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Speaker 1: Welcome to everybody through a Wednesday edition of Texans All

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Speaker 1: Access from the Hounday Texans Radio studio Sean Harris alongside

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Speaker 1: Mark Vandimir and we have got some fun tonight because

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Speaker 1: we've got both GM and head coach right out of

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Speaker 1: the shoot. We got a chance to catch up with

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Speaker 1: Nick Cassario, market, a chance to catch up with Lovey Smith.

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Speaker 1: We got a little Thomas Booker a little bit later

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Speaker 1: in the show as well as Philip Dorset. That's gonna

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Speaker 1: be fun. And I got a little something from Mark

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Speaker 1: later in the show. But we kick it off with

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Speaker 1: the general manager, Nick Cassario right now Texans Radio. We

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Speaker 1: have Texans General Manager Nick Cassario. Nick, how are you doing,

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Speaker 1: good fellows, Good to see you, Good to see you. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we go through another wave of cuts and you're getting

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Speaker 1: down to a number. I know you have one more

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Speaker 1: preseason game. How has this week been for you? Because

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Speaker 1: you go a little at a time, five at a time. Really, yeah, No,

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Speaker 1: it's been a productive week. Quick turnaround from the game

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Speaker 1: Friday night with playing Thursday night, so kind of lost

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Speaker 1: a day of practice there that we normally would get.

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Speaker 1: But otherwise I think we kind of went through a

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Speaker 1: normal process. Players were off for a day or two there,

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Speaker 1: came back practice and had kind of a Friday simulated

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Speaker 1: practice there yesterday, and then tomorrow, you know, we kind

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Speaker 1: of get ready to go, or tonight we'll do some

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Speaker 1: meetings to get ready to go for tomorrow. So I

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Speaker 1: had to make some minor adjustments and modifications there. Ronnie Edges,

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Speaker 1: so kind of get to eighty and then you know,

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Speaker 1: once the game is over, then I think we'll obviously

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Speaker 1: have to do a little bit more heavy lifting. But

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Speaker 1: we've talked about this, i'd say on this show and

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Speaker 1: Love he's mentioned as well. The idea is, we're really

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Speaker 1: trying to have seventy sixty nine, seventy players in the building.

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Speaker 1: However we do it so it's not really about fifty three.

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Speaker 1: It's not about the final fifty three. I would expect

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Speaker 1: that situation to be pretty fluid from Tuesday to Thursday Friday.

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Speaker 1: Nick having day in the building because he's the International

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Speaker 1: Pathway Program player. What does that allow for him and

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Speaker 1: what does that allow for you? Does that allow you

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Speaker 1: to have, like you said, seventy instead of sixty nine

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Speaker 1: with fifty three and a sixteen man practice squads that

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Speaker 1: what allows you to do to have him here. Yeah, No,

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Speaker 1: it's a good question, and you can look at it

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Speaker 1: a couple of different ways because the way the rules

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Speaker 1: on your actual practice squad, because that wouldn't give the

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Speaker 1: he would kind of count within the sixty nine. So

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Speaker 1: if he's the international player, then he's kind of international

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Speaker 1: player for the year, and then you don't really have

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Speaker 1: as much flexibility. So I think you have to make

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Speaker 1: he's embraced some of the things that we're doing. So

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Speaker 1: we'll talk about him, we'll talk about a number of

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Speaker 1: other players here over the weekend once we kind of

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Speaker 1: get through the sand fan game. All right, So Nick,

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Speaker 1: the listeners want to know me among them, how exposed

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Speaker 1: are the players between making that cut and then bringing

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Speaker 1: them back onto the practice squad. What kind of protection

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Speaker 1: as long as it normally is. So normally it's a

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Speaker 1: reverts or becomes a free agent. So the way the

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Speaker 1: by three o'clock, so you have to get the fifty

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Speaker 1: then once we get through that period, then we can

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Speaker 1: many different ways that you're able to obtain players. I

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Speaker 1: How do you feel about the preseason opponents, because I

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Speaker 1: Does that mean we're going to be in a position

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Speaker 1: nick for veterans to get preseason time, but in a

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Speaker 1: What do you think of this three game format in

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Speaker 1: Love He said something to the effect of, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: Is there an opportunity to talk before the game and say, Hey,

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Speaker 1: So really you're evaluating the teams. Like we've watched San

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit of a less control environment and

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Speaker 1: becomes more real life Nick for the draft. Some of

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Speaker 1: us in the media have this cliche that a coach

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Speaker 1: coached a lot of years in this where you have that. Yeah, really, Mark,

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Speaker 1: But we use really used three games. So in the

431
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Speaker 1: third game, even back then, was a game where you

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Speaker 1: played you guys as the majority, you know, when they

433
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Speaker 1: got the most rep was this game. So we're kind

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Speaker 1: of looking at it in the same way a little bit.

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Speaker 1: We are guys that we see as our front line guys.

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Speaker 1: We will put the most part play into the third quarter.

