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Speaker 1: Welcome with everybody to Wednesday edition of Texans All Access

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Speaker 1: from the Hyundai Texans Radio studio. I'm your hostess evening,

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Speaker 1: John Harris, football annals and silent reporter and my partner

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Speaker 1: to my right voice of Texans, Mark Vanni remark, how

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Speaker 1: are you, Johnny? I'm doing great, and I brought a

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Speaker 1: guest today who's tating to be on the air with us.

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Speaker 1: He would probably want to talk about NBA free agency

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Speaker 1: and stuff, but that would be Vander Kidd. Well, he'd

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Speaker 1: probably talk about that better than anybody that that we know,

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Speaker 1: but better than both of us, there's no doubt about that.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to know his thoughts on Kevin Durant signing

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Speaker 1: this three year with an option deal where he can

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Speaker 1: be essentially he can be a free agent again in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, so he'll play two years for the Nets. Well,

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Speaker 1: how about I can opt out after two years? I

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Speaker 1: read it's like you get two years into place and

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Speaker 1: then you're gone. I guess. And the Clippers traded eight

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Speaker 1: hundred first round draft choices for him. Does it matter? Though? Honestly,

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Speaker 1: honestly doesn't matter trade and draft choices. It's funny because

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Speaker 1: I think that with all that went down last week

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Speaker 1: in the NBA. You know, we talked about how the

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Speaker 1: NBA free agency stuff is the NFL draft right that

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Speaker 1: the people were saying, well, the NFL free agency period,

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Speaker 1: isn't this exciting? Well, you don't have this kind of

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Speaker 1: seismic movement. Okay, you don't have franchise quarter packs changing,

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Speaker 1: which is the equivalent of what's going on in the NBA.

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Speaker 1: So I get that part of it. However, there's nothing

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Speaker 1: like the NFL draft. So the NBA draft means nothing

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Speaker 1: now because everyone knew Zion was going number one, and

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Speaker 1: to the casual even more than casual sports fan, that's

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Speaker 1: all that mattered. Where is Zion going? Right? So now

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Speaker 1: you have this free agency period, which is obviously phenomenal

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Speaker 1: for the NBA, but the NFL has the draft, and

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Speaker 1: free agency is still a very big deal in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: So I'll just stand by that. I think it's very

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Speaker 1: exciting though. I think the NBA is really wide open.

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Speaker 1: I'm really excited about next season. You know, I love basketball.

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Speaker 1: It's cool. It's gonna be very intriguing, to say the least.

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Speaker 1: So looking looking forward that we will have oh a

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Speaker 1: little alliteration of the second segment. Brian Body Calhoun and

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Speaker 1: Buddy how Gonna joined us in the second segment, and

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Speaker 1: Buddy the Killer Bees. Yeah, it's kind of nice, the

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Speaker 1: Asters Killer Bees. And then the final segment, you and

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Speaker 1: I we'rena take a look at the thirteen opponents the

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Speaker 1: Texans have and I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give

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Speaker 1: you the best option possible. You can eliminate, oh, the

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Speaker 1: best non quarterback from those teams to help the Texans

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Speaker 1: get a win. Eliminate the late team. Yeah, from each

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Speaker 1: team they play. I can't take Mahomes, can't take Luck Brady,

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Speaker 1: none of that. I wouldn't. Then I get your Kobe

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Speaker 1: Brissette is undefeated against you. I know, it's just what

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do that they can pick your poison. Brissette,

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Speaker 1: let's not undefeated against the Texans. Sometimes sometimes it feels

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Speaker 1: like it. Nope, But I thought we could start with

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Speaker 1: a little bit of gut reaction, okay, And I want

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Speaker 1: to start with a something that I heard on six

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Speaker 1: tenth from our pal Mike Meltzer. And then he doubled

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Speaker 1: down today with a tweet, Oh no, well, boy, down

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Speaker 1: with a tweet. You're really committing to something, what do

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Speaker 1: you do? So he made a comment that he did

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Speaker 1: not think that the Shawn Watson had a great twenty

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Speaker 1: eighteen season. Then he kind of backtrack this morning, and

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Speaker 1: then he put out a tweet essentially saying, do you

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Speaker 1: agree with me or not? It's almost fifty fifty your

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Speaker 1: gut reaction to Shawn Watson did not have a great season,

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Speaker 1: and fifty percent of the crowd agrees with that. Well,

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Speaker 1: how do we define great these days? He threw for

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Speaker 1: four thousand yards, right yeah, and he ran for five

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Speaker 1: hundred yards, right yeah. And he threw it for twenty

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Speaker 1: five touchdowns, right yes, And he's the only quarterback of

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Speaker 1: the history of the NFL to do that. Right. Is

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Speaker 1: that great? I think it's pretty good. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: it's I think it's pretty dark good. Look, we could

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Speaker 1: say is it very good? Is it excellent? Is it great?

