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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, We're back in the Hunday Texans Radio studio,

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Speaker 1: Mark Vandermyer and John Harris with you. Twenty four hours ago,

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Speaker 1: the Texans did the DEED preseason game number one. They

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Speaker 1: took the field for the first time this season, and

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Speaker 1: we saw some good things. We saw some things that

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Speaker 1: need work. We saw a whole lot of things, and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about In the next hour. You'll hear

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Speaker 1: Johnny's exclusive interview with Bill O'Brien from right after the game,

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Speaker 1: Brennan Scarlett as well. We'll go around the league and

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Speaker 1: talk about what's happening elsewhere in the National Football League,

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Speaker 1: as there were eleven games last night to kick off

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Speaker 1: the preseason, and Johnny, let's start right here. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: say this preseason has changed. There's no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you this is now, and it's gonna sound

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Speaker 1: bad if I word it this way. It's the developmental season.

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Speaker 1: It really is, all right. When I got into the league,

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Speaker 1: which was OZ two. When the Texans got into the league,

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Speaker 1: it was standard. Starters play a quarter in game one,

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Speaker 1: starters play two quarters in game two, three quarters about

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Speaker 1: that two and a half to three in Game three

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Speaker 1: and then everybody sits in game four. That's a tradition

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Speaker 1: that maintains itself. Yes, But now these first three games,

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Speaker 1: it's anybody's guess what's going to happen? Because I mean,

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Speaker 1: how many real quarterbacks, not real quarterbacks? How many teams,

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Speaker 1: because that sounds disrespectful. How many teams last night played

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Speaker 1: their starter? And I was gonna say real teams, teams

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Speaker 1: How many of those teams took the field with their guy.

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson No, Aaron Rodgers no, the Colts no. But

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Speaker 1: he's hurt, so I guess that doesn't Even Josh Shallon

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Speaker 1: in his second year. That makes sense for him. He

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Speaker 1: needs to play. He has to play, absolutely, he has

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Speaker 1: to play. So Kyler Murray starting, he's a rookie and

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Speaker 1: he's playing. He needs to play football in this league.

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Speaker 1: So it's it's not unusual. Now here's the other aspect

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Speaker 1: of this too. Nick Foles didn't play for the Jaguars

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Speaker 1: last night. We had the opportunity to practice two days

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Speaker 1: against the Packers the Lions when it gets the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars want it, gets the Ravens. You got so

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Speaker 1: many reps in those practices, there really is no need

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Speaker 1: to take a chance and trot DeShawn Watson or Aaron

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Speaker 1: the field. Now. I know people will say, wait, wait

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Speaker 1: a second. Last year and just Shaun went out there

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Speaker 1: for a series or two. Yeah, because he was coming

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Speaker 1: off the ACL Teterre and he missed eight games, right,

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Speaker 1: so that was kind of to help him a dapt

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Speaker 1: to the speed of the game a little bit, because

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Speaker 1: that is going to be a little bit higher in practice.

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Speaker 1: But when you have two solid days of joint practices,

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Speaker 1: then it's not as necessary to see your guy a

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Speaker 1: quarterback in particular. Amongst the I mean, I wrote down

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Speaker 1: here are all the players that didn't play last night

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Speaker 1: for the Texans. Offensively, it was Fuller, Hopkins and Watson.

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Speaker 1: You also had Nick Martin has been out so he

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Speaker 1: wasn't in. Lamar Miller didn't play. Jordan Thomas was hurt.

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Speaker 1: I didn't playing. Is um he's got something. He's got something.

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Speaker 1: He practiced this week, so maybe it's just a precaution

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Speaker 1: everything keep him out of the game. So that was

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Speaker 1: You had what reader, Watkins and Zach now to be

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Speaker 1: I know. We saw JJ he talked about his groin um,

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Speaker 1: I saw DJ lead the field with cap one day.

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Speaker 1: I know Carlos didn't practice much on Tuesday dealing with something,

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Speaker 1: injury is some sort. So those guys all had something minor.

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Speaker 1: But why push it? You know you're gonna get how

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Speaker 1: many snaps during the year from these guys, probably eight hundred?

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Speaker 1: How many snaps next week? Yeah, that you're gonna get

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Speaker 1: it against the lines of why why push it? So

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Speaker 1: at that point and I read somebody I don't know

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Speaker 1: who said this, Mark I wish I could give. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if credits are the right word, but they

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Speaker 1: said just go to two games. And it may have

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Speaker 1: been Frank Franzy. You may have been Frank because last

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Speaker 1: just go to two games. Just go to two games,

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Speaker 1: or if you're gonna leave it at four, ends up

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Speaker 1: just being developed, like you said, a developmental four games.

