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Speaker 2: Welcome to Wednesday and Isha Texans All Access from Monday

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Speaker 2: Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: John and Mark are with you. Mark, good evening. How

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Speaker 1: are you doing, Johnny doing great.

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Speaker 3: We're two weeks away, buddy, two weeks exactly, because two

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Speaker 3: weeks from now this morning, we will host our first

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Speaker 3: Texans Training Camp live show from the humid tundra of

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Speaker 3: Houston Methodist Training Center. Now, I know that's an oxymoron.

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Speaker 3: Somebody wants pouring out when I said that that tundra

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Speaker 3: We all remember that with the Packers. It's the humid

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it definitely is going to be here. The weather

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Speaker 2: they asked me about literally, how hot is it going

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Speaker 2: that was one of the things they want to know,

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Speaker 2: We got a lot to get to tonight and we will,

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Speaker 2: but IRV Smith is going to join us a little

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Speaker 2: bit later. It's our first time I think that we've

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Speaker 2: had an opportunity to catch up with Texas tight end

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Speaker 2: Back when I was playing, we had the same i think,

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Speaker 2: great to catch up with him. So we'll have IRV

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Speaker 2: we kick off the show Mark with a little either or.

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Speaker 2: I know you like either or. Because I put you

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Speaker 2: number one. Now, number one is attached a little bit

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Speaker 2: to one of the stories of the day. So either

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Speaker 2: or tougher September game at the LA Rams week one

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Speaker 2: in week two. Now, take note the news that came

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Speaker 2: Bay Buccaneer fan. Tristan Wurf's all Pro tackle will missed

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Speaker 2: the beginning of the season. The Buccaneers will now have

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Speaker 2: I don't know how much that plays into your thought

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Speaker 3: You know, they both had the same amount of wins

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Speaker 1: Are they are the Rams better than the Bucks? I

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Speaker 3: I know, big loss wurfs, But with the Buccaneers, Baker Mayfield,

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Speaker 1: You got those pass rushers.

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Speaker 3: You have no new tape on how much they've improved,

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Speaker 1: We all know that. How is that offense going to

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Speaker 1: There's just something about baseball in New York.

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Speaker 3: But my point is this, they don't have a home

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Speaker 1: I think there will be enough of them there.

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Speaker 3: But I still say it is gonna be the Rams

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Speaker 1: Going to be sky high for that Diddy.

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Speaker 1: And like I said, no worfs for Tampa Bay.

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Speaker 2: Gonna say this would be like the Texans missing Laramy Tunseel.

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Speaker 2: all about in twenty twenty five. But that's how important

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Speaker 2: Okay, I know how you feel about one of these

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Speaker 3: All Right, so this year, look, it's fus year, anything

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Speaker 1: Advance, and all of that.

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Speaker 3: But I'm gonna say Lamar, It's definitely Lamar. But Henry

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Speaker 3: He was Henry, and then some last year. It can't

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Speaker 1: Right, it can't last forever.

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Speaker 1: He's the man.

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Speaker 2: Thinking about Starter, I'm thinking about a player making significant contributions,

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's gonna be all right, Jalen Smith, Han, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: Yet they were still pretty good. Uh.

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Speaker 3: Let's get stronger there, and Speed makes you a lot

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Speaker 3: stronger there. But I'm saying the bigger surprise is Smith,

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Speaker 2: I think that you know Speed because he has started

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Speaker 2: Throw, you know, he'll complete eleven of nineteen for one

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Speaker 2: I just feel like Anthony Richardson scares everybody, but for

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Speaker 2: I mean, so I think with Jones they'll think that

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Speaker 1: Yep, okay, Next one.

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Speaker 2: Bigger bounce back for your Texans in twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 3: We love to see him play because when he's out there, great. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I think Tank being would be a little bit more surprising.

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Speaker 2: That said, I can't in my right mind at all

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Speaker 2: And it would be the story of all stories, considering

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I don't mean to be negative about it.

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Speaker 3: It's just based on his history, no exactly, and I

440
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Speaker 3: love to seeing him out there. But could you imagine

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Speaker 3: this for one moment here it's NRG Stadium, You're playing

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Speaker 3: the Raiders December twenty first oh, well, first game back,

443
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Speaker 3: because let's say you're nicked up at receiver here or there.

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Speaker 1: But it's not a disaster, but Tank, it will come back.

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Speaker 3: So you get him on the field and he makes

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Speaker 3: a big play for a touchdown.

