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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, Welcome to the show. Mark Vandermayer, John Harris

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Speaker 1: with you, taking you into the weekend following the Texans

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Speaker 1: preseason finale, a seventeen nothing victory over San Francisco Thursday

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Speaker 1: night and RG Stadium preseason in the books and opening

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Speaker 1: Day coming up two weeks from Sunday, when the Texans

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Speaker 1: take on the dreaded hated nemesis, the Indianapolis Colts. And

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Speaker 1: I'm fired up for that one already. Johnny good evening,

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Speaker 1: How are you, my friend? Yeah, it's hard not to be.

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Speaker 1: After I don't even care what the record was. I

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Speaker 1: didn't even care. I mean even if they had lost

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Speaker 1: last night coming out of there, I mean last year

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Speaker 1: two and one and getting ready for the Jacksonville Jaguars,

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Speaker 1: and I mean, I always feel pretty positive hitting into

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Speaker 1: the season, but I think what what this year has

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Speaker 1: done when you think of Damian Pearson, Derek Stanley and

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Speaker 1: seeing Kenyan Green last night and Kurt Highish, and you

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Speaker 1: see this young talent here like whoa yeah, and then

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Speaker 1: you're seeing the talent from twenty twenty one, Davis Nico. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: Gary Waldo, who had taken huge strides have been has

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Speaker 1: been banged up the last probably week and a half

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Speaker 1: and maybe more, and we've missed him. But you see

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Speaker 1: that young talent and you're like, Okay, you start to

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Speaker 1: see it come together. And I don't know if I

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Speaker 1: said this on the air and not. I said this

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Speaker 1: to Sean and Seth in the pregame. I said, I say,

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Speaker 1: can I interest you in a stat I went at

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Speaker 1: Landry Locker and every okay, and there are eighty one

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Speaker 1: players for the forty nine ers going into that game

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Speaker 1: last night. Of those eighty one, forty nine of them

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Speaker 1: and have stayed there and developed forty nine eighty one

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Speaker 1: homegrown talent. The Texans in that same situation twenty nine

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Speaker 1: and it just kind of goes to show when you

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Speaker 1: didn't have those draft picks and you were relying on

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Speaker 1: veterans and you're trying to get a certain point, and

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Speaker 1: now it's gonna flip and go the other way, and

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Speaker 1: you'll see what it is on the fifty three right exactly.

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Speaker 1: I think a percentage for the forty nine ers will

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Speaker 1: won't be forty nine guys, but they will have. It'll

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Speaker 1: be a prett significant percentage I think for the text

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Speaker 1: and the same thing I think of those twenty nine

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Speaker 1: I think a decent majority of them will be there

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Speaker 1: moving forward and they can build off of that. Add

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Speaker 1: another eight to ten more next year, eight to ten

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Speaker 1: on top of that, and caveat always is if Davis

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Speaker 1: is the guy in those eight to ten and eight

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Speaker 1: to ten, don't have to be a quarterback? My goodness, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think though, well, there's a lot you just said

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Speaker 1: right there, because if Davis is the guy, even if

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Speaker 1: he's not the guy you play him this year, you

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Speaker 1: decide he's not the guy. You have options with those

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Speaker 1: draft choices, but you feel like, all right, we're starting

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Speaker 1: over at quarterback, aren't we here, And you really don't

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Speaker 1: want to have to do that. But you do have

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Speaker 1: the capital to do something really significant next year in

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Speaker 1: the draft. But let's not even talk about that, because

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Speaker 1: I'm excited about what I saw last night. Let's get

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Speaker 1: into some of that. We were talking about this on

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Speaker 1: the postgame show. Things that translate, things you can take

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Speaker 1: with you from the preseason into the regular season. Look,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't always work out that way. You might have

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Speaker 1: lit it up in the preseason. Scored a lot of points,

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean you're going to score a lot of points

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Speaker 1: in the regular season. Nothing. They scored a lot of points,

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Speaker 1: But what did they do that we think we will

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Speaker 1: continue to see in the regular season. I'm going first, oh, okay,

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Speaker 1: they're going after the quarterback. They're going to get backfield

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Speaker 1: penetration with these front four, no matter who's in the lineup.

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Speaker 1: I just feel really confident with that. We saw enough

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Speaker 1: of that last year, all right, and you have some

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Speaker 1: guys coming back, But you mentioned it added talent. Seeing

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Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes last night, seeing Addison in the mix, and

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Speaker 1: those guys instantly make an impact for you on the field.

