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Speaker 2: Welcome into a Monday initiative Texans All Access from the

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Speaker 2: Today Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harris, football analyst,

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Speaker 2: sideline reporter for your Houston Texans. Glad you are with

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Speaker 2: me tonight, and we're gonna kick off this show with

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Speaker 2: my good pal sideline reporter from the Buffalo Bills. You

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Speaker 2: can also hear middays on WGR one of the best

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Speaker 2: you're gonna find anywhere. We connected in twenty fifteen and

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Speaker 2: been pals ever since. And obviously my man Sal Capaccio

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Speaker 2: has a lot that he knows about Stefon Diggs and

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Speaker 2: thingured he'd be a good guy to talk about with

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Speaker 2: that and the AFC and Mahomes and everything going on.

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Speaker 1: So let's get to it righty here, Sal, Good evening,

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Speaker 1: my friend. How are you.

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Speaker 3: I'm doing great, buddy, Always good to talk to you.

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Speaker 3: And you know, we don't last that long in this

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Speaker 3: I think they owt the longest tenured sideline guy in

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Speaker 3: Buffalo before me, it was like three years, a long

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Speaker 3: time ago. I mean, there's been some interesting guy though,

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Speaker 3: like Jeff Burris did it for a couple of years

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Speaker 1: He did it from Notre Dame.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think he was on the sidelines

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Speaker 3: So we've had some really interesting people. Rich Gensler, the

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Speaker 3: ball they call him here. He's been in this role,

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Speaker 3: so it's pretty cool. But how long have you you

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Speaker 3: eleven years from me? You got to be close, if

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Speaker 3: not more.

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Speaker 1: It's the only way I remember it.

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Speaker 2: When you say your date, I remember mine because we

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Speaker 2: started doing it twenty fourteen, that's right, and I've been

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Speaker 1: And it's right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, had twenty fourteen game that was at Energy Stadium. J. J.

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Speaker 2: Watt had to pick six, and I remember, you know,

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Speaker 2: for sideline reporters, you know, your sideline is kind of

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Speaker 2: your territory. Yeah, And I just remember at one point

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Speaker 2: is he on my sideline? And then you kind of

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Speaker 2: was like, Okay, I got it. I got it totally.

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Speaker 2: You were having some some issues, and you know, we've

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Speaker 1: So I appreciate you coming on.

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Speaker 2: And obviously with the Buffalo bills, there's this Stefan Digs trade,

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Speaker 2: which I'm sure people in Houston are kind of curious

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Speaker 2: from your perspective, Sal.

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Speaker 1: Hey, what was digs like? And b what or two

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Speaker 2: Of the trade? I texted you you were in Australia,

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Speaker 2: So I can only imagine what that was like, but

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Speaker 3: So my wife woke me up at six in the

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's because of Stefan Diggs is a

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Speaker 2: So with Diggs gone, can everybody run to Vegas with

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Speaker 3: On Thursday Night, Yes, at twenty eight. No history says

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Speaker 3: this what he does. He moved up for Kyrie Elam,

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Speaker 3: I mean this is what he does. He moves up.

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Speaker 3: So that's what he does. Even if there's a scenario

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Speaker 3: Well, the possibilities are probably very very unlikely, but we

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Speaker 3: I don't think anybody's upset about making a deal like that.

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Speaker 3: It can happen. But man, John, I can't see the Giants,

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Speaker 2: of von Miller, you know they really Yeah, the doors

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Speaker 1: Your thoughts?

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Speaker 3: I would answer it this way. I don't think anybody

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Speaker 3: And why is that? Because the Kansasity Chiefs replenished their

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Speaker 3: That's what the Bills are doing. They're just gonna have

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Speaker 3: you have Josh Allen, you're gonna be fine. But they are,

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Speaker 3: they are going to have a different kind of team now.

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Speaker 3: They're gonna get a little bit younger in spots we saw.

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Speaker 3: Look at all the leadership that walked out the door,

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Speaker 3: I mean, like all these people that are gonna be losing,

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Speaker 3: The window's not closed. They have Josh Allen. So I

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Speaker 3: of replenishing the roster a little bit. Sure it might

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Speaker 3: Could they take a step back? Sure, I could see that.

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Speaker 3: But John, there's the reason why Vegas still has them

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Speaker 3: You look at this roster up and down, it's still

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Speaker 3: They're gonna be together again this year. Look what Roschuell

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Speaker 3: last year when he came in, and he was fantastic.

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Speaker 3: They still have a lot of talent. They still have challenges,

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Speaker 3: But you just mentioned a guy who's a big key

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Speaker 3: they're gonna have some challenges at edge. They like Russo,

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Speaker 3: I think we're looking at this team a lot differently

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Speaker 2: I mean, as long as seventeen still slang in it

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Speaker 2: And it's really not so much you know, slinging it.

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Speaker 2: In your opinion?

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Speaker 1: That is, if you think the Chiefs are number one?

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Speaker 3: I do, as long as you have mahomes and read

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Speaker 3: You know this is they're bringing in Derrick Henry. Look

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Speaker 1: Okay, where do you slot the Houston Texans in all

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Speaker 3: I think the Texans are certainly a playoff team. They

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Speaker 3: I'm not really totally sure it they're but I think

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Speaker 3: There's no doubt about that. But I think the Texans

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Speaker 3: I think you still have to prove it a little

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Speaker 2: You kind of got intued a little bit. We played

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Speaker 2: We play AFC East, so you guys will be coming here.

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Speaker 2: We get Miami in Houston as well, and then we

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Speaker 2: How good are the Jets?

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Speaker 1: How scary are the Jets?

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Speaker 2: Or is it one of those things where you know what,

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Speaker 2: I'll believe it when I see it. He blasted all

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Speaker 3: I think the Jets can be really, really good with

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Speaker 3: ball by Robert Salah. They have to get better coaching

434
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Speaker 3: on the offensive side. But you know, they thought Aaron

435
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Speaker 3: Rodgers would just fix everything. He should fix at least

436
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Speaker 3: some of that as far as the coaching is concerned.

