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Speaker 1: All Access on a Tuesday on a bye week, joining me,

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Speaker 1: Drew Doherty and special guest John Harris. You hear him

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Speaker 1: every single night, but you don't hear him on Tuesday

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Speaker 1: nights on this show. But John Harris filling in from

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Speaker 1: Mark Vandomer, Johnny, how's it going. I know you're driving

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Speaker 1: your own route. You've known a lot of radio this week,

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Speaker 1: so definitely wanted to have you on because I feel like, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, with the assistant coaches talking and you call

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Speaker 1: him the game. When I get your perspective, especially as

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Speaker 1: we head into the bye but welcome into Texans All

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Speaker 1: axas on a Tuesday, Johnny, Well, thank you. This allows

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Speaker 1: me to complete the weekly set. Each week I come

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Speaker 1: up short of Tuesday, and so this helps me in

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Speaker 1: the bye week make sure that I get all five

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Speaker 1: days in my set of Texans All Access. And it's

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Speaker 1: funny because my wife asked me. This was I don't know,

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Speaker 1: probably about a month ago. She asked me. She said, Okay,

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Speaker 1: now tell me your radio schedule again. I was like, babe,

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Speaker 1: it's the same thing as it's been for six years.

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Speaker 1: And then this week I'm like, yeah, but oh wait,

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Speaker 1: and she I got on the radio and she's like,

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Speaker 1: what are you doing. You're not on radio on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, but you know Thursday Mark wants to

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Speaker 1: go live, so I'm going on with him. And she's like,

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Speaker 1: so that thing you just told me, like, it's total

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Speaker 1: just you're just on the air every night, Like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: pretty much. Just go with that. Yeah exactly, boo. And

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Speaker 1: it's perfect because the real reason you're on with us

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Speaker 1: is Mark vandermir Uh. With the trade deadline approaching, the

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Speaker 1: Texans are in talks with Dartmouth about moving Mark Vandermer

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Speaker 1: to Dartmouth to be their voice of athletics and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna get back some prospects and stuff like that. So

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Speaker 1: this is a good, uh good, good time to remember

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Speaker 1: Mark and thank him for everything he's done for us.

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Speaker 1: And uh and hey, get you on on the radio too.

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Speaker 1: It was the pinnacle of broadcasting for him to go

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Speaker 1: to Dartmouth. So yeah, I mean, well, you know, if

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Speaker 1: we're doing a Mark retrospective show, I'll definitely share my

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Speaker 1: very first game down on the sidelines in twenty fourteen. Um,

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Speaker 1: that was that was such a But it's not really

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Speaker 1: a Mark retrospective. But when that when that day comes,

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Speaker 1: I'm telling that full story. Um, you know, unfiltered. And

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Speaker 1: I bet there's one one Dartmouth alum who's listening to

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Speaker 1: this saying, who the hell Dartmouth. Don't it's a joke.

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Speaker 1: Mark's not going there. He'll be back very soon. He's

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Speaker 1: not going to Dartmouth. He's not getting traded. We love

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Speaker 1: you Mark, and we love you Dartmouth, even though none

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Speaker 1: of us have any connection to dartmut We have no connection.

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Speaker 1: But you know what, it's a bye. Weeight Texans obviously

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Speaker 1: not where they wanted to be heading into week eight,

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Speaker 1: but you know what, it probably couldn't have come at

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Speaker 1: a better times. The team tries to reset and regroup.

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Speaker 1: A lot has happened in the first half of the season.

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Speaker 1: week to rest and get healthy before their Week nine

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Speaker 1: matchup at Jacksonville. They hope to have cornerback Bradley Roby

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Speaker 1: back by then Roby last Sunday's game against Green Bay

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Speaker 1: on the opening drive with a knee injury did not return.

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Speaker 1: It's not considered to be a major injury, but Roby

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Speaker 1: is seeing doctors this week. So really no update on

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Speaker 1: Bradley Roby other than we know it's it's not serious yet,

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Speaker 1: according to Romeo Cornell and and Dan Lynn, who also

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Speaker 1: spoke to the media today, But you guys, without Bradley

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Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting today we heard that Lonnie

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Speaker 1: to remain out for some time. Yeah, I'm glad you

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Speaker 1: bring up Lonnie Johnson DP because it does sound like

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Speaker 1: Lonnie Johnson's development, really this is a perfect time for

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Speaker 1: more of a professional at this level at safety. John

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Speaker 1: and I know you talked all offseason long about how

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Speaker 1: it's probably going to happen. You will likely see this move.