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Speaker 1: So we're doing it the same way. We have a

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Speaker 1: big break in between the heal up. I love the

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Speaker 1: schedule offense against the forty nine or defensive system. What

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Speaker 1: are you looking for, Well, they're they're similar, four man front,

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Speaker 1: good defensive line. What we're looking for is just more

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Speaker 1: production as much as that. You know, we're running team.

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Speaker 1: Really both teams formula for winning is similar. You know,

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Speaker 1: they're a running team on offense, two back, they pullback

445
00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:52,960
Speaker 1: on the roster, we're very similar. We want to see

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Speaker 1: exactly we got our running game, going passing game, to

447
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Speaker 1: see how we match up. How about special teams coaching

448
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Speaker 1: this matchup? It comes down to that. Normally we feel

449
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Speaker 1: like we have good special teams. Of course they do.

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Speaker 1: We've gotten some production from our special teams this week

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Speaker 1: and ere day. We would like to even see more

452
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Speaker 1: as a return game, you know, so we'll continue to

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Speaker 1: do that. Back to playing time for a moment. How

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Speaker 1: difficult is it to decide when to pull people? Is

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Speaker 1: it predetermined or do you do it by feel because

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Speaker 1: you want to see more if you go three and

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Speaker 1: out or something like that. We have a predetermined amount

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Speaker 1: of reps. We as we go into every game from there,

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Speaker 1: it can change. Everything has to be flexible. We don't

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Speaker 1: like what we see, we may keep the guys in

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Speaker 1: a little bit longer, But for the most part this week,

462
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Speaker 1: we're going to pretty much stay true to our plan.

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Speaker 1: A part of getting ready for the regular season is

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Speaker 1: for the guys to play the first half and then

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Speaker 1: have to go in at halftime and then come back

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Speaker 1: out for at least one drive. So we'll pretty much

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Speaker 1: stay true to that this week. And what about the

468
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Speaker 1: seventeen day break between this game and opening Day? You

469
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Speaker 1: got a lot to handle in the meantime, Yes, we do,

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Speaker 1: but as I see it, everybody has a We're on

471
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Speaker 1: the same schedule. We've been grinding, grinding, grinding. I feel

472
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Speaker 1: like the best football then already get the best football

473
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Speaker 1: is to have a little bit more time for the

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Speaker 1: guys to heal up all across the league, So I

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Speaker 1: kind of like that. We have a plan. You know,

476
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Speaker 1: in the NFL has safe cards in mind. We can

477
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Speaker 1: only practice in pads once every week, so it's not

478
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Speaker 1: like teams are gonna go to two and eight practice

479
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Speaker 1: and start killing our guys. We have a plan for it,

480
00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:26,960
Speaker 1: and a guy, you should see. The freshest team that

481
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Speaker 1: we've had all year is what we should see against

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Speaker 1: the Colts. Coach. Thanks a lot of good luck anytime

483
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Speaker 1: at all there it is the only show in town

484
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Speaker 1: getting both the GM and head coach exclusively right here

485
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Speaker 1: in Texans All Access. We get back a little Thomas

486
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Speaker 1: Booker and Philip Dorset, Drews Dozens coming at you right

487
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Speaker 1: here in Texas All Access. Welcome back this Wednesday at

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Speaker 1: issue of Texans All Access. John Harris and Mark VanderMeer

489
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Speaker 1: with you. But it's time to turn it over to

490
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Speaker 1: Drew Doherty with some Drews dozens. How you like that alliteration.

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Speaker 1: We got two of them for you, and we're gonna

492
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Speaker 1: start with the rookie from out of Stanford going into

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Speaker 1: his third NFL game, third preseason game. That's Thomas Booker,

494
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Speaker 1: the fourth from out of Maryland. What to Stanford and

495
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Speaker 1: now he's in Houston and he's doing a bang up job.

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Speaker 1: Here's a little Drew's dozen with Thomas Booker. Booker is

497
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Speaker 1: your last name? Did you know there used to be

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Speaker 1: a TV show called Booker? No? I did not. I

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Speaker 1: was not aware of that. When when did it come out?

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Speaker 1: It was in the early nineties, so well before you.

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Speaker 1: It was a spinoff of the twenty one Jump Street franchise,

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Speaker 1: and it was storing a guy named Richard Greeko. Oh really, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was before I was probably even a thought, So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't think I was hip to that one. This

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Speaker 1: interview is off to an awful start. So let's go

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Speaker 1: with nineteen ninety nine, the year you were born, phenomenal

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Speaker 1: year pop culturally. I'm gonna say one thing or person.

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Speaker 1: You got to answer with something else from nineteen ninety

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Speaker 1: nine that resonated. I'll start Britty Spears ninety nine by

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Speaker 1: Prince Boom. That's a good one, I'll take it. How

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Speaker 1: about the Backstreet Boys and think Star Wars coming back,

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Speaker 1: that movie The Star Trek. I guess like the Older

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Speaker 1: the Oldest our track? Yeah, all right, we made it three.