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Speaker 1: Oh the crowd, I mean, the building is going to

448
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Speaker 1: come down. It's unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: I've said this, I told him this, and I believe

450
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Speaker 2: this wholeheartedly. And I'm not totally sure what it is.

451
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Speaker 2: He's from Florida, and I know he played at University

452
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Speaker 2: of Houston, but I know that our Texas fan base

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Speaker 2: isn't all Houston Cougar fans.

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Speaker 1: But whenever Tank does.

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Speaker 2: Something in our building big our fans go crazy.

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Speaker 1: He's a little nuts.

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Speaker 2: He is such a lovable guy and he's such a

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Speaker 2: great dude.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know, maybe it's because he's a little

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Speaker 1: bit shorter or whatever it is. I don't know, but

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Speaker 1: it is.

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Speaker 2: They could be a training camp practice and Tank will

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Speaker 2: take a break from you know, they run raps, and

464
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Speaker 2: then he'll take a break.

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Speaker 1: He'll be sitting on the sidelines.

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Speaker 2: Fans will be screaming his name, Tank, Tank sign this,

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Speaker 2: Tank sign this, and.

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Speaker 1: They it's unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: The reaction to Tank when he makes a play that situation.

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Speaker 2: NRG Stadium would fall down, It would absolutely fall down.

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Speaker 2: Now I mentioned Henry Toatoa, so I've called this one

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Speaker 2: the Henry Toatoa Award. In other words, uh huh, I

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Speaker 2: know where you're going a former Day three draft pick.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I got to go there, maybe under the radar.

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Speaker 2: That then turns into one of your key components on

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Speaker 2: either offense or defense, either Cade Stover or Damian Pierce.

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Speaker 2: The Henry Toatou Award. The Day three pick kind of

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Speaker 2: off the radar a little bit, but then turns into

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Speaker 2: a guy that's maybe one of your top three or

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Speaker 2: four contributors on outside of the ball, either Kate Stover

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Speaker 2: or Damian Pierce.

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Speaker 1: Well, it had you not.

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Speaker 3: Given me anybody, I know it's either or so you're

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Speaker 3: gonna give me options, but I was gonna say Pierce,

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Speaker 3: I think in our interview with Damian Pierce, which aired already, right,

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Speaker 3: but it's up on Yes.

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Speaker 1: Well, Seth made a really creative edit with it.

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Speaker 3: Seth Payne, Right, you put Damien's catches from twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: two as Damien's talking about being a receiving running back,

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Speaker 3: and he said, well, that's how everybody's introduced to football,

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Speaker 3: catching the football.

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Speaker 1: He's absolutely right.

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Speaker 3: Flag football already plays into that as well, and then

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Speaker 3: is big factor in this organization's drive. Anyway, I like

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Speaker 3: Pierce because he gets back to camp healthy. He gets

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Speaker 3: the kickoff returns is one thing. But look at the

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Speaker 3: running back situation. We still don't know about Joe. We

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Speaker 3: presume he's gonna be okay, we don't know how good

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Speaker 3: Nick Chubb can.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe Nick Chubb's on this team. This is

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Speaker 1: a wild thing.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Nick Chubb is on this Texans roster. We

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Speaker 3: still don't know about him either. I mean we know

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Speaker 3: he's healthy, but how good is he gonna be? There's

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Speaker 3: room for Pierce to make some noise here, and yeah,

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Speaker 3: what he marks is on the team, and Darry I

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Speaker 3: get it.

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Speaker 1: I get it.

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Speaker 3: But Pierce healthy can still be Pierce in this offense.

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Speaker 3: In this Nick Cayley, I got a fresh look for you, Damien.

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Speaker 1: I've looked at all the tape.

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Speaker 3: This is how you can best be used and flourish

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Speaker 3: in an offense. Here you go, here are a few carries,

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Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, wow, and Damien makes the

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Speaker 3: kind of impression that you want to see him make,

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Speaker 3: that you longed for since twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: I'm down for it, Johnny and Kate's do over.

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Speaker 3: To me, I'm assuming Kate takes a year one to

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Speaker 3: year two jump. He was already really effective in his

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Speaker 3: rookie seat.

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Speaker 1: I expect them to be used a lot more.

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Speaker 3: I'm not talking about eighty catches, but I think Kate

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Speaker 3: Stover is going to be a real important cog in

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Speaker 3: this offensive machine.

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Speaker 2: Agreed, Agreed, Okay, last one, there are two teams back

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Speaker 2: to back weeks. Actually wasn't in back to back weeks,

527
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Speaker 2: it was within five days. Basically, they gave the Texans issues.

