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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, and welcome it to NRG Stadium. Mark Vandermer

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Speaker 1: with you joint tonight by John Harris. We are looking

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Speaker 1: forward to this one. We always look forward to Texans

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Speaker 1: Radio with you from the Hunday Texans Radio Studio. And

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Speaker 1: I want to pick up right where we left off

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Speaker 1: this morning when I'm making my Sports Radio six ten

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Speaker 1: appearance Johnny. Because it's very well by the way, will

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Speaker 1: I will say, because it was all Russell Westbrook all

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Speaker 1: the time. I don't know, it's just good through an

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Speaker 1: NFL lands though. You see how you like the way

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Speaker 1: I married a little nflism into that you did, because

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Speaker 1: that's that's my world, Like trying to compare anything to football. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I can. I can do that. That's my thing. Well,

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Speaker 1: it would be like the Texans acquiring X player, and

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Speaker 1: there's no real apples to apples obviously because you're dealing

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Speaker 1: with different, different sport. Anyway, Westbrook has never been I

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Speaker 1: can't even call him a rocket villain. He was a

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Speaker 1: villain in terms of MVP voting preference when he wanted

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Speaker 1: and a lot of people felt hardened should have and

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Speaker 1: people thought he was fattening up those triple double stats

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Speaker 1: with carbo hydrates, so a little bit like that. But

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Speaker 1: it's not like Oklahoma City has been the bane of

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Speaker 1: the Rockets existence. It hasn't been at all. Right, It's

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Speaker 1: not like it's been the Utah Jazz back in the

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Speaker 1: nineties or hey, even with McGrady and yeah and that

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Speaker 1: kind of thing, it hasn't been like that that franchise.

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Speaker 1: So you can't say Westbrook is that kind of guy.

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Speaker 1: But he wasn't extremely well liked here by Rockets fans,

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Speaker 1: and now he's a Rocket. So what would the Texans

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Speaker 1: equivalent be of that kind of acquisition? And you brought

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Speaker 1: up a name I brought up in well, first of all,

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Speaker 1: the name that you came up with odeh j. That's

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Speaker 1: a good one. I think when you try and you

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Speaker 1: try and bring every facet of what you talked about

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Speaker 1: with Russell Westbrook, it's very it's very nuanced because the

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Speaker 1: the Rockets played Russell Westbrook often and there was this

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Speaker 1: individual matchup seemingly when hardened Westbrook because they knew each other.

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Speaker 1: And so there's that time you have a player of

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Speaker 1: that caliber moving. The only thing you really could have

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Speaker 1: quit it tune. The NFL's of a quarterback moved so

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Speaker 1: he seemingly. But you came up with one Odell Beckham Junior,

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Speaker 1: I thought was very very good. So as I was

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Speaker 1: as I was as I heard you offer up that question,

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Speaker 1: I thought, man, who could that be? And I came

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Speaker 1: up with Travis Kelsey because I thought about a guy

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Speaker 1: that is volatile, He's athletic, He's hurt the Texans before

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Speaker 1: I know when he walks in the stadium. The fans

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Speaker 1: don't care for him because of his antics and certain things.

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Speaker 1: At least that's how I feel about it. I don't

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Speaker 1: really care about it now. I would take Travis Kelsey

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Speaker 1: every day and twice on something everybody would right, But

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Speaker 1: some of his antics and the things that he does.

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Speaker 1: But man, you talk about wildly explosive, can do anything

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Speaker 1: on a football field, gives you the energy that you're

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Speaker 1: looking for. That's Russell Westley's polarizing. Travis Kelsey cut up

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Speaker 1: to me. I'm coming around to it. I know first

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Speaker 1: when I said this to you're like, no, bad, no,

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Speaker 1: But then you need you need time to marinate, time

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Speaker 1: for things to marinate a little bit. And so I'm

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Speaker 1: convincing you on Kelsey. The other thing I thought about,

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Speaker 1: was okay, is there a quarterback? Because when you're thinking

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Speaker 1: about a player moving of that caliber, you're thinking of

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Speaker 1: a quarterback. So you're thinking about, Okay, I got a guy,

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Speaker 1: go ahead, Ben Roethlisberger. That's a good one. Because he's

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Speaker 1: not a very well liked guy in many circles. People

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Speaker 1: respect his ability, though, and they respect Westbrook's ability. Although

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Speaker 1: is Westbrook more of the kind of quarterback who puts

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Speaker 1: up big numbers but doesn't win the big one? So

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Speaker 1: that's who I came to. Roethlisberger's draft companion, Philip Rivers.

