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Speaker 1: Welcome to everybody to a Wednesday edition of Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris, football analysts and silid reporter

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Speaker 1: for your Houston Texans, and we have got a ton

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Speaker 1: for you tonight. We're gonna kick off the show here

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Speaker 1: in just a little bit with a little in the

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Speaker 1: lab that Drew and I did talking about unheralded players

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Speaker 1: the Texans have had that have made a significant impact

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Speaker 1: even if they were underappreciated, if you will. Then in

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Speaker 1: our second segment, we're gonna have Drew dolready stopped by.

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Speaker 1: He's got a number of Drew's dozen. He sits down

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Speaker 1: with a number of players and pokes and prods and

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Speaker 1: ask the questions really only well Drew can ask, to

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Speaker 1: be honest with you, and then we'll finish up going

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Speaker 1: around the league. But like I said, we're gonna kick

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Speaker 1: off tonight's show with a little discussion that we had

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Speaker 1: motivated by former Texans Sean Cody John. We are about

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Speaker 1: a month away from training camp beginning maybe a month

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Speaker 1: four or five days be fun. There will be about

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Speaker 1: seven open practices for fans. That announcement of which dates

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Speaker 1: specifically that's coming out in the next few weeks, but

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Speaker 1: gonna be some open practices. Should be cool. I haven't

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Speaker 1: had that since twenty nineteen. There's gonna be a night

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Speaker 1: practice too, we think, which we haven't seen since twenty

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Speaker 1: fifteen when HBO cameras were here. So looking forward to that.

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Speaker 1: There's a different it's a different type of heat later

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Speaker 1: in the day, and I like it better. It's not

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Speaker 1: as human typically in the afternoon as opposed to during

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Speaker 1: the morning. But you know, hearkening back a few hours ago,

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Speaker 1: I did a one on one zoom with our good

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Speaker 1: pal Sean Cody the Nose Tackle, and it's part of

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Speaker 1: a series where we've started up. It's called where Are

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Speaker 1: They Now? John? Excuse me. Mark caught up with Tony

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Speaker 1: Banks about a week or so ago. I had some

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Speaker 1: fun stuff from him, so I thought I would talk

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Speaker 1: to Cody in a year. Let's get him going. It's

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Speaker 1: been too long, and we had a nice conversation. It

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Speaker 1: was really really fun to hear from him, as as

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Speaker 1: I would not be surprised to hear, and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: you won't either. The guy is going to be opening

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Speaker 1: a restaurant soon. He completed a restaurant management training program

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Speaker 1: which is awesome, and he's gonna be doing that. He

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Speaker 1: also is the color commentator for USC football on the radio,

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Speaker 1: just started doing that last year, and he was doing

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Speaker 1: radio stuff with USC before that. But uh, it was

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Speaker 1: it was good to see him, good to hear from him.

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Speaker 1: And we'll have that whole conversation up on the website

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Speaker 1: and on the mobile app here soon. But it's always

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Speaker 1: fun talking to Sean Cody. John. Yeah, you I'm a

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Speaker 1: little envious in some sense that you got to spend

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Speaker 1: time with Sean Cody and I didn't get into the

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Speaker 1: building until after he was gone, and the fears that

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Speaker 1: he was here. I was actually doing overnight radio, so

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Speaker 1: I was on a completely different life plan. He will

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Speaker 1: then ninety eight ninety nine percent of the living the

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Speaker 1: people living in the United States at that point. I mean,

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Speaker 1: third shift is not it's not for the faint of heart.

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Speaker 1: Point being, I'm always envious when you talk about Cody

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Speaker 1: because I always feel like he is one of them.

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Speaker 1: He's maybe got one of the greatest personalities I've seen

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Speaker 1: if anybody come through this building. Yeah, just listen to

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Speaker 1: he was, he was perfect, and he was destined for

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Speaker 1: something in media. We knew that had a feeling. But

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Speaker 1: I love the fact that he's connected with USC. It's

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Speaker 1: funny because that's how a lot of guys I connect

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Speaker 1: just think back to when Kennecchi, Dasi and Sean Cody,

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Speaker 1: stood out to me. And he was just Afterdan Coody, right,

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Speaker 1: it stood for soily California. But but he would just

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Speaker 1: which which I think is hilarious. But he was also

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Speaker 1: I felt like one of the more under harold, under haralded, underappreciated,

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Speaker 1: underrated players the Texas have had in their history. Look,

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Speaker 1: we've talked about the Mario Williams Is, the Dejandre Hopkins

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Speaker 1: These are the guys you don't hear a lot about. Luckily,

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Speaker 1: However you want to call it, but he was incredibly valuable.

