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Speaker 1: Hello, Texans, Welcome to the show. Mark vandermir and John

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Speaker 1: Harris with you on schedule release eve. As Tomorrow, we

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Speaker 1: will be live with the schedule release pregame show as

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Speaker 1: I unofficially call it. We'll talk about some of the

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Speaker 1: leaks that emerge then, because you know there are going

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Speaker 1: to be more tomorrow, and there were not leaks so

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Speaker 1: much as releases from the networks for the league, as

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Speaker 1: the networks are trying to put their games out there

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Speaker 1: in college football, not to be denied putting out a

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Speaker 1: bunch of stuff today through the networks as far as

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Speaker 1: what you are going to be showcasing or showcased with

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Speaker 1: the opening weeks of the season. Can't wait for that.

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Speaker 1: So we have a lot to get to here, Johnny.

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Speaker 1: As Tonight, later on in the show, Texans ogs, Andy

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Speaker 1: Kalou and Wade Smith, we'll talk about their schedule, wish lists,

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Speaker 1: some other items that are on their mind leading into

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Speaker 1: the schedule release on Wednesday night. And you and I

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Speaker 1: have a lot to talk about because man, we've been

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Speaker 1: talking about what we want for primetime games, what we

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Speaker 1: want for this, what we want for that, and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna keep it going here. But there's some stories we

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Speaker 1: need to get into. Comments by Tom Brady on the

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Speaker 1: Pivot Podcast. I mentioned the college football stuff, but are

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Speaker 1: this morning we learned? And you did you tweet this

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Speaker 1: out or just text it to me? I texted to you,

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Speaker 1: all right. Your schedule release prediction article dropped last week

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Speaker 1: on Houston Texans dot com. And you thought that the

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Speaker 1: Texans and Jets would open the season in primetime.

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Speaker 2: Monday night, Monday Night.

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Speaker 1: Yep, they will not, but the Jets will over the

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Speaker 1: season in primetime Monday Night at San Francisco.

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Speaker 3: So I got two of the three right to the

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Speaker 3: three right. I got the Jets right. I got the

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Speaker 3: Monday Night right. I just didn't have the opponent. Sixty

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Speaker 3: six percent of that prediction. Is that what we give

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Speaker 3: you pretty much?

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Speaker 2: Rade?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and plus the games of the San Francisco not

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Speaker 3: in New York, so you go with it. I'll take

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Speaker 3: a semi victory lap with with that. But again, not

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Speaker 3: not too surprised to see the Jets get something early.

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Speaker 2: We just don't know Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 3: I mean last year he lasted three plays and then

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Speaker 3: all the networks got stuck with the Jets and Zach

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Speaker 3: Wilson all year long. They got black Friday and they

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Speaker 3: were playing a third fourth quarterback in Tim Boyle. They

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Speaker 3: played Zach Wilson most of the year. You know, they

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Speaker 3: played the Chiefs on a Sunday night. It was just

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Speaker 3: not what the schedule makers wanted. Of course, when Aaron

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Speaker 3: Rodgers went.

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Speaker 1: Down, and that's the risk, they is the risk. But

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Speaker 1: that Chiefs Jets game was actually a decent game. Wilson

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Speaker 1: a game, great game start that the Jets won. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So that was awesome against the Buffalo Bills. So you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so Jets going out to San Francisco, where Aaron

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Speaker 3: Rodgers is originally from.

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Speaker 2: He was a big forty nine Ers fan growing up.

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Speaker 3: So again storylines, so that that came out late in

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Speaker 3: the show yesterday, we found out that Tom Brady's gonna

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Speaker 3: call his first game, yeah against the or with the

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Speaker 2: How do you feel exactly. Oh, by the way, the

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Speaker 1: To Brown's so at the upfronts of New York wasn't

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Speaker 2: Think of Deshaun Watson's situation that your first broadcast did

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Speaker 2: That dicey conversation. Okay, let me ask you this.

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Speaker 1: So, I don't root for the Cowboys almost ever unless

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Speaker 1: they're playing an AFC South team, because I want the

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Speaker 1: AFC South to lose other than us, of course, I

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Speaker 1: want the AFC South teams to lose. Now, the Cleveland

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Speaker 1: Browns the draft, I mean the draft, the trade. The

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Also, you want to have any AFC team, any

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Speaker 3: Even in the Cowboys, you cheer for the NFC because

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Speaker 1: How do you feel about the Greg Olsen Dynamics since

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Speaker 1: he's been holding down the fort as the number one

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Speaker 1: Most people still don't know him. Sports fans do, but

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Speaker 1: the casual fan doesn't. The casual fan knows al Michaels.

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Speaker 1: But I thought Burt Cart and Nelsen did a nice job.

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Speaker 2: According to many, I think.

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Speaker 3: One of the things that a good NFL analyst is

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Speaker 3: gonna have to do is find that balance between, you know,

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Speaker 3: which I think you can get from Brady. So there

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Speaker 3: might be a couple of times where you use some

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Speaker 3: of your football vernacular. But the flip side of that

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Speaker 3: aren't you know, die hards. There aren't every single Sunday

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Speaker 3: That's one of the things I think Greg Olsen does

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Speaker 3: I mean, he's tremendous at what he does, so I

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Speaker 3: I don't know who that puts him with, but he's

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Speaker 3: moving down to number two, it's because they're bringing on

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Speaker 3: reason that Brady has that spot is because he's Tom Brady,

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Speaker 3: not because he's a better broadcaster. I think als it's

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Speaker 2: It's going to be good.

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Speaker 1: And guess what with all the changes with Netflix maybe

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Speaker 1: You're going to get picked up and you're gonna start

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Speaker 1: He should be the best free agent available when the

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Speaker 1: next set of broadcast talent vacancies pop up here, So

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Speaker 1: good luck to Greg Olson. Brady's gonna call the games

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Speaker 1: on Fox. What else happened here?

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Speaker 2: Amazon?

