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Speaker 1: What's happened?

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Speaker 2: Everybody, Welcome into a Wednesday edition of Texans All Access,

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Speaker 2: a no practice day off, well for the players of them,

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Speaker 2: for them, but not for myself, John Harris or for

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Speaker 2: the Voice of Texans, Mark vandam Mare.

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Speaker 1: We keep you rolling.

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Speaker 2: We are going at all times, and we'll have a

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Speaker 2: little bit of McClain reloaded. Andrew Beck I talked to

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Speaker 2: on Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: He just wanted to talk to us.

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Speaker 3: My first time talking to him, caught and ice passing

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Speaker 3: that two minute situation.

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Speaker 2: I did very good on the mic too. I like

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Speaker 2: I like guys that can be good on the mic,

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Speaker 2: very comfortable. So we have Andrew Beck. And if you

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Speaker 2: missed it this morning, I did linebacker's position breakdown.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you missed it, I did defensive backs the

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Speaker 1: other day.

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Speaker 2: So you definite want to hear that because there's a

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Speaker 2: lot of defensive backs in this camp. And I don't

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Speaker 2: even know that I should say this, dotcoum would they're

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Speaker 2: healthy right now? They're healthy right now?

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Speaker 1: Be at you. We're very very mad at me going

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Speaker 1: against it.

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Speaker 2: But I prefaced it with right now, so I didn't say, oh,

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Speaker 2: they're gonna be healthy. It's just they're healthy right now,

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Speaker 2: and that's always a good thing. So we had a

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Speaker 2: lot of defensive cks to break down, so it'd be

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Speaker 2: a little bit later in the show.

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Speaker 1: But Mark, we saw this around.

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Speaker 2: Lunchtime today that the NFL is considering adopting the XFL's

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Speaker 2: kickoff style as a possible replacement for the kickoff format. Now,

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Speaker 2: I know it looks a little bit, it looks wacky

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Speaker 2: in some sense. Now, if you remember, the rule they

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Speaker 2: put in this year was that if you as a

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Speaker 2: returner were outside of the end zone, you were in

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Speaker 2: the end zone, you were in the field of play,

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Speaker 2: and you caught the ball way, the fair catch ball

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Speaker 2: will go to twenty five.

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Speaker 1: That's the rule the colleges have. Now we've talked to

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Speaker 1: a few returners.

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Speaker 2: We talked to Steven Simsy's like, uh, no way, I'm

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Speaker 2: returning that thing.

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Speaker 1: If I get a chance, I'm returning that thing.

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Speaker 2: So there have been changes to the kickoff year after

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Speaker 2: year after year. Now it's a consideration of this one.

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Speaker 2: I have thoughts, but I want to get your gut

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Speaker 2: reaction to it. Mark, If the NFL actually did adopt

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Speaker 2: the XFL style, Now, if you don't know what it

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Speaker 2: is the players. The kicker is at the thirty yard line.

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Speaker 2: The players are set up at the thirty and the

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Speaker 2: thirty five. There's only five yards in between. So there's

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Speaker 2: a kicker way back kicking from where he normally would

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Speaker 2: nobody around him, nobody around him, ten guys at the

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Speaker 2: thirty five that are covering to kick.

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Speaker 3: The receiving thirty five other end of the field.

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Speaker 2: The other end of the field, and that at the

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Speaker 2: receiving thirty is the receiving team. So it's one guy kicker,

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Speaker 2: ten ten one. So it's got some symmetry to it

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Speaker 2: from that perspective. Now, I've seen the XFL do some

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Speaker 2: really different things. There are some teams that treat this

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Speaker 2: almost like an offensive play, like they're running different blocking schemes.

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Speaker 1: They should to treat it like another just offensive.

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Speaker 2: So it's not just Okay, these ten are gonna whang,

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Speaker 2: you know, ten gladiators going against ten gladiators. There's some

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Speaker 2: actual different things that they're doing with this return, which

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Speaker 2: makes it kind of exciting. I don't know if the

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Speaker 2: NFL wants to have more returns, I don't know, but

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Speaker 2: this could be a way to do it, do it safely.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I've always kind of liked this XFL thing, and it

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Speaker 2: wasn't until I actually saw it at saw it in

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Speaker 2: you know, in games. I thought, oh, I kind of

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Speaker 2: like this because I think there's some things you can

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Speaker 2: do strategically and.

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Speaker 1: Run it almost like an offensive play.

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Speaker 2: You know, you can pull guys around and do some

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Speaker 2: different things that would be kind of fun. You've got

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Speaker 2: reaction to the x of the NFL potentially adopting this.

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Speaker 1: I got reaction is do it.

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Speaker 3: Do it absolutely, because right now you have the fair

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Speaker 3: catch role, which is terrible. It's awful. It's got to

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Speaker 3: go away. It's a terrible way to play football. It's

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Speaker 3: not really football when you have a fair cash possibility

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Speaker 3: at to say, the ten fifteen yard line. I got

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Speaker 3: a kickoff and then you get to advance the ball

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Speaker 3: the fair catch, Johnny, if you get the ball where

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Speaker 3: you fair caught it. Okay, that's that's all right, that's

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Speaker 3: all right, But no one would do it not I'm

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Speaker 3: okay with that though. You can't advance the ball after

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Speaker 3: a fair catch.

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Speaker 1: That stinks.

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Speaker 4: So to me, Look, you can't do it on a.

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Speaker 1: Punt, right, correct, You can't, all right make a fair catch.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 3: If I'm at the fifty and I'm punting to you,

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Speaker 3: what am I trying to do?

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Speaker 1: Pin you deep? Right?

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Speaker 3: Imagine if you could bring it out to the twenty

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Speaker 3: or the twenty five, catch it at the one yard, yeah,

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Speaker 1: The one you're right up to twenty.