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Speaker 1: And I'm glad you got a chance to catch up

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Speaker 1: If not, we're definitely gonna hear on the podcast for sure.

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Speaker 1: Well you canna hear on both. It's funny bringing up

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Speaker 1: unheralded because it wasn't until he got to the NFL

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Speaker 1: that he became unheralded. I mean he was. He was

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Speaker 1: when he was coming out of high school. Yea. Pete

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Speaker 1: an upset at the time, people thought Cody was gonna

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Speaker 1: of really high talent, high end talent coming into Southern

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Speaker 1: he's still very, very valuable, like you bring bring up,

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Speaker 1: And that's kind of what we're talking about today when

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Speaker 1: And Cody played nose tackle. You could probably put every

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Speaker 1: and there's this is not a scientific ranking by any means.

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Speaker 1: You say Cody, I'm gonna say a tight end who

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Speaker 1: He leads the Texans tight ends historically and just about

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Speaker 1: every category. It's Joel Dreeson. That guy was. He was

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Speaker 1: we would have called it something differently, but Greason was like, no,

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Speaker 1: that's it. So that was his joke. But man, you

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Speaker 1: five seasons and he would average out with US twelve

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Speaker 1: But I'm going with Joel Greeson is one of my

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Speaker 1: they kept him at corners. What he played at Vanderbilt

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Speaker 1: after Lamar Miller's amazing touchdown, which talking about underappreciated and

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Speaker 1: of anomalies or guys that really flourished in one year

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Speaker 1: here with the Texans, because there are quite a few

429
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Speaker 1: of a good one. Yeah, yeah, definitely a few for sure.

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Speaker 1: John's always good to talk with you. Like I said,

431
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Speaker 1: keep your eye out for that. Cody interview. We've also

432
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Speaker 1: got one that we've talked about on air a bit,

433
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Speaker 1: Gary Kubiak. We went to his ranch up northwest to

434
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Speaker 1: hear about an hour outside of town. Had a fun

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Speaker 1: time talking with him. He's gonna be the fate or

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Speaker 1: the focus of a Texans three sixty coming up in

437
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Speaker 1: the weeks to come, so make sure you'll check that out.

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Speaker 1: And it's gonna be a good one. Sound good, sounds good, man.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to that for sure. Man. I'm very

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Speaker 1: I'm envious. I don't like to say that, but I'm

441
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Speaker 1: envious that you and coach Gooban's got that chance to

442
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Speaker 1: get together. Man, he is. He's another guy at top

443
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Speaker 1: of my list that I would like to sit down

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Speaker 1: and talk to some ball with that. You guys got

445
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Speaker 1: a chance to do that and I didn't. So yeah,

446
00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,439
Speaker 1: maybe maybe jealous and I don't know, that's one of

447
00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:50,760
Speaker 1: the are those two of the deadly sins? I don't know,

448
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Speaker 1: but chuck him up for me with coach Kubiak, I'd

449
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Speaker 1: love to meet and talk with him. We get back,

450
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Speaker 1: Drew is gonna stick around with a little Drew's dozen

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Speaker 1: with a few offens Lineman, namely Titus Howard and Rod Johnson.

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Speaker 1: That's the next Texas Axis. Welcome back to this wonderful

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Speaker 1: Wednesday evening at Texans All Access edition from Honday, Texans

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Speaker 1: Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harris, and we just

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Speaker 1: had Drew Dorty on with me doing a little in

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Speaker 1: the lab talking about unheralded and underappreciated players and most

457
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Speaker 1: times I think fans would say that about the offensive line.

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Speaker 1: We mentioned a couple offensive lineman in our discussion from

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Speaker 1: Texans Past. Well, how about Texans future Well President and

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Speaker 1: future and Titus Howard and Rod Johnson. Well, Drew got

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Speaker 1: down in dirty with a dirty Drews dozen with Titus

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Speaker 1: Howard and Rod Johnson. It's here first for the third

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Speaker 1: year offensive lineman, former first rounder Titus Howard. Many of

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Speaker 1: your teammates say that you are the funniest Houston Texan.