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Speaker 1: you go into your Amazon Thursday Night lineup, and Amazon's

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Speaker 1: debut game is going to be Bills at Dolphins. Al

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Speaker 1: Michaels is back by the way for your entertainment. And

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Speaker 1: Al's taken a lot of heat lately, but Al's one

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Speaker 1: of the greatest ever. And Herb Street, who I will

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Speaker 1: never understand why Amazon thought it was so important to

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Speaker 1: get Kirk Herbstreet to call these games. He's a very

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Speaker 1: good broadcaster, There's no doubt about it. Every time I

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Speaker 1: hear him, I think college football. I think it reminds

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Speaker 1: call anything but baseball where it's And I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: Herbstreet has this attitude, but I feel like he does.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying he does, but it feels like

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Speaker 1: I'd rather be.

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Speaker 2: Doing the college football game. This NFL stuff.

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Speaker 1: It's okay, it pays very well, but get me to

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Speaker 2: I'd rather be there.

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Speaker 1: But things like that, Johnny, Now you would need AI

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Speaker 1: The NFL is considered the campfire of the United States

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Speaker 1: This It might for the fans who I want to

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Speaker 1: Might saturate it. Look what Baseball did with their national television.

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Speaker 1: podcast and radio program experience. But next Best Environments will

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Speaker 2: But right now, I promise this, Johnny.

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Speaker 3: in that particular arena.

441
00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:05,160
Speaker 2: So you've got that to start at eleven.

442
00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:10,760
Speaker 3: Then at two point thirty, your Hurricanes travel to Gainesville

443
00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:13,760
Speaker 3: to take on the Florida Gators at two thirty.

444
00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:14,359
Speaker 5: So good.

445
00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:16,600
Speaker 2: I know you love that game, because you don't. You

446
00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:17,520
Speaker 2: don't love the Gators.

447
00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:21,399
Speaker 1: Never got to the Kanes, never got to do one,

448
00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:23,360
Speaker 1: and I'm really upset about it.

449
00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:26,880
Speaker 2: But I'm really eager to see this one.

450
00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:29,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hurricanes, you tell me they got a lot of

451
00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:30,000
Speaker 1: good transfer.

452
00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:31,800
Speaker 2: They got some transfers in. They've got some young dudes in.

453
00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:32,480
Speaker 5: Uh.

454
00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:34,720
Speaker 3: Ruben Bain is a stud, so they've they've got some

455
00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:37,800
Speaker 3: They've got some young players that they're building with. I

456
00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,720
Speaker 3: think Miami could be a really exciting case.

457
00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:41,200
Speaker 2: I hate the Gators like poison.

458
00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:43,840
Speaker 1: I hate them way more than the Seminoles because the

459
00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:46,960
Speaker 1: Seminoles and Canes. We've talked about this with Travis, they

460
00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:50,159
Speaker 1: have this sort of mutual admiration society. Andre Johnson, we

461
00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,480
Speaker 1: talked about it with him as well. How about this,

462
00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:56,240
Speaker 1: Andre is really good friends with Travis Johnson. That's Kane Seminoles.

463
00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:00,000
Speaker 1: Andre was Jabar Gaffe's roommate when Andre was a rookie

464
00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,879
Speaker 1: Gafney in year two and Japane is a Gator, and

465
00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:04,720
Speaker 1: you know, you get to the NFL, things are different,

466
00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:06,960
Speaker 1: right You have CJ. Straud Ohio State thrown to a

467
00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,240
Speaker 1: Wolverine Apple Collins and it works.

468
00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:11,119
Speaker 3: Out, but down deep that college hate never leaves. And

469
00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:18,520
Speaker 3: so that Saturday night you finish in college station, the

470
00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:22,600
Speaker 3: Notre Dame fighting Irish traveling to A and M to

471
00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:23,360
Speaker 3: take on Acus.

472
00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:24,160
Speaker 2: That is so good.

473
00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:26,320
Speaker 3: I mean that is a three that's a three game

474
00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:29,200
Speaker 3: stretch right there on one day.

475
00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:31,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel one day is incredible.

476
00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:31,800
Speaker 4: All right.

477
00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:34,440
Speaker 1: I went to Kyle Field on Labor Day, it had

478
00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:37,120
Speaker 1: to be Labor Day last year, and I saw them

479
00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:40,560
Speaker 1: play I think it was New Mexico, and luckily I

480
00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:44,359
Speaker 1: got to sit in the grown up seats, the club

481
00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:47,760
Speaker 1: side right, which is in the shade. This is crucial.

482
00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:50,320
Speaker 1: I'm watching the students across the way and they're going

483
00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:52,800
Speaker 1: at it all night long in the sunshine, and I'm

484
00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:54,760
Speaker 1: thinking they're just waiting for that sun to go down

485
00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:58,359
Speaker 1: behind the stadium because that has to be brutal, and

486
00:20:58,400 --> 00:20:58,800
Speaker 1: it was.

487
00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,440
Speaker 2: But they held it together. Yeah, they held us together somehow.

488
00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:02,480
Speaker 2: It's a great environment.

489
00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:04,920
Speaker 1: I think I've told the story before, but my friends

490
00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:06,960
Speaker 1: who broadcast Miami football and I used.

491
00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:07,359
Speaker 2: To be with them.

492
00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:11,399
Speaker 1: Of course, the Canes came to A and M twice

493
00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:14,120
Speaker 1: in the last twenty years. Yeah, the first time they came,

494
00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:16,840
Speaker 1: my Canes friends told me it's the best place we've

495
00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,200
Speaker 1: ever been. It's the best place we've ever seen, best

496
00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:22,560
Speaker 1: environment period, They've these guys have been broadcasting there.

497
00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:22,919
Speaker 4: You know.

498
00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:24,480
Speaker 1: I was only there for three years. They were there

499
00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:26,960
Speaker 1: forever for decades. They said it's the best place they've

500
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,480
Speaker 1: ever seen. So that's high praise right there from them.

