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Speaker 1: What's happened? Everybody?

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Speaker 2: Welcome into a memorial edition Monday night edition of Texans

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Speaker 2: All Access coming at you live from the Hunday Texans

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Speaker 2: Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: I am John Harrison Bay and our sideline reporter Glad.

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Speaker 2: You are with me, and we are going to spend

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Speaker 2: tonight's show doing.

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Speaker 1: Where are they now?

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Speaker 2: Two linebackers, one that I had a chance to cover

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Speaker 2: when he was traded for in twenty fourteen. One that

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Speaker 2: was rocking and rolling before I got into the building

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Speaker 2: in twenty fourteen. But I was here two other seven,

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Speaker 2: so I got a chance to watch both Daryl Sharpton

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Speaker 2: and a Keen Dent and both of them had a

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Speaker 2: chance to catch up with Drew Doherty. So let's start

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Speaker 2: with Darryl Sharpton. You talk about an interesting cat. Darryl

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Speaker 2: Sharpton qualifies as that guy, and he caught up with

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Speaker 2: Drew do Where are they now? Let's dive into Darryl

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Speaker 2: Sharpton former Texan Andrew Doherty right here to kick off

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Speaker 2: this more memorial edition of Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: Let's go.

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Speaker 3: It's lined Darryl Sharpton.

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Speaker 4: You who You've had a fantastic post NFL career. You

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Speaker 4: had a good NFL career, You had an interesting time

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Speaker 4: before that, But where are you right now and what

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Speaker 4: are you doing?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I did have a fantastic time with the Houston Texans,

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Speaker 5: being the linebacker, trying to knock people's heads off, et cetera.

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Speaker 5: But now I am just coming off of the sale

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Speaker 5: of my furniture business ed Low Finch and Albany Park,

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Speaker 5: and we got acquired the beginning of March and twenty

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Speaker 5: twenty two, and now I'm transitioning into a new venture,

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Speaker 5: which I'm super excited about, which is very Houston centric

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Speaker 5: and it's kind of not kind of but actually allowed

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Speaker 5: me to have a renewed love affair with this city

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Speaker 5: and just developing properties and creating multifamily here and discovering

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Speaker 5: new neighborhoods and restaurants and the walkability of it. So

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Speaker 5: I could go on and on, but I'm happy to

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Speaker 5: say I'm still here in h Town and.

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Speaker 6: I'm very happy to be here.

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Speaker 4: And that's saying something. Because you grew up in Miami,

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Speaker 4: you played for the Canes. Miami is a fun place

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Speaker 4: to live. There's a lot of good things going on

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Speaker 4: in Miami. You could have easily gone back there and

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Speaker 4: that would have been fine, nobody would have had it

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Speaker 4: an I, but you stayed here.

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Speaker 3: What kept you here? What was one of the reasons

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Speaker 3: that you stayed in h town.

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Speaker 6: That's a really good question.

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 5: The funny thing is, and I'll admit this, when I

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Speaker 5: first came to Houston, I was thinking, like, Okay, I'm

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Speaker 5: definitely I'm definitely going to go back to Miami. This

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Speaker 5: is a temporary stop. You know, I'll be back to

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Speaker 5: Miami soon enough. But it's funny, with every passing day

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Speaker 5: or week, I just fell deeper and deeper in love

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Speaker 5: with Houston. I told this story before somewhere, but I

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Speaker 5: remember after I left the Texans, I went to play

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Speaker 5: in Washington for a little bit, and I came back

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Speaker 5: to Houston for a visit, and I promised. I was

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Speaker 5: driving down Kirby Drive and like tears well deup in

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Speaker 5: my eyes. It was like, I don't know, it was

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Speaker 5: like this random emotion that I wasn't expecting. I say, man,

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Speaker 5: I'm in love with I'm in love with Houston. I'm

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Speaker 5: happy to be back here. And that's when I knew

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Speaker 5: I was gonna come back to Houston. It just it's

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Speaker 5: almost inexplicable. I just love I love everything. I love

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Speaker 5: so much about Houston. The diversity, the city scape, the loop,

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Speaker 5: the expressways, the people. I don't know, there's just so

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Speaker 5: much about it. The food, Yeah, how could I miss that?

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Speaker 5: The food? I love ahe town.

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Speaker 4: You know, your time here is a very interesting time

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Speaker 4: in the franchise's history because you're drafted in ten. You're

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Speaker 4: in that draft class with Kareem Jackson and Erld Mitchell

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Speaker 4: and some other guys who were really really important to

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Speaker 4: what the Texans did around here that rookie season. You guys,

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Speaker 4: you'll struggle after a strong start out of the gate,

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Speaker 4: and then you're here for eleven and you're here for

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Speaker 4: twelve to the best seasons in franchise history, and then

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Speaker 4: you see the transition in the year or two after that.

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Speaker 4: So you saw quite a bit. Let's rewind what was

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Speaker 4: draft day like for you back in twenty ten in

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Speaker 5: That was a really interesting day because I remember, you know,

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Speaker 5: the analyst or whatever they say, Okay, you're gonna we're

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Speaker 5: So obviously, being an optimist, I'm like, Okay, I'm going

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Speaker 5: the second round, the third round, and it was to

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Speaker 6: That said they were going to draft me.