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Speaker 1: Where does you know? How do you weigh all that out?

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Speaker 1: When we look at Texans history, Johnny and I didn't

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Speaker 1: even prepare for this, all right, So you're just throwing

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Speaker 1: this at me. But I can tell you that Watson

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Speaker 1: had the highest quarterback rating in the history of the franchise,

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Speaker 1: which may not be saying much to a lot of people.

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Speaker 1: I get that considering some of the prospects they've had

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Speaker 1: through the door here. But you did have Matt Shop Rowhile,

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Speaker 1: who was a league leader in passing yardage in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and nine. See that's the year. I thought maybe

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Speaker 1: Shob would have eclipsed him in quarterback rating, but he didn't.

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Speaker 1: Watson had the highest quarterback rating in the history of

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Speaker 1: the franchise, even more than anything Match Shop did, anything

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Speaker 1: I think that you have to hand him something for that.

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Speaker 1: And look as far as Texans quarterback accomplishments, all right,

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Speaker 1: A lot of people are gonna say, well, that's a

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Speaker 1: dubious honor. Hey, let's just put that aside for a

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Speaker 1: moment and look at him compared to everybody else. We

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Speaker 1: just talked about something he had done that no one

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Speaker 1: else in the history has done. Four thousand yards is

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Speaker 1: what is it the equivalent of in other sports? I

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Speaker 1: don't know, but you throw for four thousand, and you

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Speaker 1: don't always have to throw for four thousand back in

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Speaker 1: the day, you know, if you look at the eighties,

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Speaker 1: four thousand was a really tough number to get. And

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Speaker 1: not everybody he threw for four thousand was a great quarterback,

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Speaker 1: but usually you were. Usually you were when you threw

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Speaker 1: for four thousand. I remember Bill Kenny of the Kansas

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Speaker 1: great quarterback. But Watson made so many plays with his legs,

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Speaker 1: with his arm. I'll go this way too, Johnny did

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Speaker 1: he have a great season. We have to remember what

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Speaker 1: he was dealing with, the collapsed lung coming back from

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Speaker 1: the ACL People say, you know, this is one of

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Speaker 1: those arguments too, Will the offensive line isn't gonna enough? Well, okay,

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Speaker 1: but Watson played really well behind that line under the circumstances. Well,

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Speaker 1: Watson didn't have a great season. Well, which is it?

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Speaker 1: You know, you have to pick a side here. Maybe

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Speaker 1: I always go to the side of it's a collective

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Speaker 1: on some bull effort, right, you know, everybody's got to

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Speaker 1: play better. But Watson did have a great season. Is

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Speaker 1: it great enough to win a Super Bowl? Obviously not.

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Speaker 1: He did not have a great playoff game. He you know,

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Speaker 1: but eleven wins in the NFL with the numbers we

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Speaker 1: put out to me, that qualifies. I think so too. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this one. I should have started with this one, but

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Speaker 1: the Meltzer's tweet was just right in front of me

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Speaker 1: when I saw it, so I started with that Pro

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Speaker 1: Football Talk. Mike Florio put this out late last night.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I saw it as I was going to

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Speaker 1: bed the fact that former GM Brian Gaine and Bill

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Speaker 1: O'Brien disagreed on signing to Demian Clowney to a long

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Speaker 1: I'm sure there was some disagreements. Look, those two said

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Speaker 1: at things that are certainly, you know, worthy of multiple

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Speaker 1: a fact, but how could this possibly happen? How could

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Speaker 1: a story like this break? Oh? Somebody says, yeah, we didn't.

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Speaker 1: We didn't see eye to eye on that one, and

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Speaker 1: And I here's my fault when I when I saw that,

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Speaker 1: thought to say that you disagreed on Shdevian Clowney. What

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Speaker 1: a lot of people want people want to look for

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Speaker 1: the smoking gun. They want to look for one. That's

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Speaker 1: why Brian Gaine was like, if you think that one

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Speaker 1: particular instance, that instance is the reason why a general

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Speaker 1: a Look, Clowney's obviously really good at rushing to passer.

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Speaker 1: reason for things happening here. And Earlier this afternoon, Adam

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Speaker 1: a general manager. This is what we've been talking about

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Speaker 1: for a while, that they would go in this direction

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Speaker 1: mentions here between bads Matt Bassa and James Whipford, Chris

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Speaker 1: Olsen and Jack Easterby. That's the tweet, though there will

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Speaker 1: be an official statement, but this is not really anything

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Speaker 1: that we haven't already talked about. This has been in play,

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Speaker 1: we'll move on. Okay, gut reaction to this. I actually

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Speaker 1: heard Cecil and Mike talking about this. The your gut

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Speaker 1: reaction to this. There are two things that I want

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Speaker 1: to hit, uh, Cecil, Mike, we're talking about this, and

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Speaker 1: it caught my attention. Espionation did a ranking of the receiver.