501
00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:34,320
Speaker 3: So twenty twelve, it's the first game the Aggie's Aggis

502
00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:36,920
Speaker 3: were scheduled to take on Losing an Attack and the opener,

503
00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:41,399
Speaker 3: but a hurricane was going through and it canceled the game.

504
00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,680
Speaker 3: So the opener at that point became Florida, the very

505
00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:47,600
Speaker 3: first game in the SEC. And I was like, you

506
00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:49,840
Speaker 3: know what, I gotta get down there. So I emailed

507
00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:51,640
Speaker 3: Alan Cannas and Aly like to come to the game.

508
00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:54,320
Speaker 3: Absolutely got your pass on the sideline, all set to go.

509
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:59,080
Speaker 3: So I'm down on the sideline for this game and

510
00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:03,040
Speaker 3: the video is just incredible. I mean it's the first

511
00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:06,880
Speaker 3: game in the SEC. You're playing Johnny man Manzelle starting

512
00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:07,520
Speaker 3: at quarterback.

513
00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:09,280
Speaker 2: And I'll never forget.

514
00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:12,560
Speaker 3: I was standing by the tunnel where the Gators come out,

515
00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:16,679
Speaker 3: and so the Gator cheer this one. This one Gator cheerleader,

516
00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:19,520
Speaker 3: she's kind of looking around and I swear her eyes

517
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:22,920
Speaker 3: are just biggest saucer. She's just looking around and she

518
00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,919
Speaker 3: looks over at her her male counterpart, and she just

519
00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:27,480
Speaker 3: kind of put her hands up like and I could

520
00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,800
Speaker 3: read her lip. She's like, what the is this? Like

521
00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:34,000
Speaker 3: that was something they had never seen before.

522
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:34,560
Speaker 4: Wow.

523
00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:39,040
Speaker 3: And it was an incredible environment that day in twenty twelve.

524
00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:42,359
Speaker 3: Just absolutely incredible Kyle Field for a football game. If

525
00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:46,480
Speaker 3: you've never been there for a big game, yeah you

526
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:48,600
Speaker 3: have to go now. I've never been to Texas for

527
00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,280
Speaker 3: a big game, but I have been at Kyle Field.

528
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,560
Speaker 3: I saw A and M in Oklahoma in twenty ten,

529
00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,679
Speaker 3: and that place shook and we were on the we

530
00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,760
Speaker 3: were on the sideline the whole time. Actually, Manzielle's recruiting

531
00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:03,240
Speaker 3: trip that weekend in twenty ten, he was there and

532
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,359
Speaker 3: I remember Billy Luci pointing him out, pointing at him

533
00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:06,360
Speaker 3: and his little tiny dude.

534
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:10,200
Speaker 2: He goes, that's the guy. I was like, that's the person.

535
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,480
Speaker 2: They weren't even sure that when he got to campus.

536
00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:15,600
Speaker 2: I know they weren't, but Billy was. Billy's like, you

537
00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:16,400
Speaker 2: need to see that guy.

538
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:19,400
Speaker 3: Okay, alright, man siel okay, come on, and I got

539
00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 3: a chance to see me. That is one of the

540
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 3: best environments. And so that game will kick off at

541
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,440
Speaker 3: six thirty August thirty, first Notre Dame at Texas A

542
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:31,240
Speaker 3: and M. I want to say it was the last time,

543
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 3: the last time Notre Dame in Texas A and M played.

544
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 2: Oh no, there was.

545
00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:35,680
Speaker 3: There were a couple of cotton bowls, but there was

546
00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:39,119
Speaker 3: one cotton Bowl where one of the twelve men stole

547
00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:41,680
Speaker 3: Tim Brown's towel and started a big old fight. He

548
00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:44,359
Speaker 3: went recent pulled a towel out that he had, and

549
00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:46,920
Speaker 3: Tim Brown went and tackled him and tried to take

550
00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:50,240
Speaker 3: it away from him. So you got an incredible opening

551
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:51,720
Speaker 3: weekend in college football.

552
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,240
Speaker 2: Share what the Monday night game is Labor Day weekend.

553
00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:58,560
Speaker 1: No NFL yet, so what's the Monday night collespn's weekend

554
00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:02,440
Speaker 1: goes like this Thursday Prime time in Colorado.

555
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:04,119
Speaker 3: Gonna visit from North Dakota State. They better be careful

556
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:05,880
Speaker 3: because the Bizon might just straight up win that game.

557
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,159
Speaker 3: The three games we gave you Clemson Georgia and Miami

558
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:09,560
Speaker 3: at Florida, Notre Dame at Texas A.

559
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:14,439
Speaker 2: And m Sunday Night. USC is taking on LSU in

560
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 2: Las Vegas on Labor Monday night, Oh my gosh.

561
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:23,639
Speaker 3: And September two, the Florida State Seminoles will get a

562
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:27,760
Speaker 3: visit from the Bill O'Brien led Boston College Eagles.

563
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:29,800
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, welcome to.

564
00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:34,639
Speaker 3: ACC football at Florida State on Monday Night. It's gonna

565
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:38,920
Speaker 3: be one thousand degrees and he's bringing the Bostonians down there.

566
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,080
Speaker 3: And look, Boston College's got a lot of guys from Florida,

567
00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:42,160
Speaker 3: so that'd be exciting for them.

568
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,800
Speaker 2: I think Florida State is still gonna be pretty stout.

569
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:46,680
Speaker 2: They lost a number of players, they still have.

570
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:50,440
Speaker 3: Got at least at least three guys in my top

571
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:54,400
Speaker 3: fifty draft prospects. I'm working on football takeover, so they're

572
00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:57,120
Speaker 3: gonna still be pretty loaded. Even though George Travis is gone.

573
00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,360
Speaker 3: They've got players still all over the place. It got

574
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,880
Speaker 3: a bunch of trans first and Boston College is going

575
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 3: down there in the first game of the bill Obrian era.

576
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 2: That's a rough opener for Hed. It's tough. It's too

577
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 2: bad he doesn't have one of those new England.

578
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 1: FCS schools or something is showing up in talent exactly

579
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 1: because this is gonna be difficult.

