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Speaker 1: Welcome and everybody do a Wednesday edition, a pregame edition

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Speaker 1: of Texans All Access if you will, Day be four

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Speaker 1: edition of Texans All Access. Don't get a chance to

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Speaker 1: say that a lot, but get a chance to say

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Speaker 1: that tonight because the Texans take on the Cowboys in

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Speaker 1: preseason game number four. We were sitting in the Hunday

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio studio. I'm your host, John Harris alongside the

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Speaker 1: voice of the Texans, Mark Van mer Mark. Happy day

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Speaker 1: before preseason Game four. It's preseason game four Eve, the

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Speaker 1: national holiday. Actually it should be it's the eve before

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Speaker 1: the final one, because the final one leads to the

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Speaker 1: first one of the regular season. So we're all fired

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Speaker 1: up for that already. And I could feel it bubbling already, Johnny.

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Speaker 1: It's in the background, like the Patriots and the Texans.

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Speaker 1: It's getting going. You can just feel it, you know.

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Speaker 1: It's it's what ten days away or whatever. I mean,

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Speaker 1: My gosh, it's so close. So this is gonna be

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Speaker 1: great to see the Texans hopefuls play the Dallas hopefuls

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Speaker 1: tomorrow night. And I wrote a big thing on this

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Speaker 1: on Houston Texans dot com. How the storylines are deep

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Speaker 1: and the drama is deep and jobs. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: always say jobs are on the line, and they are.

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Speaker 1: And we talked about it earlier that this is the

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Speaker 1: last football game some of these guys will ever play,

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Speaker 1: and I discussed that with Bill O'Brien, and it's just

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Speaker 1: it's one of those games. I mean, I just think

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Speaker 1: there's a lot to it, a lot more to it

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Speaker 1: than people give it credit for. I am with you.

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Speaker 1: I think relative to those that will participate in it,

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Speaker 1: it is hugely important. Like you said, there's some guys

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Speaker 1: that are never gonna play the game football game. Yeah, never,

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Speaker 1: this is it. There's some guys that are gonna be

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Speaker 1: looking not for NFL jobs, but some other jobs. Jobs.

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of different football leagues that are

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Speaker 1: still out there for if you want to continue to play,

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Speaker 1: you can find work. It's you might have to go

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Speaker 1: to the people that are playing this game, it's massively important.

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Speaker 1: I know some fans will sit there in the stands

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Speaker 1: and see Clowney and Watt and just sewn all in

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Speaker 1: the sidelines and basically in their jerseys without shoulder pads

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Speaker 1: with baseball caps on, and think it doesn't really mean

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Speaker 1: that much to those involved. It means everything, well everything

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Speaker 1: about it. You could lose your job based on your

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Speaker 1: your performance tomorrow night. I'm glad you said that, because

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Speaker 1: that's it's all relative. Some guys might earn a spot

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Speaker 1: on a fifty three with their performance, right, some guys

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Speaker 1: might earn a spot on the practice squad. Yeah, with

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Speaker 1: their performance, and vice versa, they may lose a spot

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Speaker 1: It's a brutal business. Really, it's so brutal because you

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Speaker 1: think about this, Johnny, You've got guys, all right, So

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Speaker 1: let's say you do earn a spot on the practice squad.

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Speaker 1: There's no guarantee you're gonna make it on to the

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Speaker 1: fifty three man roster, and the money on the practice

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Speaker 1: squad is good. But and it's better than a lot

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Speaker 1: of entry level jobs, most entry level jobs, any college

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Speaker 1: such a long shot. That's the point that really gets

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Speaker 1: I always see these things about compensating college athletes, and

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Speaker 1: then I'll see people say, well, most football players go

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Speaker 1: the percentage of players that make it to the NFL,

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Speaker 1: it's nothing. Guys just playing college football. They better get

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Speaker 1: their freaking degree. The guys playing them all night, better

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Speaker 1: get their degree. In fact, everybody in the league just

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Speaker 1: because guess what, it's the eighty twenty rule. Twenty percent

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Speaker 1: Shane Leckler, when you're talking about him, I don't mean

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Speaker 1: to go off on a tangent here, but you're forty

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Speaker 1: with all the money around, which is great, don't get

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Speaker 1: And by the way, if he plays ten years, oh

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Speaker 1: hoping for like twenty eight or twenty nine. Yesterday at

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Speaker 1: I look like professor at a New England prep school.

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Speaker 1: He was a bow tie. It looks so cool. Ready

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Speaker 1: Oh gosh, like you no way, not happening whatsoever. You

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Speaker 1: on preseason game for Eve coach. This is the fourth one,

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Speaker 1: and before we get to the football stuff, there are

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Speaker 1: But I think the toughest job, the toughest part of

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Speaker 1: it's not an easy day because you're affecting lives and

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Speaker 1: that's not easy. What is this week like for you?