437
00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:34,080
Speaker 3: I mean, they do need a little bit more of

438
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Speaker 3: a weapon. I think that's why brock Bauers is usually

439
00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:40,080
Speaker 3: mocked to them. You know, most of these drafts, Tua

440
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Speaker 3: in the in the Dolphins, I think you're gonna take

441
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Speaker 3: a step back. I think this is gonna be a

442
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Speaker 3: transition year for them, not in a positive way because

443
00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:47,240
Speaker 3: they got to pay to a Tyreeks a little bit older.

444
00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:49,000
Speaker 3: They gut to start figuring out the contracts to them.

445
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Speaker 3: But man, John, think about the defense, and they lost

446
00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:54,840
Speaker 3: all those things they lost, and the players that not

447
00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:57,200
Speaker 3: only they lost, but they're coming back from injury, Jalen

448
00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:00,640
Speaker 3: Phillips and Chubb, you know, And and you lose guys

449
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Speaker 3: in the middle of your defense, You lose Amian Howard

450
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Speaker 3: and on the back end as well. So I just

451
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Speaker 3: think that the Dolphins, to me, are ready to kind

452
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Speaker 3: of go the other way than the Jets. I think

453
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Speaker 3: the Jets should be better with Aaron Rodgers. I don't

454
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Speaker 3: know if the Dolphins are.

455
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Speaker 2: Going to be We got the Jets last year, we

456
00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:16,480
Speaker 2: saw him Deceummer and well, anybody that saw him after

457
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Speaker 2: three plays got a chance. I mean, you guys played

458
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Speaker 2: twice without Aaron Rodgers. Bill Belichick does not end up

459
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Speaker 2: with a coaching job.

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Speaker 1: Were you surprised?

461
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Speaker 3: I think initially I was. As it went on for

462
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Speaker 3: a little bit, it started to not surprise me much

463
00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:33,640
Speaker 3: and make a little bit more sense where because look,

464
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Speaker 3: the trend in the league is to go younger coaches

465
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Speaker 3: and relatability to a lot of these players and fresh

466
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Speaker 3: minds and fresh thinking. That's not Bill Belichick. And I

467
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Speaker 3: think that owners kind of saw that. You know, the's

468
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Speaker 3: going to want to do things his way. It's been

469
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Speaker 3: a one way of doing it. What I really did think, though,

470
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Speaker 3: was John that some team is going to value having

471
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Speaker 3: Bill Belichick on their sidelines to break the all time record, right,

472
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Speaker 3: That's gonna be worth something to an owner. But at

473
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Speaker 3: the end of the day, I give owners credits. They

474
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Speaker 3: they didn't go for that. They said, look, we want

475
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Speaker 3: the best candidate possible. That's not Bill Belichick. And I've

476
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Speaker 3: always said I was kind of first on this, and

477
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Speaker 3: I got hammered for it, and I still believe it.

478
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Speaker 3: Like I would say years ago that I just thought

479
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Speaker 3: that time had kind of passed Bill Belichick by as

480
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Speaker 3: a head coach. I think he's a fantastic football mind.

481
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Speaker 3: He really is, There's no doubt about that. But I

482
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Speaker 3: think over the last several years we've seen it's been

483
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Speaker 3: mostly kind of Tom Brady covering up. Even when they

484
00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:21,520
Speaker 3: had Warts, they didn't have to worry about him because

485
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Speaker 3: they had Brady. That is not to say Bill Belichick's

486
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Speaker 3: a bad coach. Here's my hot take. You tell me

487
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Speaker 3: if you agree. Okay, you tell me what you think

488
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Speaker 3: about this. Okay, Okay, all right? Love it. Just you

489
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Speaker 3: and I talking ball here. So I've said for years

490
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Speaker 3: I don't think Bill Belichick is the greatest coach ever.

491
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Speaker 3: I think he is the most accomplished coach ever. If

492
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Speaker 3: you want to call it greatest, Like who the best

493
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Speaker 3: is at their job, I think it's Joe Gibbs. Joe

494
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Speaker 3: Gibbs went to four Super Bowls and won three with

495
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Speaker 3: very average quarterbacks over a twelve year period. You give

496
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Speaker 3: me a really average roster, average quarterback with a good roster,

497
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Speaker 3: I'm taking Joe Gibbs over Bill Belichick.

498
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Speaker 2: Here's the other word you didn't use. They were three

499
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Speaker 2: different quarterbacks that he wants championships with. I mean, I

500
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Speaker 2: think that to me is what kind of blows me away,

501
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Speaker 2: because for all those years of you know, the Patriot way,

502
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Speaker 2: the Patriot way, well, when Brady left, we found out, well,

503
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Speaker 2: you know, the Patriot away had a lot to.

504
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Speaker 1: Do with number twelve. And I would imagine that was

505
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Speaker 1: a good day because that was one of the things I.

506
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Speaker 2: Thought about when he retired was, oh, you got to

507
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Speaker 2: be happy about that he's out of the AFC East.

508
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Speaker 2: But the Bills had sort of kind of turned a

509
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Speaker 2: corner on that where you guys had kind of flipped

510
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Speaker 2: the script.

511
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Speaker 1: For a long time.

512
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Speaker 2: It was, no matter what happened, the Patriots are going

513
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Speaker 2: to find a way to beat you guys. And then

514
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden that script started changing and it

515
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Speaker 2: never it never flipped back. It never flipped back to

516
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Speaker 2: the Patriots. They were not what they had been. You

517
00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:39,800
Speaker 2: guys had completely turned a corner on them. I don't

518
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Speaker 2: think you're out of the realm with possibility. I think

519
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Speaker 2: it's funny because when Mark brings up and we bring

520
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Speaker 2: up great coaches, Joe Gibbs is one of the first

521
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Speaker 2: ones he brings up for that reason because they had

522
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Speaker 2: three different quarterbacks and all not Hall of famers and

523
00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:59,320
Speaker 2: all different, all really you know, all three different guys

524
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Speaker 2: in some way, shape or form. So Joe Gibbs is

525
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Speaker 2: a guy that gets no credit for that, which is

526
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Speaker 2: very surprising. He created the one back offense, which is

527
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Speaker 2: what everybody uses now in a way to stop Lawrence Taylor.