580
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,840
Speaker 2: But he's been in the ACC a lot. Duke Georgia Tech.

581
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:21,640
Speaker 1: He's building Maryland too, my gosh, so he'll be familiar

582
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:21,800
Speaker 1: with it.

583
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 2: Anyway. That's college football fund.

584
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:27,719
Speaker 1: So top environments, Johnny, what we're gonna leave NRG Stadium

585
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 1: out of it?

586
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 2: Choose one in the NFL? I got one.

587
00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:34,879
Speaker 1: Is it the Chiefs or is it something we're not

588
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 1: bringing to mind?

589
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:38,320
Speaker 4: Good? I got.

590
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:40,639
Speaker 3: I gotta admit we're playing that playoff game there and

591
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:44,360
Speaker 3: things are are not going well. I thought the stadium

592
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 3: was gonna fall on top of me. I mean I

593
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 3: I felt like just standing where I was in the sideline,

594
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,480
Speaker 3: I felt like this whole place is coming down because

595
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:54,600
Speaker 3: of the run that they were on at that particular point.

596
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,880
Speaker 3: The place that impressed me more than any other. Now,

597
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,920
Speaker 3: I've been to every stadium, as have you. We've been

598
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 3: to every stadium in the NFL. We've played a game

599
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 3: in every stadium. The only one that I haven't been to,

600
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:12,160
Speaker 3: which I'm curious that I haven't been to to see

601
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:16,399
Speaker 3: a game in full, was Detroit because it was it

602
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 3: was COVID year, Yeah, and so there's nobody in the building.

603
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:20,639
Speaker 3: Now Chicago was also that year, but then we had

604
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,680
Speaker 3: a game two years ago, two years after that against Chicago.

605
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,399
Speaker 3: So Detroit's environment I think is pretty good from what

606
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,199
Speaker 3: it sounds like. The one that has always impressed me

607
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 3: is Philadelphia.

608
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:31,639
Speaker 5: Yeah.

609
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 2: We played there in twenty eighteen.

610
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:35,119
Speaker 3: It was my first time there, and I remember I

611
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:36,679
Speaker 3: was talking to one of the film guys at the

612
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,239
Speaker 3: time and he was from Philly. You grew up an

613
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 3: Eagles fan, And he was talking about how surreal it

614
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,479
Speaker 3: was and all that we were talking about just the

615
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 3: fans itself, and we know how tough the Philly fans

616
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 3: could be and it boosts Santa Claus and all that.

617
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 3: There was a butt in every seat an hour before

618
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 3: the game. I was, I was so impressed. Like I

619
00:26:57,800 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 3: looked around. We were taking a field.

620
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 2: For warm ups in the place was already filled filled.

621
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,200
Speaker 2: We don't see that in credible. You just don't see that.

622
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 2: Sounds it doesn't happen.

623
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 1: People are busy and good weather and they have lives.

624
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 3: I mean, half hours before the game, half hour before

625
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,439
Speaker 3: the game, they're singing, flys Fly, I mean they're just

626
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 3: I mean an hour before the game, everybody was in

627
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 3: their seats. It was an incredible environment inside the stadium.

628
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,399
Speaker 3: And I think our guys fed off of that.

629
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 2: I know Clowney did. Clowney was jacked that day and

630
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 2: he had one of his best games ever.

631
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,360
Speaker 1: Hell fed off that crowd. It was incredible, great game.

632
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 1: All right, here's mine that no one talks about. Well,

633
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 1: I don't want to see no one, but it doesn't

634
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 1: get mentioned. Seattle always gets mentioned.

635
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 4: It's so loud.

636
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, Seattle's a really great environment. Is it's good Minnesota.

637
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:45,400
Speaker 1: We were up there in twenty sixteen.

638
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, that place.

639
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 1: And I had been to the homer Dome, the hanky Dome,

640
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:51,440
Speaker 1: whatever dome they called it.

641
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 2: That week.

642
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 1: I'd been there, but the new building was deafening.

643
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 2: It was wild. They had this, I mean the skull chant.

644
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 2: That skull chant is wild. That thing starts you kind

645
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 2: of look around like what they came out of the tunnel.

646
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 1: They put this stonehenge and spinal taps set up out there.

647
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 1: There was a stonehand on stage in danger of being crushed.

648
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 2: By a druid.

649
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 1: I had that vibe a little bit about the stone

650
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,560
Speaker 1: ende set up, but the vikings were really good.

651
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 2: It was Sam Bradford.

652
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 4: Yep.

653
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 1: That was Adam Delend's coming out part was it was

654
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 1: totally noise, Johnny. The noise in that building for some reason.

655
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 1: You know, I'm wearing the headset. It doesn't always bother me, Yeah,

656
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 1: but in that game, I just had to talk and

657
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 1: hope that it was coming out right.

658
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 2: I couldn't hear myself.

659
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 3: It's a beautiful stadium and it's got doors. It doesn't

660
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 3: have a roof that opens, it has doors, glass doors.

661
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 3: But for some reason, the sound just is right on

662
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 3: top of you in that building. And I loved our

663
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 3: trip there. I mean I I it was a beautiful day.

664
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 3: It was chili. The had doors open and it got

665
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 3: kind of chilly by the the entrance, but I remember

666
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 3: that game, either they had a punt return touchdown or

667
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 3: a long punt return, and I just remember the crescendo

668
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 3: of noise as and it was the defensive back and

669
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 3: he's running it back, and I just it was You're right,

670
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 3: it was. It was deafening, deafening in that building. And

671
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 3: when that skull chance starts, it's lights out, man.

672
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 5: Forget it.

673
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 2: It is really tough with that. Those are some of

674
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 2: the best in the NFL. We talked about.

675
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 1: Kyle Field obviously great, great reputation. When I was at Miami,

676
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 1: the Orange Bowl was unbelievable for a big game, but

677
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 1: it wasn't consistently great. But for a big game, I

678
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 1: know Lsu is terrific. I've never done a game there else.