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Speaker 5: You know, I remember the Colts said they were going

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Speaker 6: I was like, it was like I was heartbreaking. Oh man.

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Speaker 5: But then I remember I was actually driving to my parents'

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Speaker 5: so early that day. I was just gott into the

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Speaker 5: drafted to the Houston Texans And I was like what, Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I think I didn't even go inside the house. I immediately

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Speaker 3: Well do they not call you? Like, did you get

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Speaker 3: a call on your cell or what? How'd that work?

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Speaker 6: Man?

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Speaker 5: Maybe maybe I'm maybe, you know, I think I omit

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Speaker 5: it that very valuable detail, but yeah, let me see

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Speaker 5: what happened, you know, the phone The phone call was

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Speaker 5: all a big it's all a big blur to me.

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Speaker 6: I just remember.

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Speaker 5: Almost my family knew about it before I did. But

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Speaker 5: I do remember talking to coach Kubiak and him, you know,

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Speaker 5: welcoming me to the team. I know we talked about

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Speaker 5: Cush and Demiko a little bit, but it was just

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Speaker 5: a rush of emotions.

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Speaker 6: I remember.

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Speaker 5: I was just yeah, it's hard to explain, but yeah,

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Speaker 5: I don't I don't remember all the particulars.

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Speaker 6: I just remember being super happy.

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Speaker 4: Now, listen, you were a ferocious player on the field.

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Speaker 4: You're you're a linebacker. I mean, you got to have

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Speaker 4: that ferocity to thrive at the college level, to get

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Speaker 4: drafted to play in the NFL like you did. What

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Speaker 4: was it like though, getting in the locker room and

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Speaker 4: I mean, you, that says a lot about you that

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Speaker 5: That was pretty cool, I admit, Like the first it

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Speaker 5: took me probably a week and a half to get

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Speaker 4: Don't strike as a guy that would be starstruck, like

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Speaker 4: You're keep it I keep it composed, but.

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Speaker 6: I get starstruck. I still sometimes.

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Speaker 5: I just recently stopped getting starstruck around Andre Johnson.

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Speaker 7: Like the.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, being I think being teammates with Andre was probably

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Speaker 5: definitely starstruck around Andre my entire time there. I was like, man,

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Speaker 5: I admit, not quite as cool as being with Andre

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Speaker 5: this is incredible and like I'm getting really old one

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Speaker 5: it's still cool.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I got to ask you about Andre in a second.

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Speaker 4: But since you brought Dimko up like that, you follow

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Speaker 4: the team. You're here in Houston, You're obviously busy, you

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Speaker 4: got kids, you got a business, all that stuff. But

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Speaker 4: you've seen what's happened around here the last few years.

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Speaker 4: When did you think that Demiko being the head coach

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Speaker 4: of the Texans was like a possibility, even because I

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, you hear rumors and whatnot about

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Speaker 5: et cetera, et cetera. But yeah, I guess Demiko coming

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Speaker 5: And then when it when it actually when it actually happened. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: like I started checking them. I was like, WHOA, this

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Speaker 6: To be the head coach.

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Speaker 5: I was like, my buddy Demiko, who were Locker makes

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Speaker 5: about it, going back a little bit, I remember asking Demko.

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Speaker 5: Me and Demiko had a conversation once and he would

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Speaker 5: he would ask I remember he asked, me, hey, man,

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Speaker 5: And what are you gonna do when you're doing with football?

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Speaker 5: And I was like, you know, I'll probably get into

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Speaker 5: And I reciprocated the question. I was like, what about you,

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Speaker 5: what are you going to do? And he was like,

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Speaker 5: like okay.

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Speaker 6: Cool.

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Speaker 5: Like when he said that, guess stuck with me like, okay,

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Speaker 5: Dimico's going to get into coaching?

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Speaker 7: Makes sense?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, And I was.

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Speaker 5: Like, never thought like if he would have told me like,

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Speaker 5: I'm going to become the head coach here, like you know,

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Speaker 5: probably maybe it was Yeah, if he would have told

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Speaker 5: me that I've been like pretty lofty goals there, but

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Speaker 5: then just seeing him immediately get in there and just

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Speaker 5: was with, and I was like, man, that's de Miko.

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Speaker 6: Oh look at the me.

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Speaker 5: I'm like, wow, now he's the head coach with the Texans.

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Speaker 5: That's pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: It makes all the sense in the world.

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Speaker 4: Not around him as much as you were, but goodness gracious,

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Speaker 4: just observing him and hearing him speak and seeing like

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Speaker 4: In my limousine with a spy inside the limousine right exactly.

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Speaker 4: That's the best welcome to the NFL moment I've heard,

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Speaker 5: This is desert heat with tropical forest humidity all mixed together.

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Speaker 6: Let's go let's go ahead, and let's go ahead and

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Speaker 5: And I was like, and they're just like, we don't

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Speaker 5: And I just remember, like, man, it really required it

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Speaker 5: That part was pretty That part was pretty cool, just

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Speaker 5: Okay, So for me, it was definitely the victories. It

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Speaker 3: Jacksonville Jaguars in eleven.

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Speaker 6: I was always in the right place.

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Speaker 5: I keep in touch with Cush, Sean Cody, Kareem Jackson.