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Speaker 1: And I guess it gives fans the opportunity to see

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Speaker 1: what they look like. But you know, Aaron Rodgers didn't play,

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham didn't play, Dvante Adams. I thought about that,

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Speaker 1: and I think about that a lot. When you buy

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Speaker 1: a ticket to the game, you're thinking, oh, man, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna see all these guys. But in all honesty, the

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Speaker 1: back of the ticket says, I can't guarantee you what

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Speaker 1: you're gonna see. Hey, that's a golf tournament too scheduled

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Speaker 1: to appear. They can't guarantee anything exactly. Look, I think

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Speaker 1: it's football. It is and it's entertaining. And the rating,

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Speaker 1: And I think people like seeing the Texans no matter

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Speaker 1: who's out there. Of course you want to see the stars,

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Speaker 1: but I think knowledgeable fans also know, Okay, let's hit

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Speaker 1: the brakes and wanting to see the stars too much

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Speaker 1: this time of year. Let's see some of these other

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Speaker 1: guys do their thing, right, And you're starting Joe Webb,

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Speaker 1: who's third on your depth chart. He plays the whole way,

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Speaker 1: and we'll get into some of the positives here. Look,

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Speaker 1: it's funny because earlier in the week we talked to

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Speaker 1: Pete Prisco and he said, I guarantee to go eighteen games,

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Speaker 1: and I've I've swung potendialub on this one a lot.

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Speaker 1: I used to be a total eighteen game guy. Then

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Speaker 1: being in this building. But now I'm thinking, all right,

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Speaker 1: if they're gonna do it this way these preseason games, yes,

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Speaker 1: and you do go to eighteen, how much you could say,

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Speaker 1: all right, we're only gonna do two preseason games, fine,

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Speaker 1: but how much other stuff are you gonna do? You'll

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Speaker 1: probably do at least a controlled type of scrimmage with

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Speaker 1: another team, maybe yourselves as well, maybe enjoy practice. They

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Speaker 1: still good be a lot of ramp up time and

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Speaker 1: a chance for guys to get hurt. But what the

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Speaker 1: eighteen games will do is same amount of home game

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Speaker 1: revenue for the owners, right even more because it's a

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Speaker 1: regular season game. You're adding more money for the players,

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Speaker 1: more jobs for the players because they'll expand the roster

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Speaker 1: at least a little bit, at least go to fifty

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Speaker 1: and I think ultimately that could get it done. I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying it will get it done, but clearly something

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Speaker 1: might have to happen here now. I think people still

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Speaker 1: enjoy watching it. I enjoy watching it. I thought that

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Speaker 1: it was really entertaining last night to see Joe Webb

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Speaker 1: I'm aware of what we're looking at here. I'm hoping

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Speaker 1: all about Jolton Joe last night. Joy fun to watch. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: first interception that Kareer Holliman has, he actually has a

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Speaker 1: but he just didn't He didn't have much sauce on

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Speaker 1: gonna be a player. He's gonna find a way. Now

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Speaker 1: they've got a lot of corners. But if Josh Jackson,

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Speaker 1: Carl Holliman's gonna steal that job. And Mike Petton really

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Speaker 1: He gets out of trouble. It's almost what's it's And

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Speaker 1: I love that. And how about this? Now here's my

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Speaker 1: coaching flag football when we had a situation where every

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Speaker 1: Sixteen different players caught passes yesterday from Joe Whipp I mean,

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Speaker 1: Hansen had a catch last night. I mean, Buddy Howell

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Speaker 1: last year. Did Weedon play I think he did. I

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Speaker 1: Game four, Yeah, I think so. So it's Joe's gonna

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Speaker 1: play a lot because Joe. Well, actually, if Tiamo stays

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Speaker 1: it would be nice, but that's I think it's Tamo. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But if you stay it all together, just anyways, uh,

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Speaker 1: I want to see what Jordan can do. But to

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Speaker 1: of the team, it was probably best that Joe take

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Speaker 1: those snaps. He looked pretty good in warmups though. He does.

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Speaker 1: He throws a good ball. I was talking about before

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Speaker 1: the game with with Rick and Seth and I said, look,

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Speaker 1: it last year when he when he was here with

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Speaker 1: throws a good ball. He throws a good deep ball.

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Speaker 1: He's got a strong arm, he moves a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I'm starting to Carl Smith last night, quarterbacks coach about him,

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Speaker 1: and I just said, you like number six that's what

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Speaker 1: number he's wearing, which was a number TJ yates war

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Speaker 1: when he came back. There's short on numbers right now.

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Speaker 1: I mean serious, I mean physically the numbers. There aren't

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Speaker 1: story about DJ the second but car Carl Smith said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I like him. He only moves around a little bit. Uh,

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Speaker 1: he can handle the jungle. And I think he's just

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Speaker 1: what he knows. It's like what what what does he know?

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Speaker 1: That's the whole key. So here's my story about you.

