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Speaker 1: no off season for your Houston Texans. Game day is

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Speaker 1: every day. No, it's Texans All Exans, Hello Texans, and

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Speaker 1: welcome to the program that gets you in touch with

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Speaker 1: Fresh off vacation by seconds just rolled back into town literally,

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Speaker 1: going tonight. I am doing well. I am glad that

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Speaker 1: I don't know how they're gonna fit in, Johnny, But

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Speaker 1: with you on Texans Radio Texans All Access. Great to

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Speaker 1: have you listening tonight. And again I know the gigantic

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Speaker 1: show unless we decide it's more of a pop culture

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Speaker 1: mind because sometimes we bring up other topics. Now, one

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Speaker 1: of the topics is NFL TV deals, which is obviously

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Speaker 1: very related to the sport we know and love. Johnny

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Speaker 1: and it's gonna be fun stuff. And I keep getting

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Speaker 1: questions about why is it so valuable? Why is it

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Speaker 1: know how when we have our staff meetings, john and

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Speaker 1: you are not as season design that seasoned is a

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Speaker 1: code word for olds. By the way, audience, you are

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Speaker 1: not quite a season design. But and I'm the most

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Speaker 1: seasoned in the group, but we also have a lot

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Speaker 1: of twenty somethings in the group. So when one of

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Speaker 1: Underhills or something like that, and the twenty somethings don't

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Speaker 1: get it, well, it's pretty obvious why they haven't seen

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Speaker 1: the movie Fletch, and they're probably not going to see.

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Speaker 1: To them, Fletch is what I don't know the Marx

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Speaker 1: Brothers was to me. Maybe not quite, but we're getting

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Speaker 1: close to that territory. Okay, this is a thirty year

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Speaker 1: old movie. Think about that for a moment. Not quite

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Speaker 1: is it? Is it thirty years? Yet it's over thirty years,

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Speaker 1: it's like thirty five. It's like thirty five thirty six?

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Speaker 1: What am I saying? So when I was a kid, Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give away my age, but I don't care

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Speaker 1: what nineteen forty, nineteen forty five that would have put

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know it was popular nineteen forty

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Speaker 1: Laurel and Hardy? Are you kidding? So we're dropping Laurel

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Speaker 1: and Hardy references on these twenty somethings. But the point

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Speaker 1: is this, back then a reference like that would be

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Speaker 1: mainstream media because everybody would see everybody would see the

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Speaker 1: same movies. But we saw a lot of similar stuff,

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Speaker 1: and then stuff was on TV and it seemed like

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Speaker 1: everybody saw it because there were limited options. Now, with

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Speaker 1: so many options, there's not as much mainstream media. The

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Speaker 1: NFL is mainstream media, and that is hard to find

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Speaker 1: in this day and age, and that's why the NFL

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Speaker 1: commands the kind of dollars it does from these media outlets.

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Speaker 1: They have no other way of reading of reaching this

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Speaker 1: massive amount of people. Right like when we were kids,

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Speaker 1: if you said Dynomite, it was Jimmy Walker on Good

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Speaker 1: Times or something. Maybe you're a little too young for that,

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Speaker 1: but that kind of thing. Now it's like if you

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Speaker 1: drop a Game of Thrones reference like Red Wedding or

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Speaker 1: something red Wedding, you have to watch Game of Thrones

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Speaker 1: to know what that is, or somebody has to fill

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Speaker 1: you in. When we were kids who shot Jr. Everybody

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Speaker 1: knew what you were talking about because everybody saw it

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Speaker 1: and it was huge. Now Red Wedding might be the

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Speaker 1: biggest thing on TV, but it's still a little thing,

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Speaker 1: but really the biggest thing on TV is the NFL

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Speaker 1: your thoughts, Yeah, it's exactly, That's exactly it. The NFL

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Speaker 1: reaches so many people for different reasons. People you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously been found in the NFL forever, so they're tied

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Speaker 1: into a particular team. You have more people now playing

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Speaker 1: fantasy football than ever. You've got gamblers that gamble on

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Speaker 1: the NFL every single Sunday. They want to know what's

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Speaker 1: they want to know what's going on in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: We have all these quote unquote reality shows on television. Mark,

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Speaker 1: the NFL is the best reality show it's ever been created.

