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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, and welcome to the program that takes you

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Speaker 1: inside NRG Stadium following the first day of Texans training camp.

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Speaker 1: Mark vanderma and John Harris with you. It's two days time.

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Speaker 1: We are on in the morning, we're on in the evening,

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Speaker 1: and that's the way we roll during training camp. Texans

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Speaker 1: Camp got started today at the Houston Methodist Training Center.

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Speaker 1: Great temperatures today. Public practices don't fire up till next week.

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Speaker 1: Two weeks from tonight, we will be talking about the

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Speaker 1: Texans playing the Green Bay Packers at lambeau Field. I

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Speaker 1: cannot wait for the opener. But Johnny good start to

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Speaker 1: camp today. No real serious star injuries, we should say

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Speaker 1: that right now that we know about. Anyway, look pretty

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Speaker 1: good to see everybody out there. I think the big

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Speaker 1: headline today was JJ Watt practicing. We saw him come

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Speaker 1: out with the arm brace and also Will Fuller looking good. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: no doubt. We Actually we were on the air and

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Speaker 1: we were talking to think to John McClain maybe or

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Speaker 1: maybe we were talking to Jamie and I kind of

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Speaker 1: nudged you as I looked over and I was like, look,

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Speaker 1: there's ninety nine walking over And I didn't even catch

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Speaker 1: the arm brace. You're exactly right. That elbow brace is

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Speaker 1: a key giveaway, and we had not gotten any release. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we had not gotten anything. Yeah, and it's understandable because

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Speaker 1: as we were getting set up at you know whatever

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Speaker 1: time this morning, seven fifteen, you know, Omar and Nathan

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Speaker 1: and Ali, we're all out there working on the room

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Speaker 1: next to us. So they were busy doing work, and

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they're you know, is they're starting

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Speaker 1: practice or you're starting there, you're their stuff inside the bubble.

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Speaker 1: He's walking across, and I thought, well, that's really cool. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, one dawn, one to go. Now we just

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Speaker 1: gotta get uh DeAndre who was out of practice watching practice.

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Speaker 1: So hopefully, you know, we get DeAndre back soon enough,

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Speaker 1: and you get the feeling you're gonna get him back. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you get that feeling. But I think it was it

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Speaker 1: was It was interesting here from JJ after practice because

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Speaker 1: I went back and I listened to his whole presser

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Speaker 1: and he just said, yeah, I was a little surprised.

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Speaker 1: And Mark Berman says, when did you find out? And

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Speaker 1: JJ said, when you tweet it? He's like, that's what

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Speaker 1: that's when he found out. I think he's joking in that,

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Speaker 1: but he said all along he wanted to be ready

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Speaker 1: to go for day one. And the other thing that

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Speaker 1: he said I thought was was pretty important is and

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Speaker 1: you hear this in the NBA, A lot load management.

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Speaker 1: Now he didn't use those words, yeah, but that's essentially

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Speaker 1: what it is. It's load management. They're gonna be careful

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Speaker 1: during training camps. They're gonna be some built in off days.

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Speaker 1: And he built it off reps as well. Noted that

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Speaker 1: today right exactly, and he doesn't need to be there

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Speaker 1: for every rep, but I thought it was really interesting.

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Speaker 1: One one very interesting part of practice today was watching JJ.

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Speaker 1: Now they don't have pads on and from the day

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Speaker 1: that JJ set foot on the campus University of Wisconsin

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Speaker 1: to the time he came here, the one thing JJ

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Speaker 1: has a knack for doing is if he can't get

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Speaker 1: to the quarterback, he has a knack for reading eyes

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Speaker 1: and getting his hands up in the passing lanes and

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Speaker 1: knock I mean j J swat, I mean knocking passes

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Speaker 1: down because his hand on passes, he's one of the

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Speaker 1: greatest there's ever been in the NFL at doing that,

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Speaker 1: and today he did that a couple of times. He

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Speaker 1: obviously with no pads, he's not throwing full pass rush

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Speaker 1: moves all that. So he's like, okay, let me see

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Speaker 1: if I can read eyes, and he did. He did

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Speaker 1: it a couple of times and he went. He walked

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Speaker 1: over to Sean and he DeShawn talked about this. He's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: JJ taught me a lesson. He said, he's looking at

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Speaker 1: my eyes and if he's looking in that spot and

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Speaker 1: he rears back the throat, go ahead and jump. And

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Speaker 1: he did it. He got him twice. That I that

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Speaker 1: I saw watching calls him annoying. Yeah, and I think

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Speaker 1: everybody thinks it's everybody on the offense thinks it's annoying

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Speaker 1: with JJ. Is you know batting passing an offensive lineman

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Speaker 1: hate it. You talked an offensive lineman about defensive linement

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Speaker 1: with no pads on jumping on batting passes down because

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Speaker 1: the first thing an offensive lineman will do in pads. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: when a defensive lineman go out to the body, Oh

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Speaker 1: they're going body, and then you protect and you get

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Speaker 1: those hands and you learn a lesson as a pass rusher.

