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Speaker 1: Welcome into Texans All Access on a Tuesday from inside

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Speaker 1: the Hunday Texans Radio studio. Joining me today, Mark Vandamir Drudeherty.

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Speaker 1: I'm DPC doo. Hey guys, welcome back, the gangs back

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Speaker 1: together again and gonna be a food Ruckers Greenway and

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Speaker 1: two weeks. How about that with a guest to be announced.

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Speaker 1: That's news to me. Yes, Like I'm literally learning things

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Speaker 1: on the show already. You're having dinner at food Ruckers,

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Speaker 1: you're having a milkshake all of it week. I just

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Speaker 1: spoke with the promotions team today. They're ready to rock

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Speaker 1: and do their Texans bingo which they played during the

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Speaker 1: commercial break. So that's two weeks. It's a lot of fun. Actually,

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Speaker 1: I feel like they sometimes wait for us to stop

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Speaker 1: talking so the think get back to their bingo cards.

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Speaker 1: But we usually do do an off season show, but

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Speaker 1: Ruckers haven't done one yet. Ye, so that'll be right

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Speaker 1: before the draft. Yeah, we perfect And I don't know

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Speaker 1: when the schedule comes out. Everyone asks me this, It

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Speaker 1: might come out that night. I'll have a prediction here.

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Speaker 1: The preseason schedules should be out by that at the

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Speaker 1: very least, are you going to do your top five

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Speaker 1: season plays. Now I will now updated with our new players.

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Speaker 1: Wait now updated? Was there anything great last year? Preseason wise?

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Speaker 1: Close step to the Tom Savage to Travis Labhard miracle

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Speaker 1: in Denver about the long field goal to end the game,

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Speaker 1: that the preseason great moments? Yeah, Jacobe Jones talking, you're

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Speaker 1: talking about almost nicked by a Rose? That that that

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Speaker 1: would we win at Los Angeles? Yes, Saturday after Yeah,

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Speaker 1: didn't happen. Almost nicked by a Rose. It's got a

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Speaker 1: name that means it's got to be one of the

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Speaker 1: top five plagued by Rose. How about case Keenom starting

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Speaker 1: against Dallas Week four, twenty thirteen. Yeah, okay, Griffin all

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Speaker 1: time receiving records for preseason. It's it's such a dubious honor.

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Speaker 1: It's like, hey, wait a minute, I'm playing in a

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Speaker 1: lot of these preseason games. I'm playing in a lot

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Speaker 1: of these game fours. You know, if you play in

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Speaker 1: game four a lot might not be the best thing.

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Speaker 1: And I'm saying he has I'm just saying in general,

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Speaker 1: D D. Farman had some nice plays this rookie yere

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Speaker 1: too in the preseason. He had the longest run in

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Speaker 1: the longest receding play in the history of preseason football.

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Speaker 1: For the Houston text, I don't know. I mean, it

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Speaker 1: could have been broken. Sounds good enough to me, but

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Speaker 1: for that preseason definitely all right. We got some hot

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Speaker 1: reads to get into some big news, breaking stories today

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Speaker 1: in an offseason. I guess where do we start. We'll

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Speaker 1: start with the story of the day, Andre how this

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Speaker 1: comes as a total surprise. Actually, safety Andre Hall decides

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Speaker 1: that he's going to retire. It's right. The good news

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Speaker 1: is it's nothing to do with the cancer. Right. Healthy,

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Speaker 1: And that was the first question I had. I think

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Speaker 1: it's the first question everybody has, as I've told people

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Speaker 1: in the building this afternoon, that's the first question everybody has.

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Speaker 1: And the answer is, no, it's not about health. He's healthy,

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Speaker 1: he's recovered, and I guess it's always a thing that

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Speaker 1: to pursue other things. And it's funny because Andre Ware

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Speaker 1: once told me that a player, no, and it might

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Speaker 1: not happen when you think it's supposed to happen. You know,

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Speaker 1: maybe he could play another few years. I would think

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Speaker 1: so at least, right, But sometimes a player just knows

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Speaker 1: everything he has to go through in order to play,

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Speaker 1: and he just decides, no, I'm good, well you were

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Speaker 1: good about you tell us the news. And for a

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Speaker 1: Oh no, the cancer. What are we gonna do. You're

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Speaker 1: very good about Andrea how retired and it's not cancer related.

