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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. Dr 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, John Harris.

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Speaker 2: It's good to see you. How are you and well man?

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Speaker 3: How you doing?

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Speaker 2: I'm great?

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Speaker 4: big impact on us.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate that. John, OTAs were fun yesterday.

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Speaker 4: I know you had some thoughts and I was out

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Speaker 4: there on the side. I saw the fun little handshake

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Speaker 4: that kind of was fun as far as the slaps

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Speaker 4: and studded it with CJ.

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Speaker 2: Stroud.

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Speaker 4: But if you thinks stood out to me, Tank Dell

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Speaker 4: was out there catching passes. There was I think probably

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Speaker 4: a belief by some that he might not be here

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Speaker 4: till training camp, right and all that stuff, even though

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Speaker 4: the idea was that he was fine, and he clearly

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Speaker 4: was fine. He was taking part, he was doing stuff.

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Speaker 4: He was out there, the rookies were mixing it up

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Speaker 4: and number seven CJ. Stroud doing what he does and

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Speaker 4: it was just a good spirited afternoon, early afternoon of work,

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Speaker 4: and my goodness, were one step closer to the ball

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Speaker 4: and one step closer to real, real football job.

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Speaker 5: One of the things that I noticed at rookie mining camp,

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Speaker 5: and I don't know if we talked about rookie mean camp,

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Speaker 5: and it wasn't much of a camp. It was just

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Speaker 5: an indoctrination for the rookies. This is how he practiced

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Speaker 5: the different periods. Because they I think they had one

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Speaker 5: offensive lineman, they had two players in the secondary. They

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Speaker 5: may have had three defensive linemen. I don't I don't

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Speaker 5: even know. They could outfit a lower guys quarterback who

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Speaker 5: wasn't going to be a run quarterback that was just

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Speaker 5: there on a tryout basis.

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Speaker 3: So I took out of that as I looked.

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Speaker 5: Around and I went, wait a second, wow, look at

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Speaker 5: these coach, look at his coaching staff. There's a lot

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Speaker 5: of joy because they were out there altogether. But they all,

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Speaker 5: I say all knew each other. It's not one hundred

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Speaker 5: percent the same as it was last year. And there's

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Speaker 5: some coaches that have moved on, but in their place,

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Speaker 5: there are very few coaches that came from outside the building.

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Speaker 5: You know, Rod Wright went from the assistant D line

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Speaker 5: coach to the D line coach. Delon knew him and

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Speaker 5: he knew a lot in the D line already. You know,

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Speaker 5: Billy Davis comes over to coach linebackers. He's new, but

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Speaker 5: you know Vassil still coaching corners. Corey Engwin's back in

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Speaker 5: the secondary. You've got Steve Annagoke is also with the secondary.

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Speaker 3: He stayed.

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Speaker 5: Rod's with the defensive line obviously, Demiko and Matt Burke

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Speaker 5: offensively to Rod and Bobby staying.

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Speaker 3: You know, Bill Laser stayed.

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Speaker 5: A lot of continuity, and I could tell the way

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Speaker 5: you could just tell that continuity mattered. It was really cool,

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Speaker 5: and so I saw that again, not only with the

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Speaker 5: coaching staff in particular, but with the players too. There's

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Speaker 5: continuity there. These guys have been together. They know the

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Speaker 5: drills that they're supposed to be doing. They know how

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Speaker 5: It's not a you know, a monkey in a football

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Speaker 5: doing things the way that I know that De Miko

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Speaker 3: But there's just.

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Speaker 5: This smoothness to practice because there's a there's continuity there.

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Speaker 3: That was one of the things that stood out to

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Speaker 5: That continuity breeds that that confidence and that success and

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Speaker 5: hopefully that continues. But yeah, I was good to see

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Speaker 5: things that we kind of took. Yeah, they'd shorts and

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Speaker 5: T shirts, but the number of things that took out

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Speaker 5: of there, what was kind of your biggest takeaway? I mean,

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Speaker 2: Is Drew echoing a little bit of what you said.

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Speaker 4: Uh, the continuity and sometimes continuity can be not a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not the case exactly exactly what.

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Speaker 4: You've got such a high quality of things going here

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Speaker 4: and technically you are still and the Texans would never

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Speaker 4: say this, ever, but you are technically still in a rebuild,

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Speaker 4: despite being good last year, despite you know, doing what

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Speaker 4: more talent and depth and whatnot. And you're still in

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Speaker 4: the think in the middle of that process, and they're

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Speaker 4: never gonna be satisfied with it, right. But seeing that

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Speaker 4: really cool, And I was gonna, you know, just stump

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Speaker 4: you with a few like randomly, these are random little things.

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Speaker 4: Xavier Hutchinson looks a lot bigger and I'm like yoked

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Speaker 4: up in a good sort of way.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he was a rookie last year.

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Speaker 4: He had been getting ready for the draft, getting ready

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Speaker 4: this spring and this winter, and it shows he looks

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Speaker 4: or more changed body wise to you this year versus last.