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Speaker 1: It looks like quartets. They did the top four wide receivers.

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Speaker 1: changes everything when you're able to include like for well, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: Uh no, tight ends because according to this list, they

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Speaker 1: have the Kancity Chiefs twenty second wide receiver group with

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Speaker 1: Marcus Robinson, Mikole Hartman. They have the Texans ranked number

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Speaker 1: and gut reaction to the Cincinnati Bengals being the number

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Speaker 1: like to come in that light into the process, coming

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Speaker 1: in and they told me my role, They told me

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Speaker 1: what to focus on, and that's what I did. So

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Speaker 1: every day I came in, I made shot, I made

427
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Speaker 1: impac and learned what I had to learn to go

428
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Speaker 1: out there and be effective. And just going out there,

429
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Speaker 1: playing fast and having fun was one of the main

430
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Speaker 1: things you could do as a football player. So doing

431
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Speaker 1: that it helped me be successful throughout the year. Buddy,

432
00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:15,840
Speaker 1: how was that process for you? You spend training camp

433
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Speaker 1: with the Dolphins and then all of a sudden you

434
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Speaker 1: get to that point and you don't make the Dolphins,

435
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Speaker 1: but the texts call up and say, hey, we claimed

436
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Speaker 1: John Waivers. Come on over here. So you haven't had

437
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Speaker 1: that bonding time and training camp and then you're kind

438
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Speaker 1: of thrown right into the fire week one. What's that

439
00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:32,000
Speaker 1: process like for you? It was crazy because I've never

440
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Speaker 1: really been away from home, been home my entire life. Yeah,

441
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Speaker 1: Miam's your home. Yeah, Miami my home. So you know,

442
00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:38,960
Speaker 1: I went to flor Atlantic, so that's right up the road.

443
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Speaker 1: So shoot, I was giving like five hours to come

444
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Speaker 1: get ready to come to Houston, and it was like,

445
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Speaker 1: I didn't really get it until, like, you know, I

446
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Speaker 1: got home my mom and I was like, oh, yeah,

447
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Speaker 1: I'm going in Houston and she was like, you know,

448
00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:54,040
Speaker 1: but getting in you know, great coaches, you know, they

449
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Speaker 1: gave me everything possible to have me up being ready

450
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Speaker 1: for the next game. So I didn't play New England game,

451
00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,160
Speaker 1: but the next game after that I was in. So

452
00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:06,280
Speaker 1: just you know, following instructions, doing what you gotta do,

453
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Speaker 1: be in intensive end, wanting to get ahead and learned

454
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Speaker 1: was the best thing that I did. And once you win,

455
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 1: you just play football. At the end of the day,

456
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:16,119
Speaker 1: it's football and there's no tricks, it's no gimmick to it.

457
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Speaker 1: But you know, just going out there having fun was

458
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Speaker 1: my main thing. I'm grateful to be here, but I

459
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Speaker 1: was happy to be here. So shoot, that was a

460
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Speaker 1: It was just a plus for me that somebody claimed

461
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Speaker 1: me to put me on the fifty three. Man, are

462
00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 1: you lobby for carries? Are you begging for carriage right now?

463
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Speaker 1: Like you know, as a running back, you would love

464
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Speaker 1: to get a carry. But when you know your role,

465
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Speaker 1: you play your role. It's a good feeling to go

466
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Speaker 1: out there and compete because some people can get frustrated

467
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Speaker 1: trying to beg for carries and want carries and you

468
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Speaker 1: don't get it carried and get frustrated. So I don't

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Speaker 1: really set myself up for that mindset. I just know

470
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Speaker 1: they want me here for special teams. Make an impact

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Speaker 1: on special team, so that's my thing. But if I

472
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Speaker 1: get a carry, that's a bonus to me. It's like

473
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Speaker 1: it's time to roll. But you know, I worked hard

474
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Speaker 1: the end of the day. I don't scout team um

475
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Speaker 1: look team with the real team, so if a carry

476
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Speaker 1: comes my way, I wouldn't I won't complain, But I'm

477
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Speaker 1: not gonna sit here and say as a running back,

478
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Speaker 1: I don't want to carry. But as a smart player,

479
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Speaker 1: I know my role, so I focused on my role. Bud,

480
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Speaker 1: We've been in Houston for a long time, so we

481
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Speaker 1: obviously know all the different places to go next. You're

482
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Speaker 1: new to Houston. How different was the transition coming from

483
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Speaker 1: Miami where you lived your entire life, plage, college ball,

484
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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you got to come to

485
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Speaker 1: this place. I imagine you felt a little bit like

486
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Speaker 1: a foreigner. But how's it? How's it been? Kind of

487
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Speaker 1: getting used to living in Houston and being here. First

488
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Speaker 1: thing i'ma said, Houston is big. Yeah, it's like Texas

489
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Speaker 1: is huge, and it's like everything's like a thirty minute drive.