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Speaker 1: Because you divided the squad a bit, as you said,

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Speaker 1: It's a difficult week. I mean, you have to you know,

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Speaker 1: It's not about like keeping guys out of this game.

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Speaker 1: It's more about, look, I need to look at these,

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Speaker 1: Is it safe to say that special teams is where

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Speaker 1: So special teams is a big, big part of it.

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Speaker 1: What about defensively, what are you looking for from these guys?

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Speaker 1: make plays. Coach, Thanks a lot, good luck, Thanks Fanny Mark.

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Speaker 1: I can imagine there are many people in this building.

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Speaker 1: As much as we talked about the value of this game,

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Speaker 1: this one over for a number of reasons. I'd imagine

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Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien's ready to get this get this thing going,

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Speaker 1: believe that this Texas team can be. Well. I think

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Speaker 1: doesn't need to go through every thing they're having to

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Speaker 1: go through tomorrow night in order to find them. But

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Speaker 1: I think special teams, Johnny, I think in the return game,

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Speaker 1: they have. Look, if you were playing the Patriots tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: good about it. But I think things can still change

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Speaker 1: based on performances in this game, four of the preseason

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Speaker 1: think you're right about that's that's one now one guy

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Speaker 1: know that that ball started going down the middle and

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Speaker 1: ended up six inches to the right of the goal post.

429
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Speaker 1: I really wanted to get it going because he does

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Speaker 1: have a heck of a leg, and you know, you know,

431
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Speaker 1: look at a guy like Nick Novak who's got tremendous

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Speaker 1: accuracy but not the longest leg in the world. So

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Speaker 1: you wonder about things like that. You know, you'd rather

434
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Speaker 1: have the accuracy, but you also have to kick long

435
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Speaker 1: field goals and you have to be good on kickoffs,

436
00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:19,479
Speaker 1: and Rose can do those things. Yeah, and hopefully hopefully

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Speaker 1: you get Kayemy back so he can handle all that.

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Speaker 1: Because if Kaymie's confidence is where it needs to be,

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Speaker 1: I think he's a guy that can be consistent, nail

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Speaker 1: on field goals and extra points and he's got the

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Speaker 1: leg to take it deep. Here's the other thing thinking

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Speaker 1: about Nick Rose, and this goes for I would say

443
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Speaker 1: eighty to eighty five percent of the guys that will

444
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Speaker 1: take the field on both sides, they're not so much

445
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Speaker 1: even though they're wearing a Texans in a Cowboys jersey,

446
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Speaker 1: they are not in some sense putting on tape what

447
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Speaker 1: their coaches are gonna see. It's gonna be thirty one

448
00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:54,800
Speaker 1: other teams, coaches taking a look, going hey what about

449
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Speaker 1: this guy. You're auditioning for thirty one other teams obviously

450
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Speaker 1: one on the other sideline, and thirty others that aren't there.

451
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Speaker 1: So when you go out there, you're not so much

452
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Speaker 1: worried about and I don't say you want to usurp

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Speaker 1: the coaches any way, shape or form, but you're looking

454
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Speaker 1: to make plays so that everybody else can see it

455
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Speaker 1: and attract the attention of an NFL scouts somewhere going hey,

456
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Speaker 1: wait a second, I saw this guy in the in

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Speaker 1: the Texans Cowboys game on the Texans. Well I kind

458
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Speaker 1: of like him. And that's what you're doing. You're auditioning

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Speaker 1: for thirty other teams, obviously one watching you plus the

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Speaker 1: thirty that aren't. Give me the number of players that

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Speaker 1: they will take off the waiver wire. Give me a

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Speaker 1: guest right now. See, this is another aspect. It's a

463
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Speaker 1: prop bet, if you will. This is another Sean Pendergast

464
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Speaker 1: when you need him, all right, I'm gonna make it

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Speaker 1: tough for you. I want to get it tough for you.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say two two to the fifty three. That's

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Speaker 1: a lot to me. It does sound pretty good. See,

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Speaker 1: I'm not putting a one and a half because I

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Speaker 1: think that's too I think it's too easy to go.