679
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 4: She was great.

680
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 3: It is great, and been there, it's awesome. I missed Georgia.

681
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 3: I went to Georgia when Georgia was down. In fact,

682
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 3: the game I went to Georgia was for Georgia. They

683
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 3: were renovating at the time. It was the Gator Bowl

684
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 3: for the Jags, and so they put the game on campus.

685
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 3: So I went to the one that was in Georgia

686
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 3: with a friend of mine and it was cool at

687
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,240
Speaker 3: the beginning like, okay, you can see all the tradition

688
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 3: and stuff, and then within five minutes the Georgia is

689
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 3: getting blown out. It's spurred one of Spurrier's best teams,

690
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 3: and so fans are starting to leave because it was

691
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 3: also Game one of the World Series that night.

692
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 4: Oh fae.

693
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 2: They just started taking off by the second quarter.

694
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 3: So I didn't really get the full full throttle Georgia experience.

695
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 1: I got it at Washington. I would a ub Yeah,

696
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 1: Marcus Tuiyosa Soco. They were awesome. Beat the Canes in

697
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 1: two thousand. That place was so loud. Never been to Oregon,

698
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:31,959
Speaker 1: I know that's awesome. When I worked in state College Pennsylvania,

699
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 1: Penn State. It's never it's not ever going to be

700
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 1: known as one of the greatest environments, but it's really

701
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 1: good at night for one of those whiteout games. But

702
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:41,720
Speaker 1: they've gotten so much grief lately for not being able

703
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 1: to win big games.

704
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, what's a great one, and it's one

705
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 3: that I never got a chance to go to before

706
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 3: I moved down to Texas. My parents used to go

707
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 3: to Wisconsin games at cam Brandle. I bet it was

708
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 3: off and they and they weren't great at the time,

709
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 3: but they had one year where they were pretty good

710
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 3: and they knocked off Michigan, a number one team.

711
00:30:57,920 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 2: They're actually at that game.

712
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 3: It was incredible, they said, I mean the place was shaking,

713
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 3: and they obviously have jump around. It's not quite what

714
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 3: it was in the Barry Alvarez years and Paul Christiers

715
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 3: where you know what, JJ was there kind of falling

716
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 3: off a little bit.

717
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 2: Hopefully Luke fikeill get him back.

718
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 3: But Camp Randall apparently is one of the most incredible

719
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 3: environments in college football.

720
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 2: A lot of this stuff is so relative anyway.

721
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: You know, one of the greatest games I can remember

722
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: seeing as a fan was at my alma mater when

723
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 1: they still had football, Boston University playing nationally ranked at

724
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: FCS Division ONEAA Holy Cross with Gordon and they beat

725
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 1: them at BU and it was only four thousand people,

726
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: but it was jam packed. You couldn't squeeze another butt

727
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 1: in there, and everybody was going crazy, and it was

728
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 1: just one of those things when your team is doing

729
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 1: something big, it's full, it's an upset.

730
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 2: There's nothing like it.

731
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,320
Speaker 1: So it is relative because it's special to you, all right,

732
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: special to me Texans Ogs. Dy Kalu hosts it Wade

733
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 1: Smith the guests. They're going to talk about schedule, wish list,

734
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 1: and other things that come up the conversation. You're just

735
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: gonna have to tune in to find out. It's Texans

736
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: All Access. Great to have you listening in on Texans Radio.

737
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: Let's listen in on Texans OG's and d Kalu's guest

738
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 1: is Wade Smith, the Pro Bowl guard, and they talk

739
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: about schedule, wishes and predictions. Wade starts us off.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna put my bid on the table. I'm gonna

741
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 6: say at least for prime time games, at least for

742
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 6: at least at least for me, and I'm counting Thanksgiving

743
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 6: game if they have that, that to me, I count

744
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 6: that as a prime time game, even though it's at

745
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 6: eleven o'clock in the morning.

746
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 7: Now, you said, if the NFL gets it right and

747
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:36,479
Speaker 7: puts the Texans taking on the Cowboys on Thanksgiving, I

748
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 7: want to see that.

749
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 4: You want to see that.

750
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 7: You and I both grew up in Texas, no question,

751
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,680
Speaker 7: but you're also got an entrepreneurial mindset.

752
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 4: Is that what America wants to see? You know?

753
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 7: Roger Goodell has to make decisions on globally.

754
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 4: CJ.

755
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 6: Stroud versus DAK Prescott. They want to see that. Okay,

756
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 6: I think it makes it makes a lot of sense.

757
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 6: Remember that's the I can't think of another better that's

758
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 6: not eleven o'clock. The Cowboys always plays at three o'clock.

759
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 6: That's a three o'clock game. Detroit plays at eleven and

760
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 6: then the Cowboys plays at three o'clock. At three o'clock

761
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 6: on a Thursday, Thanksgiving Texans versus the Cowboys.

762
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 5: To me, that'll be a great look.

763
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 6: You can't you can't lose there, and I and I

764
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 6: haven't looked at the Cowboys schedule to see, like who

765
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 6: else would to put The Cowboys don't always play great

766
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 6: opponents on Thanksgiving. I think their biggest thing is like,

767
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 6: it's the Cowboys. So it isn't doesn't necessarily matter who

768
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 6: you match up with the Cowboys. It's the Cowboys on Thanksgiving.

769
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 6: Everybody's gonna watch that anyway. But when you talk about

770
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 6: the competitiveness, competitiveness of the game Thanksgiving Texas Football and

771
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 6: everything that it means, it just makes a lot of

772
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 6: sense to me that that's that's where you put that.

773
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,720
Speaker 4: Game as a player, would you rather play on Thanksgiving.

774
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 5: Or rather not?

775
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: Uh?

776
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 6: You know what, every time we played on Thanksgiving. I

777
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 6: think I'm undefeated on Thanksgiving, so I definitely would want

778
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 6: to play on Thanksgiving. I mean I got my not

779
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 6: my first game, boy, but my second game and ball

780
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 6: was against the Cowboys my rookie year for the Dolphins.

