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Speaker 2: Peers lightning right, Spend parrels his way down on the

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Speaker 3: Want to run by Piers.

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Speaker 2: These are the type of guys, the type of men

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Speaker 3: Tender top pitch question, Harris.

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Speaker 4: Game day is every day.

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Speaker 1: I love the energy. Stop by Stateley p Trey. Texans

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Speaker 1: have the ball on the pit and if you want it,

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Speaker 1: you gotta go work.

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Speaker 4: No, it's Texans all xys.

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Speaker 3: Yes, so you definitely gotta go work.

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Speaker 1: And we are working this evening for you, John Harris

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Speaker 1: alongside the voice of the Texans, Mark vandermir That's what

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Speaker 1: I have on my phone. And when Mark called me earlier,

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Speaker 1: it came up as the voice of the Texans.

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Speaker 3: That's all it says. It says voice, and I know

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Speaker 3: who that is. It's very nice. Mark. Good evening, We boy,

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Speaker 3: good evening. We have a we got a lot a lot,

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Speaker 1: To talk about and I'm not even sure where to start,

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Speaker 3: Talked to Lite nowhere.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I think, all right, I'll go with what you

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Speaker 2: With all right, I want to have a contest, and

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Speaker 2: the contest is name your starting five offensive linemen September tenth.

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Speaker 5: I think I can get somebody to ensure it.

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Speaker 2: We can give away one hundred grand because it's going

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Speaker 2: to be tough to name for most people. But Johnny,

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Speaker 2: if anybody can do it, you and I can get

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Speaker 2: give some options because if they come to us, right,

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Speaker 5: I don't think they will. In fact, I'm positive they won't.

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Speaker 5: And we'll put it together, right we will.

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Speaker 1: I'll say this practice was today, and then the guys

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Speaker 3: So yeah, they're all gonna be there for tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: So at that point you'll get a look at you know,

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Speaker 1: Now, I have not seen anything further on Mike Boone

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Speaker 3: They make way where John? What's that?

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Speaker 2: But Aaron Wilson. I'm gonna give him credit because I've

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Speaker 2: All right, good, that's what he says, And they haven't.

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Speaker 1: You can see why because there's so many things going on. Also,

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Speaker 2: This is all just stuff in the wind, and we

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Speaker 3: And he's on.

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Speaker 2: John It doesn't work that way.

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Speaker 5: No one's available in May.

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Speaker 2: You know, whoever's available in May is likely to be

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Speaker 2: deal with it. I don't know what happened to Michael Dieter.

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Speaker 2: You tell me, can Kendrick Green possibly play? Can you

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Speaker 3: Do it really is.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you start thinking today at practice, there are

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Speaker 3: So you've left tackle and right guard.

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Speaker 1: So which one is that? If you move Titus over

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: My gut tells me they'll leave Titus over at right tackle,

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Speaker 1: Now I don't love that, but if it gets your

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Speaker 3: Now, let's hop over to center.

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Speaker 5: Then, right, This is why the.

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Speaker 1: know can Can Josh Jones get up to speed with

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Speaker 3: a crash course out on the edge?

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Speaker 1: But Mark, I mean, do you want to have a

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Speaker 1: I feel a little bit better. I don't feel great.

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Speaker 2: Maybe they liked Scotty in this system, you know, doing

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Speaker 2: There's a defensive ethic in this organization that's been around

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Speaker 5: And this year we'll see.

437
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Speaker 2: But you're opening up there when supposedly everybody's fresh, but

438
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Speaker 2: the Texans are not fresh on the old line.

439
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Speaker 5: They gotta find a way to put it together.

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Speaker 2: Help is on the way eventually, because you're gonna get

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Speaker 2: Charlie Heck back. You're not gonna get Kenyan greenback this year.

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Speaker 2: But as guys get healthier, as the acquisitions they've made

443
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Speaker 2: get acclimated, that'll be good as well. But you are

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Speaker 2: where you are right now. You got to try to

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Speaker 2: put it together, no.

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Speaker 3: Doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: Two guys that ended up being cut have found new homes.