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Speaker 1: Then seeing Heinisch developed mature right before your very eyes

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Speaker 1: And now it's like, please, there's no way he can't

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Speaker 1: I think it swung so much for him. Is he

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Speaker 1: but can't he make the roster? I think it's gone

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Speaker 1: from that too. Don't we want to see this guy

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Speaker 1: on the field plane? Yeah? In regulation with everybody, I

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Speaker 1: don't know how they put it together, but Johnny, I

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Speaker 1: Who's gonna start? Yeah, they're all gonna play right. So

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Speaker 1: as you make that play right, Because they're going to

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Speaker 1: thing that I would say to add to what you

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Speaker 1: that can carry over physicality. They've talked about that. It's evident.

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Speaker 1: I mean obviously, I'm you know, listen to broadcasting men.

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Speaker 1: I listen to, you know, everything that's going on. I

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Speaker 1: higher level of physicality than I've seen in the last two, three,

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Speaker 1: If you're an opposing team, you're buckle up, sparky because

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Speaker 1: it might not look pretty, but that team's gonna get

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Speaker 1: It when you know you're the more physical team, you

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Speaker 1: there's something that happens in a game where you just know, okay,

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Speaker 1: well you maybe hit on this player, you maybe hit

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Speaker 1: on that play, but we're physically dominating you right now.

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Speaker 1: It'll eventually even out and we're gonna win this football

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Speaker 1: game because we're more physical than you. And that's the

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Speaker 1: way it feels with the offensive line, with the defensive

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Speaker 1: There was a block early on. I can't remember where

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Speaker 1: that they'll run. As coach Smith said, he said, hey,

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Speaker 1: showed you that plays. Yeah, you and I watched that

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Speaker 1: what I love, though you've been talking about I did

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Speaker 1: give you credit after I stole it. Yea, it's like

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Speaker 1: and you want that at that position. And I was wondering,

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Speaker 1: the guts of the game? Well, opening drive would be

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Speaker 1: So those two guys in the game at the same time,

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Speaker 1: Two weeks from Sunday, we were in LA and I

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Speaker 1: offensive line of the first half just damn, it just

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Speaker 1: didn't feel like it was coming together. Just didn't feel like, Ah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, it just didn't It didn't feel right.

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Speaker 1: And I remember saying at one point, you know what,

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Speaker 1: down here. Why don't they just put Harrison a fullback

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Speaker 1: kind of tapping in for whatever reason. I mean seventeen games,

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Speaker 1: mean nets fantasy. And it does change. I know people

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Speaker 1: You absolutely can see it. The old line feels different. Oh,

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Speaker 1: everything feels different. Building, we get a lift, you're down

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Speaker 1: on a field and somebody lays a big block, or

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Speaker 1: somebody has a big hit, I mean defensively here throughout stadium,

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Speaker 1: be like, oh you hear that throughout the stadium, and

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Speaker 1: that charges everybody upright. And I was no shrinking wallflowers

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Speaker 1: a coach. I had no qualms with saying I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: want you to go hit that guy as hard as

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Speaker 1: and I guarantee you it'll change everything. And I swear

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Speaker 1: to you I did that multiple times. Every single time.

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Speaker 1: It did. That sort of physical nature just changes the

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Speaker 1: way teams play and the way the game is then played.

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Speaker 1: From that point on and the fact that even with

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Speaker 1: I just I love it. It's like it it's like

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Speaker 1: a big duncan basketball almost. It gets everybody going. The

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Speaker 1: what if you throw some pico in there, I could

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Speaker 1: have that as a meal almost every time, I know.

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Speaker 1: But you also have a meal on top of that,

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Speaker 1: and you might have the trace letches, So the trace

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Speaker 1: letches would be a nice little double pass, you know.

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Speaker 1: Oh gosh, there's a lot of things you can do

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Speaker 1: with trace letches, all right. We also saw Jerry Hughes

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Speaker 1: last night, and Hughes looked good out there, and he

433
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Speaker 1: knows there are a lot of young bucks on this team.

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Speaker 1: What does he think of the way they're performing so far?

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Speaker 1: And we got a lot of young guys that are hung,

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Speaker 1: that are willing and eager to do the right thing

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Speaker 1: to make this organization of winning organizations. So when you

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Speaker 1: got young guys that are buying in now and doing

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Speaker 1: all the right steps, it's gonna be a funk season.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait for the season to start, just because

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Speaker 1: I know the kind of work that they've put in

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Speaker 1: in the off season, so I know what we're going

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Speaker 1: to get once the real bullets start. All right, well,

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Speaker 1: we got a lot of that's gonna well stop. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be September eleventh against the Indianapolis Cults. Johnny Jerry Hughes,

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Speaker 1: Mario Addison, nice additions to this team. We talked about

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Speaker 1: them before they signed them. We were actually pretty comfortable

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Speaker 1: with a lot of what they had here, right Yeah,

449
00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:16,520
Speaker 1: you know, he had Jonathan Grenard coming back after the

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Speaker 1: eighth SAC year. You had some guys who made some plays.