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Speaker 1: Why did they say that? Because I I joke on

466
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Speaker 1: people a lot. I just like compare when people look

467
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Speaker 1: like to like stuff I've seen and stuff like that.

468
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Speaker 1: And that comes from like the school I went to.

469
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Speaker 1: Because all my teammates back in college, all we did was,

470
00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:15,560
Speaker 1: like you choke on each other and like make people

471
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Speaker 1: laugh and stuff like that. So that's what I do.

472
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:20,440
Speaker 1: Like I see somebody and they got they're looking funny,

473
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Speaker 1: and like I just choke on them and like just

474
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Speaker 1: trying to make everybody laugh and I just have a

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Speaker 1: good time. So you kind of spread the wealth as

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Speaker 1: far as joking on people, or is there somebody in

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Speaker 1: particular that you get time and time again? I spread

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Speaker 1: the wealth on everybody. A lot of people have you

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Speaker 1: as a funny sex Who do you think is your

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Speaker 1: funniest teammate? Funniest teammates? I ain't. I gotta I gotta

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Speaker 1: go with I gotta go with Brandon Dune. Pretty funny.

482
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Speaker 1: He's the DJ of the locker room, too done. It's hilarious.

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Speaker 1: He's pretty funny. Has he ever gotten you with anything good? Yeah? Man,

484
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,399
Speaker 1: if you say some some off the walls stuffing, he

485
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Speaker 1: can't you saying it? He gonna be let it be

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Speaker 1: known to everybody what you say. And let's just let

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Speaker 1: you know. It's that pretty all right. How about favorite comedian?

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Speaker 1: Who's your favorite comedian? Favorite comedian you gotta be either

489
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Speaker 1: Kat Williams or Kevin Hart and both little people so

490
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Speaker 1: like the stuff they do. It's like pretty funny, and

491
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Speaker 1: both of them, all their movies are pretty funny to me,

492
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Speaker 1: and they stand up comedy shows are funny. Speaking of

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Speaker 1: Kevin Hart, did you see that video of him watching

494
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Speaker 1: his high school basketball highlights on ESPN? I haven't seen

495
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 1: that one, but I know I was. I was laughing

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Speaker 1: at the video where him and The Rock had made

497
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Speaker 1: a video so each other, when The Rock had the

498
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Speaker 1: chain and stuff rin Kevin harton trying to make the

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Speaker 1: video to respond to, Okay, what song are you singing

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Speaker 1: in the car to your wife these days? Back when

501
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 1: we did this about a year ago, it was, let

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Speaker 1: it be that the duet? But what are you singing

503
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Speaker 1: to her now? Because you got a good voice, I say,

504
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:55,880
Speaker 1: the best part by her, and Daniel says, there it's

505
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Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's a girl singing a song,

506
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Speaker 1: but it's it's one of her favorite song. So when

507
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 1: she played I always ain't too all right, I said,

508
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Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna make a thing. But how does it go?

509
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Speaker 1: Can you just see it for for a little bit?

510
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Speaker 1: I see, no, I don't hear. It's just you and me.

511
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Speaker 1: And then a bunch of thousands of people that will

512
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Speaker 1: watch this later on the internet. Yeah, you know what,

513
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Speaker 1: all right, I won't push you on. I won't push

514
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Speaker 1: you on it not don't here. I hear you. I

515
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Speaker 1: hear you. Okay, Which teammate do you lean on the most?

516
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Speaker 1: If I had to say which teammate I lean on

517
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Speaker 1: the most, probably would be later Man. How come what

518
00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:38,080
Speaker 1: just because of his experience is greatness, all that stuff,

519
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: position and the level that he played. It is somewhere

520
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 1: I want to be. So if you got somewhere you

521
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 1: want to be, why not learn from one of the

522
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Speaker 1: best in the league. And he write down my team,

523
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 1: So I got the you know, ability to just go

524
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Speaker 1: as I hate how you see that, how you do

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Speaker 1: this is what you see when I do? How can

526
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Speaker 1: I create this, this, this and that? You know, he

527
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:00,439
Speaker 1: always you know, give me his advice and if I

528
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:02,199
Speaker 1: want to work out with him and he showed me

529
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,160
Speaker 1: some stuff, you do it. So that's probably the guy

530
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Speaker 1: I lean on the most. That's awesome. That's a great

531
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Speaker 1: resource to have is a young player in the league.