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Speaker 1: I go one, I'll go lower. You're going on her,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go under. I think it's too I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I think it's now. I take it back. I take

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Speaker 1: it back. I think one the reason that I say, oh,

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Speaker 1: here's good bad, I'm not taking it back. But here's

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Speaker 1: I'll walk it back a little bit. And here's why

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Speaker 1: I forgot about the cave on Webster deal. Because when

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Speaker 1: I put my fifty three, when I put my fifty

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Speaker 1: three man roster together, in fact, I can I could

479
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Speaker 1: show you the iteration my last iteration. I had a

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Speaker 1: circle right next to the corner I had four corners

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Speaker 1: and I had a circle, and I left it blank

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Speaker 1: because my assumption was that they would go out and

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Speaker 1: get a corner. I thought through the waiver process. But

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Speaker 1: then when I got cave on Webster before, they didn't

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Speaker 1: have to go to waivers. They just want to at

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Speaker 1: that point. On that subject, how about Marcus Hardeston going

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Speaker 1: to San Diego so the charger As signed him to

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles? Oh gosh, did I just say that? You did? Bet?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I was wondering, why are you give me

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Speaker 1: a look? I'm like, do you have the team wrong? No,

491
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Speaker 1: I have the city wrong, Mark, I have the city wrong. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I can't stand this. You know, I've lived through a

493
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Speaker 1: few of these in my life. You know, Oakland going

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Speaker 1: to LA. That was before I was in the San

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Speaker 1: Diego One's the hardest one. That one. I make that

496
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Speaker 1: one all the time. Like for some reason, I got

497
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Speaker 1: the balls just tough. Baltimore to India, Like I didn't

498
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Speaker 1: have an issue that my dad did. My dad called

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Speaker 1: them the Baltimore Colts for twenty years. Yeah, well, older folks,

500
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Speaker 1: I thought that, you know whatever, But the Baltimore Colts

501
00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:18,040
Speaker 1: were such a huge brand in this league. Yeah, so

502
00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:21,280
Speaker 1: that was a really difficult one the Rams. But about

503
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Speaker 1: that one, did you have that one? I think what

504
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Speaker 1: makes a little bit is the Chargers are so close by. Also, yeah,

505
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Speaker 1: that you don't when you're thinking of the Chargers. If

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Speaker 1: they moved to Saint Louis for Saint Louis, for instance,

507
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Speaker 1: I might have much less difficulty with this. I'd be thinking, oh,

508
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Speaker 1: they're in Saint Louis. They're in Saint Louis, but they're

509
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Speaker 1: they're still in southern California two hours away. I have.

510
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Speaker 1: I've had a lot of problems. Like last year, I

511
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Speaker 1: called him San Diego numerous times, and I probably year two,

512
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Speaker 1: I'm still doing it and I'm still announcer. Anyway, Hardison

513
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Speaker 1: goes to the Chargers, well, I mean I think he

514
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Speaker 1: gets an opportunity to go on the field, which is

515
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Speaker 1: great because he lost an opportunity to go on in

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Speaker 1: Game four. Do you think he's live scouting that game

517
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Speaker 1: on Saturday and somebody said, you know what, and he

518
00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:04,760
Speaker 1: had a sack in that game and everything. They're thinking,

519
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Speaker 1: what he's better than our second or third line. We

520
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Speaker 1: gotta have we gotta get this guy in here. He

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Speaker 1: got cut. They're probably waiting for him to get way,

522
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Speaker 1: but he got cut. Let's have him look at him

523
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Speaker 1: this week in game four. See what we got See

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Speaker 1: if we want to put him on the fifty three.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they're really thin in D line depth anyway. Yeah,

526
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Speaker 1: And maybe they're thin in D line depth, but they

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Speaker 1: know what their D line is gonna be, and they

528
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Speaker 1: just gotta get through the game. Yeah maybe. I mean

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Speaker 1: they've had a number of injuries. I don't know how

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Speaker 1: many of them are in D line, but I know

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Speaker 1: Jason Reet got hurt. I know Bosh has been banged

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Speaker 1: up a little bit. But those are guys that aren't

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Speaker 1: really going to play in Game four anyways. But to

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Speaker 1: get through game four, I mean, you've got to have

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Speaker 1: a certain number of players. And that, to me is

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Speaker 1: the other part of the Game four that I'm really

537
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Speaker 1: curious about that you find out you find out before

538
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Speaker 1: the game when you look down there and both teams

539
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Speaker 1: are working out the guys that don't play. If for

540
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Speaker 1: those that don't know, this is maybe a little peep

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Speaker 1: behind the curtain, because I think this happens before before

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Speaker 1: fans are allowed on the stands. But but NFL teams

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Speaker 1: will work out their inactives. Right, So we talk about

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Speaker 1: the fifty three and forty six man roster. Those seven

545
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Speaker 1: guys that don't make it on the forty six man

546
00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:15,440
Speaker 1: roster end up working out before the game and you

547
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Speaker 1: see him down again. So that's how you can figure

548
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Speaker 1: out if you're down there, who's inactive and who's who's active.

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Speaker 1: What happens for game four two. It's just that there

550
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Speaker 1: are about thirty five guys or more that are inactive.

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Speaker 1: I'm curious to see what that group of guys looks like.