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Speaker 1: But Rivers is so light that I know, I know

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Speaker 1: he is likable, and I'm not saying see now fans

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Speaker 1: like yeah, yeah, fans like him. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: opposing teammates like him, posing players like him. Here's here's

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Speaker 1: the other thing and fullest closure here or a disclaimer. Rather,

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Speaker 1: I really like Westbrook. I was in the minority. I

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Speaker 1: a big threat to the Rockets existence. You know, if

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Speaker 1: I always enjoyed watching Westbrook play for Oklahoma City. Wanted

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Speaker 1: a show. I guess. I do enjoy watching Rivers play too,

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Speaker 1: and he's not playing the Texas. Oh my gosh, he's

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Speaker 1: There were two, maybe three times in that game where

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Speaker 1: and if balls out, I was like, how does he

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Speaker 1: and he's so smart. I love to hear him mike up.

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Speaker 1: But that's the one thing I thought about. When you

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Speaker 1: hear him miked up. He talks so much trash all

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Speaker 1: the time. Like the fans may like him because he's

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Speaker 1: all Gali gee Alabam, he's a Southern guy, but he

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Speaker 1: talks so much junk to everybody. Y'all think you're gonna

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Speaker 1: beat me with that blitz. You've been working on that

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Speaker 1: They cannot mike him up enough, really, I know. So

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Speaker 1: that was one that was one I thought about Baker Mayfield,

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Speaker 1: if he was further into his career. Very good example.

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Speaker 1: But he's got to put up a lot of numbers

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Speaker 1: and not win the big one. Yeah, and that may happen.

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Speaker 1: It could, that may happen. It's extremely difficult to win

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Speaker 1: the big one. This just in the FC with the

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Speaker 1: young quarterbacks, Darnald with the Jets, Baker with the Browns,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen with the Bills, Deshan Mahomes. There's some good

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Speaker 1: young quarterbacks in this division, it's newest conference. What are

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Speaker 1: some other Westbrookie and type players in the NFL? I

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Speaker 1: mentioned Odell Beckham Junior because he's a really good receiver.

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Speaker 1: He does put up good numbers when available, and he's

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Speaker 1: not that likable around the league. I think maybe he's

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Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe I'm reading this incorrectly. I think

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Speaker 1: we feel this way here because we have DeAndre Hopkins

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Speaker 1: and Odell Beckham Junior still overshadows him on a national

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Speaker 1: stage sometimes and shouldn't really, because Hopkins has put in

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Speaker 1: the work, not that Beckham hasn't put in the work,

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Speaker 1: but has put in the resume building material, and he's

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Speaker 1: been on winning teams, and he's been in the playoffs

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Speaker 1: and he's done things. Okay, Beckham is not quite the same. Now,

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Speaker 1: maybe you could blame his team for that, and you

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Speaker 1: put Beckham in a postseason stage, he's really going to

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Speaker 1: come through for you. But we all go back to

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Speaker 1: the catch in his rookie year, that catch against the

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. Cowboys, right, it continues, it was Sunday Night football.

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Speaker 1: It continues to be the big highlight in the NFL

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Speaker 1: one hundred Super Bowl commercial with the cake. Beckham is

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Speaker 1: in it, not DeAndre Hopkins, and that is upsetting to

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Speaker 1: fans here in Houston. Well, I think that's why Beckham

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Speaker 1: I agree with you totally from that perspective, I think

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Speaker 1: with Beckham you said exactly what I think it is

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Speaker 1: with Russell Westbrook. There is love and there is hate.

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Speaker 1: There's not much middle ground there, right, there is love

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Speaker 1: that perspective, but I think that's where that's where OBJ

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Speaker 1: that he brings. But you're right, he is and I

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Speaker 1: think that's I don't know if the if the Texans

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Speaker 1: fans see as much Robberty because he is in the

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Speaker 1: NFC and you only see him every four years, So

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Speaker 1: maybe it's a maybe it's a little a little different.

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Speaker 1: But receivers are pretty good. They're pretty good fodder for that.

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Speaker 1: I think what Mike say, Levion Bell and Antonio Brown, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I could say we are good ones. Somebody brought up

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Speaker 1: one because t Y Hilton kills the Texans. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: I know they've controlled him in a couple of games

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Speaker 1: for sure, but he hurts the Texans big time and

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Speaker 1: Westbrook hasn't really hurt the Rockets to that degree. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: that you beat him in a playoffs serious? I mean,

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Speaker 1: Hills is pretty much everything else, Like he's everything else.

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Speaker 1: Kelsey's hurt the Texans a lot. He has, he is,

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Speaker 1: but he's not He's not well in twenty fifteen, that

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen Week two, you beat him? Yeah, boy a yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: He was so frustrated. I remember hearing him after the game.