532
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 1: Really as an old player in the league, to have

533
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:14,120
Speaker 1: him near that's really cool. So if he's a guy

534
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Speaker 1: you lean on the most, do you also do like

535
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,399
Speaker 1: hit him on a game day, And do you listen

536
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,880
Speaker 1: to Shade No Ordinary Love to get ready for a game?

537
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 1: Because that's what he listens to. Did you know that?

538
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 1: If you want to talk about music and the different

539
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 1: varieties of music, then someone listened to Larami listened to

540
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:35,919
Speaker 1: some of the craziest music I ever heard of. You

541
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 1: just see like on Instagram sharing like his different songs,

542
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:42,680
Speaker 1: so we can stuff like that, Like he got, he

543
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,119
Speaker 1: got a pretty pretty big leagues of music he listened to.

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00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:47,959
Speaker 1: I don't listen to as much music he's done. Now

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Speaker 1: do you listen to anything on game day to get

546
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Speaker 1: ready or how do you get ready for a game?

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you to be honest, like when I

548
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 1: on game day, I really don't like listen to that

549
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,679
Speaker 1: much music, all right. What I do is when we

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Speaker 1: have like a big break or something like that, I

551
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 1: like to like get my mind off the game or something.

552
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,720
Speaker 1: I always like go to one of my favorite TV

553
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 1: shows how to get my mind off the games, so

554
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,680
Speaker 1: I can get completely focused. And then when it's time

555
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,199
Speaker 1: like play game, I'm just I'm ready to go. I

556
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 1: just turned to one of my favorite TV shows and

557
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 1: why I probablyzed like twenty and thirty minutes of it.

558
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a graz Anatomy fan, so really crazy.

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00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 1: I watched one of my favorite TV shows and then

560
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 1: sitting there for like twenty thirty minutes, then take it

561
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Speaker 1: off and then probably talk to a couple of guys

562
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,399
Speaker 1: and read my notes a little bit like when you

563
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 1: get time to crunch time and read a couple my

564
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 1: notes for forty game. Yeah, I'm ready to go. That's great.

565
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Speaker 1: It's always interesting hearing your stories about how you get ready,

566
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: because everyone's is different. You just told yours, heard about

567
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:48,719
Speaker 1: tonsil and shot a Brian Cushing used to throw up

568
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 1: in the locker room in a really violent manner, like

569
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 1: in front of everybody in this one track, Like everybody

570
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: does it in a different way, and it's always interesting

571
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: to hear that. So I played with like guys who

572
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: who like just was just sitting there locker and we

573
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 1: talked to nobody at all, and just like you just

574
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 1: talk to him that like they don't hear you. It's

575
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 1: always kind of interesting to see how people get ready

576
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 1: for their games, because like, everybody's different. Whatever works for you,

577
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 1: just what you do and you try to be consistent

578
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: with that. Okay, let's go back to when you played quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Describe to me your greatest single quarterback highlight. What happened?

580
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 1: I gotta say in my greatest highlight would be my

581
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 1: last game playing quarterback. My mom my brother was down.

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Speaker 1: At my last game I was playing against. My younger

583
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 1: brother played against played another high school to me. He's

584
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 1: year younger than me, so I got a chance to

585
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Speaker 1: play him as my last game in high school. He

586
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 1: had been talking to all type of crap all week.

587
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he played linebacker that, so you ain't getting

588
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 1: no yards gainst us this and that. Like the third

589
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Speaker 1: player of the game. I run the zone read, I

590
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 1: cut backside, going to the middle, I run him over,

591
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 1: run my love like truck sticking and take it like

592
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Speaker 1: seventy yards like a touchdown, and I go in the

593
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Speaker 1: end zone. I look at my brother and look at

594
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Speaker 1: my mom like, yeah, you just saw it halfway. And

595
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 1: then after the game, he didn't want to walk to

596
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Speaker 1: talk to him because all game I haven't talked. Crab

597
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 1: coming after that play and I am sixteen carries for

598
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 1: three hundred and fifteen yards my last high school football

599
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Speaker 1: games quarterback. Oh my goodness, please tell me there's video

600
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Speaker 1: of some of this Sumwhere do you have video of this?