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Speaker 1: then you question it. So hey, he just got named

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Speaker 1: the d Block Courage Award winner for everything he went

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Speaker 1: the direction that he was trending. It's a big blow

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Speaker 1: to your safety depth because, yes, you lose Matthew and Kareem,

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Speaker 1: And I don't know how it would have affected their

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Speaker 1: all right. Another note of news, another hot read, The

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Speaker 1: team Development. Jack Easterby coincidentally is my neighbor across the hallway. Oh,

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Speaker 1: He just has this air about him, apparently, and he's

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Speaker 1: he's a team development coach. Well I can't call him coach.

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Speaker 1: set and background is very unique because he does a

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Speaker 1: He started out in football development and as far as

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Speaker 1: got a bit of a religious background. Theological background. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he was a team chaplain for that Kansas City Chiefs

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Speaker 1: team that Mark mentioned. Yeah, but then you'll see pictures

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Speaker 1: But it's like Mark said, everybody talks well about him,

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Speaker 1: He's from South Carolina too, So oh yeah, no, I've

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Speaker 1: That's why. That's why he chose the Texans. Anyway, I

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Speaker 1: the sense that you know, he's not an offensive coordinator

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Speaker 1: like these changes in this organization. Bill O'Brien with a

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Speaker 1: less than two weeks away offseason workouts. Can you believe

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Speaker 1: begin off season workouts here. Obviously it's voluntary. So several teams, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: of the Broncos offseason workouts, and so it begins because

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Speaker 1: now it's like we take attendance, you do take it.

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Speaker 1: You do take attendance, and everyone's gonna be watching for

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Speaker 1: gonna be a big story here and anybody else who

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Speaker 1: good attendance with the Houston Texans, I mean nearly perfect.

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Speaker 1: And if somebody's not here for the first day or

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Speaker 1: a day or whatever, they have some personal matter to

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Speaker 1: take care of. It is voluntary, but you do, you

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Speaker 1: do get an outstanding turnout. I said yesterday, it's voluntary,

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Speaker 1: but it's also voluntary that you pulled a parachute chord

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Speaker 1: on your shoot when you jump out of the airplane.

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Speaker 1: That's voluntary. Must These guys are itching to just be

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Speaker 1: around their teammates and to get back and get ready

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Speaker 1: because they know that other people around the league already

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Speaker 1: have that two week headstar on them, the teams with

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Speaker 1: new head coaches. So a lot of them are just

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Speaker 1: it's it's that type that there. It's ingrained in their personality.

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Speaker 1: They want to be great. I think they want to

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Speaker 1: get back to you know, it's it's it's okay to

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Speaker 1: be around the house and do stuff. Now the offseason program.

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Speaker 1: It's about four days a week. I don't think it's

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Speaker 1: a full five days a week usually that they're here.

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Speaker 1: It's about four days a week and they're working out anyway.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the guys are working out, so he might

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Speaker 1: as well come to your workout be with the guy.

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Speaker 1: What is what is a retired player virtually say that

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Speaker 1: they missed the most when they retired with the guys. Well,

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Speaker 1: they want to come back and be with the guys.

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Speaker 1: They've had their break. It's time to go back. Shane

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Speaker 1: Lechler was just talking about, you know this over the

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Speaker 1: last few days. You know, he with the retirement missus.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't miss the some of the stuff as far

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Speaker 1: as the physical toll it takes on you, but he

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Speaker 1: did miss being around the guys. All right, Drew, you

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Speaker 1: also put up your latest mock draft or You're about

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Speaker 1: too Houston Texans mock draft survey, and for the first

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Speaker 1: time in about a month, there's now a tie. Andre

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Speaker 1: Dillard had kind of been the runaway favorite by most

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Speaker 1: mock drafters and now he had he was mocked to

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Speaker 1: the Texans as many times as Cody Forward from Oklahoma was,

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Speaker 1: it's really kind of you're gonna see changes over the

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Speaker 1: next month, or it's gonna drop. We're gonna get him

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Speaker 1: in the second round in a trade up. That was

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Speaker 1: one of the vandom Yeah, you had Greedy Williams Cody Forward,

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Speaker 1: and if that were to happen, I think that'd be

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Speaker 1: an excellent draft for the Texans. To be honest, I

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Speaker 1: think there's no way Greedy drops down to where the

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Speaker 1: Texans are, but we'll see that. That would be sweet

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Speaker 1: if he did. He was actually name on four, which

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Speaker 1: was the most he's been named on. So okay, Greedy Williams.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, Well that's a lot really that they had,

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Speaker 1: like corner not just like weirdos. I mean these are

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Speaker 1: like normal, but you don't do your first time, big

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Speaker 1: time NFL media personalities like draft weirdos dot com. Right, Yes, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: no more Greg Little he was he was on their

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Speaker 1: party different ones. Yeah, he was on five, So okay.