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Speaker 1: By the way, Derek Rivers, there's a report out there,

452
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Speaker 1: what was the report, torn biceps or something. That's sad

453
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Speaker 1: if that's true. But you know what, and it's happened

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Speaker 1: to have a bunch of injury issues all of that,

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Speaker 1: But let's just hope for the best here. But at

456
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Speaker 1: least you have some depth on this d line right

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Speaker 1: now as you head into the next two weeks now.

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Speaker 1: I can't speak for Jerry and I can't speak for Mario.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine they would want to be on a

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Speaker 1: team that was unequivocally in the mix and the playoff mix,

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Speaker 1: and there's no telling that the the Texans are in it

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Speaker 1: or not in it. But I would imagine that they're

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Speaker 1: where they are in their careers, a little bit older,

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Speaker 1: but they're also looking at, yeah, we're on a squad

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Speaker 1: right now where they're no expectations nationally, nobody, nobody really

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Speaker 1: expects the Texans to do a whole heck of a

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Speaker 1: lot nationally. They got these young dudes that are hanging

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Speaker 1: on their every word. They are valued veterans in the

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Speaker 1: locker room. I would feel like this it's a pretty

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Speaker 1: interesting spot for them to be as players at this

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Speaker 1: point in their career, and it really kind of shows

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Speaker 1: on the field. I mean, it looks like they're it

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Speaker 1: looks like they're having a blast and they're playing their guts.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Jerry was awesome last night. Mario got in.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they gave him any credit in the

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Speaker 1: highish sack, but he was a He was a decent

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Speaker 1: part of that sack. Having beaten his guy to get

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Speaker 1: there and one of the things, and Drey happened to

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Speaker 1: see it. I saw it in training camp, and I

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Speaker 1: was glad that Drey mentioned it on the broadcast last

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Speaker 1: night when they got the third and ten. Now, I

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Speaker 1: saw it a little differently in training camp, but it

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Speaker 1: was just the fact that it was not two defensive

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Speaker 1: tackles TV defensive ends. It was Mario next to Jerry

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Speaker 1: on one side and Malik nex to Grennard on the other.

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Speaker 1: And I just as I saw that on third down,

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Speaker 1: I went whoa and they got back there. They didn't

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Speaker 1: run any kind of a goofy game or stunt or

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Speaker 1: anything like that. It was just four guys. It's so

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Speaker 1: plazing to the quarterback. It was so much fun to watch.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we saw at times last year. But to

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Speaker 1: get into that backfield, the forty nine backfield with the

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Speaker 1: very mobile Trey Lance back there, whose fleet of foot

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Speaker 1: and able to get some things done outside of the pocket.

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Speaker 1: They were able to force some bad throws. What level

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Speaker 1: of concern to the forty nine ers half of Trey

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Speaker 1: Lance right now? I think there's probably like a mosquito

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Speaker 1: flying around. Really that's it. I mean, that could be frustrating,

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Speaker 1: you know how I am. I just want everybody else

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Speaker 1: to suffer. I know, I don't think it's I don't

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Speaker 1: think it's that bad. Again, you go back to what

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Speaker 1: have we seen of Trey Lance From the time training

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Speaker 1: camp started to now, we saw not even what three

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Speaker 1: series we saw three series we might and then there

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Speaker 1: was one preseason game against the Packers that we saw

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Speaker 1: on television. Other than that, we haven't seen. Just like

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Speaker 1: people that just saw Davis Mill so the first time

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Speaker 1: last night, they're going, oh man, the Texas should be

509
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Speaker 1: worried about Davis Mills. But what did we see in

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Speaker 1: training camp? We saw every single snap, We saw him

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Speaker 1: getting better and better. We saw him making throws. We

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Speaker 1: saw him go eight, nine, ten straight throws without any completion.

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Speaker 1: We saw some of those things, and I'm sure the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers saw some of that, and I heard

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Speaker 1: some of that was happening with Lance at training camp.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's probably kind of mosquito flying around,

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Speaker 1: Like you know, I wish that mosquito were gone. I

518
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:28,120
Speaker 1: can live, but it's a little bit annoying. We gotta

519
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Speaker 1: see what we can do to get get that fixed.