490
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Speaker 1: So you know, at first, everywhere. Yeah. So at first

491
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Speaker 1: my first year, I just you know, stayed in the facility,

492
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Speaker 1: you know, stay close, live right down the street. So

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Speaker 1: I didn't really try to complicate things. But now as

494
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Speaker 1: I'm like getting older, I'm trying to like move around

495
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Speaker 1: see more places than you know, to go eat and

496
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Speaker 1: stuff like that. And I just realized, you want to

497
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Speaker 1: go somewhere, you better get ready for that twenty five

498
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Speaker 1: minute job. And for somebody from Miami, that's like going

499
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Speaker 1: to Fort Laudadelle Broward, which is kind of like out

500
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Speaker 1: the way. Yeah, so you know, just getting used to

501
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Speaker 1: traveling with time, patience and you know, venturing around. But

502
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Speaker 1: you know, Houston it's a good place because everybody's nice. Yeah,

503
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:11,200
Speaker 1: it's not really much hostile, and you know, everybody's for Houston. Yeah,

504
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, Miami is a whole bunch of

505
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Speaker 1: everything over there. So having people treat you with you respect,

506
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Speaker 1: that was one of the main things that I noticed.

507
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Speaker 1: And even when Mom came up, she was like I

508
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:20,919
Speaker 1: noticed everybody so nice. Man. It's a great feeling. But

509
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm just getting used to the distance the time, absolutely,

510
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Speaker 1: you know, being prepared for just making that drive. Did

511
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Speaker 1: FAU have an indoor practice facility when I was going

512
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Speaker 1: in and they promised that when Lane couldn't get it done,

513
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Speaker 1: it was it was close Partridge and then Lane took over.

514
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Speaker 1: But I think now they just added in addition to

515
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Speaker 1: the stadium to get that started. But yeah, like they

516
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 1: promised me that my freshman year and then like I

517
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Speaker 1: think like my senior year, we did like a groundbreaking

518
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:51,959
Speaker 1: speech and they still ain't break ground and they finally

519
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:53,439
Speaker 1: like starting to get stuff roll and so you know,

520
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Speaker 1: it's on the way it should be on the well,

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Speaker 1: I asked, because every guy from South Florida, I always

522
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Speaker 1: like to get the heat comparison the heat here versus

523
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Speaker 1: the heat and South Florida, which there's more humidity there,

524
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Speaker 1: there's no doubt, but I think it's hotter here, you know,

525
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Speaker 1: So it's gonna be interesting this. Okay. So first off,

526
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Speaker 1: I can say in Miami, South Florida, when you first

527
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Speaker 1: walk out, you're gonna start sweating. Yeah, the humidity makes

528
00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 1: you sweat and get wet early, so it's like, you know,

529
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Speaker 1: you're already like soaking wet by the beginning of practice.

530
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Speaker 1: Here is really dry, so like you can actually fill

531
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Speaker 1: it on your skin if you don't have long seat, like,

532
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:28,639
Speaker 1: oh shoot, it's hot. Yeah. But in Miami is just

533
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Speaker 1: like as soon as you walk out's out, I'm dripping.

534
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:32,920
Speaker 1: I'm dripping. So you know, it's easy to take that comparison.

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Speaker 1: I haven't spent much time in Miami, but I do

536
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Speaker 1: know when I walk outside, I instantly sweat. So Miami

537
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Speaker 1: must be brutal, but big thanks to Buddy how and

538
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Speaker 1: Brian body Calhoun for joining us. If you could take

539
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Speaker 1: one player off all thirteen opponents in the twenty nineteenth season,

540
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Speaker 1: who would it be? Mark Vandermer gets to choose next

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Speaker 1: right here in Texas Access one final segment on this

542
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Speaker 1: Wednesday evening of Texas All Access. I'm John, that's Mark.

543
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Speaker 1: Where you're back? And Mark, I said I would have

544
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Speaker 1: something a little special for you. I started thinking about

545
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Speaker 1: this when I was looking I was looking at the schedules.

546
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Speaker 1: I was looking at the schedules of the AFC South teams. Man,

547
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:12,719
Speaker 1: it's pretty rough to start the year with the AFC

548
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:16,160
Speaker 1: South for all the division teams, all four division teams.

549
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Speaker 1: The Colts go at Chargers at Titans home Falcons. The

550
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Speaker 1: Titans go at Cleveland home, Colts at Jags. The Jags

551
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 1: have two home games, but it's the Chiefs then they

552
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,360
Speaker 1: come here, then they face the Titans. And we obviously

553
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:34,200
Speaker 1: have New Orleans and Jags and the Chargers, so pretty

554
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,400
Speaker 1: pretty salty. And then they started looking at the comparison

555
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 1: the Colts and the Texans. We have the same exact schedule,

556
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 1: except for we go to Baltimore, they go to Pittsburgh.