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Speaker 1: It's the best. I mean it really is. Because it's

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Speaker 1: not scripted what's going to happen that particular day. We

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Speaker 1: have no idea. I mean, could you have ever scripted

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Speaker 1: two fumbles at the two yard line in three weeks

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Speaker 1: against your hated rival to lose by a score? You

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Speaker 1: just that's no. You could and Holly would could have

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Speaker 1: tried that, and it would have come off just awful,

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Speaker 1: like ads to hope. Yet there we were Lucas Oil

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Speaker 1: for the second time in three weeks, funneling the ball

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Speaker 1: to two yard line and losing, and then experiencing the

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Speaker 1: just gut punt reaction of I can't believe we lost again.

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Speaker 1: I mean, where else do you feel that you get

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Speaker 1: it from? Football? Yeah, the NBA, major baseball, but you

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Speaker 1: don't have quite that in those sports you have with

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Speaker 1: the NFL. To me, it's the greatest reality show on

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Speaker 1: television and will be I don't want to say forever,

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Speaker 1: but I'd like to think in my lifetime, in our

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Speaker 1: lifetime that it will be everybody. Everybody that I know

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Speaker 1: watches the NFL no matter what. Right, well, and look,

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Speaker 1: this is why the league is always trying to make

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Speaker 1: it better. And I go to those owners meetings. Now,

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Speaker 1: I know it's been a little of COVID canceled lately,

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Speaker 1: but I love going to the meetings, Johnny, because Goodell

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Speaker 1: gets up there in front of the owners and the

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Speaker 1: coaches and the GMS and talks about the game and

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Speaker 1: talks about what they're doing to improve it and how

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Speaker 1: they're trying to fine tune things. And I know some

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Speaker 1: of the fans eye rolls some of this stuff, but

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Speaker 1: the reason why they do that is because they've seen

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Speaker 1: what's happened to baseball, okay, and they've seen what's happened

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Speaker 1: to basketball. You're thinking, well, basketballs great, you're Lebron. You listen,

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Speaker 1: basketball is not doing what it did in the nineties

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Speaker 1: with Michael Jordan or the eighties with Magic and Larry.

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Speaker 1: It's just not It's just not having that kind of

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Speaker 1: impact on this country anyway as it did then. And

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Speaker 1: I think there are a lot of reasons that go

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Speaker 1: into it. I love hoops. I love the NBA. I

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Speaker 1: always watch it. I'm a big fan, but I think

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Speaker 1: you need more fans, right But to your point, the

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Speaker 1: NFL has a ton of fans. Now this game is different.

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Speaker 1: I follow an account called Old Time Football. I know

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Speaker 1: you do too. I love it because they'll just show

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Speaker 1: like forty second highlights from old games and you'll see

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Speaker 1: guys Jack Tatum taking receivers out. Now, when we talk

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Speaker 1: about Darryl Stingley was awful, of course, we don't want

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Speaker 1: to talk about that. But receivers used to pay a

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Speaker 1: huge price for going across the middle, and now I

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Speaker 1: think that the advantage is there's right now, it's like

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna cross the middle. No one can touch me.

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Speaker 1: If they do, they're gonna get thrown in jail basically,

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Speaker 1: So I'm going right across the middle back. Then. You know,

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Speaker 1: the guys did it, but they knew that there was

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Speaker 1: a price to pay. The game has changed, they've opened

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Speaker 1: it up. It's more appealing than ever. And you were

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Speaker 1: bringing up the Texans drama on the field with the

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Speaker 1: box snap against the Coats and what happened a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks later and everything like that, Go macro here,

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Speaker 1: just look at Brady himself. I mean, we see Brady

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Speaker 1: go to the Bucks and win the Super Bowl. You

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Speaker 1: can't write that. That's ridiculous. It's not gonna happen. But

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Speaker 1: it did. And that's the NFL and you have stories

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Speaker 1: like that. And you know, I'm not a big Brady guy.

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Speaker 1: You know that I liked rooting for the old guy

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Speaker 1: this year until he was about to win it that

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Speaker 1: I thought, well, I didn't really want to see it happened.

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Speaker 1: I kind of like it. He was kind of like

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Speaker 1: day when he was making that big run as all

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Speaker 1: j Connors. Although I kind of wanted to see him

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Speaker 1: finish that job. I don't know if I really wanted

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Speaker 1: to see Brady finish the job, but I certainly didn't

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Speaker 1: want to see the Chiefs win. So I guess I

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Speaker 1: got what I wanted. Well that that was my whole

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Speaker 1: point I've gotten. I've grown tired fatigue of the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: and just their fans in particular, And I like, Okay, look,

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Speaker 1: isn't that easy to win a Super Bowl? And you

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Speaker 1: guys went to three FC Championship games, won two of them.

