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Speaker 1: In the Lab, a Texans podcast that takes a different

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Speaker 1: look at things to Doherty and John Harris have their

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Speaker 1: lab coats and goggles on and the Bunsen burners burning.

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Speaker 1: Here's Drew.

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Speaker 2: What's going on friends, Happy Demico Day. I'll get into

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Speaker 2: that in a second. This is Drew Doherty. But before

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Speaker 2: we do, please subscribe to this podcast.

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Speaker 2: now that that's out of the way, here's what we

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Speaker 2: got on today's show. For the first time ever, we're

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Speaker 2: going to Mobile for an in the Lab, or at

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Speaker 2: least the first time I can remember. So I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: go to John Harris, gonna talk with him a little

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Speaker 2: bit about Debkolle, Ryan's and a lot about what he's

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Speaker 2: seeing one two days in to Senior Bowl practices in Mobile.

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Speaker 2: Then we had some cutlets that I got, which are

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Speaker 2: basically like minute to three minute long interviews in the

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Speaker 2: locker room with players. We'll hear from defensive lineman Malik Collins,

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Speaker 2: who's been here since twenty twenty one, so he's seen

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Speaker 2: some lean times and it was really nice to see

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Speaker 2: him be a big part of the success and the

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Speaker 2: fun of twenty twenty three. Plus, we'll talk with case Keenum.

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Speaker 2: Case has some very high praise for CJ.

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Speaker 3: Stroud.

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Speaker 2: He's got high hopes for the future, and it was

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Speaker 2: really cool hearing about his twenty twenty three experience returning

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Speaker 2: to the Houston Texans. And we'll wrap things up with

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Speaker 2: a guy who is very intriguing, still tight end Teague

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Speaker 2: in Quittorriano. He missed most of the season with injury.

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Speaker 2: Second year player. He'll be going into year three with

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Speaker 2: the Texans as a tight end and he's somebody that

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Speaker 2: flashed as a rookie and showed some things. So what's

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Speaker 2: next for him. We'll hear in his words, what he's

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Speaker 2: got planned, what he thought of, what he saw, and.

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Speaker 3: A whole lot more. All right, But without further.

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Speaker 2: Ado, it's time to go to Mobile and talk with

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Speaker 2: our guy.

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Speaker 3: John Harris. This is the first time.

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Speaker 2: We've ever done it in the Lab, and John Harris

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Speaker 2: has been outside. John is in Mobile, Alabama. And I

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Speaker 2: was about to say at lad People's Stadium in Mobile, Alabama,

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Speaker 2: because I'm old, You're older, and all I remember is

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Speaker 2: lad People stadium, but it's not lad People's Stadium.

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Speaker 3: It looks like a nice, shiny new setup for you.

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Speaker 3: How are you, man?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know what people can see as I

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Speaker 4: kind of just roll around here, but this is Hancock

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Speaker 4: Whitney Stadium. This actually opened. I think the first year

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Speaker 4: twenty one. That that was the Nico Collins year, and

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Speaker 4: so I was here, you know, checking prospects out because

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Speaker 4: hell of a job with this event. It's just it's

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Speaker 4: been incredible. So this is Wednesday's practice. Their guys are

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Speaker 4: getting on the field and they're in full pads. They

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Speaker 4: Scotty department. You saw Nick and James Lipfort and saw

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Speaker 2: I had to set the scene just to let people

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Speaker 2: not an over exaggeration. The franchise was turned on its

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Speaker 2: one year ago today, and I knew you were there

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Speaker 4: I was here, Yeah, you know, it's interesting, it was.

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Speaker 4: It kind of that was one of the only reasons

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Speaker 4: just interesting, you know, I kind of, you know, I

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Speaker 4: It was the first time I saw Aaron Donald up

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Speaker 3: You were like looking down at him. He's not a

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Speaker 4: And you know this is a place right here where

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Speaker 4: and you know it's interesting. You know, as I watched

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Speaker 2: But I was I'm shooting this on a zoom with

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Speaker 3: I was like, chance, I'm really, I'm not joking. I

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Speaker 2: He's he's he's not gonna because of everything that had

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Speaker 2: moment that I saw a tweet from somebody, you know,

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Speaker 2: some national writers saying Demiko Ryans has signed his deal

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Speaker 2: to be the new Texans head coach.

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Speaker 3: And it was it was amazing.

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Speaker 2: And then about five minutes later, I hear the glass

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Speaker 3: I can't see it behind me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I could hear him and he walks even

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Speaker 2: with the desk and he's like Drew and uh, you know,

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Speaker 2: he says hey to me and Vander Mary were all excited,

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Speaker 2: and you know, Mike, our guy, Zach Tarrant got a

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Speaker 2: nice photo of shaking hands with Demiko and it was

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Speaker 2: such a wonderful moment and everything since then, everything has

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Speaker 2: been awesome. Now, he didn't win in Baltimore, he had

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Speaker 2: some losses, but everything was just tremendous and thank.

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Speaker 3: Goodness that it happened.

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Speaker 2: Okay, talking about Nick Casserio, Dimiko doesn't get hired if

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Speaker 2: it doesn't happen with it. It doesn't happen without Nick Assio's

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Speaker 2: The guy who has impressed me the most at the

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Speaker 2: Awesome John. I know you're in your element. I wish

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Speaker 2: Yeah, get some wins with you sometime soon. Yeah too,

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Speaker 2: can't wait to crack it up with you next week

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Speaker 2: when you're back in the building, back in town. But

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Speaker 3: I know you will.