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Speaker 1: It was the most Cody Ford. You haven't seen any

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Speaker 1: unusual position groups other than secondary or tackle. Have You

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Speaker 1: had forty five mock drafts that I compiled, and forty

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Speaker 1: two of them had either the Texans taken an offensive

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Speaker 1: lineman or a corner forty five you compiled. Let me

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Speaker 1: ask you this, like I like comb through, Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: then one had a wide receiver, one had a tight end,

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Speaker 1: and one had a running back. When you started doing this,

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Speaker 1: one was the first one you did, like twelve or eleven?

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Speaker 1: How many mock drafts did you compile? Back then? That

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Speaker 1: was Scurf was doing it, so it was probably three.

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Speaker 1: That's probably in the twenties. There's a lot more of

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Speaker 1: them now and they're still going to probably have like

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Speaker 1: ten fifteen more that'll come up, come out before the draft.

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Speaker 1: So like, I bet Peter King will do one. He

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Speaker 1: hasn't done one yet. Oh, I see a lot of guys,

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Speaker 1: you know. So it's kind of a fluid process, right,

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Speaker 1: good point, all right, good stuff that's up on Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans dot Com. Through puts those up every single week. Also,

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Speaker 1: you're in the lab is going up. You talk with

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Speaker 1: John Harris the second part of the All Time Texans

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Speaker 1: fifty three. We're putting up the defense today. Going to

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Speaker 1: be some interesting discussions there, all right, look for that

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Speaker 1: and then coming up John Harris will get his takes

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Speaker 1: on pro days as well as the Texans running back

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Speaker 1: position group and who they might be looking at in

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Speaker 1: the draft. That's all coming up. One final segment of

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access coming up. One final segment of Texans

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Speaker 1: All Access. Joining me now, my good friend John Harris, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: A lot to catch up on. I feel like you

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Speaker 1: and I have not sat in studio in a while.

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Speaker 1: We haven't since the shows were from Arizona last week

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Speaker 1: VI the owners meeting. So nice to catch up with you,

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Speaker 1: because a lot shown down. You've also not really been

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Speaker 1: in the building a lot. I want to get to

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Speaker 1: some of your pro day impressions. But first your thoughts

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Speaker 1: on Alfred Blue signing with the Jaguars. How does that

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Speaker 1: change the Texans draft strategy? I know we've discussed running

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Speaker 1: backs a little bit. Does it move it up a

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Speaker 1: little bit in the draft order? And if so, what

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Speaker 1: do you think the Texans are looking for? Maybe? So,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that it I don't know that it

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Speaker 1: changes significantly. I always you know, it's kind of with Alfred,

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Speaker 1: you know, last year when they realized, hey, look we

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Speaker 1: probably need some deathe Foreman insurance because we're just not

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Speaker 1: sure whether he's gonna be ready to go when it's

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Speaker 1: going to happen, So we better go out and get

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Speaker 1: a guy that knows our system all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: And look, I've heard over the last few years, you know,

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Speaker 1: people just get frustrated with Alfred Blue, and I'm like, look,

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Speaker 1: Alfred was a six round pick. First of all, he

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Speaker 1: was fairly productive for you. Look, should Alfred have ever

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Speaker 1: been your number one back like he was in twenty fifteen. No,

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Speaker 1: he shouldn't have been. He should have been the complimentary

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Speaker 1: type back that he was in years past. But I

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Speaker 1: felt like Elfred did a pretty good job for even

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Speaker 1: this year. I thought he did a pretty good job

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Speaker 1: for you. Now, can you upgrade to Lamar Millar doannte

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Speaker 1: Foreman and a third back? Absolutely, I don't think there's

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Speaker 1: any question. I think if Lamar and downtare are healthy,

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Speaker 1: it makes for a very interesting combination of backs. But

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Speaker 1: I do think that they will look at a running

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Speaker 1: back in the draft, and I think there are tons.

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Speaker 1: We all know a tackle and corner are probably the

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Speaker 1: two positions they'd like to be able to address first.

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Speaker 1: But you still have two other picks in the top

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Speaker 1: eighty six, and running back seems to make sense in

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Speaker 1: the second and third round. I think there are a

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Speaker 1: bunch of them. Devin Singletary from Floria, Atlantic is just

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Speaker 1: a dynamo. I mean he scored thirty two touchdowns in

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen as a sophomore. I mean he is so quick.