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Speaker 1: So I don't think it's this massive issue. This is

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Speaker 1: not a boot on a car. Somebody was talking about

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Speaker 1: RG three and how Shanahan had him in Washington and

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Speaker 1: the kind of rookie year he had, and this is

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Speaker 1: not Lance's rookie year, it's his second year. Got his

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Speaker 1: feet wet last year. I was looking up RG three's

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Speaker 1: rookie year preseason stats. Yes, I'm that guy. They were

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Speaker 1: actually very good. They're very you know they were, and

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Speaker 1: he actually faced Andrew Luck. You know, they were drafted

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Speaker 1: one to two in the preseason of that year. Interesting,

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Speaker 1: all right, Coming up, Johnny caught up with Lovey Smith.

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Speaker 1: How did that go? After the game with the head

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Speaker 1: coach of the Texans, and also Amazon did the game

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Speaker 1: a little bit on that as we've been watching some

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Speaker 1: of it today and you watch some of it last night.

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Speaker 1: Of course, we did our own version of the broadcast

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Speaker 1: on radio, which you all should always listen to. It's

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio in the Hunday Texans Radio studio. It's Texans

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Speaker 1: All Access, Mark vander Meyer, John Harris with you Texans

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Speaker 1: winners over San Francisco in the preseason finale, and after

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Speaker 1: the game, John Harris visited with Lovey Smith coach, you

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Speaker 1: leave the bagel up on a scoreboard. I know it's

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Speaker 1: great preseason game, but it's kind of nice to get

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Speaker 1: a shot out in a game, is it not. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And it's hard to do no matter what. It's hard

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Speaker 1: in practice, is hard in a preseason game, it's hard

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Speaker 1: in a regular season. And when that happens, you have

547
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Speaker 1: to kind of knowledge some of the things that you

548
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Speaker 1: know that happened tonight and Buzz we played the run

549
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Speaker 1: fairly well and this is about not giving up big

550
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Speaker 1: plays and hanging in there when you get an opportunity

551
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Speaker 1: to take the ball away. Guys have bought into what

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Speaker 1: we want to do. Coach, my assessment of just watching

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Speaker 1: these last three games is the physicality level has been

554
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Speaker 1: raised significantly from what I've seen even last year, two years,

555
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Speaker 1: three years ago. I know that's something that you wanted

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Speaker 1: to bring in. You talked about being a running football team,

557
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: and defense obviously tugs of your heartstrings, but was that

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Speaker 1: something you really emphasize no matter what, we are going

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Speaker 1: to be physical. Absolutely. I mean, if you're gonna be

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00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 1: on our roster, first we have to say. If we're

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Speaker 1: describing a player, no matter what position, you know you

562
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Speaker 1: just look at the offense and who we are. We're

563
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Speaker 1: not a spread out. We're hey in between. We're going

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Speaker 1: to have a lead block a lot of times. And defensively,

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Speaker 1: you know, we didn't do a whole lot of live

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Speaker 1: tackling in training camp, but we did everything except for that.

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Speaker 1: Guys know, in order to play here, you need to

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Speaker 1: be that you ran the ball exceptionally well tonight passing game,

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Speaker 1: What do you want to see in that going forward?

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Speaker 1: I know not all the pieces were there, some protectors

571
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 1: weren't there, some receivers weren't there, But what do you

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00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 1: want to see going We're from Davis in the past

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Speaker 1: game well, as you mentioned establishing the run running game,

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Speaker 1: hepton awful lot, But I mean it's when you don't

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Speaker 1: have your one tight end. Yeah, you know who's a

576
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,160
Speaker 1: will be a target. You don't have your one receiver,

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Speaker 1: and of course you mentioned some offensive lineman that we have.

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Speaker 1: The next time we played John, we'll have our all

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Speaker 1: our guys. We'll head offense together and I've seen enough

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Speaker 1: of the pieces that we like to note. Once we

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Speaker 1: put it all together, it's going to be pretty good. Coach.

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Speaker 1: I'll toughes this weekend become you have eighty guys. Now

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00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: you've whuttle it down a little bit. But now there's

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Speaker 1: some guys you gotta say goodbye to. Some guys you

585
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 1: gotta say goodbye through four now because they might be

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Speaker 1: coming back to the practice squad. I thought, is this

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Speaker 1: is a head coach to go through a weekend like this.

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Speaker 1: You know, there there's a lot of things you like

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Speaker 1: about this position, but that's not one of them. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is always a tough weekend because so many guys

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00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 1: I've seen improve and do whatever we've asked going to

592
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Speaker 1: do to help our team. But you can only keep

593
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 1: so many players, know that, But again we were looking

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Speaker 1: for trying to keep seventy guys guys and and hopefully

595
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Speaker 1: though if you know, guys can't make it with us,

596
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Speaker 1: they can find a halt somewhere else in the league.