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Speaker 4: Well, that's stupid, So therefore this is stupid too.

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Speaker 3: And then people say, well, it enables you to keep

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Speaker 3: the kickoff mark because we don't want to abolish the kickoff.

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Speaker 3: But enter XFL rule, which is not as pretty.

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Speaker 4: As full blown NFL kickoff.

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Speaker 3: You return the ball football, but it's better than the

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Speaker 3: fair catch thing, and it's better than not having a kickoff.

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Speaker 4: I just feel like you have to have a kickoff.

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Speaker 1: What are we going to say?

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Speaker 4: What time the game starts?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 4: How are we going to say it?

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Speaker 4: What times kick off? I mean what times first snap?

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Speaker 3: It doesn't sound as good our first snap, PM, No,

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Speaker 3: it doesn't sound good. You need kickoff. We've grown up

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Speaker 3: this way. We need the kickoff. Now, those of you

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Speaker 3: saying listening and saying you're really going to adopt an

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Speaker 3: XFL rule, the NFL has a history of adopted.

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Speaker 1: Rules from these other leagues.

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Speaker 3: They got the red flag challenge from the USFL, which

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Speaker 3: used it in the first incarnation in the early eighties.

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Speaker 3: They got the two point conversion back obviously college but ages.

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Speaker 1: Ago, the NFL used it.

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Speaker 3: The AFL used it, but the NFL got it back

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Speaker 3: because the XFL, I mean, the USFL was using it

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Speaker 3: finally got it back. So there is history and precedent

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Speaker 3: of being influenced by these leagues.

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Speaker 4: Go ahead and do it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I don't get that whole thing of, well,

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Speaker 2: this other league does it, so you know we're in

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Speaker 1: We can't do it if we didn't come up with rule.

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Speaker 2: They've been doing it for a long time, like you said,

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Speaker 2: And I watched his kickoff and I've been on kickoff

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Speaker 1: Many many many years ago.

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Speaker 2: This is before we need to kickoff stuff, and this

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Speaker 2: is back in the nineties, and it's a scary proposition.

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Speaker 2: I'll say that you're flying down on kickoff and you're like,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go down and hammer this returner or whatever,

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Speaker 2: and the full scale collisions that you can have and

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Speaker 2: I was the contained guy, so it wasn't as if

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Speaker 2: I was the wedgebuster. But I remember we were playing

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Speaker 2: Stephan Ford or he hit this kid from Dartmouth, and

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Speaker 2: I mean it was like from me to.

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Speaker 1: You away and I'm like, oh my god.

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Speaker 2: I mean I heard that hit as I was making

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Speaker 2: Was like, oh, they're happy that made the tackle. No, no, no,

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Speaker 2: they were happy because that dude from Dartmouth.

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Speaker 1: Got blown up. And I heard it as I'm making

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Speaker 1: the tackle. It was like, it's too much. It's shaw

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Speaker 2: So if you can get the exit, then with five

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Speaker 2: yards difference, you're still gonna get some hits.

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Speaker 1: Oh you get It's still gonna be physical, right, But

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Speaker 1: I do think there can be some I think there

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Speaker 1: could be some strategy to it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if you gave that the Frank Ross and said okay,

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Speaker 2: drop some strategy to this, I think you could have

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Speaker 2: some strategic returns, so you still have the strategic angle

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Speaker 2: of the return and the return game involved in the game,

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Speaker 2: but you've made it safer.

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Speaker 3: So they're at the thirty and the thirty five right

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Speaker 3: the brigade, you're almost always guaranteed to have a return

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Speaker 3: past the thirty in this deal. I don't know what

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Speaker 3: the analytics are, the analytics the stats on the special

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Speaker 3: teams for the USFL YE or the XFL. Rather, boy,

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Speaker 3: I'm getting these two flipped. But they both exist now

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Speaker 3: at the same time in real time at spring football.

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Speaker 3: But I think it should be at the twenty five

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Speaker 3: and the thirty. I could make a case for that.

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Speaker 3: Move it back a little bit, Yeah, move it back

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Speaker 3: a little bit. I could see that five yard zone,

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Speaker 3: or maybe even a three yard zone, but a five

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Speaker 1: Make it like that.

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Speaker 3: They're not allowed to move until the receiver the kick

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Speaker 3: return man, catches the football. They can't start blocking before that.

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Speaker 2: I think you're right, because I mean, you just think

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Speaker 2: of some of the quarterbacks that are in this league.

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Speaker 2: If there's something at thirty or thirty five, it's one

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Speaker 2: throw over the middle, they're kicking a field goal exactly.

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Speaker 1: That's terrible.

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Speaker 3: Imagine late in the game, right, Oh, we get to

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Speaker 3: kick off to Patrick Mahomes now and he's gonna get

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Speaker 3: the ball at the thirty five, and he's one throw

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Speaker 3: to Kelsey away from kicking a game winning field goal.

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Speaker 1: And obviously you can't kick it out of bounds.

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Speaker 4: No, can't do it. Can kick it in the end zone.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I guess you're kicking the end zone. It's

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Speaker 2: a touch back, or you go back to the twenty five.

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Speaker 2: So you're back, you know, kind of the square one

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Speaker 2: at that point.

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Speaker 3: But they're kicking from the thirty right, kick from the

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Speaker 3: thirty five and make it the.

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Speaker 4: Twenty five and the thirty as far as where they line.

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Speaker 1: Up, and just hit a high pooch mortar kick. See

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Speaker 1: what that does.

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Speaker 2: And if you can't move until he catches it, until

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Speaker 2: the returner catches it, then boy, and it gets.

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Speaker 4: I understand why they're looking at it.

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Speaker 1: Probably right.

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Speaker 2: Moving it back to the twenty five thirty is probably right.

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Speaker 2: I think the fair catch rule is outrageous. It's out

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Speaker 2: that ageous.