781
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 6: Blew them out. My grandma got mad at me and

782
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 6: she didn't she didn't make me a.

783
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 4: Play for Thanksgiving that year.

784
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 6: Huge, huge, the biggest, like to this day, she's ninety

785
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 6: years old. Now, yeah, she was upset me for a

786
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 6: few days. Like ya, I didn't have to come beat

787
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 6: my team like we beat him like forty to twenty one,

788
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 6: and the twenty one was like a late touchdown. So

789
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:30,240
Speaker 6: but then we played Detroit on Thanksgiving in twenty twelve.

790
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 6: That was probably the most the second most painful game

791
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 6: that I played for played in my career, because we

792
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 6: played the Jaguars the week before that, or that's the

793
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 6: Sunday before that overtime game. We won it, but I

794
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 6: broke my ribs that game. So then this is three

795
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,840
Speaker 6: and a half days later, at eleven o'clock in the morning,

796
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 6: you're playing against Detroit, with the flag jacket on.

797
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 5: That was a painful game.

798
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 6: We won it, but it was It wasn't fun, But

799
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 6: I would I would definitely say I would rather play

800
00:34:57,920 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 6: if I had an opportunity to play on Thanksgiving. Let's

801
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 6: play on the because you know everybody's watching. You're gonna

802
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:08,320
Speaker 6: get those extra days off around Thanksgiving that other guys

803
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 6: aren't gonna get. I enjoyed my Thanksgiving experiences when I

804
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 6: played in the league.

805
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 7: You talked about Arion Foster, and I remember he was

806
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:21,759
Speaker 7: very vocal against Thursday night games. Yeah, I personally enjoyed him.

807
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 7: And that's why I like to say, you know, just

808
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 7: because we're all players, it doesn't mean we think the same.

809
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 7: The reason I enjoyed it, I was lucky enough to

810
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 7: have coaches if you had a Thursday game, you just

811
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,840
Speaker 7: don't practice that week. But I get his argument, especially

812
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 7: being a running back, which is the most violent position

813
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,359
Speaker 7: on the football field, and saying that that's not enough

814
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 7: time to recover.

815
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 4: What was your take on Thursday game?

816
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:45,280
Speaker 6: That was the biggest thing, just having enough time to recover,

817
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 6: Because the way the NFL week works is like you

818
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:55,319
Speaker 6: play on Sunday Monday, you're not You're coming down from

819
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 6: your tourt all high, so you're starting to get the

820
00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 6: sore on this Tuesday, there's the most painful day of

821
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 6: the week. Wednesday, you're starting to work through the sword

822
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:05,240
Speaker 6: and this Thursday you're starting to feel like a human

823
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 6: being again. Friday, you're feeling fast and ready to go.

824
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 6: By the time you get to Sunday, hey let's go.

825
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 6: I'm ready to do this again. And then you repeat

826
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 6: the process. Well, if you're playing on Thursday, even though

827
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 6: you're not doing anything on that Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, your

828
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 6: body is still You're just now starting to feel like

829
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,920
Speaker 6: a human being again on Thursday, and guess what, I

830
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 6: gotta go out there and whoop inde for four hours

831
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 6: like that ain't an easy task at all. And so

832
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 6: I've never been a fan of the Thursday night game.

833
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:38,919
Speaker 6: It's just something that you have to do. It's part

834
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 6: of to do. But yeah, your body just does not

835
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 6: feel And since we've played, they've come up with all

836
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 6: different things to try to help with that and help

837
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 6: with the recovery, but you just never felt like it

838
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 6: took you almost a quarter to start feeling like you're

839
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 6: supposed to feel in the middle of a game.

840
00:36:57,800 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 7: So here's why I disagree, because I was lucky enough

841
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 7: to play some Thursday night games as well. And again,

842
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 7: let's think about the regular week. You know, Sunday to Sunday,

843
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 7: just like everything you said Monday, and again, depend on

844
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 7: what type of season you're having and who your coach is.

845
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 7: Some coaches make you do that run, the lift to

846
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 7: get the sword out, the tourd doll still there. Tuesday

847
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 7: you feel it for those listening. Tuesdays typically the off

848
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 7: day for the National Football League players. Wednesday you have

849
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,800
Speaker 7: a hard practice. Wednesday and Thursday were usually the grinded

850
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 7: out practices, and then Friday you have a basically a

851
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:39,320
Speaker 7: walk through, a jog through. Saturday you travel, Sunday you play.

852
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 7: So the reason I enjoyed Thursday games again because I

853
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:47,279
Speaker 7: had smart coaches. We didn't We literally never put the

854
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 7: pads on except for the helmets. Maybe a walkthrough on Tuesday.

855
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:54,879
Speaker 4: And that's it.

856
00:37:55,000 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 7: So because I know practice is needed, yeah, but to me,

857
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 7: practice was always a grind.

858
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 4: I just love to play.

859
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 7: So if you tell me I get to play in

860
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 7: a game on Sunday and then I don't have to

861
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 7: do anything and play a game on Thursday, I signed.

862
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:11,839
Speaker 4: I'll sign up for that every day of the week.

863
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 6: I feel like you're speaking very much so from a

864
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 6: defensive lineman's perspective, because defensive lineman, you guys rotate in

865
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 6: and out. You mentioned Arian to start this conversation, like

866
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 6: Arian got beat up man like Arian? You know that

867
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:28,759
Speaker 6: is very physically taxing. I remember after every game, like

868
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 6: you have a great game. You got twenty six carries

869
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 6: for one hundred and forty two yards and two touchdowns,

870
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 6: and you're not smiling in the locker room. It's like

871
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:39,839
Speaker 6: you know that, okay, we're done. I can you know

872
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:43,879
Speaker 6: it's a grind and it's an offensive lineman. Hey, it's

873
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:45,880
Speaker 6: like you're you're excited, you got to win, But it

874
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 6: was a grind. We just went to war. We just

875
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:51,759
Speaker 6: we had a full out battle for seventy plays. If

876
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 6: you had a good day at the office, you might

877
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 6: be playing eighty plays. Whereas you know, for you guys,

878
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:57,800
Speaker 6: if you have a good day at the office, you

879
00:38:57,880 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 6: might have played forty plays and you might have only

880
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 6: had to play you know, twenty nine out of those

881
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 6: forty plays or fifty, like say, like you might have

882
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:06,840
Speaker 6: played a total forty plays.

