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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, on this gorgeous Houston Friday night, It's Texans Radio.

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Speaker 1: Mark Vandermayer, John Harris with you from the Hyundai Texans

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Speaker 1: Radio studio. And it's only fitting, Johnny, that we end

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Speaker 1: the week together on this program after the rookies show

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Speaker 1: themselves today at NRG Park and actually yesterday they were

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Speaker 1: in and I kind of didn't get to the segment

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Speaker 1: this morning. How are you doing, by the way, my friend,

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Speaker 1: I'm doing okay. I'm having in there a little a

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Speaker 1: little under the weather a little bit, but not all

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Speaker 1: the way there yet, but feel feel a little bit better,

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Speaker 1: a little bit more energy, a little bit more voice.

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Speaker 1: That's good. Yeah, I mean that's uh. Look, you went

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Speaker 1: through the draft. It was probably the afterburners of the draft,

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Speaker 1: right probably, so it took like seven to ten days

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Speaker 1: to really catch up with you. Yeah. I don't doubt that.

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Speaker 1: It usually happens. I remember that. I used to happen

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Speaker 1: to me when I was coaching, like right after the

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Speaker 1: season was over, so round Thanksgiving it would start to hit.

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Speaker 1: So the time between Thanksgiving Christmas, I would get it,

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Speaker 1: and then I would get it right after spring football,

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Speaker 1: like at the end of the school year. So my

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Speaker 1: son had gotten it and you must have passed it

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Speaker 1: to me, and so of tuacos. But hopefully we're beyond it,

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Speaker 1: and hopefully everybody else in the family will stay stay

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Speaker 1: away from it as well, in particularly my wife. Happy

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Speaker 1: Mother's Day to page and obviously to our wives, because

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Speaker 1: weekend it is Happy Mother's Day. So make sure everybody

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Speaker 1: out there takes care of the mom's sisters that are

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Speaker 1: mother's friends, that our mothers. Whatever it is. But Happy

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Speaker 1: Mother's Day to all the mothers out there. Well, there

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Speaker 1: a lot to remember too in some families. You know,

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Speaker 1: my mom passed away a long time ago, but you know,

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Speaker 1: you gotta remember your wife is the mother of your children.

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Speaker 1: You gotta make sure not only you take care of her,

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Speaker 1: but that the kids take care of her. It's up

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Speaker 1: to you to make the kids do something for the mom.

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Speaker 1: Otherwise you've failed and it's gonna come down on you,

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Speaker 1: not the kids. Oh, you're right about that. Now, I

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Speaker 1: have a little bit of an advantage because mine are fifteen,

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Speaker 1: it out on their own. Yours a little younger, so

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Speaker 1: you got to kind of lead them in that poticial.

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Speaker 1: My five year old would bench watch Paw Patrol and

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Speaker 1: forget about the whole thing and the twelve year old

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Speaker 1: Fortnite City and it's over with speaking of Fortnite that you.

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Speaker 1: David Price, Yes, carpal tunnel syndrome, and apparently it's from

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Speaker 1: playing too much Fortnite. He denies it. He denies it.

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Speaker 1: He my kid also denies the fact that he forgot

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Speaker 1: about his month long would be homework assignment that he

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Speaker 1: started two days ago and got done last night, close

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Speaker 1: to midnight, and by donne, I mean almost done. He

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Speaker 1: had to finish it this morning. So yeah, Fortnite. People

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Speaker 1: are forgetting things. People are addicted to this game, highly addictive.

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Speaker 1: I don't play it, but I've watched him play it,

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Speaker 1: so I understand it, and I get it. I get

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Speaker 1: why these things are so addictive. My wife thinks it's

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Speaker 1: like Heroin. Hey, I don't know, it might be who knows.

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Speaker 1: You gotta be careful with this stuff, there's no doubt.

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Speaker 1: And but I read his comment. David Price's comment was

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Speaker 1: priceless because it's like, hey, if I if I got

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Speaker 1: carpal tunnel playing Fortnite, well, it was almost like so

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Speaker 1: be it. I'm like, so be it. You make thirty

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Speaker 1: million a year, bro to pitch to keep those hands work? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you keep those things pristine. If you get

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Speaker 1: somebody else to play with the joyce, did you tell

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Speaker 1: him what do you keep your hands off of that?

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Speaker 1: And you go pitch man. You make thirty million a

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Speaker 1: you're playing a video game. And I got nothing against

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Speaker 1: people that play video games. I think it's it's pretty amazing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we had the Madden Championship here and Silent

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Speaker 1: Soldier ended up winning that, and it was just amazing

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Speaker 1: to see them manage everything about the game, when to

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Speaker 1: take timeouts, when not to. It was fascinating. And I

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Speaker 1: remember saying to you, I can't tell you how many

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Speaker 1: It's amazing And I'm sure David David Price is probably

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Speaker 1: at that. So exactly unless Esports starts paying you thirty

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Speaker 1: think the Madden thing is interesting you bring up, though,

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Speaker 1: was all about these rookies. In the off season, they

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Speaker 1: have this much time left, how do you handle these timeouts?

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Speaker 1: But by playing Madden, you'd get into those situations naturally

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Speaker 1: and see what works and what doesn't. In real life,

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Speaker 1: think about it, they only have sixteen shots of season.