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Speaker 1: Are adopt that. I didn't like that they adopted this.

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Speaker 2: I mean I get the whole you know, not wanting

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Speaker 2: to you know, kind of reducing the return in some sense.

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Speaker 2: But I think you can bring the return back. I

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Speaker 2: think the XFL showed you can bring the return back

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Speaker 2: and keep it safe.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but at least you have to wait till you

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Speaker 1: The Verlander return.

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Speaker 3: Great days in Houston sports where people return, Well, this

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Speaker 5: General, Yeah, everybody's so fat fired up. It reminds me

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Speaker 5: Yesterday admitted made partament from Baldez. So I was a

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Speaker 5: Hopefully it'll pay off to the Astros. Hopefully what Texans

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Speaker 2: General, I think you're right still, but where does the

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Speaker 5: John, I'm not talking about anything playoff related, because playoffs

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Speaker 1: Absolutely general.

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Speaker 3: What did you see yesterday that you liked and what

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Speaker 5: I think the defense would just be ahead Mentally. You

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Speaker 2: You know, there are a lot of people that don't

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Speaker 5: Now, people are so excited about this rookie glass starting

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Speaker 5: gonna get cut. Can't wait to see when they make

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Speaker 3: Yeah, after the last week of the preseason games, it'll

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Speaker 1: Well, three weeks on the road.

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Speaker 5: Well they're probably at ten o'clock. And so as you

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Speaker 5: The position needs help the most. John is tight ends.

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Speaker 5: They're signing guys off the street right now. Tight End

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Speaker 3: Colts are having air issues with that as well. Texans

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Speaker 3: let's do this. We talk to you and John Harris

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Speaker 4: Let me word this another way.

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Speaker 3: When you google Jonathan Taylor, it's nothing but tree stories

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Speaker 1: General? As the days progress.

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Speaker 5: have the same problem. He wants a new contract. Reports

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Speaker 5: all that he wants sixteen million a year like Christian

440
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Speaker 5: McCaffery got. Also, he's coming off an injury that cost

441
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Speaker 5: him a lot of games, and the next team that

442
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Speaker 5: acquires him can franchise him twice if it doesn't work out.

443
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Speaker 5: So you're just in eriting a problem now. He makes

444
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Speaker 5: I think he makes like for me in this share.

445
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Speaker 5: If you popped up and gave him a deal for

446
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Speaker 5: ten for one year, I'm sure he like you opinion franchising.

447
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Speaker 5: So I'm thinking he's going to do everything he can

448
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Speaker 5: to get traded. But I'm gonna say still there for

449
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Speaker 5: the second game because they have nobody who and take

450
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Speaker 5: his place, And unless they could do a back for

451
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Speaker 5: a back trade, that would is the only way it

452
00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,960
Speaker 5: would make sense. As we talked about yesterday. It is

453
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Speaker 5: a text book case of how you do not handle

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Speaker 5: a disgruntled player.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a mess in Indianapolis, and I hope

456
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Speaker 2: it continues that way and Jonathan Taylor does get shipped out,

457
00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:24,440
Speaker 2: that would help. Then again, if he's there week two,

458
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Speaker 2: gotta put your big boy pants on and go shut

459
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Speaker 2: him down. Haven't done it in the five matchups that

460
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Speaker 2: you've seen him twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, for

461
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Speaker 2: only one time, have not shut him down. It's time

462
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Speaker 2: to do that if he is indeed with the Colts

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Speaker 2: this fall all right, Each and every morning at nine

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Speaker 2: o'clock during Texas Training Camp Live, I break down a position.

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Speaker 2: A couple days ago, I did defensive backs. It's the

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Speaker 2: biggest group. It took me a while, but you'll get

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Speaker 2: something out of it. Next right here in Texas All Access,

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Speaker 2: each and every day on Sports Radio six ten in

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Speaker 2: the Odyssey app during Texans Training Camp Live, your host

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Speaker 2: John Harris Football and it's a sideline reporter breakdown each

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Speaker 2: every position, straight off the dome.

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Speaker 1: Give me the player, I give you the thoughts.

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Speaker 2: The day I did defensive backs, it's pretty good and

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Speaker 2: pretty thorough.

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Speaker 3: Take a listen, let's break down the defensive backs with

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Speaker 3: John Harris off the top of his head, no notes,

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Speaker 3: This is Johnny on the fly, and I will read

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Speaker 3: you the names, and you tell me what you think.

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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna go in an order of I think.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go in order of numbers, and there's no

481
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Speaker 3: lower number than zero. Well, we could go negative, but

482
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Speaker 3: they don't have those in the NFL on the jerseys.

483
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Speaker 3: So zero would be des King's new number in his

484
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Speaker 3: seventh year now former All Pro as a return guy,

485
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Speaker 3: the corner nickel.

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Speaker 1: He can do a lot for.

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Speaker 2: You, just does everything, and he's just such a good

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Speaker 2: football player.

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Speaker 1: I thought about this the other day.

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Speaker 2: You see guys in their careers, you have ten twelve

491
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Speaker 2: year careers, and you know, the first three or four

492
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Speaker 2: years it's it's kind of good, and then there's maybe

493
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Speaker 2: a little bit of fallof and but then you see

494
00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,639
Speaker 2: kind of this resurgence and whether it's just understanding of

495
00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:58,399
Speaker 2: the game a little bit more, just you're in the

496
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Speaker 2: right spot right time, that kind of thing. I think

497
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 2: all that's playing into dead is because the last couple

498
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Speaker 2: of years before he got here, you know, the Titans

499
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:06,800
Speaker 2: and Chargers, at the end, it was just yeah, But

500
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Speaker 2: then he comes here and he's really kind of find

501
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Speaker 2: a role, and that is play outside, play, inside, play safety.

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Speaker 1: They need him to return punts.

