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Speaker 1: What's up? Everybody, Welcome into a money edition of Texans

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Speaker 1: All Access. And if you sets a little bit of

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Speaker 1: pop in my voice, I'm John Harris football and a

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Speaker 1: sideline reporter. It's because the boys are back. That's right.

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Speaker 1: Off season conditioning and the V word voluntary. Keep that

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Speaker 1: in mind because they'll be freakouts if people aren't here

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Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. But either way, voluntary

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Speaker 1: off season started today. It was great to see the

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Speaker 1: guys in the building. I saw a lot of them,

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Speaker 1: as did Mark Vandermure, the voice of the Texans. Mark

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Speaker 1: School's back in session. Kind of it's kind of nice.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to roll on Thin Lizzie the Boys are

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Speaker 2: back in town, but the record company would sue us

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Speaker 2: for not having the rights, and that's just life in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Darn it, Thin Lizzie. The survivors of

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Speaker 2: the band deserve the money. So what are you gonna

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Speaker 2: do about that?

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Speaker 1: That's true. How many thirty somethings do you think know

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Speaker 1: the band, Thin Lizzie?

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Speaker 2: The band nobody, But if they heard the song the

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Speaker 2: Boys are back and down, yeah they do it? An

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Speaker 2: if I hum it, do we get sued? The rights

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Speaker 2: or not having the rights.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Do you learn that humming thing from Michael Jackson? Did

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Speaker 1: you see that on the What is the Greatest Night?

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Speaker 2: Pop?

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Speaker 1: I saw that, and I found an interesting aspect of

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Speaker 1: that if you haven't seen Michael Jackson humming everything. Oh

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Speaker 1: and also is interesting.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you'll see in the Thriller at forty video, which

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Speaker 2: I know you haven't seen yet, to see that he

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Speaker 2: sings percussively because he does all that, you know whatever,

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to imitate that.

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Speaker 1: I guess he just tried badly.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it's great to see the guys back. We

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Speaker 2: talked about it a week ago, how they were having

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Speaker 2: staff physicals because they wanted to make sure the staff

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Speaker 1: And that's just protocol.

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Speaker 2: I guess in the league that everybody gets checked out

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Speaker 2: so the staff doesn't weigh things down with health problems.

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Speaker 1: This is just my take. I don't even know that.

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Speaker 2: We could ask Nick next to some time we talked

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Speaker 2: to him, which will be later this week. But just

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Speaker 2: seeing that you felt the buzz today was electric. Seeing

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Speaker 2: the guys in the building. You just see them walking

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Speaker 2: down the halls with notebooks and you know tablets, not

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Speaker 2: really notebooks, although some of them still write things down

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Speaker 2: because it's a better way for them to learn for some.

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Speaker 2: But just seeing that, it felt more like the season

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Speaker 2: is here, it's time.

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Speaker 1: Let's go.

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Speaker 2: Now, it's not really time yet, but this is a

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Speaker 2: ramp up. It's a nine week program. Then you have

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Speaker 2: a little time off, then you have camp and bang

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Speaker 2: we're playing.

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Speaker 1: This is like the slow cooker. This is you can

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Speaker 1: just put it in and let it sit for a

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Speaker 2: It's like a slow smoker. Yeah, it's like my Texas

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Speaker 2: dark real shop plug right here.

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Speaker 1: Let it build up and then eventually now you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe you're doing a reverse toerer sort of thing. You

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Speaker 1: could do that at the end. That's like that's like

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Speaker 1: training camp, like getting ready, got get ready?

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Speaker 2: Now? So is that the playoffs where you see it

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Speaker 2: at the end? I think get that final?

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Speaker 1: You know, our next guest, we should have asked him

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Speaker 1: you know, reverse here, how do you feel? But we

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Speaker 1: did not. And I mentioned players being in the building.

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Speaker 1: I saw a lot of them. We know a few

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Speaker 1: of them because they went to the podium. See Jay

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Speaker 1: Stroud went to the podium. You'll hear some of that

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Speaker 1: a little bit later with the little Texans Audio jukebox

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Speaker 1: to Meiko Ryan's obviously here, he works here. It's good

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Speaker 1: of him. But Will Anderson Junior jumped in studio with

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Speaker 1: us and we have a great time with him. Oh

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Speaker 1: and if you liked the draft, he might be just

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Speaker 1: a little better at this draft analyst thing than I am.

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Speaker 1: That's saying, so take a listen to what he had

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Speaker 1: to say about his Alabama Crimson Tide brethren at the

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Speaker 1: end of this Will Anderson Junior, right now, Will, how's

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Speaker 1: it going going good?

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Speaker 3: Thank you for having me. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: How does the field have? The band back together?

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Speaker 2: The guys back together for the first time, but new

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Speaker 3: It was all smells this morning. Everybody was smiling from

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Speaker 3: and you just see the type of paraderie that we

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Speaker 1: Well, there's there's a lot of that was talked about

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Speaker 1: locker room is right now and the camaraderie that you

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Speaker 1: guys have crafted How did that all come to be?

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Speaker 1: Last year in your first year here? Like, where did that?

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Speaker 1: Where did that come from? Because we saw we've seen

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Speaker 3: I think you just called from you know, the Texas

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Speaker 3: people that's in the locker room that's good hearted. People

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Speaker 3: we can build something special.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what can you tell us about what you're doing

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Speaker 2: in this phase of the offseason program? I know you

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Speaker 2: guys can't work with the ball, but you could do

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Speaker 1: What can you tell us about.

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Speaker 3: That, Will? Yeah, this phase right now is just you know,

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Speaker 3: to get bigger, stronger and faster. But I also connect

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Speaker 3: with the guys, you know, all the guys. It's not mandatory,

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Speaker 3: but we had a really good number show up today.

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Speaker 3: A lot of great vets came, a lot of younger

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Speaker 3: guys came, and this is just a really good time

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Speaker 3: of building that team chemistry as well while you're working out,

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Speaker 3: but you know, also getting to know guys, getting to

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Speaker 1: Okay, you're gonna think I'm a little crazy asking this question,

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Speaker 1: but just see where I'm going on the second. I

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Speaker 1: remember after my first year of coaching, when I would

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Speaker 1: go back when I watched what I had done, I'm like, God,

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Speaker 1: what was he thinking? Why would I do that? Do

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Speaker 1: you watch yourself now from your first year by some

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Speaker 1: of the first games and go, what's he doing? Because

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Speaker 1: you've advanced thus, you've come that far. Have you kind

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Speaker 3: Yes, Like I've had so many moments I said, bro,

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Speaker 3: even today I was just watching like we do a

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Speaker 3: I'm right there on the edge already won. Why didn't

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Speaker 3: what are you doing?

