. And you

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Speaker 1: can't draft anybody really great, Okay, you gotta draft people

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Speaker 1: who might possibly play in Canada. No, I don't want

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Speaker 1: to make fun of that because drafted the CFL draft. Really,

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure, because he's he's Canadian. Yeah, exactly, And

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Speaker 1: we do like the CFL. I'm just the whole thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's but it's one draft after the next. No, I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you, Mark, I've actually spent more time with the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty draft than I did with the CFL draft.

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Speaker 1: You need help. I've already been been scouring. I've been

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Speaker 1: a skill players. It's gonna be one heck of a

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Speaker 1: skill player draft next years. It's wow. There there are

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Speaker 1: some big time players at running back and wide receiver. Now,

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Speaker 1: obviously they've got all the Claire, but my goodness, if

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Speaker 1: they if they do, this running back class will be

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Speaker 1: as good as as I've seen in a long time.

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Speaker 1: Receivers are are just as good. I mean, it's incredible

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Speaker 1: to This running back class was really good. This running

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Speaker 1: This group is good from could have two or three

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Speaker 1: guys in the first round perspective. Okay, Well, the different

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Speaker 1: which is not something we've seen much lately. The mock

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Speaker 1: draft consensus that Drew put out the day after the

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Speaker 1: draft or the day after the draft weekend, said that

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Speaker 1: the Texans we're gonna draft a running back in the

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Speaker 1: first raft. I saw, Yeah, I saw a few guys,

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Speaker 1: but that's not gonna happen because they're gonna run for

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Speaker 1: two thousand yards behind Lamar Miller, Deante Foreman and maybe

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Speaker 1: I hope that's I hope that's the case. No, Buddy

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Speaker 1: How maybe, so that's the upset of the century right there.

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Speaker 1: Buddy How comes from out of nowhere, a special teams

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Speaker 1: here's here's the thing with Buddy. We picked up Buddy

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Speaker 1: mind the last couple of years. Last year in particular,

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Speaker 1: when we got to the waiver process, everybody thinks, oh,

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Speaker 1: in the waiver wire and found dudes. I mean last

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Speaker 1: year they found a J. Moore, they found Buddy How,

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Speaker 1: they found the true Jamerson. I think there are three,

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Speaker 1: maybe four guys they added through the waiver process who

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Speaker 1: really helped on special teams, no question, And they really

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Speaker 1: they from a depth perspective. That's what they were there for.

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Speaker 1: They were brought us a depth perspective, but also to

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Speaker 1: play on special teams. But you give Buddy How a

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Speaker 1: year to learn an entire offense. AJ Moore a year

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Speaker 1: So I think I'm excited to see what Buddy does.

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Speaker 1: I think these OTAs is mini camp. That's a great

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Speaker 1: time for Buddy to kind of get a leg up

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Speaker 1: You throw them in the mix. Do you have an opportunity,

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Speaker 1: I think to run the football next year and be

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Speaker 1: All Right, we're not biginning the show with the big

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Speaker 1: the second segment tonight, we will have Let's make a

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Speaker 1: football deal, the game show that might be sweeping the

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Speaker 1: of deals to make. Okay, we talk about this from

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Speaker 1: Why not? And you could play along at home and

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Speaker 1: win valuable prizes. And by valuable prizes, I mean pride

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Speaker 1: and knowing that you got things right and feeling that

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Speaker 1: it's all about relationships. And you know all these stories

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Speaker 1: So you're, of course you're gonna say that because we're

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Speaker 1: on that tangent. That's really really morbid. Going into the weekend,

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Speaker 1: I said, we weren't beginning the show with the big

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Speaker 1: those lines undrafted free agents. And first question is kind

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Speaker 1: of starting from reverse here, if you are undrafted in

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Speaker 1: a particular class, should the team kind of get credit

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Speaker 1: And they do obviously, Like the Cowboys get credit for

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Speaker 1: of the greatest undrafted players of all time, right, so

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Speaker 1: you get credit. However, if you knew they were gonna

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Speaker 1: the guys that Texans will announce next week that are

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Speaker 1: I think the one thing now you'll you'll never know

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Speaker 1: But who was really the first one to kind of

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Speaker 1: I bring up former coach Wes Welker. Yeah, because Wes

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Speaker 1: Chris Ballard, who really was the first one to say, Hey,

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Speaker 1: think you got something. So he didn't sign Ballard didn't

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Speaker 1: who Ballard was with them the time, you know. But

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Speaker 1: who he had the Chargers, Yeah, the Chargers. So the

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Speaker 1: staff have to go from we've done all the choosing,

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Speaker 1: we've been the study, and we're gonna pick these players too.