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Speaker 2: They're to the best in the AFC, scarier defense to

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Speaker 2: face in twenty twenty five, and I'll give you the

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Speaker 2: particulars on each side. Baltimore or Kansas City. Baltimore has

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Speaker 2: added my god, Malachi Starks in the secondary. They've added

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Speaker 2: Jaiir Alexander, So that makes their secondary Nate Wiggins, Kyle Hamilton,

533
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:55,640
Speaker 2: Malachi Starks, Jaiyir Alexander, Marlon Humphrey. They have ro Quantit linebacker.

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Speaker 2: They have Mattabique inside, not a ton of edge rush.

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00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 2: The Chiefs defense also features a solid secondary led by

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Speaker 2: Trent McDuffie. They also have Christian Fulton. They brought over

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Speaker 2: from the Chargers. They lost Justin Reid. They have a

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Speaker 2: studded linebacker, Nick Bolton, not quite real qualm, but really good.

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Speaker 1: But their front might be even better.

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Speaker 2: Chris Jones inside, Mike Pennell the underrated guy, and George

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Speaker 2: karloftis the future star.

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Speaker 1: Mike Danna the underrating outside.

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Speaker 2: Scarier defense to face at twenty twenty five, the Chiefs

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Speaker 2: are the Ravens.

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Speaker 3: I'm always gonna say the Ravens because they have that

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Speaker 3: defensive brand, but maybe I shouldn't. You know last year

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Speaker 3: and I know they're different. You just outlined those differences.

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Speaker 3: In additions, last year the Chiefs finished better in points

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Speaker 3: per game than the Ravens defensively, and they were neck

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Speaker 3: and neck in yards per game surrendered.

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Speaker 1: The Texans were actually.

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Speaker 3: Better than both in yards per game surrendered, but less

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Speaker 3: in points. The Texans allowed twenty one point nine per game.

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Speaker 3: In points per game is always a field position kind

555
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Speaker 3: of thing too, that factors and is in everything. But

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Speaker 3: I always feel weird about facing the Ravens because the

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Speaker 3: brand of playing great defense, or at least very good defense,

558
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 3: has been there since they moved from Cleveland and rebranded

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Speaker 3: the team. You know, you go back to Ray Lewis

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Speaker 3: and you get Ed Reid in there, and now look

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Speaker 3: at this era and you and I've talked about this

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Speaker 3: a lot. Roquan Smith, I hate him and respectful hate

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Speaker 3: sports hem. Yeah right, she's such a Raven and Kyle Hamilton,

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Speaker 3: my gosh, it's gonna be the Ravens because you've never

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Speaker 3: won in that building. At least you've beaten the Chiefs

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Speaker 3: in their building. I know it's been a while nineteen

567
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Speaker 3: and teams very different, of course it is, it's completely different.

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Speaker 3: But who's the only player left? Titus? Is that it Titus?

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Speaker 3: That's it from nineteen that beat the Chiefs And it

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00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 3: still feels like the Chiefs are exactly the same, but

571
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Speaker 3: they've overhauled the whole thing, pretty much the whole thing.

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Speaker 3: So I'm going to say the Ravens. But they're equally scary, Johnny.

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Speaker 3: They're both really tough places to play. They both have

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Speaker 3: great quarterbacks who know how to grind that clock on

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Speaker 3: the other side of the ball, how to keep the

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Speaker 3: ball moving, how to keep points getting scored, and they're

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Speaker 3: both frightening.

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Speaker 1: So it's basically a tie. But I'll go Ravens.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the Ravens. I think, to me, the

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Speaker 2: secondary makes the difference. That PFF did a ranking of

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Speaker 2: the top four secondaries. They put a brat graphic up

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Speaker 2: and they put the four and obviously the Texans are

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Speaker 2: in there. Then they ranked the Texans fourth behind the Chiefs.

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Speaker 2: I thought, that is the biggest bunch of bs.

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Speaker 1: Ever. I think the chief secondary is good, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I love McDuffie, but.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they lost Justin Reid. Brian Cook isn't really all

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Speaker 2: that at safety anyhow. I disagreed with that. But they

589
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 2: had the Ravens number one secondary and I was like, oh, yeah,

590
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 2: the secondary of the Ravens could trot out there is

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Speaker 2: just unbelievable with Wiggins, Jay r Alexander, Marlon Humphrey. And

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Speaker 2: then your safeties are Malachi Starks, the top safety of

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Speaker 2: the bunch this last draft, and Kyle Hamilton the best

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Speaker 2: player twenty five years and under in the league apparently,

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Speaker 2: So that to me was kind of the difference.