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Speaker 1: What's that d Lineman room?

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Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 1: Right now?

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Speaker 3: Will?

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Speaker 1: With the new additions?

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Speaker 4: Man, did you guys break down that individually?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a whole new room, man, and it's it's exciting.

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Speaker 3: We got a lot of dogs and there are a

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Speaker 3: lot of killers in there.

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Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 3: We got Deniko Danil, Tim Settle Foley, all those guys

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Speaker 1: So when you get stopped by people, Will, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: you do. When you're in and around Houston, what do

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Speaker 1: they want to talk to you about? Like? What do

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Speaker 1: they ask you? What do they ask you about? Or

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Speaker 1: they just say, hey, great season, congratulations? What do they

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Speaker 1: want to talk to you most about? Great season? Congratulations?

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Speaker 1: Can we get a picture? How is CJ?

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Speaker 5: Doing?

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Speaker 3: How Demico doing?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Those things?

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Speaker 1: Are you? Are you able to eat a quiet lunch

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Speaker 3: I am? Actually am? I mean my mom really put

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Speaker 3: it to me this way because I used to be

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Speaker 3: the type of be like Mom. She said, just think

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Speaker 3: about being a blessing to someone, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: So like now I think about you know I'm being

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Speaker 3: I'm saying I'm not a nice person, but.

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Speaker 1: Good mom, good moms.

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Speaker 2: The amount of times you're recognized versus when you first

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Speaker 2: got here in public, it's got to increase dramatically, right.

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Speaker 3: Very Like I had to get my windows because I'm

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Speaker 1: I mean, it could be dangerous. This is obviously your

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Speaker 1: new year, and you had a lot of accolades. You Defense,

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Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year, CJ Offensive, Rookie of the Year, Demko,

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Speaker 1: should have been Coach of the Year, wasn't. But this

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Speaker 1: is now a new year. You face this at Alabama too,

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Speaker 1: you guys were the hunted. Everybody was coming after you.

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Speaker 1: I get the feel that you enjoy that aspect of it,

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Speaker 1: But in twenty twenty four, you will be the hunted

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Speaker 1: in this league. How does that kind of make it

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Speaker 3: You know, I love it, man. It just speaks volume

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Speaker 3: to the type of team that we are. But it's

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Speaker 3: also known that we can't be complacent. Nobody's gonna lay

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Speaker 3: down for us. Nobody cares what pieces we got, Nobody

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Speaker 3: cares about anything like that. They still gotta get a

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Speaker 3: check too. They still gotta go play too. So it's

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Speaker 3: up to us to go out there and have that

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Speaker 3: mentality that we won't be DENI what we want. And

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Speaker 3: just because of the season we had last year doesn't

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Speaker 3: mean it's going to be the same this year. So

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Speaker 3: we have to still prepare the same way, still work

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Speaker 3: the same way, and still coming to the building the

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Speaker 3: same way we did.

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Speaker 2: All right, So you watch the NCAA tournament, you're Alma

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Speaker 2: Moterit did pretty well.

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Speaker 4: Must have been pretty proud of.

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Speaker 3: That, right, congratulations Todd.

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Speaker 2: Did you watch the women's games as well? Okay, that

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Speaker 2: Caitlin Clark and the whole thing. The championship, South Carolina

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Speaker 2: going undefeated. That was the most watched basketball game in

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Speaker 2: five years.

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Speaker 1: I was a part of it, part of the watching

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Speaker 1: crew watching you in high school? You play ball? Do

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Speaker 1: you play basketball?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 3: No, I stopped. It was because it wasn't. I learned

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Speaker 3: that it just wasn't for you know, fun and giggles and.

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Speaker 1: I mean you only get five fouls.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, and they was taking it very seriously. It

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what would you do to fix college athletics right now?

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Speaker 1: Speaking of Alabama, we're at that time of the year

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Speaker 3: I love kool Aid. Kool Aid was one of the

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Speaker 1: Okay, his teammate, your teammate, former teammate, Terry and Arnold

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Speaker 4: We will to host the draft.

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking about report I have and I gotta see

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you, is that dude? Is that dude

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you right now. I know we got

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Speaker 3: and that next year, we've seen a completely different, completely

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Speaker 3: that's everything that you look for in the offensive lineman

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Speaker 1: Yeah, excellent.

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Speaker 4: Well it thanks a lot for joining us. Good luck,

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Speaker 1: Mark. I asked me that question about year one to

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Speaker 1: All the things that you thought you knew going into

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Speaker 2: I think health alone helps him take the leap. When

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Speaker 2: want to conserve. Look, we don't really have load management

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Speaker 2: I'm just hoping that he stays healthy obviously seventeen games

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Speaker 2: It's twenty twelve on steroids because it's completely new and different.

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Speaker 4: It gets me excited.

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Speaker 1: way I felt. I'll tell you the one thing that

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Speaker 1: I thought distinctly, and I knew this. I said this

440
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Speaker 1: out loud, I said to you, said to everybody. I

441
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Speaker 1: was one hundred percent confident that we were a lot

442
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Speaker 1: better than people thought. Because a lot of people were like, oh,

443
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Speaker 1: they're gonna win three four. The Power rankings their thirty

444
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Speaker 1: first thirty second. I felt like we're going to be

445
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Speaker 1: better than people think.

446
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Speaker 2: I felt that way too last year, based on the

447
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Speaker 2: free agent pickups alone, I didn't expect CJ. Stroud to

448
00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,400
Speaker 2: explode in one of the greatest rookie seasons ever, if

449
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Speaker 2: not the best, or however you want to measure it.

450
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Speaker 2: I was just thinking he's going to be solid. They'll

451
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Speaker 2: run the ball a lot better, because I remember we

452
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Speaker 2: were coming out that was a lot We were coming

453
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Speaker 2: off Pierce rookie season, and you added Singletary, so I

454
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Speaker 2: figured you're running the ball a lot better. You added Schultz.