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Speaker 1: Drew Dordy and I talked about those two players that

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Speaker 1: were cut, what they meant to this organization.

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Speaker 3: That's next on Texans All Access.

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Speaker 4: More Texans Radio is on the way. Texans Radio is back.

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Speaker 1: This is John Harris Football, ANAMALS sideline reporter for your

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Speaker 1: Texans with you this evening and each and every Tuesday Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: Drew Dordy and I sit down and do a little

455
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Speaker 1: in the Lab podcast. We did this one talking about

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Speaker 1: the cuts and two major ones. Two guys have found

457
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Speaker 1: jobs in the NFL at this point, but we discussed them.

458
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Speaker 1: Desmond King, who is going to sign with the Steelers,

459
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Speaker 1: and then Christian Kirksey, who is going to sign with

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills practice squad. I love the fact that

461
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Speaker 1: practice squad rules have changed that it allows veterans of

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Speaker 1: any experience level to be on a practice squad and

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Speaker 1: given the opportunity to kind of work themselves into shape

464
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Speaker 1: or learn the system or whatever. So it looks like

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Speaker 1: Christian's gonna have that opportunity up in Buffalo. But we

466
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Speaker 1: talked about that right here on in the Lab.

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Speaker 3: Chris hit it. Let's go.

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Speaker 7: This is a big day, cutdown day. We've seen names

469
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Speaker 7: already trickle out about who's not going to be on

470
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Speaker 7: the roster, who might be back in a little bit,

471
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Speaker 7: some other big names around the league, some former Texans,

472
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Speaker 7: some notable names. But I thought Demico Ryans put it

473
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Speaker 7: perfectly on Monday in his press conference at Energy Stadium,

474
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Speaker 7: is the day after the Saints preseason game. He said,

475
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Speaker 7: it's a delicate day, it's a sensitive day, it's tough,

476
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Speaker 7: and it's one of those days he went through as

477
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Speaker 7: a player. He was in the NFL for ten years.

478
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Speaker 7: I don't know that he was really ever on the

479
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Speaker 7: bubble until maybe the end, and I can't remember exactly

480
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Speaker 7: how his the end of his career went. Twenty fourteen

481
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Speaker 7: was the last season with the Eagles, but I know

482
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Speaker 7: he was never in jeopardy here. He just got traded,

483
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Speaker 7: you know, but salary can use salary cap casualty kind of.

484
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Speaker 7: But he at least has been around enough to see it.

485
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Speaker 7: You spend a decade playing, you spend some time as

486
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Speaker 7: an assistant, getting close to guys that you want to keep,

487
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Speaker 7: but you know, just aren't all the way there. Tough day,

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Speaker 7: and it's never one of the fun ones, certainly in

489
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Speaker 7: this building or any NFL building for that matter.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it really is. And you know, I've talked to

491
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Speaker 1: some of the NFL people around the league, from scouts

492
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Speaker 1: to players to coaches, and you have to Drew and

493
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Speaker 1: this is a day that everybody. Everybody hates. The fans

494
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Speaker 1: love it in some sense because they get to see

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Speaker 1: what the fifty three is going to be at the

496
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Speaker 1: start of the season, or at least on two years.

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Speaker 6: Crystallizes things a little bit, right.

498
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Speaker 1: And so you as a as a fan, you start

499
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Speaker 1: thinking about starting the season. Let's go, it's week one.

500
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Speaker 1: We're get excited about regular season Football's training camp. Nonsense,

501
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Speaker 1: it's just behind us. Let's go, let's do it. But man,

502
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Speaker 1: there's so much that goes into it. And ninety guys

503
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Speaker 1: in a in a locker room, every single one of

504
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,320
Speaker 1: them is at a different stage, and they're all thinking

505
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Speaker 1: about this day in a different way. You know. The

506
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Speaker 1: Damian Pearces and Jalen Petries are like, yo, let's just

507
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 1: get the Baltimore Larimy Tunzel is you know, just all right,

508
00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 1: when when's practice, we gotta get ready for Baltimore. I

509
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:30,160
Speaker 1: gotta get ready for David Ajabo and o'defeoway. So then