601
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 1: I can get you some some film from that last game. Well,

602
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:40,239
Speaker 1: I'd love to see it. But if I were you,

603
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 1: I'd have like that seventy yard run like as a

604
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 1: gift and just send it to him every day and

605
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 1: just mess with him. That's what highlight every time I

606
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 1: see him. He was like, man, that still can't believe

607
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 1: your old labman, And I was like, yeah, that's gold Man,

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Speaker 1: That's hilarious. Okay, So let's say who you are right

609
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Speaker 1: now physically everything you know right now mentally, if you

610
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Speaker 1: were put back in your current you're the high school

611
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 1: where you went and they let you play in a game,

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Speaker 1: what positions would you play and what would happen. I'm

613
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 1: the size I am right now, the strength, the size everything,

614
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 1: I'm the size of the am right now. I would

615
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Speaker 1: be playing old line D line, and I would the

616
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Speaker 1: guys I played in high school. I would be murdering

617
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Speaker 1: then because I was like some somewhat bigger than some

618
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: of my line man in high school. I was tall.

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Speaker 1: I would I didn't weigh as much as them, but

620
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Speaker 1: I was like tall as I probably have been like

621
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Speaker 1: a five star probably taught Rank Player in the Nation

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Speaker 1: some of my high school right now. I always love

623
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: asking that question because you get some good stats that

624
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 1: are thrown out and some fun scenarios that happened. So yeah,

625
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: that's good stuff. What was your first job ever? My

626
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 1: first real job ever was working at this place called

627
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Speaker 1: Wild Wings. I cook wings in the back, pre up

628
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 1: the wings. Sometimes they made me watch the ships and stuff.

629
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Speaker 1: And then after that I ended up working at a

630
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: car wash for a while and I just watched cars,

631
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: and that was I worked at my car wash. I

632
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 1: think right before my senior year of college football. I

633
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 1: watched cars like just to like get money over the

634
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: summer and stuff like that. And I did that before

635
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: the season started, and then I had to quit when

636
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 1: the season start and then they say, you know, I

637
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: have a good season out here. Who I am now?

638
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: So I'm just grateful for everything, to be honest. So

639
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 1: does that mean you have a very clean car at

640
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Speaker 1: all times? Now? What how does that work? Oh? Yeah,

641
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Speaker 1: I gotta keep my car clean. I paid you gotta

642
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Speaker 1: come out to my house and and clean my car

643
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Speaker 1: because I have to have my car clean. I hate

644
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Speaker 1: running around in dirty car. Well, I won't let you

645
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Speaker 1: look inside mine. It looks kind of like a dumpster

646
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Speaker 1: at times. I've got four children, so it's it's kind

647
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Speaker 1: of tough. But yeah, I like clean cars too. I

648
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Speaker 1: just thought not able to get it clean as much

649
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Speaker 1: as I'd liked. What was your first car though? When

650
00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 1: you were when? When did you have a first car?

651
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Speaker 1: What was it? Now you're gonna laugh, but as big

652
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Speaker 1: as I am, my first car was a Hunday at Luntra. Okay,

653
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 1: so I had to get the seat did so they

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Speaker 1: can move it all the way back and nobody can

655
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Speaker 1: sit behind me in the car. It was a it

656
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,479
Speaker 1: was a fourth seater, but and when I was in it,

657
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Speaker 1: it was a three seater. It's a three seater because

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Speaker 1: you're yeah, so did you kind of have to fold

659
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Speaker 1: yourself into that thing? I had to drop down and

660
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Speaker 1: get all of it. But I know everybody used to

661
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: always laugh when I pull open. They made way too

662
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 1: big for that car because I took a pitch in

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Speaker 1: front of it, and I was like a giant standing

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Speaker 1: in front of the car. We all have interesting first

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Speaker 1: car stories. Mine so I'm old and back in the

666
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Speaker 1: mid nineties, I got an Oldsmobile ninety eight from nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty four, and I think this is like the biggest

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Speaker 1: car ever made. I mean, this is like two Valore

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Speaker 1: couches on wheels. This is enormous car. But it was old.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, we all have interesting first car stories. Oh man,

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Speaker 1: I think mine was a Toyota Torsel. I believe that

672
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Speaker 1: was my first one. I heard somebody the other night

673
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 1: to say that on TV said his or her first car.