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Speaker 1: You will likely see a guy who has cornerback speed

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Speaker 1: And we've seen it happen and it's been rocky as

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Speaker 1: the whole, this could be a very good thing both

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Speaker 1: for Lonnie Johnson and for the development of this defense

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Speaker 1: you know I always say this about the move of

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Speaker 1: a lot of the safety because we are in the building,

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Speaker 1: everybody thinks, oh, that was something you got. I always

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Speaker 1: have said, Look, this is just my thought. This is

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Speaker 1: And Drew said, and I just felt like safety would

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Speaker 1: this is a nattro fit. Now it takes away at

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Speaker 1: it's a game where Davante Adams is now facing a

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Speaker 1: very important to this defense and so hopefully we can

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Speaker 1: get Bradley back. And talking to coach Lan about Bradley,

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Speaker 1: you know, the one thing he said was that dude

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Speaker 1: But I being the person that has been touting Lonnie

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Speaker 1: I think as time goes on, you'll, you think everybody

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Speaker 1: will think it's the right decision because Lonnie's gonna turn

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Speaker 1: that that's set out to be a really established student.

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Speaker 1: Anthony Weavers said that Johnson will remain at safety because

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Speaker 1: if we move him back to cornerback, it's a disservice

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Speaker 1: to Lonnie. They really want him to learn that safety

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Speaker 1: Don't you think that's a little bit of a change

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Speaker 1: from years path where you've seen Kareem moved safety then

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Speaker 1: I gotta say this, man, when Glover Quinn got moved

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Speaker 1: in twenty eleven, he couldn't do it at the time,

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Speaker 1: But boy, what if he had just moved that tandem

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Speaker 1: as well. You pair those guys with Danielle Manning, the

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Speaker 1: keep both of them around for such a long time.

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Speaker 1: That could have done wonders as far as solidifying the

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Speaker 1: It was a very solid corner for all that time.

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Speaker 1: But I think he might have blossomed into a Pro Bowl,

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Speaker 1: all right, Kareem will go back to corner. You can

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Speaker 1: I think he played exceptionally for this team in twenty

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Speaker 1: and it's funny when the Broncos signed him, I remember that.

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Speaker 1: I remember, you know, some of the Broncos were like, oh,

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Speaker 1: Like nope, you got safety Kareem Jackson. And you better

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Speaker 1: one whale of a safety and he's been very good

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Speaker 1: You know, one guy that did stick was Andre Howe.

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Speaker 1: You know, he was another one who started his first

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Speaker 1: like we could have really relied on because of all

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Speaker 1: for Dre Howe that they did that, and I hope

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Speaker 1: not going back and forth. We're just going all in

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Speaker 1: And I think it would be a disservice to Lonnie

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Speaker 1: to give back and forth and back and forth, but

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Speaker 1: him make safety, Let him learn a position, and in

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Speaker 1: due time you're gonna have one of the better safeties

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Speaker 1: in the AFC. I mean, he's also young in his career.

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Speaker 1: It's not like he spent so many years at cornerback

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Speaker 1: just like, well, you know what we've made with Also

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Speaker 1: that we've we've seen these guys now through the first stretch. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't done me. I'm not necessarily sure we'll see a

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Speaker 1: wholesale flip. But I think one of the many underrated

429
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Speaker 1: mysteries of this twenty twenty has been how could we

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Speaker 1: haven't seen more of Duke last year? You saw him

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Speaker 1: more in spurts, and it seemed like whenever he touched

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Speaker 1: the ball, good stuff was happening, and the offense was moving.

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Speaker 1: He was getting you. He he's not just getting you

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Speaker 1: yards after the catch. He's getting your yards after the

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Speaker 1: catch when there is nothing left. And he'll still almost

436
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Speaker 1: always find a way to get one more, two more

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Speaker 1: extra yards when it looks like the play has been

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Speaker 1: shut down, and I would be stunned. John, you can

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Speaker 1: comment further on this if we don't see him getting

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Speaker 1: three to four more touches per game on average as

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Speaker 1: this season unfolds. I do not disagree at all. I

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Speaker 1: am I'm with both you on this. I think Duke

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Speaker 1: needs to be on the field, and I think one

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Speaker 1: thing we all sort of forget is that Duke got

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Speaker 1: banged up in that opener against Kansas City. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: then I don't I don't know how many games he missed,

447
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Speaker 1: maybe two, but you know that kind of that set