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Speaker 1: In which guys, Oh man, they're not playing this guy

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Speaker 1: that happened last year. I'm trying to remember who, or

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Speaker 1: two years ago in twenty sixteen, there was a player

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Speaker 1: that I remember thinking, wow, he's not playing tonight either.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna ruthlessly cut a guy and not give him

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Speaker 1: a final chance more he's already made it. I had

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Speaker 1: kind of that fear. So that's that's to me, that's

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Speaker 1: almost a curious mold blooded If you work a guy

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Speaker 1: out before the game, just a physical work work out,

561
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Speaker 1: and then you cut them anyway, that's cut him that day,

562
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,720
Speaker 1: let him walk. Well, in that case, the player had

563
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,239
Speaker 1: had made the tea I can't remember who it escapes me,

564
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 1: but but that's the point. So to me, there'll be

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Speaker 1: a group of guys before the clowning watch. That's how

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Speaker 1: we knew that they weren't playing in games one and two.

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Speaker 1: One of them worked out in one of the games

568
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Speaker 1: and ended up playing Watson against the Chiefs. But if

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Speaker 1: I wish we played the Chargers last week instead of

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Speaker 1: the Rams, because I wanted to do a game in

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Speaker 1: that little stadium. You know, that would be cool to

572
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Speaker 1: be in the tiny little stadium instead of the dump

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Speaker 1: that is the Coliseum. Is that sacrilege? That's okay, it's

574
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Speaker 1: a dump. I'd got to play in the Roman Coliseum

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Speaker 1: if that would be in better physical shape than the

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Speaker 1: La Coliseum. For those that don't know, I mean the

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Speaker 1: whole thing. And not only is the Coliseum under construction,

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Speaker 1: but just outside the Colosseum, they're putting in a new

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Speaker 1: um and it's like a new science art science museum

580
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Speaker 1: like this branding, and there's this massive, massive hole in

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Speaker 1: the ground. I'm mean massive hole in the ground. I

582
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,679
Speaker 1: don't know what exactly is. You got to move somewhere else. Huge.

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Speaker 1: The Rose Bowl can't take you for a year. I

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Speaker 1: get or two or whatever. I guess now they're all

585
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Speaker 1: snooty in that neighborhood. Forget it. That's Rose Bowl people,

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00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 1: that's Westwood. They're awful. Yeah, I don't know. It's funny though.

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Speaker 1: We went in a different directions, so I got a

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Speaker 1: chance to see a little bit more of USC. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I didn't see that last year. It looks like a

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00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,159
Speaker 1: beautiful campus. Really, I never thought I thought UCLA was

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Speaker 1: the beautiful campus. Oh, Ucla is the beautiful campus. Well,

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00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:33,200
Speaker 1: there's no question about that. But just it's interesting because

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Speaker 1: I've heard this before and I can see it that

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Speaker 1: one side of the coliseum you don't really want to be,

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Speaker 1: but the other side is USC and it's pretty nice.

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Speaker 1: And I could see exactly what people were talking about.

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Speaker 1: But the press box for their I don't know how

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Speaker 1: they're gonna do deferent it for for a regular season game.

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00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,960
Speaker 1: It's a modular home. I mean, it's I don't know

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Speaker 1: how they're gonna do that. Yeah, and our TV truck,

601
00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:58,199
Speaker 1: by the way, I had to deep power because all

602
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,000
Speaker 1: the TV trucks were our generators and you have to

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00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,679
Speaker 1: depower power up. I know this is inside baseball stuff,

604
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: but when you have to power up. It's like a

605
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 1: gigantic computer. You gotta reboot. It's awful. Quick, quick little

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Speaker 1: story about tomorrow night. By the way, it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a good crowd. If you're going to the game and

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Speaker 1: you got one of those mobile tickets, download it first

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00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 1: so it's on your phone. Ticketmaster knows that every team

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00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 1: in the league is playing and it's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: heavy tax on the system at the same time with

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Speaker 1: all these mobile ticketing efforts going on all at once,

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Speaker 1: and they're really impressed with what they project to be

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Speaker 1: a big crowd here tomorrow night as opposed to other

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Speaker 1: NFL preseason game four venues. This is a phenomenal situation

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Speaker 1: we have here in Houston with a lot of fans

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Speaker 1: coming to these games. In fact, one of the Texans

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Speaker 1: players I won't see, who came from somewhere else, was

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Speaker 1: saying what a remarkable atmosphere it was for preseason game

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Speaker 1: one at home against the forty nine or so technically

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Speaker 1: game two, but he was amazed with the response and

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Speaker 1: the crowd interaction and everything, And I thought that was

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Speaker 1: just okay. But you know, sometimes we take that for

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Speaker 1: granted preseason football. Hey, it's football. It's big. Let's enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Thanks John. Coming up next might already owner