557
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,400
Speaker 1: We play the Patriots here, they play the Dolphins there. Well,

558
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 1: that's the one thing break they get. They don't have

559
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,440
Speaker 1: to play the Patriots the Texans due. But I've pointed

560
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 1: this out several times about the schedule since before we

561
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: knew what the schedule was, because we knew knew the

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Speaker 1: team that they would have to play the Steelers on

563
00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:58,919
Speaker 1: the road, right right, We knew that about them, and

564
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:01,360
Speaker 1: the Texans have to go to Baltimore, which is no picnic.

565
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Speaker 1: But I'd still look, if you're gonna allow me to choose,

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Speaker 1: based on what I'm looking at right now, I'd rather

567
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 1: go to Baltimore than go to Pittsburgh. Not that that's

568
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 1: easy at all, It's extremely difficult. But I don't want

569
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Speaker 1: to play Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh if I have the choice,

570
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 1: and they have to do that, but playing the Patriots

571
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 1: is tough. At least you get them at home. I

572
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Speaker 1: love that you bring this up because when we project

573
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,640
Speaker 1: how things might go in the com in the division, Yeah,

574
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Speaker 1: it's really important to point out that they're playing these

575
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 1: teams too, that they're playing a really tough schedule and

576
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 1: after three games, who knows what the records are. You

577
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 1: gonna have three and ozo, two and one one, whatever,

578
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: whatever the case. Maybe last year you're all in three

579
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 1: and one the division. The Cults were one in five

580
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 1: and got very close to winning the division. So you

581
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 1: just don't know how it's gonna shake out. But I

582
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,239
Speaker 1: love watching these things and watching what the opponents have

583
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 1: to deal with as well. It's the same exact schedule

584
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 1: minus those two games. Yep. It's the same exact schedule

585
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 1: ass road home and everything like that. So this got

586
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Speaker 1: me thinking, okay, man, because I started thinking about the

587
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 1: schedule and I started thinking about Tyreek Hill. Tyreek Hill

588
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 1: has kind of been the inspiration for this because of

589
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 1: what's going on and the indefinite nature of when he's

590
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 1: going to be back does not play right if he plays,

591
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: how many games does he play? What does the NFL do?

592
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 1: I feel like there is gonna be a suspension coming,

593
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 1: but it just don't know. And so that got me thinking, Wait,

594
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: it's like, if you took Tyreek Hill off the Chiefs

595
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 1: is a guarantee the Texans and win. It's like, you

596
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 1: can never guarantee a win. It's like if you took

597
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 1: one player off each opponent, which player would you take

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Speaker 1: off to give the Texans the best chance to guarantee

599
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Speaker 1: a win. So I was like, Okay, let me narrow

600
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Speaker 1: this down and make this a little easier. I'm gonna

601
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 1: give you an either or you can take off one

602
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 1: guy or the other to give the Texans pick. Okay,

603
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 1: you don't get to pick. If you want, you can

604
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 1: throw one in there. Okay, here's the caveat no quarterbacks.

605
00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 1: You cannot take a quarterback back off the field. It's

606
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 1: only a fun way to play this game because obviously, yeah,

607
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 1: because you we'll face taste him everybody without even looking. Okay, no,

608
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Speaker 1: Breezeles so here we go, starting off Monday night football.

609
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Speaker 1: Taking this player off the field, what would give the

610
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 1: Texas a better chance? Taking Alvin Kamara or Michael Thomas. See,

611
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Speaker 1: that's interesting, you went both on offense. Which one would

612
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Speaker 1: you pick? I know, now, they're not all this way,

613
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 1: they're not all this You don't go Cam Jordan or

614
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Speaker 1: something like that. Alvin Kamara or Michael Thomas. Okay, so

615
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Speaker 1: which one do you want to take off? I can

616
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Speaker 1: deal with a receiver. He's great, and he might get

617
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 1: his It's kind of like basketball. He'll get his, he'll

618
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 1: get his twenty five thirty points. But we can still

619
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Speaker 1: win the game with Kamara. He affects the game in

620
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 1: so many different ways. He can catch the ball, I

621
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 1: can run with the ball. He's a terror. Look, it's

622
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 1: not gonna be easy at all without him. But if

623
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Speaker 1: that's my only choice, I'm gonna take him. And I

624
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: think that as far as going over and plucking somebody

625
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: off the defense, I would probably like When we were

626
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: talking about this, my first thought was Camaro. Yeah, Camara

627
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 1: is the one that I would take. And to your point,

628
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas might give you thirty five points, but Camara

629
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 1: is gonna give you twenty four points, twelve boards, eight assists,

630
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 1: three steals, maybe a couple of blocks. He's gonna hurt

631
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Speaker 1: you in so many different ways. I'm with you. The

632
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 1: next one's a little tougher, right, Jackson? Then yeah, all right,

633
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Speaker 1: you ready for this one? Oh? Okay, either or you