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Speaker 1: He was livid, so mad, Um, did y'all bring up

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Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey? Uh? Somebody Cecil did? I believe Cecil brought

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Speaker 1: up Ramsey. And I think that's a pretty good one

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Speaker 1: Johnny Well, I feel like the relationship that DeAndre Hopkins

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Speaker 1: Ramsey one day could become a Texan or whatever. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you certainly don't want to alienate him on that side

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Speaker 1: we'd love to see that opportunity flourished. Well. I think

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars are four and two or I'm sorry. The

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Speaker 1: Jaguars are two and four against the Texans, and one

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Speaker 1: of those wins they got late in twenty seventeen when

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Speaker 1: the Texans had all the injuries and just done at

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Speaker 1: little bit more run against one another. Maybe, But did

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Speaker 1: you see what did you see the social media that

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Speaker 1: oh last night? Yeah, that Jayalen Ramsey put out. There

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Speaker 1: was a little play between them, So go ahead tell

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Speaker 1: us about it. So Jayalen Ramsey saw that, I think

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Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins post on Instagram and it was a picture

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Speaker 1: Rockets jersey, and so he posted on Instagram and then

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Speaker 1: a little down below Jayla Ramsey said with the little

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Speaker 1: eyeball emoji, saying that he sees it. Oh y'all hooking

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Speaker 1: up stars in Houston now? And then DeAndre, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: do you retweet? He had another post He responded, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you put Jalen Ramsey at corner for this team? Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, because I think some of the issues that

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Speaker 1: I think some of the issues that Jacksonville had with

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Speaker 1: Ramsey the last couple of years are eliminated here in

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Speaker 1: Houston because obviously he's playing me. Had another great defensive line.

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Speaker 1: and it's kind of fascinating. I mean, it's like free agency.

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Speaker 1: And then they have one in the winter as well

426
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Speaker 1: as there as the international clubs are playing. It's it's

427
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Speaker 1: phenomenal watch. So it'll be interesting to see if there'll

428
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Speaker 1: be on any other names coming in if people want

429
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Speaker 1: to go. And I know people are hearing this, going,

430
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Speaker 1: oh I want to go. I like Bayern Munich, or

431
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 1: I love Real Madrid or I'm just a soccer fan.

432
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Speaker 1: What's the best way When they get tickets, hurry up,

433
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Speaker 1: do what I tell you. I mean, hurry up. We

434
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Speaker 1: we are. We are going to have another full house here. Um,

435
00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:15,200
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a spectacular show. Ticketmaster dot com uh

436
00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:18,520
Speaker 1: as your destination for tickets. Um, you get on there

437
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:22,000
Speaker 1: right now and you can certainly find um a couple

438
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Speaker 1: of steel still out there. But this will be a

439
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,720
Speaker 1: full house, there's no no doubt about it. And um,

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Speaker 1: you know we're looking at a situation where it's gonna

441
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Speaker 1: be another Saturday night here in Houston, m a big

442
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Speaker 1: night of sports next Saturday, as the Astros and Rangers

443
00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 1: would be a plan for the Silver boot over at

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Speaker 1: ad minute made. Uh, they'll have a full house. We'll

445
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,679
Speaker 1: have a full house over here, uh at n RG.

446
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Speaker 1: So I encourage you to get out, um and check

447
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,520
Speaker 1: out ticketmaster or lsc dot net. Great place to get

448
00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:49,840
Speaker 1: all the information for game day. UM, but don't want

449
00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:51,600
Speaker 1: to miss this one. I've seen a couple of the

450
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:53,920
Speaker 1: I've seen a couple of the players starting to stroll

451
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 1: back into the stadium and that's that's one of the

452
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:57,960
Speaker 1: first questions that we're hearing is hey, man, how do

453
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Speaker 1: I get my tickets for that? Exactly? Guys they want

454
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:03,679
Speaker 1: they're in. They they they're like, hey, who do you

455
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:05,960
Speaker 1: know get me in? Yeah, flets can get you in. Okay,

456
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,679
Speaker 1: go go see Fletch. Fletch will get you into this.

457
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 1: And it's really cool because I mean, obviously Jandre Hopkins

458
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Speaker 1: we know as a huge soccer fan, but uh, you

459
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:18,200
Speaker 1: know Bayern Munich. I believe Deshan worked out with Bayern

460
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,159
Speaker 1: Munich when he went over to Germany a couple a

461
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,480
Speaker 1: couple off seasons to go. So he did last summer. Yeah,

462
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:24,640
Speaker 1: so he you know, so he's got that as well.

463
00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 1: So uh, it's it's just amazing that that you guys

464
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Speaker 1: have been able to bring a match up like this

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00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 1: to Houston. So I've pumped about it. I'm really excited.

466
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 1: And the following Saturday will be in the midst of

467
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Speaker 1: training camp, so it's all here, rookie, it's all here.