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Speaker 5: our Albany Park sofas can get delivered to your house

442
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Speaker 5: and as little as three to five business days because

443
00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:56,800
Speaker 5: they come in ups boxes. But there's no sacrifice in

444
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Speaker 5: quality or comfort or design aesthetics, and we may they're

445
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Speaker 5: really simple for people to buy sofas as well. So

446
00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:05,320
Speaker 5: instead of so I knew that most people who sold sofas,

447
00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:08,280
Speaker 5: there was like, you know, there's thousands or let's say

448
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Speaker 5: hundreds of sofa models to choose through when you're looking

449
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Speaker 5: for a sofa, but most of them are kind of

450
00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:17,800
Speaker 5: there's so many similarities and price differences, Like you you

451
00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:20,600
Speaker 5: can literally get decision fatigue from looking at a sofa.

452
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Speaker 5: So I said, okay, instead of having hundreds of options

453
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Speaker 5: or even twenty options, what if there was just three

454
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Speaker 5: simple options, like at a wedding, there's chicken, fish or beef.

455
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Speaker 5: Let's make it like that. So we made three models,

456
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Speaker 5: Albany Park and the Cova so to eliminate decision fatigue,

457
00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:36,239
Speaker 5: make it super simple for people to choose it. Then

458
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Speaker 5: you once you pick the model that you want, you

459
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Speaker 5: pick the fabric and then boom, you click a button

460
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Speaker 5: and you give us your credit card information along the way, Well,

461
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Speaker 5: we'll get it to your house and ups boxes and

462
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Speaker 5: as little as five business days with ups or FedEx.

463
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Speaker 5: So reasoning behind the album park brand, And it was

464
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Speaker 5: really cool because it was one of those things that

465
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Speaker 5: you kind of you sit there and you're ride on

466
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Speaker 5: a napkin, like, oh, I bet this will be really cool.

467
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Speaker 6: I bet, I bet you this will work.

468
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Speaker 5: I bet you that that will work, and you're just

469
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Speaker 5: drawing up all this stuff and then when you see

470
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Speaker 5: it in action and it just kind of takes off

471
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Speaker 5: and it's like, yeah, it it feels really good to

472
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Speaker 5: see your napkin ideas manifest into a very successful business.

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Speaker 3: That's amazing. How did you get into that? Though?

474
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Speaker 4: In college, I know you said you're a serial entrepreneur, Like,

475
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Speaker 4: why there's the zillion things you could be an entrepreneur for.

476
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Speaker 3: How did furniture sofas?

477
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Speaker 2: Why?

478
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Speaker 6: I'm always down for trying anything. So go ahead, let me,

479
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Speaker 6: let me, let me put an asterisk on that. But

480
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Speaker 6: when it.

481
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Speaker 5: Comes when it comes to like, at least back then

482
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Speaker 5: when I was when I was younger, I was any

483
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Speaker 5: anything that involved like selling something would always pique my

484
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Speaker 5: So I was with a girlfriend at the time we

485
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Speaker 5: were looking for and she she found this sofa on

486
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Speaker 5: Craigslist and she's like, hey, Daryl, will you come with

487
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Speaker 5: me to buy this sofa so because it seems a

488
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Speaker 5: little sketchy, And I said sure, I'll pause.

489
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Speaker 3: Movies have been written with us.

490
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Speaker 4: I found this blank on Craigslist and then but go

491
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Speaker 4: on exactly.

492
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Speaker 5: So I was like, okay, cool, I'll of course I'll

493
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Speaker 5: go with you. Let's go, let's go take a look

494
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Speaker 5: at it. So as soon as we walk into the

495
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Speaker 5: craigslist seller's home, you know, I said, okay, here goes nothing.

496
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Speaker 5: We walk in and the entire house is actually a

497
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Speaker 5: furniture store. Essentially, there's lamps and sofas and coffee tables

498
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Speaker 5: and sectional all with price tags on it. So a

499
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Speaker 5: pairing this lady had been. She turned her first floor

500
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Speaker 5: into a furniture store and she lived on the second floor.

501
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Speaker 5: And we were not the only customers in there. There

502
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Speaker 5: were people shopping inside of her house. And then quickly

503
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Speaker 5: I noticed, like I was like boom. I was like, man,

504
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Speaker 5: maybe I could do something like this, Like subconsciously I

505
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Speaker 5: thought that, and I saw her distributor catalog sitting in

506
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Speaker 5: the corner and they had black marker marking out who

507
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Speaker 5: her distributor was, so that just piqued my interest even

508
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Speaker 5: more so. Of course, I took the catalog, put some

509
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Speaker 5: light on it, and I was able to figure out

510
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Speaker 5: who the distributor was. And then I would say probably

511
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Speaker 5: within forty eight hours, I set up an account with

512
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Speaker 5: that same distributor and replicated the business model, and from there,

513
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Speaker 5: that's when the adventure began. That's when I set up

514
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Speaker 5: my college apartment like a furniture store, started bringing customers

515
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Speaker 5: over in the same in the same way. And the

516
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:29,480
Speaker 5: thing that stuck to me about furniture was just the

517
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Speaker 5: cost the price of it. So I mean, if a sofa,

518
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Speaker 5: you know, if we're buying it, we're buying it wholesale

519
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:38,919
Speaker 5: for let's say, three hundred dollars from the distributor. I

520
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:40,880
Speaker 5: was a college kid. I could mark it up fifty bucks,

521
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:43,479
Speaker 5: one hundred bucks, and I could sell it. And they

522
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 5: were just selling like crazy, and it's like I'm making

523
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Speaker 5: one hundred bucks of time getting these people coming in

524
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Speaker 5: to buy this furniture. That ended up being my most

525
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:56,480
Speaker 5: profitable venture that I had done in college. So I immediately

526
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Speaker 5: kind of put all my other ventures to the side

527
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Speaker 5: and focused on generating business from the sofa, the sofa hustle.