634
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 1: can take off either Jalen Ramsey or Calais camp I

635
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 1: was gonna say that those should be the two guys. Yeah,

636
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 1: I would say Ramsey. It looked really comfortable for DeAndre

637
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 1: hop games against Ramsey in the closing game, yeah, and

638
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 1: the in the first game too there, but you know,

639
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 1: I just I still think that that's a tough matchup

640
00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: for them. And can you imagine if you have all

641
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: your receivers healthy and they have no Ramsey? That would

642
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: be really because where do you put boy Because at

643
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: that point, do you move Boya over to Hopkins. He's

644
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 1: gonna say he's gonna want that challenge. He's gonna beg

645
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 1: for that challenge. And then okay, fine cover him man

646
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 1: to man or at least try And I got the

647
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 1: other guys to throw balls to as well. And if

648
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: you take Klais, you still got to do with Yannick

649
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 1: I almost putting Goquay on there and almost head to

650
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 1: side between Campbell and a pass rusher there. And Klaias

651
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 1: is obviously as well. But on offense, I don't think

652
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 1: there's anybody else. I'm not scared of Fournette right now.

653
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,719
Speaker 1: Of course Fournette could get it together professionally and all

654
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:34,520
Speaker 1: of a sudden terrorize people, But I just have a

655
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: feeling that's not gonna happen. Yeah, I just don't see that.

656
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 1: I don't see that going on Week three, LA Chargers.

657
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: She and Allen or Joey Bosa healthy healthy, and that's

658
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: key because he has not been healthy. He wasn't healthy

659
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: to start seven sixteen, he wasn't healthy start last year.

660
00:32:56,160 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 1: Are you taking off either Joey Bosa or Keenan. I

661
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, Johnny, every time I watched the Chargers,

662
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: I feel like Keenan Allen is catching ten balls and

663
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: and it's worked. It's lunch pale stuff, it's it's he's

664
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 1: the kind of guy just puts the work in. He's

665
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: moving the chains, he's getting things going all day long.

666
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 1: He's a problem for the defense. And even if he

667
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 1: doesn't break big ones, he's moving the sticks down the field.

668
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 1: I don't want to deal with him. I think they're

669
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 1: a very different team without him. If I have a choice,

670
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: I think I'm going there and I'll have to find

671
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 1: a way to deal with Joey Bosa. Yeah I might.

672
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 1: I might have to go Bosa on that, even though

673
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: I love Alan for what he gives you, because Alan

674
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 1: can go in the slot, and that's where he killed

675
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 1: the Steelers last year, was in the slot. So I

676
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 1: might go op on you because I just I don't

677
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 1: know about blocking Bosa. He's so tough. Okay, but you

678
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 1: actually either one on that you you I don't know

679
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 1: if you win, but man, you're out in LA. Yeah,

680
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 1: it's tough. Week four Carolina Panthers, one on each side

681
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 1: of the all. Okay, you can take off either Christian McCaffrey,

682
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:10,279
Speaker 1: who is a dual threat run run receiving threat who's tremendous,

683
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 1: or you can take off inside linebacker the best of

684
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 1: the game, Luke Keikley. Well, here's the thing. I still

685
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 1: have nightmares of Keikley not playing in Week two losing.

686
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: But I would have to say Keekley would be the guy.

687
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: McCaffrey's really dangerous. There's no doubt, but I'm gonna go

688
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 1: defense on this one. I'm with you. I want to

689
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:32,799
Speaker 1: be able to outscore them if I need to, and

690
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:34,919
Speaker 1: it's really gonna help if he's not in the game. Yeah,

691
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,319
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I think I think Keikley is the

692
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 1: He's the nerve center for the whole defense, whereas you

693
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: still have Cam McCaffrey's gonna hurt you just because he's

694
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 1: that he's that good. But I think McCaffrey's probably gonna

695
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: hurt you one way. I think you hurt you in

696
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 1: receiving game. I don't know it hurt you in running game.

697
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 1: But if you shut down the running game and just

698
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 1: make him a pure receiver, then yeah. Taking Keickley. By

699
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 1: the way, I was watching Who's I watching? I was

700
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 1: watching the Panthers and the Redskins. I think it was

701
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 1: Panthers and Redskins, and I was watching Keekley. Oh. I mean,

702
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 1: he's so good. He is so unbelieving. He knows where

703
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:15,800
Speaker 1: the ball is going every play. It's amazing to watch

704
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 1: him and go, how does he step this way when

705
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 1: there's all kinds actually gone in the back room? He

706
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 1: knows exactly where to go. He's he's quick's you know,

707
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,400
Speaker 1: talking about this is getting me so fired up for

708
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:30,360
Speaker 1: the season. And and I think about it, and we're

709
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 1: talking about the NBA at the beginning of the show,

710
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,840
Speaker 1: and I thought, you know, the NBA playoffs are so exciting,

711
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 1: especially as they get into the conference finals. In the finals. Ye,

712
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: do you know what the NFL equivalent of the NBA

713
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:47,400
Speaker 1: playoffs is? Sunday? Sunday is the equivalent. That's true, every Sunday.