468
00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:42,880
Speaker 1: Ricky's report the next day, so you know it's gonna

469
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Speaker 1: be uh, it's gonna be football season before you know it.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna steal that last day we can um

471
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Speaker 1: and get the football crowd in here. But but really,

472
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,399
Speaker 1: more than anything, this is just big time sports. You

473
00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,800
Speaker 1: cannot miss an opportunity to see Real Madrid Buyern Munich

474
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:57,480
Speaker 1: um and it's right here and NRG. So it comes

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Speaker 1: to us absolutely flets appreciated, Brother, John Harris David Fletcher

476
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,359
Speaker 1: on Texans Radio. All right, coming up, Texans have a

477
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Speaker 1: GM vacancy or not, let's discuss and also let's discuss

478
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Speaker 1: that DeAndre Hopkins Deshaun Watson viral video that just went

479
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Speaker 1: nuts this week with Hopkins making another all time catch.

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Speaker 1: It's Texans Radio, Mark vandermir John Harris with you from

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Speaker 1: the Hunday Texans radio studio. Okay, a few things as promised.

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Speaker 1: That viral video is Hopkins catching the sushi. Scott McClellan,

483
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Speaker 1: president of hib joins us in a few moments, doesn't

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Speaker 1: really join us. I'm gonna play you an excerpt from

485
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Speaker 1: the Vandermirer's View podcast with him. Let me tell you something.

486
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:40,359
Speaker 1: Scott McClellan makes grocery shopping seem really cool and interesting.

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Speaker 1: You've heard him speak, right, He's great. He's unbelievable. He

488
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Speaker 1: is incredible. I've heard him speaking. It's fantastic. Yeah, he

489
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Speaker 1: is really really good. I think sometimes when it's funny

490
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Speaker 1: to his quick story about Scott. One day, my daughter

491
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Speaker 1: was with me here at the stadium because we're doing

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Speaker 1: some radio and I needed to go grab her um

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Speaker 1: because he was younger, so I was like, hey, you

494
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Speaker 1: want to come to the stadium with me? And we're

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Speaker 1: kind of in the bowels of the stadium, so figuring

496
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Speaker 1: we just stay in the studio, we're good, but we

497
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Speaker 1: decided to walk to the cafeteria to get a drink

498
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Speaker 1: and there's something something was going on I think upstairs

499
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Speaker 1: and where there was a tour or something was happening,

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Speaker 1: and we were walking and a group was coming at us,

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Speaker 1: and it was Scott and he had like maybe a

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Speaker 1: group of like five or six people, and he just

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Speaker 1: looked over and I don't know if he knew who

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Speaker 1: I was or didn't know or whatever. He just looked

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Speaker 1: over him as being nice and it's like, hey, how

506
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Speaker 1: are you guys doing? And I was like, hey, good,

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Speaker 1: good to see you. And all of a sudden, my

508
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Speaker 1: daughter looked at me and she her eyes were just

509
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Speaker 1: biggest saucers, and I was like, what's wrong. She goes,

510
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Speaker 1: that's the HGB guy. She had seen Scott on the commercial.

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Speaker 1: Of course, that's how that's how to be recognized, absolutely

512
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Speaker 1: and some commercials. I felt terrible because I didn't I

513
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Speaker 1: didn't put two and two together until we were past,

514
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Speaker 1: and I don't I don't know Scott had maybe I've

515
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Speaker 1: shaken his hand, but I walked back. I was like, man,

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Speaker 1: I wish I would have known. I would have produced

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Speaker 1: her to him and just say, hey, this is my

518
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Speaker 1: daughter and she wanted to meet you and do that,

519
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,880
Speaker 1: but but I did, But I just never I'm there

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00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 1: forget that she was maybe I don't know. Twelve twelve thirteen,

521
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 1: but she'd seen him on the commercials and she's like,

522
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:18,119
Speaker 1: that's the ATB guy. An HTB guy is a tremendous

523
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 1: dude to listen to. He is so good Vandamer's View podcast,

524
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Speaker 1: and you'll hear an excerpt a little bit later on

525
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Speaker 1: in this segment talking about that DeAndre Hopkins Deshaun Watson

526
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Speaker 1: viral video speaking of Hopkins, though he makes a little

527
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Speaker 1: bit of history this week. How about this. So there

528
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,159
Speaker 1: was a billboard and I'm not sure where the billboard was.

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Speaker 1: I think it was Chicago maybe, but Madden, the game

530
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Speaker 1: Madden e A Sports was putting up. Each day they

531
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Speaker 1: would unveil one player that was in the ninety nine club,

532
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Speaker 1: not the number ninety nine, but the rating of ninety nine.

533
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Speaker 1: So they had four players with the rating of ninety nine,

534
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Speaker 1: and immediately everybody's okay, Aaron Donald's won. We debated this

535
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Speaker 1: a little bit and then we kind of a tossround

536
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 1: Klill Mac and we're like, wait, uh, they're there are

537
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:08,399
Speaker 1: three defensive, one offensive, and so thinking, man, who's the

538
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,639
Speaker 1: third defensive? It was Bobby Wagner from the Seahawks. He

539
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 1: was okay, he was phenomenal there was one offensive player.