528
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Speaker 4: Life and your agent probably wisely like you mentioned as

529
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Speaker 4: you pause it in the NFL, how soon after you

530
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 4: quit playing the game? Did you jump back in or

531
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Speaker 4: did did it happen later in your NFL career?

532
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Speaker 3: How'd that happen?

533
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:20,280
Speaker 5: It happened right after my final I remember I did that.

534
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:24,040
Speaker 5: I did training camp with the Arizona Cardinals. Not surprising,

535
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,520
Speaker 5: but I got I sustained another injury, and at that

536
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,520
Speaker 5: point I was I decided, you know what, you know,

537
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:32,520
Speaker 5: I decided I didn't want to play the game anymore.

538
00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,800
Speaker 6: I went ahead. I really sat there. I didn't believe

539
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Speaker 6: it or not.

540
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Speaker 5: It wasn't like my first instinct wasn't okay, time to

541
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Speaker 5: get back into furniture. I just started reading books, entrepreneurial books,

542
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:45,600
Speaker 5: business biographies, books about the future. I was just sitting

543
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,359
Speaker 5: there reading books, reading books. And I'm sure this happens

544
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Speaker 5: to a lot of people. But when I read books

545
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,760
Speaker 5: like I start getting inspired and idea start coming to me.

546
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Speaker 5: Even it could be something totally unrelated. It could be

547
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,359
Speaker 5: a book about a murder mystery from the mid century,

548
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Speaker 5: and I could be thinking of some other idea. I

549
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 5: don't know, but I just started reading books and it

550
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:03,960
Speaker 5: just hit me, like it just hit me all of

551
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,359
Speaker 5: a sudden. I was like, man, because I was reading

552
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:08,199
Speaker 5: books to look for inspiration for what I should do

553
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 5: after my career. I was just reading books and it

554
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 5: hit me like, Daryl, you should get back into selling furniture.

555
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 5: That's like what you should do, Like that's what you're

556
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,840
Speaker 5: good at, that's what your passion is. And that's when

557
00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:25,000
Speaker 5: the journey began. And I started to attend furniture furniture fairs,

558
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 5: furniture museums, and I just I tend to become like

559
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,159
Speaker 5: super duper obsessive about things, like when I become obsessed

560
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 5: with something, it's game over.

561
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Speaker 6: So I became obsessed.

562
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Speaker 5: With furniture and design and the fabrics, and that's when

563
00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 5: I started. That's when I knew it was time to

564
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:46,360
Speaker 5: start my business, and selling wholesales seemed like the safest

565
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 5: way to get into a business because at that time

566
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Speaker 5: I had one child or another on the way. But

567
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 5: at that time, it wasn't like one of those things

568
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Speaker 5: where it's like, oh, just doing this startup thing, see

569
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Speaker 5: how it works, like burn through some cab like it wasn't.

570
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 5: It wasn't one of those deals like I started this

571
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:07,400
Speaker 5: business because I needed to make money, like right now,

572
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 5: you know, so because I structured I structured the business

573
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Speaker 5: as a wholesale company that seemed really safe, especially with

574
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Speaker 5: and it was a really good time around that time,

575
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Speaker 5: because online furniture was really taken off and I had

576
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Speaker 5: read that too. I read that, you know, there was

577
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,399
Speaker 5: a report came out that online furniture was poised to

578
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Speaker 5: be the biggest year over year of growth in any

579
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Speaker 5: e commerce sector, and I was just like, oh, you know,

580
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Speaker 5: it's one of those things like, man, God wants me

581
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Speaker 5: to succeed, because like why would I At the same

582
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Speaker 5: time I'm getting out of NFL at the same time

583
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Speaker 5: furniture online is booming.

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Speaker 6: I don't know, but it.

585
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Speaker 4: Strikes me as what's in correct me if I'm wrong here,

586
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 4: But it strikes me as it was a passion. You

587
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:48,439
Speaker 4: went into it with a phenomenal plan and strategy and

588
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:51,160
Speaker 4: then like you mentioned, your timing was perfect for it too.

589
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Speaker 3: Is that? Am I all on?

590
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Speaker 4: There?

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Speaker 3: Is it?

592
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:53,200
Speaker 2: No?

593
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Speaker 6: You're You're definitely You're spot on. You're spot on.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm a very positive person, so I tend

595
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Speaker 5: to spend things in a positive way, Like even the

596
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:02,920
Speaker 5: venture I'm doing.

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Speaker 6: Now, I'm like, oh, what, this is perfect timing. There's

598
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:06,639
Speaker 6: no better time doing this.

599
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:10,000
Speaker 5: But I really do believe and in retrospect, it really

600
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:13,399
Speaker 5: was perfect timing to get into that space. It was

601
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 5: a very like essentially, it was a very new industry

602
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,920
Speaker 5: and people buying front of mine. I mean, it was

603
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 5: very new, and I got into it and I saw

604
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Speaker 5: I was able to see some of that growth that

605
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Speaker 5: I was reading about once I got into it.