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Speaker 1: recapping some of the preseason opener against the Green Bay Packers,

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Speaker 1: Let's go back to lambeau Field last night. John Harris

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Speaker 1: or fourth, third and ten after Clowney put his helmet

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Speaker 1: into his spleen. He I mean, that's the third down

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Speaker 1: conversion that rate. And the funny thing is is throughout

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Speaker 1: the year, for the most part, up until about the

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Speaker 1: second half of the Browns game. That third down conversion

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Speaker 1: number was in the in the mid to high twenties.

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Speaker 1: It was very low. It was really good. We were

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Speaker 1: really good on third down, and then all of sudden,

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Speaker 1: just went off the deep end well and they couldn't

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Speaker 1: run the ball and they started giving up third down

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Speaker 1: conversions and some long ones too last night last night,

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Speaker 1: third and seven, third and longer than that. Those were

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Speaker 1: surrendered in the first half and that was I can't

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Speaker 1: say troubling, but in the context of the preseason game,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it's something that coaches are looking at. And

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Speaker 1: the other day was the touchdown pass in the first

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Speaker 1: half was on third and four, So you have to

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Speaker 1: look at those things. Yeah, thirty four is not a

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Speaker 1: long distance, but you threw a touchdown off of that,

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Speaker 1: so that's not what you want to see. You gotta

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Speaker 1: get that corrected and they'll be working on that. It'll

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Speaker 1: be interesting to see next week who plays, who does

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Speaker 1: it and if you can get a little more action

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Speaker 1: with some of the starters as they continue to try

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Speaker 1: to get their feet wet. You opened four weeks from monday.

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Speaker 1: Is it a long way off? Is it a short

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Speaker 1: distance in terms of time, short distance in time. It's

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Speaker 1: you know, however you want to interpret it. There are

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Speaker 1: some time to improve some things. But again some guys

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Speaker 1: have to say, all right, I gotta get ramped up

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Speaker 1: in the next couple of weeks. Here, get whatever reps

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Speaker 1: I can live because we're gonna go to a pretty

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Speaker 1: much full practice mode game prep for the Saints in

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Speaker 1: about two weeks, maybe shorter than that. Yeah, so they'll

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Speaker 1: have to get ready that third week. And it goes

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Speaker 1: back we talked about the first segment how preseason has changed.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine that there's gonna be work being done

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Speaker 1: on the Saints, even in that third week of preseason

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Speaker 1: leading up to the Cowboys. There will be there will

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Speaker 1: be work done on the Saints. And then when they

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Speaker 1: get to Week four. What Obi has done in the

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Speaker 1: past is he I don't want to say he sort

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Speaker 1: of splits the coaching staff, but he does. But what

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Speaker 1: he does he has I remember one year when when

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Speaker 1: George was the OC and he was calling plays in

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Speaker 1: that Week four game. I was down on the field

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Speaker 1: and I was kind of getting fuel for the game,

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Speaker 1: and I was talking before I came up to the

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Speaker 1: booth with you, and I said, what are you doing

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Speaker 1: to night? He goes nothing, I said what. He goes, yeah, nothing,

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Speaker 1: I'm already working on the Bears or whoever we were playing.

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Speaker 1: I who was I think it was the Bears. He's like,

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Speaker 1: we're already working on the Bears. And I was like, well,

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Speaker 1: what's he said? Obie's gonna call the game. He's gonna

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Speaker 1: call it. They've got to scale down. Having prid, they

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Speaker 1: gotta scale down sheet. I've been working on the basically,

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Speaker 1: I'm just I'm coaching quarterback tonight. Just helped the quarterback

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Speaker 1: get through it. And that's how they That's how they've

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Speaker 1: done the Bears, and they ended up beating Bears, so

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Speaker 1: that they've split it like that for years, and I'll

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Speaker 1: be curious how. I'll be curious how they do it.

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Speaker 1: But I wouldn't be surprised. First of all, they've been

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Speaker 1: working on Saints all offseason to get ready for Week one.

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Speaker 1: But I wouldn't be surprised if in Week three, that's

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Speaker 1: when they start to kind of hone in. They're gonna

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Speaker 1: start looking at some of the Saints stuff and there'll

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Speaker 1: be some of the practices that maybe we don't see

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Speaker 1: some of the walkthroughs, that'll be stuff where they're really

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Speaker 1: focused on Saints and they'll really kind of get it going,

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Speaker 1: I think at that point. But you said four weeks

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Speaker 1: from Monday, it's literally a month from tonight Today's Dogs Night,

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Speaker 1: September ninth. All right, we've waited this long on the

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Speaker 1: show because we've been breaking down the game a little bit.

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Speaker 1: But what about Duke Johnson? As the reports came out yesterday,

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Speaker 1: Duke Johnson to become a Houston Texan. And I look

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Speaker 1: at this high highlight reel Johnny, and it looks impressive,

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Speaker 1: but a lot of players highlight reels impressive. I think, though,

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Speaker 1: that this could be a I don't want to oversell it.