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Speaker 1: I do think the Ravens still have trouble getting to

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Speaker 1: the quarterback.

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Speaker 2: They have to create ways to get to the quarterback

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Speaker 2: because their edge guys aren't that great. And I think

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Speaker 2: that's gonna end up being a problem for them down

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Speaker 2: the road. Hopefully it's a problem in week five when

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Speaker 2: the Texas facing button throwing against that secondary. That's not

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Speaker 2: going to be fun at all. Facing IRV Smith Junior

604
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Speaker 2: down into trenches is not fun.

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Speaker 1: But mean studio. He's a real sweetheart.

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Speaker 2: He joined marking on. He's gonna be up next right

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Speaker 2: here at Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody?

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Speaker 2: Welcome back this Wednesday edition at Texans All Access from

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Speaker 2: the Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: I am your host, John Harris, football analyst.

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Speaker 2: Sideline reporter for your Houston Texans and we had a

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Speaker 2: chance during media Days catch up with tight end IRV

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Speaker 2: Smith Junior, a guy that did some good things the

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Speaker 2: last half of the year in twenty twenty four and

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Speaker 2: then eventually signed to come back later in your offseason.

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Speaker 2: Glad he's back IRV Smith Junior. We had a blast

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Speaker 2: talking to him for the very first time at Texans

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Speaker 2: Radio Studio. Take a listen to IRV Smith Junior with

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Speaker 2: Mark and myself.

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Speaker 3: IRV Smith with us in the Hyundai Texans Radio studio

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Speaker 3: for the first time. I can't believe this. This is

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Speaker 3: the first time and welcome. So how's this offseason going.

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Speaker 3: I know that you haven't been here forever. You've been

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Speaker 3: around the league for a long time since twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 3: but it's great to have you here.

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Speaker 1: How's it going on earth Sair?

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Speaker 4: Is great?

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Speaker 5: Thanks for having me. Glad to be here first time

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Speaker 5: on the show. It's gonna be fun.

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Speaker 1: So this is you? So seven?

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Speaker 4: Seven?

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Speaker 1: You're seven? Holy cow? I mean yeah, we were talking beforehand.

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Speaker 1: I when I was in college, your dad was at

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Speaker 1: a Notre Dame. One of my favorite players of Notre Dame,

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Speaker 1: No Brady four. I used to watch them all the time.

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Speaker 4: Is that?

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Speaker 1: I mean? I would say, you're following your father's footsteps.

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Speaker 2: If you play football, if you go if you get

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00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 2: to the NFL, but you actually play the same position.

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Speaker 2: Were you always destined to be a tight end at

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Speaker 2: some point? I'm following your dad's footsteps totally.

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Speaker 5: It's pretty funny because my uncle he actually played in

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Speaker 5: the NFL too and play tight end.

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Speaker 1: So who's your uncle?

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Speaker 4: Ed Smith? Oh? Okay, yeah yeah yeah.

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Speaker 5: So I feel like growing up I wanted to be

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Speaker 5: a receiver, just kind of watching the Calvin Johnson Yeah,

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Speaker 5: you know, t O and and a lot of those guys,

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Speaker 5: and obviously watching my dad play tight end, and once

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Speaker 5: I started playing football in the eighth grade, my dad

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Speaker 5: he was like, man, he was like, You're gonna be

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Speaker 5: too big to play receiver.

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Speaker 4: And I'm like, we'll see, we'll see.

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Speaker 5: And then he was like he could either be a fast,

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Speaker 5: fast tight end or a slow receiver.

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Speaker 4: And you know, I'm with the tight end. Run.

658
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 3: What's the job description like here in this offense this

659
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 3: year versus last year for your position or.

660
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 4: From my position.

661
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 5: You know, they asked a lot of us coach coach

662
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 5: Kayley and the whole staff. You know, they want us

663
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 5: the tight ends. They have a high expectation for us.

664
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 5: So you know, first off, you know, gotta be tough,

665
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 5: gotta be able to you know, seeck your nose in

666
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 5: there in the run game and in the past game.

667
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 5: Be explosive. You know, we want to be explosive offense,

668
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 5: put points on the board and you know, put a

669
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 5: lot of pressure on the defense.

670
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 4: So as a tight end, we got to.

671
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 5: Be able to you know, block, move around, go in motion,

672
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 5: and you know, make plays in the past game, the

673
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 5: run game, and help our team anyway we can.

674
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 2: So if last year one offense, this year new offense.

675
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 2: You've been around the league, so you've probably been in

676
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 2: different systems, You've heard different things.

677
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: Do you ever get to a point where you're practice.