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Speaker 1: So it is, it's annoying, but it was a great

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Speaker 1: lesson because Deshaan's like that taught me a lesson about

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Speaker 1: what I need to do with my eyes and how

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Speaker 1: I need to use my eyes. And although it's pretty

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Speaker 1: it's pretty interesting because Deshaw talks about one getting one

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Speaker 1: which I thought was really interesting. But the other one

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Speaker 1: you mentioned was Will Fuller and Mary, I can't tell

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Speaker 1: you the number of times I saw him, and what

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Speaker 1: I thought was interesting about the way the practice was

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Speaker 1: structure today, there was very little. Put the ball twenty

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Speaker 1: yard line, try and drive eighty yards. You got a

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Speaker 1: full field to work with, a lot very dance. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: everything was I know exactly why that is because think

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Speaker 1: about think about the Dallas game. What did we do?

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Speaker 1: What did we not do last year? It scored nineteen

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Speaker 1: points in that game. What about New England Game one?

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Speaker 1: We got down inside to ten tennessee, same thing we

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Speaker 1: got inside about the Cults, Yeah, Connie, I was watching

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Speaker 1: a replay of that and there they are in the

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Speaker 1: sec and half and unable to get close. Day have

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Speaker 1: the ball somewhere around the thirty and it's just not

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Speaker 1: happening for them, right, And that was one of the

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Speaker 1: things that I know Bill Bryan has talked about this.

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Speaker 1: You know that that's kind of the last piece that

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Speaker 1: in short red zone. You get inside the fifteen, get

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Speaker 1: inside to ten, everything's gonna happen. Now it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: boom boom boom. I mean, it's gonna be quick. It's

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Speaker 1: kind of like working on your short game before going

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Speaker 1: to the driving range. And it's probably what you should do.

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Speaker 1: It is what it is what you should do. Pros

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Speaker 1: say that's what you should do. Work on those chips.

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Speaker 1: Those are that's where the strokes add up, and in

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Speaker 1: the NFL, that's where you score. That's that's the difference

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Speaker 1: between threes and sevens right there. What if that was

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Speaker 1: interesting about it for Will is we all know everybody

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Speaker 1: in the NFL knows. Let's watching Texans at all, and

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Speaker 1: the Texans fans know if you give Will Fuller space,

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Speaker 1: that's four three speed shows up. I mean, it's legit,

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Speaker 1: four three speed. I mean he smokes by fast, dudes,

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Speaker 1: He's faster than it's either. But then when you condense it,

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Speaker 1: you essentially eliminate that option from He's gonna run by you. Ye,

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Speaker 1: so you play him a little differently, and I'm telling you,

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Speaker 1: he lost guys. He just lost them in a one

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Speaker 1: of yard area. And it wasn't one of those things

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Speaker 1: where you know, you see some of these videos online,

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Speaker 1: move and then they get open and they catch a ball.

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Speaker 1: They turn to the dB and they're like, huh, you

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Speaker 1: look what I did, which is not even football. This

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Speaker 1: was Will getting to a spot boom and he's open. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and he was on time. It was really huts are

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Speaker 1: great the round front and watch superb all right. Watson

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Speaker 1: was asked a bunch of questions today and he talked

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Speaker 1: about how the team does have high hopes about this year.

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Speaker 1: They're taking it one practice, one rep at a time,

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Speaker 1: really not looking into the future, focusing on today, um

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Speaker 1: and then whenever tomorrow come, we focus on that. Take

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Speaker 1: it on one meeting at a time won't work out

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Speaker 1: the time, and if we can do that each and

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Speaker 1: every day and try to start the days and try

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Speaker 1: to make sure that every time we meet every time,

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Speaker 1: you know, we walked through every time we step on

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Speaker 1: the field. It's beneficial and we're you know getting better

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Speaker 1: and something you know, improving in those areas. I think

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Speaker 1: that's the biggest thing. So you know, of course, you know,

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Speaker 1: we have expectations, but at the same time we're trying

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Speaker 1: to have to worry about that and focus on, you know,

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Speaker 1: one step at the time. Watson also discussed his connection

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Speaker 1: with numerous receivers, including but not limited to, the tight

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Speaker 1: end group. Because the Jordan brothers were out today and

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, they look good on day one. The chemistry

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Speaker 1: started off the field, being able to hang with those guys.

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Speaker 1: Off the field, they come by the house, we chill,

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Speaker 1: go out to eat, you know, go bowling, do what

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Speaker 1: that chemistry off the field leads onto the field. You know,

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Speaker 1: I can talk to them, you know, a certain way

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Speaker 1: and being able to you know, understand when they can

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Speaker 1: talk to me, so they don't feel like I'm the

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Speaker 1: only one that's you know, speaking, So if I'm doing

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Speaker 1: something wrong, if they want the ball in a certain

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Speaker 1: So that chemistry is very is very good between us,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we just kind of have that that

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Speaker 1: I saw Jordan Thomas catch a ball today in the

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Speaker 1: end zone. I thought it was one of those typical

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Speaker 1: and I've talked about it all season long, balls in

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Speaker 1: the air. I see where it's headed them, thinking well,

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Speaker 1: there's no way that big dude is gonna ca Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he just caught it touchdown, thank you, toe tapper in