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Speaker 1: So I tweeted this earlier today. NFL's an offensive league, right,

541
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Speaker 1: it's an offensive league. Right, one offensive player got a

542
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:26,439
Speaker 1: ninety nine rating. That was DeAndre Hopkins. That's incredible, So

543
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:30,200
Speaker 1: what does that make hopes? That make hoppin an offensive league?

544
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 1: He's the only player rated ninety nine, But he can't

545
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:35,919
Speaker 1: get in the super Bowl commercial for the NFL one

546
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 1: because your boy Obj's getting in because he had one catch.

547
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 1: Now that wasn't even as good as Hopkins catch that year. No,

548
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: I know, it's just it's crazy. It's crazy, but what

549
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? And I think I think it

550
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: motivates DeAndre actually, so maybe we should root for more

551
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 1: of this kind of stuff to happen. Although the ninety nine,

552
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: he's gonna look at that as something not that he

553
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: has to live up to, but he'll be he'll be

554
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 1: proud of that. I mean, whatever, it's a video game,

555
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 1: but it's kind of it's a cool thing. They know

556
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: their ratings, they certainly do. I mean, if I had

557
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 1: a rating as an announcer, you better believe I'd know it.

558
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: And most importantly, the players know their ratings. Yeah, that's

559
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about the one year that David Anderson

560
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 1: was rated the lowest player in the NFL. He used

561
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 1: to come on the air with us with Sean and

562
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 1: I and oh, we bust his chops. He was so funny.

563
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 1: It was so funny thinking about it. He was so

564
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Speaker 1: mad that he had like a fifty three rating. The

565
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: next time it came out, because at that point you

566
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Speaker 1: could update the ratings, he ended up getting into the

567
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Speaker 1: sixties and it was a riot. It was so funny

568
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Speaker 1: to listen to him talk about his rating being one

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Speaker 1: of the worst in the NFL, and we we'd give

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Speaker 1: him a hard time about that. But these players know,

571
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 1: I mean, these players know what the ratings are. Now

572
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 1: the players have the players have one way of contributing,

573
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: and that's to the NFL's top one hundred players that'll

574
00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 1: be coming out of NFL Network on the twenty seconds

575
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 1: from starts being unveiled. That's when they get to vote

576
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Speaker 1: on who they think. Really it's it's taken longer this

577
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 1: year to get the show out, or has it not.

578
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 1: I think it's about the same. Really think it feels

579
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Speaker 1: like they should have started that rolling already. I just

580
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 1: think that we are we're looking forward for any football

581
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 1: We give me anything football wise right now, and I'm

582
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Speaker 1: on it. I mean, three weeks from last night the

583
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,239
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame game, well, yeah, and four weeks from

584
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 1: last night you know who plays at Green Bay. Yeah,

585
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 1: there you go. Four weeks, four weeks drowning less than

586
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 1: four weeks, less than four weeks. Now we're inside three

587
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: weeks to go, well inside four weeks ago. I guess

588
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Speaker 1: we ask you this question I got the other day.

589
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Speaker 1: I was on I was on with my buddy Richard Cross,

590
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Speaker 1: who's silent reporter for Old miss I was on his

591
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Speaker 1: radio show in Mississippi, and I've been going on there

592
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Speaker 1: for a few years and I've got to know those

593
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Speaker 1: guys pretty well, and so I was. Richard asked me,

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Speaker 1: and I think this answer is different in college and

595
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 1: especially in a sec you know, I'll explain why. But

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Speaker 1: he said, when I know that Andre has got a

597
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Speaker 1: famous answer for this, But when do you feel like

598
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 1: the season is here? When do you feel like the

599
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: season is starting? Because I know a lot of people say, oh,

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00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 1: first game Monday night something. No no no, no, no, no,

601
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: no no no, no no, it's well before that. When do

602
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: you think is the actual start like football is on. Well,

603
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 1: it's different for us his building. I mean, I just

604
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 1: saw John Perry today, all right, all the coaches started

605
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 1: to come back. And by the way, his son's looking

606
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 1: at colleges right now. This is the wide receivers coach

607
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 1: for the Texans. His son plays quarterback for Clements High School.

608
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 1: He's looking at colleges, and it's it's pretty cool to

609
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 1: hear some of these stories. He's not looking at Alabama, Okay,

610
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: it's more like Division three, maybe higher than that, but

611
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 1: you know there's gonna be one he considers right off

612
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 1: the bat well. I think he's taking a journey there.

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00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: You're Alma Mater. But I don't know if he's going

614
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Speaker 1: or not. I don't know, because he's also looking at

615
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 1: Williams and places like that, and that's hard to turn

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00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: down as well. No, I know those are great schools

617
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 1: as well, But your uncle's the head coach, so your uncle.