678
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 2: And you hear something You're like, oh, wait, I gotta

679
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 2: correlate that to oh, yeah, we used to call that

680
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,239
Speaker 2: bomber over here, but over here we call thunder or

681
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 2: whatever the case might be. How does it How does

682
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 2: it go for you, like learning a new offense, especially

683
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 2: the fact that last year was one now it's a

684
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 2: different one with the achlle taking over.

685
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, totally, it's I mean it's been throughout my career.

686
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 5: I've had to learn a lot of different offenses. Just

687
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 5: in college alone, I had to learn four offenses in

688
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 5: three years, so you know, different coordinators and in the

689
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 5: league and I've had probably three or four different coordinators.

690
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 5: So for me, it's it's been a blessing because this offense.

691
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 5: I've had some some nuances with, uh with coach Dave

692
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 5: Ball he was in Alabama with the Patriots stuff, and uh,

693
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 5: you know coach O'Connell was was in Minnesota with me

694
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 5: with the Rams, so you know some of that stuff.

695
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 4: It kind of correlates and it plays over.

696
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 5: But in terms of like hearing the plays that you've

697
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 5: heard before, you just got to like turn it off. Yeah,

698
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 5: just compartmentalizing your brain.

699
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 4: Yeah.

700
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 3: So, and that was Alabama where you had all those

701
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 3: coordinators in college and they're still doing that. Where they

702
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 3: were doing that with until Saban left, right, it felt

703
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:29,399
Speaker 3: like a new guy every year.

704
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,080
Speaker 1: Almost crazy.

705
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 5: A lot of these guys, you know, they they're there

706
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 5: for a year and then they get a head coaching.

707
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're a better opportunity.

708
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,799
Speaker 3: They cleanse themselves in the waters of Nick Saban and

709
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 3: then off to a head coaching. That's my comment. Not

710
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 3: you're a New Orleans guy. So tell me when you

711
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 3: come to Houston and you try Houston food. Can you

712
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:52,880
Speaker 3: get good New Orleans food in Houston? And is that

713
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,800
Speaker 3: what you like? Or have we changed your mind about

714
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,279
Speaker 3: some things? How do you see that? I love Houston food?

715
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 3: I mean being from New Orleans is I mean?

716
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 5: And it's they knocking at the door neck and neck,

717
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 5: I feel like, But in the world in Houston, you

718
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 5: can get some good New Orleans food.

719
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 4: My cousin actually is a chef.

720
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 5: He help in the restaurant's up in August called Augustines

721
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 5: Care a ward.

722
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:15,760
Speaker 1: Nice. All right, so yeah, here we go. That's very cool.

723
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 1: How how tough is it? Because we know New Orleans food,

724
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 1: we know Houston food?

725
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,240
Speaker 2: How tough is it when you go to a restaurant

726
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,360
Speaker 2: or you're going it's time to eat, you have Lad

727
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 2: like on your shoulder, like, man, I don't know that

728
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 2: I should be eating this? How tough is that? Or

729
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 2: is one of situations where you need to add weight?

730
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 2: You can eat what you want because you need to

731
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 2: put on pounds. I don't know how it is, but

732
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:39,799
Speaker 2: which one of those is it? Kind of for you?

733
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:41,719
Speaker 4: It's it's a it's a balance. You know.

734
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 5: My cousin she was actually a dietician, so she in

735
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 5: high school, she kind of put me on. I used to,

736
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 5: you know, come home eating canes or something practice and

737
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 5: she'll be on me. So slowly, you know, you kind

738
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:55,879
Speaker 5: of develop a better diet and stuff like that.

739
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 4: But Lad and the nutrition staff they do a great

740
00:35:58,280 --> 00:35:59,320
Speaker 4: job with it. Yeah.

741
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:03,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not difficult for you to quote eat right,

742
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:04,760
Speaker 3: not that hard.

743
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 4: It depends.

744
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,280
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, you have your your your cravens

745
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 5: and stuff. You little things that you want to get.

746
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 5: But I don't really have too much of a sweet tooth, thankfully,

747
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 5: so I.

748
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:14,359
Speaker 4: Can kind of lock that out.

749
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 1: Lucky youton.

750
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 5: I've been trying to take away to fry food, so

751
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 5: it's like really once a week maybe do some like

752
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:22,840
Speaker 5: a pub boy or something or something like that. But

753
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:25,360
Speaker 5: I try to keep it balanced, especially in an offseason.