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Speaker 1: That's cool. In nineteen ninety nine, though, phenomenal year you

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Speaker 1: were born. That year crab cakes and lacrosse or crab

516
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Speaker 1: cakes in football. I know, crab kikes in football is

517
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Speaker 1: the saying from that movie, but it's really crab kikes

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Speaker 1: and lacrosse if you're from Maryland, right, So I'd say

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Speaker 1: crab cakes and lacrosse, just because lacrosse is so much

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Speaker 1: more of a thing in Maryland than it is anywhere else.

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Speaker 1: I feel like there's a couple of places that claim

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Speaker 1: football is being like, you know, a religion in Texas

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Speaker 1: is one of them. So I probably say lacrosse. You know,

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Speaker 1: you see a lot of the talent across the country

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Speaker 1: in college they're all from Maryland. Probably crab cakes lacrosse

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Speaker 1: is because those are two very Maryland things. Are you

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Speaker 1: a crab kake guy? I am a crab kake guy.

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Speaker 1: I'm a big crab kicking old Bay guy, crab kick

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Speaker 1: in old bait. And a lot of people out here like,

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Speaker 1: don't put too much breading in it, so on and

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Speaker 1: so forth, what's the deal? So I think then when

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Speaker 1: you put too much breading on it is because you

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Speaker 1: don't have actually like good crab, so you're just trying

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Speaker 1: to fry it. You know, some people really can't text

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Speaker 1: the quality. So I'd say that there's definitely a quotient

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Speaker 1: to hit with the amount of breading versus the amount

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Speaker 1: of crab meat. So I'm not too much of a

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Speaker 1: huge bread guy. Did you play any other sports grown up? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I played a ton of different sports. Play tennis. Tennis

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Speaker 1: is actually my first sport. My dad played it too.

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Speaker 1: My dad played a linebacker at the University of wisconsonantly

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Speaker 1: started playing tennis, So I was in nas sport first,

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Speaker 1: and then it was baseball, basketball, ran track for a

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Speaker 1: little bit, shot and disc so I tried to, you know,

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Speaker 1: stay away from specialization as much as I could. When

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Speaker 1: I was a kid, I appreciate my parents would let

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Speaker 1: me go to everything and drive me everything. So it's

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Speaker 1: tennis the favorite of those other non football sports. It's

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Speaker 1: probably the tennis or basketball. I used to watch a

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Speaker 1: lot of tennis, Like Roger Federer was like my favorite player,

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Speaker 1: Roger Federer and Serena, those of the two. So I

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Speaker 1: used to watch the Grand Slams between Federer and Nadal

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Speaker 1: all the time. My sister also played tennis, so I

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Speaker 1: usually she's ten years older than me, so I spent

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Speaker 1: a lot of my childhood driving around my parents to

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Speaker 1: go see her play and all that. So probably tennis

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Speaker 1: or basketball. You know, bringing up Federer, Serena, Michael Phelps

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Speaker 1: is not tennis. But I'm thinking champions of champions, like

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Speaker 1: winners at the highest level. Who would you say athletically

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Speaker 1: is the tippy top in that regard, I'd say overall. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: because I'm a big, big lebron fan, it's probably Michael

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Speaker 1: Jordan in terms of like the champion of champions. You

563
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Speaker 1: can't really do that much better than a perfect resume

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Speaker 1: in the finals. I think then it goes Tom Brady.

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Speaker 1: You know, just the amount of times he's been to

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Speaker 1: the big game and the amount of times that he's

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Speaker 1: won it. It's hard to equal that, especially in a

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Speaker 1: sport like football, whereas there's no series one game any

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Speaker 1: given Sunday. And then I'd probably have to go with

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Speaker 1: the tennis guys. I think Djokovic is coming up on

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Speaker 1: it now, but I think Serena Federer, Pete Sampris, all

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Speaker 1: those guys. Yeah, what are you reading these days? So

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Speaker 1: what I'm reading right now is OLiS Boy Malcolm Gladwell.

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Speaker 1: I'm about to finish that one up right now. Super

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Speaker 1: interesting basically just kind of tells you about some of

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Speaker 1: the misgivings we have as a society about success and

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Speaker 1: then where it comes from. So that's super interesting. And

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Speaker 1: I finished a couple of other books. Surveillance Capitalism was

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Speaker 1: another one that I was reading about, just kind of

580
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Speaker 1: talking about social media and all the data minding and

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Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff. So I've been trying to

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Speaker 1: kind of skip through different genres and topics, trying to

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Speaker 1: get some different different reads. That sounds like a very

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Speaker 1: interesting book, also sounds semi frightening a little bit little bit. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: once you realize how much you know data people have

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Speaker 1: on you. It's definitely a different, different era that we're

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Speaker 1: living in. But time's change, so you got you gotta

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Speaker 1: have the knowledge to be equipped to deal with it.