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Speaker 1: All right, now you gotta put your recruiting hat on.

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Speaker 1: But the players pick among those who have interests. Right,

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Speaker 1: Like a beautiful woman can't just go up to any

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Speaker 1: I did not ask you this question, right, even though

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Speaker 1: I wish I did, maybe, but I didn't ask you. No,

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Speaker 1: there were other things that went into that ACL injury.

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Speaker 1: So when it comes to the undrafted, every single one

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Speaker 1: other package, but you don't know what's gonna happen. In

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Speaker 1: addition to this, I will guarantee you four and oh

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Speaker 1: against the Titans and the Jags. So you got four

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Speaker 1: and no against the Titans and the Jags on this side.

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Speaker 1: Then you have this other package of oh and two

428
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Speaker 1: against the Colts, but you beat Kansas City in New Orleans.

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Speaker 1: Now you still might go four and oh against the

430
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Speaker 1: Titans and Jags over there, but you don't know that

431
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Speaker 1: which one are you taking? That might be a little

432
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Speaker 1: complicated for radio right now for the listeners, but I

433
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Speaker 1: think they can follow along well. If I go four

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Speaker 1: no against the Jags and the Titans, so it means

435
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Speaker 1: I've got at least two road wins. I'm gonna win

436
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Speaker 1: in London, I'm gonna win in Nashville. I'm gonna get

437
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Speaker 1: those two road wins, and I get two home wins.

438
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Speaker 1: So now I'm losing to the Colts, so that's my

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Speaker 1: home loss. Let's say that. Let's say unfortunately I lose

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Speaker 1: to the Patriots. That's two homeless. So I finished six

441
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Speaker 1: and two at home, but I've got four wins on

442
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Speaker 1: the road, right, so I'm already ten and six. I'm

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Speaker 1: taking the four and no against the tight Look at you,

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Speaker 1: I'm taking four and no against the Titans. Very nice, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm taking that all right. Here's my next package where

446
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Speaker 1: let's make a football deal. I will guarantee you, Johnny,

447
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Speaker 1: a win against the New England Patriots on Sunday Night football.

448
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be huge, it's gonna be great, right, it's

449
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Speaker 1: gonna be Sunday night football. You're gonna beat the Patriots here,

450
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Speaker 1: or I will guarantee you four and two in the division,

451
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Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna tell you which teams you beat

452
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Speaker 1: which teams you lost too. So you get a guaranteed

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Speaker 1: win against the Patriots or four and two, and you

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Speaker 1: gotta pick one of those. I'm gonna take the win

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Speaker 1: over the Patriots. And here's my logic. Okay, First of all,

456
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Speaker 1: we're beating well. I was gonna say, if we're beating

457
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Speaker 1: the Patriots, and we should be in good shape. But

458
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars beat the Patriots, I'm gonna point something else out.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna remind you of something right here. To further

460
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Speaker 1: complicate things. In twenty thirteen, you went two and fourteen.

461
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Speaker 1: Case Keenum was playing quarterback against the Patriots late in

462
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Speaker 1: the season and you went toe to toe with them.

463
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Speaker 1: You lost the game, but you led twice in the

464
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Speaker 1: second half. You look good at times in that game.

465
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Speaker 1: There was a lot of opportunity in that game. Is

466
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Speaker 1: everybody's sicking the song yet on let's make a football.

467
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Speaker 1: I dont think he's playing it. I keep playing it.

468
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Speaker 1: I still like it. So it's the price is right theme,

469
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Speaker 1: but we're playing it anyway, So keep that in mind,

470
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Speaker 1: I'll guarantee you win over the Patriots, or you can

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Speaker 1: take on and two in the division. Here's why I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna say, yeah, man, I normally I would take four

473
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Speaker 1: and two in a division. Yeah, but I'm gonna take

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Speaker 1: the winner of the Patriots. And here's why, because first

475
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Speaker 1: of all, I think the Texas will be pretty good yea.

476
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Speaker 1: And I think they're gonna be amongst a group of

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Speaker 1: teams in the AFC fighting for that number two spot.