754
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:28,359
Speaker 2: So herb a tight end. I feel like tight end

755
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 2: is probably the worst position moniker there is because at

756
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 2: tight end you can be h back. You could be

757
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 2: y online guy, be you tight end, you could be

758
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:41,439
Speaker 2: a f tight end full back, you could be a

759
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 2: six offensive lineman. In some sense. For some tight ends,

760
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 2: it feels like tight end is way too encompassing for

761
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 2: the many different things that tight ends are.

762
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 1: Asked to do.

763
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,319
Speaker 2: So when people ask you, like I'm about to where

764
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 2: do you kind of fit into that? I'm more a

765
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:59,720
Speaker 2: y in line guy. I'd like to move what where?

766
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 2: And how do you kind of fit into the tight

767
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 2: end mix? If that makes sense?

768
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 4: You know, that's a great question.

769
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 5: I feel like throughout my career I've had to be

770
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 5: in different spots. Yeah, you know, I first started out

771
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 5: kind of I was a basketball player, so I was

772
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 5: a little skinnier kind of more of a receiver. Right then,

773
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:16,439
Speaker 5: I kind of started getting more weight in high school,

774
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 5: getting bigger, started being like more of a move tight end,

775
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:20,439
Speaker 5: H back type of guy.

776
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 4: Uh.

777
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 5: Then when I got to Alabama, it was kind of

778
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 5: similar to that, but you know, put some more weight on,

779
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,280
Speaker 5: got bigger, so you know, helped me with my blocking,

780
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 5: and you know each year it's just a different a

781
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:31,840
Speaker 5: different process.

782
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 4: So uh.

783
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 5: You know, as a tight end, like you said, you

784
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,919
Speaker 5: got to do so many different things inline, h back,

785
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 5: split out, do a lot of motions. So for me,

786
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 5: I feel like I've kind of put myself in a

787
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 5: position where I've done all of those different things and

788
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 5: I feel comfortable with that. So, you know what they said,

789
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 5: the more you can do, more versatile. That's that's why

790
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 5: I try to put my game on.

791
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 3: Or prior to training camp, how are you going to

792
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 3: spend the time. I know you gotta work out and

793
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 3: stay in shape. You also want to maybe get a

794
00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:59,720
Speaker 3: little R and R go on vacation.

795
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 1: I don't know. You tell me how you're gonna spend

796
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:02,439
Speaker 1: the time.

797
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just in Arizona with my dad. My mom.

798
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 5: She wants to take a vacation at Jamaica and my grandma.

799
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 5: So I think we might do that, get to the

800
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 5: islands or something and just rest recovered, spend the time

801
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 5: with the family trained down in New Orleans, getting that

802
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:18,879
Speaker 5: heat and get ready.

803
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:22,400
Speaker 1: Does Dad put the pressure on, like, come on, let's trade.

804
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:24,400
Speaker 4: No, honestly, he never.

805
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 5: He never really was too much hard on me when

806
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 5: it comes to sports and stuff like that. More on

807
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 5: my grades and just making sure I'm, you know, a

808
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,960
Speaker 5: good man and doing the right things. He always knew,

809
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 5: you know, I was kind of talented. I was talented

810
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,240
Speaker 5: and stuff, you know, putting that work ethic and wanting

811
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 5: to be the best.

812
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 2: So during training camp, because we'll be on a training

813
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 2: camp sooner than later.

814
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 1: Or what's your body feel like? Is it just awful? Hell?

815
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 1: Like three or four weeks into training camp? I mean,

816
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:52,360
Speaker 1: what's what's it?

817
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 2: What's it like when you go back to the hotel

818
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 2: to your house after practice? Like seven eight nine, we

819
00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:59,959
Speaker 2: haven't played a preseason game yet. What's the body feel

820
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:00,760
Speaker 2: at that point?

821
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:01,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a grind.

822
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:03,760
Speaker 5: I mean, you got to have a team of people

823
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:04,800
Speaker 5: to help with your body.

824
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:09,240
Speaker 4: You know, you got to have a full routine.

825
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 5: You know, when you get up in the morning, you know,

826
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 5: throughout the day when you get home at night. I

827
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,959
Speaker 5: mean it's a grind, especially you know about week ten

828
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 5: or practice ten eleven. Yeah, and it's like, you know,

829
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:23,320
Speaker 5: you don't have a couple of days off, it's.

830
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 1: Like ninety five degrees out.

831
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:26,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's a grind. But it's why you

832
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 4: do what you do.

833
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 5: It's why you love the game because it helps you

834
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 5: move forward in the season. You all those late late

835
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 5: weeks in the season, you can fall back on training

836
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 5: camping in that mindset mentality.