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Speaker 1: him back. And I don't know if Duke was really

449
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Speaker 1: kind at full speed until really the last probably a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks, and by that point you're kind of

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Speaker 1: like writing the groove of the season and probably not

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Speaker 1: getting Duke as involved as you want to. Well, this

453
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Speaker 1: is that opportunity to you're self scouting, right, what are

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Speaker 1: you gonna find if you're being truly honest with yourself

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Speaker 1: about this offense. Look, we like Duke's twitch. We've got

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Speaker 1: to have that twitch out on the field. And I

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Speaker 1: don't know that I've seen a smarter player. Duke Johnson

458
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Speaker 1: does things that are so impressive when he's out on

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Speaker 1: the field, and it doesn't have to meet his ball

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Speaker 1: carrying or his reception ability, his catching ability. He had

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Speaker 1: a block he picked up a blitzer on the key

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Speaker 1: touchdown against Jacksonville that he just stoned a linebacker that

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Speaker 1: allowed Deshaan to throw that ball to Brandon Cooks without

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Speaker 1: wearing the linebacker like a straight jacket. So Duke does

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Speaker 1: the little things too, so I would. I don't think

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Speaker 1: we'll see a wholesale flip, but I you think we

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Speaker 1: might get more of a merge, you know, you know,

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Speaker 1: fifty fifties sort of thing where they are equal touches

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Speaker 1: for both. And I think when Duke's on the field

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Speaker 1: that the defenses are they've got to be more on

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Speaker 1: point because of how how quick Duke kiss. Think back

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Speaker 1: to the playoff game. The playoff game in the second half,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the offense had done nothing, and Bill Brian

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Speaker 1: always said, you know, we gotta get the run game going,

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Speaker 1: and so in that second half, I think the first

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Speaker 1: drive they handed the Duke ten yard run, well, we

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Speaker 1: didn't do anything with it. We got the ball back

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Speaker 1: after the wat sack and their fuel goal, it's sixteen nothing.

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Speaker 1: They put Duke back in their same thing, twelve yard

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Speaker 1: first down run, great drive starter Deshan that ran one

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Speaker 1: in a few plays later, and now we're in the

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Speaker 1: ball game and it all started with Duke Johnson. And

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Speaker 1: I think that Duke getting the ball is going to

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Speaker 1: be a much bigger aspect, should be a much bigger

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Speaker 1: aspect of this offense. And we'll see what the coaches

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Speaker 1: really fine as they self scout, but I think that's

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Speaker 1: gonna be one of things they do. Five. We got

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Speaker 1: to get twenty five involved in this thing. A hold

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Speaker 1: out more All right, Johnny, before I cut you loose.

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Speaker 1: This is the first time you're on Texans All Access

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Speaker 1: on a Tuesday, and I'm excited because I finally have

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Speaker 1: someone to discuss The Bachelorette with its new night. Drew

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Speaker 1: is just shaking his head right now. But it's on tonight.

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Speaker 1: It's the continuation of the rose ceremony prediction. Does Easy

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Speaker 1: Watchiku get a rose? He's eliminated. He was not eliminated

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Speaker 1: after the first rose ceremony. This is the second one,

497
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Speaker 1: which they should have done last week, but now it's

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Speaker 1: to be continued. But do you think he's done enough

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Speaker 1: to stay on the roster journey? Absolutely, he needs to

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Speaker 1: be a final three. However, I've heard rumors about this

501
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Speaker 1: whole thing and it seems a little shady, but Easy

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Speaker 1: needs to be there. I mean, you know they're always

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Speaker 1: saying that bachelor. You know, look, I'm looking for this

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Speaker 1: kind of guy. I'm looking for a sense of humor

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Speaker 1: every day. He's every He is that guys, come on,

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Speaker 1: get it done. Yes, I saw him on there. I

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Speaker 1: texted you immediately. I was like, are you watching? Oh, yes,

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Speaker 1: he will, He'll get a roast he needs. I think

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Speaker 1: I was watching the Titans Monday night game or Tuesday

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Speaker 1: night game, and I was I thought, this is the

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Speaker 1: first time I've actually um you. You were ahead of

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Speaker 1: me on watching it, But I watched it that night.

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Speaker 1: I will definitely have a write up on Houston Texans

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Speaker 1: dot com because there's probably people out there that don't

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Speaker 1: want to sit through all two hours. I love it

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Speaker 1: through you. I will sit through it. I will take notes,

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Speaker 1: and I will report back diligently what happens with Easy.