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Speaker 1: I think a a big deal was made about it

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Speaker 1: because it is a trade in the NFL. And all right,

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Speaker 1: I understand the hype, so to speak for lack of

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Speaker 1: a better word. But when I see what he can

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Speaker 1: add to this team, what kind of receiver he's out

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Speaker 1: of the backfield, how he makes people miss, He's a good, open,

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Speaker 1: safe target for Deshaun Watson, I think it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a nice addition, a good weapon. He's a proven guy,

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Speaker 1: you know. Deante foreman. We all wanted to see the upside. Well,

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Speaker 1: he's not a proven guy. Duke Johnson is a proven guy.

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Speaker 1: You know, he can do certain things as a pass

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Speaker 1: catcher at the very least that can help you out.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that we saw last night, and

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Speaker 1: we've seen the Texans do this before too, and they

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Speaker 1: and you know what I'm talking about, They get in

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Speaker 1: twenty personnel. What that means is two backs, no tight ends, right,

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Speaker 1: and what would they do. They would put Lamar with

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Speaker 1: Blue and they would now last year, they would have

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Speaker 1: to both pass protech. But the hope is that you

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Speaker 1: can use one of those backs. Maybe Lamar picks up,

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Speaker 1: maybe he's got the pass protection opportunity and Duke's running

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Speaker 1: around out of the backfield, or maybe Duke picks up

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Speaker 1: and Lamar runs the route out of the backfield. But

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Speaker 1: you have both those backs. And that's the thing about

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Speaker 1: both of them is Lamar's a really good pass protector.

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Speaker 1: And I think that gets lost, but he's a really

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Speaker 1: good pass receiver, but he's had to protect and help

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Speaker 1: to protect, so he hasn't really had the opportunity. Remember

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Speaker 1: the kids he meeting against the Cardinals in seventeen back

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Speaker 1: in the end zone, he gets two feet and bounds

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Speaker 1: and makes that kid, remember that it's DeAndre Hopkins. That's

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Speaker 1: what Lamar's capable of. But he's you know, and people

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Speaker 1: downgrade him because, oh, well, his numbers in fantasy. I mean, like, okay,

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Speaker 1: you can take your fantasy numbers and shove it. But

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Speaker 1: beyond that, he's had to pass protect so often. But

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Speaker 1: if you play, if you go to twenty personnel, maybe

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Speaker 1: he doesn't have to pass protect this much. Maybe Duke

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Speaker 1: can pick up some of that. He can get out

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Speaker 1: routes or vice versas, depending on what kind of looks

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Speaker 1: they're gonna get. And I think it makes you that

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Speaker 1: much better. I like bringing a veteran dynamic space player

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Speaker 1: into the room like that. And I think, honestly, everybody

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Speaker 1: talks about Duke as a receiver, and I get all that.

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Speaker 1: I have no problem turning a hand in the ball

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Speaker 1: to that guy. He's got juice. He runs hard, he

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Speaker 1: has always run hard. He followed Lamar at Miami Lamar

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Speaker 1: Draft in twenty twelve, and then Duke came right after that.

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Speaker 1: He runs hard, so and I think he's got something

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Speaker 1: to prove. I think he wants to tell Cleveland, hey, look,

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Speaker 1: you guys made the mistake. So he's got something to

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Speaker 1: prove as well. So I you know, look, the rumor

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Speaker 1: of the deal that we've heard is that I that

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Speaker 1: I saw was a fourth rounder in twenty twenty. But

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Speaker 1: if he's active for ten starts, then it turns into

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Speaker 1: a third rounder. If Duke Johnson is active for ten

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Speaker 1: games for you in twenty nineteen, you're gonna be that

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Speaker 1: much better. He's making plays. And guess what you're gonna

560
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Speaker 1: get some help with the compis if the guys who

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Speaker 1: left here his free agents did well, you might get

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Speaker 1: a couple of third rounders. All right. Next up, let's

563
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Speaker 1: go around in the league AFC South stuff. One team

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Speaker 1: rested about three dozen players, it seemed, and another team

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Speaker 1: didn't have its starter and might not for how long

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Speaker 1: we'll discuss. It's Texans Radio. Mark Vandermayer and John Harris

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Speaker 1: with you in the Hunday Texans Radio studio. We're back

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Speaker 1: from Green Bay. We're a little tired, but it's okay.

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Speaker 1: It's a good kind of tired. It's football tired. It's

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Speaker 1: football season for the guys who cover the team, and

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Speaker 1: there's nothing like it. It was entertaining last night. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't scintillating necessarily, but I'll tell you what, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's better than no football. And we saw Joe Webb

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Speaker 1: move the team. We saw the running backs do their thing,

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Speaker 1: the receivers made a few plays on defense, got out

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Speaker 1: of there with a few bumps and bruises. I get it.