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Speaker 1: Gary Peterson with a story you've got to hear. He's

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Speaker 1: sending some people to the game on Saturday. Texas Tech

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Speaker 1: and all miss why you hear from him? And Texas

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Speaker 1: Text Chris Level, sideline reporter, good friend of mine. Right

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Speaker 1: here on Texas All Access. We've got one final segment

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Speaker 1: of Texas All Access from the hunday Texans Radio Stude,

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Speaker 1: You're glad to be with you. I'm your host, John Harris,

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Speaker 1: Football and Els and sideline reporter. We're gonna jump in

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Speaker 1: to a conversation Marphy Anemer had with Gary Peterson, minority

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Speaker 1: owner of the Houston Texans, and boy did he do

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Speaker 1: something great for people to see the advocate Texas kickoff

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Speaker 1: on Saturday. Mark take it away. Here we are with

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Speaker 1: Texans Limited partner Gary Peterson joining us on Texans Radio. Gary,

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Speaker 1: how's it going today? And there are you doing? Mark?

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Speaker 1: Doing very well? Now. I know you're a big Red Raider.

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Speaker 1: I know you're excited about the game this Saturday, So

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Speaker 1: tell me about your participation in this one. Because I

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Speaker 1: knew you were going to go to this game. This

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Speaker 1: is like the sun coming up, no question about it.

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Speaker 1: But you decided to help out some young people and

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Speaker 1: get them involved as well. Yes, I really feel a

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Speaker 1: great sense of siphons for this game and being a

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Speaker 1: Texas Tech Red Raider graduate as well as a minority

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Speaker 1: owner and limited partner Houston Texans who are actually sponsoring

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Speaker 1: this game. They were really excited about this game and

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Speaker 1: I'm happy to involved. What does it mean to you

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Speaker 1: to be able to provide tickets for first responders, military charities,

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Speaker 1: youth focused charities. I mean they're going to aid a

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Speaker 1: wide variety of people who are going to benefit here. Gary. Well,

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Speaker 1: because because the Houston Texans at the Houston Texas organization

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Speaker 1: that sponsored this Tickler game, and by the way, we

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Speaker 1: sponsored this kickoff game every year. We have for six

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Speaker 1: straight years and the Kickoff game delivers annually fifty million

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Speaker 1: dollars in direct economic impact Houston area. We have keen

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Speaker 1: interested in this game as a Houston Texans but also

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Speaker 1: as a Texas Tech graduate. I wanted to make sure

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Speaker 1: that people have got to come to the game that

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Speaker 1: would not normally go to a game. Mark this as results.

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Speaker 1: I bought five thousand tickets and donated them to first

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Speaker 1: responders and military charities and youth focused charities in and

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Speaker 1: around the Houston community. I want people to come out

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Speaker 1: and see the Red Raiders and the old missed Rebels

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Speaker 1: and would not normally get to come see a game

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Speaker 1: mark this and the game mark will be great in

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Speaker 1: the sense it fits the Big twelve against the SEC

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Speaker 1: throughout here in Houston to sarady morning at eleven o'clock.

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Speaker 1: It should be a great fun Gary. I know you

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Speaker 1: followed the Red Raiders forever, so give me two or

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Speaker 1: three of your best Red Raider memories watching this football

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Speaker 1: team operate. Oh guess the Texas Tech Red Raiders have

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Speaker 1: been in sort of the level of my life. I

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Speaker 1: guess my favorite memory is when west Welfer talked to

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Speaker 1: the ball about the eight guard line against Texas A

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Speaker 1: and m on a punt late in the game, and

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Speaker 1: he returned the punt for a touchdown and the Texas

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Speaker 1: Tech won the game and west Welser effectively won the game.

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Speaker 1: The year before that, we played the University of Texas

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Speaker 1: and love It and west Welser called two or three

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Speaker 1: touchdown passes. So those are two great memories of the game.

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Speaker 1: I go all the way back and watching DJ Hollima.

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Speaker 1: I played for Texas Tech, who now is in the

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, and he's as you know, as a

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Speaker 1: as a retired Kansas City Chiefs individual. So I've had

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Speaker 1: great fun memory reason Texas Tech forever and the Old

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Speaker 1: Miss Rebels have a great tradition themselves. They had that,

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Speaker 1: you know, they had not Archie Manning, but they had

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Speaker 1: Eli Manning, that had Old Miss and we used to

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Speaker 1: play them and that was fun. Jerry Peterson joining US

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Speaker 1: Texans Limited partner and helping send a lot of young

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Speaker 1: people to the Texas Tech Red Raider Advocate Texas kickoff

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Speaker 1: game Saturday eleven o'clock here at NRG Stadium. I won

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Speaker 1: more for you, Wes Welker. You mentioned him in college.