510
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Speaker 1: you've got players at bottom of the roster going, man,

511
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Speaker 1: I'm on the roster. I think if I'm not, where

512
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Speaker 1: do I go? What do I do? And then you

513
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,439
Speaker 1: got some near the bottom of the bottom of the

514
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Speaker 1: roster that are like, Okay, where's my next opportunity? Is

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Speaker 1: my next opportunity in the NFL? Maybe it's not even

516
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Speaker 1: in the NFL, maybe it's XFL. Do I need to

517
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Speaker 1: be thinking about getting a job on Tuesday? All those

518
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Speaker 1: emotions are kind of floating through the locker room, and

519
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Speaker 1: your coaches are kind of as you mentioned, Dimika Ryans.

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Speaker 1: Coaches are dealing with that too because they got to

521
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Speaker 1: have hard discussions, and the hardest discussions are coming from

522
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Speaker 1: Nick Cassariodika Ryans. But Dimko said something pretty interesting to us,

523
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Speaker 1: Drue that I thought about a lot. He said, I

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Speaker 1: want all ninety of these guys to have their careers

525
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Speaker 1: in the NFL. I want them to all be on

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Speaker 1: NFL roster in some way, shape or form, sure in

527
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three and beyond. And I thought that was interesting.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever heard a coach say that.

529
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Speaker 1: Now they might have thought it, but I don't know,

530
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Speaker 1: have ever heard any one of them say it out loud.

531
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Speaker 1: And I just think that speaks to to Tamiko. I

532
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Speaker 1: know Nick feels that way too.

533
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Speaker 7: Been through it and seeing friends get cut and he

534
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Speaker 7: got traded. I mean that had to be a just

535
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Speaker 7: a bombshell to him. So yeah, he's got that human element.

536
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Speaker 1: To it, right, no doubt. And so it makes us

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Speaker 1: its day. And you know, for you and I and

538
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Speaker 1: we get to know these players. We interview them out

539
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Speaker 1: to practice, we talked to them, We get to know

540
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Speaker 1: them a little bit. And then some of them, you know,

541
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Speaker 1: some rookies we don't get to know. But some guys

542
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Speaker 1: they've been around here, you know, the Desmond Kings, the

543
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Speaker 1: Christian Kirkseyes, the World Lopez. I mean those guys you

544
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Speaker 1: know we've gotten over the last three years. And you

545
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Speaker 1: look up and Okay, well they're not in the locker

546
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 1: room anymore. And you know, you've been there since two

547
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Speaker 1: thousand and I've been there since twenty fourteen. You know,

548
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Speaker 1: you get used to it, but just because you get

549
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Speaker 1: used to something doesn't mean you like it. And you

550
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Speaker 1: hate seeing those players. I mean, de Dez has a

551
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Speaker 1: brother that has Aspergers. He's on the spectrum as well.

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Speaker 1: So Dez and I've talked about that because my son

553
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Speaker 1: has the same and so we've talked a lot about

554
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Speaker 1: that about family. So I wish them all well. I

555
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,159
Speaker 1: hate it because it feels like, Okay, you got to

556
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Speaker 1: get ready for the Ravens and we got to start preparing,

557
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: you know, even our stuff for the Ravens. But you

558
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Speaker 1: just hate that, you know, guys that you like as

559
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:44,639
Speaker 1: people and as football players have got to go start

560
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 1: something different end up in a different location. I always

561
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Speaker 1: find it fascinating at the end of games, Drew when

562
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Speaker 1: players meet at midfield and they're shaking hands and you're like, O, hey,

563
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 1: those two didn't go to the same college. Oh yeah,

564
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Speaker 1: they were in this rookie class with this team, and

565
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Speaker 1: now they've you know, gone these their separate ways and

566
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Speaker 1: now they're meeting again. So it's it's the biggest smallest

567
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Speaker 1: fraternity on the planet in some sense. So it's a

568
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Speaker 1: tough day, but it's necessary. It's necessary. Ninety guys get

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Speaker 1: a shot, you get down to fifty three, and then

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Speaker 1: of course you got waiver claims. You got all kinds

571
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Speaker 1: of ways to build your roster. So I'm curious to

572
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Speaker 1: see what Nick and Miko are going to do. Having

573
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Speaker 1: the number two priority spot on the waiver wire is

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Speaker 1: going to be really interesting. My guess is there will

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Speaker 1: be at least two that come in through that waiver process.