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Speaker 1: the corner. And I think that it's just it continues

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Speaker 1: to amaze. He's not quite the size of an offensive lineman,

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Speaker 1: but if you gave him a few burgers, he could

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Speaker 1: get there. Maybe he's closed some more carbs perhaps whatever,

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Speaker 1: but his hands are so soft. I just I've never

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Speaker 1: seen anything quite like it for a guy that size.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's gonna go all pro tight end.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying that it's interesting to see the physical

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Speaker 1: freak that he is. And look, if they get everybody

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Speaker 1: going around him, he's gonna have a big year. And

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Speaker 1: maybe maybe there won't be enough balls to throw around,

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Speaker 1: but he's gonna make a significant impact like he did

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Speaker 1: last year when he caught four touchdown. Pa. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: no doubt. You know who also has pillow soft hands.

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Speaker 1: And when he was coming out of the University of

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Speaker 1: Texas in twenty seventeen, you would have you would have

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Speaker 1: never thought this because they never threw him the ball.

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Speaker 1: That's Deante Foreman. He made a catch today where he

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Speaker 1: was he was down in the far end zone and

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Speaker 1: He had the safety by a step, and the ball

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Speaker 1: wasn't thrown behind him high, but it was like high,

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Speaker 1: a little bit high, kind of right over his head,

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Speaker 1: in and I was like, man, he's got really good hands.

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Speaker 1: That's the one thing about this, this group of Lamar

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Speaker 1: and Yata in the backfield hop Fuller QT these guys

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Speaker 1: and the Tom Jordan Thomas jord Nakins, these guys have

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Speaker 1: really good hands. YEA. If Deshaun can get it into vicinity,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna make a play on it. They're gonna make

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Speaker 1: a play on it. And more than more than likely

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Speaker 1: you're gonna bring that thing in so to have guys

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Speaker 1: that can understand the offense to a point where they

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Speaker 1: I know my route should be, I know what my

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Speaker 1: the biggest thing for us and everybody around. Just put

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Speaker 1: in that work every single day. How's the offensive line looking?

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Speaker 1: A lot of changes up front, a lot of mixing

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Speaker 1: and matching, and you guys got to face that every day. Good.

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Speaker 1: A lot of mixing, like you said, a lot of

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Speaker 1: mixing and matching, so they'll look good. Throwing different guys

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Speaker 1: at you. You You never know who you gonna get. So

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Speaker 1: it's been good day. Today's the first day, so we'll see.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite part of practice? Do you

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Speaker 1: like the individual stuff? I know you really haven't done

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Speaker 1: a bunch of that. Yet when you get the pads on,

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Speaker 1: you'll do those individual drills. But do you have a

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Speaker 1: favorite part of practice? The last horn? Um? But um,

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Speaker 1: it's like, you know, we got this new uh oh

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Speaker 1: the refrigerator. You yeah, that's I don't know what that's called.

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Speaker 1: That was kind of cool. That part was let's see,

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Speaker 1: you went two minutes and did that make a difference.

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Speaker 1: It actually feels real good in there. So but when

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Speaker 1: you come back out, we'll see maybe on a hotter day.

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Speaker 1: It's not as hot today, so we'll see. All right, DJ,

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Speaker 1: thanks allow for joining us. Thank you, DJ Reader, And

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Speaker 1: he committed verbally anyway to open the food Rutgers Texans

448
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Speaker 1: players shows this year. That'll be the opening week of

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Speaker 1: the season, right after Labor Day at fifty nine and

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Speaker 1: Greenway Food Rutgers. So Reader will be there, he'll have

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Speaker 1: numerous visits and it's gonna be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: Next up, let's get to John Harris himself and he

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Speaker 1: does this thing called the forty where he walks forty

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Speaker 1: yards when the player interviews him. And it's a cool video.

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Speaker 1: So I thought we'd play the audio for you. Brennan

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Speaker 1: Scarlett walking with Johnny the forty training campus. Back to

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Speaker 1: that means we are going forty yards for the first

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Speaker 1: time this year, my man, Brennan Scarlett, scar it's good

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Speaker 1: to see you back man. First of all, I think

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Speaker 1: that's just last year refreshed me fastest for you ever. Ran.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give the fourth They don't got to specify

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Speaker 1: if it was okay, what's the last book you read?

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Speaker 1: In a book you would recommend to people to read?

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, I actually just finish the subtle art of

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Speaker 1: not giving up right part Mark Manson. It was pretty good,

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Speaker 1: very good, pretty good. If you had to pick one

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Speaker 1: teammate to sit down with a group of third graders

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Speaker 1: to read books to them, what teammate would it be?