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Speaker 1: And what separated the Texans from the number two spot

479
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Speaker 1: last year? That loss? Well, yeah, then the Colts. The

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Speaker 1: Colts loss itself, the one, the first one here in

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Speaker 1: the regular season. If you just beat New England, yeah,

482
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Speaker 1: then you don't have to mess with it. You're the

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Speaker 1: number one seed. Now, why do you saying vying for

484
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Speaker 1: the number two seed? Why not viye for the number one? Well? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, but that's why I forgot that. If you

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Speaker 1: had beaten the Patriots, you'd have been twelve and four

487
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Speaker 1: just without the without the Philly loss, you've been twelve

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Speaker 1: and four and you're the number one seed. So beat

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Speaker 1: New England and you're the number one seed. Now I'm

490
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Speaker 1: not saying that math works perfectly. But if you beat

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Speaker 1: New England, you've got an opportunity to if you end

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Speaker 1: up at the same spot, you get that, you get

493
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Speaker 1: the tiebreaker. That's a game and a half for you

494
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Speaker 1: if you win that game. I think it's a good choice.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a good show England, all right, that's good.

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Speaker 1: Might end up one in fifteen, might end up one

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Speaker 1: fift if that is gonna be a glorious Sunday. Wait.

498
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Speaker 1: Did the Dolphins beat the Patriots that year before Gane

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Speaker 1: got there, when they were like one in fifteen or

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Speaker 1: two and fourteen? Yes, they did. They upset them fairly

501
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Speaker 1: late in the see the Wildcat Thursday Night? Get no? No?

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Speaker 1: Was that the no Wildcat was Tony Sperrano? Right? Yeah? Wait?

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Speaker 1: Which was the year that? Um? I forget who took over,

504
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Speaker 1: but it was I think it was oh six maybe

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Speaker 1: oh seven. I believe it was oh seven. The Dolphins

506
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Speaker 1: they imploded, but I think they beat the Patriots late

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Speaker 1: in the season. Anyway, it does happen where you have

508
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Speaker 1: a horrible team, just the one in fifteen team for

509
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Speaker 1: the Dolphins. Cam camera was a coach, wasn't he cam camera?

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Speaker 1: That's right? Yeah, But I don't think they beat the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, the one I think they went. They were

512
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Speaker 1: competitive with them late in the season, right, that's true,

513
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Speaker 1: but they didn't. I don't think they beat the That's

514
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Speaker 1: let's make a football deal and we'll do that from

515
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Speaker 1: time to time. And I think you did pretty well

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Speaker 1: for yourself and playing along. I have to make it

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Speaker 1: more difficult next time. Trust me, that was hard. That

518
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Speaker 1: was very, very difficult. I know some people are probably

519
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Speaker 1: gonna no, that was easy. No, there were some there

520
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Speaker 1: were some tough ones in there. All right. I do

521
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Speaker 1: I do like doing that because we can sort of

522
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Speaker 1: do that off the cuff anyway. All right, Coming up next,

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Speaker 1: a revealing stat about a recent draft that tells you

524
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Speaker 1: everything you need to know about the draft. Just about

525
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Speaker 1: everything you need to know about the draft. Plus we'll

526
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Speaker 1: go around the league because there's always something happening in

527
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Speaker 1: the NFL. It's Texans All Access. Getting a lot of

528
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Speaker 1: reaction to our last segment on let's make a football deal,

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Speaker 1: and we will be doing that again soon enough, trust me.

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Speaker 1: I don't know when. Maybe next week. Maybe we'll make

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Speaker 1: it an everyday thing. No, we won't, Just kidding. Mark

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Speaker 1: vandamerin John Harris with you in the Hyunday Texans Radio studio, Johnny.

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Speaker 1: The twenty sixteen draft options are picked up or not

534
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Speaker 1: after or prior to a first round draft choices fourth season.

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Speaker 1: Follow along at home, folks, Yes, first round draft choices.