528
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Speaker 2: So I think, what's what's tough to argue. Obviously he's

529
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Speaker 2: very accomplished. I think Bill Belichick might be the best

530
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Speaker 2: defensive mind.

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Speaker 1: That we've had.

532
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Speaker 3: He may he may that that I.

533
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Speaker 2: Think you could you could totally sell me on. But

534
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Speaker 2: when you look at what they were able to do,

535
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Speaker 2: I mean, that was a Brady led operation, you know,

536
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Speaker 2: and I think Belichick did a great job.

537
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Speaker 1: You still have to have that that guy.

538
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Speaker 2: But I think what we found out in later years

539
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Speaker 2: that you know, maybe it was more about Brady and Gronk,

540
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Speaker 2: and you know, having all the slot receivers they had

541
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Speaker 2: and all the success they had.

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Speaker 1: Look, I know they all played a role. I know

543
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Speaker 1: Nick played a role. I know Belichick obviously played a

544
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Speaker 1: massive role, the players they had.

545
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Speaker 2: Having Brady at quarterback, You and I probably could have

546
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Speaker 2: won us Super Bowl with Brady at quarterback, just saying, look, man.

547
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Speaker 1: Whatever you want to do, let's let's do it.

548
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Speaker 2: And I think that's gonna end up being down the

549
00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,840
Speaker 2: road the discussion with Andy Reid, because look, Andy Reid

550
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Speaker 2: want a bunch of NFC, got the bunch NFC championships,

551
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Speaker 2: got the one Super Bowl with Donovan McNabb and his

552
00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:18,600
Speaker 2: Eagles quarterbacks, he got their playoffs with Alex Smith Smith

553
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Speaker 2: and then he gets this wounder ken that takes over

554
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Speaker 2: and Okay, he's got Patrick Mahomes. Now, to argue Reid

555
00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:27,040
Speaker 2: has helped make Mahomes, but I think you could go

556
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Speaker 2: the other way too. Mahomes has definitely helped make Andy

557
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Speaker 2: Reid one of the greats of all time.

558
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Speaker 1: I mean, three five years or whatever it is.

559
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Speaker 3: They're they're so good for each other, right, Like Belichick

560
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:38,600
Speaker 3: and Brady, there's just and that's the thing about Belichick

561
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Speaker 3: and Brady. They were so great for each other, they

562
00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:43,680
Speaker 3: really did need each other. But my example, I always say,

563
00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,720
Speaker 3: like in a funny way on the radio, is I

564
00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:49,520
Speaker 3: compare Bellich Belichick to Brooks from Shawshank Redemption. He was

565
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Speaker 3: institutionalized for twenty years and once he had once he

566
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Speaker 3: had to actually go out and you know, figure it

567
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Speaker 3: out a little bit differently. He couldn't do it because

568
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Speaker 3: he's so used to doing everything the way that he

569
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Speaker 3: kind of knew it.

570
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Speaker 2: And then that's that's a great one. That's a great

571
00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,359
Speaker 2: that's a great one. They definitely had They definitely had

572
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Speaker 2: their way. There's there's no doubt about it. How they

573
00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:12,160
Speaker 2: did things. We had, We've had plenty of Patriot way,

574
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Speaker 2: you know, employees in our building.

575
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Speaker 1: But I think what's been fascinating for us is to

576
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Speaker 1: watch how Nick.

577
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Speaker 2: I don't want to say it has you know, changed

578
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 2: or adapted or whatever, but just I think everybody had

579
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:25,439
Speaker 2: this fear of, well, you know, it's going to be

580
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Speaker 2: done how the Patriots do things, and you look at

581
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:31,439
Speaker 2: what Nick's done, it's like, no, not not really, not really,

582
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Speaker 2: He's doing things the way that he believes best for

583
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Speaker 2: the Texans which is what they always say.

584
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Speaker 1: But I think he's actually been one to be able

585
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Speaker 1: to pull it off.

586
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Speaker 2: Okay, I had this conversation with I think it was

587
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Speaker 2: somebody back in the building.

588
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Speaker 1: We were talking about this.

589
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Speaker 2: I always think this is fascinating because we can always

590
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Speaker 2: talk about the great teams in the league, but there's

591
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,120
Speaker 2: always a team. Obviously, we were that team last year.

592
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Speaker 2: We were the team that came out of nowhere. We

593
00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 2: came out of you know, three thirteen one. We were

594
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:03,440
Speaker 2: thirty first in the power rankings. Nobody thought anything of

595
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 2: the Texans, and then all of a sudden we start

596
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:10,360
Speaker 2: putting some of the pieces together. Great coaching staff, great coordinators, players,

597
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:14,000
Speaker 2: rookies are tremendous. Man, look at that. We should have

598
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,280
Speaker 2: seen it coming. We didn't see it coming. Which one

599
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:20,240
Speaker 2: team in the NFL do you think about where you go?

600
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Speaker 1: You know, what a good.

601
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Speaker 2: Draft here, another couple additions here, Boy, this team may

602
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Speaker 2: not be this year.

603
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Speaker 1: They may not be the Detroit Lions. It was Detroit

604
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Speaker 1: a few years ago.

605
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Speaker 2: What team do you look at and say, I think

606
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Speaker 2: this team is one to watch in the next couple

607
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 2: of years. They could be the one that turns the

608
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 2: corner and gets in the playoffs and makes something themselves

609
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Speaker 2: that's really kind of off the radar screen.

610
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Speaker 1: Now I got one.

611
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Speaker 3: I want to hear it well. And first of all,

612
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Speaker 3: I would go right to your team there, Houston, but

613
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Speaker 3: they've already made the playoffs r because I'm a big CJ.