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Speaker 7: One more thing on this just kind of as a whole,

577
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Speaker 7: all ninety guys in the locker room were unless with

578
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Speaker 7: the rarest of exceptions, all ninety of those guys, each

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Speaker 7: one of them, when they were in little league basketball

580
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Speaker 7: or little league football they played, or baseball or track

581
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Speaker 7: or whatever soccer, they were the kid that everyone in

582
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Speaker 7: the league was like.

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Speaker 6: Dude, that guy's really good.

584
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Speaker 1: Scared of ye.

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Speaker 6: Every single one of them, you know.

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Speaker 7: It was just like an absolute stud, clearly head and

587
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 7: shoulders better than everybody in there. And some of them,

588
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Speaker 7: like half of them are getting cut. Half of them

589
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Speaker 7: are getting cut. So it's something I kind of think

590
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Speaker 7: about every single time, you know, because I help coach,

591
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Speaker 7: you know, I've got little kids. Every time I'm out

592
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Speaker 7: at something and I see some kid that's good, I

593
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 7: automatically think to myself, he's.

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Speaker 6: Probably not going to do anything beyond college at.

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Speaker 7: Most if that, And so it's just that's how rare

596
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Speaker 7: these guys are. That's just something that it's like a

597
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Speaker 7: good perspective.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, oh my son, he had a triple. Well, you

599
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Speaker 6: know what, it's probably might not even play.

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Speaker 7: After junior so youth sports or anything.

601
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Speaker 6: But it's kind of more to magnify.

602
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Speaker 7: Yes, these guys are getting cut, but they are not bums.

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Speaker 6: They are they were.

604
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Speaker 7: Studs of studs back in the day, and it's just

605
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Speaker 7: something that that's got to be tough to take for

606
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Speaker 7: them in that regard, knowing that they've been pretty much

607
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Speaker 7: the best. They were the best in college I mean,

608
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Speaker 7: think about your your favorite college football team. If it

609
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Speaker 7: was a really really good one, maybe eight or nine

610
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Speaker 7: went to the NFL from it. I mean then that's

611
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Speaker 7: like they might have won a national title if that happened.

612
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean we talked about the two thousand

613
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Speaker 1: and one Miami Hurricanes and I think I think it

614
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Speaker 1: was forty five guys were drafted. Greatest college football team

615
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Speaker 1: of all time. There's a pole that ended up on Twitter,

616
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Speaker 1: so I think it was Fox Sports put up a

617
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Speaker 1: pole and they put five teams they didn't put they

618
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Speaker 1: put greatest tower, most talented college football teams of all time.

619
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Speaker 1: They didn't put the two thousand and one Miami Hurricanes,

620
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Speaker 1: and like you dope oversight, forty five players from that

621
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Speaker 1: two thousand and one team ended up being drafted. And

622
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Speaker 1: we talked about that that is talented team. That's forty

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Speaker 1: five of eighty five scholarship players. So I mean there

624
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Speaker 1: were forty that ended up not being drafted or not

625
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Speaker 1: going to the NFL. So it's, you know it every

626
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Speaker 1: level filters it out as you go through, and you know,

627
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Speaker 1: you're right. I'm glad you brought it up because you're

628
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Speaker 1: going to hear a lot of this, Oh that guy's

629
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Speaker 1: a bomb, he can't play, and you know with some

630
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Speaker 1: guys sitting at a keyboard that's never you know, played

631
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 1: a day of football in his life. And so there's

632
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: that perspective that gets lost for sure. And I understand

633
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: it because you know, fans are you know short, you know,

634
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 1: short for fanatics, So I get it. I understand it

635
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: to a degree. But the truth of it is, there

636
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 1: are going to be some really talented dudes that were

637
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: all Americans, that were you know, award winners. Desmond King

638
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 1: was a I think he was a Jim Thorpe award

639
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 1: winner back in Iowa. So there are a lot of

640
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 1: those guys that are going to be looking for opportunities.