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Speaker 1: When you wake up in the morning, what's the first

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Speaker 1: thing that happens? Who first thing that happens. I get

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Speaker 1: a bottle of water. Get a bottle of water, and

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Speaker 1: then I just you know, sit there for a little

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Speaker 1: bit center myself. You know, sometimes you have that fog

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Speaker 1: of sleep that you have to get through for you know,

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Speaker 1: the first ten to fifteen minutes or the first hour

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Speaker 1: you being awake. So I try to get that off

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Speaker 1: just about being a little bit more mindful, center in

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Speaker 1: myself a little bit. The lights go out, your head

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Speaker 1: hits a pillow, how long until you actually fall asleep?

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Speaker 1: So I have a whooped little fitness band that does

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Speaker 1: sleep tracking, so it actually tells me my latency, which

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Speaker 1: is how long it takes me to go to sleep.

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Speaker 1: Usually it's between like probably five and ten minutes, which

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Speaker 1: is great for me. That means like I go to

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Speaker 1: bed at nine forty five, them down by a round

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Speaker 1: nine fifty five ten. But you know, sometimes you have

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Speaker 1: thoughts swelling in your head, play you might have bested

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Speaker 1: up something you might have wanted to do better, So

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Speaker 1: it takes you a little bit longer, but hopefully five

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Speaker 1: to ten. An artist that gets you excited. So my

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Speaker 1: favorite artist is Drake. I feel like Drake has music

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Speaker 1: for every single different situation that you're in life or

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Speaker 1: whether you're trying to chill out. You know, his last album, honestly,

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Speaker 1: never mind, it's a perfect album, just let run all

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Speaker 1: the way through. If you want something to get you

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Speaker 1: hyped up, he's got tracks for that. So it's the

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Speaker 1: fact that he makes music for literally every single different

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Speaker 1: situation that you're gonna be in. You can make an

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Speaker 1: entire playlist and not have to deviate at all. So

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Speaker 1: I'd say that's the guy that gets me hyped up

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Speaker 1: but also gives me all the different vibes that I need.

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Speaker 1: Tell me about a Texans teammate who gets you amped

623
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Speaker 1: up and hyped up. Gotta be Damian Pierce for sure.

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Speaker 1: He's one of these guys where joking guy, lighthearted, all that,

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Speaker 1: but when you see him on the field, it just

626
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,639
Speaker 1: turns into an absolute dog. You see the way he

627
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,159
Speaker 1: cuts with violence, the way he finishes his runs, and

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Speaker 1: just how hyped everybody is around him for him, just

629
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Speaker 1: because they know how genuine of a guy he is

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Speaker 1: and how hard he works. Did you know about him

631
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Speaker 1: before the draft? I mean, had you seen his Florida? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: So the one clip that I'm sure everyone had seen

633
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 1: was the one where his helmet came off and he

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Speaker 1: kept running. And I don't know why they didn't give

635
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Speaker 1: him a touchdown on that, but I think that dis

636
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Speaker 1: encapsulists exactly who he is and as a person, he's

637
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 1: not gonna take no for an answer, you know, on

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Speaker 1: the field, So definitely saw him from that. I knew

639
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,680
Speaker 1: he's gonna be a special guy, coming in with no consequences.

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Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna judge. You get mad at you for eating this,

641
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Speaker 1: but you can make anything you want, eat anything you want.

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Speaker 1: What's the meal? The perfect meal that you're gonna have?

643
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Speaker 1: Perfect meal? I like salmon a lot. My dad cooked

644
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 1: a lot of salmon while I was growing up, so

645
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 1: probably salmon with a nice glaze on it. I'd probably

646
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 1: add on to that like mac and cheese is like

647
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:33,199
Speaker 1: the car and then I finished with probably broccoli or

648
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 1: like spinach. So I actually kind of got tricked into

649
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 1: liking spinach by um is good. It is good. It

650
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 1: is good. It is good. Spin It's a bad rabbit.

651
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 1: But it was pop Eye of the Sailorman that got

652
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:45,639
Speaker 1: me kind of hooked on it because I'm like, all right,

653
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 1: like this dude's turning into a mister buff the forearms. Yeah,

654
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,399
Speaker 1: exactly exactly. So I'm like, all right, I don't want

655
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:51,639
Speaker 1: to be that when I grow up. So I think

656
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 1: my dad kind of programmed that into me a little

657
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 1: bit when I was young, and I'm thankful for it

658
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 1: because I like spinach. No dessert sweets guy, no, well,

659
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:00,159
Speaker 1: I try not to be the sweets guy. Just is

660
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 1: like when I get in the house, I kind of

661
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,919
Speaker 1: just completely demolish it, and I'm like, all right, at

662
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 1: least I don't have to have it later. I'd probably

663
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 1: pick chocolate tip cookies, but like not like a hard cookie,

664
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 1: more of like a you know, soft gooey cookie. I'm

665
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 1: not a fan of like the really crunchy ones only

666
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 1: weirdos are. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I don't really

667
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 1: like that people that have that in their house. It's

668
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 1: kind of a red flag. On that note, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: wrap this up. Thomas Booker, great to talk with. You

670
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 1: really appreciate the time this has been a Drews doesn't

671
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:25,399
Speaker 1: thank you. Appreciate it now you have it a little

672
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 1: Thomas Booker the fourth with a little Drews does appreciate

673
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,439
Speaker 1: Drew for stopping by to give us that interview. All right,

674
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Speaker 1: we get back. We're going to hit up I'm gonna

675
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: hit up Mark Vandermir with the destructive mount rushmore of quarterbacks.