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Speaker 1: You won a super Bowl. You're not the greatest thing

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Speaker 1: since sliced bread. You're not. You just got pounded in

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl thirty one to nine. And it was

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Speaker 1: like just seeing them kind of get it come up,

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Speaker 1: and I was kind of glad that it was Brady

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Speaker 1: and the Bucks that did it. I was very very

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Speaker 1: happy to see the Chiefs go down. And if it

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Speaker 1: was Brady administering the beatdown, fine, fine, we don't have

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Speaker 1: to face Tom Brady. At least we won't until next year.

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Speaker 1: If he's still with the Bucks. Yeah, he would be.

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Speaker 1: It would be in Houston, though, it would be in Houston.

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Speaker 1: Last time he was in Houston, he took a beat down,

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Speaker 1: So I'd be all for that, which, by the way,

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Speaker 1: I thought about this to other day. For some reason,

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Speaker 1: I don't know why it's sucked in my head. We're

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Speaker 1: we've got a winning streak against them. That's kind of cool, Actually,

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Speaker 1: it's so cool. But I want one up there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've gotta have here. They're coming here again, and Belichick

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Speaker 1: Lombardi really praised the heck out of him. But of

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Speaker 1: All right, Johnny, I promise this. The Patriots making a

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Speaker 1: lot of news as we look around the league here

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Speaker 1: with all their acquisitions. Mike Lombardi really praising them big

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Speaker 1: time today, getting back to their core. Look, last I checked,

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Speaker 1: their core was having excellent quarterbacks lead them, most notably

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady for two decades, but even before that with

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Speaker 1: Drew Bledsoe no slouch at all, ladies and gentlemen, and

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Speaker 1: actually led them to a Super Bowl in nineteen ninety

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Speaker 1: six and came off the bench to help them win

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Speaker 1: the AFC Championship Game in Brady's first Super Bowl season.

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Speaker 1: I thought that was a moment that maybe we forget

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Speaker 1: you know, we don't really acknowledge that enough. Drew Bledsoe

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Speaker 1: was a really talented quarterback, and so is Cam Newton,

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Speaker 1: by the way, but what we saw last year was

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Speaker 1: not MVP caliber Cam Newton. So I'm wondering how that's

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Speaker 1: gonna go. I'm wondering who ultimately calls signals for them.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it is him. There's certainly a lot stronger the

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Speaker 1: opt outs coming back was going to make them a

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Speaker 1: lot better. Never mind what they've done in free agency.

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Speaker 1: Your thoughts on their situation. You mentioned the Texans have

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Speaker 1: a two game winning streak against them. I'd like to

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Speaker 1: see that continue. Yeah, I will say I was a

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Speaker 1: little surprised to see them in free agency go the

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Speaker 1: way that they did. Then again, I thought, you know,

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Speaker 1: Belichick has done that before, where he is recognized the

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Speaker 1: need and then he went out and satisfied that need.

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Speaker 1: There's one year when he looked at his receivers and went, Okay,

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Speaker 1: these guys aren't getting it done. Let me go trade

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Speaker 1: for Randy Moss. And then I'm gonna go trade for

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Speaker 1: Wes Welker, and he brought them in in two thousand

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Speaker 1: and seven became one of the greatest offenses of all time.

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Speaker 1: Belichick has done this before, I think because we have

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Speaker 1: not just us, but throughout the NFL world. I've talked

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Speaker 1: about the fact that buying your way through free agency

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Speaker 1: is not going to be successful for the most part

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Speaker 1: the weed in twenty seventeen, we saw it apt for

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Speaker 1: the Jags. A J. Boyer Clay's Campbell jumped in Buried

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Speaker 1: Church and they were started right away. They were dominant.

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Speaker 1: They both went to the Pro Bowl and it worked.

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Speaker 1: It worked. It worked for a year, and then eighteen

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Speaker 1: they slipped down. Nineteen was even worse, and then by

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Speaker 1: twenty they were both gone somewhere else. So very rarely

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Speaker 1: do you hit on a number of different free agents.