614
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Speaker 3: Stroud fan. By the way, my co host, I mean

615
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Speaker 3: my colleague Eric Wood, who used to be a center

616
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Speaker 3: for the Wills. As you know, Eric talks about CJ.

617
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Speaker 3: Stroud and he says all the time, he goes, dude,

618
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Speaker 3: this guy sounds like he thirty year old, eight year veteran.

619
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Speaker 3: He talked the way he talks sometimes it's incredible.

620
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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 3: So anyway, we got a lot of respect for that team.

622
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Speaker 3: So Houston, the team I would choose the Atlanta Falcons.

623
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Speaker 3: The Atlanta Falcons have so much talent on offense. And look,

624
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Speaker 3: I don't know, you know, Kirk Cousins, he's not gonna

625
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 3: be in the homes Allen type of you know, stratosphere here.

626
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:20,800
Speaker 3: As far as quarterbacks, he doesn't have to be though.

627
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Speaker 3: He's a really good quarterback though, but some numbers, but

628
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Speaker 3: oh my god, look at the talent they have an

629
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Speaker 3: offense with Bijan and Kyle Pitts and Drake London and

630
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Speaker 3: then they sell darnld Mooney. I think they grab too

631
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Speaker 3: right Ron Dell Moore, Oh my god. And then you

632
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 3: look at the defensive side. They need a little bit

633
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Speaker 3: of work. But man, they get an edge rusher in

634
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Speaker 3: the draft. They you know, they're they're a little younger

635
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:41,880
Speaker 3: there they I think they can help themselves. And they're

636
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Speaker 3: in a division, by the way, that's there for the taking. See,

637
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Speaker 3: that's the same way I look at Houston right Not

638
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Speaker 3: only is Houston have all this talent, they're in a

639
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Speaker 3: vision that they can take advantage of. I think, considering

640
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 3: where everybody else is right now, I think the same

641
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 3: thing about the Atlanta Falcons. If they can kind of

642
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 3: get a couple of pieces here on defense in the draft,

643
00:25:58,280 --> 00:25:59,560
Speaker 3: I think they could take advantage of that in the

644
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 3: NFC out to be the next team.

645
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Speaker 2: My complete wild card is the Arizona Cardinals, crazy as

646
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 2: it sounds, because the Cardinals have a lot of draft

647
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:12,199
Speaker 2: capital this year, and if they manage it right, they

648
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 2: can get more. And I think Jonathan Gannon proved lastly

649
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:19,160
Speaker 2: like they gave us all kinds of trouble at home now.

650
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,399
Speaker 2: I think they're more Detroit. I think this is a

651
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,679
Speaker 2: year where they can get to six seven wins. But

652
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,840
Speaker 2: give them another give him this draft, give them another draft.

653
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 2: I think Cardinals could be a team kind of way

654
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 2: from way back that could end up being being that

655
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 2: particular team. And we all know if Caleb Williams is

656
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 2: all that, then the Bears. The Bears could be a

657
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,359
Speaker 2: team that they've got it. They've got a boatload of talent.

658
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 2: I just don't know that Eberflus is the right fit.

659
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:46,960
Speaker 2: I don't know if he's the right coach for them.

660
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 2: I will find out the other team. If you PLoP

661
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:53,120
Speaker 2: the right quarterback in with them, they could they could

662
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:54,680
Speaker 2: really be something as the Vikings.

663
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Speaker 1: I think the Vikings offense of talent.

664
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Speaker 2: The skill players are exceptional to really good tackles. The

665
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 2: defenses Brian Flores led, so they do some different stuff.

666
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:06,919
Speaker 2: They get after it. I still think that defense is

667
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 2: not quite all that. But I think if they drop

668
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 2: in Drake May, somehow they move up to three, the

669
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,440
Speaker 2: Patriots pick however they get there, they pick Drake May.

670
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,919
Speaker 2: That could get interesting with all that talent around him.

671
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 2: I don't know if JJ McCarthy does all that, but

672
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 2: I think Drake May could Those are a few off

673
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:24,200
Speaker 2: the beaten path.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, you know, you know what's interesting about the

675
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:29,119
Speaker 3: Vikings is I wonder even if that happens, how long

676
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 3: it'll take Because the pick the Bills got for Diggs

677
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 3: from Houston. Yeah, the second rounder is the Minnesota second

678
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 3: rounder next year.

679
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:37,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, So Buffalo, we're all.

680
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 3: Thinking, Okay, if Minnesota is not good this year, you're

681
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 3: talking about a top forty pick.

682
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,400
Speaker 2: That's exactly the way we were thinking about it when

683
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:46,399
Speaker 2: we saw that that deal that dropped uside of the

684
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 2: first round. We're like, all right, what did we get back? Oh,

685
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,919
Speaker 2: we got Minnesota's second round pick. Well, this could be good.

686
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 2: They could be kind of lousy. But that's what everybody

687
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 2: thought about the Texans two last year. Everybody, what are

688
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:00,359
Speaker 2: you trading that number three? When you trading that year's

689
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 2: picked for that's gonna be a top three overall? No,

690
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,399
Speaker 2: it ended up being number twenty seven. You know, Texan's

691
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,120
Speaker 2: bet on themselves, which is kind of nice to see.

692
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:12,200
Speaker 2: Sakopaccio WGR and Buffalo sideline reporter reveling in the fact

693
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 2: that the Yankees have gotten off to a good start,

694
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 2: even though Aaron Boone's getting kicked out for saying nothing,

695
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:18,879
Speaker 2: which is kind of interesting, and the Ashers are struggling.

696
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 1: So I even I.

697
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 2: Don't even know that I want to do this, but

698
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 2: how good can the Yankees be this year?

699
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Speaker 1: Good God, I can't believe I just asked that.