714
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:50,839
Speaker 1: It's just phenomenal. You look forward to it like it's

715
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 1: the peak of a playoff time and another sports season.

716
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 1: It's the NFL. It's every week. It's beautiful. Anyway, go on,

717
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 1: and includes this commercial for the National Football League one.

718
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 1: All right, Atlanta, you take it off either Julio Jones

719
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 1: or Julio Jones. You get no choice on that, because

720
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 1: I couldn't think of anybody else that you would take

721
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:10,839
Speaker 1: off of it. Julio, who do you take off? Brooks?

722
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 1: We read no longer place for them? So I mean,

723
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: I'm joking around. I'd like Brooks, So let's go Julio

724
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 1: Jones Jones. Yeah, there's nobody else I'd pick. Okay, So,

725
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 1: Kansas City, this is where I assumed. I just I

726
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: assumed Tyreek Hill because I don't know there's anybody else

727
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: in Kansas City outside of my homes that you take

728
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 1: off and go, oh yeah, but you take Tyreek Hill

729
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:34,359
Speaker 1: off all a sudden things change. So with Kansas City,

730
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 1: I made it Travis Kelsey or new pass rusher Frank Clark.

731
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 1: I know that Clark is good, and that was a

732
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 1: good acquisition for them, considering their losses in the front seven.

733
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: I would love to take Travis Kelsey off that team. Yeah.

734
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:52,800
Speaker 1: If I take Kelsey and Hill off that off that field,

735
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,240
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, and look, they're still gonna be dangerous.

736
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: I don't care who's playing because it's my homes and

737
00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,319
Speaker 1: he looks really good. Give me that opportunity they I'll

738
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 1: take it. Okay, I'm must say, oh, I forgot one.

739
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 1: I was gonna go to Oakland. I forgot Indianapolis. Okay, boy,

740
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 1: here you go. This is actually the more I thought

741
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: about there's no there's no answer. Is there's no other answer? Okay,

742
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 1: Hilton Lord Darius Leonard, No, look, I'm with you. I'd

743
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 1: love to take Leonard. Leonard's a sensational player. Quentin Nelson

744
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 1: not just kidding. I did think about that. I almost

745
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: put that down. But here's the thing. When Hilton wasn't

746
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 1: in the game in Week four last year, they still

747
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:40,399
Speaker 1: moved the ball, right Zach Pascal, And I mean, who

748
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 1: are these guys? Grant? Come on? Ye, So they're still dangerous,

749
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 1: but they lose that huge play threat. And you know what.

750
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:54,359
Speaker 1: Another another Pro Football Talk post that had me nauseous

751
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: in the last couple of weeks was, cults are very

752
00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: happy with the progress of Jack Doyle. Thank you very much,

753
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,840
Speaker 1: thanks a lot. Yeah, Ibron Doyle, great, thank you. Say

754
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 1: it's still Hilt for this, for this franchise. It's Hilt. Yeah,

755
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 1: of course, for this franchise. You have to take the

756
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:15,799
Speaker 1: clown out of it, uh Oakland, Antonio Brown or Antonio Brown.

757
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,080
Speaker 1: There's nobody else. I mean, you can't take the quarterback off.

758
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: So if you're gonna remove one player here right now,

759
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:25,879
Speaker 1: it's Antonio Brown, it's Antonio Brown. Baltimore was tricky, so

760
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 1: I made it this. You want to take off two

761
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 1: editions running back mark Ingram or safety Earl Thomas. Who's

762
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 1: that receiver? Now? Yeah, exactly. It's kind of the point.

763
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:41,960
Speaker 1: They drafted Marquis Brown out of Oklahoma, and they've got

764
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 1: Willie Snee see mark Ingram doing much there him. Now, Honestly,

765
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you, I don't know that I

766
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:49,360
Speaker 1: see either one of them doing a ton. I know

767
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 1: people get really excited about Earl, but it's a whole

768
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 1: different defense back there for Earl. He's already talked about that. Yeah,

769
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: I think it would have to be Earl if I'm

770
00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 1: gonna pick, Yeah, I would deal with Marking from I

771
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,279
Speaker 1: just want Lamar jacks off the field. Yeah. Now, if

772
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:05,359
Speaker 1: we're if we're allowed to take a non quarterback off

773
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 1: the field, can we take Lamar Jackson's runs away? That's

774
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 1: a great point. It's a great point. Take away a skill. Okay,

775
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 1: New England was tricky because I feel like with no

776
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:17,120
Speaker 1: Gronk and you can't take Brady, I felt like, well

777
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: you'd take out of him, right. I felt like that

778
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 1: was a slam duck, So a little more difficult. You

779
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 1: can only take one of these two off the feet,

780
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 1: all right, running back dual threat weapon James White or

781
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 1: linebacker Donte high Tower. Look, I just saw these Sony

782
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 1: Michelle highlights, and I'm not feeling too good about that.

