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Speaker 2: All right, We're going to do two segments, okay, so

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Speaker 2: just chop it up and talk about the Inspired Change event.

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Speaker 2: I'll set it up. I got questions for both of

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Speaker 2: you guys to us, So whenever cool?

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Speaker 1: Is this the first time?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, welcome in Texan radio players. Addition, I'm Indy Kalu.

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Speaker 3: He is Mark Vandermert to my right, one of the ogs.

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Speaker 3: You know, this guy's not just a OG when it

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Speaker 3: comes to the Houston Texans, he's a OG in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Former All Pro, former pro bowler. Wade Smith joining us.

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Speaker 1: What's going on? Wade? I am amazing today. How you

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Speaker 1: doing to day? And d We're good. Speaking of amazing,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like y'all did something amazing.

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Speaker 2: Inspired Change Grant event. And Wade's on the committee, So

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Speaker 2: Wade can tell us all about this. Because the Texans

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Speaker 2: gave away what is it waited over four hundred and

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Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars today.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was four hundred and fifty five thousand dollars,

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Speaker 1: which is the most that the Inspired Change Grant Committee

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Speaker 1: has been able to give out. And that was all

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Speaker 1: from the Houston Texans Foundation. And so there's multiple organizations

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Speaker 1: over the around the Greater Houston area that do amazing things,

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Speaker 1: whether it's you know Kids Meals or you know Girls Inc.

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Speaker 1: great things. And so you know, they submit their their

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Speaker 1: grant request and we review them all. I think this

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Speaker 1: year it was over three hundred applications that got sent

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Speaker 1: give out four hundred and fifty five thousand dollars in

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Speaker 1: grant funds to I think it was twelve total entities.

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Speaker 1: And that was cool to be a part of it.

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Speaker 1: It's a great day to be here to let them know,

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Speaker 1: So and of course we had Mark Vanderbiler as the

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Speaker 1: So it was it was I'm an amazing mood right

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Speaker 1: now because it's always good to give to people that

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Speaker 2: That was fun, by the way, and d I get

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Speaker 2: to be Oprah at this event. You get a grap

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Speaker 2: and you get a graph and they all get grants

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Speaker 2: and it's you're making people so happy, you know, I

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Speaker 2: money and it's awesome. And we had some players there.

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Speaker 2: We had Caemi Fairbarn there today. We had JJ Taylor,

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Speaker 2: cade Stover and Dylan Horton were there, along with of

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Speaker 2: course Wade and Chris Clark was their boy. Clark. You

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Speaker 2: want to talk about offensive Lineman to have slimmed down, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: all right, you're one of them. Clark is certainly another.

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Speaker 2: He has slimmed down a lot. I know he wasn't

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Speaker 1: He's he came right after me, so I was seventy

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Speaker 1: four and then when I left, he came in and

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Speaker 2: Colin Gillespia was there. It was really cool.

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Speaker 3: It was good mistake. Tim Jamison won a grant a

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Speaker 3: Did he win one a couple of years ago?

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Speaker 1: He might have won one, but it might have been

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Speaker 1: don't remember ever giving his organization funds. But they have

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Speaker 1: different they have bold of awards they have yeah, yea.

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Speaker 1: So this one was inspired Change and that started in

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Speaker 3: And that to be company man. But it goes to

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Speaker 3: show how many great things the Texans do in the community.

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Speaker 3: The fact that I wasn't sure which time they.

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Speaker 2: Gave money, it's another category of giving.

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Speaker 1: Yeah Man, Conico, Flip Phillips, Ashley Furniture, Coca Cola Southwest,

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Speaker 2: Now, what can we do to improve the offensive line play?

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Speaker 2: You had the buy so much to touch on here, Wade,

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Speaker 3: I don't want to get into controversy about the leader

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he gets the ball out quick. But he's not

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Speaker 2: even if you miss, there should be somebody else there

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Speaker 3: But it's good that you brought that up because I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the last thing I want to do is get

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Speaker 3: You know, you'll be surprised some of these guys so especially.

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Speaker 3: end of the season, I was like, wow, I can't

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Speaker 3: take any more of this, Like, okay, I just can't

436
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Speaker 3: do it. The years I was a role player and

437
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Speaker 3: I come in on pass rushing packages. At the end

438
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Speaker 3: of the season, I was like, man, I got five

439
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Speaker 3: more games in.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

441
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Speaker 3: So it's tough to answer that question, but I do

442
00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:06,959
Speaker 3: believe if the teams adjust, So if you go eighteen

443
00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,520
Speaker 3: game schedule, you got to take the pass off during

444
00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:12,359
Speaker 3: the week by we five or six. And when I

445
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Speaker 3: say that for the listeners, typically Wednesday and Thursdays are

446
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Speaker 3: the very intense padded practices. If you know you have

447
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Speaker 3: an eighteen game season, I think it can be done.

448
00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:25,960
Speaker 3: If the coaches, the coaching staff, if they're smart and say,

449
00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:28,560
Speaker 3: we can't try to kill each other during the week, No,

450
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Speaker 3: we're going to play these extra games.