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Speaker 1: and I watched those guys. The championship game was fascinating

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Speaker 1: that would have been maybe a more colossal Championship game

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Speaker 1: And when you do that every day and you're playing

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Speaker 1: trying to manage all that, it's a lot going on.

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Speaker 1: You got you got voices in your ears. There's a

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Speaker 1: We watch these guys play Madden. They got their headphones

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Speaker 1: all they're hearing is just their music, and that's it.

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Speaker 1: And they played the whole way. Something very spooky about

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Speaker 1: let's talk rookies here. We kind of went off on

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Speaker 1: a little video game tangent from why not. By the way,

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Speaker 1: I think Madden is a tremendous games. It's unbelievable the

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Speaker 1: amount of football IQ that's in that they've done so

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Speaker 1: much with that over the years. It's incredible. And apparently

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Speaker 1: it's good for some reason. I said, why not? He said,

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Speaker 1: now they've ruined it ruined it all. My friends think

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Speaker 1: they've ruined it. I'll get you a better definition. But

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Speaker 1: they love Madden. Then they love Fortnite of course. All right,

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Speaker 1: So you have tryout guys, You have college free agent.

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Speaker 1: I want people to get the picture here. You have

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Speaker 1: the draft choices, you have eight of those. You have

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Speaker 1: Arian Foster once upon a time, players like that. Then

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Speaker 1: you have tryout guys. Tryout guys are unsigned. They're just

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Speaker 1: Chris Thompson was a tryout player last year, More was

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Speaker 1: years ago, and he's been with the Texans ever. He's

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Speaker 1: a starter absolutely, So you can you can find players

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Speaker 1: and kicking today with Texans Rookie Camp day one. In

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Speaker 1: all right, go against the ball. Sheared. Then he got hurt.

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Speaker 1: But then he came back for those last two games.

425
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Speaker 1: And if you watched in depth, and I did, I

426
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Speaker 1: just watched him. I didn't watch anything else from those

427
00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:32,560
Speaker 1: other two games. There was nothing. There was nothing there

428
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Speaker 1: to watch. I mean, really fun times. But I watched him,

429
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Speaker 1: and I watched him specifically, and I walked out of

430
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Speaker 1: there going if he's the left tackle going forward, if

431
00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:44,400
Speaker 1: he makes that year one to year two jump, if

432
00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:46,760
Speaker 1: he added a little bit of weight, I think the

433
00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:49,240
Speaker 1: Texans are gonna be not only just fine a tackle,

434
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Speaker 1: I think in due time they're gonna have a really

435
00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:55,639
Speaker 1: solid football player in Julian Davenport. I'm looking forward to

436
00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:58,840
Speaker 1: what he can do. That said, bringing in guys of

437
00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:02,119
Speaker 1: Jared Jones, Smith, the Martinez rankin to push him and

438
00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:04,280
Speaker 1: not hand it to him, right, I say, Hey, this

439
00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:06,520
Speaker 1: job is yours. I think that's gonna be helpful as

440
00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:09,159
Speaker 1: well to have that competition there. But you know, you

441
00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:11,240
Speaker 1: always asked this question, if they had to play today,

442
00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:12,920
Speaker 1: woul Julian and be the guy. I think he would

443
00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:15,639
Speaker 1: be absolutely no question, and I would feel totally fine

444
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Speaker 1: with that. All right, tri out guys. The rookie from Wyoming,

445
00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:22,560
Speaker 1: Ryan Cummings, who helped protect Josh Allen six six, three

446
00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:27,200
Speaker 1: hundred ten pounds Colorado native. What about him? Well, you

447
00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:28,720
Speaker 1: know the one. The one thing that they ended up

448
00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:31,840
Speaker 1: saying about a lot of the Wyoming players were they

449
00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:33,879
Speaker 1: weren't very good. Josh Allen didn't have much of a

450
00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:35,760
Speaker 1: chance because he didn't have much around him. I don't

451
00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:37,920
Speaker 1: know that I would say that was the case for

452
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Speaker 1: the offensive line. I don't think the offensive line across

453
00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,360
Speaker 1: all the way across was was great. But there were

454
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Speaker 1: times watching comings where I felt like, Yeah, this guy's

455
00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:47,560
Speaker 1: got something. I mean, I could see him having an

456
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Speaker 1: opportunity to get into a camp. But again, as a

457
00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:53,840
Speaker 1: tryout player, you're just looking for just one thing that

458
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Speaker 1: stands out so I can bring you to camp. And

459
00:20:56,040 --> 00:21:00,600
Speaker 1: if you think about the positions, which position editions do

460
00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:02,920
Speaker 1: you think would have an opportunity to make this roster? Well,

461
00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:06,439
Speaker 1: a guy at tackle so well, and look we're not

462
00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:09,679
Speaker 1: going to see them, We're not going to see them pads, pass, protect,

463
00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:10,879
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff, but we are going to

464
00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:13,400
Speaker 1: be able to see how athletic they are. Can they move,

465
00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:15,640
Speaker 1: can they go? And if they can do that, then

466
00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:17,560
Speaker 1: they got an opportunity to get to the ninety man

467
00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:19,199
Speaker 1: roster when they get to the Greenbrier. And that's all.