700
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Speaker 3: So, as you and I are talking here today, we're

701
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 3: recording a little bit they are currently and they've gone

702
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 3: what seventeen straight innings without scoring a run, So I

703
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 3: think based on that there's zero zero against the A's

704
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 3: after going extra innings with no runs against the Rays yesterday,

705
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 3: I don't know why I think they can still be

706
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 3: really good. And by the way, they're doing those without

707
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 3: Garrett Cole. They're playing close to seven hundred baseball without

708
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 3: Garrett Cole pitching right now. But they have to find

709
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 3: a little bit more offense because right now Judge is

710
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 3: not hitting and Stanton is not hitting. Now that being said,

711
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you this. I did not realize how

712
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 3: really incredible of a baseball player Wan Soto was until

713
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 3: I watched him on the Yankees uniform. John Liz, I mean, you.

714
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 1: Don't have to tell this city man, they know.

715
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 3: Holy cow, is he amazing?

716
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely incredible. And I hate the fact that he

717
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 2: is a Yankee. But the city of Houston knows. Yes,

718
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 2: they know all too well. And uh, we hate that,

719
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 2: my friend. We do not hate you.

720
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 1: You know that.

721
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 2: I love you to death, my brother from another mother.

722
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 2: Appreciate you coming on with me, and thank you very much,

723
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 2: my friend.

724
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Speaker 3: You got it. Enjoy the draft. I know you guys

725
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,440
Speaker 3: will and thanks for all your your work coming on

726
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 3: w g R when we've had geohn, I really appreciate it.

727
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 1: But anytime, brother, thank you. So boom. All right, brother,

728
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: that's perfect, perfect, That's exactly what I needed.

729
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 3: All right, man, sounds good, have a good show.

730
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 1: Where are you gonna be? Where you're gonna be for

731
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: the draft? Are you and Buffalo? Are you going?

732
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 3: Tobby in Buffalo? Just in the media room that night,

733
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 3: you know they were. My boss even asked you want

734
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 3: to go Detroy. I'm like, no, there's nothing happens there,

735
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 3: need to be here.

736
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 2: So now everybody asked me if I'm going to Troy,

737
00:29:58,360 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 2: if I'm going to Trim like I've never gone into

738
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Speaker 2: t That's right. I got seventeen and a half hours

739
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 2: of radio that that I end up doing that.

740
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 3: Like all the people are at the war room in

741
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 3: the city are.

742
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 1: In They don't understand that. They just know that. My mom,

743
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: he asked me Lilla in Wisconsin.

744
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 2: She's like, are you coming to Detroit for the John'm like, Mom,

745
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 2: I never go to the I never go to the

746
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 2: city for the draft.

747
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 1: How do you not know this? It's like, oh, I didn't.

748
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 1: I didn't know sweets things. But I'm like, oh, I

749
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 1: love it.

750
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Speaker 2: All right, brother, great fantastic stuff there with my buddy

751
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 2: Soaka Paccio WGR Radio and Buffalo Antylo reporter for the

752
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills, we get back, just dive into this draft

753
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 2: and what's going on with all things Texans going in

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Speaker 2: the lab. But Drew Doherty next right here in Texans

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Speaker 2: dor and I sleep on beds. And there you go,

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Speaker 5: Now I'm pumped. Man.

770
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 4: I don't recall like people ask me, wow, it's never

771
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 4: been this way, and I say, yes, you're right, it's

772
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 4: never been this way. However, it reminds me in a

773
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 4: way of the eleven off season going into twelve merged

774
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 4: with the twelve off season going into thirteen, because yeah,

775
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 4: thirteen sucked. Yeah, but there was a lot of optimism

776
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 4: that year, justifiably so, because you had started eleven to one.

777
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 5: You stumbled, but hey, you thought you added.

778
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 4: Some pieces that were gonna gonna make things better, but

779
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 4: you didn't have a quarterback you have now, and that

780
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 4: quarterback then, Matt Schaub, showed some cracks in the foundation

781
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 4: right later in the twelfth season. In retrospect, we see

782
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 4: it now, you're not seeing that you've got a really

783
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 4: robust young quarterback who's was at a higher level than

784
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 4: Shaw was then he's at a higher level than of

785
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 4: now and is only ascending. And man, you've added a

786
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 4: lot of weapons. What were the weapons around Shaw twelve

787
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 4: going into thirteen? Yeah, Andre Johnson and he was still

788
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 4: Andre Johnson was amazing. You added DeAndre Hopkins, but he

789
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 4: was a rookie. But other than that, Walter, Kevin Walter

790
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 4: left and Kevin Walter really you didn't see or hear

791
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 4: from him again he was injured in thirteen in Tennessee.

792
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 4: Owen Daniels played and was good, and it was was

793
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 4: Owen Daniels yep, but that was it. It was Owen

794
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 4: and Andre and rookie DeAndre Hopkins. You didn't have these

795
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 4: ascending guys like Niko, like Tank. Now you've added in

796
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 4: Dalton Schultz or readded him and Stefan Diggs. And it

797
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 4: brings me to this. We heard on Monday from CJ.

798
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Speaker 5: Stroud.

799
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Speaker 4: You've touched on this with VanderMeer, but we heard about

800
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 4: the excitement over John Metchi the third. Yeah, those guys

801
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 4: are working out and he'd love to see it because

802
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 4: this time a year ago CJ had locked down pretty

803
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 4: much and was just doing final thirty visits before the draft.

804
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 4: Now he's actually working with guys he's gonna throw too

805
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 4: in the fall. He's working with Tank Dell, he's working

806
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 4: with Deco Collins, he's working with Stefan Diggs. And John

807
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 4: Metchi was in the mix as well, and he said, man,

808
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 4: he looked really good. And it's something that bears repeating.

809
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 4: And I think we ought to dig a little deeper

810
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 4: because last year was Mechi's rookie year. He didn't play.

811
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 4: His knee was blown out and he was recovering from that.

812
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 4: He had freaking lymphoma and was coming off of that.