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Speaker 1: I tell you what, when I look at the whole

452
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Speaker 1: eighteen game season deal, to me, what I see happening

453
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Speaker 1: is the guys that are the premier players, the top

454
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Speaker 1: of the line, guys that are getting paid the most money.

455
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Speaker 1: I don't see them having extensively long careers. I think

456
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Speaker 1: that their careers are going to be shortened. I think

457
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Speaker 1: guys kind of describing, like going off of what Indy

458
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Speaker 1: would say, if you're a role player, and you're a

459
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Speaker 1: role player and so you're not getting physically as taxed

460
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Speaker 1: as much, those those type of guys, I think their's

461
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Speaker 1: their careers actually could go a little bit longer because

462
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Speaker 1: they they're not taking the wear and tear that those

463
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Speaker 1: starters are, and they're also not getting paid as much

464
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Speaker 1: as they are, so they're gonna be wanting to stay

465
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Speaker 1: in the game longer. Whereas guys that are premier players

466
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Speaker 1: that you know, you get how like how much money

467
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Speaker 1: can you spend? You kind of think about it like

468
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Speaker 1: I got this seventy million dollar deal, now, I got

469
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Speaker 1: this one hundred and twenty five million dollar deal. Now

470
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Speaker 1: I got this two hundred and twenty five million dollar deal,

471
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Speaker 1: and that's just year nine. Like I'm gonna go ahead

472
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Speaker 1: and retire now. So I don't think you're going to see,

473
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Speaker 1: you know, fifteen sixteen year careers like you've seen out

474
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Speaker 1: of some you know, offensive linemen and and receivers and

475
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Speaker 1: and stuff. Like that, because I think guys would have

476
00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:48,560
Speaker 1: made their money. They're gonna they're gonna get out, and

477
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Speaker 1: you've seen that happen where you see guys like, what's

478
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Speaker 1: some my linebackers from from San Francisco? Yeah, Patrick Patrick Willis.

479
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Speaker 1: That was weird. Yeah, but but what's the name again,

480
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Speaker 1: Patrick Willis? Yeah, he just went into the Hall of Fame.

481
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Speaker 1: But his career could have been longer. But I think

482
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Speaker 1: he was just like, I'm good, Luke, like guys like,

483
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys that are great players, but

484
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Speaker 1: I just don't think they're going to have as long

485
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Speaker 1: as careers because you're talking about eighteen games and those

486
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Speaker 1: guys don't come out the game and just like he said,

487
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Speaker 1: when your starter at the end of the year, Like

488
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Speaker 1: I remember the way I felt after we lost to

489
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Speaker 1: Baltimore in that game in two thousand and eleven, eleven,

490
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Speaker 1: twenty eleven. We physically upfront won the game, but we

491
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Speaker 1: lost the game as a team because we turned the

492
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Speaker 1: ball over. But I remember sitting in the training room

493
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Speaker 1: after the season was over with with myself and Arian

494
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Speaker 1: I think THEE Brown was in there, and we were

495
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Speaker 1: kind of looking around like, man if we would have

496
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Speaker 1: won that game. I don't know. We were banged up.

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Speaker 2: Br was coming back from that broken whatever.

498
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he might have been all right because he

499
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Speaker 1: had a little bit he played through some crazy stuff,

500
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Speaker 1: played through a broken I guess it was a shin muscle, shinbone, tibia,

501
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:05,359
Speaker 1: or phbe I don't know which one it was, but.

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Speaker 2: That's some kind of speed healing thing on. I don't

503
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Speaker 2: know what they did.

504
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Speaker 1: That was one of the most amazing things I've ever

505
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Speaker 1: been a part of. But you know the way you

506
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Speaker 1: feel after a season when you've played all those games,

507
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Speaker 1: and that was sixteen games. Now you add a seventeen game.

508
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Speaker 1: Now you're trying to add an eighteenth game. I just

509
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Speaker 1: see guys that are playing a tremendous amount of reps

510
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Speaker 1: having shorter careers, and guys that are rotational guys extending

511
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Speaker 1: their careers because they're going to need people to fill

512
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Speaker 1: those roles that are veteran. You're just gonna I think

513
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Speaker 1: you're going to see more of that. And so as

514
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Speaker 1: if anything, when when something changes, I guess to just

515
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Speaker 1: there's gonna be people that are gonna benefit from them.

516
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Speaker 1: They are going to people that are gonna kind of

517
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Speaker 1: have a negative impact or fall to the wayside. So

518
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Speaker 1: it just be interesting to see how it shakes out.

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Speaker 1: But it feels like that's what's coming.

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Speaker 2: Does it blow your mind, both of you how popular

521
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Speaker 2: the game is now? Because the ratings have always been

522
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Speaker 2: good with the NFL last thirty forty years, right, But

523
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Speaker 2: now everything else does terribly on regular television and the

524
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Speaker 2: NFL does phenomenally well. And Amazon the last streaming game

525
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Speaker 2: just set a record. The Thanksgiving broadcasts were record setters,

526
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Speaker 2: are the best in whatever amount of decades. I mean,

527
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Speaker 2: they really did incredibly well. And we're about to get

528
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Speaker 2: Christmas Day doubleheader on Netflix and you know that's going

529
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Speaker 2: to crush it, especially here with Beyonce still performing at

530
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Speaker 2: the half last I checked, but Beyonce performing at the half,

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Speaker 2: all of that, it's going to be incredible. So does

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Speaker 2: it blow your mind or is it just that's NFL

533
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Speaker 2: football when you see the other sports decrease in TV ratings?