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Speaker 2: He's gotten better even I think in this defense he

504
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,400
Speaker 2: is always around the football.

505
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Speaker 1: And where he can play, what he can do.

506
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Speaker 2: I'm really curious to see how much they use him

507
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Speaker 2: in a blitz game because I think he's a really

508
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:27,760
Speaker 2: good blitzer, very savvy, and I think that's gonna help Desmond.

509
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Speaker 2: King's the kind of guy you've got to have on

510
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Speaker 2: the field. And if you play a lot of nickel,

511
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:32,719
Speaker 2: which you kind of a four towo five anyways for

512
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Speaker 2: the most part. I mean, if you want to get

513
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Speaker 2: technically or no longer than four, you know, you talk

514
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Speaker 2: about a four man surface because you're really not a

515
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Speaker 2: four to three anymore.

516
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Speaker 1: It's really a four to five to be honest.

517
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Speaker 2: They played a lot of bass yesterday in pads, but

518
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Speaker 2: that's gonna get a lot of time on the field

519
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Speaker 2: at nickel that that should be an official starting position.

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Speaker 1: I think he is tremendous stepisodes well.

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Speaker 3: Most teams when they release the depth charts now have

522
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Speaker 3: a nickel position listed, and sometimes they still have three

523
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Speaker 3: linebackers at a four to three situation, so you'll have.

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Speaker 1: Twelve starters if you will whatever.

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Speaker 3: All right, ten year veteran was acquired in the offseason

526
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Speaker 3: former Demico Ryan's pupil in San Francisco, part of his

527
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Speaker 3: defense there. I know Dimico coach linebackers, but he was

528
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Speaker 3: eventually the coordinator for the last couple of years, and

529
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Speaker 3: Jimmy Ward was a big part of that defense obviously,

530
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Speaker 3: and that was a big part of this defense ten years.

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Speaker 1: You would not be able to figure that out. Watching him.

532
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Speaker 2: The way he moves, how smooth he is, how explosive

533
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Speaker 2: he is for a ten year vet is mind blowing.

534
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 2: I mentioned this before one in five, five and one.

535
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Speaker 2: At those two safety spots, they're absolutely massive and they

536
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Speaker 2: play very very well together and off of one another.

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Speaker 2: I think Warden Peacher are gonna be as fun to

538
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Speaker 2: watch as any safety combination we've had here.

539
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Speaker 3: Mark Well, I love that Taviier Thomas is still on

540
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Speaker 3: this team. Fifth year at a fairist state and he

541
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Speaker 3: and des king from Detroit, Michigan. I can't wait till

542
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Speaker 3: leave Mo Taylor on He's gonna be out here at

543
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Speaker 3: camp on Friday because he's also a Detroit guy.

544
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Speaker 4: But top two years ago, voted.

545
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Speaker 3: Or whatever Pro Football Focus whatever this is worth said

546
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Speaker 3: he was one of the best nickel corners in the league.

547
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Speaker 1: What do you think of Tavier?

548
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Speaker 2: Yeah, again, a lot like Dez, a lot like his

549
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:03,480
Speaker 2: buddy from Detroit.

550
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 1: Play played a little bit differently.

551
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Speaker 2: I think I think Tabs a little bit bigger, and

552
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Speaker 2: I think Dez is probably a little bit more natural

553
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Speaker 2: cover guy. But I've always found this seemingly about guys

554
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Speaker 2: from Detroit.

555
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Speaker 1: There's something about the way they play.

556
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Speaker 2: Mark they just understand ball, like they're playing it all

557
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:22,240
Speaker 2: the time, Like they just understand.

558
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Speaker 1: It's like a lot of kids when they grow.

559
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,480
Speaker 2: Up in South Florida and they play, they're playing for

560
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:27,959
Speaker 2: the time they'refore they were in pads and you know,

561
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:29,200
Speaker 2: walking out of the womb.

562
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Speaker 1: Seemingly, that's the way Tab is.

563
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Speaker 2: He just knows ball, and he's a tremendous special teams

564
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:38,360
Speaker 2: player and unselfish. So if it's nickel, if it's safety,

565
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Speaker 2: if it's special teams, he impacts his team.

566
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Speaker 1: In a lot of different ways, and he'll find a

567
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Speaker 1: way to do it every game.

568
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Speaker 3: You spend some time on him in the first hour.

569
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Speaker 3: Jalen Petrie second year, it's the truth.

570
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's he's gonna be a foundation piece alongside

571
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 2: Will Anderson for a long time in his defense, and

572
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 2: he's gotten better his recognition skills, his instincts, whether he's

573
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Speaker 2: playing back or down. I mean, he's I just I

574
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 2: can't say enough good things about Jalen Petrie.

575
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Speaker 1: You know who else can do that? Baylor people.

576
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,120
Speaker 2: I went to our Big twelve media days and I said,

577
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 2: I'm with the Tech. I got Texans out of my mouth.

578
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,880
Speaker 2: They're like, oh, oh, we love Jalen everybody.

579
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Speaker 1: It's like Dave Randa. I mean you could just see

580
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:14,880
Speaker 1: his eyes light up.

581
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 2: And you know a lot of times college coaches, you

582
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 2: know they have a four player and I'm like, no,

583
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 2: I don't really want to talk.

584
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 1: About that guy or whatever. Then maybe didn't end right

585
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,399
Speaker 1: or whatever. He could he would have talked to me

586
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 1: for twenty five minutes about Jayalen. He was. He was tremendous.

587
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,199
Speaker 2: So that's the kind of gravitas he he has at

588
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:31,680
Speaker 2: Baylor and also here in his hometown.

589
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 3: Does Shaq Griffin qualify as a sneaky hot offseason act?

590
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 1: Absolute?

591
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:38,440
Speaker 2: Absolutely? And I don't know how Nick pull that off.