813
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 4: Yet he still he caught a few passes. Ransom Enda

814
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,959
Speaker 4: Rounds was dipping his toes in the water, but he

815
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 4: was down the chart of guys who made big, big

816
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 4: impacts catching the ball as a receiver. What's it mean

817
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 4: if John Metchi in twenty twenty four, John looks like

818
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 4: the guy that the Texans invested a second round pick

819
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 4: in and thought, hey, we need we need this guy

820
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,399
Speaker 4: to be a second round pick. We need this got

821
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 4: to be a big part of our football team. Do

822
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:11,840
Speaker 4: you add him to that mix?

823
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 2: Man, Yeah, it's a massive It would be massive for

824
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 2: this team in some way, shape or form. I mean,

825
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 2: I still feel like Demico Demico hit on it, but

826
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 2: I think it it bears repeating.

827
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Speaker 1: You just can't have enough weapons. You really can't.

828
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Speaker 2: If you think about a seventeen game season and how

829
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 2: long and arduous a seventeen game season is, it is brutal.

830
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:37,240
Speaker 2: I mean it is, Holy cow, Yeah, it's so long.

831
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 2: I mean it's long for us, we're not even playing.

832
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 4: We saw it at its at its zenith in that

833
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 4: regard in New York in the rain when you went

834
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 4: into it without tank, Dell Nico got hurt first or

835
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:49,720
Speaker 4: second play of the game.

836
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:54,800
Speaker 5: I don't think Noel Brown was kind of limited.

837
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 4: They just everything funneled over to knowing and he got,

838
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:58,799
Speaker 4: you know, taken out of the game with that, that

839
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 4: excellent sea that if you have the all these weapons

840
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 4: at your disposal or you know, some of them, one

841
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 4: or two of.

842
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:05,280
Speaker 5: Them is gone.

843
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:06,880
Speaker 1: So what we talked, we talked a.

844
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 2: Lot about this in the fall, and you we'd look

845
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 2: at the injury report look and go, okay, well this

846
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 2: guy's an injury report. Yeah, okay, Well, as long as

847
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:15,840
Speaker 2: we have two, As long as we have two we

848
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 2: have we have Robert, we Nico, we have Tank and Robert.

849
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 2: We have Nico and Robert. You know, however, you could

850
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 2: put the two combinations, you know, the three guys together

851
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 2: in a combination of two, you'd feel that much better.

852
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:29,919
Speaker 2: You'd like to be able to say, hey, we want

853
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:31,760
Speaker 2: to have three, we need to have three.

854
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 1: We got to have three.

855
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 2: And that just basically was the way of saying we

856
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:38,400
Speaker 2: got to have more weapons.

857
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 5: Yeah.

858
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:40,800
Speaker 1: Now, Joe maxon being.

859
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 2: Involved, Dalton Schultz continuing to be involved, obviously, Tank and Nico,

860
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 2: and then you bring digs in Digs, they missed but

861
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 2: one game in Buffalo, and I think that's that's something

862
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 2: that has to be kept in mind. Like you said,

863
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:55,279
Speaker 2: Mechi miss rookie year obviously because of you know what

864
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 2: he was.

865
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Speaker 1: Dealing with with le Foma.

866
00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:57,560
Speaker 3: Uh.

867
00:35:57,680 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 2: Tank missed five games at the end of the year.

868
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,719
Speaker 2: Nico has made He missed a number of games in

869
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 2: the first two years. I think he missed a couple

870
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 2: couple last years, the Jets game, he missed all the

871
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 2: Browns game, and then he missed the Titans game, so

872
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:11,319
Speaker 2: he missed it.

873
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 5: Otherwise he was magnificent, right, Golly.

874
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 1: But you have to prepare you have to.

875
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,840
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that that the trade for Diggs is

876
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:21,919
Speaker 2: some sort of insurance or that Mechi ends up being

877
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:22,800
Speaker 2: that kind of insurance.

878
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 1: Okay, well we got these three guys with Meshi's insurance. No,

879
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 1: that's not the way match is looking at it.

880
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 2: I could promise you that John Metchi's looking at it

881
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 2: saying I didn't have the type of year I wanted

882
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,280
Speaker 2: to have my first year back on the field.

883
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:35,799
Speaker 1: I'm going to have that year this year.

884
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 2: And obviously more time you spend with your quarterback, the

885
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 2: better off you're gonna end up being. And so I

886
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 2: feel for him in some sense because it's the third

887
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 2: year physically he's been here. It's really only the second

888
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 2: year that he's been a football player really for the Texans.

889
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:55,839
Speaker 1: But what if we always said about rookie year one.

890
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:58,919
Speaker 2: To year two guys exactly they make and take that leap.

891
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:00,359
Speaker 1: And if he's able to do.

892
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:04,400
Speaker 4: That, it's the T word man tantalizing, Yeah, very much antalizing.

893
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:06,919
Speaker 4: If he can do that, and he can, actually it's

894
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 4: actually your one to year two for him, and he

895
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:11,720
Speaker 4: makes the leap like you're talking about. Because Demiko brought

896
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 4: that up right on Monday. This is a big year

897
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 4: for a lot of these these rookies. Ye're one to

898
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 4: year two. Yeah, you gotta lump him in there. I

899
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 4: know he's not technically a rookie. He was, so he

900
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:20,760
Speaker 4: was a rookie.

901
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:24,319
Speaker 2: It's I kind of just you know, Mark and I

902
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 2: have talked about things on and off the air, and

903
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 2: so I had walked down the cafeteria and walked back here,

904
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 2: and I just as I was walking, I was thinking,

905
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 2: and I happened to see MATCHI with Tank going outside,

906
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:34,879
Speaker 2: and I just happened to think.

907
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 1: Even after the.

908
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 2: Digs trade, I still felt like receiver needed to be

909
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 2: on the platter, because this is a receiver class that

910
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 2: you that platters nice.

911
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:47,399
Speaker 5: It's deep man.

912
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: There's Cavia over.