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Speaker 1: Seventeen days, it might fly by, I would think for you,

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Speaker 1: I know you want see Indian week one. How are

599
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 1: you gonna pass the time those seventeen days? Getting ready

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Speaker 1: for Indie? We're gonna keep going. Now it's about just them.

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Speaker 1: I mean we've been cheating a little bit and kind

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00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: of you know, getting ready for him. A little bit,

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Speaker 1: but now all focuses on them, and rightfully so. They

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Speaker 1: dominated us last year. They're one of the teams that's

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Speaker 1: picked to win our division. So in art of us

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Speaker 1: to really say that we've we desire to be talked

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00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 1: about on center stage, we got to show up. We'll

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Speaker 1: keep getting ready for coach. I appreciate the time. Congratulations,

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Speaker 1: Thank you. All right, Johnny, that's you and Lovey Smith

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Speaker 1: as the Texans embark on the next two weeks to

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Speaker 1: get ready for the Indianapolis Colts coming up on Sunday

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Speaker 1: at noon September eleventh. That'll be a standard CBSTV broadcast.

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Speaker 1: Nothing standard about our radio broadcast ASTs. But last night

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Speaker 1: Amazon was here and John I'm going to share with

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Speaker 1: you the VanderMeer theory of high end things. Okay, are

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Speaker 1: you ready for this one? This is the vander theory

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Speaker 1: on high end things. So so many high end things

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Speaker 1: in life. You pay so much more for them because

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Speaker 1: they're high end, but they're not that much better than

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Speaker 1: not lower end, but the medium. You paid that much more,

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Speaker 1: but you're only getting a little bit more in quality

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, and quality of life added in to

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Speaker 1: whatever you're getting. And I think Amazon kind of like that.

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Speaker 1: The broadcast last night, based on what I've seen so far,

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Speaker 1: a lot of bells and whistles. Kind of cool. I mean,

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Speaker 1: nothing wrong with it. We could debate Herbstreet now, Michael's

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Speaker 1: in a little bit here, and some of the other

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Speaker 1: talent they had, But I'm talking about the way it

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Speaker 1: looks to camera angles. We mentioned it before. They had

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Speaker 1: eight trucks out in the parking lot in the loading

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Speaker 1: dock area. Eight TV trucks. That's a lot of trucks.

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Speaker 1: Each truck is its own TV studio, folks. I'll give

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Speaker 1: you an example here for Texans preseason games, Kevin Coogler,

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Speaker 1: Spencer Tillman. We use one TV truck and I'll hold

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Speaker 1: our broadcast up to anybody. So is this broadcast eight

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Speaker 1: trucks better? I mean, I know they have a lot

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Speaker 1: of different things and drones and whatever, and all the

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Speaker 1: fifty six cameras and everything. It might be one or

639
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 1: two trucks better, but not eight trucks better. Now, of course,

640
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 1: my opinion could change when I see all the different

641
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: screens and I'm home on a Thursday night and they

642
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 1: really get rolling with this thing, and the dude perfect

643
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 1: broadcast and all of that. But for now, based on

644
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 1: what I saw on the screen on NFL Network today

645
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: on the replay, that's the way I feel. And leaving

646
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: the building last night they were all done and packing up.

647
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 1: I saw two hundred people out there who was on

648
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:51,959
Speaker 1: their broadcast. It was unbelievable. It's just amazing what they

649
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 1: could pay for. And if I'm ESPN, I'm not saying

650
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 1: I'm worried, but ESPN has running like a fiscally sound business.

651
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 1: And Amazon the way they do the broadcast, they are

652
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: like the Live Golf Tour. They are just throwing money

653
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 1: at this broadcast for the time being. That might change eventually,

654
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 1: but I found that to be very interesting. My guess

655
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 1: is they'll learn, they'll do as we would say a

656
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 1: R after action report, Yeah, and they'll go did we

657
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: need eight? Could we do this with six? Because that's

658
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: what that's what ends up happening, is hey, man, this

659
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 1: is a really good broadcast. And then somebody says, yeah,

660
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: you know, Truck eight really, I don't know, Truck eight

661
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 1: really wasn't giving us a whole heck of a lot.

662
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 1: We Hey, do you think we can do at six?

663
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 1: And then you start pairing it down and you still

664
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Speaker 1: get the point where you put together a high a

665
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:41,479
Speaker 1: high energy, highly efficient, high profile broadcast, but you just

666
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 1: don't need as much. And it was the first one ever.