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Speaker 1: You need to interim. You know, I'm going to get

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Speaker 1: him on a podcast. I'm waiting for it to I'm

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Speaker 1: waiting for it to come together, whether he's eliminated or

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Speaker 1: he wins or whatever happens, and then I want to

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Speaker 1: hear about the whole experience because right now can't talk

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Speaker 1: about much with him as Alimon two episodes. Yeah, all right, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for your part for Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: She'll be back a little bit later with replay and

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Speaker 1: You got that right. All the rest of the week,

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Speaker 1: we'll hear from t J. Yates, Danton, Lynn, Will Long.

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Speaker 1: I did one on ones with all those guys, and

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Speaker 1: Love you guys, am, I hang up and listen. All right,

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Speaker 1: Thanks Johnny, all right, stay tuned when we come back.

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Speaker 1: We've got more on Texans All Access. What can we

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Speaker 1: All Access. It's Drue, it's me. We cut Johnny Louise.

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Speaker 1: Now it's just the two of us as we hold

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Speaker 1: it down. Mark Vandermer out for tonight's show. But you

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Speaker 1: know what, it's the bye week, Drew. We still got

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Speaker 1: a lot of radio, We still got a lot of

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Speaker 1: the media. On Thursday, you have the coordinators speak and

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Speaker 1: the assistant coaches come in and you can pretty much

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Speaker 1: ask them about any players. I like it because there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of players that we don't really get to

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Speaker 1: talk about on a weekly basis. We're too busy talking

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Speaker 1: about the matchup or who the Texans are going to

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Speaker 1: play next. But it's kind of a nice reset to

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Speaker 1: sort of figure out where players are at, just overall

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00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,800
Speaker 1: the big picture, if you will. Yeah, And it's interesting

585
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Speaker 1: because you and I and Vandamer and John Harris week

586
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Speaker 1: we have a group text that we will go back

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Speaker 1: and forth on quite a bit. And I think Sunday night,

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Speaker 1: maybe last night, I texted you guys, and I think

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Speaker 1: it was last night. I texted and said, this time

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Speaker 1: a year ago, the Texans were coming off of the

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Speaker 1: I kick win against the Oakland Raiders, and that pushed

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Speaker 1: them to five and three on the season, and I

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Speaker 1: was getting ready to board a plane to go to

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Speaker 1: London because I went to London about three days ahead

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Speaker 1: of you guys to sort of mingle with fans, get

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Speaker 1: some video footage, c C. Get all your sight seeing

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Speaker 1: in before the work yea sightsee Basically, thank you Houston Texans.

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Speaker 1: But it's just amazing how much has changed in a year.

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Speaker 1: Because they would win that game at jackson at London

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Speaker 1: against Jacksonville, pushed them to six and three, and then

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00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 1: they went in the bye week and really they haven't

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Speaker 1: been the same since, you know, they've they kind of

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00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: scuffled their way along and we're just over five hundred

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Speaker 1: if you include the playoffs the rest of last season.

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Speaker 1: But it's been a nosedive in twenty twenty twenty. But

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of that, you know, a lot

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Speaker 1: of those problems we started seeing post by the run,

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Speaker 1: than the other team did. So it's really weird how

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Speaker 1: it all has gone down in about a year's span.

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Speaker 1: And then not to mention all the bananas stuff acquisition

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Speaker 1: wise that the Texans went through in the off season.

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Speaker 1: I mean they had a lot of players throughout the

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Speaker 1: season too, because after the was it before the Oakland

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Speaker 1: game that Gariam Conley came here right right before the

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Speaker 1: Texans and the Raiders played, which was a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a slab in the base to Conley. I think

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Speaker 1: he had played with a little bit of a chip

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Speaker 1: on his shoulder. Vernon Hargreaves and Shop later in the

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Speaker 1: season as well, you added a number of pieces that

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Speaker 1: end up being big contributors for you during the course

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Speaker 1: of the season. And to think that that was our

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Speaker 1: first time in London, and I mean I would not

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Speaker 1: trade that memory for anything. That was such a great game.

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Speaker 1: It was great to come out of there with a win.