641
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 1: So yeah, there are no bums at all, not in

642
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: that locker room and not in the NFL for sure.

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Speaker 7: That's right. Okay, let's move on to this. CJ Stroud

644
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 7: looked good. We've talked a lot about what we saw

645
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 7: from him the other night. The ball placement outstanding, which

646
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 7: is something that gets talked about over and over and

647
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 7: over again, justifiably so through the touchdown pass. Zipped it

648
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 7: in there at an Eco, loved it. Damian Pierce was

649
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 7: money on that drive as well to help set it up.

650
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Speaker 7: Four runs for twenty seven yards and then Stroud throws

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Speaker 7: the thirteen yard or on third down to Schultzen, then

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Speaker 7: the touchdown to Nico Collins. Bing, bang baba boom. You're

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Speaker 7: done for the preseason. I like in between now and then, John,

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Speaker 7: this is the Twitter question of the day. In between

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Speaker 7: now and Sunday at noon Central time, Week one at Baltimore,

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Speaker 7: What must CJ Stroud do?

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Speaker 1: The basic premise that I or the basic thing that

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Speaker 1: I would like to see from CJ is when he

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Speaker 1: walks up to the line, how many of her times

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Speaker 1: that he walks up to the line of scrimmage, that

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Speaker 1: he's able to look across at that Ravens defense and

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Speaker 1: have an idea of what he's going to see. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not just talking about Oh, there's a Jabo, there's

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Speaker 1: oh Way, and there's Matabique and oh Roque. Now I'm

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Speaker 1: not talking about the personnel per se, and it's good personnel.

666
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about Okay, I'm seeing them in. There's Nickel.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's no model on Humphrey. I don't think

668
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: he's gonna play in this one. This is the personnel

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Speaker 1: grouping they have typically out of this group in the past,

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00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 1: they like to play this coverage or they're this front.

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Speaker 1: I want him to be able to get up to

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Speaker 1: the line. Script a couple of things. Get out of

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Speaker 1: the huddle with at least twenty to twenty five seconds left,

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Speaker 1: Get them to the line scrimmage because Bobby slow It

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Speaker 1: can help him in those five to ten seconds, because

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Speaker 1: Bobby can sit there and tell them, Okay, here's the play,

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Speaker 1: get the play out, get everybody to the line scrimmage,

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Speaker 1: and Bobby can say, hey, they're in this coverage. He

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Speaker 1: can he can help him with that up until there's

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Speaker 1: fifteen seconds left, right, So if but CJ's got to

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Speaker 1: have an idea of what he's going to see. Is

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be cover three? Is this cover four? Is

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Speaker 1: this Man is It? Man matches It? Lurk is Robert?

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Speaker 1: All these different kind of coverages that you know that

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Speaker 1: the Ravens will play. What are some of their giveaways?

686
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Speaker 1: So live in that film room. Get to a point

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Speaker 1: where you have a process down. Now he's got two

688
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 1: weeks now, but get your process down for how you

689
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Speaker 1: prepare for a team. What are the things that you

690
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 1: want to know? What's the you know? What are their

691
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:11,840
Speaker 1: sub packaged groupings they like? You know? Are they have

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00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: blitz team? Are they are they a zone team? Are

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Speaker 1: they a man match team? They like play a lot

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Speaker 1: of man they like fire zones? What are the things

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Speaker 1: that I know? Mike McDonald, the coordinator for the Ravens,

696
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 1: gonna show CJ some things he hasn't seen. But at

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Speaker 1: least if he has a pretty solid understanding of their

698
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,439
Speaker 1: base schemes and a lot of the things their their

699
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,959
Speaker 1: pet plays, then you're then CJ is gonna be better

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Speaker 1: off because there's gonna be something he sees in that

701
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 1: game that's new for sure, absolutely new for sure. And

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Speaker 1: so there's gonna be some time he's gonna go over

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Speaker 1: to Bobby and go, I don't know, Bobby, we didn't

704
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Speaker 1: see I haven't seen that it's gonna happen. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: if he can have a basic understanding that doesn't happen

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Speaker 1: too often, then I think the Texans offense will be Okay.