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Speaker 1: But if you started looking at the pieces they added,

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Speaker 1: you look at Hunter Henry and Johnny Smith, like who

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Speaker 1: that could be interesting? Okay, kind of like what they

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Speaker 1: what they've done there. Then on the defensive line, the

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Speaker 1: things that they've done, they spent money. But then when

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Speaker 1: you dive a little deeper into the contracts, you realize, okay,

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Speaker 1: it's not it's excessive comparatively to other teams in the league,

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Speaker 1: but they still have cap space, and they didn't go

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Speaker 1: way overboard and giving a ton of guaranteed money across

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Speaker 1: the board. So it just looked like every time that

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Speaker 1: They're signing that guy. I think the biggest thing they

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Speaker 1: did was they resigned to their own dude Dietrich Wise

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Speaker 1: defensive end and center David Andrews. Those are two huge resignings.

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Speaker 1: Then they're gonna get guys back from the opt outs.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna be pretty tough again. It's just a matter

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Speaker 1: of whether Cam Newton can stay healthy and he's got

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Speaker 1: anything left in the tank, or whether they're gonna draft

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Speaker 1: a quarterback, make a move to draft a quarterback and

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Speaker 1: put that guy under center and see what he's able

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Speaker 1: to do. I think it's gonna be Cam to start,

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Speaker 1: but eventually it's gonna be a rookie or a young

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Speaker 1: guy that they put in. I don't know if it's

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Speaker 1: Jared Stidham, and Jared Stidham like for it to be

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Speaker 1: Jared Stidham, but I just don't think that's the way

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Speaker 1: they want to go. I think they want to with

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Speaker 1: that picknu or fifteen maneuver to maybe go get a quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's Mac Jones at number fifteen for them. But

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Speaker 1: I don't want to say I fear them, because honestly,

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Speaker 1: Brady's gone. I don't fear them anymore because until Brady

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Speaker 1: comes back to sign his one day contract to retire

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Speaker 1: a Patriot, I won't worry about the Patriots from that perspective. Ever. Again,

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Speaker 1: let's throw it back into the division here, because Jacksonville

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Speaker 1: making a lot of moves that are turning heads. But

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Speaker 1: the quarterback situation, we all assume it's gonna be Trevor

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Speaker 1: Lawrence urban Meyer the head coach. So opening day the

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Speaker 1: Texans are playing the Jags. For instance, is Lawrence starting

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Speaker 1: for Jacksonville. Let's say they pick him. Does Meyer start

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Speaker 1: him right away or does he want to let him

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Speaker 1: watch for a bit? Ala'm Mahomes and Alex Smith in

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Speaker 1: Kansas City. Now he does not have an Alex Smith

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Speaker 1: available right now. That's Alex Smith was a heck of

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Speaker 1: a starter to have Mahomes watch, that's the that's the key,

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Speaker 1: I think. Now Mahomes would have had a pretty good

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Speaker 1: offensive line to throw behind, regardless, but there was no

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Speaker 1: need to do it. Because you had Alex Smith there.

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Speaker 1: I think that year. I think when Patrick mahomes career

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Speaker 1: is over, he's going to look back and thank Andy

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Speaker 1: Reid the Chiefs because I think that year was was

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Speaker 1: great for him. Step back, learn the game, learn how

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Speaker 1: it's supposed to go, learn from a consummate professional, and

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Speaker 1: away you go. I don't think it's gonna be that

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Speaker 1: way in Jacksonville. The thing is, they've got a pretty

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Speaker 1: solid offense line at the best in the league, not

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Speaker 1: the worst, it's solid. They just added some more pieces

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Speaker 1: at a wide receiver along with DJ Charco, I think

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Speaker 1: is one of the more emerging, one of the better

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Speaker 1: receiving threats in the league. They added Marvin Jones. Point

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Speaker 1: being when Patrick Mahomes was plopped into that Chief's offense,

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Speaker 1: everything else is ready to go around him. The Jags

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Speaker 1: have done a pretty nice job of putting those pieces

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Speaker 1: together to PLoP Lawrence right in there and be the

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Speaker 1: guy from the beginning. Take your lumps. However, you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna get sacked sixty times with this office line we have.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna be fine. Get the ball out, Let your

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Speaker 1: weapons do some work. We've got you some weapons. He's

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Speaker 1: not walking into a bad situation offensively. I think Trevor

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Speaker 1: Lawrence will start day one, all right, So Monday night fall.

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Speaker 1: We talked about it. With this new NFL deal about

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Speaker 1: to kick in within the next couple of years, and

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Speaker 1: the networks are a little bit staggered with these deals,

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Speaker 1: especially the Thursday night package. But flex scheduling available for

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Speaker 1: Disney on Monday night football twelve day notice, fair or not? Johnny?