468
00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:20,920
Speaker 1: That's all. It's a try player. Just get me to

469
00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:23,200
Speaker 1: the Greenbrier and then we put the pads on it

470
00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:24,560
Speaker 1: and then I got a shot. And that's all you're

471
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Speaker 1: looking to do. Yeah, you just don't want to go

472
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Speaker 1: home this weekend and have to look for a real job. Exactly.

473
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Speaker 1: I mean, if you're a tryout player, job, well that's

474
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Speaker 1: what it is, yeah, exactly. And then you might think, well,

475
00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:36,480
Speaker 1: maybe I can try out again next year. Well that's

476
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Speaker 1: gonna be a long time. You're gonna have to keep

477
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Speaker 1: yourself in great shape exactly likely earn a living. At

478
00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:44,440
Speaker 1: the same time, Kendall Calhoun is from Cincinnati, another big dude,

479
00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:49,320
Speaker 1: sixty seven sixty seven, but only three hundred pounds. So

480
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Speaker 1: is he a rebounder or is he a tackle? Well,

481
00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:54,920
Speaker 1: I was a big fan. I watched Cincinnati, but I

482
00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,399
Speaker 1: watched more of the left side. I thought that Corey

483
00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,679
Speaker 1: Cunningham was the left tackle for since Addie, and I

484
00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:05,000
Speaker 1: thought he had a chance to get drafted here with

485
00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:08,720
Speaker 1: the Texans because I thought any any tackle worth worth assault,

486
00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:10,919
Speaker 1: so to speak, I thought the Texans would be interested in.

487
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,400
Speaker 1: So I spent a lot of time watching Corey Cuttingham.

488
00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:15,800
Speaker 1: And of course, when you get tunnel vision like that,

489
00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:18,679
Speaker 1: you focus in more on that guy than you do

490
00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:21,040
Speaker 1: anybody else. And that's kind of what I did as

491
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:24,080
Speaker 1: I watched him. So I have not really watched Calhoun

492
00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:28,359
Speaker 1: that much. But again, at tackle, I mean, what really,

493
00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,399
Speaker 1: you don't You're not expecting much from these guys, but man,

494
00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:34,080
Speaker 1: if they show you just the slightest bit of athleticism,

495
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:38,199
Speaker 1: the slightest bit of retention of knowledge or whatever it is,

496
00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,119
Speaker 1: you're gonna roll with that guy. There's no question going forward,

497
00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,560
Speaker 1: all right, So some of the other names positions excluded

498
00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:47,639
Speaker 1: here or not noting the position, but just noting the player.

499
00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the schools and they have a rookie

500
00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,159
Speaker 1: from Maine here, and I'm wondering if Brian Gaine is

501
00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:55,320
Speaker 1: doing a solid for it's all about I'm just kidding

502
00:22:55,320 --> 00:23:00,640
Speaker 1: about this. The safety from Maine, Jason Matavu. I don't

503
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,439
Speaker 1: know about him safety from that league, but we'll see,

504
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:07,359
Speaker 1: We'll see. It's Cambridge, Massachusetts, so you know, we get

505
00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,959
Speaker 1: the Massachusetts thing going on here. But anybody pique your

506
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,359
Speaker 1: interest other than the guys we've already talked about among

507
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:17,440
Speaker 1: the tryout players today, well, I think amongst the trial players,

508
00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,639
Speaker 1: you know, I watched Alric Jones play at South Carolina

509
00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:24,879
Speaker 1: um a bunch actually, and a little surprised that he

510
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:27,399
Speaker 1: he didn't at least get signed somewhere from out of

511
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,119
Speaker 1: South Carolina six five three ten. I always felt like

512
00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,960
Speaker 1: there was a lot more untapped potential there for Alrick

513
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:37,320
Speaker 1: Jones than potentially he played with, if I'm being honest

514
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:41,280
Speaker 1: about that. So he's a guy to me that very impressive.

515
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:43,879
Speaker 1: Just wow, he's kind of impressive when you see him

516
00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:47,040
Speaker 1: six five three ten. But I watching him, I thought, man,

517
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:51,600
Speaker 1: he's got something there. It's just it's he's not producing

518
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,919
Speaker 1: the way I would have expected a guy that looked

519
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,480
Speaker 1: that athletic. But that was really the first name when

520
00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,639
Speaker 1: I looked at this list of trial players, that was

521
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:02,240
Speaker 1: the first name that came to mind was all Right Jones.

522
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:04,399
Speaker 1: And then Jeremy Leggins is a nose tackle. Well, he

523
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:06,280
Speaker 1: use a quarterback three or four years ago. It old

524
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:09,040
Speaker 1: miss three hundred pounds Jared the rented type quarterback, and

525
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,480
Speaker 1: they would put him in a game as a wildcat quarterback.