536
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Speaker 1: It's a four year deal. Prior to the fourth season,

537
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Speaker 1: the club has to tell the agent the player whether

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Speaker 1: they want to pick up year number five. Otherwise that

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Speaker 1: player is an unrestricted free agent after year four. Does

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Speaker 1: that make sense to everybody at home? Yeah? I think so. Okay, good,

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Speaker 1: I would think so. So you have three years to

542
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Speaker 1: determine whether you want somebody for five. Yes, And that

543
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Speaker 1: way you don't have to deal. I mean you get

544
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Speaker 1: you get to protect them another year, right, you get

545
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Speaker 1: to have him another year. They are protected, so you

546
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Speaker 1: have that decision to make. I'm not so sure it's

547
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Speaker 1: gonna stay that way in the next CBA. We'll see.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you get a couple of years. Well, you do

549
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Speaker 1: kind of get a couple of years because you can

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Speaker 1: franchise i'lah clowney. But we'll see how that goes. Because

551
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Speaker 1: that's no guarantee of anything happening other than he's still

552
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Speaker 1: in your domain if you will. Yeah. So when it

553
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Speaker 1: comes to fifty year options too, the Texans did exercise

554
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Speaker 1: a fifty year option. They picked up the fifty year

555
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Speaker 1: option on Kevin Johnson yep, but before the end of

556
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Speaker 1: the league year they went ahead and released him to

557
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Speaker 1: give him an opportunity to go to Buffalo because it

558
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Speaker 1: felt like that was not it was not gonna work out.

559
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Speaker 1: So just because you picked up the option doesn't mean that, Hey,

560
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Speaker 1: if something happens along the way, I think it's guaranteed

561
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Speaker 1: for injury. I think that's the only thing that's guaranteed

562
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Speaker 1: for so okay, so it really helps the club. Now.

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Speaker 1: The other thing is you have a guy like Kyle Fuller,

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Speaker 1: not the Texans Kyle Fuller, but the defensive back for

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Speaker 1: the Bears, right right. So Kyle Fuller was drafted in

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Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. He was in that twenty fourteen draft that

567
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Speaker 1: was you know, started with Clowney had, Aaron Donald had,

568
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Speaker 1: Khalil Mack was a monster draft OBJ, and Fuller was taken.

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Speaker 1: He was taken fourteenth, so I think he was taking

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Speaker 1: either a pick or two picks after OBJ. So he

571
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Speaker 1: went to he went to Chicago out of Virginia Tech

572
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Speaker 1: and every asset you're looking for in a corner and

573
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Speaker 1: they just didn't go well for the most part. And

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Speaker 1: then in twenty sixteen he was placed on IR and

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Speaker 1: he didn't he didn't come back. So he went into

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen coming off that injury in twenty sixteen. He

577
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Speaker 1: had struggled in twenty fifteen, and so they were like,

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Speaker 1: we're not going to exercise the option. We're not going

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Speaker 1: to exercise fiftyear option. So he went into twenty seventeen

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Speaker 1: with that knowledge. Then he had a Pro Bowl year

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Speaker 1: in seventeen. He get invited pro but he had a

582
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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl like year. I mean, he was he was

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Speaker 1: phenomenal in that year. He was one of the top

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Speaker 1: cornerbacks in all of football. He had a really, really

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Speaker 1: good year. So at that point, or before they got

586
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Speaker 1: to the new league year, the Bears decided to put

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Speaker 1: the transition tag on Fuller. So what happened at that

588
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:44,959
Speaker 1: point Because the transition tag, other teams could make offers

589
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Speaker 1: and the Bears just had to decide whether they were

590
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Speaker 1: going to match the offer. So division rival Green Bay

591
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Speaker 1: stands an offer, Bears say, no, we'll match it, yep,

592
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Speaker 1: and he ended up staying with the Bears long term.

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Speaker 1: So in this twenty sixteen class, I believe it's fourteen

594
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Speaker 1: players ended up not having their option picked up by

595
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Speaker 1: their teams. That's a huge number. It is. The one

596
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Speaker 1: player that there were two players in the top ten

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Speaker 1: number ten was Eli Apple, but he would have been

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Speaker 1: traded by the by the Giants, so the Saints have

599
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Speaker 1: only had him for I think years. So the Saints

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Speaker 1: have said they're not going to pick up the option.

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Speaker 1: The other's Jack Conklin. And so I'll take you back

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Speaker 1: to what we just said about Kyle Fuller. Conklin had

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Speaker 1: missed some time with the injury. He got injured in

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Speaker 1: that playoff game against the Patriots, so he missed the

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Speaker 1: first half of last year. He's been dealing with injuries.