455
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Speaker 2: I mean, Dell's gonna do something and it'll be interesting.

456
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Speaker 2: And the defense, look at the pickups on defense last year,

457
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Speaker 2: They're going to be better, no question that they will

458
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Speaker 2: be a better deed than they were the.

459
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Speaker 4: Year before and the year before.

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Speaker 2: I thought they should have had a better record than

461
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Speaker 2: three wins, Yes, I really did. I thought they should

462
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Speaker 2: have had five based on how close they were on

463
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Speaker 2: the fourth quarter, fourth quarter I had so these things

464
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Speaker 2: tend to play out with fourth quarter execution.

465
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Speaker 4: We always talk about these things.

466
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Speaker 2: Third down conversion percentage in the clutch moments of the

467
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Speaker 2: last few possessions of the game, both on offense and defense.

468
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Speaker 2: So for this year right now, look, we're still in

469
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Speaker 2: April here, it's tax Day, But right now, I feel

470
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Speaker 2: like I expect a winning season, and I'm hoping for

471
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Speaker 2: a lot of wins in a big margin, a big

472
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Speaker 2: difference between the w's and the ls in those columns.

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Speaker 1: You know, not eight, not nine and eight. I want

474
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Speaker 1: more than that.

475
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Speaker 2: But listen, if they go ten and seven again, Johnny,

476
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Speaker 2: and win the division, I think that's really good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because the schedule.

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Speaker 2: If we're sitting here in January they went ten and

479
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Speaker 2: seven and won the division, I'm thinking, okay, great, you're

480
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Speaker 2: in now we all I'm hoping that means home playoff

481
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Speaker 2: game in the second round, but maybe it doesn't, and

482
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Speaker 2: I would really want that. I think that's a great goal.

483
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Speaker 2: Let's at least host divisional round. I'm not expecting first

484
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Speaker 2: round by necessarily, but the way people are talking, it

485
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Speaker 2: sounds like a lot of people are going to be

486
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Speaker 2: disappointed if they don't get that kind of thing. Really,

487
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Speaker 2: top seed, really, that's I'd love to see it. But

488
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Speaker 2: you cannot count on that or assume or presume anything,

489
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Speaker 2: because it's the NFL baby, and these are still young

490
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Speaker 2: players and they're gonna have to deal with the adversity

491
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Speaker 2: and being the hunted, and they were. Jamiko Rommes was

492
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Speaker 2: asked about being the hunted today. He said, hey, we're

493
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Speaker 2: still hunting, and I love that answer. Let's let's discuss

494
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Speaker 2: our guests.

495
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Speaker 1: Will Anderson Jr. And I know you you know it's

496
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Speaker 1: you can look at him in his season in a

497
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Speaker 1: vacuum and look at that. But what if he does

498
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Speaker 1: take that year one year two jump, I mean, and

499
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Speaker 1: it's the look Watts jump from eleven to twelve was enormous.

500
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Speaker 1: I'm not talking that, but I'm just talking. He's fully

501
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Speaker 1: healthy for sixteen games. Hope the seventeen game doesn't matter.

502
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Speaker 1: He got things locked up or whatever it is. Fifteen

503
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Speaker 1: sixteen games, he's healthy. You go into the playoffs with

504
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Speaker 1: him healthy. It's his second year. He's now got Daniel

505
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Speaker 1: Hunter on the other side, He's got an ego Autrey.

506
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Speaker 1: He maybe won't see as many double teams as he

507
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Speaker 1: saw the second half of the year. In particular, what

508
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Speaker 1: if he has that year wonder year to jump and

509
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Speaker 1: what does that mean for this team, this defense?

510
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Speaker 4: Well, let me take it down another path.

511
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Speaker 2: What's his leadership effect this year as opposed to being

512
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Speaker 2: a rookie coming in highly towded rookie coming in cannot

513
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Speaker 2: be the leader of.

514
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Speaker 1: The locker room.

515
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Speaker 2: He can be a leader in the locker room, but

516
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Speaker 2: he's not gonna be the man, correct. So they come

517
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Speaker 2: back today for offseason conditioning. Is he the man on defense?

518
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Speaker 2: And I think he is. I think he's one of

519
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Speaker 2: the true leaders on this team. He might be the guy, right,

520
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Speaker 2: And that's one thing I said on draft night because

521
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Speaker 2: the one thing I noticed about him through anything I

522
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Speaker 2: observed previously, and all I had read was that he's

523
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Speaker 2: a leader.

524
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Speaker 3: Right.

525
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Speaker 2: So Will Anderson junior leader Houston Texans, not the leader.

526
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Speaker 2: But look, CJ. I mean, it's going to be a

527
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Speaker 2: few guys. It always is. I just think that that

528
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Speaker 2: is going to be interesting as well. I said last

529
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Speaker 2: offseason he will eventually run the locker room.

530
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Speaker 1: So we'll see how that goes.

531
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Speaker 2: Because if you're the quarterback, I agree, if you're a quarterback,

532
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Speaker 2: you want somebody to do that. You want somebody to

533
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Speaker 2: run on the quarterback. I am the man, but I

534
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Speaker 2: want that guy to be the kangaroo court guy, right.

535
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Speaker 4: I don't want to have to do that.

536
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Speaker 2: Not that they'll necessarily have a kangaroo court, but yeah,

537
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Speaker 2: just orchestrate things for me there It be the.

538
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Speaker 1: Heavy if you have to in some sense. And I'm

539
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Speaker 1: not saying a good cup back cup, but you know

540
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Speaker 1: there are times and you know, I've heard a number

541
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Speaker 1: of stories about Will University Alabama, and I think when

542
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Speaker 1: you have that leadership quality inherent within you, you want it

543
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Speaker 1: to come out, but you're right, as a rookie, you

544
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Speaker 1: can you can only do so much. And that was

545
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Speaker 1: a team with some vets, you know, Denzel Perim and

546
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Speaker 1: Blake Cashman, you know John Garnnard's guys that have been around,

547
00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:07,439
Speaker 1: so there probably was a little bit of him that

548
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Speaker 1: was suppressing that. I don't think you're gonna see that anymore.