667
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: So if you think about the first ever of anything,

668
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: you I mean you put everything into it. I mean

669
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: I remember the first ever game I ever did on

670
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 1: the sidelines getting ready for the aforementioned Washington at the

671
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 1: time Redskins with r G three at quarterback. Like the

672
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 1: amount of time that I put into getting ready for

673
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 1: that's the first one. You want to make that impression,

674
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 1: and I think that's what Amazon was trying to do.

675
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 1: But the people, my gosh, not only on Thursday, or

676
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 1: not not only a Thursday. I'm talking Monday, the first

677
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 1: day we got back. I know, I got back into

678
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 1: building up Monday. We had radio on Monday, so I

679
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: was in here at like six thirty on Monday. They

680
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 1: were there then, and they just got more and more

681
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: and more and more super Bowl. It was incredible. It

682
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,960
Speaker 1: had a very super Bowl feel, and I would imagine

683
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 1: that's their hope, that's the whope. Fred god Ellie, who

684
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: used to do Sunday Night Football for NBC, did Monday

685
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 1: Night Football for ESPN. He's done a lot of games.

686
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 1: He's producing these games and you you so, you're gonna

687
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 1: have a very big game feel to it. And it's

688
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 1: preseason game. So maybe once they get to the regular season,

689
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 1: we'll see how things change. But I'm I'm with you

690
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 1: in that. I think, you know, go buy a pair

691
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 1: of jeans. You buy a particular pair of jeans that's

692
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: a big name, so that you can show everybody, Oh,

693
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 1: that person's wearing guest jeans, you know whereas you know what,

694
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 1: I can go over to I don't know, Marshals, and

695
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 1: I can just get a pair of jeans that are

696
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:15,799
Speaker 1: pretty comfortable and wear them and I don't care. I

697
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 1: tend to buy the expensive sunglasses, you know what. They're

698
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 1: not much better than the ones that cost like twenty

699
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 1: five bucks. It's all perception, Yeah, it's all perception. Amazon

700
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:29,400
Speaker 1: wants to be perceived as a big dog now in

701
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 1: in the NFL. In NFL circles. I was talking to

702
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: our buddy Blake Jones because he's NFL what is the

703
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:37,800
Speaker 1: director of broadcast. Yeah, he's director of broadcasting or senior

704
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 1: director of broadcasting, And so he's dealt a lot with Amazon,

705
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 1: and we talked for a little bit, and of course

706
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: we had to. I had I didn't chide him seriously,

707
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 1: but I did kind of poke a little bit about

708
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 1: for you in high school. Yeah, he played for me

709
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 1: when he was a junior high actually, and I was

710
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:56,440
Speaker 1: kind of given the business about where he put the

711
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:58,879
Speaker 1: Cleveland game. But that's a side point we started talking

712
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 1: about as good. I'm glad you gave him the business

713
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:04,359
Speaker 1: on that one. Yeah, And so I asked Hi about

714
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 1: the Amazon thing. I said, how's that going? And he

715
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 1: just said that Amazon was good to work with. He

716
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:15,800
Speaker 1: said they don't quite understand the NFL way of doing

717
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 1: things just yet. They don't quite know that. But he said,

718
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 1: you know, they're asking for some things that we just

719
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 1: don't think are rioter they should do. And they've been

720
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 1: pretty immediable to the whole process, which I thought. It

721
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,359
Speaker 1: was kind of interesting to hear from him. But I'll

722
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 1: say one thing about al Michaels. Though. You turn on

723
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,840
Speaker 1: the TV and hear his voice and it's still al Michaels,

724
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:40,360
Speaker 1: and there's just something about the magic of al Michael's voice.

725
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: It's a big game. I want to watch this game.

726
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 1: It's Michaels Now, a lot of people are against Herb

727
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:47,439
Speaker 1: Street because he's a college guy. What's he doing doing

728
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:51,439
Speaker 1: an NFL game? Look, Herb Street to me is the

729
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: color commentator version of Bob Costas in a way in

730
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: that he is super great at his job, but not

731
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 1: everybody likes him. In fact, a lot of people don't

732
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: like him. But he's really good at his job. And

733
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: that's why ESPN wants to fly him from this game

734
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,359
Speaker 1: to that game within an eighteen hour period and also

735
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:09,839
Speaker 1: do the college game day set along the way. It's

736
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: ridiculous what they put him through. But he's getting paid

737
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 1: a ton of money and now he's doing this Thursday

738
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: night daying. It's part of his contract. Good for him.