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Speaker 1: Who would it be? M? I think I think Justin

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Speaker 1: Reid will do a good job with that. Stanford guys,

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Speaker 1: Stanford maybe a better mostly I see with a Stanford

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Speaker 1: love Trump. Last item you purchased at a thrift shop,

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Speaker 1: M God, you know I'm gonna tell you the eye

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Speaker 1: of my almost first overall Portland. They had like the

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Speaker 1: plaid underneath the plaid lightning. I ended not getting it

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Speaker 1: because you can't really wear overall, don't you don't want

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Speaker 1: to do that. That's straight nineties, my fresh prince. You know, okay,

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Speaker 1: we know that you're a fashionista. If your whole closets

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Speaker 1: wiped out, you got your essentials taken care of. What's

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Speaker 1: the first item of clothing that you would buy it

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Speaker 1: for yourself? Oh? You gotta get some pants, a solid

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Speaker 1: pair of pants, you know, honestly, I will get some

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Speaker 1: like some some some tailors, some altered uh flax, you

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Speaker 1: know what, the crease down the middle, because then it's

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Speaker 1: so flexible. We could you could dress it down. You

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Speaker 1: could dress it up. Who is the most fashionable member

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Speaker 1: of the Houston Texans not named Brennan Scarlett? Doubt it

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Speaker 1: is scary the best art there is, Johnny, let me

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Speaker 1: do my Bryant gumble at the end of a real

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Speaker 1: sports story thing. And now you're in studio. So John

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Speaker 1: Brennan Scarlet, how does he fit in? He fits it

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Speaker 1: pretty well. Um, you know was asking me before we

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Speaker 1: got Scarlett. He said, hey, if they're in their basse,

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Speaker 1: look it would would he be a starter opposite Whitney?

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Speaker 1: And I said when the base look, yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: if if JD is not back and until JD gets back.

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Speaker 1: I think Brandon's done a lot of really good things.

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Speaker 1: You remember last year against Washington Redskins, and even before

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Speaker 1: that was the game before that, the Thursday night game

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Speaker 1: at Miami was at the one against Miami, I think

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Speaker 1: it was against Miami he had to go in there

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Speaker 1: an inside linebacker, and then at Washington he jumped in

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Speaker 1: there an inside linebacker, had to pick played pretty well.

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Speaker 1: He did some he did some different things because Zach

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Speaker 1: was out of those games. Zach had gotten hurt early

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Speaker 1: in Miami game and we're trying to find the right mix,

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Speaker 1: and so Peter Calbody went inside and then uh Scar

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Speaker 1: went inside too. I think scars. I think Brandon's fit

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Speaker 1: and will fit better on the outside, but look on

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Speaker 1: the inside. If he just the more you can do.

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Speaker 1: You know with Brendon Scarlett, he'll give you great stuff

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Speaker 1: on special teams. You know, he's smart, he's tough, He's

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Speaker 1: been around, who's been doing. He was one of those

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Speaker 1: fifteen guys we talked just gonna because I remember the

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Speaker 1: first preseason he kind of I'm not gonna use the

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Speaker 1: word erupted, but he flashed for sure at San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: Look good in that game. So this is great to

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Speaker 1: see him continue to develop. Yeah. Absolutely, And you know

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Speaker 1: I did might not talking too much football because we

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Speaker 1: usually talk a lot of football, but we talked about,

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Speaker 1: you know, some of his his fashion which you guys heard,

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Speaker 1: and he's he's awesome whenever I see him get on

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Speaker 1: a team play and I'm like, you pull that off, man,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you. I don't know how you

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Speaker 1: do it. But he's He's another guy that you can

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Speaker 1: sit there and talk to you about a lot of

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Speaker 1: different things. Like we were done with an interview, we

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Speaker 1: started talking about Portland. I want to read that book

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Speaker 1: he talked about, Yeah, the Subtle Art of not giving

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Speaker 1: a leap. Yeah, I want to read that. That's a

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Speaker 1: really popular one. Yeah, that's gonna I wasn't expecting. I didn't.

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Speaker 1: I was kind of trying to figure out if I

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Speaker 1: knew the book, and all of sudden he said the

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Speaker 1: subtle art of and he kind of made a motion

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Speaker 1: with his hands like, oh, okay, all right, Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: guess that's not the message. Yeah, I got the message

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Speaker 1: just in a word you're supposed to be able to

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Speaker 1: say on video. But he's a he's a key component

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Speaker 1: because look, any defense, offense, whatever it is, any unit

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have. You know, championship teams are gonna have

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Speaker 1: their stars. But then you've got to have guys that

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Speaker 1: understand what their roles have to be. This is what

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Speaker 1: my role has to be this week, Great, this is

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Speaker 1: my role, next week, fine, whatever you need me to do,

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Speaker 1: that's my role. I'll do it. And they take a

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Speaker 1: lot of pride in it, and that's what he is.

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Speaker 1: And need them. You need these people, and they're very

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Speaker 1: big on that. All right. Coming up, John McClain starts

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Speaker 1: on the opening of camp here in Houston, and President

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Speaker 1: Jamie Roots of the Houston Texans as well, weighs it

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Speaker 1: on that and some other things going on around NRG Park.

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Speaker 1: It's Texans Radio, Mark vandamer John Harris with you at

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Speaker 1: the Hunday Texans Radio studio. We'll get to John McClain

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Speaker 1: reloaded in just a moment and we'll hear some of

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Speaker 1: the things that Jamie Roots, the President of the Texans,

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Speaker 1: had to say in just a few moments. He talked

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Speaker 1: about football organization with the Texans and training camp, the

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Speaker 1: evolution through the years. He's one of the originals, one

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Speaker 1: of the guys who's been around here since O two,

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Speaker 1: lucky enough to be one of them. Anyway, Johnny, let's

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Speaker 1: get to this now. Other stuff you've noticed from around

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Speaker 1: the NFL today. Camps are opening everywhere. This is cool.