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Speaker 5: Well, I think there is an obvious candidate for that award,

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Speaker 5: and it's on the offensive line. It's Kenyan Green. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: and seeing Kenya it's weird. He's wearing seventy six. He's

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Speaker 5: I don't know but like almost like a wristband, but

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Speaker 5: they kind of help the wrist. That was Dwayne Brown's outfit. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: that was exactly what Dwayne Brown looked like. And I went,

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Speaker 3: And it just shows that he's he's starting to transform

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Speaker 5: This is something that we talked about when we talked

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Speaker 5: back in training camp. Oh my god, Kenny Green former

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Speaker 5: I said, look, he's got to fix what's wrong. Now,

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Speaker 5: to be. And that's really exactly what has gone on.

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Speaker 5: They had to stop the train, let him get off. Look,

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Speaker 5: the train's gonna keep going. They'll stop again and you

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Speaker 5: what an NFL body looks like.

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Speaker 3: And now you start getting your confidence back.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 5: I said this when I was on with my friends

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Speaker 2: I said, doesn't mean he can go out there play.

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Speaker 5: Just because the guy got all chiseled up, doesn't mean

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Speaker 5: he's gonna go out there and be an all pro.

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Speaker 2: But it's encouraging because it's him.

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Speaker 5: It is encouraging and the fact that that's what we've

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Speaker 5: you know, been asking for because we know he could play.

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Speaker 3: If you've watched him, you know he could play.

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Speaker 5: And even if you watched him with the Texans early

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Speaker 5: as a rookie, he had success, but he got hurt

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Speaker 5: against the Raiders, and when he tried to play through it,

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Speaker 5: that's whence the issue started. He can play, that's the

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Speaker 5: matter of Gonnat confidence back to show everybody he can play.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's important to remember he's still in the

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Speaker 4: I know it's legitimately year three, but he didn't play

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Speaker 4: last year and like you said, he's been injured. Here

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Speaker 4: he was injured from Raiders game October November of rookie

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Speaker 4: So you're entering year two. At best, he comes out

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Speaker 4: of depth and competition right at a spot that really

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Speaker 4: now has a whole heck of a lot of competition.

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Speaker 4: Because we saw him play there in the preseason, we

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Speaker 4: saw Juice Scruggs play there.

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Speaker 2: In the regular season. We saw.

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Speaker 4: By my blanking, okay, Jared Patterson was the center. But

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Speaker 4: lot of different bodies there during that time, during that

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Speaker 4: boost that level of competition to a higher level job.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

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Speaker 5: And you know, I don't want to say, oh, he's

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Speaker 5: and you hate for somebody to be injury prone, and

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Speaker 5: I should say injury prone just you know, it's some

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Speaker 5: bad luck. But I think I think Kenyon getting always

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Speaker 2: Got admirable, yes, really admirable thing.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, it is totally and I think it was the

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Speaker 5: coaching staff and Nick Assario and the scouting staff. Everybody

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Speaker 5: organization has said, WHOA, stop the music, listen, we just

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Speaker 5: have to fix this. And you mentioned it. He's a

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Speaker 5: young guy, very young. I think he was twen he

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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, I was asked on textagad and

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Speaker 5: and no, I said, Dwayne did struggle the first few years.

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Speaker 3: It was not due to injuries. It was just Wayne

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Speaker 3: was a project.

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Speaker 5: He had to face all those things that he faced

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Speaker 5: and get past them to show that he really could

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Speaker 5: evolve into a Pro Bowl tackle, which he eventually did.

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Speaker 5: And he gets a lot of credit for that and

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Speaker 2: Kenyans is more. It's the injury, so to me, it

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Speaker 2: reminded me more of Clowney.

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Speaker 3: Towney.

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Speaker 5: You can take some time some of those things, but

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Speaker 5: the first two years it was micro fracturing fourteen. Then

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Speaker 5: he came back from that, but he wasn't quite where

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Speaker 5: he needed to be or wanted to be in twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 5: I remember he was in a locker room after the

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Speaker 3: Everybody was like, oh, what is this? Did come on really?

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Speaker 2: And I was like, Okay, that's a good sign.

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Speaker 3: Let's see if happens. And then he did.

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Speaker 5: He had games in twenty sixteen where he just took

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Speaker 5: He made a catch on a sideline and I'm just

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Speaker 3: He's definitely a guy you don't want to forget about.

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Speaker 5: This eighty seven, Kate Stover, he stood out for sure,

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Speaker 4: He was a fantastic oiler, a great, great player. Who's

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Speaker 4: And McClain's point was, I never call anyone a bust

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Speaker 3: The tough thing was that last year.

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Speaker 2: And yes, I just compared to Kenyon Green circuitously that

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Speaker 2: and I appreciate you.

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Speaker 3: You're hugely important, Drew.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate you as entertaining my Harry Truman. Hey, with

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Speaker 4: we appreciate you checking us out. Dave Howard, shout you

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be a fun one.

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Speaker 4: The kids will be out from school what but we'll

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Speaker 4: be talking about the second week of OTAs what we'll

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Speaker 4: do with you.

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Speaker 2: Thanks John,