739
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 1: He is smart enough to understand the league and do

740
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 1: the research, and believe me, he will have done his

741
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 1: homework for every Thursday night game that he does. This

742
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 1: is hard for people to understand for whatever reason. And

743
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:32,319
Speaker 1: I'm I'm sort of sensitive to this because whenever I

744
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 1: would get on the RADIOFL No, it's not that, but

745
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 1: you get pigeonholed as well your Texans voice. Right, yeah,

746
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 1: how do you know anything else about the rest of

747
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 1: the NFL. How do you know anything about college football. Well,

748
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: because well he's Texans voice. How does he know anything

749
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 1: about college football? I think it in certain worlds, like people, well,

750
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: how do you know anything about the NBA if you

751
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: cover college basketball? Like, wait a second, you can do

752
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: both if you do the research any rocket science, you

753
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 1: could cover both. And I think what Herbstreet has proven

754
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 1: that you do the research, you work at it, you

755
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 1: learn what you need to learn about. Here's what's different

756
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: from the NFL. Here's college and you're able to separate

757
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 1: them and then add something he's brought. You could cover

758
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 1: the NFL an happen. Drey does it. He does a

759
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 1: great job. But sometimes the ex athlete that's talking about

760
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 1: a sport that he didn't play has less credibility than

761
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: somebody who didn't play anything at all. It's just a

762
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,320
Speaker 1: strange dynamic. Yeah, you know what I mean. If you

763
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:30,439
Speaker 1: didn't play anything at all, well, you're just a well

764
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,720
Speaker 1: researched individual. But how can you, as a baseball player

765
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 1: know about basketball? Well? I watch it, and you know

766
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 1: what I know, think or two about professional sports or

767
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. Whatever your former sport is,

768
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 1: all right, Jake Hansen, that's not exactly a household name,

769
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:48,359
Speaker 1: but he's making plays in training camp, made an interception

770
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,759
Speaker 1: last night. Texans got the takeaway train rolling last night

771
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 1: along with a sack attack. So let's hear from him next,

772
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,919
Speaker 1: among other things. It's Texans Radio, Hope, it's a great

773
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:03,239
Speaker 1: Friday for you and it's been a good Thursday for

774
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:06,280
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans, wrapping up the preseason with that seventeen.

775
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:09,840
Speaker 1: Nothing went over San Francisco last night. Following the game,

776
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: John Harris talked to a man who had an interception

777
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 1: and he's having a good training camp, and that would

778
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 1: be elion I alum Jake Hanson played for Lovey Smith.

779
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: Johnny caught up with him. Jake, you finish up the preseason,

780
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 1: you get the win tonight, you get a pick. I

781
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:27,479
Speaker 1: even saw you knocked the ball away from a former

782
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 1: teammate from Illinois. He didn't kind of like what you

783
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 1: had to do. But overall, how do you feel about

784
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 1: tonight's performance? You know it. It's always a blast when

785
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:36,799
Speaker 1: you get to play a ball and I just take

786
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:38,839
Speaker 1: our every opportunity I get to step on that field

787
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 1: as a blessing and a childhood dream, so try and

788
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 1: make the most of it. Every time when you're in

789
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 1: a field with coach love you back at Illinois, you

790
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: led the nation and turnovers for those two particular years.

791
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 1: That's his mindset. It's always We've learned that since he

792
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: got here last year. But it seems like it's more

793
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:57,279
Speaker 1: ingrained than you, maybe than anybody on the field. You

794
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: get that pick, what do you think it after? You

795
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 1: get that pick tonight and score right away every every

796
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 1: play coaching preachy score. So trying to get that done

797
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:09,399
Speaker 1: best I can, but unfortunately got knocked down a little

798
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 1: bit right there at the end. So ask Derek this

799
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 1: question last week, because Derek miss some games last year.

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00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 1: You missed a few games last year as well. You

801
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:18,839
Speaker 1: have a long career Illinois, but you missed those games.

802
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 1: How do you feel like going through training camp? You

803
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 1: feel like you're kind of shaking the rust off and

804
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 1: you're kind of getting back to where you wanted to be,

805
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: you know, after missing some time last year. Yeah, So

806
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:30,880
Speaker 1: I hadn't played football in a year, coming off a

807
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:35,240
Speaker 1: big knee injury. So it was at first as adjustment,

808
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 1: a little bit of like a little spazzy on the

809
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 1: field at first, but just getting settled in and trusting

810
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 1: that like, I belong here, I meant to be in

811
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 1: this league, and I can make plays in this league.

812
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 1: So just trusting myself and trusting my ability and being

813
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:49,360
Speaker 1: confident out there. Yeah, I know it's a rookie this weekend.

814
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 1: It's so different because you've been played football your whole life.