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Speaker 1: You opened two weeks from tonight, so you can open

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Speaker 1: camp two weeks before your first preseason game. That's why

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Speaker 1: we're seeing more teams than ever play on that opening

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Speaker 1: Thursday the first possible time. Now. The Texans two years

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Speaker 1: ago played on a Wednesday because Carolina couldn't play the

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Speaker 1: game any other day because of the PGA Championship taking

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Speaker 1: place there. And by the way, there's no PGA Championship

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Speaker 1: this year. In August, they moved it back to between

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Speaker 1: the Masters and the US Open to generate more interest,

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Speaker 1: even though it was like a tree falling in the

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Speaker 1: woods because kept go ran away with it. Don't get

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Speaker 1: me started on that. Oh. By the way, Patrick Harrington

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Speaker 1: had a good tweet or padrig I'm not sure of

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Speaker 1: the correct pronunciation, but a good tweet during the British Open,

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Speaker 1: the Open Championship as they call it. He said, it's

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Speaker 1: different when you're watching on television. He doesn't have that

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Speaker 1: accent never And I want to attempted it's different when

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Speaker 1: you're watching on TV. It looks so nerve acking, and

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Speaker 1: he says he was feeling the stress watching it on television,

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Speaker 1: but he said, when you're playing it, it's not the same.

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Speaker 1: You don't feel that same kind of stress. You just

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Speaker 1: go with the flow. You're going shot the shot, and

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Speaker 1: you're just playing golf. Now, just playing golf to a

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Speaker 1: guy like Podrick Harrington is a little bit different than

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Speaker 1: you and I. But I thought that was interesting because

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Speaker 1: the relationship to football here with this particular tweet is

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Speaker 1: when guys go to the eb and flow of a game,

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Speaker 1: you're on your couch and you're living here. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, yeah, and they feel those emotions, but

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Speaker 1: they're the ones who can do something about it, so

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Speaker 1: they stay in it, locked in and focus on the

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Speaker 1: next thing, which I think is pretty cool. When players

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Speaker 1: are asked to get nervous and like, no, I just

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Speaker 1: got my responsibility. I got the call, what's the play call,

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Speaker 1: look at the defense, look at the offense, spending on

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Speaker 1: what side of the ball you are, and then make

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Speaker 1: that play. And I think it's that way too. It's

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Speaker 1: funny when many many years ago and I was coaching.

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Speaker 1: I remember my wife after games would just be wrung out,

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Speaker 1: just like maybe you came and she's like, so nerve wracking.

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Speaker 1: She says, weren't you nervous? I'm like, no, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm coaching the next play. I think on to the

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Speaker 1: next thing. It's so difficult, and I find it like

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Speaker 1: during games. Yeah, like now down on the sidelines, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I mean we're kind of that same. I think we

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Speaker 1: probably get more nervous because we don't have any control

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Speaker 1: of it. Obviously, you know, you're calling the action with

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Speaker 1: Dre and me and you're going from play to play.

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Speaker 1: But still we're feeling those nerves. They're not on the field,

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Speaker 1: they're just what's the next play? Yeah, let's go to

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Speaker 1: the next play. Let's make the next play. What's the

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Speaker 1: next play call? What should it be? Let's make it,

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Speaker 1: Let's go. There really is no nervous I would I

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Speaker 1: would from that standpoint, I would much rather be coaching

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Speaker 1: or on the field making a play, as opposed to

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Speaker 1: sitting there watching it. You can get a nervous rex

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Speaker 1: in here watching it. Oh absolutely, I can understand him

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Speaker 1: completely what he's saying, and there might be nerves with

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Speaker 1: certain elements of the game, but there's stress and nerves

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Speaker 1: and sometimes there are different things. Anyway, a guy never

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Speaker 1: gets nervous. At John McClain, the general from the Houston Chronicle,

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Speaker 1: and we were talking with him this morning on Texas

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Speaker 1: Training Camp Live is gonna join us every morning from

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Speaker 1: eight thirty from now on. And he was asked about

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Speaker 1: training camp and how tough it is and the evolution

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Speaker 1: of what they can do with what they can't do.

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Speaker 1: He actually opens this asking us a question, is it

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Speaker 1: the first two days they can't put on pads correct

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Speaker 1: because they have to get adjusted. He's marketing back to

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Speaker 1: the days of the Junction Boys. What was just what

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Speaker 1: five years ago? Maybe maybe maybe not that many last Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was two day practices to papers. They didn't go

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Speaker 1: morning and afternoon. They would go morning and night right

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Speaker 1: and the night. They were not the equal intensity. Even

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Speaker 1: in that era, it was already changing from you know,

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Speaker 1: even the nineties Bill Parcel's coaching the Jets and going

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Speaker 1: two days in full pads. Well, because guys used to

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00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 1: not stay in shape through the off season. They didn't

641
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 1: have a great facility like this with all the players

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Speaker 1: hand including three meals healthy meals a day if they

643
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 1: want them so coach. They started in June, and coaches

644
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 1: thought you had to play them into shape. So the

645
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: first day they're doing double days and hitting full contact

646
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 1: from the moment they stepped on the field because they

647
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Speaker 1: thought that's what it took to get them in shape.