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Speaker 2: Fascinating, fascinating stuff there from Darryl Sharpton all Right's catch

607
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 2: up with a Keem Dent traded for TJ.

608
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Speaker 1: Yates and then they ended up as teammates. Then they

609
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:39,439
Speaker 1: ended up coaching together.

610
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Speaker 2: Still aware they're now the Keem Dent Drew already next

611
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 2: right here in Texans All Access. Back in twenty fourteen,

612
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Speaker 2: near the end of the offseason, it was announced that

613
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Speaker 2: the Texans were going to release TJ. Yates and it

614
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,199
Speaker 2: was put out there, we talked about radio technically, they

615
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Speaker 2: didn't do that. They ended up the next day training TJA.

616
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Speaker 2: It's the Atlanta Falcons for linebacker Keem Dent and keep

617
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:07,640
Speaker 2: came in, made for a really nice filling a linebacker

618
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Speaker 2: and then a tremendous player on special teams. They came

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Speaker 2: back to the Texans as a coach and ironically coached

620
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Speaker 2: and played with TJ. Yates as a member of the Texans.

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Speaker 2: It's always kind of a weird thing when I think

622
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Speaker 2: back on that TJ to Keem Dent trade.

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Speaker 1: Well, what is a Keem doing now while he caught

624
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Speaker 1: up with Drew Doherty.

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Speaker 4: It's take a listen, a Keem Dent joins us now

626
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,679
Speaker 4: on where are they now? Keem linebacker for the Houston

627
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Speaker 4: Texans for a few years, you coached here as an

628
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,880
Speaker 4: assistant after that. We've got a lot to get into.

629
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Speaker 4: But first things first, where are you right now? And

630
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Speaker 4: what are you doing these days?

631
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Speaker 6: Man?

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Speaker 8: Right now, I'm living in North Carolina, right outside of

633
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Speaker 8: Chapel Hill here with my family. My wife names Dana,

634
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Speaker 8: and then I have three kids now, so a little

635
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 8: busy and uh right and so right now, and I actually,

636
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Speaker 8: you know, like once I got done playing, I got

637
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Speaker 8: into coach.

638
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 7: So actually I have an opportunity.

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Speaker 8: Just came up with the Bill Watsh Fellowship, So I'll

640
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 8: head down to Charlotte actually on Monday real with the Panthers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fantastic.

642
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 4: That's been that's phenomen You were with the Texans as

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00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,479
Speaker 4: a coach, as an assistant and we're gonna get into

644
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 4: that a little bit later. But that's really fun.

645
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 3: Man. That's that's an.

646
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 4: Organization that's got a lot going for it. You'd think

647
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 4: right now with what they've done in the draft and

648
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 4: all that. How the how the Bill watsh Fellowship come

649
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 4: about this?

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Speaker 8: Pretty much, you know, just me reaching out to a

651
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 8: lot of coaches over over my time from Houston, just

652
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 8: from my time in Georgia, just knowing, uh, Thomas Brown,

653
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 8: he's offensive coordinated there in Carolina now.

654
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 7: So he was able to you know, talk to a

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Speaker 7: couple of.

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Speaker 8: Guys and kind of get my name in in there,

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00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 8: and uh, you know, it reached out to me and

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00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 8: everything just just came about actually this past in the

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Speaker 8: past couple of days.

660
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 4: Oh wow, what's perfect because the last time you and

661
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 4: I saw each other, we were crossing paths in Indianapolis

662
00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 4: at the Combine and like, yeah, I'm looking for looking

663
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 4: for something.

664
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:01,719
Speaker 3: So I'm glad that came up.

665
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 6: Man.

666
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 3: That's great stuff. That's a.

667
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 4: That's a good program, and I know you're gonna flourish

668
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 4: in it. But man, let's take us back. Your journey

669
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 4: to the Texans was an interesting one.

670
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 3: You were traded for TJ.

671
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 4: Yates and later you guys become teammates again and coaching

672
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 4: mates again. But what was it like when you got

673
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 4: here to Houston? You know, those first few days and

674
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 4: that the first season, that.

675
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 7: First season I got there, Man, it was it was.

676
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 8: It was interesting. Brand new coaching staff. You know, uh,

677
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 8: just twenty fourteen. You have twenty fourteen. Yeah, so brand

678
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 8: new coaching staff. And uh, like you said, I was

679
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 8: traded there for TJ. You know, we crossed paths and

680
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 8: things like that. So it was it was interesting. You know,

681
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 8: for me, it was a fresh start coming to an

682
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 8: organization that had a lot of pieces and a lot

683
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 8: of things that was going going for themselves, and so

684
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 8: it was you know, it was it was.

685
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,440
Speaker 7: It was a clean slate. It was new for me,

686
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 7: and it was great. It was great.

687
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 8: You know, you come into a locker room we have

688
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 8: got like JJ Watt, you have Kareem Jackson and Jonathan

689
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:00,719
Speaker 8: Joseph and you know, those guys have all these pieces

690
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 8: that you're trying to piece together. So it was it

691
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 8: was a great experience for me, you know as a

692
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 8: player coming from where I came from.