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Speaker 3: But my answer is no and yes, and I'll explain it.

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Speaker 3: So growing up, I'm a I was a foot I

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Speaker 3: still am a football fan. I mean, I'm that weirdo.

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Speaker 3: When I was a kid and we would get the

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Speaker 3: sports illustrated magazine sent to our house. If anybody was

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Speaker 3: in the NFL in the magazine, I'll cut it up

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Speaker 3: and just staple it to my wall. So my whole

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Speaker 3: wall was just pitches of the NFL. So I'm not

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Speaker 3: surprised the popularity. But i am surprised because when I

543
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Speaker 3: heard that they were going to stream games, I thought, oh,

544
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Speaker 3: that's crazy, like, no one's gonna go through the effort

545
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Speaker 3: of figuring out which platform is on and stream the game.

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Speaker 3: And to see that those are doing numbers, that's a

547
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Speaker 3: pleasant surprise. Like football, so entertaining is such a great

548
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Speaker 3: product that an older person, you know, someone from the

549
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Speaker 3: generation before mine is trying, is figuring out how to

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Speaker 3: watch a freaking game on their tap yet like or

551
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Speaker 3: you know, uploading the platform exactly, and they're doing it.

552
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Speaker 3: So I am surprised, but it just goes to show that,

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Speaker 3: I mean, I say it all the time, this is

554
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Speaker 3: the greatest sport in the history of sports. So I'm

555
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Speaker 3: not surprised that. And look, I grew up watching basketball.

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Speaker 3: Not to get off on a tangent like I'm a

557
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Speaker 3: basketball fan, but I have to make myself watching the

558
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Speaker 3: entire basketball game.

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Speaker 2: But that's a problem.

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Speaker 3: I'm sprinting and you know, making sure that I'm there

561
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Speaker 3: for the kickoff and watching.

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Speaker 2: Until it's over. That's a problem, right.

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Speaker 1: I think one thing that the NF and I'm not

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Speaker 1: surprised at all, And I think the NFL has the

565
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Speaker 1: formula that is better than any other formula any other

566
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Speaker 1: professional sports where the whole tanking to get guys it

567
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 1: doesn't work in the NFL. Just think about you know,

568
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Speaker 1: people wanted us to lose that game against Indie. What

569
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Speaker 1: would have happened? You know what? You know you exactly

570
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 1: you play as coach said, you played to win the game.

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Speaker 1: And that mentality is something that's taught to you since

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Speaker 1: you're a little kid and you watch it on TV

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Speaker 1: and you emulate that and it's always been that way,

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Speaker 1: Like Indy said, as a kid, the NFL was everything.

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Speaker 1: I watched it on TV like in Amazement and those games,

576
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Speaker 1: those games were competitive. But I feel like the parody

577
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 1: in the game is in such a way right now

578
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Speaker 1: that everybody feels like they have a chance. And so

579
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Speaker 1: now more people are watching and people are trying to

580
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Speaker 1: figure out, like, well, what's going on with the NFL thing?

581
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Speaker 1: And then you get people like Taylor Swift involved, and

582
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Speaker 1: then now people are like, well, what's this NF. Let

583
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Speaker 1: me see what And then they watch a game and

584
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Speaker 1: you're like, just think about watching that game the other day.

585
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 1: It was the Rams versus Buffalo. That was an exciting game,

586
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: back and forth, came down to the wire, was forty

587
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:12,679
Speaker 1: four to forty two. Great football game. Somebody's got to win,

588
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:16,240
Speaker 1: somebody's got to lose. And you know, there's no ties

589
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 1: like other sports where there's ties. A lot has happened

590
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 1: for it's very rare, but it's not like you know,

591
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 1: soccer where every time you look up you got you know,

592
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Speaker 1: in a season you got ten ties, twenty wins and

593
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Speaker 1: eight losses or whatever, or hockey, same thing. So I

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Speaker 1: just think that the NFL has the best formula. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not surprised one bit that as a big fan

596
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Speaker 1: of the Wire, the King stayed the King, and the

597
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 1: NFL has figured out the formula and they just figure

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Speaker 1: out ways to add on to it. And they got

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Speaker 1: great businessmen and people with great business acumen to figure

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Speaker 1: out how do we maximize this amazing product that we

601
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Speaker 1: have here, and they continue to do it.

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Speaker 3: Let me ask you, Mark because you heard the perspective

603
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Speaker 3: of two players. As a guy who calls every game,

604
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Speaker 3: a guy that has to learn the roster and really

605
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 3: dive into each sport. You've called baseball, you've called basketball.

606
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Speaker 3: Obviously you're the best when it comes to calling football.