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Speaker 1: You got guys like David Montgomery, who I think is

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Speaker 1: just is fabulous from Iowa State. My point in all

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Speaker 1: that DP is, I think you can get a running

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Speaker 1: back that can come in from rounds two through six

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Speaker 1: and end up being a factor on this team in

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Speaker 1: some way, shape or form. The one that there are

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Speaker 1: a couple of them, I think that are are are

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Speaker 1: different and for different reasons. I think Trevion Williams I

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Speaker 1: would love to have. He's a Houston kid. He want

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Speaker 1: to see King tandem in the backfield. I would. I

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Speaker 1: would love to have Trevion just for that alone. I

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Speaker 1: think the rivalry. I think we should have a little

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Speaker 1: ut A and M rivalry. His same position. His agent's

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Speaker 1: a good friend of mine and he's been in my ear,

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, look, you don't have to talk of

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Speaker 1: Trevion to me. I love Trevion. I think what what

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Speaker 1: you hear? He's projected around that third round? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think on the Harrison Hunter I've got him in the

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Speaker 1: eighties and I think that's about where he should go.

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Speaker 1: And look if he were if you were the size,

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Speaker 1: you know, if he were five eleven, two fifteen, maybe

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Speaker 1: he doesn't even get to the third round. He's probably

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Speaker 1: in the second round. But he's five now, he's about

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Speaker 1: two h five. But he was highly successful in the SEC.

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Speaker 1: He had a ton of explosive runs. He's a really good,

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Speaker 1: i mean, bordering a great pass protector for a guy

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Speaker 1: that size. I mean, I've seen him just deliver shots,

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Speaker 1: linebackers blitz and I'm like, yo, wow, teams are gonna

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Speaker 1: love that. So I've also heard that off the field,

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Speaker 1: he's as good a leader as possible, and that's a

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Speaker 1: big factor with this roster. We know that. So Trevian Williams,

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Speaker 1: I would I would love, But there's so many guys.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you could go to the back end, you know,

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Speaker 1: the fifth, sixth round and look at guys like Travis

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Speaker 1: Homer from Miami, Marquis Young from you Mass, Alex Barnes

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Speaker 1: from Kansas State, guys that will probably go that far.

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Speaker 1: And those guys are all physical, specimen, big running backs.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I studied Marquis Young from you Mass yesterday

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Speaker 1: and was like, Yo, this guy's a really good football player.

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Speaker 1: And he was overshadowed by Andy Isabella because Isabella, the

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Speaker 1: wide rehiver was and has gotten all the inc But

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Speaker 1: Marquis Young is a really good looking football player and

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Speaker 1: he was a kick returner. So you've got those guys

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Speaker 1: that are straight up running backs, then you've got maybe

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Speaker 1: some Swiss army knives that you can look at dpy

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Speaker 1: at running back that can be a little different. For example,

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Speaker 1: Nick Fitzgerald, the quarterback at Mississippi State, Like, wait, quarterback, Well,

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Speaker 1: he's not He's not good enough to be a quarterback

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Speaker 1: right now. It may never be a quarterback. But we'll

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Speaker 1: go at the Saints do with Taysom Hill. Saints take

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Speaker 1: Taysom Hill, who is a quarterback. He goes to the

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Speaker 1: quarterback room with Drew Brees. He does everything that the

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks do, but on Sunday he becomes this jack of

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Speaker 1: all trades Swiss army knife, and they use him on

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Speaker 1: offense as a running back, that use him as a

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Speaker 1: tight end, They use him a lot different places. So

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Speaker 1: a guy like Nick Fitzgerald kind of fits that mold.

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Speaker 1: He could go to all the meetings with Sean, with

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Speaker 1: the quarterbacks DA Jim mccarrony consider and he can learn

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Speaker 1: all the quarterback stuff. But then on Sunday they can

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Speaker 1: have they can have a different package for him because

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Speaker 1: he's the second leading all time he's second all time

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Speaker 1: leading rusher at Mimissippi State behind a guy named Anton

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Speaker 1: Nick's quarterback. That's amazing. So he's a kind of guy

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Speaker 1: that I think would be kind of interesting. And also

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Speaker 1: a guy like Jalen Hurd from Baylor, part receiver, part

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Speaker 1: running back, I think he would be kind of an

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Speaker 1: interesting mixing. A guy named Tony Pollard from out of

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Speaker 1: Memphis is another one of those guys. He was at

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Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl. He's kind of receiver slash or running

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Speaker 1: back kind of hybrid, you know, kind of a hybrid

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Speaker 1: player that can do a lot of different things. Because

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Speaker 1: if you feel like you got the running game locked

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Speaker 1: down with Lamar and Yonte, then maybe you not honestly

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Speaker 1: you're a Ford of the luxury, but maybe you've got

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Speaker 1: the luxury in some sense to look at a different

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Speaker 1: type of third running back, you know that doesn't look