526
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:13,959
Speaker 1: Then they moved him out to tackle off at the tackle,

527
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Speaker 1: and then it really didn't take all that well, and

528
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,960
Speaker 1: so he ended up moving inside to nose tackle. And

529
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Speaker 1: he's been away from the game for a littlis the

530
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,399
Speaker 1: first year player. So the hope is you bring him

531
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Speaker 1: in and look, if you with one of these trial players,

532
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,320
Speaker 1: it's like found money. You know, if a guy ends

533
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:30,200
Speaker 1: up being signed up to being a child player, it's

534
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:31,679
Speaker 1: like you found ten bucks in your wall. It's a

535
00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:33,840
Speaker 1: good feeling, all right. Back to the undrafted free agents

536
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:35,760
Speaker 1: in just a second here, But if I'm going all

537
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:41,639
Speaker 1: name on this list, it's Patrick Chouda Chowda. It's not

538
00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 1: really pronounced that way. It's spelled c h o U

539
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:49,440
Speaker 1: d j a, but it's pronounced Chouda, which I'm just

540
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 1: praying he makes the team with a bunch of dew

541
00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,840
Speaker 1: England guys in the coaching staff. Anyway, back to the

542
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 1: college free agents, what about Terry Swanson running back from

543
00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:02,199
Speaker 1: Toledo over thirteen hundred yards rushing fourteen touchdowns. Yeah, you

544
00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:05,119
Speaker 1: talk about the ability to make things happen in the

545
00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:09,160
Speaker 1: Mid American Conference, considering he replaced Kareem Hunt, but the Rockets,

546
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,240
Speaker 1: what do you think of him? Yeah? I like him

547
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:13,119
Speaker 1: when I you know, again, one of those guys that

548
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 1: as you're going through the draft, you're not I know,

549
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,160
Speaker 1: for me, it wasn't keeping track of every single guy

550
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 1: that was picked. It was react to the guys that

551
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 1: are that are being picked. And so when I started

552
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:24,960
Speaker 1: seeing his name being flowed around as one that was

553
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 1: going to sign with the Texans, I thought, oh, I

554
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,880
Speaker 1: kind of like this. I thought that in five ten,

555
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,879
Speaker 1: two h five, he's got some he's got some jukes,

556
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:36,919
Speaker 1: he can move. I think he runs very hard. I

557
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:40,879
Speaker 1: think he's going to be a very interesting fit in

558
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 1: this offense alongside Deshaun Watson, whatever quarterback he runs with.

559
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 1: But just his quickness alone I thought was really impressive.

560
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:52,040
Speaker 1: But to me, the two running backs with Swanson and

561
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:56,720
Speaker 1: Lavon Coleman from Washington, Coleman's a hammer. Coleman runs like

562
00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:01,440
Speaker 1: a mack truck. He's a tank two thirds five eleven.

563
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:05,119
Speaker 1: He isn't absolute tank, and he moves pretty well. And

564
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 1: at Washington it was kind of strange. Sometimes it would

565
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 1: be Lavon Coleman, sometimes it would be Miles Gaskin, but

566
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,120
Speaker 1: Lavon Coleman to me, was the one they would put

567
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 1: it in the fourth quarter when they needed to run clock,

568
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,120
Speaker 1: they needed to pound on teams. He was I thought

569
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 1: for sure he was gonna get drafted. A two hundred

570
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:24,200
Speaker 1: and thirty five pounds runs pretty well, but just at

571
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,720
Speaker 1: that size and his elusiveness, I thought he'd definitely gets drafted.

572
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 1: Did not, And so I think he's a great candidate

573
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 1: to come in here and be a guy that gets

574
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:35,120
Speaker 1: the Kenny Hilliard light carries and the second third preseason game,

575
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,919
Speaker 1: remember Kenny getting a bunch of those carries. Um, you

576
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 1: know he might be able to if he does well

577
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 1: with that, he can move up and get some of

578
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 1: those second tea reps in games two or three because

579
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 1: then injuries maybe who and how much is Gante Foreman

580
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 1: gonna do because he's banged up. So yeah, there are

581
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,119
Speaker 1: reps to go around, no question. And so I think

582
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:53,639
Speaker 1: these two guys, first of all, surprised need to one

583
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,480
Speaker 1: of them got drafted. Glad that they're here. But they're

584
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:59,480
Speaker 1: two different style guys. They're they're the proverbial thunder and

585
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:03,120
Speaker 1: lightning sort of players as two undrafted guys. But they're

586
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 1: gonna come in and compete and they're gonna get a

587
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 1: lot of rest. It's a good point they bring. They

588
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,639
Speaker 1: bring back Alfred Blue and they like Alfred Blue right,

589
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,159
Speaker 1: good special teams player. They know he can fill in

590
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,199
Speaker 1: it running back and do some things. But they know

591
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:18,640
Speaker 1: who he is, they know what he can do. At

592
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,719
Speaker 1: this point, he's a veteran. They want to look at

593
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 1: these young guys. You're a young running back. You are

594
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,959
Speaker 1: going to get a big taste here of action, and

595
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 1: we'll see how this all works out for them. I'm

596
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,440
Speaker 1: also looking at some other people here. Let's go with

597
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:40,960
Speaker 1: Andre Shosari. So no, he's got to beg Andre Chasse,

598
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 1: who actually played corner on the same defensive backfield as

599
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 1: Jermaine Kelly, seth round draft choice well the Texas a

600
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:49,600
Speaker 1: couple of years ago too. I remember when they signed

601
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:54,240
Speaker 1: one corner and then they brought in Jimmy Pruitt as

602
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 1: a tryout player. And I'm trying to remember who that

603
00:27:57,880 --> 00:27:59,719
Speaker 1: other corner was, and I can't think of his name

604
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 1: off my head, but they both ended up there in

605
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,679
Speaker 1: the rookie minicamp making making a few plays. And now

606
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 1: they've gone back to the well with Jermaine Kelly in

607
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:09,959
Speaker 1: the seventh round and then Andrea at six foot two

608
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,160
Speaker 1: hundred pounds I mean, man, the same as they stayed

609
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 1: at some big corners. It's funny. I've told a story

610
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 1: that after Jermaine was drafted that I was watching for

611
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 1: a linebacker. Frank Jinda had one hundred and seventy three tackles,

612
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,199
Speaker 1: But as I was watching him, I would see these

613
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 1: two corners ended up making play. He's like, man, these

614
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:28,919
Speaker 1: corners were pretty good, Like what's the deal with these guys?