607
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Speaker 3: Why do you think.

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Speaker 2: I would love to have eighteen for me? You know,

609
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 2: because that's another game. And look, I'm not playing the sport. Okay,

610
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:19,920
Speaker 2: it's easy for me.

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00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,639
Speaker 1: Guys, I just go to the well.

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Speaker 2: It's funny because I've had vocal issues. This is just

613
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 2: personal stuff. I've had vocal issues. So if I was

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Speaker 2: doing baseball, that'd be pretty tough. But I couldn't do

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Speaker 2: it the way I do football. It's the second inning,

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, he struck them out. You know, it's

617
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Speaker 2: like a right, it's listen, it's may What are you doing?

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Speaker 5: You know?

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Speaker 2: I would probably air on that side of energy if

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Speaker 2: I was broadcasting baseball. But I love doing basketball. Okay,

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Speaker 2: For years, I always thought it was a better basketball

622
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Speaker 2: announcer than FOOTBA announcer because I've done hundreds of D

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Speaker 2: one basketball games. You know, I love calling basketball, and

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Speaker 2: only until I don't know, I can't name the year

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Speaker 2: for you right now. Maybe at another time where I

626
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,719
Speaker 2: started to feel like, okay, I'm getting pretty good at football,

627
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Speaker 2: you know, to my standard that I was at basketball.

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Speaker 1: I love that.

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Speaker 2: But if I was doing NBA, that'd be a lot

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Speaker 2: on my voice.

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Speaker 1: You know, in the end.

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Speaker 2: The NBA radio guys, a lot of them do the

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Speaker 2: games alone. There's no analyst. That's a lot of that.

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Speaker 1: That's forty eight.

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Speaker 2: Minutes of hummahammahammad. I mean there's a lot that you

636
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 2: have to call. So I like footballs once a week,

637
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 2: you know, you recharge every week. It's a big event

638
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 2: on Sunday, whenever the day is. And we're about to

639
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 2: embark on this three game stretch here, so I want

640
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 2: to ask you guys about that as well.

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Speaker 3: All right, well, let's take a quick time out so

642
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 3: we can rest up our voices and discuss the three

643
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 3: game stretch in ten days?

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Speaker 1: Is that right? Three games in ten days?

645
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, technically eleven.

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00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: That's huge.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk about that and much more. This is a

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Speaker 3: player's edition on Texans Radio. Welcome back, Welcome. In a

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Speaker 3: final segment, Texans Radio Players addition, I'm in d he

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Speaker 3: is Mark Wade to my right, and you let us

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Speaker 3: with a nice little tease there.

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Speaker 1: Mark.

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Speaker 2: We were talking about eighteen games and all of that stuff,

654
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Speaker 2: But what about this three game gauntlet as we call it,

655
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Speaker 2: where you have the game Sunday against the Dolphins. A

656
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 2: tough game. This is a big game because if you

657
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 2: don't get this game, the pressure is gonna ratchet up extremely,

658
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 2: especially if the Colts are able to somehow beat Denver

659
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 2: on Sunday after you play. But let's say you play

660
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 2: the Dolphins. Whatever happens, you get six days, so it's

661
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 2: a shorter week. Okay, it's a Sunday Saturday, and then

662
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Speaker 2: you have Saturday Wednesday, so you have three games in

663
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Speaker 2: eleven days. So what about that part? Now, after that

664
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Speaker 2: Christmas Day game, then you get a week and a

665
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 2: half to get ready for Tennessee. But you know, we'll

666
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 2: cross that bridge when we get to it. It'll be nice.

667
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 2: But this is a big stretch against really high quality teams.

668
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 2: The Dolphins are basically a playoff caliber team that lost

669
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Speaker 2: their quarterback for a number of games, and if they

670
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Speaker 2: had them all along, they'd have a winning record coming

671
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:48,200
Speaker 2: in here, and they're playing like a winning team.

672
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Speaker 1: Yeah, man, this is a tough stretch. I couldn't imagine

673
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 1: playing three games in eleven days. I remember us playing

674
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 1: against Jacksonville five basically a five quarter game because of

675
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 1: we want it deep into overtime. That was a Sunday

676
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 1: like noon game, and then having to turn around and

677
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:09,959
Speaker 1: fly to Detroit and play Detroit on Thanksgiving and remember

678
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 1: remembering how my body felt after that. That was rough.

679
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 1: Now imagine having to add another game like right after that,

680
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 1: like four or five days after that, that would have

681
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: that would have been really tough. And so I do

682
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 1: think you gotta look towards the advantage that you do have.

683
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 1: You just had a bye week and the game that

684
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Speaker 1: you're playing, the first game is at home. I think

685
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 1: you got to take advantage of that. This game is

686
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 1: critical to use to your advantage. That you're fresh, that

687
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 1: you're relatively healthy, and the team that you're playing is

688
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 1: coming off of a tough game that they were able

689
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 1: to pull out, but they had to go extra time

690
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 1: to win that game. So you gotta take advantage of that.