549
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna see. If you didn't see the

550
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Speaker 1: Will Anderson, the real Will Anderson Junior last year, I

551
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Speaker 1: think you're gonna see him this year. There are so

552
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Speaker 1: many guys to be excited about on his team, but

553
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Speaker 1: seeing what he does in year two and keeping him

554
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Speaker 1: healthy throughout this year, I'm I can't wait. I can't

555
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Speaker 1: wait to see what he's able to do and then

556
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Speaker 1: just you know how you know my thought. I love

557
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Speaker 1: going out there for the first day of OTAs and

558
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Speaker 1: just seeing the puzzle put together, and it's not always complete,

559
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Speaker 1: but you you at least can kind of see what

560
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Speaker 1: it looks like, Like, what does it look like with

561
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Speaker 1: Hunter on one side and Will on the other, What

562
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Speaker 1: does it look like if Autry goes inside with those

563
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Speaker 1: two outside, Like, what does this all look like? But

564
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Speaker 1: fifty one is gonna end up being I think I

565
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Speaker 1: don't know if he's the leader, but I got a

566
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Speaker 1: feeling he's going to be the leader on defense when

567
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Speaker 1: you look at what they have, even the guys they've

568
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Speaker 1: brought in. I mean, even as he's I think Will

569
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Speaker 1: is going to be that guy. I think he's going

570
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Speaker 1: to be the guy that walks in that huddle against

571
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Speaker 1: Dallas and says, in his way, we don't lose the

572
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Speaker 1: Dallas anymore. That's not the Houston Texans, the Texans.

573
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Speaker 3: I know that.

574
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Speaker 1: And that was the feeling I got from him, was that, Hey,

575
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Speaker 1: whatever you guys experienced with the Texans, no no, no, no, no, no,

576
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Speaker 1: we don't. We don't. They would say on a color

577
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Speaker 1: we don't play that, homie.

578
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Speaker 4: It's a brand new era.

579
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Speaker 2: It is the new uniforms come out next week, new players,

580
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Speaker 2: new coach. I mean, we know we're a year into

581
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Speaker 2: this thing, but it's still so new. I mean still

582
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Speaker 2: has new car smell to it. This thing, it's our

583
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:49,920
Speaker 2: whole year. And then you're playing a schedule this year

584
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Speaker 2: that is going to be marquee busting stuff. Schedule is

585
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Speaker 2: gonna come out what second week of May something like that,

586
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Speaker 2: and we're going to see primetime game, primetime game, showcase game.

587
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Speaker 4: It is going to be electric.

588
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Speaker 1: Call your shot? How many you said three the other day?

589
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Speaker 1: You're still with three? Four?

590
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Speaker 2: I think I said four. You have to listen, I'm

591
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Speaker 2: going to four. I'm staying at three. I'm staying at three.

592
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Speaker 1: You anticipate having a bunch of primetime games, you end

593
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Speaker 1: up with three.

594
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Speaker 4: Well, let's let's say you get a what's the most we.

595
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Speaker 1: Ever had in a year. Oh, it's got to be

596
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Speaker 1: the Max? Right, Yeah? Did we have the Max?

597
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Speaker 4: I think we had the Max in thirteen? Oh gosh,

598
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Speaker 4: we did thirteen.

599
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Speaker 2: Hang on a second, Oh my gosh, we had the

600
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Speaker 2: Max thirteen. It's gonna be tough to recall all of it.

601
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Speaker 2: I know we had a Sunday nighter with the Colts.

602
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Speaker 2: I know we had a Saturday nighter at San Francis,

603
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Speaker 2: San Francisco. I know we had a Thursday. Didn't we

604
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Speaker 2: have a Thursday night?

605
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Speaker 1: Or?

606
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Speaker 4: Oh, we had Monday night football to open the season

607
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Speaker 4: at the.

608
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Speaker 1: Night open the season. The Sunday night games you talked about, Yeah,

609
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Speaker 1: was there a Thursday.

610
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Speaker 4: There had to be a Thursday night or mixed in.

611
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Speaker 1: There Thursday against well, yeah, Jacksonville, Jacksonville Thursday. There was

612
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Speaker 1: four right there.

613
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Speaker 2: Yeah, in two thousand and thirteen, in a two and

614
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Speaker 2: fourteen campaign.

615
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:05,320
Speaker 1: Two you tend to get up.

616
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you tend to like last year would have been

617
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Speaker 2: great to have a few of those. You think the

618
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,120
Speaker 2: league would have liked to have Tampa Bay in prime

619
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Speaker 2: time the way things turned out, that exciting game. That shoot,

620
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Speaker 2: you just don't know until you know this year you're

621
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Speaker 2: gonna get a full of Lotman. Twenty eleven you had none.

622
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 2: You had none in a ten and six season. You

623
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Speaker 2: had no primetime games except for that Thursday night game.

624
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Speaker 2: That was when everybody was guaranteed a Thursday night or

625
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Speaker 2: it was the second one.

626
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that and that. That's a good point.

627
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 2: But at twelve, you had Green Bay, the Jets, you

628
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 2: had the Patriots on Monday Night. What else did you

629
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Speaker 2: get in twelve? There had to be another one Bear

630
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Speaker 2: Sunday Night. That's four right there, Patriots Monday Night.

631
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think four is a safe bet. I'm going

632
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Speaker 1: four four this year. For some reason, I got three.

633
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Speaker 1: You know, the Niners are gonna get theirs. You have

634
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 1: Packers and the Cowboys are gonna get theirs. You get

635
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:53,560
Speaker 1: a lot of games. The good thing is that the

636
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:57,640
Speaker 1: Giants not quite there, they'll steal. They'll steal one because

637
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Speaker 1: they're the giants, the Giants of Dallas.

638
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,120
Speaker 2: In the annual Monday Night or Sunday Night Invitational, we're

639
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 2: gonna get a weird one.

640
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Speaker 1: I just have a feeling. I don't know why. I

641
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 1: feel like we're gonna have a weird one.

642
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 2: When a weird one like Texans at New England week

643
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,440
Speaker 2: four Thursday Night, what yes, that not happen?

644
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:13,880
Speaker 3: That happen?

645
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, if that happens, I am I.

646
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 2: Am going to go to Roger Goodell's office. If that happens,

647
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:19,439
Speaker 2: I will ride them.

648
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,440
Speaker 1: And that happens, you can't, I mean Thursday night games

649
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 1: at New England are an absolute nightmare.