615
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,160
Speaker 1: And so kind of put it on the far back burner.

616
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,360
Speaker 1: And then I saw the Texans obviously draft to Jamain Kelly,

617
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 1: and then they signed Andrea the other side, and I thought, man,

618
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 1: they had a few good players. They had all said

619
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 1: an outside linebacker. I was interested in that. I thought

620
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 1: these a little small though, But these guys can make

621
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 1: some plays, and they're gonna get after and get and

622
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 1: get competitive, and I I think it's gonna be fun to

623
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 1: see them go against these receivers. But the opportunity is there. Again,

624
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: we talked about tackle, but also a corner. If you

625
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 1: got the if you're six foot, two hundred pounds and

626
00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 1: you could run at all, you got an opportunity. No

627
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 1: not but not me either. But if you do have

628
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: those two, then this is an opportunity for you, there's

629
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 1: no question. And again you're gonna get a bunch of

630
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 1: reps at the Greenbrier too, because I would imagine Kevin

631
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 1: Johnson coming off, you know, coming off last year, He'll

632
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 1: get a bunch of reps. J Joe. I mean, I

633
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 1: would imagine you're trying to limit his reps aerics, Colvin,

634
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 1: You're gonna you're gonna have some reps on the inside.

635
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 1: So there's a bunch of reps to go around at

636
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 1: the outside corner positions. So I think these guys, especially

637
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 1: Cha Shari is gonna get a ton of reps, which

638
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 1: is gonna be great for him. D Virgins gonna get

639
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 1: a bunch and he'll be working a D Virgin and

640
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: Josh Thornton are gonna be working this week with the

641
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: rookies and Ricky Mini Camp, so that's gonna help them

642
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 1: as well. Guys that were here last year didn't spent

643
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 1: the year on practice squad, They're gonna have an opportunity

644
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: to get some reps. They've got a little bit advantge

645
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 1: because they know the scheme. They've been here. So D

646
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 1: Virgin and Josh Thorton are gonna be out there as well.

647
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun to see Johnny, thank you, you

648
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 1: got a mark. Thank you. Coming out Deep Cities steps

649
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 1: into the hunday Texans Radio studio. We'll talk about these

650
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 1: new Texans, these new rookies, how to get them acclimated

651
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 1: to the building and to the city of Houston, and

652
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 1: some other stuff as well on Texans Radio. It's Texans Radio,

653
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 1: and as a public service, we're gonna help the rookies

654
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 1: today to have reported for Rookie Minicamp Practice number one

655
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 1: of the books for today they'll be back out of

656
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 1: the Houston Methodist Training Center practice fields tomorrow and watching

657
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: the action and talking about the action and some of

658
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 1: the nuances that the rookies face being Houstonians. Deep Cudo,

659
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 1: how's it going, Dp? It's going great, Mark, We just

660
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: came in from practice. Yeah, I'll ago. It feels like

661
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 1: a long time since we've been out there. You know,

662
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 1: it kind of feels good to be hot out there practice. Yeah,

663
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 1: it is warm, but you know what, I'll I'm not

664
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 1: complaining though, I'll take it. You know what drives me

665
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 1: nuts about Texans and this this kind of plays into

666
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 1: some of these rookies coming in from places that are

667
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 1: a lot cooler than this generally that actual Texans complain

668
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 1: about a day like today being hot. Are you kidding?

669
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 1: Do you live here? This is nothing? In a month,

670
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 1: we're gonna be begging for this weather. Well, it was

671
00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 1: it was fifty like two weeks ago, Mark, I know,

672
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 1: from fifty to ninety true spring is like, no, you

673
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: don't get a spring, right, I blinged and I missed it.

674
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: So I think that's where some of the complaining may

675
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:08,719
Speaker 1: come from. And I may or may not be guilty

676
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 1: that myself when I stepped outside. But I did preface

677
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 1: it with but this is nothing compared to what it's

678
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: like during training. Of course, I understand that, except for Greenbrier,

679
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: which is very nice. But some of the Texans, the

680
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: new Texans come into Houston, and you wrote about this

681
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 1: on Houston Texans dot com. Go check out the week Slant.