883
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 5: It was a good day, right, you know what I mean?

884
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 5: And so.

885
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,399
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that kind of plays into your thought

886
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 6: process of a Thursday night versus off.

887
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 7: Yeah, I just tap my helmet if somebody comes in, right,

888
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:23,360
Speaker 7: come get me yall offensive lineman, don't rotate.

889
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 6: No, it's it's frowned upon. That's like one of those

890
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 6: unwritten rules that you don't come out the game.

891
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, I can see and again, different position, you know,

892
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 7: you have different thoughts on it. So I did want

893
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:38,439
Speaker 7: to get your take on that. All right, So we obviously, uh,

894
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 7: with the Hall of Fame game, there's gonna be a

895
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:45,840
Speaker 7: longer training camp. Now I'm older than you. You you know,

896
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 7: I've retired in eight.

897
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:51,439
Speaker 5: You retired when my last season was the fourteen season.

898
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:52,760
Speaker 4: So you can And when was your first season?

899
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:53,359
Speaker 5: Oh?

900
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 4: Three, that's right, so you.

901
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 7: You've actually you can speak on this a little better

902
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 7: than I can, because in three they were still having

903
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 7: what I.

904
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:06,880
Speaker 6: Call real training camp and pad y half pad.

905
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 5: Pad pad half pads.

906
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 6: You had to wait till the end of the week

907
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 6: to get like all the shells, the shamos, whatever you

908
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:18,360
Speaker 6: call them, the soft.

909
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:24,800
Speaker 7: The skeletons some people called shell shoulder pads on and on.

910
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 7: But then they also call those little foam deals.

911
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 6: So yeah, you didn't put the you only put the

912
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 6: phones on once a week in training camp.

913
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 5: That's what I remember.

914
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 6: Like when I was with the Dolphins my rookie year,

915
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:40,399
Speaker 6: it was full pads, full pads, full pads, and then

916
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 6: it was full pads, half pads, and then then repeat

917
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 6: the cycle until you got to the last day of

918
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:46,439
Speaker 6: the week.

919
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 5: And then you gotta maybe.

920
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 6: I guess the shells or soft whatever shell uh, special

921
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 6: teams practice or something like that. It was a real,

922
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:59,439
Speaker 6: real training camp. And even before then they were doing

923
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 6: three days.

924
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 7: So before then was my ara ninety seven was my

925
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 7: rookie year. And in Philly coach Andy Reid the best

926
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 7: coach you know in football right now, and I'll keep

927
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 7: saying that, but he I truly believe his goal for

928
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 7: the start of training camp was to try to weed

929
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 7: somebody out. You might be thinking the NFL, no one's

930
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 7: gonna quit. Every year. I was six years with Andy Reid.

931
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 7: Every year when we had training camp, at least one

932
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 7: person quit. And this isn't college, this isn't high school.

933
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 7: And there were times where it was like that guy

934
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 7: was gonna make the team. He's walking away from, you know,

935
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 7: a six digit salary because training camp was so tough,

936
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 7: and don't I don't know. I don't want to over

937
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 7: I don't want to exaggerate, but I don't think there

938
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 7: was any regulation like they have now on how long

939
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 7: you can be on the field.

940
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 5: It didn't feel like.

941
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:53,880
Speaker 6: It didn't feel like for sure, it didn't like you

942
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 6: Like I said, today, there's no such thing as a

943
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:59,719
Speaker 6: real to today. It's like you can practice full pads

944
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:03,320
Speaker 6: in them, but in the afternoon it's a walkthrough. It's

945
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:07,360
Speaker 6: like a legit walkthrough, whereas it was full pads in

946
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 6: the morning, full pads in the afternoon or evening. Then

947
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:13,240
Speaker 6: the next day you did a full pad of practice

948
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 6: and then you might have a walk through, but the

949
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 6: walkthrough might be it would be like a special team's

950
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 6: walk through that was like and then you repeat the process.

951
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 6: But you know, let's say, if you have forty practice

952
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 6: opportunities in training camp, you're gonna be in full pass

953
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 6: probably thirty thirty three of those opportunities. Like I mean,

954
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 6: it was, it was. It was just different. It's just

955
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:38,360
Speaker 6: a different game than what it is now. It's smart

956
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 6: for your physical it's smart. But at the same time,

957
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 6: I wonder how that is translating to the types and

958
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:48,480
Speaker 6: the amount of injuries that have come up as far

959
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 6: as like, yeah, like soft tissue stuff. I feel like

960
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 6: it wasn't I feel And maybe that's a combination of

961
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:57,720
Speaker 6: guys that are being so much like that are getting

962
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,359
Speaker 6: bigger and faster, and it's like the bi they can

963
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 6: only do and move a certain amount of speed at

964
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 6: one time. But yeah, man, it's just it was definitely

965
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 6: a more physically taxing. It's got me thinking about that

966
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 6: whole this whole debate that's been going on about NBA

967
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 6: players playing in the NFL and and vice versa. It's like, bro, like,

968
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:25,360
Speaker 6: y'all don't understand. Like I watched I watched the Mavericks

969
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 6: play Oklahoma City last night, and just the amount of

970
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 6: whining and complaining and like they're playing that that was

971
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 6: was considered a very physical brand of basketball. More like

972
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 6: they were liking it back to the nineties style of

973
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 6: basketball whit And I'm like, the amount of complaining and

974
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,840
Speaker 6: whining and like, mentally, I just don't see those guys.