913
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 2: Here, Marvin Harrison Junior, there's you know, Filet Mignon over here,

914
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 2: that's Roma Dunes. I mean, you've got all kinds of

915
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:56,439
Speaker 2: things on the buffet, and you don't want to miss

916
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 2: out on a buffet.

917
00:37:57,880 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 1: Even if your buffet is really good. Back home, you

918
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 1: used to want some of it.

919
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 2: So I always thought, okay, maybe it's not pick forty

920
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 2: two fifty nine eighty six, but there's going to be

921
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:08,720
Speaker 2: a receiver draft, and then I sell those two together

922
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 2: and it just for some reason, the thought and the

923
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 2: question crystallized.

924
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:13,759
Speaker 1: N ask Marc.

925
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:17,359
Speaker 2: I said, do you think that they might because it's

926
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 2: only a second year and what he's come off of

927
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:21,760
Speaker 2: that they look at Mechi as kind of their twenty

928
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 2: twenty four draft pick at receiver, and I was like, no,

929
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 2: I don't think you can look at it that way,

930
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 2: because you still have players in this twenty twenty four

931
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:31,839
Speaker 2: draft that are different from everybody else that you have here,

932
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:37,360
Speaker 2: that are explosive, provide big plays, fit all size, shape, speed,

933
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff, and you should want to

934
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:44,360
Speaker 2: definitely protect for the future because you may have Nico

935
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:45,919
Speaker 2: next year, you may have Digs next year.

936
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:47,359
Speaker 1: So you've got to be prepared for that.

937
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,240
Speaker 2: Not saying that you go take a receiver with forty

938
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 2: two or fifty nine even, but you've got to take

939
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 2: a receiver at some point in a really really.

940
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:56,240
Speaker 1: Good draft, or receivers.

941
00:38:56,560 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 2: But Mechi is going to, if anything, take whatever rookie's

942
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 2: in there, and he's like, I'm gonna beat that dude out.

943
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, so completely and fully.

944
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 2: That they're gonna think about me as the number three

945
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 2: guys sometimes even the number two guy that I'm so

946
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,439
Speaker 2: far removed from that that I'm gonna have that kind

947
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 2: of year. Yeah, and and hopefully that's what what ends

948
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:18,720
Speaker 2: up happening.

949
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:19,440
Speaker 5: Tantalizing.

950
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 4: T word tantalizing, because I still think you can add

951
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,439
Speaker 4: in a rookie and yeah, absolutely, I think will why

952
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,399
Speaker 4: not stockpile of strength make it to happen?

953
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: Strength?

954
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 5: So tantalizing?

955
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,719
Speaker 4: All right, let's let's let's pivot a little bit to

956
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 4: a different playmakers spotted offense.

957
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 5: You brought up Joell Mix and what he can do.

958
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 4: A lot of people have thrown dirt on the I

959
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 4: think premature grave that is Damian Pierce. Let's let's just

960
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:50,879
Speaker 4: best case scenario, Damien Pierce. The light bulb goes off,

961
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 4: He's figured out this offense. He's a piece and he's

962
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 4: a weapon in this offense. What does that look like

963
00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:02,200
Speaker 4: if that's the case, if everything goes swimmingly for Damian Pierce?

964
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 4: Because man, that guy was the like one of the

965
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 4: lone bright spots from twenty twenty two, what was just

966
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 4: a nasty campaign twenty twenty two. He was so much

967
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 4: fun to cover. He was such a breath of fresh

968
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 4: air on and off the field. What if he's a

969
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,360
Speaker 4: lot closer to who that guy was than what we

970
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 4: saw of him last year.

971
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 5: What's that mean for this team?

972
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 2: Well, here's and I've had this thought of how and

973
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 2: Mark asked me this, how our defense is gonna game

974
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 2: plan to stop the Texans? And I think one of

975
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 2: the things that you have to do when you game plan,

976
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 2: the first thing you have to do is, Okay, what

977
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 2: do we want? What do we want to take away?

978
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 2: What can we not live with getting beat with? Is

979
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 2: it CJ throwing the ball? Is it a particular receiver,

980
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 2: is it a particular type of throw? You know, hey,

981
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 2: we're not giving him deep throws like We're just not

982
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 2: And there were teams that did that. They just said,

983
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 2: you're not throwing the ball deep on us. Everything's gonna

984
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 2: stay in front. Are they gonna take away Shultz sometimes

985
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 2: if he gets it's hot, What and who are they

986
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 2: going to try and take away?

987
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 1: From a week to week basis?

988
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:10,920
Speaker 2: If you have Damian Pierce going well with Joe Mixon,

989
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 2: it makes that question that much more complicated for defensive

990
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 2: coordinators to go, ooh, man, I don't want to have

991
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 2: to play bass because then they put you know, twelve

992
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 2: personnel out there with Schultz and Jordan Brevin, and all

993
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 2: of a sudden you're you're in trouble because at twelve

994
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 2: personnel you're thinking, well, run game, and then all of

995
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:38,799
Speaker 2: a sudden they put those two guys in there, and

996
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 2: you got a linebacker cover one of those two, and

997
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 2: you're eating.

998
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 1: Throwing the ball all day long.

999
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 2: You can do so much when you have that run

1000
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 2: game going, and then you could just get in you know,

1001
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 2: twelve personnel with whoever you want.

1002
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:52,960
Speaker 1: Tight end is going to be.

1003
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 2: Hopefully Toreano is back and you put him on the

1004
00:41:56,520 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 2: field with Schultz. Now you're a true run blocking twelve

1005
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 2: personnel team or formation and you're hammering with one of

1006
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:08,760
Speaker 2: those backs. But then you go to hammer oh, play action,

1007
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 2: one of those tight ends gets open, probably Schultz, but

1008
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 2: Quatoriano has shown in some play action situation last year

1009
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:15,840
Speaker 2: before he was hurt Atlanta was a great one. You

1010
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 2: want to have to climb the ladder and one got one.

1011
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 2: That's the kind of thing he could provide. So you're

1012
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 2: making defenses, declare, how are you going to stop us?