682
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 1: It's every week. It's deep stuff on some of the

683
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 1: other stuff, off field stuff. Anyway, they're facing a lot

684
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 1: of differences in being a Houstonian as opposed to wherever

685
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: they might be from. Yeah, and you know, the week

686
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 1: Slant is just more like a tongue in cheek sort

687
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 1: of fun, fun article. But I thought, well, with rookie

688
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: minicamp and you see all this stuff on Twitter with

689
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 1: the guys from last year sort of learning about what

690
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 1: Houston's all about, thought it might be kind of fun

691
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 1: to give some tips to rookies. I myself did not

692
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 1: grow up in Houston, but I've lived here for over

693
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 1: twenty years. I've lived more of my life in Houston

694
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: than in Indianapolis, which is where I was born. But

695
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 1: I feel like it we forgive you for that, by

696
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 1: the way, if it's okay, But it was all my

697
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 1: adult life. You know, it's not like I was a

698
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: newborn and I don't remember what was happening when I

699
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 1: moved here, like I remember every instance of when I

700
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 1: moved here. So I feel like I could give advice

701
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: to people moving to Houston, especially since I wasn't born here,

702
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 1: because there are a lot of things about Houston that

703
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 1: really confuse the hecotomy when I first moved here. Okay,

704
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 1: one thing, and we'll go in no particular order, is

705
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 1: streets that have two names still confuses me, actually or more.

706
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: And streets that have one name but they stop and

707
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: then start up again a half mile down the road,

708
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 1: or not down the road, but a half mile later

709
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 1: they'll start up again. I never got this about Houston.

710
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: Why do you have bel Air that turns into Hulcombe

711
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 1: Or why do you have Stella Link that turns into Wesleyan,

712
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: which turns into and then it turns into Willowick. Yeah,

713
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 1: so it has three names, and maybe Stella Link turns

714
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: into something else South I don't even know. But why

715
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: do you have that when it's all one continuous street,

716
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 1: and then you have a continuous street like say Sunset,

717
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 1: which stops and then it continues after at some point

718
00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 1: when it can keep going again. What is the deal

719
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 1: with that? You know? I don't know. And I really

720
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 1: think that people that moved here before there was ways

721
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 1: and map quest and Google maps and GPS, right, we

722
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: really had it tough. Because I remember moving here. Streets

723
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 1: have different names and freeways have different names. I get

724
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 1: why they do it, because you can just say Southwest Freeway.

725
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 1: You know exactly which section of fifty nine I'm talking about,

726
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 1: rights text Freeway, south Loop. I know exactly where that is.

727
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: West Loop. I know exactly where that is. I don't

728
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: have to define the exits. But when I used to

729
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 1: watch traffic in the morning before heading to work, I thought,

730
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 1: how many freeways does Houston he oh, when you first

731
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 1: came here. Yeah, And I used to work off of

732
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 1: fifty nine in Stafford. I used to work at that

733
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: big Texas Instruments down there, and I would always wait

734
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: for accidents. But they would never say fifty nine. They

735
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: hardly ever said. They don't say fifty nine. They call

736
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 1: it everything, but fifty yea Southwest Freeway. There's Katie Freeway.

737
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 1: I ten, right, two ninety is just two ninety, I think,

738
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: and two forty nine, I believe is just two forty

739
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 1: nine and two eighty eight is two eighty eight like

740
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: the worst roads there are. Though two forty nine is

741
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: not that bad, but two ninety and two eighty eight

742
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: they're so bad that they have no other name, I guess.

743
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: And then bell Wait eight is the toll way. But

744
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 1: then there's the Hardy toll Road, which I remember I

745
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 1: remember ending up on that by poor rookie is coming in.

746
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 1: They're not going to know anything, you know. You mentioned it,

747
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 1: all right, And I tweeted a picture earlier today of

748
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: me on the practice field because I said, it just

749
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 1: sort of dawned on me. This is rookie Camp number

750
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: seventeen for me. You're no rookie to rookie camps, I'm

751
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 1: no rookie. But if two thousand and two feels like

752
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:31,879
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago to me, it really does.

753
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 1: But you're right. When I moved here, there was no ways,

754
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 1: There were no Google Map. How did we get around

755
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: they when I moved When I moved here and I

756
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: worked for Sports Radio six ten and the Houston Texans,

757
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 1: they threw me a key map, which is like the binder. Yeah,

758
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:46,760
Speaker 1: and they said, this is how you get around Houston,

759
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 1: diet a key map that's super safe while you're driving

760
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:53,919
Speaker 1: to be like thumbing through this quadrant of the map. Yeah,

761
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 1: I had no idea where I was going. Luckily, a

762
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 1: lot of it is grid like, but when you get southwest,

763
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:02,359
Speaker 1: things kind of and I love Sugarland now. No, it's

764
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,839
Speaker 1: like roundy round about roads, twisty tory and it takes

765
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 1: interesting right. It also takes a lot longer to get

766
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:12,840
Speaker 1: to the freeway because we're gonna complete semicircle together. Yeah. No,

767
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: I know all the direct cuts now, you know all

768
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 1: my little Sugarland shortcuts. Yeah, it's the greatest city in America. Yes,

769
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,799
Speaker 1: I think I know that. You believe this. I do

770
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 1: believe this. Yeah, I'm like the I'm the unofficial mayor

771
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 1: of sugar Land, and I do have company of co mayors. Anyway,

772
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 1: So you you talked about this and what about food

773
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 1: places and other things? Yeah, Actually we didn't even get

774
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 1: into the traffic too much because it was is mainly

775
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 1: what what players were tweeting about. Restaurants, I think are

776
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,280
Speaker 1: the big thing in Houston. Everybody finds out very quickly,

777
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,359
Speaker 1: as even the free agents did. There are a lot

778
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,320
Speaker 1: of places to eat in Houston. There's a lot of restaurants.