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Speaker 1: Because now, if you've decided to travel to a Sunday game,

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Speaker 1: you wanted to take your family to Indianapolis to watch

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Speaker 1: the text you play in December, and all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden that game becomes a Monday night er? Is that fair?

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Speaker 1: What are your thoughts for people who travel especially or

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Speaker 1: people who just want to go to the game on

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Speaker 1: a Sunday afternoon, then all of a sudden it's a

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Speaker 1: Monday night or in the home market, and it changes

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Speaker 1: things with the kiddos going to the game because it's late,

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Speaker 1: especially on the East Coast. What do you think? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean that was the first thought I had was

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Speaker 1: about our guys Tom Aidan, who does a lot of

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Speaker 1: the travel clue Read's Dinner over the past that you

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Speaker 1: get this all set up. You've got one hundred and

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Speaker 1: sixty some odd rooms, you got to get into a hotel,

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Speaker 1: you get it all set up for Saturday night, and

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Speaker 1: then oh yeah, we gotta push all those rooms to

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Speaker 1: the next night. And that's very difficult from that for them,

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Speaker 1: I mean hugely difficult because they planned those things really,

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Speaker 1: I mean months in advance. So those are the guys

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Speaker 1: I think about, and you're right, the fans are the

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Speaker 1: other ones. I think about, Hey, we're gonna go see

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Speaker 1: this game, and you know, I don't know in Miami,

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Speaker 1: and that thing's getting bumped to Monday night, and you're like,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, Sunday afternoon versus Monday night. I got

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Speaker 1: a Sunday night flight to get back for work on Monday.

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Speaker 1: And also in the game, it's moved Monday. I think

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Speaker 1: there are gonna be fewer cases of that, but there

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Speaker 1: are a lot of, I should say problems. There are

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Speaker 1: a lot of logistical things that are gonna that are

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Speaker 1: gonna take place. But I feel like the NFL was

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Speaker 1: buoyed by the success they had last year, which was, hey,

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Speaker 1: we had to pull this game Monday. Now we're moving Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna move to Wednesday. The thing they didn't

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Speaker 1: have to worry about was seventy thou people moving and

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Speaker 1: changing their plans. That's the one thing they didn't have

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Speaker 1: to worry about that they will have to worry about

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Speaker 1: with this. So I'm willing to give it a shot

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Speaker 1: to see if Monday Night Football can get some better

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Speaker 1: matchups in December and on its early January. But I'm

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Speaker 1: concerned that's going to be a problem. The NFL is

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Speaker 1: going to hear about it from its fans, maybe even

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Speaker 1: from some of the team members. I got one more

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Speaker 1: for you. We'll do the rest of the position groups

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Speaker 1: next week, because look, the show goes on. The show

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Speaker 1: goes on forever. Anyway, I'll stop singing right now, but

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Speaker 1: I will ask you this. The NCAA Tournament is underway.

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Speaker 1: Sorry buck, guys, the NCAA Tournament is underway. So other

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Speaker 1: than football, college and pro, if you don't have a

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Speaker 1: dog in the fight, is this the best sporting event

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Speaker 1: to watch? Like, I don't really enjoy the World Series

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Speaker 1: if the Astros aren't in it. The NBA Finals, I

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Speaker 1: do love them, I do really love them. There's something

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Speaker 1: about this that is unbelievable. Especially these early rounds. My gosh,

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Speaker 1: it's so exciting. Well, the thing about it is you

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Speaker 1: have so many different teams. You know, if it's NBA

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Speaker 1: Finals as Lakers or Celtics, as Bulls or Warriors, You've

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Speaker 1: got sixty eight different teams you can pick from if

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Speaker 1: you don't have a dog in the fight, So pick one,

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Speaker 1: roll with it and see where you go. And that's

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Speaker 1: what makes it really fun. Like watching the House Day

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Speaker 1: lose today, I was cheering so hard for Earl Roberts

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Speaker 1: to win. I don't care for the Buckeyes all that much,

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Speaker 1: but I'll cheer for them to win. I don't watch

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Speaker 1: the game of them all year, but I wanted to

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Speaker 1: win that game, and I was going crazy when they

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Speaker 1: ended up winning it. So that to me is what

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Speaker 1: makes it great. All right, Johnny, thanks the laughing the time,

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Speaker 1: and we'll talk next week. All right, Thanks Mark. All right,

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Speaker 1: go to the Texans app Houston Texans dot com for

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Speaker 1: all the information on your Houston Texans. Thank you Brandon

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Speaker 1: for producing. Have a great weekend everyone, and go Texans.

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