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Speaker 1: It was a long trip. I don't know how the

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Speaker 1: Jaguars do it every single year, especially that they lost,

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Speaker 1: and the Texans really looked dominate in that game. And

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Speaker 1: you know that's usually I go straight to the press box,

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Speaker 1: not the press I'm in the press box, then I

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Speaker 1: that was one of the rare opportunities that I got

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Speaker 1: to go on the field as the players were running

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Speaker 1: off the field, and yeah, you know, just the excitement

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Speaker 1: of making such a long trip, but it'd been kind

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Speaker 1: of a long week. I mean, you kind of underestimate

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Speaker 1: how much work goes into playing internationally and getting these

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Speaker 1: these players body clocks, you know, assimilated to the new

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Speaker 1: time zone, and you're in the middle of the season.

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Speaker 1: You're dealing with injuries and all that, but you want

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Speaker 1: a fun time. And here we are a year later

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Speaker 1: and we're conducting everything via zoom. So yes, you never know,

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Speaker 1: but you know what, next year, Drew, we could be

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Speaker 1: on our way to London again. We could be on

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Speaker 1: our way to some fantastic city that eventually they're going

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Speaker 1: to start playing games in Germany, They'll start playing Are

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Speaker 1: you ready for that back in Tokyo. Yeah, they've done

648
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Speaker 1: that before. I bet you Australia gets in the mix.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's in five, ten, twenty years,

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Speaker 1: but it's gonna happen. You're gonna see games played internationally

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Speaker 1: more often than they are right now. This year not

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Speaker 1: happening because of the pandemic, but it'll open back up.

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Speaker 1: It'll happen, you know. And I really thought after the

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Speaker 1: Titans played on Tuesday night, and you know, there were

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks there in the first half of

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Speaker 1: the season where with the COVID positives, with the Titans,

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Speaker 1: with the Patriots and a few with the Chiefs, that

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Speaker 1: we saw schedules get shifted around. I thought, you know,

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Speaker 1: before the end of the year, we're gonna they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be games on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Yeah. Yea, so

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Speaker 1: far it's it's been all right. I'm actually shocked that

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Speaker 1: the Texans are having their bye week on their scheduled

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Speaker 1: bye week, because I really thought that, you know, with

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Speaker 1: the way the dominoes were falling, it was only a

665
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Speaker 1: matter of time before a domino would hit this Texan schedule.

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Speaker 1: But so far it's been unscathed. Hasn't really helped the

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Speaker 1: record much, so you can't really even blame COVID. Well,

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Speaker 1: maybe this is the thing that turns it all around.

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Speaker 1: Them having their by this week and all these other

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Speaker 1: teams having the early buys is gonna catch up to

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Speaker 1: them and the arena. They're tough part of their schedule,

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Speaker 1: and they make up some hay and they just peel

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Speaker 1: off nine wins down the street. They won nine wins

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Speaker 1: two years ago, right thing, Yeah, well, a little different obviously,

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Speaker 1: would being facetious. I'm being sarcastic, but you know, the

676
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 1: season's not over and there's lots and lots to play for.

677
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Speaker 1: There's definitely no draft picks to lose for because you

678
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Speaker 1: don't have the first rounder, you don't have the second rounder.

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Speaker 1: So Texans are in a weird situation. We've said it

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Speaker 1: a few times tonight, said it a few times today.

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Speaker 1: You and I have done a lot of different things

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Speaker 1: than we normally would have just because it's a bye week.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, it's a weird setup, and it's certainly a

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Speaker 1: bye week unlike any other, and hopefully we never have

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Speaker 1: another one like it again. But you know, we heard

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Speaker 1: from the assistant coaches there's a lot of questions about

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Speaker 1: how this offense, how this defense will look different after

688
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Speaker 1: the buy because we've heard in Romeo Crown. We know

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Speaker 1: this just from previous years. In the bye week, the

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Speaker 1: coaches like to do some self scouting. They like to

691
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Speaker 1: see what sort of things they can improve moving forward.

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Speaker 1: I thought I was interesting to note some of the

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Speaker 1: changes that we might see. I feel like there was

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Speaker 1: a lot of alluding to things that might be different

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Speaker 1: the second half of the season, namely David Johnson and

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Speaker 1: Duke Johnson. I feel like we might see something different.

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Speaker 1: Johnny talked about it as well. You know, we think

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Speaker 1: that that might look differently also, you know, we might

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Speaker 1: see more opportunities for do We might see more opportunities

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Speaker 1: for rookies in general. We might see more Blacklock, more Grenard,

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Speaker 1: more John Reid, depending on what happens with Bradley Roby.