815
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: You don't know what this weekend will bring. Is a

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00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,120
Speaker 1: nerve wracking for you or you just hey, what's the

817
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 1: next step in the process. How do you kind of

818
00:39:57,640 --> 00:39:59,959
Speaker 1: look at this weekend going through this your first time.

819
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 1: If I told you I wasn't a little nervous for

820
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 1: that final final day on Tuesday, I'd be lying to you.

821
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:09,319
Speaker 1: But you know, throughout camp it always is a little

822
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 1: bit over your head. But you know it's like, if

823
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 1: I do everything I can, I could look myself in

824
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: the mirror with any result that comes my way, and

825
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 1: I'm happy with how I progress throughout training camp, and

826
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 1: we'll see what the coaches think and we'll kind of

827
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 1: go from there. So, Jake, heck of a training camp,

828
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 1: heck of a game tonight. I appreciate it. Congratulations, Thank you,

829
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Speaker 1: appreciate you. John Harris with Jake Hanson after the game. Johnny,

830
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:34,480
Speaker 1: Jake Hanson. We'll see what happens with him. You never know,

831
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:37,319
Speaker 1: could be practice squad, might make the roster, a lot

832
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:41,319
Speaker 1: of linebackers vying for seats on the plane, if you will.

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00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:43,800
Speaker 1: Jake was interesting to talk to you because I actually

834
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Speaker 1: asked him about that you're being a rookie this weekend,

835
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Speaker 1: and he was, you know, how do you deal with it?

836
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Speaker 1: And he told me, he said, look, I'm not gonna

837
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 1: lie to you and tell you that it'll just be yeah,

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00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 1: you know, it'd be great. He goes, you know, I'm

839
00:40:57,640 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 1: gonna be nervous. You're looking for that phone call. I

840
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 1: think worst case Jake is on the practice squad, and

841
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 1: if somebody wants to put him on a fifty three

842
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 1: man roster, I could totally see. He'll work in this league. Absolutely,

843
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:11,640
Speaker 1: he'll get a good opportunity to work in the NFL,

844
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 1: and then who knows what happens, but he'll get his shot,

845
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 1: and he's making the most of it right now as

846
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: a whole absraft the free agent he absolutely is. I

847
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 1: I don't want to see anybody get hurt, but at

848
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 1: some point I want to see Blake and Jake together.

849
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 1: It'd be kind of nice for you. As an announcer.

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Speaker 1: Blake and Jake, Yes, Blake and Jake with linebackers Kirk

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Speaker 1: go Wallow como. I mean those three right there are

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Speaker 1: pretty strong start. We haven't not seen Christian Harris yet.

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Speaker 1: We really want to because you could get like a

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Speaker 1: Fab five going on, you know, within a few games.

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Speaker 1: It'd be like when the Fab five, what was the

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Speaker 1: first game they started was a duke, Notre Dame. It

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Speaker 1: was Notre Dame. They all started together, Ray jas when

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Speaker 1: Ray Jackson got into the lineup. Yeah, I know my

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Speaker 1: Fab five history Notre Dame really do, don't you do?

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Speaker 1: You know? I talked to Dez King about the Fab

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Speaker 1: five because he's from Detroit, but he is like, not

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Speaker 1: even born five if if that when they when they

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Speaker 1: are No, because the Fab five No, he was not

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Speaker 1: right that I was thinking was twenty five years ago. No,

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Speaker 1: And he said, everybody's aware of the history, they understand it.

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Speaker 1: But you know, it's like talking about the Four Horsemen

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Speaker 1: to us sometimes when we talk about some of the

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Speaker 1: guys that we used to watch, It's true, it's like, dude,

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Speaker 1: rock me bring any bells? Yeah, yeah, I guess, Hey

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Speaker 1: what about Ty Cobb? I know how many people are listening, going,

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Speaker 1: is that a dated reference? Like I guess the Fab

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Speaker 1: five is a dated reference. I'm sorry, my friend, and

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Speaker 1: we'll never we'll never see it again at college basketball.

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Speaker 1: But uh oh no, actually you have a better chance

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Speaker 1: now because you're gonna play freshman and then they're all

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Speaker 1: gonna go to the NBA together. That's gonna change, you know,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna change. They're gonna start letting players come straight

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Speaker 1: out of high school. We're running out of show very quickly. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: it's been great visiting. We're looking forward to Monday, Texans

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Speaker 1: Monday eight am is we'll talk about this game a

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Speaker 1: little bit more, but really gets you ready for the

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Speaker 1: Colts September eleventh, noon. Kick tickets at Houston Texans dot

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Speaker 1: com and the Texans app. Have a great week at everyone,

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Speaker 1: Go Texans.