650
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:30,200
Speaker 2: Well, it's East Coast team playing a Northeast team preferably, Yes,

651
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 2: playing a Thursday night game at New England.

652
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 1: Absolutely, if you're going to play a Thursday night game

653
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 1: at New England, that's what it's that's what it's going

654
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 1: to be. I'm going with three. I hope I'm wrong.

655
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:40,919
Speaker 1: I love the prime time games for shots. I'm on

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Speaker 1: the record four as much. You know, we haven't had

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Speaker 1: what we haven't had a Sunday night game since I've

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Speaker 1: been on the sidelines.

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Speaker 2: What not necessarily have Dallas in twenty eighteen Sunday night game?

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Speaker 1: No, No, I'm sorry on the road on the road,

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Speaker 1: really not had a Sunday night road primetime game.

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Speaker 4: That's been good though. We have Monday nighters because we

663
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Speaker 4: have Texans Monday.

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Speaker 1: On Monday morning. That's why I remember you and me.

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Speaker 4: We don't mind this.

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Speaker 1: I know and you know I know.

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Speaker 2: It's it's gonna happen this year. It would have like

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Speaker 2: Kansas City Sunday night whatever. At least that's close.

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Speaker 1: It will be in here. Let two hours sleep hopefully

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Speaker 1: talking about a win on the road on New England

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Speaker 1: Sunday night.

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Speaker 2: No, because that is a true red eye coming back.

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Speaker 2: You are taking the bus back from the airport with

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Speaker 2: the sun out.

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Speaker 1: We might be doing this show on the bus in

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Speaker 1: guys that are gonna play a big role in whatever

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Speaker 1: games we go to see and cover.

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Speaker 5: C J.

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Speaker 1: Stewd and Demico Ryans they met with the media. We'll

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Speaker 1: have a little Texans Audio jukebox for your next right

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Speaker 1: here on Texans All Access. What's happened everybody walking back

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Speaker 1: this Monday edition of Texas All Access from Not Day

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio Studio. I am John Harris for playing all

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Speaker 1: sideline reporter and your host for this evening. And what

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Speaker 1: a great day it is when the players are back

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Speaker 1: in the building or just full of energy. I mean,

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Speaker 1: when you really think about it, there are a bunch

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Speaker 1: of twenty somethings. They got all kinds of energy and

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Speaker 1: hopefully they're going to lead this organization to a championship

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Speaker 1: at some point, which would be very, very awesome. That

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Speaker 1: would be great. One of the guys that will help

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Speaker 1: do that. Last year's offensive Rookie of the Year was

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Speaker 1: back in front of the podium today, So let's do

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Speaker 1: a little Texans Audio jupe box and you know, right

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Speaker 1: out of the shoot that CJ's job is gonna be

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Speaker 1: asked about Stefan Diggs.

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Speaker 5: I was very excited. I met him at the Pro

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Speaker 5: Bowl and.

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Speaker 6: You know, just got to meet each other, got to

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Speaker 6: meet his kids, and you know, to see what type

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Speaker 6: of person he was, and you know, just being able

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Speaker 6: to grow our relationship from there. You know, it's really

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Speaker 6: cool just to be able to not only go from

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Speaker 6: that scene to now him being a teammate of mine

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Speaker 6: and just really excited to get to work with him.

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Speaker 1: I think one of my favorite things about the Digs

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Speaker 1: trade is asking everybody, where were you when did you

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Speaker 1: find out? How did it go? Well? CJ was out Cali,

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Speaker 1: and I know this distinctly. There is nothing in the

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Speaker 1: morning that happens that my family is gonna find out

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Speaker 1: about until about two o'clock Central time. I just know

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Speaker 1: it because they're in West Coast time. You get up

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Speaker 1: a little later. I mean, it's two hour difference all

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Speaker 1: that happens. So CJ kind of ran into that, got

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Speaker 1: a bunch of text messages. This is how it went down.

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Speaker 6: Found out I was actually sleep I was sleeping only

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Speaker 6: been in the West Coast.

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Speaker 5: I'm been back home in la.

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Speaker 6: So I was knocked out, and I keep my phone

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Speaker 6: up don that stair, I get a lot of phone calls,

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Speaker 6: and so.

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Speaker 5: I didn't really know.

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Speaker 6: And I woke up and my boy Chased be text

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Speaker 6: me and he's like, how you feeling, bro, And he

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Speaker 6: like asked me like I was like, I'm good, fam,

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Speaker 6: how are you? And so like, and then I had

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Speaker 6: seen like five texts like that, and then I woke

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Speaker 6: up for realness, I was kind of halfway texting in

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Speaker 6: the bed, woke up, breshed my tee, washed my face,

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Speaker 6: you know, and then I seen the news and I've

731
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Speaker 6: seen it on Instagram. I'm like, oh, shoot, that's what

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Speaker 6: they're talking about.

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Speaker 5: Uh so I know. I'm so. I didn't even tell

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Speaker 5: Chase me or anybody like that.

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Speaker 6: Uh that was what I was implying, which is really

736
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Speaker 6: just checking it out that he was checking up on me.

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Speaker 6: But uh now it was cool, you know, it was

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Speaker 6: it was really fun to see that. And this past no,

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Speaker 6: I mean this last year I didn't have the opportunity

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Speaker 6: to go before OTA's and have guys come out. So

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Speaker 6: now I'll probably do something again, hopefully after OTAs. But

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Speaker 6: that was just like, hey, I'm a pretoning like you

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Speaker 6: guys want to come down, and man went great though,

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Speaker 6: like meh mes really like looks amazing. Uh, he looks

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Speaker 6: really really all the way back, you know. And then

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Speaker 6: Tank looks great, and so the Digs and a couple

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Speaker 6: of other guys.

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Speaker 5: He came out.

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Speaker 1: Of course he's now a teammate. But what does Stefan

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Speaker 1: Diggs bring to this team? Well? CJ was able to

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Speaker 1: encapsulate it this answer right here.

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Speaker 6: It has a ton of value, you know, to that room.

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Speaker 6: There's a lot of a wisdom that he carries that

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Speaker 6: I think he'll spread to the other guys. And you know,

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Speaker 6: he's been really reaching out to really everybody, you know,

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Speaker 6: and I think that room in general is gonna be great.