674
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Speaker 1: It was a Toyot or totersseau. It's a good car.

675
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Speaker 1: The thing was is we got it and it was tiny,

676
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Speaker 1: and yet it was bigger than any car that my

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Speaker 1: friends had in high school. So they all used to

678
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Speaker 1: bum rides from me. Speaking of offensive linemen that don't

679
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Speaker 1: need to bum rides anymore. Rod Johnson also stopped by

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Speaker 1: for a little Drew's dozen. Here we go, we're gonna

681
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Speaker 1: get things going with. If you were an animal, which

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Speaker 1: animal would you choose to be? Let's do rabbit. I'd

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Speaker 1: be an elephant. An elephant? How come? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I'm just there's just they're being a dominant. But they're

685
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Speaker 1: they're they're they're still sweet too. They are brilliant animals too.

686
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Speaker 1: I mean I guess because the brain is so big, right,

687
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,760
Speaker 1: very brilliant animals. That's the great words you use, brilliant animals.

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Speaker 1: So an elephant would be the choice. Okay, switching gears,

689
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Speaker 1: who is your funniest teammates? Titus Howard? I've heard that before.

690
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Speaker 1: Why don't you explain why how come? I don't know.

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00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: It's just the way. It's not what he says is high.

692
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:01,839
Speaker 1: He says it in all kinds of things. But it's

693
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Speaker 1: just his personality. He's such a funny guys, but funny

694
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Speaker 1: human means you see, I can't even see his name

695
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Speaker 1: without a straight phase. Yeah I could, I could see that.

696
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 1: He's also one of the best interviews, So there's there's

697
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Speaker 1: always a fun time when we as are you, but

698
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Speaker 1: it's always a fun guy to talk with. What is

699
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Speaker 1: the grossest food in your opinion? Beats? Beats? Can't eat beats?

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Speaker 1: You would not be buddies with Dwight Shrewd from the office.

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Speaker 1: Would you can't do beats? And you know we have

702
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Speaker 1: beat jews going around here as nutrition and performance. I'm passed. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm with you. I wouldn't drink drink beat juice either.

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Speaker 1: I'm not into that. Do you watch The Office? Have

705
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Speaker 1: you ever watched The Office? That? Yeah, I'm quite familiar

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Speaker 1: with it. I'm not as fond as you about it,

707
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Speaker 1: but I've seen a couple of episode. Let's talk about this.

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Speaker 1: Let's say you win a game at NRG Stadium on

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Speaker 1: a Sunday, it's a noon game. Afterwards, what's the perfect postgame? Neal?

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Speaker 1: You can't go roun with a good burger after It

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Speaker 1: really doesn't matter from where what a good burger? A

712
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:05,799
Speaker 1: good burger would always do the job. And what do

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Speaker 1: you put on the barbecue too? This this is a

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Speaker 1: multi answer question. Okay, I like good burger and the

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Speaker 1: good barbecue. A good beef rib or something like that too.

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Speaker 1: Be fribs, Huh? What are the sides when you get

717
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Speaker 1: get the beef ribs? Baked beans mac you gotta have

718
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: a whole spiel. Baked beans, macaroni, maybe look collic greens,

719
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Speaker 1: and sometimes you've got to get a peach cobbler to

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Speaker 1: end it all. Man, I ate a chicken caesar salad

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Speaker 1: for lunch, and that thing is hungry. Now you just

722
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Speaker 1: made me hungry. But I'm so sorry to hear that.

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Speaker 1: That's all right, Rod, I'm not mad at you free

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Speaker 1: game music? What are a few songs that you listen to? Are?

725
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Speaker 1: Is there a set list? Is it very? What's it

726
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 1: like when you're getting ready for a game music? It's

727
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 1: very not really sad, but it's kind of upbeat, you know,

728
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Speaker 1: hip hop r being but there definitely like Future and

729
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 1: meat Meal and artists like those for sure on my

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Speaker 1: on my ears. Okay, so you're not like Laramy Tunsel.