691
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 1: Jump on them early, make them one dimensional to where

692
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: you can play the game that you want to play

693
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 1: and how you want to play it, so that when

694
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 1: you're when you're finishing that game, you're feeling good about yourself,

695
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 1: but you also didn't have to overextend yourself to get

696
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 1: ready for the Chiefs. And playing against the Chiefs in

697
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 1: Kansas City, it's gonna be cold. They are they're a

698
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 1: very physical football team. You're you're gonna have to get

699
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 1: yourself up and ready to go to a play a

700
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: game like that. So I think this, this this first

701
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 1: game is is critically important important, and you know once

702
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 1: you depending on how those first two games go, there's

703
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 1: a lot that could be potentially on the table for

704
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 1: the Texans because some of the teams that are ahead

705
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 1: of the Texans got some tough ball games coming up.

706
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: And so you're talking about playoff seeding and all that

707
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:37,720
Speaker 1: type of stuff and home field and all that. That

708
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: are possibilities. Not home field necessarily for the Texans, but

709
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: being the number two seed or number the the number

710
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: three seed, because the team is the number two seed

711
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: right now, you already beat so you kind of got

712
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: that tie breaker. So there's opportunities for like, hey, you

713
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 1: know the Buffalo Bills, they got to play Detroit that

714
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 1: that that could be an l for them and they

715
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 1: just lost, So there's a there's a chance for you

716
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 1: to move up. So if you win those first two

717
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 1: games and you got the Ravens at home, that becomes

718
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: a huge ball game that you could put yourself in

719
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 1: an integrate position for the playoffs. And so you just

720
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 1: got to take it. You got to be very, very

721
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 1: cognizant of your rest once you get out of the games,

722
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 1: getting home, getting your rest, taking care of your body,

723
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 1: your recovery, eating right, everything that you normally do. You

724
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 1: have to turn it up to the playoff level now,

725
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: even though this isn't the playoffs, you got to treat

726
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 1: it as such as such because of the caliber of opponents,

727
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 1: because of the short time between games, and because of

728
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 1: what's at stake.

729
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 3: Could you see a scenario where in one of the

730
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 3: first two games of the three, if there's a comfortable lead,

731
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 3: and I know, games out over until it's over, you

732
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 3: rotate offensive lineman, you know, the one position group that

733
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 3: doesn't come off the field. Can you see a scenario

734
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 3: where it's like, you know what, I gotta get these guys.

735
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe maybe it's my my I don't

736
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 1: know if you saw me, but I physically I find

737
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 1: it kind of felt uncomfortable to he be gv's that's

738
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: that's that's that's not something that you want to participate in.

739
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 1: As far as the offensive lineman, you don't want to

740
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 1: get rotated in and out. If there's guys that do

741
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: have knicks, that do have that are playing through something,

742
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 1: then that can be beneficial. That was something that I

743
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,959
Speaker 1: had to do in twenty thirteen where I was coming

744
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 1: off of scope and I was trying. I came back

745
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 1: too soon and had to work through that and my

746
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 1: body was not the way it needed to be, and

747
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,879
Speaker 1: I started rotating with Ben Jones and at the time

748
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,400
Speaker 1: it sucked, but you know, as the season went on,

749
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:32,879
Speaker 1: I kind of thought to myself, like, I'm actually having

750
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: an opportunity to start to get better now because I'm

751
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 1: not out there seventy plays and that's like a tough

752
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,320
Speaker 1: pill to swallow. And guys like you, d lineman, you

753
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,359
Speaker 1: guys are used to rotating and it's no big deal.

754
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 1: I had to like come to grips with that, like, yeah,

755
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 1: this actually is a you know, a smart way to

756
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: approach this for me to get back to where I

757
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 1: need to be. So if you are an older offensive line,

758
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 1: we don't have that many really old guys but if

759
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 1: you're a guy that's a little bit long in the

760
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: tooth and you have some mixed maybe there could be

761
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,800
Speaker 1: an opportunity for that. But just inherently that's not what

762
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: you want to do as an offensive lineman, to do

763
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 1: that rotation. But I do think keeping the d lineman fresh,

764
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 1: rotating those guys you know working in You know, you

765
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 1: got multiple linebackers. Now, you know, Christian Harrison looks like

766
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 1: he's going to be back, you got Devin White, you're

767
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 1: down a guy. Getting those guys to rotate through, I

768
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 1: think it would be good for them. Saying with the

769
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 1: defensive backs, like, you know you got some you know Petrie,

770
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,799
Speaker 1: I don't you know he's not back yet. I don't

771
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:32,759
Speaker 1: think so you got guys that.

772
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Speaker 5: You know.

773
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 1: If you have opportunity to rotate some guys and still

774
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:39,359
Speaker 1: some plays, you take that if you can.

775
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:42,879
Speaker 2: Where where did that start? Like that's uh what old

776
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:43,800
Speaker 2: line playing together?

777
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: Yeah?