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Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien will elaborate. I think maybe perhaps on the

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Speaker 1: injuries tomorrow when they do the open practice at the

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Speaker 1: Houston Methodist Training Center. I don't want to promise anything

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Speaker 1: about Bill O'Brien talking about injuries, but maybe he'll shed

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Speaker 1: some light on what's going on. But the fact is,

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Speaker 1: you got the first one done. Detroit comes up one

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Speaker 1: week from tomorrow and you'll practice against the Lions. See

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Speaker 1: how you look against that team that got decimated by

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Speaker 1: the knowing the Patriots. By the way, before we go

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Speaker 1: around the league a little bit and talk about the

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Speaker 1: Jags resting a billion players and the Colt's not starting,

588
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Speaker 1: Andrew Lucky's hurt, when's he coming back? We'll talk about that,

589
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Speaker 1: But what about Brennan Scarlett As Johnny had a chance

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Speaker 1: to catch up with the outside liebacker after the game, Scar,

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Speaker 1: I know, these are season games are kind of stranger

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Speaker 1: in there for about a quarter quarter and a half

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Speaker 1: then you sit and watch, but overall, Houdre you feel

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Speaker 1: just your personal play tonight, I felt like you were

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Speaker 1: kind of a mix all night long. You know, I

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Speaker 1: have to go back and review the film and see

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Speaker 1: how I did. But you know, just getting out there

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Speaker 1: for the first game is always a good feeling to

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Speaker 1: be back out there with the boys in the game

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Speaker 1: time situation, you know, just being competitive, getting getting after

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Speaker 1: the ball and u and playing hard. So review to film,

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Speaker 1: see how I did personally. How do you think this

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Speaker 1: whole week went? I mean, obviously Packers quarterback was not

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Speaker 1: all that happy about joining practices. How did you feel

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Speaker 1: about the first couple of days and then the game tonight,

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Speaker 1: the whole week in general? I think it was good.

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Speaker 1: I think I think we got better as a team.

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Speaker 1: I think we came together as a team. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: which is important through training camp as building the chemistry.

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Speaker 1: And I think going against you know, other guys helps

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Speaker 1: for that to happen. And uh, and I think that

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Speaker 1: was the biggest thing, you know, just taking steps to

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Speaker 1: get better as a team. And I think we did that.

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Speaker 1: Do you since the game now in your fourth year,

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Speaker 1: slowing down for you while you're out there? Yeah, definitely, definitely.

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Speaker 1: You know, I start to, you know, look at different keys,

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Speaker 1: you know, and uh, and it definitely helps to have,

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Speaker 1: you know, even guys that have been around longer than

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Speaker 1: I have, you know, you know, the JJ and the

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Speaker 1: Whitney Mercilesses of the world, you know, Bernardi McKinney, those

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Speaker 1: guys have always been helpful and uh and giving me keys,

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Speaker 1: and you know, as my game evolves and uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm around the game longer to definitely has slowing down

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Speaker 1: with help from those guys. Brennan, I really appreciate your time, man.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Yeah, thank you. John Harris with Brennan Scarlett

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Speaker 1: after the tilt last night in Green Bay. All right,

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Speaker 1: so let's talk about some other things here. As we

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Speaker 1: discussed the defense, we discussed the offense. What about going

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Speaker 1: around the league a little bit here? Johnny Jacksonville rests

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Speaker 1: a ton of players last night. Why not play Nick Foles?

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Speaker 1: Why not get them baptized in the offense. It's a

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Speaker 1: new situation, not a new system, but a new situation

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Speaker 1: for him, getting used to these guys look easy for

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Speaker 1: me to say they probably know what they're doing, or

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Speaker 1: maybe not. It's Jacksonville, we'll see. I think the one

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Speaker 1: thing about it, and we talked about this a little

637
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 1: bit earlier. They had two long days with the Ravens

638
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 1: like the Texans had with the Packers, and I'm sure

639
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: they just didn't want to push it. They felt like

640
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 1: Nick got good work against the Ravens ones. They felt

641
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 1: like the Ones weren't gonna And here's that. That's the

642
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 1: other part of this. I'm not totally sure. I haven't

643
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 1: looked at the game book on the on the Ravens

644
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 1: Jaggs to see if the Ravens did play the ones.

645
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 1: But does it do Nick Foles any good to go

646
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,120
Speaker 1: out on the field if you know the Ravens aren't

647
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 1: playing their guys. They're not gonna play want a Store,

648
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 1: They're not gonna play Brandon William, They're not gonna play

649
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 1: Matthew Judon. You're facing the twos. Do you want your

650
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: your twenty two million dollars, your quarterback stepping in behind

651
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 1: that that not offensive line to go against the non

652
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: ones when you've just gone against the ones for two

653
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 1: straight days in practice. So to me, it's it's sort

654
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 1: of risk management in some sense. It's like last night,

655
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 1: had Deshaun played look at the first look at the

656
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 1: first group the Packers trotted out there last night, I

657
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: would venture a guest that maybe half a little over