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Speaker 1: And I was very encouraged by the fact that I

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Speaker 1: was talking to Travis Johnson. We were talking to Travis

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Speaker 1: Johnson in the first hour, and he talked about two

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Speaker 1: thousand and eight. I mean, they started off with a

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Speaker 1: two and four record, won five of their last six,

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Speaker 1: and then went eight and eight, and you know, things

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Speaker 1: did turn around from that team, and they felt like

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Speaker 1: that was a success, that they were able to get

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Speaker 1: some momentum. That was a good pay half. That was

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Speaker 1: a really good point by him. I think that team,

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Speaker 1: that O eight team had more of a better middle

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Speaker 1: class of talent than this team does. But they definitely

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Speaker 1: did not have the quarterback that this team has. Dwayne

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Speaker 1: Brown wasn't what he became at that point. He definitely

716
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Speaker 1: didn't have the left tackle you have, So perhaps lightning

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Speaker 1: in a bottle could get caught. It's gonna be tough.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the defense is really struggled, and unless they

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Speaker 1: make some massive changes and really figure things out in

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Speaker 1: a hurry, it's gonna be hard to replicate that run

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Speaker 1: that they went on that O eight team. But it's different,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, maybe something like that could happen. But you

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Speaker 1: bring up the Duke Johnson, David Johnson, Kerry split. I

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Speaker 1: do think, like we mentioned earlier, we're going to see

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Speaker 1: more of Duke to the tune of probably three four

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Speaker 1: more touches per game at minimal, I would think, And

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Speaker 1: I really wonder, like we talked about, how much more

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Speaker 1: of these rookies are we gonna get to see because

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Speaker 1: you haven't seen Jonathan Grenard really at all on defense.

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Speaker 1: He's exclusively been in coverage on special teams, and Ross

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Speaker 1: Blacklock has played and he's starting to flash from time

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Speaker 1: to time. What are we gonna see from John Reid?

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Speaker 1: Is Isaiah Culture on the offensive side of the ball?

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Speaker 1: Wide receiver? Is he gonna get in the mix because

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Speaker 1: you've got a really deep wide receiver corps on this team.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, if QT can't get in, how is

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Speaker 1: Culture going to wind up getting in right now. So

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Speaker 1: lots of question marks, certainly for the squad. And I

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Speaker 1: know we're going to get into what the coaches the

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Speaker 1: assistants had to say more throughout today, more throughout the week,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, there's some there's some stuff that definitely stood out,

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Speaker 1: you know. And one thing to know, we haven't even

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Speaker 1: talked about Jordan Aikins. Likely he'll be back after the

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Speaker 1: bye week two, which you know we've not had him

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Speaker 1: for the last few games. The offense did well against

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Speaker 1: Tennessee without him, but you know, maybe a guy like that,

747
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Speaker 1: who seemed to be the Deshaun's go to target when

748
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: the season started, maybe him coming back sort of freeze

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Speaker 1: things up on the offense or opens things up in

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Speaker 1: a way that, you know, the offense can get clicking

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Speaker 1: a little bit earlier, a little bit sooner. I think

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Speaker 1: the one guy we don't really talk too much about

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Speaker 1: is Will Fuller because he's had quietly five straight games

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Speaker 1: with a touchdown catch and he's he's been phenomenally healthy

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00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:52,359
Speaker 1: and great on the field. Unfortunately, it has not translated

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Speaker 1: all twins either. I will never forget Cecil Shorts, the

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Speaker 1: third standing near me at the Greenbrier and talking about

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Speaker 1: will Fuller and saying that guy's a number one receiver

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Speaker 1: or he's capable of being a number one receiver, and

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Speaker 1: you know, if he gets the chance, he can be

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Speaker 1: a number one receiver. And he was saying that with

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Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins still in the Texans, he was essentially saying,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have two guys that are top flight, number

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Speaker 1: one wide receiver. And he's right. It's all been a

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Speaker 1: matter of health and knock on wood. Will Fuller's been

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Speaker 1: healthy and he's been excellent. And he's not just a

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Speaker 1: deep threat. He is a deep threat, but he's a

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Speaker 1: number one receiver and does all the stuff that those

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Speaker 1: the middle stuff, the intermediate stuff. Will have been very,

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Speaker 1: very impressive. And I gotta give Cecil another shout out

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Speaker 1: because just called that way back when, because he used

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Speaker 1: to be this guy's he's just fast, he's just gonna

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Speaker 1: take the top off, and he does. But I'll never

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Speaker 1: forget Cecil saying that. And on draft night back in

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Speaker 1: head coach Brian Kelly will Fuller's head coach there for

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Speaker 1: It's going to be different with will Fuller in the fold.