592
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 2: But man, you watch him ball. He's been all over

593
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:45,400
Speaker 2: the place breaking up passes. And my new saying has been,

594
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,159
Speaker 2: when you think you have enough, you need just a

595
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 2: little bit more. And going into the off season, now

596
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 2: you got stinging, you got Nelson. You know, I think

597
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 2: we got enough there? No, no, no, you go and get more.

598
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 2: You go and get Shack Griffin, You bring him in,

599
00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 2: and now you've got a three man rotation there at

600
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,959
Speaker 2: corner went winning if you need it, with Shaq Griffin,

601
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,479
Speaker 2: Steven Nelson and Derek Stingley. I think Shak has been

602
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:07,920
Speaker 2: on his game. He's got to stay healthy. Every game

603
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:09,719
Speaker 2: that he's been healthy for in the league. He started

604
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 2: in the league, he started last year. He got an

605
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 2: injury in Jacksonville. They kind of moved on to Trey

606
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 2: Herndon and Tyson Campbell and that allowed him to be available.

607
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:19,639
Speaker 2: I was I was shocked he was not picked up.

608
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:23,440
Speaker 2: Good long, good size, long, wiry, tough.

609
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 1: I like Shack. I love the fact he's here.

610
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,160
Speaker 3: All right, you mentioned him. We know he doesn't like vests.

611
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 3: He's a farmer. Steven Nelson, I think he's been as

612
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:34,240
Speaker 3: good out here as anybody. He has competed.

613
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 2: I see him all the time, just working on little things,

614
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 2: just a little steps. You know, they'll be doing a

615
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 2: walk through drill over here and for a corner and

616
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 2: a walk through drill. Like say, the call is a

617
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 2: blitz and it's man coverage, and you're like and then

618
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 2: walk through. You're just like, all right, I know I

619
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 2: got him, all right, whatever, you know.

620
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 1: I got cat coverage. You got that cat, I got

621
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 1: that cat. Well, okay, I got this guy.

622
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 2: I watched him and the ball snapped and he's working

623
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 2: on his feet, you know, like he's kind of using it.

624
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: He's mimicking things.

625
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 2: So instead of standing there and just kind of you know,

626
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 2: looking at the helicopter's going by, he's like focused.

627
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 1: On those things.

628
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 2: I thought he had a great year last year. I

629
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 2: feel like he was, you know, wildly underrated. You know,

630
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 2: the whole contract stuff this offseason. I mean, look, he

631
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 2: serves money. The guy's played well, but you know, you

632
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 2: gotta take you for what it is. He's thirty years old.

633
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 2: If he continues to play this well, he's gonna get

634
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 2: a contract from somewhere and hopefully he continues to do that.

635
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 3: But he's been good out here. As good out here

636
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:23,719
Speaker 3: as anybody's been. We heard his interview yesterday. Eric Murray

637
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 3: eighth year out of Minnesota. Got him from the Cleveland

638
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 3: Browns COVID year and he's gonna make this team.

639
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: I think expectations.

640
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 2: Changed obviously for Eric, Like you know, he got a

641
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 2: lot of money when he first got here, so it

642
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 2: was like, oh, he must Eric's kind of found that

643
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 2: good role. You know, he's got he gets good safety reps.

644
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 2: He's actual in special teams. He has always been a

645
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 2: cover guy because that was his you know, he's a

646
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 2: corner in college at Minnesota. But I think he's the

647
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 2: type of guy you have to have around because the

648
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 2: way that Ward and Petrie play, those guys are gonna

649
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 2: be banged up a little bit or they're gonna need

650
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 2: a rest at some point. You know last year that happened.

651
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 2: Jalen didn't play every single play last year because you

652
00:29:57,560 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 2: could go to Eric Murray, you could go to m J. Stewart,

653
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 2: and that's safe Jalen, So he can end up playing

654
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 2: seventeen games.

655
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 1: Reinforcements are here, all.

656
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Speaker 3: Right, Let's get to the next guy here, graylen Arnold.

657
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 3: I'll get to Stingley in a moment grayl and Arnold

658
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 3: because another safety who can play special teams.

659
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:14,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, general sick of Bears.

660
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 2: I loved I've always been a fan of Grayling, all

661
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 2: way back to his days at Baylor.

662
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 1: And you know, a little bit shorter.

663
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 2: He's probably five ten, maybe he shade under five to ten,

664
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 2: five to nine, but can run smart.

665
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 1: He's a Baylor Bears, so you gotta love him. But

666
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 1: I love him with special teams. Last year he was

667
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 1: he got.

668
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 2: Hurt at the kind of the beginning of camp, right

669
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 2: at the beginning of the season, and that kind of

670
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 2: kind of shortcut his momentum because he really didn't get

671
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 2: much time in the preseason games if I remember correctly.

672
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 2: So if he's healthy and now he's at safety, in safety,

673
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 2: I think only so, I think that helps him. He

674
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 2: gives it a chance for his instincts, his ball skills

675
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 2: really to kind of come into play. I think Grayland's

676
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 2: a sneaky hot guy to watch on this roster.

677
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 3: All right, second year out of LSU. Derek Stingley Junior

678
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 3: pick six yesterday. What about his progress?

679
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's what it is.

680
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 2: It's progress, and I think Firs staying as it's just

681
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 2: easy to say this, but he needs time.

682
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 1: He just needs time on a field. He needs reps.

683
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: That's where the back half of last year wasn't wasn't great.

684
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 2: He could have used those reps in every situation because

685
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 2: you think about the receivers he would have faced.

686
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 1: He may have locked up on Kelsey at some point

687
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs.