676
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna explain that next. I'm but put them on

677
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Speaker 1: the spot right here at Texans All Access. We got

678
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Speaker 1: one funnel segment is Wednesday edition of Texans All Access.

679
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 1: I am John Harris alongside Mark Vandermir and Mark read

680
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 1: a lot of interviews. Now it's time for us to

681
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 1: stretch our legs with a fun thing that I actually

682
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,160
Speaker 1: came up with this the other night. We're radio right,

683
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 1: We've been rad your host for a long time. Yes,

684
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 1: when things get slow, sometimes in June, sometimes in July,

685
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 1: maybe sometimes in February. Who knows radio hosts always go

686
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: back to a few things, right, Yes, like list, I

687
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 1: love list, my ultimate level of the years change too. Yeah,

688
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 1: because it used to be Pete Rose Hall of Fame yep,

689
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 1: right right then it became in Houston. There have been

690
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 1: a lot moved. Steve to the two was a big

691
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Speaker 1: one for a while. Long time listeners of this station

692
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: will remember that one. Well, yes, absolutely, but I'm not

693
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 1: gonna go to the mall anyway. Go on, but one

694
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 1: of them that and I love this, especially if you

695
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: put different categories on it. It's Mount Rushmore, Like what's

696
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 1: the Mount Rushmore of Houston Athletes? That one? I always

697
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 1: love that one. I used to let people on my

698
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 1: overnight show, you give me, here's what I want you

699
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 1: to do. You give me the Mount Rushmore for whatever

700
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 1: you want it to be, and you'll tear it apart

701
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: and I will rank them one through four and then

702
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 1: I will put them in a bat So I would

703
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: kind of put him in a basketball tournament one through four.

704
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 1: One played four, two played three, and I would literally

705
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 1: play it out. So we're doing that Mount Rushmore. So,

706
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:13,320
Speaker 1: like I said, he Mount Rushmore of Houston Athletes and

707
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 1: I don't know. You gave me a Keem Nolan, Ryan

708
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 1: Earl Campbell and does two make it? Yeah, let's put

709
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 1: up Josiel two. Yeah. Then I would rank them quickly

710
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 1: and then I would say, okay, one verses four. I

711
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 1: think four's got the upset. Then I would say two

712
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: verses three, and I would go that way. So that

713
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Speaker 1: was one way that I handled Mount Rushmore a little

714
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Speaker 1: bit differently. Well, I'm gonna do that for you. Well,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna do it for me. Actually, Okay, I'm gonna

716
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 1: give you the Mount Rushmore and I'll play it out.

717
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 1: But here's how the destructiveness goes. We're actually not gonna

718
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: play it out. You're gonna blow up three heads of

719
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Speaker 1: the Mount Rushmore. Okay, I'm gonna take them off one

720
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Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore. That's why I call it the destructive Mount Rushmore.

721
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Speaker 1: But this is gonna be tough for you, I think,

722
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 1: because there's usually a clear cut right maybe maybe makay,

723
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Speaker 1: we'll see. Go on. It's all about quarterbacks. Don't make

724
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: me pick among my children. It's about the court Houston

725
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 1: Texans history of players here. Don't make me pick among

726
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: my kids. Nope, Okay, not enough quarterbacks here in with

727
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 1: the Texans. I know, I thought you were gonna go

728
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: another direction though, anyway going so it's just quarterbacks. But

729
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: I've got different categories. Let's go. So I call this

730
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: one the top guns, the current top guns. Yes, current Mahomes,

731
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Aaron Rodgers, and Joe Burrow and Joe Burrow.

732
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 1: I did not put Tom Brady on there because we

733
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Speaker 1: don't know if Tom Brady's gonna play. So that is

734
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Speaker 1: your current top gun. Mount Rushmore blow up three faces?

735
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 1: Which one are you keeping? Uh so wait Burrow, Mahomes, Allen, Allen,

736
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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, Rogers, blow three of them up? Keeping one?

737
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 1: Am I playing a bunch of seasons with this guy?

738
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 1: Or am I playing one game with this guy? Because

739
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: one game you want to do it. It's just you

740
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 1: get one face to keep up there. All the other

741
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 1: turns to marble and stone and ash and it falls

742
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Speaker 1: all the way and you one face, you know who

743
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: I like for one game. This is not gonna be

744
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 1: a popular decision, you're gonna say, Joe Burrow, Yes, I

745
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 1: kind of do. And in fact, the Super Bowl was

746
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: replayed on the video board when we were in LA

747
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 1: before the game right a couple of hours before the game.