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00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 1: Is that good or bad? I don't know. I thought

619
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Speaker 1: about that. Is that good or bad? I don't know.

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00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 1: I mean, but when does the season start? I think

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Speaker 1: for most people it'll be when the camp coverage explodes,

622
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: with US and another outlets covering it for a start.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know it's difficult. We're in the building,

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Speaker 1: I will see you with your It'll be that. It'll

625
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 1: two weeks, it'll be It'll not be the first day

626
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: of camp. It'll be that week when I see the

627
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: stand set up and I feel it, and the coaches

628
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: are here, and I see the players rolling in and

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Speaker 1: and that's it. I mean, really, honestly, I've kind of

630
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 1: felt it for a long time. I'll go another way here.

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Speaker 1: Once July fourth hits, yeah, summer's over for me. Yeah,

632
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: summer's old stets and a lot of people look at it. Oh,

633
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 1: no Labor day for me, Summer's over. I get it.

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Speaker 1: But in this business, once July fourth hits, you know

635
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 1: that you're skiing downhill toward the lodge, and you're Once

636
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: you're in the lodge, it's it's go time. So you know,

637
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: why don't I mix the metaphor of skiing with July

638
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 1: fourth in Houston especially. I don't know why, but I

639
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: just did. It just feels like the summer's over once

640
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: Independence Day passes, I said to Richard, I said, the

641
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 1: day before training camp starts, when the players, when I

642
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 1: see the players in the building, when I see the

643
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,719
Speaker 1: players back in the building, and I was like, okay,

644
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: but but I'm with you. When you start seeing the setup. Now,

645
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, we haven't that that setup

646
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 1: has been a little bit later. We've been at the Greenbrier.

647
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: But when I see the players come in the building

648
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 1: and it's time for physicals and it's you know that, okay,

649
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: then that's when I really feel it. In college, I

650
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 1: think it's a little different, I think because you have

651
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 1: media days, I think in the SEC in particular, which

652
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 1: is going to be next week, when they have when

653
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: it's media days, when you see the coaches walk in

654
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: and you see three players from each team and you

655
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 1: get a chance to talk to them and you're talking

656
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 1: about football stuff and you're talking about oh Man Camp

657
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 1: starting in a few weeks, I think that's when it

658
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 1: really sort of kicks off for the college folks, especially

659
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 1: those in the South covering SEC the Big twelve, when

660
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 1: they have those media days, like okay, let's the start

661
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 1: it kind of all right, this is when you can

662
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 1: start the engine. Maybe you don't have to take the

663
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 1: car all the way out for your long jaunt, but

664
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 1: you can at least start packing the car and getting

665
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 1: ready because it's common, so I said to them media

666
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 1: days for college, but I think you're exactly right. It's

667
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 1: that week, but in particular that day before when the

668
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: players show up, that's arrival day and they're all here

669
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 1: and it's time to kick this thing off on the

670
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 1: next day for training camp. That to me is when

671
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 1: it happened. It's very different for us this year, not

672
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: packing for at least a couple of weeks to go

673
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 1: to the Greenbrier. It's just, you know, you just have

674
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 1: to be ready for that first day and then you

675
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 1: take it from there. Very different feeling. All right, general

676
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 1: manager situation. There is no GM technically for this team

677
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: in name, but like we've pointed out from the get go,

678
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 1: as this transition or whatever you want to call it,

679
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: this period of time began post Brian Gaine, that there's

680
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 1: a team in place of people like Bill O'Brien, Jack

681
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 1: easterby Matt Badg again, the director of player Per Sadel,

682
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: when you look at James Lipford, director of college Scouting,

683
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: when you look at Rob Kissel, the whole crew, Chris Sulson,

684
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 1: of course, the whole crew. There are people here in

685
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,759
Speaker 1: place doing that job and it's always divided up really,

686
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 1: but clearly there are ideas people have and they go

687
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 1: after them. Because the supplement mental draft was this week,

688
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:04,720
Speaker 1: and you tell me what was reported. Well, Tony Pauline,

689
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 1: who does a great job covering covering a draft, and

690
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 1: he has been on his own independent site, draft analysts

691
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 1: dot com. He's tremidous. He has information. Sometimes I'm like,

692
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 1: I go to him. There's no other draft analysts. I

693
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 1: go to find out information, stuff behind the scenes. Tony

694
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 1: Pauline somehow has information. I'm like, where did he get that? Well,

695
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 1: he wrote this about safety Jalen Thompson, who was with

696
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: Washington State and he was ruling eligible for some particular

697
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: reason for the twenty nineteen season, and that was just

698
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:37,360
Speaker 1: that was the summer, and because he was he was

699
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:41,360
Speaker 1: able to apply for the supplemental draft, and most supplemental

700
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: draft kind of come and go and there's nothing really

701
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 1: to get too excited about. But when I knew he

702
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:46,839
Speaker 1: was out there, I had actually studied him getting ready

703
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,799
Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty draft. So I was like, oh boy,

704
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 1: I hope that we're taking a look. And apparently we were.