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Speaker 6: I think we're all gonna eat off each other. You know,

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Speaker 6: it's gonna be very fun and very exciting, you know,

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Speaker 6: just to work with everybody in that room. And I'm

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Speaker 6: very excited for it.

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Speaker 1: Although there are well few people that think we're all

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Speaker 1: dummies out here, there are many that we get it.

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Speaker 1: We understand right, we know when you add Stefan Diggs

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Speaker 1: to Joe Mixon and Dalton Schultz and Nico Collins and

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Speaker 1: tanked out. With CJ slinging the rock and Mechi and

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Speaker 1: everybody else that can be involved, there're gonna be high

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Speaker 1: expectations for this offense. There's also gonna be a high

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Speaker 1: level of excitement for this offense. So you got a

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Speaker 1: lot of players coming back, You've got quarterbacks coach Drodd

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Speaker 1: Johnson coming back, and of course offense coordinator Bobby Sloaks.

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Speaker 1: You got all this coming back. Everybody's got to be excited, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean CJ's excited about what this offense can do. Right.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, I'm very excited.

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Speaker 6: I think we have a lot of potential, a ton

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Speaker 6: of guys who played a lot of meaningful ball, a

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Speaker 6: lot of a lot of guys who can do different

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Speaker 6: things with the ball, which is amazing, you know, and

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Speaker 6: with all those expectations, all the outside noise, like, right

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Speaker 6: now is the time to focus, you know, right now

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Speaker 6: is the time to build the foundation and.

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Speaker 5: Build the chemistry.

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Speaker 6: And of course, like Bobby always talks about, we think

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Speaker 6: about we're doing the work for the n in mind,

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Speaker 6: you know, hopefully a way's empty.

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Speaker 5: Uh whatever we can you know, doing whatever we should do.

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Speaker 6: But you know, none of that stuff happens unless you

787
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Speaker 6: put in the work. So right now, you know, it's

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Speaker 6: just building that foundation, getting with the guys. You know,

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Speaker 6: talking about certain routes, talking about uh things is just

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Speaker 6: important as running the route and running and blocking guys,

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Speaker 6: you know, and it starts up front, to be honest.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 6: So lt is the leader of that room, and he's

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Speaker 6: been motivating those guys, and you know I'm the leader

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Speaker 6: of the offense, so you know, and really the team.

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Speaker 5: So you know, even.

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Speaker 6: The things that Dimko has been saying has been everything

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Speaker 6: just to you know, build that foundation. The fundamental is

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Speaker 6: doing the right things, the little things the right way.

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Speaker 1: I love stressing the little things because in year two,

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Speaker 1: with so many expectations, those expectations are through the roof. Man,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna have to take the little things. Joe Mixon

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Speaker 1: check down four yards, Tank Dell snagger out five yards.

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Speaker 1: You know you're not gonna get the seventy five yard

805
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: bomb and Nico all the time. It's just not gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: And he has got to be patient and he's got

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Speaker 1: to show them maturity to just say, you know what,

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Speaker 1: all right, you guys are giving me eight yards on

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Speaker 1: this I'm taking it. You guys are giving me eighty

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Speaker 1: on this, I'm gonna go take it. So that's gonna

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Speaker 1: be one of the things, obviously for CJ to kind

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Speaker 1: of sift through and all these guys are gonna want

813
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Speaker 1: the ball, there's no doubt. And obviously his buddy Tank

814
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Speaker 1: Dell is gonna want to show what he can do

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Speaker 1: returning from an injury. Here's CJ on how he thought

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Speaker 1: Tank is looking thus far.

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Speaker 6: That's great, and you know he's he's like you said, man,

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Speaker 6: he's gotten a lot better mentally. You know, I think

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Speaker 6: either for both of us, really, all the rookies no

820
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Speaker 6: coming in a year two. You know, everything's starting to

821
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Speaker 6: slow down and U the wheels aren't turning so much

822
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Speaker 6: up and up in your head. You know, you're starting

823
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Speaker 6: to play ball, and you know, having a being able

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Speaker 6: to throw with them in LA was really big. And

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Speaker 6: you know, Metch looks amazing as well, and some of

826
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Speaker 6: the guys that that came out as well, So you know,

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Speaker 6: it's been amazing to think it some working.

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Speaker 1: As you listen that cut, there was a guy that's

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Speaker 1: mentioned in there that I know a lot of people

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Speaker 1: have asked me about what's his role for this year.

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Speaker 1: You're bringing Stefan Diggs, you already got Tank and Nico.

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Speaker 1: What's the role for for John Metchi? Well, what's it

833
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Speaker 1: got to be? Well, in the two years he's been here.

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Speaker 1: The first year he was a rehabbing from an ACL,

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Speaker 1: then b got leukemia. C had to fight that off.

836
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 1: Dee eventually was able to get on the field. But

837
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Speaker 1: he just got through rehabbing an ACL and getting through cancer.

838
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Speaker 1: It's obvious that he wasn't what he knows he can be.

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Speaker 1: He was out with CJ out in La with with

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Speaker 1: Digs and with Tank with some other guys. So CJ

841
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Speaker 1: was asked about John Metchi and how he's looking right

842
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Speaker 1: now and kind of look into the future with Mechi

843
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Speaker 1: and what does this season look like for him?

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Speaker 6: Man, he has a ton of value, a huge impact.

845
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Speaker 6: I think that he'll bring the season. I think last

846
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Speaker 6: year was good to get his feet back in the water,

847
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Speaker 6: you know, coming off of an injury, then something so

848
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 6: traumatic like being sick, and how he was and his

849
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 6: mindset is just you know, he's ready to come back

850
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Speaker 6: and ball. So not only is he a great football player,

851
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Speaker 6: but he's a great person. And you know, I wouldn't

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Speaker 6: want to be anywhere else with anybody else other than

853
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 6: those guys in that room. So uh, Mech's Mech's looking amazing.

854
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 6: Everything that that he'll put on this field will be

855
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Speaker 6: no surprise. But you know, I think everybody in his

856
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,279
Speaker 6: in his room knows how special he can be, and

857
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Speaker 6: he'll put that on the field.

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Speaker 1: You know. A few weeks ago with Ohio State Pro Day,

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00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 1: you saw CJ. Stroud in the weight room with his guys.