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Speaker 1: What will slow it down will be you know what,

708
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 1: there's an unblocked guy because they thought it was so

709
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: they had seen it before and they weren't, or you

710
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: know how the rules, you know, a protection were supposed

711
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 1: to apply, and then CJ gets hit fumble and you

712
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:09,919
Speaker 1: know the way you go. I think the biggest thing, though,

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Speaker 1: is if he can get some help from Bobby during

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Speaker 1: that game. But the biggest thing to me is just

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Speaker 1: being mentally prepared physically. You mentioned it drew. His ballplacement's

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Speaker 1: on point. I mean, you know, you and I have

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Speaker 1: been talking about that since you know, May of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two, going into his last year.

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Speaker 7: I mean, he's one of the most accurate college football

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Speaker 7: quarterbacks of all time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's his ballplace was incredible and so

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Speaker 1: you want to give him time to be able to

723
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Speaker 1: do that. So the game is gonna feel really really fast.

724
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Speaker 1: But I think the best thing for CJ was going

725
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Speaker 1: against that Dolphins defense. That was really good for his confidence.

726
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 1: This is how fast it's gonna be, and probably even faster.

727
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Speaker 1: So they got to put together a game plan that

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Speaker 1: allows that to flourish. I think it is gonna sound crazy,

729
00:35:56,719 --> 00:36:00,280
Speaker 1: but they gotta lets CJ on cork one long deep early,

730
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Speaker 1: get some of that angst out. Maybe you hit it,

731
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Speaker 1: maybe you don't, but just put the Ravens unnoticed that

732
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Speaker 1: you're gonna send them all down the field a little bit.

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Speaker 7: And and really I kind of think, don't you think

734
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Speaker 7: from what we saw on that first series, the one

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Speaker 7: that the Texan did not score, don't you think of

736
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Speaker 7: showing that in the preseason?

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Speaker 6: And I know, hey, it's preseason table.

738
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Speaker 7: Whatever, but don't you think that is maybe in part

739
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Speaker 7: a little bit of a message like, hey, this this

740
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 7: club is in the bag, NFL just just be ready,

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Speaker 7: you know.

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Speaker 1: I think, yeah, absolutely, And the reason I talk about.

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Speaker 7: Not gonna be able to stack the box like you

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Speaker 7: did last year against Pierce.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, honestly, honestly, I'm I'm not even really concerned about that, Dre.

746
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Speaker 1: I think I think what happens in a game is

747
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Speaker 1: players get so amped up in a game, especially quarterback,

748
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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, as a quarterback, you know,

749
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Speaker 1: coaches are like, hey, let's run this play, and you

750
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Speaker 1: think it's an easy throw, but it's not because the

751
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Speaker 1: quarterback is so amped up. The easiest throw that you

752
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Speaker 1: can make as a quarterback is to take three steps

753
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Speaker 1: and haul off and throw as far as you can

754
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Speaker 1: because you get all that if you think about just

755
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: throwing deep and you get all that anks kind of

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Speaker 1: out of your body. I mean, even if you throw

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00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: it ten yards over, you now have just like let

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Speaker 1: all that stress and everything go, and now you can

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00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 1: loosen up and start to make those throws. So I

760
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: think it has kind of a three pronged approach. Really,

761
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 1: you put the ravens on blast you, then maybe you

762
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:23,879
Speaker 1: hit it, maybe you don't, which would be great if

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Speaker 1: you did. And then thirdly, you get all that ankst

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Speaker 1: out as a quarterback, and now you can settle in

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Speaker 1: and now you can make those throws. Sometimes when you

766
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Speaker 1: ask the quarterback to make the first third down throw

767
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 1: in third and eight. And now you're asking to throw

768
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Speaker 1: into three guys, and a guy that's all amped up

769
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Speaker 1: and juiced up is gonna throw it one hundred miles

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Speaker 1: an hour probably high could be intercepted, but maybe you

771
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 1: throw it deep, could be intercepted. You know, it's happened before.