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Speaker 1: like the this guy's a running back, and yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: gonna playing special teams. But this guy is kind of

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Speaker 1: running back, kind of receiver. Do a lot of different

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Speaker 1: things with him. Hey man, we can get creative with him. Oh,

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Speaker 1: by the way, he's gonna playing teams as well. So

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Speaker 1: that's what you need from a third ringing back. So

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Speaker 1: I think, especially with Deonta Foreman looking as healthy as

635
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 1: he's looked this offseason, that was something that was of

636
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 1: concern last year. So had the Texans gone into the

637
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:34,719
Speaker 1: draft with running back on the draft board last year,

638
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: probably they would have looked at something a little bit

639
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 1: differently because they weren't sure right exact Foreman was going

640
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 1: to look I think, I mean, I don't know. I'm

641
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 1: just basing it off of some of the Instagram videos

642
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 1: he's posted. He looks he looks tremendously healthy. Yeah, one

643
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 1: hundred percent recover from the achilles. I know he came

644
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 1: back during the season. At the end of the year

645
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 1: still wasn't quite himself, but now you know, it's it's

646
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,239
Speaker 1: it's been even a few more months removed, and by

647
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 1: the time the season hits, you would expect that he'd

648
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 1: be able to do everything, especially even in the off

649
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 1: season and OTAs. Most athletes you talk to when they

650
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 1: have that achilles injury, they'll tell you it's not the

651
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 1: next year, it's the year following where they feel like

652
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 1: they've kind of got two years to come out exactly.

653
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:14,960
Speaker 1: So I think Deante's getting a point. And I think

654
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 1: I think Deante last year he wanted to come back,

655
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: but I don't know if he was ready to come back,

656
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 1: and so I think that those are two different things.

657
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 1: And so this is a big year for Deante to

658
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 1: me deep when I'll look at just the whole team,

659
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 1: I think there are two two key X factors, one

660
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: deionte Foreman and the others Martine's ranking. I think those

661
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: kind of X factors. If Rankin can step up and

662
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 1: play guard, and look, there isn't there's a whole lot

663
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 1: of film of him playing guard. But he had one

664
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: game against Philadelphia, and there were many times I looked

665
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: about on that field against he was going against Fletcher Cox's,

666
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 1: you know, Mississippi State alumni brethren, and he was doing

667
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: a great job against X. I think He's not perfect

668
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 1: that day, but I think Rankin's got a future at guard.

669
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 1: He's just gotta get in there. He's gotta get a

670
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 1: full training camp. He's gotta get settled. Let me tell him,

671
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: nobody's saying that he's a pro bowler. You know, we're

672
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: not trying to pump him up and tell everybody's great.

673
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 1: I think he's a big X factor for this team.

674
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 1: I think he's got to play well. But Deonte is

675
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: the other one. If Deonte is healthy, because a two

676
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty three pounds, the way he catches the

677
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 1: ball in the backfield, with the way that he exacts

678
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 1: a punishment on the defense, because how big he is,

679
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: that takes a toll. I mean, we saw that. I

680
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: saw that in New England seventeen and that fourth quarter

681
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 1: it was you could see it on them when they

682
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 1: were making tackles. They were under knees, like man, we're

683
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 1: getting worn out. And that I think it would be

684
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 1: something that that Bill O'Brien would love to do. So

685
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 1: if you've got that Lamar Miller Deonte Foreman mix, and

686
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: you're not always gonna have him, maybe we lost them,

687
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 1: we lost but Lamar was injured for two games last year.

688
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: But if you've got Deonte and Lamar and that's kind

689
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 1: of your one two combination, then maybe that third guy,

690
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 1: and it can, it can. I think Trevion Williams would

691
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: be a perfect example. James Williams is another one from

692
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 1: Washington State. He cut eighty three passes last year. He

693
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: hardly ran the football. They threw him the football, They

694
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 1: threw him screens, swings. Um, do you think they're going

695
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 1: to go that route again? Because after Tyler Irvin that well,

696
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: you know, and get injuries too, but when when you

697
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 1: get a running back that's more. James Williams is six

698
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: foot two fifteen that it was a little bit bigger

699
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: than you know, Tyler was not, you know, Tyler was

700
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 1: Tyler light. Yeah, I mean James Williams, it was just

701
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: the offense that he was in. He could He can't

702
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 1: run the ball. It's just he he wasn't asked you

703
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 1: because he was in that Texas Tech offense and they

704
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: were throwing a bunch of things. A lot of a

705
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 1: lot of those eighty three receptions end up being like

706
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 1: wide runs anyways. So it's yeah, he's a great receiver,