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Speaker 1: Before that. He was he was a pro. He was

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Speaker 1: all Pro. Actually as a rookie. He was. They were

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Speaker 1: so set, they were getting so loaded up on that

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Speaker 1: offensive line. They were just set. And then injuries hit

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Speaker 1: and he never really got back to that level. And

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Speaker 1: the Titans are like, look, we want to see how

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Speaker 1: you come back from the injury. We're not going to

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Speaker 1: pick up that option. But my guess is. They sat

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Speaker 1: down with him and said, look, if you end up

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Speaker 1: having a great twenty nineteen season like we expected when

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Speaker 1: we drafted you number eight overall, then we're gonna make

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Speaker 1: a play to bring you back. So this picking up

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Speaker 1: the option, not picking up the option, it can all

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Speaker 1: depend on how the player perceives it too. The players

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Speaker 1: like you guys essentially gave up on me. I'm not

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Speaker 1: coming back. I'm not signing a long term deal. I'm

622
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Speaker 1: not gonna do that. But in Fuller's case, floor had

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Speaker 1: that great year, the Bears decided to put the transition

624
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Speaker 1: tag on him, essentially saying, we like what you did,

625
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Speaker 1: but we want to see what the other teams offer you.

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Speaker 1: We want to see the other teams set the market

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Speaker 1: if you will, and then we'll react accordingly. If we

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Speaker 1: look at a deal and go all right, first of all,

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Speaker 1: we can't lose in to Green Bay, and yeah, we

630
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Speaker 1: can afford that we're gonna bring him back, especially to

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Speaker 1: keep position. I can see that happening with Tennessee. Could

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Speaker 1: you imagine if at the end of the year the

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Speaker 1: same thing happens with Conklin. The Texans put an off

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Speaker 1: for out there for Jack Conklin to see if the

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Speaker 1: Titans are gonna match it and really really kind of

636
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 1: put the pressure on the Titans to say, you're gonna

637
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 1: pay this money. This much money, you have it under

638
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: your cap to be able to pay this money. I mean,

639
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: they can be really interesting times for some of these

640
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 1: people that didn't have their option picked up. But look,

641
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 1: Jared Goff went one, picked up Wentz Bosa, Elliott Ramsey,

642
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen draft, Ronnie Stanley, DeForrest Buckner, Leonard Floyd. Eight

643
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 1: of the ten got picked up. Eli Apple. That wasn't

644
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: that was a unique situation, and the fact that when

645
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 1: he went to New York he was there was there

646
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 1: was something going on there that was kind of beyond

647
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 1: just going and playing for the Giants. He had a

648
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 1: really rough second year. Then he gets traded last year,

649
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: so and they're not picking up the option, and they're

650
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: not picking up the option, but doesn't mean that the

651
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: team can't then pick up or sign that guy to

652
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 1: a contract like the Bears did with Kyle Fuller. Now,

653
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: I saw a stat that said that this is the

654
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 1: highest number, fourteen is the highest that I've never gotten

655
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: their option picked up since this system came into place

656
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 1: after the twenty eleven Collective Bargaining agreement. Only four have

657
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 1: made the Pro Bowl since not having their option picked up,

658
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 1: running backs Mark Ingram and Doug Martin, and then Cornell

659
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: Patterson as a return specialist right, and then Kyle Fuller

660
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 1: the corner. Those are the only four they ever made

661
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 1: it to the Pro Bowl when they've not had their

662
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 1: option picked up. Now the Texans have picked up the

663
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 1: option on Will Fuller. So again I know people are

664
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: getting go well, you know Will can't stay healthy. Will

665
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,479
Speaker 1: can't stay healthy. But what Will has shown them they

666
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 1: want around here when he does stay healthy for a

667
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: full year and then it's to happen at any time

668
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 1: where it just he gets on a streak of health

669
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 1: and can you imagine what that does for this office.

670
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 1: There's so different with him in the lineup, There's no doubt.

671
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: And I think what's interesting about this Mark is in

672
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: that draft. I remember we were going to that draft womb.

673
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: He said, you know, Texas got drafted receiver. They needed receiver, Hopkins.

674
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: He needs he needs a running partner. He had somebody

675
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 1: to go with him. So with the sick the fifteenth

676
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 1: pick in the draft to Cleveland Browns they had traded up.