705
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 1: This is what Tony said, and I quote I was

706
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,760
Speaker 1: informed the Houston Texas put in a fifth round bid

707
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 1: for Thompson, but it was a little late, as the

708
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 1: Cardinals got to him first. So what happens in the

709
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:10,399
Speaker 1: supplemental draft is you you put in a bid beforehand. Hey. Um.

710
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 1: In this case, the Texans said, we'd like Thompson in

711
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 1: the fifth round, so you're gonna go in your order.

712
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:19,240
Speaker 1: So you just go in draft order, right, and anybody

713
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 1: have a bid for the first round. No, anybody got

714
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 1: a bid for the second round, nor third, No fourth,

715
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 1: no four. But you're burning up a fourth right and

716
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: that next year's draft. That's the rub you have then

717
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 1: to give up that pick. So the Cardinals at the

718
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 1: top of the fifth round said, yes, we'd like Jalen Thompson,

719
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 1: but they're gonna have to give up a fifth rounder

720
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 1: next year as a result, or in this twenty twenty

721
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 1: draft as a result. So the Texans would have gotten

722
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 1: Jalen Thompson, the safety out of Washington State, had the

723
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,239
Speaker 1: Cardinals not put in a bid. Now that's not to

724
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 1: say that there weren't other teams that put in bids,

725
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: but apparently the Packers who were interested in him did

726
00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 1: not put it in a bid. But the Cardinals of

727
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 1: Texans did both in the fifth round, but the Cardinals,

728
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 1: because they had the higher priority because of where they

729
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 1: finished versus where the Texans finished, they ended up getting

730
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:11,319
Speaker 1: Jane Thompson. So to your point, the action items in

731
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: the NFL are still being acted upon, Yeah, by the

732
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:19,400
Speaker 1: staff this organization. It's less about what happened, just the

733
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 1: fact that it did happen. Right. That's somebody in the organization,

734
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 1: and maybe more than one people said, hey, do we

735
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: like this guy? Right? What do you think of doing

736
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:29,319
Speaker 1: this pick? And they collectively decided, and Bill O'Brien again

737
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 1: signs off on everything, and they said, let's just go

738
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 1: ahead and put this bid in. They if they had

739
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: put in a fourth round bid, they would have gotten them,

740
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:39,319
Speaker 1: but again, you're burning up a fourth round pick from

741
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 1: next year. They might not have been willing to do

742
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 1: it that high. Obviously they weren't. And there you go.

743
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: Once upon a time they put in a second round

744
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:48,399
Speaker 1: pick on a Bill O'Brien college pupil Tony Holling, Yeah,

745
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:49,800
Speaker 1: and they ended up getting Hollies and they had to

746
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: give him a second round pick. And I when I

747
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 1: saw that they had put in a bid, I thought

748
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:57,319
Speaker 1: two things, the one that you're thinking of, and then

749
00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 1: the second one is that would have been pretty good

750
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: value for a guy I would have probably had at

751
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 1: the end of day two, probably round three guy that

752
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 1: you get a couple of rounds ahead, and obviously your

753
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 1: senior year, you get a chance to show it off

754
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 1: a little bit more and maybe improved that stock and

755
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 1: get from a third to second. That kind of thing.

756
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 1: It's kind of like an early it's almost like a

757
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 1: commodities thing, yet it's exactly it's future is better, well

758
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 1: it is now. You wouldn't have had the spring with him,

759
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 1: You wouldn't have had that, But it would have been

760
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: a guy that if you're putting in a you're putting

761
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:27,799
Speaker 1: in a bid four in the fifth round, you're thinking, hey,

762
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:29,719
Speaker 1: we want to work with this guy. Maybe you don't

763
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:31,879
Speaker 1: squeez him throw a practice squad, but maybe you carry

764
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:33,400
Speaker 1: him and you get him to a point where understand

765
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 1: your system and he can help you on special teams

766
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 1: and do some of the things that guys like aj

767
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 1: Moore did for you last year that Johnson Banimosi did

768
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 1: give you that. Sure, he would have had that ability

769
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:45,359
Speaker 1: until he grows into the role of playing safety. He's

770
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 1: kind of a ball hawker's safety. He's gonna fit pretty

771
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 1: well in Arizona. Buddha Baker's already there, so you add

772
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 1: him with Buddha Baker. I think they're gonna end up

773
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 1: doing something with him in Arizona. But but yeah, the

774
00:38:55,600 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 1: Texans still doing what they're supposed to be doing even

775
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,799
Speaker 1: without a GM. As everybody panics going in there. Well,

776
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 1: this is a key example right here of the things

777
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 1: that are going on in the NFL. Unless you would think, well,

778
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 1: GM's got to make a decision. No, the Houston Texans

779
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 1: organization made that decision, and people within it made that

780
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: decision to do this, and just the Cardinals ended up

781
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 1: with the priority order getting him the fifth round. A

782
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 1: long time ago, Scott McClellan, president of HIB made a

783
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 1: decision to do sports commercial sports figures from local teams,

784
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 1: and one of them just shot this week. You saw

785
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 1: on social media featured Deshaun Watson throwing sushi to DeAndre Hopkins.