772
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Speaker 1: But really, what you're doing. If the guy does pick

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Speaker 1: it off, it's a long punt. I guess it's kind

774
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 1: of the worst thing that could happen. But the good

775
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 1: kind of out weighs the bad for everybody involved in

776
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:01,319
Speaker 1: that to see them kind of open it up, and

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00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,840
Speaker 1: they did the other day, and I think that helps.

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00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: CJ dropped it right in a damn bucket, so I

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Speaker 1: do think that. But it's just the biggest thing is

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Speaker 1: just knowing what you're looking at on the other side

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00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 1: of the line of scrimmage, having an idea of what

782
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: you could see, because post snap you might see some

783
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 1: crazy stuff, but trust your eyes after the snap. Know

784
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Speaker 1: what you're gonna see. Trust your eyes after the snap.

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Speaker 1: So there's gotta be a lot of mental work that

786
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 1: he's got to do between now and then, and then

787
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 1: take that process and apply it sixteen more times throughout

788
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Speaker 1: the year and that's gonna be tough as a rookie

789
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Speaker 1: because there's gonna be a lot of things he sees,

790
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, he walks over to the sidelines as

791
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,879
Speaker 1: he goes drawed, Bobby, I've never seen that before. So

792
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Speaker 1: he's gonna have to come to grips with that, and

793
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Speaker 1: hopefully he does it pretty quickly. Yep, hoping that CJ

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Speaker 1: does that very quickly. All Right, we get back. We

795
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 1: will go around the NFL. Plenty of things happening.

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Speaker 3: Around the NFL.

797
00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 1: The Colts apparently made a trade request from the Dolphins

798
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 1: that had everybody up in arms. We'll talk about that

799
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Speaker 1: next on Texans All Access.

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Speaker 4: Chickson's radio continues in a moment back to the show

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Speaker 4: that keeps you plugged in with the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 1: Yes, sir, we got a few minutes left here on

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Speaker 1: a Wednesday edition of Texans All Access.

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Speaker 3: Will be back on tomorrow night with the General.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he's got a lot to say with everything

806
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 1: that has been going on and probably shares our our.

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Speaker 3: Our concerned about it.

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00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 1: Not so much concerned, but just how is this offensive

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00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:40,439
Speaker 1: line gonna come together? Kind Of got fingers crossed about

810
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 1: juice Scruggs and Titus Howard.

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Speaker 3: My gut tells me Titus yes. My gut tells me

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Speaker 3: Titus yes.

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Speaker 1: For Baltimore, and I hope I'm right, Juice, my gut

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00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:56,280
Speaker 1: tells me no. Just seeing him go off the field

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Speaker 1: and limping that boy man, especially if it's a hamstring,

816
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,880
Speaker 1: and I could tell from experience with hamstrings they suck

817
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:07,719
Speaker 1: and they never never feel good in the year that

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00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: you heard it. In fact, it bothers you the year

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Speaker 1: after you heard it as well. A couple of things

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00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 1: around the league that you know pretty interesting. A couple

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Speaker 1: of Texans ended up, as you heard Drew and I

822
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Speaker 1: talk about in the Lab, Desmid King, Christian kirkshy cup

823
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Speaker 1: by the Texans. Kirk Gooh is going to end up

824
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Speaker 1: with the Buffalo Bills practice squad, and Desmond King has

825
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 1: added to the Pittsburgh Stealers fifty three man roster. A

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Speaker 1: few other Texans ended up on practice squads. Mario Rodgers,

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Speaker 1: who was released probably halfway through camp, he ended up

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Speaker 1: in the Colts practice squad, amongst others. I like to

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Speaker 1: see in Christian Covington he got back with the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: Even the Chargers practice squad if you remember Cove from

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Speaker 1: Rice and also early in the well the mid.

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Speaker 3: Twenty tens, he was fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Bailey Zappi is going to go back to the Patriots

834
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Speaker 1: on the practice squad.