677
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 1: Oh boy, I remember this that draft party that night,

678
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 1: drafted Corey Coleman. Yeah, that did not exactly work out. Well,

679
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: that's that's gone horrible, ends up in Buffalo, but not really. Yeah,

680
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 1: he's got a one year tender. That's all. That's all

681
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: he's gotten. Then the Texas moved up one spot. Yeah,

682
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 1: and they drafted Will four right, and the Redskins took

683
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: Josh doson the next one, Josh dockson his fifth year

684
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 1: option will not be picked up. Wow. And then the

685
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 1: pick after that was the Minnesota Vikings. They picked Lake

686
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 1: Kwan Treadwell. His option is not being picked up. So

687
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 1: there were four wide receivers taken in that first round

688
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, and Will Fuller's the only one to

689
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 1: have his option picked up. And the other interesting thing

690
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 1: is he's the only one to really do something, but

691
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 1: he hasn't been able to stay healthy. But when he

692
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 1: is healthy, is extremely effective. It's just kind of a

693
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: bizarre situation with that draft. But it shows me a

694
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 1: lot about the draft, Johnny. It shows me that it's

695
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: we always say it's an exact science. Oh yeah, because

696
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,879
Speaker 1: look at the twenty sixteen draft. And when I look

697
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:15,319
Speaker 1: at this year's draft, I'm looking at well, everybody thought

698
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: the Texans, we're gonna go for once it was off

699
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: the table for Andre Dillard. There we're gonna go for

700
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:24,800
Speaker 1: Chad Ford, are Cody Ford? They were gonna go for

701
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 1: Taylor the tackle out of Florida. Then we're gonna do

702
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 1: something like that, And those guys don't even get picked

703
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 1: up in the first round. So to me, it shows

704
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 1: you that nobody really knows. Bill Pollian himself said that

705
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: as an analyst, I think McClain gave me this yesterday.

706
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 1: As an analyst, he has only and he works it

707
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:46,799
Speaker 1: man Polly and still say, well you will about Polly,

708
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: but he still works it. He said, he only has

709
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 1: access to forty percent of the information, at best forty

710
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: percent that the teams do. And this is Bill Pollian,

711
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 1: never mind everybody else. So it shows you how we

712
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:01,240
Speaker 1: don't really know anything, and the teams no more than anybody,

713
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: and they still have trouble getting it right. It's like

714
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: a coin flip, but a lot of the time there's

715
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: there's no doubt. When you look at this draft. I

716
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 1: find it interesting because we talk a lot about trading

717
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 1: back into the back end of the first round. You know,

718
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: will the team trade back into the back of the

719
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 1: first round? Will they want to get in there? We

720
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 1: get hung up on a round twenty eight, twenty nine,

721
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: thirty and thirty one. Josh Garnett guard from Ottas Stanford

722
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: nine Ers not picked up. Kim Dcchi from the Cardinals

723
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:31,279
Speaker 1: not picked up. Now, I can see Kim Dchi being

724
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,399
Speaker 1: a guy that comes back healthy this year and could

725
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: just tear it up because he's got that kind of ability,

726
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: but he just hasn't gotten there yet. He started showing

727
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 1: some of it last year, but then he got hurt.

728
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: Number thirty Vernion Butler, Carolina Panthers not picked up. Jermaine

729
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 1: Fetti Seattle Seahawks not picked up. So the last four

730
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:52,360
Speaker 1: picks in that round not picked up. And then you

731
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,839
Speaker 1: go even further. Kenny Clark is the only one as

732
00:35:55,880 --> 00:36:00,399
Speaker 1: I look at this from will on down, So from

733
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 1: twenty two dockson on down, William Jackson from the University

734
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 1: Houston had his picked up, and Kenny Clark from the

735
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 1: Packers defensive tackle it is picked up. It was are

736
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:14,360
Speaker 1: the only two over the last ten picks of that

737
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen draft I got up. It's complete symmetry with

738
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 1: the top of it. Where you had eight picked up

739
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 1: in two, not now you've got two picked up in eight. Not. Well,

740
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 1: this just Dan. It's easier to pick the guys who

741
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 1: are the very, very best, right, A little bit easier,

742
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 1: I pointed to suns morning. You know you could pick

743
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:34,319
Speaker 1: up the top ten players are art I don't want

744
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:37,720
Speaker 1: to say easy, but easier to identify in any given draft.