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Speaker 1: And I'm surprised, you know that there were not more

649
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 1: heat related heat related injuries or were incidents incidents, yes,

650
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Speaker 1: because it was so hot and they didn't do water

651
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 1: and gatorade all the time like they do now. A

652
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Speaker 1: lot of times it's like, hey, you don't need water,

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Speaker 1: you're not If you need water, you're not tough. No. Now,

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00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien orders them. Yeah. Yeah, every coach on the

655
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Speaker 1: face of this earth orders their kids to drink water.

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Speaker 1: I've got to get audio of him saying, good drink Yeah,

657
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 1: like it's a command. Oh, yet has to be it,

658
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 1: I mean, it has to be and you have to follow.

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Speaker 1: Tom Herman put up a schedule of what's staying hydrated.

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Speaker 1: That if he gave up like a color a color

661
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 1: coded chart of your of your urine, that if it

662
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: was a certain color, you were doing the team harm.

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00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 1: And if it was a certain color then you were

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00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 1: a good teammate really because you weren't staying that affects

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00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 1: the team, because you weren't staying tie it all together,

666
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 1: you weren't staying. There were not deaths really death Yeah,

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00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 1: because they didn't give them water. Think about Junction boys.

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00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: They could not drink water. And there they made him

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00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 1: and the bear was great. Right, all right? So, John,

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00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,520
Speaker 1: you brought up a few things, lack of stars participating,

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Speaker 1: at least in the early going of camp. I think

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Speaker 1: one note about that none of these things expected to

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00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 1: be bad enough to keep people out of the opener, right,

674
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: which is which is significant here, even the clowney situation.

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Speaker 1: We don't know what he's gonna come back, but he's

676
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: gonna come back before the first game. There you go,

677
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 1: it'd be great to see him. It'd be great if

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00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 1: you shout out early. If I were a guy playing

679
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 1: for a new contract, yep, I would instead of withholding

680
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,479
Speaker 1: my services and knowing I'm gonna have to get in

681
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: football shape banging on people. Romeo care Now talked about that.

682
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 1: I wrote a column about it where Romeo said, we

683
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: know he'll be in great shape, we know he'll know

684
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 1: the defense inside now, but we have to determine how

685
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 1: long it will take him to be in football shape,

686
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: and sometimes you can't just turn it off like a

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00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 1: water faucet. So I think if it were me, I

688
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: wouldn't wait till the last minute. I might show up

689
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 1: a week or two early to make sure I did

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00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: get in football shape to have my best season, to

691
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 1: force people to pay me more money. John, I think

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Speaker 1: the best thing about this is that you have Number

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Speaker 1: four coming back. He's been participating in OTA's full go

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Speaker 1: all offseason, and despite who's not here, you have him,

695
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 1: and that's how you're gonna build the culture going forward.

696
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 1: You gotta have. And I wrote Think two weeks ago

697
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 1: about it. I thought he had a great season last

698
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 1: year when you looked at all the limitations around him,

699
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 1: the offensive line, Fuller and q T missing nineteen games,

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00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 1: Lamar Miller missing two and a half down day, Foreman

701
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: not doing anything to rookie tight ends, collapsed long broken rib,

702
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 1: and yet he's still looking for thirty one touchdowns and

703
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 1: he was the first one in history. They have one

704
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 1: four thousand yard russing twenty five touch I'm sorry, four

705
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 1: thousand passing twenty five touchdowns, five hundred rushing and five

706
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns, first quarterback in history. Imagine how great he

707
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 1: in this offense could be. Of say, QT and Fuller

708
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: only missed five games, and we think the offensive line

709
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 1: is going to be better. The tight ends are in

710
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 1: their second year and Miller last year of his contract.

711
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 1: In foreman coming back with a vengeance he can be.

712
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: I tell everybody on these fantasy shows, I do take

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00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 1: to Shaun Watson there. He is the general John McClain

714
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Speaker 1: from the Houston Chronicle. Now, we also had a chance

715
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 1: to visit with Jamie Roots, president of the Houston Texans.

716
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 1: As I mentioned earlier, he's been with the Texans since

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Speaker 1: the beginning of time, and time started in O two.

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00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: Actually the franchise was awarded October nineteen ninety nine, but

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00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 1: we won't get into that right now. Play started in

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00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 1: O two, So training camp has changed a lot. But

721
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:11,280
Speaker 1: big topic of conversation this week has been the football

722
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: organizational stuff. So I opened with a question about that. Now,

723
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: a lot of people aren't familiar with the way an

724
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:18,359
Speaker 1: NFL team works, and we're not going to get into

725
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: all the schematics here, but there's business operations, there's football operations.