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Speaker 3: He cleared waivers.

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Speaker 1: So if you're worried, not like I was about Bailey

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Speaker 1: Zappi and the Patriots only had one quarterback, well then

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00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 1: now they've got two. It's just Bailey's on the practice squad,

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Speaker 1: and you might have a practice squad elevation and we'll

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Speaker 1: see what the Patriots do.

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Speaker 3: But I don't know, you don't want talking about the

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Speaker 3: Patriots anymore.

843
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: Apparently the second team in on the Jonathan Taylor trade.

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Speaker 1: Sweet steaks if you will, the Green Bay Packers.

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Speaker 3: I had to when I heard that, I wha wait

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Speaker 3: a second. They already got Aaron Jones and AJ Dillon.

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Speaker 1: Now, look, Jonathan Taylor is better than those two, not

848
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 1: by much over Aaron Jones. Aaron he and Aaron Jones

849
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 1: are just different backs. But you have Jonathan Taylor and

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Speaker 1: Aaron Jones. You could send AJ Dillon to the Colts

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00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: and just let him be a hammer for them. And

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00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:49,399
Speaker 1: you have Aaron Jones and Jonathan Taylor and Green Bay

853
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 1: to go on with Jordan Love and Holy smokes, but

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00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:56,879
Speaker 1: that didn't come to fruition. Now, the Colts apparently went

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00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 1: on the offensive, which I don't blame them. Well, in Miami,

856
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:05,360
Speaker 1: Dolphins called and made some exploratory uh talks with the

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Speaker 1: Colts about trading for Jonathan Taylor. The Colts are like, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: well we'll make a deal, throw Jalen Waddle in that deal.

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00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 1: And the Dolphins are like, wrong number who this. They

860
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: immediately got off the phone and said at that point,

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Speaker 1: you know, look, the Colts are not serious about this.

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00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 3: They're asking for Jaylen Wattle.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing, and I know a lot of people

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00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:27,799
Speaker 1: have kind of lampooned that today. If I'm the Colts,

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Speaker 1: I probably did the same thing. If you're gonna trade

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor, you need to get something back in return,

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Speaker 1: so ask for Jalen Waddle. What the Colts did, though,

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Speaker 1: is bought themselves time. And this is what worries me.

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Speaker 1: If they bought themselves time. And at that point, if

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Speaker 1: Chris Ballard has time, and I've known Chris for a

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Speaker 1: long time, and Chris went to Wisconsin, and so Jonathan Taylor,

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Speaker 1: and so there's a connection there I think Jim Ersay

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Speaker 1: being involved complicates things. But if they could somehow nudge

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Speaker 1: Ersay out of it and just let Ballard deal with Taylor,

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Speaker 1: they may be able to come to some sort of agreement. Now,

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Speaker 1: the thing about it is Chris is not one to

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Speaker 1: throw a lot of money at positions that aren't in

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Speaker 1: the front seven or on the offensive line. He's gonna

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Speaker 1: pay trenches guys, There's no question that's where he puts

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Speaker 1: his money. But can he repair the relationship enough to

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Speaker 1: get Taylor back after week four? Now, we won't play

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Speaker 1: them until week eighteen, after week two, so we're not

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Speaker 1: gonna see in week two. Yay, So they can figure

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Speaker 1: it out between now and then. But apparently the Packers

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Speaker 1: we went under Joha Taylor trade sweepstakes, and the Colts

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Speaker 1: asked the Dolphins for Jayalen Waddle.

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Speaker 3: Crazy stuff going on in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: As we move on to week number one, coming up

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Speaker 1: very well, we're eight days away from the opener, Lions

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Speaker 1: at Chiefs.

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Speaker 3: Eight days.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I can't get here fast enough. A

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Speaker 1: big thanks to Chris Santiago. That dude kicks ass. He

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Speaker 1: is awesome. I love that guy and what he does

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Speaker 1: for us, to Mark for being here, for Drew, for

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Speaker 1: all of you for listening.

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Speaker 3: We'll see you next time, everybody, and as always, go Texans.