748
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 1: But as they just let fans and they rerolled the

749
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: Super Bowl edited version. It's like when Tom Hanks is

750
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 1: in the movie Big and he calls downstairs and says,

751
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 1: can you edit out all the commercials from that Super

752
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 1: Bowl with the Giants beating the Broncos and bring it

753
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: up to us, and his little kid friend says, you're

754
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:35,720
Speaker 1: the luckiest guy I know. Anyway, we were the luckiest people,

755
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: but we weren't Rams fans, so we don't really care.

756
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:40,240
Speaker 1: But one thing I noticed about watching that again Johnny was,

757
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, Cincinnati could have I don't want to

758
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 1: be easily, but they could have won that game. And

759
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 1: the Rams we're living on the edge all postseason long.

760
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 1: So anyone who thinks that this is a juggernaut that

761
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 1: cannot be stopped, think again. The forty nine ers have

762
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 1: something to say about that too, that NFC Championship game,

763
00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: and obviously the Buccaneers do because they came back on

764
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 1: him but couldn't pull it out at the end, couldn't

765
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 1: stop at that last Stafford drive. So I think Burrow

766
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 1: has that edge about him. Okay, I think you protect him,

767
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 1: you block Aaron Donald on that last throw, he's making

768
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 1: that third down completion. Oh, he would have found that

769
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 1: fourth down round on the on the Bengals sideline. Oh No,

770
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase is wide open. He had double moved Jalen Rams.

771
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: He was wide open. He hadn't bats though in the

772
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Speaker 1: flat for an easy first. Yeah, he had that. He

773
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Speaker 1: had all kinds of things. He just didn't have time

774
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Speaker 1: to get it off because Aaron Donald. Okay, So when

775
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Speaker 1: you're top gun, you're gonna go with Burrow. I'll go Burrow.

776
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Speaker 1: You're gonna leave that face up there, okay. Houston Professional Quarterbacks,

777
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Speaker 1: Houston Pro Quarterbacks, Houston Pro Quarterbacks. You gotta blow up

778
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Speaker 1: three and you gotta leave one face on the Mount

779
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Speaker 1: Rushmore boy, Warren Moon, Matt Shob, Dan Pastorini, and the

780
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 1: often forgotten Hall of Famer George Blanda. Bland is hard

781
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: to get away from here now, Bloom, Shob, Pastorini, Blanda.

782
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 1: You gotta blow up three faces and leave one up

783
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 1: on the Mount Rushmore? Which one you leave? I love? Done?

784
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 1: But Warren Moons staying up there for me and Blend

785
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 1: you know, career with more than one team, And so

786
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 1: is Moon but what Moon did here go to the

787
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:12,399
Speaker 1: playoffs seven consecutive years. I know they're being garbage. Yeah,

788
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 1: they did not. They did not win enough playoff games.

789
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 1: They only won three playoff games during that seven playoff

790
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: appearance span, that seven year playoff appearance span three playoff

791
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,880
Speaker 1: victories total. But you're getting there every year, Johnny, and

792
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,319
Speaker 1: I like that. I like getting there every year. And

793
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 1: he was a huge reason why they did. He was

794
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 1: the best player on those teams. Well, maybe you could

795
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: argue Bruce Matthews whatever, the old line was good, but

796
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Speaker 1: I like Warren Moon. I'll go with Warren Moon on

797
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 1: that Mount Rushmore. He's the one staying. Now. We do

798
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,720
Speaker 1: have some Cowboys fans that hate listen, and that's okay,

799
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:51,800
Speaker 1: it's it's listening, Okay. They might be Cowboys quarterbacks, Cowboy

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00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 1: quarterback destructive Mount Rushmore. Here the four up there, Oh yeah,

801
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give this an order. I'm gonna give you

802
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 1: who I'm blowing up first. This one Roger star Back, Okay,

803
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:08,399
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, Tony Romo, and Troy Aikman with a guest

804
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,880
Speaker 1: appearance by own buddy Clint Sterner. But those four up

805
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 1: on the Mount Rushmore. You gotta blow up three and

806
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:14,400
Speaker 1: leave one? Did you give me? Wait, you give me

807
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 1: Dad and Romo, but you gave me five Sterner Clint

808
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 1: like they've made like a Romo starback, Aikman, Romo star back,

809
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:33,879
Speaker 1: Dak Dak. That's okay, four? All right? Thank you? Uh

810
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:38,840
Speaker 1: Dak's going off first? Okay, Bye, Romo second Bye. I

811
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 1: mean there's no way Romo staying out there. Now. You're

812
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 1: picking some tough ones here. But Aikman Bye, I'm gonna

813
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: go starback. Okay. I thought you were gonna do that.

814
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: That's what I would do. Yeah. Look, Troy Aikman was

815
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 1: a really good quarterback. It would be interesting to see

816
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,719
Speaker 1: how good he would have been on another team. I

817
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 1: don't want to fault any of the Cowboys of those

818
00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,480
Speaker 1: great teams that won three Super Bowls for being on

819
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:01,879
Speaker 1: great team. You know, Emmon Smiths was on a great

820
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:04,239
Speaker 1: team with a great line. He was great back, a

821
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 1: great damn good symphony. Yeah they did, and Jimmy was

822
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 1: a great coach. And then you know, Barry kept it

823
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 1: going for that one final super Bowl. You know, look,

824
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 1: he doesn't get any credit at all for what he did.