688
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 2: You know, he would have locked up on Noah Brown

689
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 2: or Ceedee Lamb with the Dallas Cowboys. You know, all

690
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 2: those reps that you dn't have missing out on are

691
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 2: just it's hard to make up for that. So you

692
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 2: gotta be out of practice every day. You gotta be

693
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 2: healthy every single day and stack these days together. And

694
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 2: you're going against a variety of receivers big Nico, Noah Brown,

695
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 2: a little bit bigger, thicker, I mean, tanked Dell, smaller, quicker, shiftier,

696
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 2: Xavier Hutchinson, kind of a combination all the above. So

697
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 2: you've seen a variety of receivers. I think that's gonna

698
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 2: help him down the road. And he's getting comfortable in

699
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 2: this defense. But I think for him just making a

700
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 2: few plays kind of getting that confidence back. I don't

701
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 2: think Sting ever lacks for confidence, but there's difference in having,

702
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 2: you know, your confidence waning being you know, confident all

703
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 2: the time. I think he's pretty confident all the time.

704
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 2: But your confidence can take a hit. I think it

705
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 2: did a little bit last year, but I think he

706
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 2: bounces back. I think this is the year that people

707
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 2: are expecting for him to have.

708
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 3: All right, He's been the personal protector, really reliable reserve

709
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 3: player at safety. M J.

710
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: Stewart loves playing football.

711
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 2: When I interviewed him last week, that was I said, man,

712
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 2: why do you why and why do you take such

713
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 2: pride and specialties? Man, A lot of guys just take

714
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 2: that period off or just kind of you know, out

715
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 2: picking flowers or whatever, and you like, that's you.

716
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 1: He's like, I love playing balls. I mean that's thinking

717
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 1: of the six year old and keyball. Yep. But that's

718
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 1: what he does.

719
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 2: He takes pride in playing special teams and doing whatever

720
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Speaker 2: he can. And what do you do In the last

721
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 2: half of last year in the game at Dallas he

722
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 2: tips that pass that Treymont intercepts. You know, he made

723
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 2: plays for this defense as he got more comfortable, and

724
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 2: I think that's what the same role he'll be in

725
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 2: this year.

726
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: And then almost say that he's happy without.

727
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 2: I mean, he'd love to start and play every single play,

728
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 2: but he knows, he knows who his role is and

729
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 2: he's gonna go do it the best that he can

730
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 2: to make this team number one in special teams again

731
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Speaker 2: and make defense that much better when he comes into

732
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 2: game next to Petrio or Jimmy Ward.

733
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 3: We saw this guy break up a pass on a

734
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 3: fade route in the end zone that Stroud through a

735
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 3: very nice throw, but he made a good play.

736
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Speaker 4: That's Kadar Holeman, who we like as a reserve.

737
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Speaker 1: We'll see how it goes.

738
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Speaker 2: Yeah, again, corner. You can't have enough depth, and he's

739
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 2: got size strength. He's got a big chip on his

740
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 2: shoulder from New Jersey and he's talked about that it

741
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 2: was a walk on when he got to college.

742
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 1: I think you see that in his game. I mean

743
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 1: that fade rut you're talking about.

744
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 2: CJ tried to throwing up to Xavier Hutchinson and Zaber

745
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 2: did a great job.

746
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 1: Going up and getting it.

747
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 2: But Holman's technique I'm playing at was perfect, and coaches

748
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 2: came over like, hey man, it was great, it was great.

749
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 1: It was just you know, you.

750
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 2: Don't get an opportunity too often to make a play

751
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 2: on a fade like that, because in practice sometimes hard

752
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 2: to imitate and mimic. And I don't think they've worked

753
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 2: on that down on a goal line in one on ones.

754
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 2: So Kadar's out there just using the technique he's been

755
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 2: taught over the years and then.

756
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 1: Applied it perfectly. It made a play.

757
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 2: So big physical guy gonna get a lot of reps

758
00:33:58,480 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 2: in these joint practice. Is gonna get a lot of

759
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,120
Speaker 2: reps for the preseason. And he's played some. He played

760
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 2: with the Packers. He made an impact as a rookie

761
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 2: in the second year guys, So he's got playing experience.

762
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 2: If it's got it, if you got to go to him,

763
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 2: because the corners are banged up, I feel very confident

764
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 2: he can step in and do some things, all right.

765
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Speaker 3: Rookie seventh round draft choice Brandon Hill from pitt fun

766
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 3: to watch in college?

767
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 1: Is he fun to watch out here?

768
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:24,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been fun to watch. He was not in

769
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,800
Speaker 2: pads yesterday. I don't know, a little dinged up or

770
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 2: whatever it might be. But I just you know, for rookies,

771
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 2: I hate that. You know, Jared Patterson's go through that

772
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 2: in the offensive line. But you know, you know he

773
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,320
Speaker 2: missed a day. It feels like as a rookie he

774
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,800
Speaker 2: missed for five days, and I know he wants to

775
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 2: get back. You know, the one thing I took out

776
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 2: of our conversation with Brandon is how much he loves ball.

777
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 2: He loves to hit, you know when he put the

778
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:46,439
Speaker 2: pads on. You know, the guy's from the Popka floor.

779
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 2: I mean, those guys, they live for ball down and

780
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 2: that's hate in that city in particular. So I know

781
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 2: he hates not being available to be able to go

782
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 2: through practice, but hitter, physical, do whatever he's got to

783
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 2: for the team. Great team guy, patn Er, he loved

784
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 2: him at pitt So I think we'll love him in

785
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:04,319
Speaker 2: due time here. I just hope that he's not set

786
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:05,479
Speaker 2: back for a long time with all.

787
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 3: Right, we'll get through these next few guys quick. Dangelo Ross,

788
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:09,399
Speaker 3: you and I interviewed him mini camp.

789
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, guy that like chip on his shoulder, just wants

790
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 2: to be around playing ball. Not the biggest guy in

791
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 2: the world, but he can move and he can make

792
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 2: a play in a ball.

793
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:18,919
Speaker 1: His competitive ball skills are top notch.