745
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:40,720
Speaker 1: But having said that, you still make a lot of mistakes,

746
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 1: and teams tend to reach on what position, quarterback more

747
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 1: than anything, or maybe tackle because that gets sexy too.

748
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,879
Speaker 1: Let's go back to Jokel and Fisher in that draft,

749
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen draft. So there are a lot of different

750
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:54,799
Speaker 1: ways you can look at this, but the biggest way

751
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,439
Speaker 1: to look at it is nobody really knows for sure.

752
00:36:57,880 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 1: You don't know until you see a guy in your

753
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,399
Speaker 1: building put in the work or not, or maybe put

754
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 1: in the work and just get banged up and not

755
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 1: be able to flourish, not be able to develop and

756
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 1: blossom into the kind of player you want them to be.

757
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,360
Speaker 1: I'm going back to twenty fourteen. What about twenty fourteen

758
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles getting picked third. That's I'll reach on a

759
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 1: quarterback right there. You know, go back to Blaine Gavern

760
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 1: and Jake Locker reaches on quarterbacks. Not bad players really

761
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 1: in terms of total talent and ability, but certainly not

762
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 1: worthy of the high picks they got. It's just that

763
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:29,440
Speaker 1: way in this league. That's what makes it so fascinating

764
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 1: and so fun to talk about. You want a scary thought,

765
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 1: give me one. I have plenty of them all throughout

766
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:36,280
Speaker 1: the day. But give me another one. So a number fifteen,

767
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:39,319
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns had traded up and they drafted Corey Coleman. Yeah.

768
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 1: Can you imagine if the Cleveland Browns had traded up

769
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 1: and drafted Will Fuller and you had Will Fuller, Odell

770
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 1: Beckham Junior and Jarvis Landry. Yeah, if the universe changes

771
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: at that point, because maybe they maybe they go two

772
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 1: in fourteen Baker Mayfield instead they draft Sam Darnold or Yeah,

773
00:37:56,840 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 1: everything changes. It's such a butterfly effect thing. There's there's

774
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:02,840
Speaker 1: no questions. We have to play butterfly effect to this offseason.

775
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: I'm running it, damn. Yeah. That would be fun. But

776
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: could you imagine had just all things left as they

777
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 1: are they draft Will Fuller, they still would have found

778
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:17,399
Speaker 1: out that, Okay, we don't have enough in the receiving corps.

779
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,320
Speaker 1: We've got Will, let's go on and get Jervis Landry.

780
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 1: I don't know if they may. I don't know if

781
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 1: they make the deal for Odell Beckham Junior at that point,

782
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,319
Speaker 1: But you're right, maybe they win a couple of games

783
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 1: along the way and they don't end up with the

784
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 1: number one pick with Baker Mayfield, and so maybe they

785
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 1: get Sam Darnold and maybe they get I don't know

786
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 1: one of the other quarterbacks, but it's worked out for Cleveland,

787
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,359
Speaker 1: I would imagine. But if they could have that one back,

788
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,799
Speaker 1: if Sashi Brown could have a pick back, that would

789
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: be the one he'd want to have back. There's no doubt. Okay,

790
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks. I love to hate department. I confess this

791
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 1: morning on Sports Radio six ten I'm Mad Radio that

792
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 1: even though Peyton Manning is one of the all time

793
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 1: Texans villains, maybe the all time Texans villain, and I

794
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:55,400
Speaker 1: hated him like poison when he played for the colt

795
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 1: and then the Broncos. As a retired player, I kind

796
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:01,400
Speaker 1: of enjoy his work. I do enjoy the broadcastings, places

797
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 1: and everything. Now another quarterback who I don't think I'll

798
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,560
Speaker 1: ever be saying this about. I mean, actually he's kind

799
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:08,760
Speaker 1: of a likable guy in some ways. But Tom Brady,

800
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 1: who I hate like poison because he plays for the Patriots.

801
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: A Texans nemesis, was on Jimmy Kimmel and the question

802
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,920
Speaker 1: was asked, give Kimmel credit here. You know about Brady

803
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 1: taking less money, which is one of my big points

804
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:25,840
Speaker 1: about the New England Patriots death is a mystery to me.

805
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,359
Speaker 1: And Brady actually said, my wife makes a lot of money.

806
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,799
Speaker 1: This is the response that a lot of people, fans, media, whatever.