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Speaker 1: He was asked about the impact of Ohio State having

861
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Speaker 1: played with talented receivers before and how to handle that.

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00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 1: That's a pretty interesting question and any even better answer.

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Speaker 1: Take a listen.

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Speaker 6: You wanna be even like a as I talk to

865
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Speaker 6: those guys and the guys I played in college.

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Speaker 5: Like, it's not good to be the lone wolf.

867
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Speaker 3: You know.

868
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Speaker 6: You want to have a team that uh uh, not

869
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 6: even a team, but a room not only of dogs

870
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:18,840
Speaker 6: and guys that can make you better, but guys you

871
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Speaker 6: can compete with, you know, like, and it's all friendly

872
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 6: and love out of love the competition that we're trying

873
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 6: to build, you know. But like Demiko always says, man

874
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 6: a sharpasign and uh, you know, for me, having that

875
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,839
Speaker 6: background and playing with so many talented guys, I think

876
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 6: it is amazing.

877
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 5: You know.

878
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 6: I always tell my guys might be opening at the ball,

879
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 6: so uh, and I pride myself on sitting in the

880
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 6: pocket and making sure that those guys can eat, you know,

881
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 6: And it's up to me to make sure that those guys,

882
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 6: you know, get what they deserve and get paid and

883
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 6: all those good things that come with having a successful year.

884
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 6: So I'm really excited for that. And it's been you know,

885
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,400
Speaker 6: just the start of it right now. But you know,

886
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 6: having that background of it has been cool.

887
00:37:58,400 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 1: One of the things that's always stood out to me

888
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 1: since CJ has been in the building is a his

889
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 1: loved football, be his love the history football. He knows

890
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:08,360
Speaker 1: guys that have played in this league. He has a

891
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 1: lot of respect for guys that have played in this league.

892
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: Stephanie Stradley asked a really good question about playing in

893
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame game against the Bears in August. First, now,

894
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: I don't anticipate we're gonna see CJ in that game,

895
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 1: but you never know. But when I asked about it,

896
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 1: CJ loved the question. But I loved his answer because

897
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 1: it spoke volumes about the young man, but also the

898
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 1: respect he has for Andre Johnson, who will be going

899
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 1: geto the Hall of Fame as the first Texan player

900
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:36,760
Speaker 1: to hear what he had to say, great answer here.

901
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:40,240
Speaker 6: I'm excited for Andre. Man, Like I'm super super honored,

902
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 6: you know, to get to know such a legend. You know,

903
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 6: see how much of a good person he is and

904
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 6: how down to earth he has been with me. You know,

905
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 6: he's been in communication. He'll call me after games and

906
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 6: call me before a game, see how I'm feeling. He's

907
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 6: really around all the time. And you know, it's just

908
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 6: it makes you feel good to see a good person

909
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:58,880
Speaker 6: get what they deserve. And you know, for us to

910
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:00,879
Speaker 6: be up there as a team and him and him

911
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 6: be able to you know, be around and we're able

912
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:05,320
Speaker 6: to support him in that time, you know, super amazing.

913
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 6: You know, hopefully a lot of us on this team

914
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 6: and maybe had that honor one day, and uh, you know,

915
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 6: but he deserves it completely and I'm just super happy

916
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 6: to be you know, uh, just knowing him, you know,

917
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 6: because he ill used to watch him as a kid,

918
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 6: and so it's like nine day of like who you like,

919
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 6: he is, who you would think he would be, but

920
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 6: even just some better person, you know.

921
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 5: So it's been really cool.

922
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,320
Speaker 1: All right, would get this last one right here from

923
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: C James. That's just by Kim Davis who asked another

924
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 1: tremendous question and that was, Hey, year one is done.

925
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,360
Speaker 1: Now you're moving on to year two. How do you

926
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:38,840
Speaker 1: feel and what have you learned from year one that

927
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 1: you take forward to year two and how much are

928
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 1: you looking forward to this year obviously with all the

929
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:44,360
Speaker 1: different changes.

930
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm feeling great. You know.

931
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 6: You know, it's a lot of a lot of learning

932
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,840
Speaker 6: things that I went through last year and it.

933
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:56,720
Speaker 5: Was really good to be with a lot of young guys.

934
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:58,839
Speaker 6: You know, we built that foundation, I felt, and now

935
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 6: it's time to up another scale. And for myself, you know,

936
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 6: it's just uh first first of Pharmans being a leader

937
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:08,360
Speaker 6: and the second you know, my play and you know,

938
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,759
Speaker 6: I'm excited to I think I got a lot better

939
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 6: these past couple of weeks working with my guys on

940
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 6: LA you know, now trying to get better with my

941
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 6: team and then go on and take every little stint

942
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:20,759
Speaker 6: and I think last year I wasn't able to do

943
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 6: that much. I was meeting every team, going through offense

944
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 6: after offense and meeting a new coordinator and met with

945
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 6: a new head coach next week, like and then finally

946
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,840
Speaker 6: got here and then like everything just rammed up. So

947
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 6: now it's like I'm coming to the same offense, and

948
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 6: you know, I get to slow down and really like

949
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 6: get better at what we're trying to get done this

950
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:42,399
Speaker 6: next year.

951
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:43,799
Speaker 5: So you know, I'm very excited for that.

952
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,040
Speaker 1: Okay, this next one's gonna hurt. I said that was

953
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 1: the last one, but I I like this one and

954
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 1: this this is gonna hurt a little bit because one

955
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:53,359
Speaker 1: of my favorite players outside of CJ in last year's

956
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:55,400
Speaker 1: draft is a running back that we're gonna have to

957
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 1: face twice a year is Tyj Spears. CJ was asked

958
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 1: about his thirty visits last year, and he came to

959
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:05,359
Speaker 1: Houston with two other players, Taj Spears and Cody Mock

960
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:09,879
Speaker 1: from North Dakota State. Taja Spears from Tu Lane. Man.

961
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 1: I love Taj Spears, so I didn't know and he'd

962
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 1: been here on thirty visits, I would have tried to

963
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 1: maybe kidnap him, not let him go. That dude is electric,

964
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: and I think we're going to find that out I'm

965
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 1: glad we got number seven. I like both of them.