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00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:25,319
Speaker 1: A lot of talk about organizational structure. What can you

727
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: share with us about the way the Texans are set

728
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 1: up on o'cal McNair had some things to say on

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00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,840
Speaker 1: Texans Radio earlier this week. Yeah, I'm we're excited. I

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00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: tell you what. There's such a tremendous amount of chemistry

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00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 1: in our building and it really it all starts with Cal.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's been it's been such a smooth transition.

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Speaker 1: Bob McNair, who was a hero is a hero of mine,

734
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 1: a tremendous mentor, did such a great job setting things

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00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,279
Speaker 1: up so that the transition would be smooth. And so

736
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 1: Cal has really demanded that everybody work as a team.

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00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 1: It's that's the operative where it's about team. It's team first,

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00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: collaboration across the building. And I think we're going to

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00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 1: have a I think we're going to have a really

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00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 1: special year because of it. When you think about your

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00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 1: first training camp, because Mark and I were talking about earlier,

742
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 1: this is my thirteenth, this is Mark's eighteenth. When you

743
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 1: think back the training camp one, well, this thing is

744
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 1: really being built, and you think about and you then

745
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 1: think to today, what's the one thing that you think

746
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,240
Speaker 1: back that first training camp and go, man, we change

747
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,359
Speaker 1: that and we've made that better for the long run.

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00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 1: That is exhibited in our training camps today. Well, I

749
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 1: could highlight a lot of things, but I heard in

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Speaker 1: your earlier segment you talked about the shade for the fans.

751
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 1: If that's what you're talking about in terms of the experience,

752
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 1: because let me tell you, to sit out on those

753
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: bleachers in the sunshine is really tough. So I'm glad

754
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:44,479
Speaker 1: we are able to figure that out. So that makes

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00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 1: for a much better experience. But the training camp operation,

756
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 1: I mean, it's been pretty consistent because it works, but

757
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 1: every year we're looking at how do we make it better,

758
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 1: how do we make the experience better? And when you

759
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,360
Speaker 1: guys are watching here on the field and then you

760
00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,799
Speaker 1: see the fans, but back behind there, there's a big

761
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 1: old party going on, right, folks are having a blast.

762
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: I mean there it's you know, it is a practice, right,

763
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: but it's a free opportunity for the fans to come

764
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 1: in and get close to the team. It's just a

765
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:14,240
Speaker 1: chance to feel football again before we start playing games.

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Speaker 1: All right. So coming up at NRG Stadium, we have

767
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 1: a lot of events and opening weekend of the regular

768
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 1: season for the Texans, it's the Jacksonville Jaguars after opening

769
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Speaker 1: on the road against the Saints on Monday night. But

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00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 1: that weekend is maybe the biggest weekend of the history

771
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,359
Speaker 1: of Houston football all the way through. When you have

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00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: back to back to back games at NRG Stadium. Well,

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00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 1: and how cool is it. You've got back to back

774
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 1: to back the two college teams that the premier college

775
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:45,280
Speaker 1: teams here in the Houston area and then the Houston Texans.

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00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:47,400
Speaker 1: So you open on Friday night with the Avocare Texas

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00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,840
Speaker 1: kick off. You've got the University of Houston and Washington State.

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00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:56,319
Speaker 1: All the tremendous buzz around Dana and Dana Holgerson and

779
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 1: what he's going to do for the Houston Cougars and

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00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,239
Speaker 1: the great season that Washington State had last year and

781
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: the Leech rivalry. I mean, it's just so many great

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00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:08,400
Speaker 1: storylines around that Friday game and the Saturday Uh. You know,

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00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 1: University of Texas. You guys were talking earlier about about

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00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: Tom Herman, and you know players, players are penalized by

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00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:17,359
Speaker 1: the by the coaching staff if they don't have their

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00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 1: water bottle with them. You were talking about hydration and

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00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 1: that's our serious sage ticket. Yeah, and the European don't

788
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: think we should have that business. Oops. But you know

789
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Jamie, I mean, there's something to learn from

790
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 1: Tom Herman. Coffee is more important to us than water.

791
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 1: So uh, then you got Saturday night, you got rice

792
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:37,920
Speaker 1: and uh and ut old Southwestern Conference rivalry, and then

793
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 1: we open up we have a liberty wide out game

794
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 1: with the Jacksonville Jaguars. I mean, it's a it's a

795
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 1: really important game for us. That game is from a

796
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:47,880
Speaker 1: theme perspective, we're celebrating all of our first responders, and

797
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 1: you talk about things you're proud of and things that

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00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 1: I'm really proud that this organization, whether we're recognized for

799
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: it or not, have been a change agent in the

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00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 1: National Football League. This idea of themes around your games

801
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 1: creating tremendous meaning to the game beyond just the athletic competition.