779
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 1: Who was asking about breakfast play. That was Lamar Miller,

780
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 1: who's been here for a few years, and people were actually,

781
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:53,840
Speaker 1: and I know this only because not because I have

782
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 1: so much free time, but because we compile these things

783
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 1: for likes and stuff. Yeah, so I was just reading

784
00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:59,800
Speaker 1: through some of the comments and people were like, Lamar,

785
00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 1: I told you two years to go to go this

786
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: one place, and he said, well, I've tried that, and

787
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 1: I've tried that, and I've tried that. I've tried that,

788
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: and yet there were still a list of places and

789
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 1: even I had not tried before. I don't want to

790
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 1: recommend my breakfast places because I don't want them too

791
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 1: crowded on the weekends when I like to go there.

792
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 1: If you like, it's probably not a secret, but I'm sure,

793
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:19,800
Speaker 1: I'm sure you probably know some people you can get in. No,

794
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 1: I know some some real cool hangouts down in the

795
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: Land of Sugar for the weekend. All right, for breakfast spot,

796
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 1: I always have, you know, on your phone, you have notes.

797
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 1: I always have a list of restaurants to try, And

798
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 1: it's just ever, you're so smart to do that because

799
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 1: I always forget, you know, you always want to go

800
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 1: out to eat someone yourself. What's that one place that

801
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: I wanted to try? Like movies that I need to see,

802
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 1: and I forget whenever there's a window of opportunity to

803
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:44,239
Speaker 1: watch a movie, like what am I supposed to see? Again?

804
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 1: I forgot that one movie is supposed to be really good. Yeah,

805
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 1: so start a start a page of restaurant recommendations because

806
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 1: that's going to grow really fast. All right. So what

807
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,799
Speaker 1: else did they talk about? Water? And the water thing

808
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: was really more drink water, drink water. It's just in

809
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 1: this just in water is good for you. Actually, I

810
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 1: thought it was funny. Somebody tweeted that they were at

811
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 1: that a music festival up north and nearly passed out

812
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: into Shaun Watson handed him a bottle of water. Oh

813
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 1: he did, he was there, Yeah, so took care of that.

814
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,400
Speaker 1: So he did, which I thought was a very random

815
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 1: thing for to happen. And now with Twitter, we all

816
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 1: know that that happened. NASA got a shout out. I

817
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 1: love NASA. I mean, I'm have a engineering background, so

818
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:22,240
Speaker 1: I love NASA, and I think the players really embraced

819
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: NASA as NASA embraces the Texans. You remember Scott Kelly

820
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: went up into space. He had the longest mission at

821
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 1: the time, it was like three hundred and forty days

822
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 1: in space. He was there during football season. He's come

823
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 1: out to I think either training camp or one of

824
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:37,839
Speaker 1: our practices and he would display his Texans flag up

825
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 1: in space and point to energy stadium. So yeah, I mean,

826
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:42,359
Speaker 1: we get a lot of support from NASA, and JJ

827
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: Watt was there recently. Such a great part of American history. NASA.

828
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:47,279
Speaker 1: It is amazing. You know. I had relatives come from

829
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 1: India like ten years ago, and I took them to

830
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 1: NASA and they were just in awe. Like we remember

831
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:54,800
Speaker 1: in the sixties and the seventies watching this on TV.

832
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 1: And here we are in NASA in you know, I

833
00:37:57,600 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 1: don't I don't want to say, well, don't get me

834
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 1: started out why we don't have space Shuttle here. Yeah,

835
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 1: it's not really right, but still it's mission control. Well exactly,

836
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 1: it's a big exactly, the Johnson Space Center again part

837
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 1: of American history. All right, I need your your ruling

838
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:13,839
Speaker 1: on this. I have I don't think I've ever done

839
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 1: this before, but I went total fanboy on Deshaun Watson

840
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 1: at the Houston, Texas Charity Golf Club this week. You did?

841
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 1: What did you do? I had him take I took

842
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 1: a selfie with him and we post for another picture.

843
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 1: You know, my wife takes some pictures for the team,

844
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:30,359
Speaker 1: and she took a picture of us. Okay, I did that,

845
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 1: But do you think I've ever done I've never done

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00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 1: that with Shop or David Carr really or I probably

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00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 1: did with Andre Johnson, but with my kid, you know,

848
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 1: I think it was just my kid and Andre Johnson.

849
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:41,880
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever had one of me and

850
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:45,400
Speaker 1: a player like hey, and I posted it on Instagram.

851
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:49,320
Speaker 1: So what possessed you to pick it's the power of Watson.

852
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 1: It's it's it's Watson power. And in Instagram it's a

853
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: good Instagram post. It's good, not Twitter or Facebook. I said,

854
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 1: this is an IG deal. I think that was very

855
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: social media A savvy of me to recognize that that

856
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 1: was an Instagram thing and not the other story. You

857
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,919
Speaker 1: should have said it was for official radio radio news.

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00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,279
Speaker 1: I need this picture for radio, you see, because tell

859
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 1: everybody that you like me. Now, he's got that magnetic personality.

860
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,320
Speaker 1: You know, everybody wanted to meet him, and he walks

861
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 1: into a room and you just there's a presence about him.