707
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 1: but I think he could run the ball too. But

708
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 1: you know, look, if you I just think that third

709
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 1: that third position at running back, if those two are solid,

710
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: then that third position becomes hey, let's let's get creative

711
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 1: with this. What can we do with this? That would

712
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 1: be kind of fun. But with with Alfred leaving, obviously

713
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: he had a big role on special teams every single

714
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 1: season he was here. And you've got a number of

715
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 1: guys that are free agents that were big contributors on

716
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 1: special teams. Do you think they go after a guy

717
00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 1: as a running back that could contribute on special teams

718
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 1: because they're gonna have some when he holes there? Well,

719
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 1: I think with the running back position, like I said earlier,

720
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: anybody that they would draft, I think they would expect

721
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: to play on special teams in some way, shape or form. Now,

722
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 1: if they draft the running back in the second or

723
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:15,319
Speaker 1: third round, high round, they maybe maybe not. But keep

724
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 1: in mind last year. Last year they had they had

725
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 1: a j Moore, they had Peter Calumbay, they had Johnson Battamosi,

726
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 1: they had you know, Joe Webb is back. So they've

727
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 1: got they've got guys that were you know, Joe did

728
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 1: play a little bit offense when they when they needed him.

729
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,879
Speaker 1: You know, Buddy Howell was another one. Those guys all

730
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 1: had offensive. We forget about Buddy Howe because that is

731
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: his role as special teams. They all have offensive defensive positions,

732
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 1: but they basically majored on special teams. As opposed to

733
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: years prior, that really wasn't the case. You know, they

734
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:55,320
Speaker 1: have Brian Peters, and they still have Brian Peters, but

735
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,399
Speaker 1: they have Brian Peters, and he was kind of that guy,

736
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 1: and then everybody else they kind of pulled in from offense, defense, etc.

737
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,880
Speaker 1: But they have those guys that were almost devoted solely

738
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 1: to special teams, and it showed. My point with that

739
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 1: is I don't think Alfred's impact on special teams in

740
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 1: particular this past year was at the level of those guys,

741
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 1: and so I don't know that you'll miss that as much.

742
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 1: I just think you'll miss kind of the reliable if

743
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:22,960
Speaker 1: you have to go to him sort of thing. I

744
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: think you will miss out a little bit. But I

745
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: think the return of Deonta Foreman and a third option

746
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,439
Speaker 1: and running back that you get out of the draft,

747
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,879
Speaker 1: I would imagine out of the draft, maybe you sign one.

748
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 1: I know one just got waived the other day who

749
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: I would like to see here. Who's a local guy,

750
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 1: which would be kind of fun. I would love to

751
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,319
Speaker 1: see him here. But we'll see. So I do think

752
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: there are some free agent options, but I just like

753
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:48,760
Speaker 1: a lot of the rookie options in this running back class.

754
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,239
Speaker 1: All right, speaking of locals, I know you visited a

755
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 1: few pro days. It's Pro day season, and you had

756
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 1: a great story about Ed Oliver because that was here. Yeah,

757
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 1: I know everybody was clamoring to sort of see how

758
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 1: he did. And now after his Pro Day he seems

759
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:03,239
Speaker 1: to be a top five pick. I mean, yeah, do

760
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: you think that's where he goes after watching him? I wouldn't.

761
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:10,439
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised. You know, he was worked out.

762
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting just seeing and I told

763
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: us the market other day. It was more high level

764
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 1: peep personnel that I've ever seen in a pro day.

765
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: And it makes sense because a lot of times the

766
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 1: high level personnel, I think, or even more people there

767
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 1: than that Johnny's Pro Day? Is that right? I mean not, No,

768
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 1: there was no DJ. There was no DJ. They weren't

769
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 1: they weren't messing around with that. But I saw probably

770
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 1: five or six defensive line coaches. I saw probably three

771
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:44,399
Speaker 1: or four gms I saw, but three or four head

772
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 1: coaches I've never seen in that Pro day a smattering

773
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 1: of ye coaches, and I mean when he got to

774
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:56,319
Speaker 1: his position drills, Baltimore Ravens defensive line coach put him

775
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 1: through the paces, and then the Raiders defensive line coach

776
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 1: on a piece of him. Then the Eagles Devens line

777
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 1: coach wanted piece of him. Then Vrabel wanted a piece

778
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: of him. So it was kind of interesting. By the

779
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:08,400
Speaker 1: time he got the Vrabel, he was gassed. But I

780
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: think with Ed, I don't think he gets out of

781
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 1: top ten. I think top I think top five is

782
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:17,320
Speaker 1: maybe pushing it a little bit. I could see the Raiders.