825
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,880
Speaker 1: Barry Switzer yeah, nothing, but you had to hold it together.

826
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Speaker 1: You know. It's a little bit of a George that

827
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 1: he didn't. I know it was fray right as they

828
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:32,760
Speaker 1: won that champion. Okay, Look, I was with the University

829
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,239
Speaker 1: of Miami when Larry Cooker was there, right, and he

830
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 1: held it together. He held it together long enough to

831
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Speaker 1: appear in the National Championship Game twice. Now, a lot

832
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 1: of people would say, well, look, anybody could have done that. Listen,

833
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: I was there at the beginning of that thing, and

834
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 1: it was tough to get it rolling, and they did,

835
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 1: and he did a better job as offensive coordinator when

836
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 1: they got rolling, So I give him some credit anyway. Yeah,

837
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Speaker 1: that's my answer. Stamback. We played San Francisco for nin

838
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:58,439
Speaker 1: Hang on a second. You could have made that much

839
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 1: more complicated by throwing Danny White in there, and I

840
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:04,880
Speaker 1: almost did. I would slide White ahead of Dak Prescott,

841
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 1: probably not ahead of Romo, But Danny White to me

842
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,720
Speaker 1: is the most disrespected quarterback on a big time team

843
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:16,839
Speaker 1: ever ever, because well that's a strong statement, but one

844
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:20,319
Speaker 1: of them at very least two NFC Championship Game appearances.

845
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 1: He had to replace Staback. You're replacing a legend. They

846
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 1: go to the NFC Championship Game twice. At the time,

847
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:28,319
Speaker 1: the standard for the Cowboys was Super Bowl. People would

848
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 1: argue it still is, but you haven't been there with

849
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 1: twenty seven years. So White had it tough and it

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Speaker 1: wasn't all his fault. They didn't go. Look, they got

851
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 1: to him at the end of the catch game. They

852
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 1: would have could have should have done better in that one,

853
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,360
Speaker 1: and obviously Vince Ferragamo and the Rams beat him the

854
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 1: year before that. We're going way back now, kids. Yeah, Now,

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00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 1: you almost broke the rule of Mount Rushmore. That is,

856
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:53,319
Speaker 1: you want that four, can have five. Now we could

857
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 1: have made like I want to talking about shrub that

858
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 1: we like sharp, you know that in the form of

859
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:01,280
Speaker 1: a Danny White, but not on the night. I mean,

860
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 1: you know there's certain places that have shrub. Artists call

861
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 1: them that. Okay, we played forty nine ers on Thursday

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00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 1: night tomorrow nine. Oh, I like this already, the destructive

863
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore. Blow three of them up, keep one. Joe Montana,

864
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: Steve Young, Jeff Garcia, John Brody, All right, well Montana

865
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 1: is gonna be first, right, He's I'm keeping mind. Yeah,

866
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: Montana to me might be the second greatest quarterback that

867
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 1: ever lived. That's probably what I would do. So Steve Young, No,

868
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: Steve Young was amazing. Yeah, that was an amazing little

869
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 1: run that he had compared to Montana, right right, right,

870
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 1: but it was great. Steve Young was a terrific quarterback.

871
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:44,799
Speaker 1: It's hard to believe they were on the same team

872
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:46,839
Speaker 1: for a while, back to back years of or back

873
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,839
Speaker 1: to back careers of Montana too Young. Yeah, I mean

874
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 1: that's a that's like far up to Aaron Rodgers rights

875
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 1: from Mallett to Hoyer, So you know, yeah, we have that,

876
00:38:56,719 --> 00:39:00,319
Speaker 1: we have that. The cults almost well, they did go

877
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 1: from Manning to Andrew Luck, but it just didn't last

878
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:04,279
Speaker 1: long enough for them. And by the way, wasn't was

879
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 1: it yesterday or today? That's the three year interniversary of Luck' retirement?

880
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:12,959
Speaker 1: I think it's today, twenty fourth. I think it's today. Yeah, Oh,

881
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 1: where are you leaving Montana? Okay, you mentioned Steve Young,

882
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 1: so I got another category for you. But Brody's going

883
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,239
Speaker 1: in front of Jeff Garcia for me, I think, so

884
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 1: too Brody. For people that don't know, John Brody was

885
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 1: a heck of a quarterback in the sixties and seventies. Yeah,

886
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 1: heck of a quarterback. I mean he was the forty

887
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: nine Ers for those years playing Keysar Stadium in San Francisco.

888
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 1: All right, this this category, I got one for you.