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Speaker 1: And he was saying that in general, not just the

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Speaker 1: he was absolutely right. Well, I can't wait to see

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Speaker 1: what will Fuller does in the second half of the season.

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Speaker 1: We got more players that we want to keep our

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Speaker 1: the coaches were saying this week, and also maybe we'll

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Speaker 1: So it's cool to see this because he was a

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Speaker 1: So I'm happy that he's he's getting this chance because

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Speaker 1: Johnny totally appreciate. He was wearing like a three color,

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Speaker 1: stretch of the bye week, we got Travis's take, we

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Speaker 1: got Johnny's take about what this team needs to do

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Speaker 1: better heading into into the second half of the season.

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Speaker 1: I think drew that next Tuesday, a week from now,

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Speaker 1: the trade deadline will have passed, and I think at

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Speaker 1: that point Water will find its level and any uncertainty

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Speaker 1: that may still be in the locker room will be gone,

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Speaker 1: because then the players know, like you know what, we're here,

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Speaker 1: We're here to the end of the season. I like

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Speaker 1: Romeo Cornell's message to the players. It's like, these are

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Speaker 1: the guys we want to win with. These are the

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Speaker 1: guys in the locker room. And I don't think it

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Speaker 1: hurts that the first game back, you're playing at Jacksonville,

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Speaker 1: a team that you did win against earlier in the years,

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Speaker 1: so you've you've seen them once, you know that you've

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Speaker 1: had success against them before, a more hopeless situation, and

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Speaker 1: they really, I mean they have. Their record is the same.

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Speaker 1: They haven't won since Week one, so they're on actually

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Speaker 1: a bigger losing than even the Texans right now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it is dire there. Think of all the

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00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 1: talent that's been stripped away, just defensively, I mean not

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00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:10,320
Speaker 1: on the team as a whole, because that's happened, but defensively.

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Speaker 1: I mean one of their their centerpieces got traded again,

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Speaker 1: Yannick and Gockway. He was in Minnesota. Now he's a raven,

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Speaker 1: but he just got traded again. I mean they have

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Speaker 1: They're gonna face both Klais Campbell and Yannick and Gockway

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Speaker 1: in Baltimore and Lamar Jackson, a guy they could have

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Speaker 1: drafted but they passed on not once but twice in

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Speaker 1: the draft. So as a Jaguars fan, and they faced

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Speaker 1: to Shaun Watson, they took Leonard for Nett and said

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Speaker 1: to him every time, every time, I mean, I know

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Speaker 1: with the Texans too, every time they faced a quarterback

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Speaker 1: that they could have had. Yeah, you know, even even

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers for many years, although nobody would trade JJ

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Speaker 1: Wat for Aaron Rodgers now, but there are many years

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Speaker 1: people are like, well, you know, a quarterback, a quarterback,

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Speaker 1: quarterback could have, would have should have you know, helped you. Well,

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Speaker 1: Travis Rodgers brought that up. He said he was sitting

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Speaker 1: in there Johnson and he turned to one of his

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Speaker 1: former team had said, this is the guy pointing to

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers that y'all could have had a quarterback instead

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Speaker 1: of me because they were drafted in the same draft.

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Speaker 1: The Texans traded back to take Travis Johnson, so they

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Speaker 1: passed on Aaron Rodgers twice. Yeah, that's that's my bad.

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Speaker 1: That wasn't It wasn't jj wats draft, it was it

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Speaker 1: was Travis Johnson's draft. And he was telling that story

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Speaker 1: to Andre Johnson, Yeah, getting next to him, that he

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Speaker 1: could have been catching passes from Aaron Rodgers all these years.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's go around the league real quick, Drew. You know,

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Speaker 1: there's a wildfires out west, and if COVID wasn't bad enough,

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Speaker 1: can you imagine you've got COVID, You've got the pandemic,

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Speaker 1: your schedule's been shifted all around like the Chargers, and

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Speaker 1: then you've got wildfires. So a number of Chargers players,

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Speaker 1: including quarterback Justin Herbert, have been evacuated from their homes

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Speaker 1: and they were living in a hotel because of all

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Speaker 1: the southern California wildfires. I just feel like this is

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Speaker 1: like this season is on another level, not just for

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Speaker 1: the Texans, but for a lot of different teams that

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Speaker 1: are facing the sort of adversity right now. First of all,

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Speaker 1: I get those folks, some rain come on mixing some

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Speaker 1: some rain showers also in Colorado. That's I mean, that

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Speaker 1: might that might soon affect Denver the way that's going.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not a I don't want to

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Speaker 1: profess to be a meteorologist or a wildfire expert. But

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Speaker 1: sometimes though, Drew. Yeah, and I've got friends, you know,

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Speaker 1: who are having to rearrange some things in Colorado because

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Speaker 1: of what's going on. So yeah, that's that's just sad stuff.