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Speaker 1: You don't play game? Oh no, no, I have to

732
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Speaker 1: say Saturday for after the game to call to bring

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Speaker 1: you down. Yes, I say Saturday for after the game.

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Speaker 1: The Quiet Storm is a post game. There you go

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Speaker 1: planet that you'd most like to visit? Why do I

736
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Speaker 1: go to Mars? Okay? How come? I don't know. I'm

737
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Speaker 1: not too fine about Nus or Ranus or anything, but

738
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Speaker 1: just Mars. I mean maybe some stuff going on Mars already. Yeah,

739
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Speaker 1: we don't know about hey, and if it's not already,

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00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:29,880
Speaker 1: it's going to be soon, right, I mean that's it

741
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 1: seems like it's trending that way. Yeah, yeah, I like, okay,

742
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Speaker 1: what would your career be if you were not playing

743
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,359
Speaker 1: football right now? I don't know. I tell the guys

744
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 1: around here that I could be. I can be a

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Speaker 1: security guard. You a Walmart greeter? Yeah, I could. I

746
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Speaker 1: could be a security guard at high school or anything

747
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:47,359
Speaker 1: like that. Something like that for sure. Okay, let's give

748
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Speaker 1: me your give me your best Walmart greeter. Say I

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Speaker 1: walk in, what would you say, sir? Where's your mask

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Speaker 1: to go? I'm not wearing a mask, but I'm in

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Speaker 1: my office. There's no one around in the doors closed,

752
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 1: so I would I would be masked up properly. That

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00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,799
Speaker 1: would be my Walmart greeting. That's good. It's good you're

754
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Speaker 1: enforcing safety. I like that. Roderick. What's the app that

755
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 1: you wish you could delete from your phone but you

756
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: just can't. I'm I'm team Twitter, Your team Twitter. Yeah,

757
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: that's a good one. Twitter is always a good lad,

758
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: never disappoints me. Yeah. And it's like a news feed too. Yeah,

759
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: keeps you keeps you go, knowing what's going on in

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00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 1: the world football side. What do you most like being

761
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,359
Speaker 1: complimented on? What part of your personality, your skills, your trip?

762
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 1: What are you most like being commented on? I don't know.

763
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,439
Speaker 1: Is it I find it funny or I like when

764
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 1: people always say they always see what a smile on

765
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: my face. I like that for sure, Like yeah, I

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Speaker 1: bring the joy to other people, so hopefully it's contagious.

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Speaker 1: What was your favorite or who was your favorite solo

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Speaker 1: artist or group musically when you were growing up, when

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Speaker 1: you were a little kid back then, I was a while,

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Speaker 1: a big while a fan. Still am too, though, I

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Speaker 1: like wallet. All right, Roderick, hey man, it's great to

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Speaker 1: be with you on this. That's good luck in the

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Speaker 1: off season and we'll talk again, very very serious. I'm

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Speaker 1: good as good to see you, Grove, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for Thank you, ROTTERI I'm not sure my time

776
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 1: here with the Texans that I've seen a player improve

777
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 1: more than Rod has. From getting into the NFL, joining

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Speaker 1: the Texans a few years ago to where he is now.

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00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:19,799
Speaker 1: I think he's come a long way. I've told him

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Speaker 1: not a few times. I think he has really improved

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00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 1: his game. He's really sharpening it up. And I hated

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00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: seeing him get hurt because he's had to deal with

783
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:28,799
Speaker 1: the rehab as opposed to just moving forward. But there's

784
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Speaker 1: anybody's gonna be able to do it. I think Rod

785
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 1: Johnson will and he is going to be a factor

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Speaker 1: on this offensive line. In twenty twenty one and hopefully beyond.

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Speaker 1: All right, we get back let's go around in the NFL.

788
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Speaker 1: Still stuff happening as we get near the month of

789
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Speaker 1: July training camp month. Oh, we'll talk about that next

790
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 1: right here in Texas All Access. What's up, everybody? Welcome

791
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 1: back to this final segment of this Wednesday edition of

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access from the Honday Texans Radio studio. I

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00:39:56,960 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 1: am your host, John Harris, football analyst, salad report order,

794
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Speaker 1: and so happy that the Rockets got picked number two.