693
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 4: You know, looking back for about ten years almost of hindsight,

694
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 4: the season the year before, the Texans lost fourteen games,

695
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 4: largely because of some stuff that happened with pick sixes

696
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 4: and whatnot. But you just mentioned there was a lot

697
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:24,479
Speaker 4: of talent in place when you got there, and you

698
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 4: see why it flipped around very quickly, and you will

699
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 4: from two and fourteen to nine and seven that first year. Yeah,

700
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 4: what was that like being on that defense because that

701
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 4: was very very salty. You got to front row seat

702
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 4: to what JJ Watt was able to do that year.

703
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 4: It was great, man, it was great to say. Me

704
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 4: and JJ Watte we drafted the same year.

705
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 8: So, like I said, it was crazy, you know, coming

706
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,520
Speaker 8: into that building and you know just seeing how hard

707
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 8: he worked. You know, you got JJ, you got Cush,

708
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 8: you got Whitney, Merciless. You guys had just drafted Clowny

709
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 8: that year. Yeah, so you know you come into it

710
00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 8: and you have great coaches around you know, Romeo Cornell

711
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 8: he did a great job, you know, just using the

712
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 8: pieces that he had to make his defense and make

713
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 8: the players the defense fit the players that was in

714
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 8: that system. So I mean it was great just to

715
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 8: you could feel the atmosphere and you can feel the

716
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 8: shift in the building and the direction that the program

717
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 8: was going.

718
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 3: Was your head swimming when you got here.

719
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 8: So I was traded right at the end of like

720
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 8: you said, like it was right at the end of

721
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 8: mini camp.

722
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 7: So my first actual like practicing things was in training camp.

723
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 6: Yeah.

724
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, I had those first couple of days

725
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 8: during training camp and things like that. But other than that,

726
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 8: you know, like you said, like I was, I was

727
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 8: kind of swimming. You know, you still had a couple

728
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 8: of those guys that had been there in the spring

729
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 8: and things like that, so they had they had a leg.

730
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 7: Up on me in terms of like the playbook and

731
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 7: all of that stuff.

732
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 8: But you know, coming in and coming you know, I

733
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 8: have had different coordinators for the past couple of years,

734
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 8: you know, from Georgia to Atlanta and things like that.

735
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 8: So learning the new system it was easy. The main thing,

736
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 8: you know, is you come into a place and you

737
00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 8: try to pick up on the terminology being the biggest difference,

738
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 8: and you know, you transition in for myself. I was

739
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 8: going from a four to three defense to a three

740
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 8: four defense, which wasn't a big deal for inside linebacker

741
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 8: things like that, but the main things just getting used

742
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 8: to that terminology.

743
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, what was it like playing for Romeo Carnell?

744
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 8: It was great, right, He's man, He's probably one of

745
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 8: my favorite coaches of all time.

746
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 7: Just a great guy, real humble guy.

747
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 8: You know, he always guys wanted to play hard for him,

748
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 8: you know, and the guy that understood football, understood his players,

749
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 8: you know, understood, you know, how to motivate guys.

750
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 4: You get to coach with him years after that, when

751
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 4: how did that come about? And I'm going to get

752
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 4: back into playing, but just since we were on the

753
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 4: subject of Romeo, I mean, how did that all come about?

754
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 4: You becoming a coacher with the Texans? And I guess

755
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 4: eighteen nineteen around there.

756
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 7: Yep.

757
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 8: So actually, so once I got done my last year

758
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 8: playing was seventeen in two thousand, I kind of knew

759
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 8: what I wanted to do a post career, and I

760
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 8: knew that I wanted to coach. Early on in my career,

761
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 8: I didn't really know, you know, which direction I wanted

762
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 8: to go out first. I always said, man, I will

763
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 8: never coach because time constraints and things like that. But

764
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 8: once I went twenty eighteen, I went out to Colorado

765
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:10,919
Speaker 8: State coach for a year. During that time, I reached

766
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 8: out to guys, reached out the raible, reached out to

767
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 8: Billy Yo.

768
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,399
Speaker 7: The main thing with Ob was, hey, man, just keep

769
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 7: in contact with me.

770
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 8: And I kind of did that throughout the season, and

771
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 8: the next thing, you know, the off season came and

772
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 8: he said, hey man, come down, I might have something

773
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 8: for you. Flew down in the interview for the job

774
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 8: and things like that, got to see a lot of

775
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 8: guys and it was awesome just to get back in

776
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 8: that building and you kind of feel at home. It's

777
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 8: kind of a feeling like, hey man, you're back home

778
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 8: and you're around the people that you know and things

779
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 8: like that.

780
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 7: So it was great to just get back in.

781
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:42,919
Speaker 8: The building and be able to be in a room

782
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 8: with a guy like Romeo and Ob and you know,

783
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 8: those defensive coaches and kind of picked their brains on

784
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:51,319
Speaker 8: how the game playing and scheme things and stuff like that.

785
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 4: What was that transition like, I mean, a lot of

786
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,359
Speaker 4: those guys were there when you played, and then now

787
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 4: you're essentially a peer of theirs.

788
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 3: What was that like?

789
00:34:58,120 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 7: It was easy?