975
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 6: They'd have to change their mindset. It's not about being

976
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:55,400
Speaker 6: an athlete. You have to change your mindset to be

977
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 6: to play for pennies during training camp because you're not

978
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,800
Speaker 6: getting paid your salary and it's the most physically demanding

979
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,839
Speaker 6: and taxting thing that you'll ever go through. And it's

980
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 6: Groundhog's Day and it's each and every day, and you're

981
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 6: trying to take someone's job and someone's trying to take

982
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:15,719
Speaker 6: your job. Mentally, I just don't see NBA guys being

983
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 6: willing or able to do that.

984
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 7: This is why I love and hate doing shows with you.

985
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 7: You literally took everything that I was thinking and said

986
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:26,399
Speaker 7: it better than I could say. Because I was having

987
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 7: this discussion with my son and I think he was

988
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 7: trying to troll me because he was, Oh, I agree

989
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 7: with Austin Rivers. NBA players could play in the NFL,

990
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:37,839
Speaker 7: and I'm like, you know what their prob They could

991
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:40,880
Speaker 7: be just as fast, they could be just as athletic.

992
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:43,919
Speaker 7: Some of them might even be more athletic. But it's

993
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 7: the training camp and the grind of football that I

994
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 7: don't know if these guys can do it. And just

995
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 7: because well, people don't realize when they have those type

996
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:55,399
Speaker 7: of debates. Because a name that kept being thrown out

997
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:57,760
Speaker 7: there and he's a great athlete. Was oh Russell Westbrook

998
00:44:57,800 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 7: he could do it, he can do it. I'm like,

999
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 7: you know what, maybe he can't. What position you're gonna

1000
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 7: put him at?

1001
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1002
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 3: Four?

1003
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:05,480
Speaker 7: Right, yeah, six ' four. So they're like, oh, he'll

1004
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 7: be a big receiver. I'm like, is he a four

1005
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 7: or five guy? Is he a four to four guy?

1006
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:10,120
Speaker 4: You know?

1007
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:12,000
Speaker 7: I know he looks fast on the court. And again

1008
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 7: he might be one thing we tend to forget also

1009
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:17,719
Speaker 7: when we try to say how easy it is, and

1010
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:20,040
Speaker 7: I'm throwing the quotes in the air for the people listening,

1011
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:22,719
Speaker 7: how easy it is to play in the NFL. There's

1012
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 7: a lot of guys who are six to four, run

1013
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 7: a four to three the bench to twenty five, wrap

1014
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:32,359
Speaker 7: it out twenty times, and have a thirty eight inch

1015
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 7: vertical and you know what they're not doing playing football,

1016
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:37,879
Speaker 7: playing in the NFL. They're not good football player. Yeah,

1017
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 7: there's something to be said for being a good football player,

1018
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 7: Like you're diminishing what it takes to be a good

1019
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 7: route runner and get open in the NFL. Like you

1020
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 7: can have all the height, weight, measurables all you want to,

1021
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 7: but are you able to read coverages on the run,

1022
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 7: to get yourself open, to sit down in his zone,

1023
00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:01,400
Speaker 7: to be able to high point the ball with somebody

1024
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:05,920
Speaker 7: you know grabbing you and then take the hit and

1025
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:09,799
Speaker 7: get up and then do it again. Like that would

1026
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 7: give that that would give them their best opportunity to

1027
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 7: make it as like a receiver or maybe a tight

1028
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 7: end or something like that. But listen, man, I just

1029
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 7: feel like they need to have more respect for what

1030
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:24,880
Speaker 7: it takes to be an NFL player and to be

1031
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:26,719
Speaker 7: a one percenter and be the best of the best

1032
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 7: of what you do, the mental as far as mentality

1033
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 7: and the mental as far as what the playbook and

1034
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 7: all the type stuff that it takes and the nuances

1035
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 7: and every single thing that you do. And you know what,

1036
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 7: those guys are one presiders in their field, and I

1037
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 7: have respect for that. But I do understand and know

1038
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:52,239
Speaker 7: that the intricacies in basketball aren't quite the same as

1039
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 7: they are in football because there's not as many moving

1040
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:59,319
Speaker 7: parts and the way the game is set up is

1041
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:04,759
Speaker 7: for free flowing movement and for guys to have success offensively.

1042
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 7: And that's why when you watch a game like that

1043
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:10,000
Speaker 7: last night, like I said, watch the Mavericks play the

1044
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 7: Thunder in the playoff game, and.

1045
00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:12,320
Speaker 4: It was physical.

1046
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:14,800
Speaker 6: But it was physical from my perspective because I'm like,

1047
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 6: I haven't seeing basketball like this in a long time.

1048
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 6: The game is not like this anymore. So that means

1049
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:21,799
Speaker 6: that you know, ninety nine percent of the guys that

1050
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:23,560
Speaker 6: are in the league right now have grown up and

1051
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:25,480
Speaker 6: used to a game that is not physical at all.

1052
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:28,280
Speaker 6: So that's why you see them guys complaining and winding

1053
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 6: every two seconds because they're getting grabbed and fouled or

1054
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,719
Speaker 6: whatever like that. But it's like, I would just like

1055
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 6: to see some of these guys line up and do

1056
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:39,360
Speaker 6: inside run where the team that you're going against and

1057
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:41,759
Speaker 6: knows what you're gonna run, and you gotta line up

1058
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 6: and win your block anyway. They know what you're gonna do.

1059
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:46,480
Speaker 6: They you know what they're gonna do, you know what,

1060
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 6: and you gotta go win that matchup physically move a

1061
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:51,440
Speaker 6: grown man where he doesn't want to go.

1062
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:54,120
Speaker 2: Great stuff from Wade Smith and n D. Kalu.

1063
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 1: I'm Texans Ogs. It's on Houston Texans dot com. You

1064
00:47:57,640 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 1: want to catch the rest of it. Will probably run

1065
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:01,879
Speaker 1: some of that later on in the week as well.

1066
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:04,359
Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for the show. Area forty five

1067
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 1: coming up next. Don't miss it. Have a great night,

1068
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:08,400
Speaker 1: Go Texans.