862
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 1: Some people have that it factor, and I saw it.

863
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 1: We talked about this last year before he played a game,

864
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:29,839
Speaker 1: and then we saw him play and it was even

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00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 1: better on the field. So he's got it. Just got

866
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 1: to keep him out of the hospital and then you'll

867
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 1: be okay, important. That's kind of you know what. The

868
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 1: funny thing with Watson is that you would think when

869
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,319
Speaker 1: people say dynamic, I always picture a certain type of personality,

870
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 1: like you walk in, you're talking, you come in the room.

871
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 1: He's not like that. He's not that type of dynamic.

872
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,400
Speaker 1: But people just flock to him because there's just he

873
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:51,839
Speaker 1: still has. He is an aura about that's the way

874
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 1: he carries himself maybe, and it's probably everything he's accomplished.

875
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's that that allures well. But even the

876
00:39:57,239 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 1: veteran players when he was here last year, they're fans.

877
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 1: They sort a flock to him, which I thought was

878
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 1: really interesting. I think in that way, I can sort

879
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 1: of forgive myself and I won't wait for you ruling

880
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 1: on that. Rookies were talking to the media today. I

881
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:09,319
Speaker 1: know you talked to a bunch of them. Anybody stand

882
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 1: out to you, I thought Justin Reid, Yes, I mean,

883
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,360
Speaker 1: he handles himself vetlike up there at the podium. He

884
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 1: did a great job up there. He got a lot

885
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: of questions about his brother, obviously, I thought he handled

886
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 1: it really well, and he genuinely seemed enthusiastic to be

887
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 1: here for Ricky Minicamp. And while some of them may

888
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 1: say it, I really felt like he just was so

889
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:28,400
Speaker 1: excited to be here. He couldn't wait to get on

890
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:29,839
Speaker 1: the field, and you love to see that in these

891
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:32,359
Speaker 1: younger players. He wasn't. You know, sometimes players get here

892
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:34,480
Speaker 1: there a little bit nervous or scared or unsure of

893
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 1: how they should be answering the media. But he just

894
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 1: really had a lot of personality and I hope it

895
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 1: shows out on the field because it did seem like

896
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:43,880
Speaker 1: he was so enthusiastic. But you know, these Stanford guys

897
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:47,239
Speaker 1: are just they're just really engaging in dynamic and they're

898
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:48,880
Speaker 1: always fun to talk to. And it's good that they

899
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 1: can report because of the new rule, so now they

900
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 1: can report time and be here and soak it all up.

901
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 1: Last year he would not have been here. Him and

902
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,400
Speaker 1: Peter Columbiden, they would not have been here. That's pretty

903
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 1: impressive out there here. That's great. They can learn a

904
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 1: lot and duke edge of four back in Houston. Yeah,

905
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:07,840
Speaker 1: he's but he's one of those guys I think that

906
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 1: he can contribute. You know, he's not a high round

907
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:12,840
Speaker 1: raft choice, but physically he has a lot of the tools.

908
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 1: He's recovering from an injury. Let's see how it plays

909
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 1: out as we go forward with him. Now, what are

910
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 1: you going to write about? I wrote about what a

911
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 1: typical day is like for the rookies. I asked Bill

912
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 1: O'Brien about it. I know they have really long days

913
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 1: like today started at six am, it's going to end

914
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:29,799
Speaker 1: at ten pm. They were here yesterday. We saw them

915
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:31,360
Speaker 1: in the building. They were getting their physicals. They were

916
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 1: sort of it's easy to spot a rookie, by the way,

917
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 1: Why is that because they look like it's not lost

918
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 1: so much, it's just not really quite comfortable in the

919
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:43,800
Speaker 1: surroundings just yet. You know, one of them was looking

920
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,360
Speaker 1: around a little bit yesterday like where not where's the

921
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:48,800
Speaker 1: bathroom kind of stuff, but maybe where's a coach's office

922
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 1: or something, And it's natural, you know, they're end up

923
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:52,320
Speaker 1: building here for the first time. This is a big place,

924
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 1: and I think that it's just natural to go through

925
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 1: that sort of transition process. Yeah, it's a lot of

926
00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:58,880
Speaker 1: fun to have players back in the building. And it

927
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 1: was still phase two of the offseason workouts. So earlier

928
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: in the week we had the veterans here, and then

929
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 1: we've got the rookies here, and the next week, you know,

930
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:07,399
Speaker 1: we'll have more of the veterans and the rookies mixed

931
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:09,879
Speaker 1: in together, so it'll be so exciting. All right, thanks

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Speaker 1: a lot, d Thanks Mark. All right, that's tp Cito.

933
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 1: Read her stuff on Houston Texans dot com. She's the

934
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:18,720
Speaker 1: lead writer for the website and our stuff on social media.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for the show. Thank you Johnny

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Speaker 1: Harris for being with us Houston Texans dot com. As

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00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:24,839
Speaker 1: all the stuff on the rookies will cover it off

938
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Speaker 1: for you tomorrow as well at practice at the Houston

939
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Speaker 1: Methodist Training Center. Check out all the social media platforms

940
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 1: for your Houston Texans. Galt at Night is next. Have

941
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:35,800
Speaker 1: a great weekend and go Texans.