837
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:42,800
Speaker 3: So or if you've caught passes from Kirk Cousins, Joe Burrow,

838
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes, c J. Stroud, I mean, this is pretty

839
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 3: strong stuff right here. All right, You've had some good

840
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,840
Speaker 3: quarterbacks in your career, no doubt. I know in twenty

841
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 3: three Burrow got hurt, so you have to go browning

842
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 3: the rest of the way. We guess still had a

843
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 3: winning season and everything totally, So what can you tell

844
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 3: us about that? It's kind of an embarrassment of riches.

845
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 3: I gotta be honest. I mean, there are guys in

846
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,400
Speaker 3: this league who don't get to play with great quarterbacks,

847
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 3: Like yeah.

848
00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 5: No, it's amazing I mean going back from college playing

849
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 5: with two in Jalen and Mac Jones to you know, CJ.

850
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 1: And you should write a book.

851
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, I've seen.

852
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:20,440
Speaker 5: Some great quarterbacks, great players, a lot of great talent.

853
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 5: I mean you can see why these guys are how

854
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:26,879
Speaker 5: they are and how they operate, and you know it's

855
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 5: a reason that they getting pay them big bucks. The quarterbacks,

856
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 5: I mean they set the show, They set the set. Yeah,

857
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,719
Speaker 5: they set everything. And for us to have CJ is

858
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,440
Speaker 5: a big blessing because you know, you know you have that,

859
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 5: you had that dog, you had that guy out there

860
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 5: that can make anything happen at anytime.

861
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:44,279
Speaker 4: Sounds good.

862
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:48,800
Speaker 2: Truos Alabama, I'm just gribed be very. Was it literally

863
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 2: just a success? Why did you go to Alabama?

864
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,400
Speaker 5: Honestly, it was after I took my visit Coach Burns.

865
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,399
Speaker 5: Coach Burton Burns, he crud to me. He's from New

866
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 5: Orleans guy as well, and you know how they just

867
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 5: went about the whole process. It was just different than

868
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 5: any other team. I feel like coach Burns was real

869
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,480
Speaker 5: old school. He came with a camera recorder and filmed

870
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:11,359
Speaker 5: me my whole practice like spring practice really, and brought

871
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 5: it back to Saban and they ended up offering me

872
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 5: like a couple of days later. And you know some

873
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:18,920
Speaker 5: of these schools. I was from Louisiana, so LSU and

874
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 5: then no schools was knocking on the door. But in

875
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 5: terms of just what I wanted for my career and

876
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:27,320
Speaker 5: the best thing for myself and my family, it was

877
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Speaker 5: a no brainer. Once I took my visit, Coach Saban

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Speaker 5: laid everything out on the line, expectations and stuff like that.

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Speaker 3: I have a lot of questions about him, but that's

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Speaker 3: a whole other show. Thanks so much for joining us.

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Speaker 3: Best of luck, Sir, I appreciate So.

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Speaker 1: There we go a little time with IRV Smith Junior.

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Speaker 2: That was that was some fun stuff. Really get a

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Speaker 2: chance to know IRV Smith Junior. Kind of quiet, soft

885
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Speaker 2: spoken guy, but really fun introspective interviews, really good stuff

886
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Speaker 2: with IRV. Appreciate him being around. All Right, we get

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Speaker 2: back we go around the NFL. The biggest piece of

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Speaker 2: news does leus impact your Texans. We'll get into that next.

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Speaker 2: I mentioned in the first segment, but it bears repeating

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Speaker 2: as we go around the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Next right here in Texas AUXSS.

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Speaker 2: We got one final segment this initiative Texans All Access

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Speaker 2: from the Honday Texans Radio studio. John Harris here your

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Speaker 2: host footballs sideline reporter for your Houston Texans.

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Speaker 1: Glad to be with you all right.

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Speaker 2: Going around the NFL, the biggest piece of news does

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Speaker 2: have an impact on your Texans. As we mentioned in

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Speaker 2: the first segment, All Pro Pro Bowl tackle Tristan Wurf's

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Speaker 2: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Keep in mind to Texans play the

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Speaker 2: Bucks week two, Monday night at home, start at the

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Speaker 2: Rams Sunday afternoon, fly back to take on the Bucks

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Speaker 2: on Monday night at home, and our g opener, Tristan

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Speaker 2: Wurf's underwent knee surgery yesterday, being on Tuesday, will likely

904
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Speaker 2: start the season on physically unable to perform list aka

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Speaker 2: the pup list that would knock him out for the

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Speaker 2: first four weeks. As I said, second game of the

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Speaker 2: year against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Now that's Will Anderson

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Speaker 2: anthonil Hunter getting after Baker Mayfield with no Tristan Worf's

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Speaker 2: one of the best offensive linemen in the entire league.