794
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,360
Speaker 3: Kobe Francis with the Francis On the back of the jersey.

795
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 3: They have names on the jerseys here at camp and

796
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 3: the number thirty eight. From a distance, I keep.

797
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 4: Seeing Vegas like PD Kobe Francis.

798
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 1: You know he's athletic.

799
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 2: He's probably a shade more athletic than Pete Fagans was.

800
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 2: Size good, size, can run. Just needs a lot more

801
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:41,360
Speaker 2: reps and with the joint practices in the preseason games,

802
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:43,320
Speaker 2: he's gonna get a lot of reps because Sting, Nelson

803
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 2: and Griffin probably not gonna get a ton. So that

804
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 2: means Dangelo Ross and Kobe Francis, Darius Phillips, this guy's

805
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:52,319
Speaker 2: can all get reps in those games. That's all gonna help.

806
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 2: Whether they're here they're putting on film for some other team.

807
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, these guys are a third and fourth quarter preseason

808
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 3: game guys. Not that that's a bad thing. You can

809
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 3: make the team still. Tyreek g Lespie.

810
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,799
Speaker 2: Hitter, special teams guy. When he was at Missouri, man

811
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:05,799
Speaker 2: there was not a different color jersey. I didn't see

812
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:09,319
Speaker 2: him hit, learned in safety, but special teams that's his

813
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 2: that's his bag, if you will.

814
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 4: Darius Phillips, he's been around for a while.

815
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:14,400
Speaker 1: He's been around for a while, and he showed it

816
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:15,120
Speaker 1: the other day. Man.

817
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:16,800
Speaker 2: He made a couple of great plays. He broke on

818
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 2: what was a potential pick six, he's dropped it. But

819
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:21,800
Speaker 2: he had another breakup on a throw that was in

820
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 2: front of him where he had to transitionally break forward

821
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,480
Speaker 2: on it and made a play. Darius Phillips been the

822
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 2: signings kind of off the radar of this offseason. Kind

823
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 2: of Darius Phillips, you know, was one of those guys

824
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 2: off the radar, like, man.

825
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 1: Wait, it's a good pickup. There's a really good pickup.

826
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 1: The ones that came in not right when the league

827
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: year started, but maybe a little bit later. Man, really

828
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:40,240
Speaker 1: good pickups.

829
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Speaker 2: I think Darius Phllips is definitely a guy that compets

830
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 2: to that spot there is I have fun doing that

831
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 2: every single day. I all said fun talking to Andrew Beck.

832
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 2: He's next right here in Texans All Access. We all

833
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 2: follow a segment this edition of Texans All Access News

834
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Speaker 2: for the Texans. They have now signed two tight ends,

835
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 2: Dalton Keene formerly of the New England Patriots and Virginia Tech.

836
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 2: And they just signed Nick Vennett, former Ohio State Buckeye

837
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 2: tight end. He's a little bit more of the inline blocker,

838
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 2: but he still catches football. Keene is a little bit

839
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,720
Speaker 2: more of your athletic move tight ends. So Keen and

840
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 2: Nick Vennett added to the tight ends roster. Now the

841
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:15,759
Speaker 2: guy that's kind of the tight ended roster, kind of

842
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,319
Speaker 2: the fullback roster, it's Andrew Beck.

843
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 1: I talked to him after practice yesterday. I mean, Andrew, I've.

844
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:23,360
Speaker 2: Been asking everybody, it feels oppressive. Last fifteen minutes of practice.

845
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 2: It felt terrible. How you're making it through.

846
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:28,319
Speaker 6: It's definitely testing the mental toughness. It's something you got

847
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 6: a building camp. I mean you know that. So it's,

848
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:32,840
Speaker 6: you know, an added element. There's always gonna be adversity.

849
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 6: Now we just get to deal with the hate a

850
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 6: little bit too.

851
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt.

852
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna ask you a really weird question, but

853
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 2: I want your most honest answer.

854
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 1: What position you play?

855
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:48,359
Speaker 6: Yes, it depends on down distance of what coach Slow says.

856
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 6: And I think that's some of the things that makes

857
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 6: this offense fun. I mean, you've seen it looking at

858
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 6: what the Niner's been doing in the past couple of

859
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 6: years and the other coaches that we've pulled from different places.

860
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 6: That's what, like I said, makes this offense goes. We

861
00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:58,799
Speaker 6: can throw a bunch of different guys in a bunch

862
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 6: of different spots, and we're smart than to figure it out,

863
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 6: and they're good enough coaches to get.

864
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:03,319
Speaker 1: Us in the right spot. Was that what made this

865
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 1: place attractive to you?

866
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously you played college ball in the state,

867
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 2: But was it that that kind of made this attractive.

868
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: To you, that your versatility could be seen as a

869
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:11,879
Speaker 1: relase that. Yeah.

870
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 6: Absolutely, the opportunity to do a bunch of things. You know,

871
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:15,320
Speaker 6: that's what keeps guys around in this league for a

872
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 6: long comments. The more you can do. You know, you

873
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Speaker 6: can't wait to do this for a couple of years

874
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Speaker 6: and then go trying long snap.

875
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Speaker 1: For even longer. You know, it's all about the more

876
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Speaker 1: you can do.

877
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Speaker 6: And absolutely like to your point, it's what makes this

878
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 6: place attractive, and it's what it's gonna get a lot

879
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 6: of great players to want to be Houston Texans.

880
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Speaker 1: And that's what we want. Is John Weeks know about

881
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 1: your plan?

882
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,000
Speaker 6: You know what I will say, Weeks has been nothing

883
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 6: but supportive of my plan because I have told him

884
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Speaker 6: it doesn't go into effect until he's done.

885
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,919
Speaker 1: He's lost I just work here. Your your group.