783
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 1: Either you know, but he's there's a chance he'll be hurt. Yeah,

784
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:45,879
Speaker 1: White's dependable, all right, So wait White or who White?

785
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: Or Donte high Tower linebacker? I'll take I'll take High

786
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:52,919
Speaker 1: Tower away. He does so much for them defensively. White,

787
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 1: Johnny No, no, no, the scratched that. No, I'm taking

788
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 1: I'm taking White out of there. See that's the thing

789
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 1: I'm taking. If you take White off, you still have

790
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:04,360
Speaker 1: a chance in Michelle, maybe Damien Harris. You know you

791
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 1: got Rex Burkhead, and you remember that game that Randy

792
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 1: Bill missed the field goal? Who caught every pass down

793
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:12,240
Speaker 1: the field? That whole drive against us? In the Bengals,

794
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 1: Rex freaking Birkhead. He scares me to death. Who was

795
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 1: key in AFC Championship game? I'm a stretch, Rex Burkhead.

796
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 1: What they have ten running backs? I still want high

797
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 1: tier off the field. Though. It's so funny because we're

798
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 1: talking about where their receivers are ranked. How low? Yeah? Ranked?

799
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: All the stuff that we say negatively, or we the

800
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 1: media says negatively about the Patriots. But who do you

801
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:39,319
Speaker 1: think he's gonna win the FFCA oh pot Breddy playing

802
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 1: he doesn't. They're still gonna win ten games, right, Yeah,

803
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 1: that's all kind of respect they get and it's earned. Uh,

804
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay was tough. I'm skipping over back then. Tam

805
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: Bay was tough. As Mike Evans with Devin White. I

806
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 1: couldn't really Mike disc Mike Evans um by the way,

807
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 1: I met his high school basketball coach. Oh really yeah.

808
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:00,719
Speaker 1: Mike Klinicky, Yeah, who I played golf with. That's just

809
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: ran ran into him at Moody Gardens last week and

810
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 1: I met up with him and his son Jordan, me

811
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 1: and my father in law, Steve, and we played two

812
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 1: days with them because we all got along great. Those

813
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 1: guys played really well. And as Mike coaches golf at

814
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:16,759
Speaker 1: Galveston Ball was it was fun catching up with a

815
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:21,839
Speaker 1: n Tennessee get to the divisional poem. Yeah, you can

816
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 1: take off either Derek Henry, yes, or Durell Casey Derrick Henry,

817
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry, get him off the field because look, I've

818
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 1: got Mariota and I'll find a way to deal with

819
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 1: that defense. Look what happened last year two years, last

820
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 1: two years at home? Yeah, last two years at home.

821
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 1: I'll be I'm not gonna sit here and declare I'll

822
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: be okay, but I'd rather have Henry off the field.

823
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 1: He's deadly because look, Lamar Miller had this epic run

824
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:51,719
Speaker 1: and there was so much meaning to it. We don't

825
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:53,799
Speaker 1: have to recap it all now, but mister McNay, all

826
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:56,439
Speaker 1: of that stuff, but the ninety seven yards, never mind

827
00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:58,959
Speaker 1: anything else. Ninety seven yard run and then a week

828
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: later or was it a few days later? I forget

829
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:04,399
Speaker 1: how long later. Derrick Henry is a ninety nine yard

830
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 1: every day in the NFL. Yeah, I mean still they

831
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: have written operas and songs about Tony Dorset's ninety nine

832
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 1: and a half yard run. Yeah, I would take Henry

833
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 1: off too. I was trying to think of someone's like.

834
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: I had the exact same thought. We've moved the ball

835
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 1: against them with Casey. Even though Casey can be a

836
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:22,279
Speaker 1: terror if he's on the field or not, they still

837
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:23,879
Speaker 1: can move the footba against The only one I didn't

838
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 1: give you was Denver. Do you want to take off

839
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb? And I didn't put von Miller in this

840
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 1: because I'd be too easy. Bradley Chubb or corner Chris Harris.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't find anybody offensively, I mean I know Philip

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Speaker 1: Linz is a good player, but he didn't do a

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Speaker 1: lot against US. I'll take my chances on Chris Harris

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Speaker 1: being off the field, the Vic Fangio experiment, Gary Kubiak

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Speaker 1: leaving the organization. There's a lot of drama in Denver,

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Speaker 1: a lot of drama. Mark, appreciate it, Thank you, Thanks, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: all right, that'll do it. A big thanks to bring

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Speaker 1: Body Calhoun to Buddy how of course, to Mark Vandomir

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Speaker 1: and you guys for listening. Thank you so much. We'll

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Speaker 1: see tomorrow and as always, go Texans.