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Speaker 2: So first couple of weeks and look, it's not as

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Speaker 2: if the Rams are bringing a bunch of all pro

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Speaker 2: tackles to the party. But these edge players for the Texans,

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Speaker 2: and look, it's not just Will Anderson, Daniel Hunter. It's

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Speaker 2: Nico Autry, It's Darryl Taylor, it is Derek Barnett, it

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Speaker 2: is Dylan Horton.

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Speaker 1: It is a load of.

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Speaker 2: Guys that can get it off the edge. And now

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Speaker 2: they're facing a Tampa Bay team without Tristan Wurf's La

919
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Speaker 2: Rams team really without two bona fides on the outside.

920
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 2: They have to they have to get after those two

921
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Speaker 2: games and be difference makers. So Wurfs apparently dealt with

922
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Speaker 2: a right knee issue during the twenty twenty four season,

923
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Speaker 2: only missed a game. He's been limited in each offseason workout.

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Speaker 2: When a brace on the knee decided to have the

925
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Speaker 2: surgery arthroscopic surgery should put him on the pup list.

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Speaker 2: That will mean the first four games of the year

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Speaker 2: he misses. Now Baker Mayfield benefits from that. How so well,

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Speaker 2: here's a stat in twenty twenty four, Worfs allowed zero

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Speaker 2: sacks and just thirteen quarterback pressures. That means he wasn't

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Speaker 2: even giving up like a full quarterback pressure per game.

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Speaker 2: Last year, Having missed just the one game. This is

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Speaker 2: a massive blow to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and a

933
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Speaker 2: gift from the football gods that the Texans won't have

934
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Speaker 2: to face one of the best in the league in

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Speaker 2: Week two, so Tristan Wurf's will likely likely start the

936
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Speaker 2: season on the pup list. Two teams unveiled new UNI

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Speaker 2: slash helmets. The Washington Commanders are going back to their

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Speaker 2: nineteen eighties look with a change in the helmet. They

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Speaker 2: will not have the Artists formerly known as the Redskins

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Speaker 2: on their helmet. They'll have the Washington Commanders W but

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Speaker 2: they will have the nineties Redskins unis, which I think

942
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Speaker 2: are sharp when teams have gone back to seventies, eighties

943
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Speaker 2: nineties Unis creamsicles for Tampa Bay, the Falcons black with

944
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Speaker 2: the red helmet, the Kelly green of the Eagles, the

945
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Speaker 2: Lions eighties and Washington Redskins uniforms of the eighties were

946
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Speaker 2: just classic, so classic. So the helmet will be their normal,

947
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Speaker 2: well what's been normal lately is the maroon with the

948
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Speaker 2: stripe and then the gold w's on each side. So

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Speaker 2: they're going back to the Super Bowl era uniforms. They

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Speaker 2: where those week nine against the Seattle Seahawks. Well closer

951
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Speaker 2: to home, the New Orleans Saints may have done the

952
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Speaker 2: best thing I've seen in a long time. They have

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Speaker 2: revealed a new white helmet, a new alternate white helmet, and.

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Speaker 1: It is sharp. It looks really really good.

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Speaker 2: Now, the NFL has been allowing teams to increase obviously,

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Speaker 2: that's why we've got the H helmet, the H Town helmet.

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Speaker 2: We've got the various combinations of jerseys and helmets. Each

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Speaker 2: team will have an opportunity each division. I should say,

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Speaker 2: over the next I think four years, four to six years,

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Speaker 2: I think they can incorporate another alternate jersey. So this

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Speaker 2: is just maybe a step in that direction. And this

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Speaker 2: white helmet for the Saints is absolutely cool as hell.

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Speaker 2: It's got black flake in a paint, just like for us.

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Speaker 2: We've got that red in the blue of the helmet,

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Speaker 2: which if you look close you can see the glitter.

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Speaker 2: They got that on the Saints helmet as well. It

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Speaker 2: is just a cool helmet and I'm glad the Saints

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Speaker 2: are doing that. So Saints fans and Saints players really

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Speaker 2: really excited about all of that. All Right, that's gonna

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Speaker 2: do it for the show. Appreciate you guys being with me.

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Speaker 2: As always, we'll be back tomorrow. Got the General on

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Speaker 2: with us, John McClain. We'll see that everybody, and as always,

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Speaker 2: go Texans.