778
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,320
Speaker 3: Like never coming out because I remember I've been on

779
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 3: teams where now here's the thing, it's such an important

780
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,879
Speaker 3: position group you don't want to rotate people and give

781
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,360
Speaker 3: up the quarterback getting sacked. But I've played on some

782
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 3: teams where are Bobby Williams. I don't know if you

783
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 3: remember that. He was a backup in Philadelphia, but he

784
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 3: can start any other team, right, But he didn't step

785
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 3: on the field as someone got hurt. Like there's this

786
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:07,320
Speaker 3: pride with the offensive line where it's like, no, I

787
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 3: need to play every single snapple.

788
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 1: It's just a lie.

789
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 2: I don't know.

790
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 1: I don't know where that originated. Is When I became

791
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman, that was what it was. Whereas when

792
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 1: I played tight end, that was the least thing from

793
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 1: the truth. Like you rotated through. That was just a

794
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: normal close action. When I played receiver when I was

795
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: in high school or in high school, in middle school

796
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: and like junior high. You know, guys rotating out you

797
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 1: take the plays in that I was your job as

798
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: a receive your running and take the play. You run

799
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: and play, then come back out. And that was just

800
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: a normal course of action. But when I moved the

801
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 1: offensive line, it was very much so like this is

802
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: how we do things here. It's a different it's a

803
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: different world in that room than any other room. That's

804
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 1: why it's special. And so I just think guys that

805
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 1: have that mentality of hey, our successes are based off

806
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:53,319
Speaker 1: of what the guys around us do and wanted them

807
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,720
Speaker 1: to be protectors. It's almost like if you're a dad,

808
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,399
Speaker 1: you don't want to like take days off from being dad.

809
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 1: I'm always his dad. I'm always going to be protectors.

810
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 1: I'm always going to look out for my kids. And

811
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: so maybe that's where it came from. I don't know

812
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 1: where originated, but I know that's what.

813
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:09,399
Speaker 2: It is I've got. I know we're running out of time,

814
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 2: but allow me to indulge here and d with Wade

815
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 2: here because I love talking about his teams.

816
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: Here.

817
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 2: Joe Mixon running the ball very well. To me, He's

818
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 2: the best back we've had since Arian Facts. So what

819
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 2: is it like for an old Liman to have a

820
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 2: back like that? I know Joe is different from Arian,

821
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 2: but they're both really good. So that's a common theme.

822
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 1: You take it away, Yeah, man, you love playing for

823
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 1: and blocking for a guy like that. A guy that

824
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,239
Speaker 1: is physical is going to finish runs. A guy that

825
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 1: you know has good vision, has good patience is going

826
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 1: to make you right. You have a running back that

827
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:48,360
Speaker 1: makes you right, your job becomes that much more easier.

828
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 1: Like if you know that, Hey, the guy that I'm

829
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 1: blocking he's trying to fight tooth and nail to get outside.

830
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 1: So I'm going to take him where he wants to go.

831
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 1: I'm a force multiplier and drive him farther than he

832
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:00,799
Speaker 1: wants to go, and my going to put his foot

833
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:02,359
Speaker 1: in the ground and get up the field or cut

834
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: it back the way he needs to. That just gives

835
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 1: you that much more confidence in your approach. Sometimes running

836
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 1: backs don't have that vision, and you could block him

837
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 1: exactly the way that you're supposed to block him, and

838
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,320
Speaker 1: the back doesn't see it right, doesn't have that feel,

839
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 1: and he runs right into the tackle, And that can

840
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 1: get frustrated because you're doing a good job. Well, you know,

841
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 1: Mixing is not one of those guys. Mixing is very

842
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,400
Speaker 1: similar I think to Arian as far as his vision,

843
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 1: his ability to be physical as a bigger back like

844
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: Arian was, and like you said, he's the best back

845
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 1: that the Texans have had since since Arian. And when

846
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:37,360
Speaker 1: you have a weapon like that and we're running the

847
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 1: same scheme that we're running, then you know what this

848
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 1: offense can do. I've seen it firsthand. You know when

849
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 1: certain players are called this is gonna work. It's gonna

850
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 1: be play action and it's gonna be wide open because

851
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:50,879
Speaker 1: we're running the ball. Like I mentioned earlier, the fact

852
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: that it was I think five straight runs in a

853
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:57,279
Speaker 1: row against Jacksonville to win and end the game, that

854
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:00,720
Speaker 1: you can't draw up a better script. We're an offensive

855
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 1: lineman of how the game is supposed to end. And

856
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: so having a guy like that where you know that

857
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator Bobby Sayder saying hey, we're just gonna

858
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 1: get about of Joe and we're gonna finish this game

859
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:12,320
Speaker 1: this way, and you have a guy like that that

860
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 1: you can do that with. It's a great feeling. And

861
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:19,880
Speaker 1: those type of players and those type of that ability

862
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,280
Speaker 1: in a run game is what takes you and sustain

863
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:25,280
Speaker 1: you on long playoff runs. And so that's what hopefully

864
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 1: happens for the Texans this year.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate my man Way Smith for joining us right here

866
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Speaker 3: Players edition of Texans Radio. And we're not done yet.

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Speaker 3: We have a little bit of a shuffle with Mario

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Speaker 3: Edwards and Chase b You definitely don't to miss that.