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Speaker 1: You hate to see it, and I hope he gets

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Speaker 1: better there soon. Well, the Giants former cornerback and top

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Speaker 1: ten draft pick was playing with the Panthers, Eli Apple.

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Speaker 1: He just got released today, according to Miles Simmons of

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Speaker 1: the teams the Panthers team website. He was slect a

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Speaker 1: tenth overall in the twenty sixteen NFL Draft. I remember

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Speaker 1: when the Texans um, you know, he was definitely a

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Speaker 1: guy that the Texans you thought, maybe maybe he might

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Speaker 1: be somebody that they consider didn't play well with the Giants,

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Speaker 1: he was traded, hasn't really, didn't really do much with

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Speaker 1: the Saints, and then in twenty nineteen signed with the Panthers.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if a team's going to scoop him up,

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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying the Texans Willer won't, but you know,

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Speaker 1: if a guy like that can help out and contribute,

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Speaker 1: you've got some injuries in your secondary. I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: Eli Apple's the answer, but I was. I find it

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Speaker 1: intriguing because that's how a couple of our players have

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Speaker 1: landed here before, guys like Brennan Hargraves who got cut

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00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 1: and Gary Conley who got traded. Really yeah, it's talent

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Speaker 1: guys who just didn't stick with the teams that they

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Speaker 1: were at. And it is an interesting idea you bring up,

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Speaker 1: because that's what the Texans have done the last year.

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Speaker 1: They've they've snapped up guys who were first rounders, had

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Speaker 1: that first round talent, but weren't doing well in their situation.

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Speaker 1: Conley with the Raiders, hard Graves with Tampa Bay. So

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Speaker 1: perhaps they take a chance on Eli Apple Apple. I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, because you wonder what's what's the train

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Speaker 1: of thought and how things are going, but it certainly

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Speaker 1: makes sense. I mean, I don't know if he's just

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Speaker 1: was totally misdrafted and not worthy of even being near

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Speaker 1: that spot, but yeah, I do wonder would they would

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Speaker 1: they bring him in because that was what they were

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Speaker 1: doing towards the middle of the end of last year

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Speaker 1: personnel wise. It is the bye week, but we still

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Speaker 1: got shows that are coming up this weekend. You've got

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Speaker 1: a brand new episode of Extra Points. What are you

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Speaker 1: guys going to be talking about? There's no Well, we're

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Speaker 1: doing things a little differently this week. We're calling in

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Speaker 1: from the NFL Network, and then we also have John

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Speaker 1: Harris too, So we're gonna split things up and do

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Speaker 1: three different segments with those guys and then have a

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Speaker 1: you know, Keys to the Bye Week segment as well.

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Speaker 1: So it's gonna be fun after the games, after the

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Speaker 1: news on channel thirteen, ABC thirteen KTRK Saturday Saturday night,

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Speaker 1: so around eleven o'clock, all right, and right after that,

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Speaker 1: we've got Texans three sixty a brand new episode. We

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Speaker 1: do go back to the archives a little bit this year.

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Speaker 1: It's not a large archive, but some of our best

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Speaker 1: moments from some of my one on one deep slant

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Speaker 1: interviews with players, and then you know, of course what's

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Speaker 1: happening out and about in the community and your one

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Speaker 1: on one with Jamie Roots. You did a Drews dozen,

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Speaker 1: which is always kind of zany and kind of fun,

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Speaker 1: and it's kind of nice to see President Jamie Rue

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Speaker 1: in that role as well. He's got a book coming

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Speaker 1: out November tenth, The Winning game Plan, and you'll read

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Speaker 1: all about it on Houston Texans dot com. And you

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Speaker 1: know what, check out US and Texans dot com anyway,

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Speaker 1: because we still got stories this week. We are still working.

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Speaker 1: It's the bye week, but that's going to do it

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Speaker 1: for Texans All Access. Thank you so much, Drew, and

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Speaker 1: thank you to John Harris who joined us earlier. And

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Speaker 1: you can catch Texans Replay up next. And for all

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