889
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, I'm throwing this right on. Okay, right now,

890
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:39,839
Speaker 1: go ahead, Packers. All right, I mean you were born there, right,

891
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 1: I was born there? Yeah, okay, so I'll go the

892
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 1: magic Man. Oh I could have gotten Lynn Dickey on

893
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 1: you here, but I'll go to the magic many far. Yeah, Rogers,

894
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 1: Bart Star, pick from your children. Yeah, this one's easy, actually, Rogers, Rogers. Okay,

895
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:58,840
Speaker 1: I mean I love I love Barstarting. I got a

896
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 1: chance to meet Bart Star and it was I mean

897
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 1: you talk about I mean joyful. I mean it was.

898
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:06,880
Speaker 1: It was incredible. He didn't want to come in the

899
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 1: air with us with being Sean. He was just he

900
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: was speaking at the Lombardi Award and and Lucky David

901
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,359
Speaker 1: Juno just kind of stayed after it, you know how

902
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 1: David does. And he came over and I and Sean's

903
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 1: like you want to introduce him, Like, oh my god,

904
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta nail this. And I nailed the introduction.

905
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:24,880
Speaker 1: And I said I was a kid from Marionette, Wisconsin,

906
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:27,319
Speaker 1: and I was like you and my coach and he

907
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 1: at that point I got him and he stayed for

908
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,440
Speaker 1: like ten to twelve minutes and was just awesome. But

909
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:36,360
Speaker 1: Rodgers Rogers, I mean, he might be the best and

910
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 1: most physically gifted quarterback I've ever seen. He's just incredible.

911
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 1: He is absolutely incredible. To another super Bowl. Yeah, he's

912
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: got too. He was, Okay, here are the dual threat quarterbacks.

913
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Speaker 1: And I bring these up because I know you love

914
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:56,359
Speaker 1: dual threat quarterbacks. Here's your Mount Rushmore, Randall Cuttingham, great one,

915
00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:01,160
Speaker 1: Michael Vick great one, Steve Young, great one, Lamar Jackson.

916
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:05,799
Speaker 1: You got four? Which one stays? All right? So let's

917
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 1: go over this. Cunningham and Vic neither goes to a

918
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,840
Speaker 1: super Bowl? Correct? Vic got the NC champion him, Cunningham did,

919
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 1: Cutting Vikings. Yes, he was on that great team. Was

920
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 1: he was? Oh that's a could have, would have should have.

921
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 1: That's never gotten to one. But he's got some rings.

922
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 1: Lamar has not. And who is the other? Steve Young

923
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 1: and he won a super Bowl? Yeah, who's the best.

924
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:35,399
Speaker 1: Who's staying up there? Who is the dual great quarterback? Look,

925
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: it's a lot of this is organization and that kind

926
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 1: of thing. Man Ah, Lamar Jackson at the number one seed,

927
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 1: but they lost to the Titans and the playoffs. Mm, look,

928
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 1: I gotta go with the championship guy, Steve Young, I guess,

929
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 1: But I gotta look at the rushing yards total too,

930
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:56,400
Speaker 1: because he's got one of the greatest quarterback runs in

931
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:58,239
Speaker 1: the history of the game. He does. It was a

932
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: fifty something, right, yeah, fought off all kinds of Viking time.

933
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 1: It was at folks, look up that run. It was

934
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:06,799
Speaker 1: a terrific run. Steve Young going half the field on

935
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Speaker 1: everybody was a tremendous run. Look Vic to me, even

936
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:18,720
Speaker 1: though Lamar Jackson's amazing, Vic is a transformational player. And

937
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 1: it all went wrong obviously, and it's his doing. But

938
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Speaker 1: there's something that is a level above to me about

939
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 1: Michael Vick. Now, maybe he's not the high percentage because

940
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Speaker 1: Steve Young had the top quarterback rating in the history

941
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 1: of the game for a long time. It's since been surpassed,

942
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: but it hung up there for a few years, Johnny,

943
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 1: and now the game is different in the high completion

944
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 1: percentages and all that. But there's something about Vic. There's

945
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,640
Speaker 1: just something about him. I gotta put him on top

946
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 1: that list. Okay, I'm gonna ask you this. You get

947
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 1: one name, okay, yea three seconds? All right? The twenty

948
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 1: twenty one question mark quarterback, Mount Rushmore, Trevor Lawrence, Zack Wilson,

949
00:42:56,520 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 1: Justin Fields, Trey Lance. Keep one up there? Which was

950
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 1: the biggest question mark? All right? So Trevor Lawrence, Zach Wilson,

951
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 1: Trey Lance, and Justin Fields. It's not Fields, it's not Lance,

952
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 1: it's not it's not anybody. It's Davis Mills and he's

953
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 1: he's gonna get as the biggest question mark. Well, the

954
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 1: biggest question mark to me. To me, the biggest question

955
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:22,839
Speaker 1: mark is going to be Fields. Okay, Fields, very nicely done. Mark,

956
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Speaker 1: nice job, and to all of you, a great job.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. Chris appreciate. We'll see all tomorrow

958
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Speaker 1: game night against San Francisco. Forty nine ers right are

959
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 1: in Sports Radio six tens see everybody, and it's always

960
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Speaker 1: go Texans.