783
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 1: The Raiders did devote a lot of draft capital to

784
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: the defensive line last year. Drafted Pja Hall in the

785
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: second round, they dropped them rehearsed in the fifth round,

786
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 1: they drafted arden Key. They still need help on the

787
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,839
Speaker 1: defensive line, but they resigned I believe they resigned Jonathan

788
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,719
Speaker 1: Hankins as well, so they've they've bolsted that defensive line.

789
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: But Ed's just a different He's just a different chess piece.

790
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 1: So he's not just gonna okay, he's gonna play the

791
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald position and you're gonna have to move him

792
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 1: around because Edwade two eighty one. I thought it was interesting,

793
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 1: and I said this the other day when it was

794
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:49,840
Speaker 1: time to do measurements. He walked up and Byron Lesby

795
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: as the Colts regional scout, and he was about the

796
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 1: measurement and Ed looked at him and says, nah, he

797
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 1: didn't want to get his height measured. But he got

798
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 1: on the scale. And he got on a scale and

799
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 1: he was at two eighty one. I can almost garrets

800
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 1: well because people think that he's too short, too small,

801
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 1: but it's already out there well kind of well when

802
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 1: he was at there, but that's the whole thing. At

803
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 1: the at the combine, he was almost he measured almost

804
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 1: six two, and Kyler Murray measured almost the color Murray

805
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:21,320
Speaker 1: was five ten and eight. And there were some rumblings

806
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 1: afterwards that those heights were wrong. Now I don't know

807
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 1: how you get that. So he's just happy with where

808
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 1: he was here. He was happy with I'm almost six two.

809
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:31,839
Speaker 1: I'm good with it. I almost ran into him turning

810
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 1: the corner and I'm six foot and I was looking

811
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:36,799
Speaker 1: him pretty much right, and yeah, I think Ed six one.

812
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: I think Ed is six one two seventy seven that's

813
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: where he needs to be. That's his best way. I

814
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:45,359
Speaker 1: think two eighty one was still a little bit heavy,

815
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 1: and I don't think he ever played it that way.

816
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:49,799
Speaker 1: I think he was probably two seventy five to two

817
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:52,360
Speaker 1: seventy seven somewhere in there. And so that's problematic for

818
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:55,879
Speaker 1: teams because where exactly do you do you play him?

819
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:58,800
Speaker 1: Because for as good and quick and powerful that he is,

820
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 1: and explosive as he is, you can't leave that guy inside.

821
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 1: He's gonna he's eventually just gonna get mauled. It's just

822
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 1: too much. So I think that's why he goes into

823
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 1: top ten. I think Buffalo would be a great spot

824
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 1: for him. In fact, when I saw Sean McDermot at

825
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,720
Speaker 1: Brandon being there, I texted my Buddy's a Solar reporter,

826
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 1: and I said, I said, hey, would you guys be

827
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 1: happy with ed Oliver at number nine? And he's like, oh, yes, absolutely,

828
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:24,840
Speaker 1: And that would make a lot of sense. That's the

829
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 1: kind of defense that he would really fit into, a

830
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 1: penetrating up the field defense. I think he would fit

831
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: in there perfectly. And then you would have Ed Oliver

832
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: knows a defense tackle, you know, Tremaine Edmunds at linebacker,

833
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,360
Speaker 1: you got a tremendous secondary, tevious white at corner. That

834
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: would be a defense you wouldn't trifle with. So I

835
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 1: would imagine that he would not get past Buffalo at nine.

836
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 1: And there might be some teams that know that, so

837
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 1: maybe they might think about trading up if they really

838
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 1: want him. But I don't think he gets beyond Buffalo

839
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:52,279
Speaker 1: at number nine. All right, what are some of the

840
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: other standouts at the other protais that you visited? Which

841
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:56,800
Speaker 1: one did you go to first time? I'll give you

842
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 1: an intro. I went to A M and I went

843
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: to you of h I bypassed bail Or today. I

844
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,840
Speaker 1: did want to see Derek Thomas the corner. He's very intriguing.

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Speaker 1: But I saw him up close here at the bowl game,

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Speaker 1: and it was interesting because joe On Williams got all

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Speaker 1: the hype. But I was like, man twenty three for

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Speaker 1: Baylor's a big dude, I mean tall, not very strong,

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Speaker 1: and we did like six or seven reps at two

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Speaker 1: twenty five. But he's a long, rangy corner. But I

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Speaker 1: decided not go to Baylor. But when I went to

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Speaker 1: A and M all, you know there were probably eight

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Speaker 1: or nine guys at A and M that went to

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Speaker 1: combine and they all sat on their combined numbers. They're like,

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Speaker 1: you know, we're good, We're fine. Donovan Wilson did a

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Speaker 1: couple of things because he didn't do everything at the combine.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of weird deal with him. He's had a

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Speaker 1: groin injury, but yet he did everything but run the forty.