795
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Speaker 1: Oh man, I hope you guys had a chance to

796
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 1: listen to Sean Pendergast and Adam Spillane last night. They

797
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 1: had a special show at seven o'clock. Now, typically at

798
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:17,800
Speaker 1: seven o'clock shows my man Tyler Milner doing a best

799
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Speaker 1: of throughout the day on Sports Radio six ten, But

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Speaker 1: last night it was a special edition because of the

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Speaker 1: draft lottery, and for those of you who have been

802
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Speaker 1: paying attention, you know, the Rockets had to finish in

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Speaker 1: the top four to make sure they would maintain that pick.

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Speaker 1: If not, they fell away at eighteen and thankfully, thankfully, thankfully,

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Speaker 1: they got pick number two. Yes, I know, it's Texas

806
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Speaker 1: All Axis but sometimes I like to go off the grid,

807
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Speaker 1: if you will, and you'll see where I'm going with

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Speaker 1: this to the second the Pistons, apparently Kate Cuttingham is

809
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Speaker 1: that pick, and he should be the pick. I love him.

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00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 1: He's Ben Simmons with a jump shot and the ability

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Speaker 1: to score. But I saw report saying that Jalen Green

812
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:07,800
Speaker 1: might be too physically imposing and talented for the Pistons

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Speaker 1: to pass up. Now a guy that in the NFL

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Speaker 1: has been physically imposing and so much more talented than

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Speaker 1: his brother and his Julio Jones well head coach Arthur

816
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:23,320
Speaker 1: Smith of the Atlanta Falcons was on PFF Chris Collinsworth

817
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Speaker 1: podcast and he said it was a win win situation

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Speaker 1: to trade Julio. What Here's what Smith had to say,

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Speaker 1: and I quote, we knew the issue with the cap

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Speaker 1: and then obviously the cap went down this year coming

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Speaker 1: off the Bazari with pandemic pandemic, the cap actually shrunk,

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Speaker 1: So we knew there were going to be some big

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Speaker 1: decisions we would have to make coming up. The way

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Speaker 1: everything worked out, though, we feel good. We feel like

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Speaker 1: it was a win win with salary cap and Julio

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Speaker 1: going to Tennessee and US right now being able to

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Speaker 1: solve our short term issue with the cap. The Falcons

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Speaker 1: return got a second in a late round pick swap

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, and if you think about it,

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Speaker 1: if the Titans do what we think they're gonna do,

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Speaker 1: then that's gonna end up being essentially an early third

832
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Speaker 1: round pick for Julio Jones. So Arthur Smith cap problems,

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Speaker 1: it's a win win maybe for Tennessee in Atlanta. I

834
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Speaker 1: don't know how well mentioned is for Atlanta. And I

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Speaker 1: know people are like, oh, that's second round pick. Yay

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Speaker 1: as opposed to have a Julio, But you get yourself

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Speaker 1: financial trouble. That's the price you have to pay. Speaking

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Speaker 1: of wide receivers potentially coming to AFC, South, Golden Tate,

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Speaker 1: who I've always been a big fan of, list three

840
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Speaker 1: teams on his wish list that he would like to

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Speaker 1: go to. One of them is the Rams, Matthew Stafford,

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Speaker 1: Cooper Cup Robert Woods. You throw Golden Tate and there

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Speaker 1: who we could get nice if it isn't already. The

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Speaker 1: two other teams, oh boy, the Tennessee Titans, Indianapolis Colts,

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Speaker 1: AJ Brown, Julio Jones, and Golden Tate. I don't want

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Speaker 1: any part of that whatsoever, So we'll keep an eye

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00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:06,920
Speaker 1: on that for the rest of the summer. But Golden

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Speaker 1: Tate probably not going to sign until training camp or

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Speaker 1: somewhere during training camp. He's a vet. Teams know what

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Speaker 1: they can do, stay healthy, stay at training camp, but

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Speaker 1: they'll make a decision when needed. But Golden Tate looking

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Speaker 1: at two teams in the AFC South. All right, we'll

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Speaker 1: be back tomorrow night, John mcclan along with myself and

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Speaker 1: Mark right here on Sports Radio six to appreciate you guys. Listen,

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Speaker 1: we'll see tomorrow and as always, go Texans.