790
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 8: It was actually pretty great because as a player, you know,

791
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 8: you kind of you gain the respect of your peers

792
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 8: by the way that you play. You always want to

793
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 8: go out and you want to give everything you have

794
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 8: and you go out and you play hard and things

795
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 8: like that. So once you kind of transition over, you

796
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 8: already kind of have the ear of the guys in

797
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 8: the room, like sayd JJ he was still playing at

798
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:20,760
Speaker 8: the time, Whitney he was still there, and Bernarjara, McKinney,

799
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 8: guys like that.

800
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 7: So it was easy to connect with those guys.

801
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 8: And once you're trying to explain something or they see something,

802
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 8: you know, they may see a play or how we

803
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 8: want to operate or do something one way and you

804
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:35,719
Speaker 8: see it another way. But it's easier to kind of

805
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 8: connect and communicate because at the end of the day,

806
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 8: you both can see exactly what each other, what we're

807
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 8: looking at and things like that, and how we want

808
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 8: to get stuff done.

809
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 4: Let's rewind of the playing days here in Houston's favorite

810
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 4: memory as a Texan?

811
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 7: What was it?

812
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:50,959
Speaker 8: I would say one of my favorite memories. Who would

813
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,399
Speaker 8: be just being on hard Knocks. Yeah, I would say

814
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 8: being on Hard Knocks and having guys like Vince wolffulk

815
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:02,279
Speaker 8: be around. You know, he's walking in with the oldalls

816
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 8: and the cowboy hats and.

817
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 7: Things like that.

818
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 8: So I would just saying, you know, I just missed

819
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 8: the locker room and things like that. That would that

820
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:10,800
Speaker 8: would probably be one.

821
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:11,360
Speaker 7: Of my favorites.

822
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 8: Other than that, like the I would say the AFC

823
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 8: South winning the South back in back years.

824
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 3: That was pretty cool.

825
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 4: You know, a lot of people give Hard Knocks a

826
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:22,799
Speaker 4: bad rap and they say, oh, it's too invasive, there's

827
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 4: too many cameras. You kind of it's the opposite for

828
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 4: you kind of enjoyed.

829
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 8: It, right Yeah, yeah, I mean because it's almost like

830
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 8: playing the game in a sense with the cameras and

831
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 8: things like that being around, because they do a great

832
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 8: job staying out the way, you know, so at the

833
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 8: end of the day, guys will still being themselves. They

834
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 8: give his fans and that gives people outside of a

835
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 8: chance to see the day to day operation and things

836
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 8: like that. But like I say, like those cameras, man,

837
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 8: you don't even You kind of tune them out and

838
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 8: you just go about your day, you know, just just as.

839
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 3: You would selfishly.

840
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 4: I love when Hard Knocks was here because I think

841
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,400
Speaker 4: I know a lot about you guys as players, a

842
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 4: lot about you guys as coaches.

843
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 3: But then they pull back another layer.

844
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 4: For two or three or four and you learn even more.

845
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 4: So just as a football fan, as a fan of

846
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 4: the team, that was one of my favorite things.

847
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 3: I'm with you, I love that it was a very

848
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:14,879
Speaker 3: underrated time and that was a big deal.

849
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:16,399
Speaker 4: I mean, we got to know a lot and see

850
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 4: a lot of personality from you guys, because every one

851
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 4: of you has a pretty unique personality.

852
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 7: Right right.

853
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 8: That's one of those things that, like you say, like

854
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:27,319
Speaker 8: you get to peel back the layer and the personality

855
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 8: of guys you know, like the first person comes to

856
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 8: mind when it comes that is like like Charles James.

857
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:34,840
Speaker 8: You know a guy, yes, the undrafted guy, and you

858
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 8: know he was able to work his way and works

859
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:39,360
Speaker 8: way to the practice squad and work his way to

860
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,400
Speaker 8: Actor Ross and things like that. So it's it's it's

861
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:43,280
Speaker 8: always interesting to see those kinds of stories.

862
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 4: And then on the other end of the spectrum, a

863
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:46,839
Speaker 4: guy who was kind of established and been doing some

864
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 4: really good things but was phenomenal when it gets miked

865
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 4: up is Brian Cushing. What was it like being a

866
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 4: linebacker in the linebacker room with Brian Cushing.

867
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 3: Whether it was on hard knocks without hard knocks.

868
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 4: I mean, I see smiling for those of you listening,

869
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 4: he's got a big smile.

870
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 3: He's laughing. Kim Dent tell Us was out like.

871
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:07,280
Speaker 7: It was great, man, it was great.

872
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 8: I remember when I first got to Houston, and you know,

873
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 8: just from the outside looking in, you see cush.

874
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:14,399
Speaker 7: Man and all you see is just an intense guy.

875
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 8: He's probably one of my favorite teammates of all the

876
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 8: time because once we were off the field and in

877
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:21,760
Speaker 8: the locker room and in the me rooms and stuff

878
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 8: like that, the guy man, he personality always shows. His

879
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 8: personality was always always glowing. Man, if it was, you know,

880
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:32,319
Speaker 8: making jokes or playing around in the locker room or

881
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 8: but the thing was, once we crossed those white lines,

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Speaker 8: and I think it was something that we all had,

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Speaker 8: but for him it was next level man. Once he

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Speaker 8: crossed those white lines, it was all business all the time.

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Speaker 8: And that's what made him such a great player, That's

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Speaker 8: what made him such a great leader.

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Speaker 7: I got a tremendous amount of respect for that guy.