786
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 1: He caught it with chopsticks. They weren't going to do

787
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:38,439
Speaker 1: it that way, but they got it on the first take.

788
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:41,760
Speaker 1: Here's Scott McClellan talking about the situation. The bid actually

789
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 1: was scripted to where Deshaun was going to throw sushi

790
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 1: to DeAndre and DeAndre was going to catch it, but

791
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 1: we thought that we were going to have to use

792
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 1: special effects to show it, and so he threw it,

793
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 1: and I really was amazing marked that on the first throw,

794
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 1: DeAndre catches the sushi with a pair of chopsticks. I mean,

795
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 1: the dude can catch anything. And everyone on the set

796
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: just went crazy, and so we then we had a

797
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:13,839
Speaker 1: debate because we normally don't release the commercials until it's

798
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:16,879
Speaker 1: time to release them, and we thought to ourselves, this

799
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 1: is too good to hang on too, because this could

800
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 1: be an ESPN Top ten Moments, and so we put

801
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 1: it together and put it out on social media and

802
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: it's really taken off, and I think yesterday DeAndre said, hey,

803
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 1: let's create a sushi challenge. Everybody should try to do

804
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:35,720
Speaker 1: this and shoot when I can barely eat with chops

805
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 1: to much less catch a flying piece of fish, and

806
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: he really is talented. I have to tell you. There's

807
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,839
Speaker 1: another commercial we did where they're dressed up in as

808
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 1: Roman warriors and DeAndrea, of course can catch anything with

809
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 1: one hand, and he's catching a makeshift Roman football with

810
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 1: one hand. And they're such good sports because you know,

811
00:40:57,640 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 1: humor is a big part of what we do in

812
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 1: our ads. They go along with the gig and the

813
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: gags and have a good time doing it. Tell me

814
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 1: about some of the other memorable ones over the years.

815
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 1: I remember Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitt and David Carr. That

816
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:13,800
Speaker 1: must have been a fun one, especially when you cross

817
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 1: pollinate the two sports. For David it was rough in

818
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:20,760
Speaker 1: those early years. There was one where he was carrying

819
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 1: groceries in without a bag and was setting them down

820
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 1: on the counter and Rogers said, where's your bag? And

821
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 1: his wife looked at Roger and said he doesn't like sacks,

822
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: and there was It was such a great line, I

823
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 1: think because there was a real bubble in Andre because

824
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 1: he was just getting destroyed those first couple of years

825
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 1: because he had no Proderson, and that was a good line.

826
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:48,719
Speaker 1: And there was another one where, um, and I can't

827
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:52,240
Speaker 1: remember it was Roger threw the ball over David's house

828
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 1: or David threw the ball over Rogers house and ended

829
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 1: up in his school. But yeah, we had we've had

830
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 1: those good ones. Maybe one of one of my favorites

831
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,359
Speaker 1: was when JJ and I did an ad and we're

832
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 1: playing backyard football and JJ was going to tackle me

833
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: and I was just recovering from Achilles tendon surgery and

834
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,320
Speaker 1: here came JJ running at me and I was trying

835
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 1: to elude him, and I saw my life last before

836
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 1: my eyes. And then, of course last year the ad

837
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:24,360
Speaker 1: we did with de Sean where he threw the football

838
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 1: and it raised my head and took my hair off.

839
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,360
Speaker 1: That one probably got the most comments of any that

840
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,920
Speaker 1: we've done. But we've had a good time doing them,

841
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,759
Speaker 1: and I think Ustonians enjoyed them, and I think the

842
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:37,919
Speaker 1: players like them also that they have a good time

843
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 1: doing them. Pardon because I think they get good public reactions.

844
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: There's Scott McClellan and Exer talking about HB commercials. He's

845
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 1: president of HB Food and Drug and he's featured on

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Speaker 1: this week's Vandermeer's View podcast, which is available in Houston,

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Speaker 1: Texas dot com or or wherever fine podcasts are available,

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Speaker 1: and so is this show. Thank you Johnny for being

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Speaker 1: with us today. Mark, thank you. I have a great

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Speaker 1: weekend everyone, and Texans