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Speaker 2: And happy to meet goday, my dear friend, Hope's one

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Speaker 4: Happy to meet Godate to you as well through and

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Speaker 4: for my observations. Make sure checking out the website. It's

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Speaker 4: It takes me a long time to do him after practices,

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Speaker 2: You sent him in late because you're very thorough and

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Speaker 2: We'll be back again next week to talk a little

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Speaker 2: Bowl prospects that might have a nice shot at becoming

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Speaker 2: Texans moving ahead. Defensive lineman Malik Collins fitting very nicely

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Speaker 2: into this Dimico Ryan's defense. He's played in a lot

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Speaker 2: So here is a quick one on one I had

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Speaker 5: Uh, we exceeded most people's expectations. Obviously not where we

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Speaker 3: See the most people's expectations.

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Speaker 5: Well, that's always the expectations. Why not shock the world?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, stepping stone to what possibly? What does the next

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Speaker 2: Obviously gonna be a lot of different faces both sides

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Speaker 3: But what's possible.

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Speaker 5: Everything is possible, everything's out there. Russell Westbrook said, why

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Speaker 2: On a personal level, what was it like for you?

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Speaker 3: So what's next for you?

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Speaker 2: How much time you can take off before you're back

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Speaker 5: It just depends, man, It just depends on how long

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Speaker 3: Malik, best of luck. I can't wait to see next.

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Speaker 4: Year for sure, man.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: Thanks always cool to talk with Malik. And you heard

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Speaker 4: It.

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Speaker 2: It's a fun story that we did with him last

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Speaker 2: what's ahead for CJ. Stroud and the rest of this franchise.

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Speaker 2: A case on an individual level, how much fun was

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Speaker 2: this year for you?

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Speaker 6: It's too much fun, man, It was a blast.

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Speaker 4: I had so much fun.

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Speaker 6: There's so many different memories, so many different times, different

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Speaker 6: guys that I have incredible bonds with. Now. I love

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Speaker 6: this game of football, and to be able to do

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Speaker 6: it here in Houston, in my hometown that this group

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Speaker 6: of guys was very special to have some really big

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Speaker 6: games that mattered. Here was awesome to play in. Some

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Speaker 6: was even icing on the cake man, and to do

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Speaker 6: that was was really fun.

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Speaker 2: You're an optimistic guy. How was your level of optimism

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Speaker 2: in me be mid July comparable to what it was

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Speaker 2: in November. What'd you think of that team before everything

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Speaker 2: started versus hey, we're into this now and we could

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Speaker 2: do some things.

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Speaker 4: I think we all had confidence.

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Speaker 6: It's just the combination of guys who hadn't played together

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Speaker 6: or were young guys. It was just hard to know

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Speaker 6: in July and camp you know what we were going

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Speaker 6: to be like. I mean, you saw flashes of it,

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Speaker 6: but in this league everybody's good and can flash. But

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Speaker 6: it's about sustaining that and putting together those type of

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Speaker 6: plays when.

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Speaker 4: It really mattered.

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Speaker 1: And this team did down the.

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Speaker 6: Stretch to make the playoffs, to win a playoff game,

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Speaker 6: and you know, to win a division, to do what

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Speaker 6: Dimico did, to do what CJ did, all these guys

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Speaker 6: in their first year. That's impressive.

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Speaker 2: You haven't shied away from talking about what's possible with

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Speaker 2: CJ Stroud. What's most important though, in between now and

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Speaker 2: maybe the start off season, conditioning for a guy like that.

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Speaker 4: Oh, there's a lot of things.

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Speaker 6: I mean, you know, you got to do what's best

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Speaker 6: for yourself because there's a lot of different ways you

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Speaker 6: can when you get away from here and train and stuff.

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Speaker 6: So yeah, I think you'll you'll get away. You can

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Speaker 6: probably ask him, we'll get away from it for a

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Speaker 6: little bit recharge. Your rookie year is really really tough

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Speaker 6: because coming from that off season workout for me it

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Speaker 6: was at Houston, but as him for Ohio State before

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Speaker 6: your senior season or your last season, to going through

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Speaker 6: that year, obviously the ups and downs, big season for him,

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Speaker 6: it was a big season for me, and then you

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Speaker 6: get really straight into training for the Combine, then train

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Speaker 6: for your pro day. Then your draft comes and it's

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Speaker 6: like okay, here's this playbook and it's massive. You're like,

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Speaker 6: oh my gosh, so you have to learn all that.

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Speaker 6: OTA's rookie mini camp. You get like a couple weeks

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Speaker 6: in the summer, and then it's the longest season of

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Speaker 6: your life and to go in the playoffs and do

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Speaker 6: what he did and it's impressive. So to unwind a

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Speaker 6: little bit, get your body back, mind back is very important.

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Speaker 3: Case.

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Speaker 2: Keenum is an absolute treasure. He was integral to the

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Speaker 2: success of this franchise this season and can't wait to

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Speaker 2: see what he does in twenty twenty four. Okay, we

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Speaker 2: also talked with ten Quatriano, as you heard off the

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Speaker 2: top the tight End going into year three. He missed

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Speaker 2: most of year two with an injury, but he's somebody

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Speaker 2: that's got some skills. We saw some of it last

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Speaker 2: year as a rookie, so TQ went one on one

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Speaker 2: with me and shared a little bit about what it's

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Speaker 2: ahead for him and what he thought of what he

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Speaker 2: saw in twenty twenty three. That's all the time we

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Speaker 2: got for today. We appreciate you checking us out. Please remember,

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Speaker 3: On a Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: So for John and those players that we talked with,

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Speaker 2: I really appreciate it, and I appreciate you gentle listener,

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