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Speaker 1: You were a big fan, not only a fan. You

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Speaker 1: told me way back when that he was going to

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Speaker 1: be a great pro receiver. Not everybody believed you, apparently Gary,

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Speaker 1: because it took him a while to catch Hut, but

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Speaker 1: when he did, he was huge. Yeah, it was a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun. I remember Mark, you and I having

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Speaker 1: Mexican food one night. I told you this kid is

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Speaker 1: going to make it, and he's office small but he had.

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Speaker 1: He had, he had the desires hard to win, he

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Speaker 1: had the athletic ability, and of course he went to

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Speaker 1: New England, led the league and receiving for four or

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Speaker 1: five years, and now out the way, we have him

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Speaker 1: as a wide receiver coach for the Houston Texas so

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Speaker 1: West is now with us and we hope to win

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Speaker 1: a lot of games this year for the Tech. Jary,

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Speaker 1: thanks a lot for joining us, and thanks a lot

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Speaker 1: for helping those young people this weekend. You're sure welcome. Mark,

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Speaker 1: Thank you five thousand tickets. That is absolutely amazing. Gary Peterson,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much. I remember going to my first

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Speaker 1: football game here, first college football game back in nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty three. I saw Rice in Southwest Louisiana, long time ago.

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Speaker 1: It was a memory I'll never forget. Some of those

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Speaker 1: five thousand gonna go to their first college football game ever,

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Speaker 1: and maybe they'll have a memory kind of like I

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Speaker 1: did going to see Texas Tech and Old Miss. Speaking

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Speaker 1: of Texas Tech, my buddy's a siline reporter for the

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Speaker 1: Red Raiders. His name is Chris Level. He knows that

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Speaker 1: team inside and out. But I'm gonna start our discussion

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Speaker 1: talking about k K QT. You have seen. You saw

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Speaker 1: every game rep this guy ever took, You saw him

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Speaker 1: in practice, You've been around the program. He's now with

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Speaker 1: the Texans. He made a significant impact early in camp

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Speaker 1: and then obviously hamstring kind of set him back. But

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of fans are very they're curious

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Speaker 1: about Qt. You watched him up close. What did you

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Speaker 1: see in Kiki QT? What did the Texans get when

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Speaker 1: they drafted this young man? Toughness? I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: that really sums up what Keiki is. He He is

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Speaker 1: a young man that doesn't say it's the whole heck

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Speaker 1: of a lot. Uh and and never really did. And

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Speaker 1: he always let his play do the talking. But when

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Speaker 1: he did talk, you know, it's kind of one of

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Speaker 1: those things where everybody would listen. But it's just you

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Speaker 1: could line him up anywhere, you know, in tech. They

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Speaker 1: threw it to him, They handed it to him. They

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Speaker 1: let him return, uh you know, at times from kickoff

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Speaker 1: in punt situation. But he's just he's just somebody that

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Speaker 1: you know, he epitomizes toughness. He's kind of just straight

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Speaker 1: East Texas and he you know, and it hurt Texas textive.

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Speaker 1: He left early. But I think what was fun around

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Speaker 1: here is that there wasn't one person that was being

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Speaker 1: selfish about what he decided to go take it to

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Speaker 1: the next level. Around here, they were thrilled for him.

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Speaker 1: He had earned it, and I think he's got some

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Speaker 1: things he wanted to do for his family, and it's

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Speaker 1: just hard to have a much better year than what

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Speaker 1: he had last year statistically. But it's just he's tough

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Speaker 1: and that's that's what he is. You you're just not

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Speaker 1: gonna find anybody. He's not the biggest guy before. I'm

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Speaker 1: telling he's as tough as they came to that end, Chris.

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Speaker 1: You brought up him leaving early, which was detremental for

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Speaker 1: Texas Tech in that if you were already losing some

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Speaker 1: senior receivers and when you look at the receiver depth chart,

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Speaker 1: there aren't a lot of names that people are gonna notice.

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Speaker 1: When QT left, that left an even bigger hole there

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Speaker 1: at the wide receiver position. How has that position been

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Speaker 1: shaking out in camp? And is there any nervousness there

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Speaker 1: about the guys that are gonna be taking over for

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Speaker 1: QT and company? Yeah? John, you know what's interesting, I

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Speaker 1: don't know how many teams can say this, or a

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Speaker 1: college programs can say this right now, but all four

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Speaker 1: starters from from Texas Tech that started out the season

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Speaker 1: last year are in NFL camps and so Kiki is there. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: Cam Batson is with Tennessee, Dylan Cantrolls with the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: and then Derek Willies, who did not finish the season

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Speaker 1: as a starter. He's with the Browns right now, and

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's going to chance to make

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Speaker 1: that team or not. But yeah, there's a serious void

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Speaker 1: here just from an experience and playmaking and all the above,

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Speaker 1: because those four guys, Mayler, the three guys minus Lillies,

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Speaker 1: played so much and TJ Bascher is the one guy

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Speaker 1: that comes back here that is a playmaker that did

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Speaker 1: some things last year for him and he's really the

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Speaker 1: only guy that you can look at and say they'll

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Speaker 1: lean on TJ. And he's got a chance to be really,

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Speaker 1: really good. And he was a highlytowered recruit this now.