658
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: half six seven guys make the team. Huh. So there's

659
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 1: really no sense because Deshaun had faced the guys. He

660
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 1: had faced Darius Smith, who knocked him down at one point,

661
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 1: and everybody went crazy with Sean Garry, Dean Lowry. He

662
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 1: had faced JayR Alexander. Why started him? If you're gonna

663
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 1: face the twos? And I think that's probably what Jacksonville

664
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: was looking at. And I don't know. I don't know

665
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 1: if Doug Morone talked with John Harbon said hey, what's

666
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 1: your plan? What are you gonna do? I don't know

667
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 1: if they did that. But if you have a feeling

668
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: that Baltimore was not going to play their ones, then

669
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 1: why take a risk that some rookie is gonna, you know,

670
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 1: take a cheap shot or he's not gonna you know,

671
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: he's gonna trip and fall and then try and rap

672
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 1: Nick Foles up at the knees and some stupid happens.

673
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 1: It's just best after two good days of practice with

674
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 1: the Ravens, keep him out of harm's way, get going

675
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: for a week two, and then in week two maybe

676
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 1: you see more starters, or the plan is to see

677
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 1: more starters and then you can play them and then

678
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 1: it makes some more sense. It just doesn't make any

679
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: sense for a number one quarterback to face twos and threes.

680
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: I don't like a team seemingly mailing it in though,

681
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: I mean I don't either. I know you're playing reserves

682
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: for the most part. Now, last night, the Texans went

683
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 1: with their starting offensive line. I mean if they were

684
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 1: playing the Saints last night, that would have been the

685
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 1: line in all likelihood. I mean that's what you were

686
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 1: gonna go with, meaning whoever's available. Those are the top

687
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 1: guys available to play last night. And they know they

688
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 1: needed the work. So that was cool. But the rest

689
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 1: of it, you're not seeing Hopkins, you're not and Watson,

690
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: which is fine. But the Texans they put on a

691
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 1: show of sorts. They turned it over, yes, but they

692
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: moved the ball, they made plays on defense. I mean

693
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: they were a going concerned last night. Whereas the Jacks

694
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: get pounded twenty nine to nothing by Baltimore. I mean

695
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: this is a bad look. Yeah, No, I agree with

696
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:20,479
Speaker 1: you from that perspective. I don't. I don't disagree with that.

697
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 1: I think every situation is unique when you're trying, when

698
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 1: you're trying to figure out, Okay, am I gonna play

699
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 1: this guy or we're gonna play these guys? We're gonna

700
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 1: play at once, and we're not the offensive line. This

701
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: is not off. It's a line that you're still not

702
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 1: a thousand percent sure what's gonna be the starting offensive line? No,

703
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 1: you're not. So at that point, you gotta have a

704
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: little bit. You gotta have every rep possible, every rep

705
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: available to you now. Next year, hopefully Max Sharping ends

706
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 1: up being a starter and Titus Howard ends up being

707
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 1: a starter, and you know, Nick Martin's coming back, and

708
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 1: so you have continuity amongst the offensive line with the

709
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: Shawn Watson. At that point, then I feel pretty good

710
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 1: about what I'm gonna happen right now. I feel good

711
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 1: about the players that are there. I don't know that

712
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 1: I feel a thousand percent confident that we know exactly

713
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 1: what it's going to be. So they've got to get

714
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,400
Speaker 1: every rep. I think they possibly could. Matt Khalil has

715
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 1: not played football since twenty seventeen. I think when you're

716
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 1: talking about Nick Foles, you know he's gonna be the starter,

717
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:24,399
Speaker 1: right Jacksonville. Yeah, there's there's no there's there's no there's

718
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: no mystery about him being a starter. Yeah, they have

719
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 1: to not take the risk. They have time to get

720
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 1: him ready. But I think you're right about the fact

721
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 1: that you can't just go get pounded though, Right, you

722
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 1: can't just you know, hey, we had two good days

723
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 1: of practice and then and then mail it in, like

724
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:40,800
Speaker 1: you gotta you guys gotta compete. You gotta find some depth.

725
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 1: You gotta have some depth that plays and then plays

726
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 1: with some juice. And that's that's the thing with Jacksonville.

727
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 1: They've got top line starters. We know that, Miles Jack

728
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey, Leonard Fournette. I mean, even some of the

729
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: receivers are starting to show it. I saw some of

730
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:59,320
Speaker 1: the videos that people were sending from Jacksonville, like, oh, okay,

731
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 1: they they're not deep. And why because they had to

732
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 1: pay Nick Foles twenty two million dollars and why because

733
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,240
Speaker 1: they didn't draft the quarterback at number four in twenty

734
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: seventeen like they should have, or in twenty eighteen like

735
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 1: they should have, and now that and now they're faced with, Okay,

736
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 1: we don't have the depth. We don't have to Sean

737
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 1: Gibson with Barried Church, with Ronnie Harrison. The only thing

738
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 1: it has Ronnie Harrison at safety. You know, they don't

739
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 1: have that depth. They don't have a nickel corner because

740
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:29,360
Speaker 1: they couldn't afford to keep Aaron Colvin. So they don't

741
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 1: have the depth in large part because they've had to

742
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 1: spend so much money. And I know people in the

743
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: off season, we're like, the Texas have all this money

744
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:37,400
Speaker 1: under the cap. Well, you know the Jacks did a

745
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 1: few years ago too, and the Jacks spent all of it.