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Speaker 1: Like that's the easiest thing on a groin injury is

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Speaker 1: to run straight. So I don't know, but either way,

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Speaker 1: you know who the one of the biggest standouts was

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Speaker 1: and in pro day was the twelfth man calling Glasbia Okay,

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Speaker 1: the guy that you know A M fans go nuts about.

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Speaker 1: You know. They asked about him after his big game

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Speaker 1: last year and he, uh, he measured in at six

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Speaker 1: two sixty three. I think he was like two fifty

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Speaker 1: and he ran a four five six and he was

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Speaker 1: about to do his A and M interview and all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden he looked out and said, oh, they're

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Speaker 1: doing specialists, and so he had ran over and started

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Speaker 1: getting involved in special teams. He's the kind of guy

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Speaker 1: that I think, I think he's gonna get drafted too,

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Speaker 1: you do, I do. I think he's gonna get drafted late.

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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be one of the guys drafted

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Speaker 1: late because you can't find six three two forty five,

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Speaker 1: two fifty that run four five six. You can't. And

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Speaker 1: I watched him run. I didn't him. I didn't have

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Speaker 1: a stop. Watched it. I was watching him from behind,

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Speaker 1: and when he ran, I was like, I was standing

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Speaker 1: next to an agent buddy of mine, and I said,

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Speaker 1: that's a good time. I didn't know what it was.

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Speaker 1: I was like, but that's a good time. Then I

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Speaker 1: found out later ran four to five six, and I

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Speaker 1: was like, fullback, special teams, linebacker, what it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: Get a guy that runs four five six, you just

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Speaker 1: find you you draft, you draft him and figure it out.

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Speaker 1: It's the the Julian Edelman plan. Julian Edman was a

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Speaker 1: quarterback coming out of Kent State, and Belichick drafted him.

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Speaker 1: Said I don't know where I'm gonna play you. I

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Speaker 1: don't want him to do with you, but you're too

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Speaker 1: good a football players, So I'm gonnadraft you. You draft

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Speaker 1: him and you figured it out, especially in the six

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Speaker 1: and seventh round. You draft a guy and you figured

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Speaker 1: it out and it's obviously worked well with the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: and if the Patriots didn't have James devil And at fullback,

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Speaker 1: I could see them doing something like that and doing

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Speaker 1: something with Yeah. And I mean that's kind of the

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Speaker 1: way you have to think about it with with him.

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Speaker 1: But he's a good football player, that's the thing. Yes

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Speaker 1: he was twelfth Man, Yes he was originally walk on.

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Speaker 1: Yes he's a legend because of that. But he's a

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Speaker 1: good football player. So you have a guy that fast,

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Speaker 1: that athletic, fig draft him the six seventh round and

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Speaker 1: figure it out or put him at fullback. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you're a team that plays a fullback. And that's

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Speaker 1: why I thought about us, because you know, maybe he

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Speaker 1: ends up being a linebacker. I don't know, maybe he

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Speaker 1: ends up being a fullback, but you know he's gonna

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Speaker 1: run out especially you know, he's gonna be relentless on

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Speaker 1: special teams. So you know, from that perspective, um, you

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Speaker 1: could spend a late round pick on him and feel

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Speaker 1: good about that because he's a really, really good athlete.

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Speaker 1: So that was really the guy that stood out to

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Speaker 1: me at the end in Pro Day, the twelfth Man,

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Speaker 1: the former walk on calling Glassview Yeah, he stood out

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Speaker 1: to me as well in his final game, so that'll

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Speaker 1: be interesting to see where he lands. All right, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining me. You're John Harris

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Speaker 1: one hundred. They Harris one hundred. Version what version are

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Speaker 1: we on? Version two is out right now And as

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Speaker 1: soon as version two hit I was like, ah, I

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Speaker 1: see some things I want to change. So the final version,

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Speaker 1: version three is coming. It's coming. It's gonna be here

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Speaker 1: probably the week before the draft, and that'll be the

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Speaker 1: final locking in stone. This is this is my big board,

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Speaker 1: all right. I love it. You can't miss it. It's

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Speaker 1: on Houston Texans dot com as well as all of

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Speaker 1: our other top stories and more. That's gonna do it

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Speaker 1: for Texans All Access. Thanks so much for listening as always,

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Speaker 1: and go Texans