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Speaker 1: He made some unbelievable catchers last year. He's just got

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Speaker 1: to be more consistent. But it is a giant question

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Speaker 1: mark after that, and it's just so strange around here

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Speaker 1: that you're wondering one at a lot of questions about

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Speaker 1: the quarterback, but receiver is the other question mark, and

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Speaker 1: that's the one thing that around here for decade, it

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Speaker 1: seems like you always do at least to the quarterback

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Speaker 1: of the receiver's were and there was questions everywhere else

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Speaker 1: on the team, and it's really opposite now. But t J.

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Speaker 1: Vasher is the one name I would tell everybody they

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Speaker 1: need to pay attention to because he's a six foot

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Speaker 1: five you know, got a chance, I think, to play

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Speaker 1: at the next level of the last to wait and

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Speaker 1: then then keep progressing. So at quarterback, what do they have.

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Speaker 1: They've got three guys in the mix with the competition,

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Speaker 1: how has that been shaking out? And who do you

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Speaker 1: expect to see on September one in the starting role

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Speaker 1: at this point? I'll be very because I think that

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Speaker 1: it was a and it cups to let three kids

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Speaker 1: go through a competition so many times it's just two guys.

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Speaker 1: But Cliff, you know, I think because of the situation

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Speaker 1: here with these three guys and their skill sets and

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Speaker 1: all that stuff, I think it's pretty clear that he

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Speaker 1: wanted to give all free an opportunity. And so how

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Speaker 1: he did it was because a lot of times these competitions,

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Speaker 1: you'll say, hey, you know this option, We're gonna let

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Speaker 1: you run with the ones on a Monday and the Thursday.

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Speaker 1: The other guy is gonna get Tuesday and Friday and

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. He actually, at all three guys get

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Speaker 1: reps with the ones about every five plays and every

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Speaker 1: team situation for about two and a half weeks to

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Speaker 1: camp here, So he kept them all on edge. He

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Speaker 1: kept them all involved and engaged every single day. And

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Speaker 1: I think that mcclan carter, who's the leftie who started

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Speaker 1: against Texas last year and is the oldest one, I

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Speaker 1: think he's just been the most consistent. And I don't

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Speaker 1: know if he's the best athlete, and I don't know

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Speaker 1: if he will be able to hang on to the

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Speaker 1: job long term, but right now, I think he's probably

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Speaker 1: the guy that you'll see versus old men. He's mobile,

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Speaker 1: and I think that you know, it just comes down

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Speaker 1: to him being more consistent. He's a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a better decision maker. And you'll hear around here and

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Speaker 1: I hate this term, and we all it comes with

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Speaker 1: certain connotations to it, but he's kind of more of

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Speaker 1: a game manager than than the other two may be.

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Speaker 1: But but with that he makes better choices, is why

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Speaker 1: I say that. And I think that there there'll be

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Speaker 1: a much better running team this year and they'll lean

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Speaker 1: to that. You know, Cliff's gonna tweak the off nothing.

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Speaker 1: He brought the offensive coordinator from Western Michigan and here

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Speaker 1: Kevin John who I think he's used to running with

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Speaker 1: a fullback and a lead blocker and a tied end.

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Speaker 1: And you'll see some of that difference in the team

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Speaker 1: this year. So that's why mcclaim I think it is

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Speaker 1: probably the guy right now. I'm not sure that there

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Speaker 1: is a better redemptive story than Dakota Allen. He's potentially

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Speaker 1: on track to be the Big twelve Defensive Player of

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Speaker 1: the Year. When's the last time we could say Big

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Speaker 1: twelve defensive Player of the year candidate from Texas Tech.

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Speaker 1: What does he mean for this overall program and how

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Speaker 1: does he lead this defense? Chris Yeah, John, it's it's

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Speaker 1: I think it's the part of the story that makes

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Speaker 1: it so good is because he's back here. If he

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Speaker 1: if he leaves here, does the last chance you and

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Speaker 1: is at East Mississippi Community College and it goes somewhere else.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't take on the same meaning from a comeback story,

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Speaker 1: but because he wanted to come back here and deal

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Speaker 1: with some potential ridicule but also finish what he started.