966
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: Actually I like all three of them. Cody Mock could

967
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,399
Speaker 1: play as well. So here's CJ's answer when he's taught

968
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 1: when he was asked about the thirty visit when he

969
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 1: visited last year heading into last year's draft.

970
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 5: I remember the dudes that I came in with.

971
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:38,360
Speaker 6: I came in with Tajy Spears, and I'm blanking on

972
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:39,279
Speaker 6: my other guy's name.

973
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:42,279
Speaker 5: He plays guard for the Buccaneers.

974
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 6: Went to North Dakota State, Yep, Cody, So me and

975
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 6: Cody and Taj was here and it was really early

976
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 6: in the morning. They picked us up and we were

977
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:57,319
Speaker 6: together really the whole day. And I remember Nick made

978
00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 6: me like, oh, he didn't make me, but no, it

979
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:04,400
Speaker 6: was actually DT asked me to explain, like those two guys' personality.

980
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 6: So basically he was asking like, was I paying attention

981
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 6: to them? And I guess I did, okay, But no,

982
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 6: it was just cool to be around those guys. You know,

983
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 6: they were from all different parts of the world. You know,

984
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:18,799
Speaker 6: I'm from SoCal, Taj is from I think I think

985
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:21,879
Speaker 6: he's from Alabama, and then Cody, I think it's from

986
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:24,439
Speaker 6: North Dakota, So like it was cool to be around

987
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 6: other guys, you know, and seeing their journey, and I

988
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 6: was really like the one thing.

989
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:29,759
Speaker 5: Then to be able to play both of them this

990
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 5: year and be able.

991
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 6: To I swapped jerseys with Taj and I got to

992
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 6: talk to Cody, So that was the one thing I

993
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 6: remembered from this one. And just meeting with the coaches

994
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 6: and stuff. It's kind of really like all broad the

995
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:41,560
Speaker 6: same thing and what you do every team, but those

996
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 6: guys really stood out to me.

997
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:45,319
Speaker 1: You know what. We'll hit some of the Miko later

998
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:48,560
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Speaker 1: Slim Reaper is rich and if you're not true, that

1029
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:19,920
Speaker 1: is that is Devonte Smith, wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles.

1030
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 1: He just signed And I was a little surprised by this.

1031
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:26,480
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say no surprise. I've found the Eagles. I

1032
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 1: want to extend him, but I just wasn't anticipating it.

1033
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 1: And when I told you that a receiver got paid,

1034
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 1: you're probably think of te Higgins. Oh, te Higgins, justin Jefferson.

1035
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 1: Well we'll get to some news about those two in

1036
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 1: a little bit. But no, Devonte Smith three years, seventy

1037
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:47,839
Speaker 1: five million dollars deal will keep him in Philadelphia, gets

1038
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:51,239
Speaker 1: fifty one million guaranteed. I've always been a big fan

1039
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 1: of Devonte. He shuts his mouth, he plays, and I

1040
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 1: love that. But he wasn't the only one signing extensions

1041
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 1: today in the Division, Oh boy, in the Division, Thedanapolis

1042
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 1: Colts agreed to a two year deal with the Forest

1043
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 1: Buckner two years, forty six million dollars. Now he was

1044
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 1: in his final He's in the final year of an

1045
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 1: four year, eighty four million dollar contract he signed four

1046
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:20,880
Speaker 1: years ago when he was traded from the forty nine

1047
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 1: Ers to the Colts. Thanks a lot forty nine ers.

1048
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 1: But he then signs two year, forty six million dollar extension.

1049
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 1: So two big pieces staying where they are now. I

1050
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 1: don't know if they didn't get the contracts they were

1051
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 1: they angling to leave. I don't think so. But when

1052
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 1: you get a couple of good players locked up, you

1053
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 1: hang on to him. And not only that, you lock

1054
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 1: up a couple of really good people as well. Everything

1055
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:49,279
Speaker 1: I've heard about Devonte and of Buckner both very very

1056
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:52,400
Speaker 1: good dudes. All Right, the wide receivers continue to be

1057
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: the story this offseason as always. Obviously, steph gets traded

1058
00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 1: to the Texans. That happened. T Higgins is a franchise

1059
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 1: player with the Cincinnati Bengals, justin Jefferson. There's a contract deal,

1060
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 1: ceedee lamb. He's got stuff going on. And then of

1061
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: course she got Rashid Rice. So let's hit all of

1062
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 1: those as much as we can. With the with the

1063
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:17,879
Speaker 1: things going on, we'll start with Rice. Get the bad

1064
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:22,279
Speaker 1: news out of the way, Rashie Rice, if you have

1065
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 1: been following the news, he was involved in a fracas,

1066
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 1: a driving fracas, a little driving mishap, if you will,

1067
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:34,879
Speaker 1: and he is going to be remotely participating in phase

1068
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 1: one of the offseason. So the greatest thing to have

1069
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:41,720
Speaker 1: happened and going into your second year, but we got killed.

1070
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 1: Learn a lesson from it. She Rice. Look where it

1071
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 1: impacts of Texans. Texas played the Chiefs. Hopefully it's one

1072
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:50,839
Speaker 1: of those games where Rashei Rice is not there. Okay,

1073
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:54,480
Speaker 1: let's go to Ceedee Lamb, my Richmond Texas home boy. Yes,

1074
00:46:54,840 --> 00:47:00,320
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb not available for voluntary workouts. That's one of

1075
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:01,839
Speaker 1: the things about the offseas. I say this a lot,

1076
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:07,359
Speaker 1: the V word voluntary. It is voluntary. Now CD has

1077
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:10,720
Speaker 1: made it known he wants an extension. Because he hasn't

1078
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:14,799
Speaker 1: gotten that extension, he will not be at voluntary offseason workouts.

1079
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:20,080
Speaker 1: Neither will Justin Jefferson with the Minnesota Vikings, T Higgins

1080
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 1: has said he's sort of resigned to his faith that

1081
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 1: he's coming back for twenty twenty four. So a lot

1082
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: of wide receiver things happening in the NFL right here,

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Speaker 1: we talk about it on Texans All Access. Appreciate you

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Speaker 1: guys being here. Appreciate Mattress Firm for being on board.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to Mark, to Will Anderson Junior, to all of

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Speaker 1: you for listening. We'll see you next time. Everybody knows.

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Speaker 1: Always go Texans.