1013
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 2: Are you gonna play a bunch of quarters or play quarter,

1014
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 2: quarter half? Are you gonna play man? Are you gonna

1015
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 2: double somebody? Are you gonna try and stay?

1016
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 1: And nickel?

1017
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 2: Do you want to be in your base defense? What

1018
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:40,920
Speaker 2: you're gonna what you're gonna have are answers to the test.

1019
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:44,720
Speaker 2: And once everybody gets on the same page and they understand, Okay,

1020
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 2: take a look, guys, look at this defense. What are

1021
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 2: they taking away? Where they're taking away Nico? Okay, let's

1022
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 2: be cognizant of that. Let's make sure they can't take

1023
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 2: away Nico because we're hurting them with other things. And

1024
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 2: you don't have that a lot in this league. There

1025
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 2: are some teams that have it, you know. But for

1026
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:03,320
Speaker 2: a long time, the Chiefs when they had Tyreek and

1027
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:05,319
Speaker 2: they had Kelsey, like, Okay, who you're gonna take away?

1028
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 1: Which one you're gonna double Tyreek? Okay, well, Kelsey's gonna

1029
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:10,879
Speaker 1: kill you. You're gonna double Kelsey? Well, Tyreek's man a man,

1030
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: You're in a lot of trouble.

1031
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 2: Now the Chiefs have found a way to do it differently,

1032
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 2: obviously without Tyreek, and the connection with Mahomes and Kelsey

1033
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 2: is just off the charts. But the Texans have more

1034
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:28,399
Speaker 2: avenues for how they can get down the road. If

1035
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,279
Speaker 2: one is blocked, this other one should work. When you

1036
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:34,399
Speaker 2: have Damian Pierce. I think I would like to see

1037
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:36,160
Speaker 2: Damien get more of all the passing game, and.

1038
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 1: That's a good spot to stop.

1039
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 2: That was kind of a deep dive on the offense

1040
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 2: with the thought of what does Damian Pierce bring to

1041
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 2: this offense in twenty twenty four. In fact, I was

1042
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 2: doing a talk with our ticketing office today and that

1043
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 2: question came up. What about Damian Pierson year three? Could

1044
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 2: get really interesting, could get very interesting. I do think

1045
00:43:57,120 --> 00:44:00,920
Speaker 2: there will be a running back added throughout through the draft.

1046
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 2: They just added a veteran. Who was it who the

1047
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 2: Texans re signed.

1048
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 1: We also kicks too. Oh, that just gave it away.

1049
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 2: We'll discuss that and more around the NFL next on

1050
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:13,719
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Speaker 1: Daria goomble Wale. Yes he is back.

1060
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 2: Texans have re signed our favorite backup kicker and complimentary

1061
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 2: running back special team star, Darya goombwalle back. I think

1062
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:52,399
Speaker 2: it's year three, right, I think two three, twenty four.

1063
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 2: I believe so they'd be year three in Houston. Obviously,

1064
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 2: he started his career twenty seventeen with the Texans and

1065
00:44:57,680 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 2: then bounced around a few teams and came back. So

1066
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 2: so thinking about it from that perspective, twenty seventeen, I

1067
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 2: believe it was his first year. I remember a coach

1068
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:08,760
Speaker 2: telling me that, yeah, he won't make it through training camp,

1069
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 2: and now he's working on year eight. So congratulations to

1070
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:16,840
Speaker 2: Daria coming back to the Texans. There was a I

1071
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 2: don't know, want to say minor move, but there's a move,

1072
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 2: a trade in the NFL, and because it includes a quarterback,

1073
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:27,239
Speaker 2: a former number two overall drafted quarterback, it probably makes

1074
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:30,760
Speaker 2: a little bit of news. But Zack Wilson, former Jets

1075
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:37,360
Speaker 2: number two overall pick, traded to the Broncos exchange for

1076
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:40,280
Speaker 2: some late round picks or a pick swap, I guess

1077
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 2: in the late rounds. So Zach Wilson heads to Denver,

1078
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 2: which leaves them a quarterback room of Jarrett Stidham and

1079
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:53,320
Speaker 2: Zach Wilson. The Broncos will be moving up for a

1080
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 2: quarterback or that's what it appears that they're going to be.

1081
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Speaker 2: Speaking of the Broncos, they got new uniforms. They broke

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Speaker 2: out their retros, which are cool with those orange with

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Speaker 2: the kind of lighter blue helmets. Those are pretty much fire.

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Speaker 2: Those those are cool. But their new uniformsh okay, I

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Speaker 2: don't know. Don't really want to get into uniforms too

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Speaker 2: much because we will be out for their uniform reveal tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna be a blast market.

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Speaker 2: So we'll do all access live from the location which

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Speaker 2: you think is the Post, So we'll be out there

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Speaker 2: for that.

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Speaker 1: So looking forward to finally getting it out there.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, ten o'clock tomorrow is the unveiling.

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Speaker 1: Eleven o'clock my math is correct.

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Speaker 2: I think Hannah and Call are going to be on

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Speaker 2: with Landry and Lopez, so make sure you check it

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Speaker 2: out on Sports Radio six ten. Matt Ryan former Cult Well,

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Speaker 2: really we know him as a Falcon officially retires. He

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Speaker 2: been in a booth, but I guess he hadn't officially

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Speaker 2: said I'm done.

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Speaker 1: Well. He said that today. Fifteen years in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: Matt Ryan officially retires at twenty sixteen, MVP two thousand

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Speaker 2: and eight Offensive Rookie of the Year, hangs him up.

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Speaker 2: Is he going to Canton? Oh that's a good question, man.

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Speaker 2: We're out of time. We'll talk about that at a

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Speaker 2: later date. He and Philip Rivers are probably eating at

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Speaker 2: the same table.

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Speaker 1: Okay. Appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 2: As always, thanks to my buddy SalCo Paccio, Drew Dolready

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Speaker 2: free to lab all of you for listening.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you next time, and as always, go Texans.