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Speaker 1: That's what makes this so it's fun and and and

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Speaker 1: what here's even the most bizarre part. It is kind

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Speaker 1: of touching on what you said, he's really the face

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Speaker 1: of your program. I mean, how many guys do you

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Speaker 1: see that that that have an issue and have to leave,

858
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Speaker 1: and whether they come back or not, that end up

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Speaker 1: being kind of the face. He's somebody that they want

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Speaker 1: to put on tickets, they want to put on the billboard,

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Speaker 1: they want to parade in front of the media because

862
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Speaker 1: he's so well spoken, he's so thoughtful, and because he

863
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Speaker 1: made that mistake, it just takes on a holding meeting.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's not just about the kind of player

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Speaker 1: he is, because that's the part while we're while we're

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Speaker 1: really talking about him. But it's because he learned from

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Speaker 1: that and it's made who he is and made this

868
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Speaker 1: awful mistake and then people around here are willing to

869
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Speaker 1: stick their neck out and I think it's paid off,

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Speaker 1: and I think he's very appreciative of that. But heck, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean he's a face of the program. There's no

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Speaker 1: doubt about that. And I don't I don't know if

873
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Speaker 1: it's been been Abaku the TCU or Dakode Allen, but

874
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Speaker 1: one of those two guys could even be the defensive

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Speaker 1: player of the Year in this league. And you're right,

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Speaker 1: I guess two thousand and five Dwayne Slay ended up

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Speaker 1: winning that to work. Yeah, they thought that coming into

878
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Speaker 1: the season. But but that's that's what the coda is.

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00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 1: He's a calming influence for the not just the defense,

880
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:11,759
Speaker 1: but the whole team. And and you're right, and he

881
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 1: kind of goes along the lines with the whole defense

882
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:17,360
Speaker 1: is a whole kind of being a redemption story. And

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Speaker 1: he again Dakota individually, but but along with this team

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00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 1: as well. Man, you brought up Dwayne Slay. You just

885
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Speaker 1: gave me. You gave me goosebumps. I remember big hit

886
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:29,320
Speaker 1: slay Man. Holy smokes, that was that was that was

887
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Speaker 1: in the way back machine. There's no question about that. Chris.

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00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: What kind of opportunity is in front of the Red

889
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Speaker 1: Raiders in this one on September one? This is a

890
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: big game for Texas tech Um and I think that

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Speaker 1: it's it one. It's one of those deals where it

892
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: sets a tone for your whole offseason, because it's not

893
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:48,359
Speaker 1: like you have a U you know, an FCS team

894
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 1: sitting there, or a home game that you know you

895
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: should win sitting there. This is a different deal. But

896
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 1: it's really a big game for just this program and

897
00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: coaching staff because of Cliff's where they're at right now

898
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:02,799
Speaker 1: and they need to win this year and everybody around

899
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 1: here knows it. And this is kind of one of

900
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:06,719
Speaker 1: those swing games could go either way and you need

901
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:09,360
Speaker 1: to win those, especially right out of the gate. The

902
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:12,719
Speaker 1: matchup is interesting because it's kind of as you touched on, John,

903
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:14,760
Speaker 1: it's a strength on strength and it's kind of weakness

904
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Speaker 1: on weakness. I mean, I don't know how you know

905
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Speaker 1: where this game will be won, but if the tech

906
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 1: offense versus that Old Miss defense will be it is

907
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 1: interesting is the other side of the ball when this

908
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 1: veteran defense goes against you know, a J. Brown and

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00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:30,359
Speaker 1: Drenk Little and and all those guys that that Old

910
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 1: Miss will try to out there offensively. So but but

911
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:34,800
Speaker 1: this is this is a monster game for them, and

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Speaker 1: I think they're looking forward to it. I think that

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Speaker 1: it's one of those things where this is a winnable

914
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Speaker 1: game for the Red Raiders that they just it depends

915
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Speaker 1: on what McLean Carter potentially will look like. And how

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Speaker 1: good is this defense here? You know what? We know

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Speaker 1: what's better that they're creating takeaways and turnovers and all

918
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 1: that stuff. That's what David gives the defenses due. And

919
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Speaker 1: they're deep and they've got some top end of the

920
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Speaker 1: line talent and all that. But how good are they?

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Speaker 1: I mean, are they good enough to help you win

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Speaker 1: a game? Like? Good enough to win a game? I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's what we just don't know yet and we're about

924
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Speaker 1: to find out. A huge thanks to Gary Peterson, of course,

925
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Speaker 1: Chris Lovel for joining me, to Mark vander Meer, to

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Speaker 1: all of you for listening. We will see you tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Kick is at seven, fal pregame show at four. Post

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Speaker 1: game follows Dallas Cowboys Houston Texans. Do not miss it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you again everybody. We'll see tomorrow and as always,

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Speaker 1: go Texans.