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Speaker 3: Welcome in Welcome Back Texans Radio Players edition. As promised,

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Speaker 3: here's a segment of the players Shuffle with Mario Edwards

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Speaker 3: and Chase b.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Texas State. And we've had a lot of younger

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Speaker 4: guys on the show. We've had a lot of We've

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Speaker 4: had Hall of Famers on the show. And today we

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Speaker 4: have a very seasoned veteran in our midst you know

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Speaker 4: what I'm saying, Very well respected, running a tired league

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Speaker 4: and we're ready happy to have him here on the

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Speaker 4: Shuffle today. Mario Edwards, how you doing, bro yead bud yourself?

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Speaker 4: You know, good to be back here in the city

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Speaker 4: in Houston, Texas.

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Speaker 1: And is it Mario Rio? You want to go? Mario? Mario?

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Speaker 3: What is uh?

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Speaker 1: You called me real?

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Speaker 4: It's real cool? And Rio is a Texas guy, You're

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Speaker 4: from Denton. What I want to get into is because

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Speaker 4: you know, in my very short lived football career here

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Speaker 4: in Texas, just I want to explain to everybody, like

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Speaker 4: the Friday night lights concept of Texas high school football

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Speaker 4: and how was that with your tenure?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 5: With me? I started off at Prosper Texas my first

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Speaker 5: two years in high school and it was three eights.

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Speaker 1: Now they're like six A. That's crazy. So Improsper everything

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Speaker 1: shut down.

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Speaker 5: The whole town shut down, the cotton Gin, all the

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Speaker 5: little store shut down, and everybody's gym packed in the stadium.

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Speaker 5: So Friday night light is fun. You hear the band.

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Speaker 1: Once you're done, you get to get the nachos.

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Speaker 5: Know that.

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Speaker 1: That's what I was doing for real.

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Speaker 2: That's crazy.

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Speaker 4: From three out of six as wow, because just roughly

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Speaker 4: how many people, I want to say, six is probably

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Speaker 4: graduating class, probably around like seven kids or something like that,

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Speaker 4: and three is probably well, like maybe one hundred.

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Speaker 1: I put it this way.

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Speaker 5: The school was so big when I went there today,

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Speaker 5: shut down and closed off half of the school because

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Speaker 5: we couldn't use it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was so big, so we only used half

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Speaker 1: of the school. That's crazy, that's wild.

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Speaker 2: But so the football wasn't the only sport you involved

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Speaker 2: in high school?

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Speaker 5: Was it? I did track, I ran a little bit,

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Speaker 5: the four box one, I did the one hundred, did

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Speaker 5: shot put.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't get that, Dame, I'm not biscus, I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna lie.

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Speaker 2: Bro.

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Speaker 4: You might be the first person in the entire world

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Speaker 4: that I've heard say they did the four bout one

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Speaker 4: and the shot put.

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Speaker 5: How did that work? It was just a combination of

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Speaker 5: just add two eighty five. I think my fastest one

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Speaker 5: hundred was like eleven two three.

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Speaker 1: That's insane though. So I's career on the fourball one.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And so what was the Is that why you

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Speaker 4: chose the defensive end because and I've heard a lot

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Speaker 4: of people say that defensive end is like the most

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Speaker 4: athletic position on the field.

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Speaker 1: Defensive, Man, kind of just happened, man. I originally started playing.

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Speaker 5: I played running back and did in the linebacker when

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Speaker 5: I first started playing.

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Speaker 1: And then when I got to.

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Speaker 5: High school, I was a receiver receiver in DN and

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Speaker 5: then my year I got kind of big two seventy

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Speaker 5: five and I went to tight end. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So I kind of was just always an athlete and

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Speaker 1: they just moved me around.

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Speaker 4: Man, you gonna put you in NFL street man, I

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Speaker 4: feel like seven on seven, you're playing all seven positions,

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Speaker 4: and you know what I'm saying, Well, so what was

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Speaker 4: it for when you went to Florida State?

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Speaker 1: Just in your whole recruiting process, what position were you

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Speaker 1: actually being recruited at? Defensive? Defensive?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, And so you got to the Florida State

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Speaker 4: and everybody knows about that legendary that fourteen of th team.

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Speaker 4: How was that different from the Friday Night Lights going

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Speaker 4: to the seminole lights. Man, I went in every single

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Speaker 4: game towards a BCS national title.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing like that dope Campbell Stadium.

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Speaker 5: Man, when it's rocking and they got they're doing the

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Speaker 5: war chant and you get to run out of the tunnel,

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Speaker 5: especially when you're playing against Miami or Florida or any

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Speaker 5: of those rival teams.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then shoot when you got famous Jamis man

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Speaker 1: right and go out there.

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Speaker 5: Jas player around a little bit and then he come

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Speaker 5: back and take it over and halftime.

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Speaker 1: Man, it was a great team to be a part of.

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Speaker 1: So with all that recruiting going on, made you choose Florida?

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Speaker 4: I know, being a Texas guy, a lot of guys

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Speaker 4: around here are very loyal and probably for to be

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Speaker 4: from here, and you know they usually end of it

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Speaker 4: a Texas or a SMU or something like that.