746
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 1: Hit home runs a class Campbell, they hit a home

747
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:47,840
Speaker 1: run with a j Boyer, They hit singles with some

748
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 1: other guys that they brought in. I got like Barried Church.

749
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,359
Speaker 1: But what happened because they had to pay all those guys.

750
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 1: They were stuck up against the cap when they had

751
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,800
Speaker 1: to go get Nick Foles, and that screwed up everything.

752
00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:00,879
Speaker 1: So look, every situation's unique, but I don't think they

753
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:03,240
Speaker 1: have the depth to make it through a sixteen game season.

754
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 1: Are they gonna beat somebody They shouldn't this year, no

755
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: doubt because they're that talented. But do they have the

756
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: depth to do it consistently? I don't think so. Yeah,

757
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 1: you don't want it to be you if it's gonna

758
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: be that kind of season for them where they like

759
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:17,800
Speaker 1: they beat the Colts six nothing, They beat New England

760
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: last year by goodness all right, the Bells and the Colts.

761
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: Last night Colts lose twenty four to sixteen. Now Andrew

762
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 1: Luck doesn't play still nursing that calf injury. He's got

763
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:28,839
Speaker 1: four weeks till he has to play a game, so

764
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 1: he's got plenty of time to get ready, to get ready,

765
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:35,239
Speaker 1: to get better. Chad Kelly played thirteen of nineteen twenty

766
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 1: one yards. How about Chad Kelly finding some playing time

767
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 1: in Indie right now? As Jacobe Brissette went two for

768
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 1: five for twenty one yards, Kelly, can it happen for him?

769
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: Can he resurrect if he thought that there was any

770
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 1: I mean resurrect implies that he's been there in the

771
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 1: first place. Can he get his career going? And yeah,

772
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:57,720
Speaker 1: if he stays out of his own way, he's wildly talented.

773
00:36:57,760 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 1: Yeah he is. And I mean the fact that he

774
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 1: did in Buffalo, where he played his high school ball

775
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:04,919
Speaker 1: and where he grew up, was pretty amazing last night.

776
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: But Buffalo Buffalo's ones shut down the Colts run game

777
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 1: in a big time way. I mean, Jacobe Brissette's playing. Hey,

778
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:16,839
Speaker 1: this offensive line has been talked about it as one

779
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 1: of the best offensive lines in the league. They carried

780
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 1: it six times for a yard. She stuffed them and

781
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:26,480
Speaker 1: I mean just stuffed them. And as I watched a

782
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,359
Speaker 1: couple of the low lights for the Colts, I was like,

783
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:33,360
Speaker 1: keep believing that hype. Keep believing that hype. Keep believing

784
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 1: that you are the best offensive line, You're the best team,

785
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 1: you have no holes, keep believing the hype. Yeah, it's

786
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: a preseason game. But sometimes in the preseason you start

787
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:47,880
Speaker 1: to see some cracks that eventually turn into huge cracks

788
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: that destroy the aircraft carry And let's hope that's what happens.

789
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:55,240
Speaker 1: And did you see what President Trump said about Colin Kaepernick.

790
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,800
Speaker 1: I did that. I did. He wants somebody to sign Kaepernick,

791
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: but just not for a PR move, he said, right,

792
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: does he understand, first of all, a little less than

793
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:08,799
Speaker 1: PR which is it's not gonna be a PR move

794
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 1: to sign Kaepernick. Okay, yeah, that's not a PR move, right.

795
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:16,280
Speaker 1: You have to overcome whatever obstacles you would have, PR

796
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: wise in signing him with a large portion of your

797
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 1: fan base, not everybody, but a large portion. But he

798
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:24,439
Speaker 1: did say if he's good enough, they should sign him,

799
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 1: and they he said they would sign him if he's

800
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: good enough. He said, these people will do anything to

801
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,800
Speaker 1: win games, talking about the owners, talking about the owners,

802
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 1: because he had to remind everybody that he knows Bob Kraft. Yes,

803
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:38,719
Speaker 1: I'm sure was thrilled about this. Yeah, but here's what

804
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 1: I thought about, just thinking about the league in general,

805
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 1: because I don't think Kaepernick would come back, and he's

806
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 1: actually turned down a couple opportunities to come back as

807
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: a backup. So wait, has he really? Yeah, Baltimore offered him.