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Speaker 3: You're a competitive guy.

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Speaker 4: You would not have gotten as far as you got

890
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Speaker 4: in the league as both a player and coach were

891
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Speaker 4: you not hyper hyper competitive?

892
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Speaker 3: But how competitive was Brian Cusher in comparison?

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Speaker 7: That's why I say he's like ultra competitor. It didn't

894
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Speaker 7: matter if we were.

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Speaker 8: It didn't matter what it was we were sitting in

896
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Speaker 8: the locker room and we're playing. It could be anything

897
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Speaker 8: we had on the basketball goal, whatever we were doing.

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Speaker 8: Cush always wanted to be the top dog, you know.

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Speaker 8: So like I said, man, he's like the ultra competitor man,

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Speaker 8: and I respect him so much for that.

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Speaker 4: When you got here as a coach, what were some

902
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Speaker 4: of the biggest challenges for you and what were some

903
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Speaker 4: of the biggest highlights for you as a coach?

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Speaker 7: Biggest challenges, I wouldn't say it was any challenges.

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Speaker 8: The main thing, you know, for me was just making

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Speaker 8: sure that I was taking into information and making sure

907
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Speaker 8: that I was able to teach.

908
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Speaker 7: You know, that's as a coach, you're just a teacher.

909
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Speaker 7: That was the biggest thing.

910
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 8: Just making sure that I'm able to express myself and

911
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Speaker 8: give the guys, you know, the information and things like

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Speaker 8: that that they needed to go out daily and perform

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Speaker 8: at the highest level that they could. I would say

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Speaker 8: from a highlight standpoint, you know, it was just just

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Speaker 8: just being around the players, being in the locker room,

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Speaker 8: being with the guys. Once you're done with the game,

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Speaker 8: that's kind of what you miss the most is is

918
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Speaker 8: the atmosphere in that locker room. Man, But in that

919
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Speaker 8: coaching it gives you a different perspective of the.

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Speaker 1: Game that I can speak to. And that's so true.

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Speaker 2: I always said I would much rather watch my players

922
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Speaker 2: score touchdown in the game my coach as supposed to

923
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Speaker 2: me scoring myself in the game. I played great stuff

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Speaker 2: there from a team dent Just go around the NFL.

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Speaker 2: We get back here a Memorial Day edition of Texans

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Speaker 2: All Access. Chap and everybody walked back to mony edition.

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Speaker 2: A Memorial Day night edition of Texans All Access. I'm

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Speaker 2: your host, John Harris, Football on a sideline reports go

929
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Speaker 2: around the NFL with a big story.

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Speaker 1: It's coming out of Las Vegas.

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Speaker 2: And I see this one and I texted Mark this weekend,

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Speaker 2: I thought, man, can you imagine there was a lot

933
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Speaker 2: of talking about Jimmy Garoppolo potentially ending up with Houston.

934
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Speaker 2: Can you imagine, let me think of kind of the

935
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Speaker 2: vibe and the positive buzz that's.

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Speaker 1: Going on right now the Texans.

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Speaker 2: What if the Texans had signed Jimmy Garoppolo and then

938
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Speaker 2: it was found out that he has a foot injury

939
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Speaker 2: that had to have surgery and there's no telling whether

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Speaker 2: he's gonna be ready for not only the season. Pro

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Speaker 2: Football Talk Mike FLOORI, I'll give him credit because apparently

942
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Speaker 2: he was a little upset because others didn't give him

943
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Speaker 2: credit for the story that there is a critical identim

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Speaker 2: If you remember back when Garoppolo signed, there was a

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Speaker 2: long period between him signing or the announcing of the

946
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Speaker 2: signing and the press conference, and there was a thought

947
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Speaker 2: that something was going on. Well, apparently there was a

948
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Speaker 2: final clause added a dnem G as might put it,

949
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Speaker 2: it's waver and release, and the first paragraph the waiver

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Speaker 2: acknowledges that without it, Garoppolo would not pass the team's

951
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Speaker 2: physical because of a pre existing metal and middle cuniform

952
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Speaker 2: and a fracture of the base of the second metatarsal,

953
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Speaker 2: and the player's left foot in the club would not

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Speaker 2: enter in an NFL player contract with players injury suffered

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Speaker 2: during twenty twenty two regular season. Second paragraph garopp below

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Speaker 2: expressly acknowledges and waves the risk of further injury. So

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Speaker 2: third paragraph Garoppolo expressly assumes all risk of and continuing

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Speaker 2: to play, etc.

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Speaker 1: Et cetera.

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, this could be a major problem for Las

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Speaker 2: Vegas Raiders. Oh, by the way, they just added minority

962
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Speaker 2: owners some guy named Tom Brady. Could that be just

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00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:29,360
Speaker 2: as easy as sliding Brady in there now? No, I

964
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Speaker 2: think it's actually really complicated, but it's definitely a story

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Speaker 2: worth tracking. And oh, by the way, DeAndre Hopkins was

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Speaker 2: released by the Arizona Cardinals over the weekend. Man, I

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Speaker 2: love that man, and I'll just leave it at that.

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Speaker 2: A big thanks to Keem Dan, Darryl Sharpton, Drew Doherty,

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Speaker 2: all you for listening to my man Joe back in studio.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. We'll see tomorrow on As always, Go Texans.