807
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 1: Give me what I complained about Brady taking less money? Said,

808
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:37,879
Speaker 1: what was wife makes a lot of money? As if

809
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: Brady is somehow hurting for cash. Okay, the money he's

810
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 1: making in the NFL, whatever it is, way less than

811
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 1: he should be making, is still plenty to be a

812
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:52,359
Speaker 1: very rich man and a great professional athlete. Lifestyle can

813
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: be afforded to him and all of that. The fact

814
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: that he himself said my wife makes a lot of

815
00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 1: money is just trolling me. He said it to hurt me,

816
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 1: because what he's doing here is he's deflecting. The big

817
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 1: thing to me is I can't believe it's still that

818
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:13,399
Speaker 1: Brady would actually take this much less money in order

819
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 1: to win. And maybe it just irks me. I just

820
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: find it to be so aggravating. I think the union

821
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 1: probably hates it. You know. The hometown discount think is

822
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:24,759
Speaker 1: one thing, but a discount could be like, all right,

823
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:28,279
Speaker 1: five percent or something like that. I mean, Johnny, he's

824
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:30,879
Speaker 1: taking like forty percent less money than he could be getting. Okay,

825
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:35,240
Speaker 1: a couple of things to shoot holes in his little argument.

826
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:38,440
Speaker 1: He got in the league in two thousand, right, right,

827
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: so he had won three Super Bowls by the end

828
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 1: of his first contract, right, Yeah, so that would have

829
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:46,840
Speaker 1: put two thousand and four. Yeah, he married Gizelle in

830
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, So you're telling me there are

831
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: five or six years now. I know he was dating

832
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 1: Bridget mooinehand or whatever together. Yeah, this this whole Yeah,

833
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 1: my wife makes a lot of money. Look at some

834
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: point because he doesn't have enough to go out and

835
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,840
Speaker 1: pay for beers with the guys. Yeah, somewhere along the

836
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:11,439
Speaker 1: some somewhere along the way. And I remember when Tom

837
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 1: signed his second I think it was his second contract

838
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 1: when he signed that second contract. I remember there was

839
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:19,800
Speaker 1: talk at the time of boy, this is a really

840
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,719
Speaker 1: team friendly deal. This is a team friendly deal. And

841
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 1: I remember Tom saying something to the extent of, well, look,

842
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 1: if I take all the money, then how are we

843
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 1: gonna get other players? He acts like it's just like,

844
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 1: oh yeah, but you know they're still making the money. Look,

845
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm kind of a pro management guy

846
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:39,840
Speaker 1: in many ways here. But to me, it's it's crazy

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Speaker 1: for him to do that. And I still say this,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch him like a hawk when he retires,

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Speaker 1: because I want to see when he when he ends

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Speaker 1: up on Brady Island in the Pacific somewhere, that they

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Speaker 1: had waiting for him because he didn't take the cash

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Speaker 1: while he was playing. That's exactly right. That's exactly why

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Speaker 1: you cannot convince me. You cannot convince me that at

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Speaker 1: some point point there has not been a handshake, wink

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Speaker 1: wink sort of deal like hey, we got you cover. Well,

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Speaker 1: here here's how they're gonna get cover. They're gonna give

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Speaker 1: him a chance to buy a piece of the team

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Speaker 1: at a sweetheart deal. That's what the Craft is gonna

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Speaker 1: do for him. You watch within five years of retirement,

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Speaker 1: Brady's gonna own a piece of the New England Patriots

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Speaker 1: and a sweetheart deal. We might never know the numbers,

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Speaker 1: and that is the payoff right there, if you can

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Speaker 1: buy a piece of the team. And I'm wondering if

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Speaker 1: it's written on a piece of paper somewhere too. Am

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Speaker 1: I public with this? I don't know. I'm just having

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Speaker 1: fun where entertainment purpose is only wink. The one thing

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Speaker 1: that I do think has happened there has been a

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Speaker 1: conversation of to take care of us, We'll take care

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Speaker 1: of you sway. It happens in the mob way. It

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Speaker 1: has to happen. And wouldn't that be the final spy gate,

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Speaker 1: the flake gate? Yeah, island gate. We're having fun for

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

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Thank you everybody. Check out the

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access Draft Special on television ABC thirteen on

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Speaker 1: great footage on all the picks. Check it out Saturday

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Speaker 1: night at eleven o'clock, ABC thirteen. Have a great night, everyone,

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Speaker 1: and go Texans.