808
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 1: I don't know what the money was, but Baltimore off

809
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: from a contract to come to the backup to Flacco.

810
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 1: We gotta take that, and he didn't. You gotta take

811
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 1: the You gotta take whatever you can get. Um, no

812
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 1: one's gonna look a chance to come. First of all,

813
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 1: if you got to Baltimore and your Flacco's back up

814
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 1: at the time that that was offered, you got a

815
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:13,399
Speaker 1: shot to be the starter. Yeah, because if you're gonna

816
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: get hurt or flame out, if you're good enough, you're

817
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 1: gonna play right. So what would be what would be

818
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:27,360
Speaker 1: a location for Kaepernick? I have one? Well, I have one, okay,

819
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 1: because I think both quarterbacks are just average and Tennessee

820
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:41,320
Speaker 1: really Mariota and Tannehill placeholders. They're placeholders. Wow, Mariota is

821
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 1: a placeholder. Con Kaepernick would give them a jolt. Now,

822
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:49,799
Speaker 1: who was telling us? I've seen Kaepernick for a couple

823
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,399
Speaker 1: of years, so it's been a while, Johnny. But then again,

824
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 1: Michael Vick was in jail for two and a half years.

825
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,239
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's impossible at all. Right, I think

826
00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,359
Speaker 1: that if if teams were interested in signing him, you're

827
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:02,400
Speaker 1: gonna work him out, and you know, you want to

828
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: poke and proud and see if he can still do it,

829
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:08,839
Speaker 1: you know, So that would be interesting. I don't think

830
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:12,400
Speaker 1: it's a pr move, uh, And I don't know. I mean,

831
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 1: I just think that there's a lot that goes along

832
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:17,359
Speaker 1: with it. Can you imagine the press conference when he's

833
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 1: introduced as your third string or backup quarterback. I mean,

834
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 1: that's the kind of thing you can say, well, that's

835
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 1: not a distraction, it's it's a distraction. Anything out of

836
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 1: the routine is a distraction. So not that it's a

837
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:31,320
Speaker 1: bad thing, you know, inherently a bad thing when you

838
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,280
Speaker 1: look at a worldview. I'm just saying, football wise, anything

839
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 1: that's out of the ordinary like that is somewhat of

840
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:39,439
Speaker 1: a distraction. So they'd have to weigh that out. Yeah,

841
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: so I don't know as far as Tennessee goes. Though.

842
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 1: Back to that for a moment, was who was talking

843
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: to us? I think I was with you, and they

844
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,919
Speaker 1: said I guarantee that Tannehill's gonna start for them before long,

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Speaker 1: or maybe that was you saying that. I'm not sure.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you guaranteed it, but I think there's

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Speaker 1: a shot at that happening. It was a great spot

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Speaker 1: for Tannehill to go. I then might have been me,

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Speaker 1: because I do think at some point Tanyo is gonna

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Speaker 1: get an opportunity. But I think Marcus Mariota and right

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Speaker 1: Tanna are kind of the same guy, the same guy.

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Speaker 1: They're kind of the same guy. Athlete. Yeah, they're athletic

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Speaker 1: can get out the pocket, can make some plays, but

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Speaker 1: you don't really trust them with the ball in their

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Speaker 1: hands or probably gonna take a checkdown route on third

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Speaker 1: and twelve because they're they're kind of panicking the pocket.

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Speaker 1: They're kind of the same guy, So I don't I

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Speaker 1: don't know that you really there's is an upgrade from

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Speaker 1: Mario to Tannehill or an upgrade from Tanyo to Mariota.

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Speaker 1: They're just kind of the same guy, to be honest

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Speaker 1: with you. Now, I know what Mariota did against us

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Speaker 1: someone in football he wont like twenty four to twenty five,

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Speaker 1: Like that's a great percentage. But third downs he was

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Speaker 1: like he was like two of twelve or something. That

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Speaker 1: was the stat line in a blowout lost. Yeah, by

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Speaker 1: the way, Yeah, so I mean he was two of

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Speaker 1: twelve on third down? Why because he was throwing check

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Speaker 1: down routes for three yards on third and six. Yeah. Right,

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Speaker 1: Like we'll take that all day long. Yeah. Fine, that's

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Speaker 1: a good point. I mean, you just read those numbers

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Speaker 1: and then you're thinking third down. The third down stat

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Speaker 1: sometimes implies in completions for the ones you don't make,

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Speaker 1: but no, you can complete the ball and your two

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Speaker 1: yards shortened, and your puntation still counts as a completion

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Speaker 1: and it also counts as a non make All right, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: thanks a lot. We will be on the field tomorrow

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Speaker 1: covering practice where you follow us on all the social

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Speaker 1: media channels at Houston Texans on Twitter, the app, all

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Speaker 1: of it as they are going to go live at

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Speaker 1: the Houston Methodist Training Center. Have a great night everyone,

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Speaker 1: and go Texans.