802
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,359
Speaker 1: That's some of the league wasn't even thinking about back

803
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 1: in two thousand and two we started it. They've taken

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00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 1: most of our themes and they've replicating them across across

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00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 1: the country, whether that's Pink Ribbon Day or it's the

806
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:20,840
Speaker 1: Salute to Service game with the military, So that weekend

807
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: is going to be a great start. Jamie Ruth, President

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00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:25,759
Speaker 1: of the Texans, joining US Texans Trading Cap Live. We're

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Speaker 1: on the field here, players making their way into the

810
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:32,919
Speaker 1: practice bubble to get ready for today's opening practice. Now, Jamie,

811
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:34,880
Speaker 1: in a few weeks, we're gonna vite people in media,

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00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 1: people to talk about what's new at the stadium. And

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00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 1: I know over the years there have been so many

814
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 1: innovations and additions, and the game presentation crew just won

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00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 1: another award four out of seven years, right for best

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00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 1: presentation in the National Football League. Yeah, that's right, the

817
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:53,400
Speaker 1: Idea Conference. They recognize annually the best game presentation in

818
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 1: the National Football League and we've wanted a number of

819
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 1: years and we wanted again this past year. I mean,

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00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: that's the all the rituals, the traditions, and the videoboard production,

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00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 1: all the things that we do to make game days

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00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: so entertaining, but more importantly so engaging. You know, you

823
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:11,359
Speaker 1: think about social media, and that media thing is miss

824
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 1: Nober because it's not about broadcasting information, it's people broadcasting themselves.

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00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,920
Speaker 1: Everyone wants to participate, and that's when I'm so proud

826
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:22,440
Speaker 1: of our team, that they focus on these opportunities to

827
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Speaker 1: bring the fans into the game, to create an experience like,

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00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,840
Speaker 1: let's like no other and for sure not even close

829
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 1: to what you will experience on your couch. And that's

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Speaker 1: why you have thirty two thousand people on a waitlist

831
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: because they know how special from tailgating to the in

832
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 1: game experience, how special that is here in Houston. You

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00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: know one thing about Jamie john and you know you

834
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:44,840
Speaker 1: sit in all these meetings too, is business operations meetings

835
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,920
Speaker 1: we talked about. There's a difference between business operations and

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00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 1: football operations and all the things that Jamie overseas and

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00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 1: the fact that the Texans were able to get that

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00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 1: best game presentation in the NFL four out of the

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Speaker 1: last seven years, and this is not to be taken lightly.

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00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 1: People wonder, well, why have you been able to sell

841
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 1: out every game and the Oilers couldn't And is it

842
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: just because Houston loves football? Well, Houston loves football, but

843
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 1: guys like Jamie roots to make sure that when you

844
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 1: come to the game, you're gonna have as good as

845
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:15,399
Speaker 1: an experience as humanly possible, despite what might or might

846
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 1: not happen on the field. He wants to control everything

847
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 1: he possibly can to make that a great day and

848
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 1: create those great memories. And he knows that, hey, you're

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Speaker 1: not gonna win every game, so let's make it as

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Speaker 1: fun as possible no matter what. Yeah, I think the

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Speaker 1: word that he used and that we use a lot

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Speaker 1: as the experience. The experience needs to be at an

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Speaker 1: A plus plus level, no matter what. That's something that

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Speaker 1: we can control on our side of the building. Like

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Speaker 1: we're not going to be able to control whether whether

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Speaker 1: the squad wins the game, what football ops is doing,

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Speaker 1: we can't control that. But what we can control, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna put on an A plus plus product. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you're a suiteholder, the people that we have in charge, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, if you're in our lux group. You know,

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Speaker 1: our Luxe team is so good about presenting value and

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Speaker 1: giving value to the people that are in lux If

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Speaker 1: you're if you're you know you're up in the upper sections.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the people that we have that take care

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Speaker 1: of the fans. You know, the video board. I mean

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Speaker 1: when Gavin and Kenny and Tom Thud with the video

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Speaker 1: boards just unbelievable. And I know if you go to

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Speaker 1: games in Houston, if you've seen it for years, you

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Speaker 1: probably take it for granted. Go to another building and

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00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 1: you realize it didn't like that. It's not like that.

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Speaker 1: You don't get quite the same experience a lot of

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Speaker 1: their buildings. A lot of people say that, by the way,

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Speaker 1: and my wife was talking about that. She said, I

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Speaker 1: can see why they won that award because she's been

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Speaker 1: to games as a fan, like taking my son to Denver,

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Speaker 1: and she's been to Nashville with the girls and things

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Speaker 1: like that, and she said, it's just not even close

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Speaker 1: what you see in these other buildings. I remember going

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Speaker 1: to the Jets last year. There's was kind of cool,

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00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 1: but very different. And they don't win any awards, and

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00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 1: they got a lot of resources there. This just in

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Speaker 1: it's New York in the country, and not to take

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Speaker 1: anything away from them or to criticize them, but I'm

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Speaker 1: just praising what we have here and it's so awesome.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's gonna do it For the show tonight tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: we'll be out on the field Houston Methodist Training Center

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Speaker 1: at eight am. Sports Radio six ten broadcasting six to eight.

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00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: We're on eight to ten, then in the loop ten

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00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 1: o'clock on and they took their show inside for the

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Speaker 1: second half of practice, and you know what, the weather

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00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: was great today. Let's hope for that some more tomorrow.

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00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 1: We're all rooting for that kind of thing. Weird but

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00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:30,320
Speaker 1: good anyway, have a great night everyone, Go Texans.