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Speaker 1: What was it about Florida State that made you want

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Speaker 1: to go there?

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Speaker 5: Well, originally my dad played at Florida State. He played

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Speaker 5: corner and fifteen and then I played DN in War fifteen.

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Speaker 5: But ultimately what made me decide, I have an LSU

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Speaker 5: tiger on my chest. I was gonna go play for

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Speaker 5: less mins. Wow, let's say you're player as a freshman

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Speaker 5: and start when you know what you're doing. And the

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Speaker 5: determining factor was I told Florida State that you take me,

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Speaker 5: you gotta take my dad and give him a job. Wow, Okay,

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Speaker 5: that's how I ended up going to Florida.

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Speaker 1: That's amazing. That's amazing.

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Speaker 4: How much did your dad play a part in just

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Speaker 4: your whole upbringing in the football community and how you

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Speaker 4: approach the game, even though if you played corner, you know,

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Speaker 4: and you played defensivevana, how much impact did you have

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Speaker 4: on how you learned the game and how you developed

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Speaker 4: it a lot.

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Speaker 5: When I started being with them a lot of full

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Speaker 5: time around like eight nine, ten years old. I mean

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Speaker 5: I was going to the facility, got a chance to

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Speaker 5: meet Darren Woodson, Emmitt Smith, Joey Galloway.

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Speaker 1: I was kind of getting primed and prep for at

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Speaker 1: a young age.

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Speaker 5: And man, shoot, I started doing football dealers in the

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Speaker 5: back backyard pretty early, so it was kind of he

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Speaker 5: was kind.

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Speaker 1: Of in that a lot.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. So you had a very fruitful career in the NFL.

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Speaker 4: You play for, you know, a couple of teams here

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Speaker 4: and there. Now you're on the Houston Texas. So now

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Speaker 4: what we're gonna do is we're gonna give you the

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Speaker 4: floor and we're just gonna give you just to make

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Speaker 4: you the crowd favorite right now and explain why the

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Speaker 4: Houston Texas is your favorite team to play for while

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Speaker 4: Houston is your favorite city to live in the whole.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, The whole is.

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Speaker 5: Your bank right now. Houston is the best team for

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Speaker 5: me right now. Just their taxtile defenses, I feel like

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Speaker 5: fits me.

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Speaker 1: A lot three hours from home, right exactly.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, everybody family is close to me, and man, so far,

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Speaker 5: Houston has been welcoming.

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Speaker 1: Man, with the southern hospitality.

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Speaker 5: I've been in New York, I've been out west and

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Speaker 5: get back in kind of like these southern states and

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Speaker 5: getting that southern hospitality has always been fun for me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's got.

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Speaker 4: What are the climate differences just you know, playing in

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Speaker 4: these different stadiums and all of that.

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Speaker 5: I know that you got your reservations some of them. Man,

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Speaker 5: I was with Chicago it would be zero degrees. We're

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Speaker 5: still practicing. There's no such thing as going in the indoor.

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Speaker 5: You get spoiled when you're playing for the Raiders or

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Speaker 5: the Seahawks. With that West Coast. But here, man, it

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Speaker 5: kind of reminded me of being back at Florida State,

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Speaker 5: that Florida weather, that humidity, that heat.

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Speaker 1: So it's kind of fun.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, what's what are you all seasons? Like you especially

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Speaker 4: ten years in the league, you've had a lot of them.

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Speaker 1: What do you typically like to do?

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Speaker 5: When I'm a real country boy at heart, So most

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Speaker 5: of the time I'm on my property. I got like

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Speaker 5: forty acres out in East Texas, so whether that's I'm

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Speaker 5: building on it now.

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Speaker 1: I like to be back and forth.

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Speaker 5: Between Texas and Atlanta fishing and you big hunt guy,

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Speaker 5: and I ain't been hunting about a year or two.

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Speaker 5: I like going fishing. I like going deep sea fishing

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Speaker 5: in Miami a verracoota that was pretty cool. So different

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Speaker 5: things like that. Just like to be out in the nature.

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Speaker 5: You eat what you catch her is just kind of

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Speaker 5: like like on the property. Now, I just stock for

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Speaker 5: my ponds, bass, blue gear, catfish. Everything is gonna be

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Speaker 5: just self sufficient. So that's my whole goal when I'm playing.

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Speaker 1: So as a Texas well, what do you what what

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Speaker 1: city has the best barbecue?

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Speaker 5: Just as in general, what do you think Dallas gonna

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Speaker 5: kill me for this, but I did eat some barbecue

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Speaker 5: out here, and it's beating Dallas.

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Speaker 1: You remember Perkins out here? Where is that that?

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Speaker 3: Yea?

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Speaker 1: You know what you said?

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Speaker 5: Perkins or Starry Repeat. I could be pronouncing wrong, but

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Speaker 5: I went there. It was pretty good.

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Speaker 1: It was out here. I gotta check that out. I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna lie.

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Speaker 3: That was Mario Edwards and Chase b on the shuffle.

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Speaker 3: As always, we appreciate your listening, Have a great night,

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Speaker 3: and go Texans.