886
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Speaker 2: Obviously some of that. You know, you're in the tight

887
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Speaker 2: end group. You're kind of the running back group too,

888
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 2: with the fullbacks, et cetera. You've had a few of

889
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:48,919
Speaker 2: you kind of going down, so you're getting a lot

890
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:51,839
Speaker 2: of different reps, you know, but some guys are getting

891
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 2: a look because they kind of opening things up for

892
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,840
Speaker 2: you that you're getting a few more looks, maybe because

893
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:57,319
Speaker 2: there aren't as many guys there.

894
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 6: It's, you know, part of camp is plugging in when

895
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Speaker 6: guys go down. That's the nature of it. I think

896
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 6: the big benefit for me anyways is it's not necessarily

897
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 6: things that I'll be doing in this season, but the

898
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 6: greater understanding we can get to the offense if I

899
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Speaker 6: can go out here and run it, you know, tight end,

900
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Speaker 6: or he can plug me in where a receiver's supposed

901
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 6: to be. He's not gonna ask me to do that

902
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 6: stuff on Sunday. We're gonna go out there and win games.

903
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 6: But at least I'll know conceptually where everybody's gonna be,

904
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Speaker 6: and all that's gonna do is help the guys on

905
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 6: the field.

906
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Speaker 1: How do you think it's going though? Far Andrew?

907
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 2: You know, the offense. I know today probably wasn't the

908
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 2: best day. I mean, obviously gets hotted near the end

909
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 2: and it gets kind of tough on both sides for execution,

910
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:32,719
Speaker 2: but just overall everybody learning the offense, mental errors.

911
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:34,760
Speaker 1: How's that kind of going? You think? For the overall

912
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: the offense.

913
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 6: I think we were right on part with where we

914
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Speaker 6: need to be. You know, there hasn't been any mistakes

915
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 6: or we've just thrown our hands up and we're like,

916
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:41,800
Speaker 6: all right, don't know how we're gonna get that fixed.

917
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 6: You know, it's all been things that we kind of

918
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 6: expected and things that are absolutely coachable, and the coach

919
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 6: of the staff's done an incredible job, and you know,

920
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 6: I think the players have responded really well. We had

921
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 6: a couple of things from yesterday the first day and

922
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 6: pads that we had to come out here and correct today,

923
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:54,919
Speaker 6: and I think we got a number of them taken

924
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 6: care of, which is always always exactly what you want

925
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:58,360
Speaker 6: to see, and I think the staff is pretty excited

926
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Speaker 6: about that. So there'll be things from today's so we

927
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Speaker 6: can digest on the off day and then and work

928
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Speaker 6: on whenever our next practice day is whatever day like that.

929
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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm glad you brought that up, because an off day,

930
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Speaker 2: I know there's a football player you want't stay in

931
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 2: a rhythm, but you need that rest.

932
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Speaker 1: Your body needs to rest. So ay, how good is

933
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 1: the off day?

934
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Speaker 2: And b what is it that you want to get

935
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Speaker 2: accomplished on the off day and not just sitting around

936
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Speaker 2: watching cartoons to eat cereal?

937
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 1: What is it you want to get done on that

938
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 1: off day? Right?

939
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Speaker 6: So I guess your first point. You know, I think

940
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Speaker 6: off days have become critical for us. You know it

941
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:27,840
Speaker 6: gives guys the opportunity to push that step harder in

942
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 6: our three practice blocks because you know that that there's

943
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Speaker 6: quote a light at the end of the tunnel.

944
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Speaker 1: You know you can.

945
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:34,839
Speaker 6: I can push as hard as I can today because

946
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 6: I know tomorrow I have the ability to come in

947
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Speaker 6: get my body right. And for me, and I know

948
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Speaker 6: a lot of guys, you know, it's it's like you said,

949
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 6: it's not just sitting on the couch anymore. It's you

950
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 6: got to come in and do everything you can to

951
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:45,759
Speaker 6: get your body feeling like it's the first day of

952
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Speaker 6: camp again. And on top of that, every day is

953
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,920
Speaker 6: like a cumulative final, right, So we install and then

954
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Speaker 6: you're tested on it, and it keeps building and keeps building.

955
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Speaker 6: So off days are a nice day to take a breath.

956
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Speaker 6: We're not getting an install that day. Go back and

957
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Speaker 6: make sure you have every single thing ironed out, and

958
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Speaker 6: then preview what's coming. And I think we've we've done

959
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Speaker 6: a good job of the veterans showing the younger guys. Hey,

960
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 6: exactly your point. You can't just sit around, you know,

961
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Speaker 6: you guys have to use this day because it's it's

962
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Speaker 6: not gonna slow down.

963
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Speaker 1: We're not gonna take a break. Andrew, I appreciate you time, man,

964
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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Yeah, absolutely, thank you so much.

965
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Speaker 2: Fun guy to interview, fun player to watch. Ton of versatility.

966
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Speaker 2: And I know that could be a bad word people

967
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Speaker 2: used to hear, oh the v word versatility, Yet it's

968
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Speaker 2: not a bad thing when a guy is good at

969
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Speaker 2: multiple things. We used to use that word, and by say,

970
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,919
Speaker 2: we use that word loosely, but that word was used

971
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Speaker 2: a lot to describe people that played other positions but

972
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Speaker 2: weren't good at them. And so that's not what versatility

973
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 2: actually is. Andrew Beck is versatility and that is a

974
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Speaker 2: good thing. And unfortunately it's a bad thing that we

975
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Speaker 2: got in the show right here, but a big thanks

976
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Speaker 2: to Andrew Beck, to John McClain, to Mark vandermir to

977
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Speaker 2: everybody out there. Listen, you guys are the best. We'll

978
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Speaker 2: see tomorrow eight am. Texas Training Camp Live, eight point

979
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Speaker 2: thirty GMNT Cassario on with us too, Tune in.

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Speaker 1: We'll see then, everybody, and as always, go Texans.