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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, and welcome to the program that gets you

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Speaker 1: inside NRG Stadium. Mark Vandermyer and John Harris for Texans

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Speaker 1: All Access. Great to have you with us. We've been

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Speaker 1: lying from the Houston Methodist Training Center every morning from

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Speaker 1: eight to ten am and will through Tuesday morning along

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Speaker 1: with the rest of the gang from Sports Radio six tenths.

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Speaker 1: So it's been great covering training camp. We've got sort

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Speaker 1: of a training camp clearinghouse of sorts for you tonight

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Speaker 1: as tight as Howard, We'll be on with us. Neville

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Speaker 1: Hewitt will be on with us, and we got a

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Speaker 1: couple of other goodies for later on in the show,

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Speaker 1: including but not limited to Camu Gruge Hill an interview

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Speaker 1: I've been wanting to play for a while, but I

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Speaker 1: just haven't gotten around to it, Johnny, because we've been busy.

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Speaker 1: We've been talking. You know, you and I tend to talk,

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Speaker 1: you know, we tend to blab away and just the

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Speaker 1: time passes, and that's that, right, I mean, that's just

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Speaker 1: what we do here. It's so funny because I looked

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Speaker 1: at my phone and I was like, man, we didn't

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Speaker 1: play the John Reid interview that I did. Ericson interview today.

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Speaker 1: I was like, man, there's so much stuff that we're

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Speaker 1: sort of leaving I don't want to say, or leaving

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Speaker 1: on the cutting room floor, but we just and we

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Speaker 1: we gotta get to. There's an hour at night. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot we gotta get you. So, yeah, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: end up having a bunch of stuff and there might

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Speaker 1: be a show longer way where it's like, you know what,

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Speaker 1: no practice today, Hey, you know what, let's fire some

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Speaker 1: of these interviews and go back. We'll do that, but

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Speaker 1: we'll call it back to the future if you will

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Speaker 1: sort of um. But yeah, by the way, speaking back

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Speaker 1: to the future, there's a tremendous show Netflix called Movies

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Speaker 1: that made us oh hed a documentary. They did a

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Speaker 1: documentary on the behind the scenes the Back to the Future,

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Speaker 1: and it's awesome. It is gone. It awesome. Wait, do

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Speaker 1: they have the Eric Stoltz footage because he was gonna

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Speaker 1: play Michael kay Fox's character. Yes, they tell the whole story.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing. It's really all I'm watching that tonight tonight.

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Speaker 1: Although I'm so good, I'm kind of I think I've

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Speaker 1: mentioned this on this program. I'm going through old series.

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Speaker 1: First of all, I need to see ted Lasso because

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Speaker 1: it's really good. It's a sports show and it's on

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Speaker 1: Apple TV and Johnny all these platforms. My gosh, I

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Speaker 1: have to subscribe to everything terrible anyway. I want to

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Speaker 1: see ted Lasso. But I've been watching Dexter. I want

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Speaker 1: to watch that Netflix show you just talked about. I've

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Speaker 1: got to watch Woodstock nineteen ninety nine, which is on

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Speaker 1: HBO Max or something. They're all on different platforms. You

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Speaker 1: know what this? They say all the consumer wins, Yes

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Speaker 1: and no. There's a lot of great content out there,

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Speaker 1: but it's all on different things. And guess what your

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Speaker 1: cable bill. And I just recommend Exfinity because you could

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Speaker 1: access all of these platforms through Xfinity and I love them.

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Speaker 1: And I don't have to change much on my TV

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Speaker 1: to do this. It's pretty easy. It's like a one

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Speaker 1: whatever platform this is? Anyway, I'm rambling. Now, let's get

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Speaker 1: to this Day two and pants today, give me your

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Speaker 1: top takeaway Number one takeaway from today, give it to me. Wow,

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Speaker 1: that's a great one. I thought the running backs all

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Speaker 1: did really good things today, and maybe Mark Ingram because

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Speaker 1: had some sauces runs. Philip Lindsay always does. There's no

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Speaker 1: Rex Burkhead today. I don't know if it was a

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Speaker 1: period just becomes this mishmash of bodies and running backs

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Speaker 1: can't find anything. But both Philip Lindsay and David Johnson

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Speaker 1: that stood out to me. Number twelve stands out to

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Speaker 1: me every day. Oh okay, okay. I told the story

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Speaker 1: today about twenty seventeen about how I was writing a

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Speaker 1: few too many observations that might might have made it

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Speaker 1: easier for other teams to kind of look at our

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about Nico Collins, and they got me thinking

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Speaker 1: about one other rookie. He was turning a lot of heads,

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Speaker 1: and that's your guy, the sixth rounder, Roy Lopez. He's

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Speaker 1: gaining I'm not I'm trying to figure out the right

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Speaker 1: let's let's go Roy, what's up? Roy? Showing what's up? Roy?

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Speaker 1: Like there is audibly this pickup when he is about

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Speaker 1: to have a rep because it's pretty exciting. You mentioned it,

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Speaker 1: But he's so quick. I mean, I know you gotta

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Speaker 1: he's strong. But mother nature kept him at about sixty one,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's the best thing ever because he's

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Speaker 1: Lopez Junior is gonna mess around and find his way

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Speaker 1: is really fun to watch. You know what I liked

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Speaker 1: about something Whitney said, sea ball, get ball, which I

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Speaker 1: twenty eleven. Right, yeah, I know Whitney came the next year.

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Speaker 1: But the point is this, you simplify things, and maybe

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Speaker 1: simplifying on defense, Like let's just go after the football

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Speaker 1: possibly can that way. Now, look, you're gonna get caught sometimes.

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Speaker 1: These offenses are way too good in this league, which

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Speaker 1: makes me harken back to a conversation I once had

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Speaker 1: you've got to get negative plays in the NFL. You've

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Speaker 1: got to be negative if you're a defense, because the

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Speaker 1: offenses are too good. You cannot let them play ahead

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Speaker 1: of the chains. They're gonna kill you. Now, that was

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Speaker 1: twenty years ago, right, Imagine today the differences. The rule

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Speaker 1: changes all of it. And that's why being aggressive and

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Speaker 1: being able to get some negative plays and everything we've

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Speaker 1: so far on like David Kelly said, if you see

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Speaker 1: always good. I really would love to see a joint

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Speaker 1: going to get to see it. I can't wait for

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Speaker 1: Green Bay a week from Saturday night. Yeah, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: I want to see these guys grown up against a

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Speaker 1: different coach because it's that same thing. You're right, It's like, okay,

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Speaker 1: the one thing that I keep finding myself saying. But man,

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Speaker 1: I have always trusted. I've always trusted my eyes, and

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Speaker 1: I know it when I see it, and I remember

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Speaker 1: thinking last year in twenty twenty, and I know this

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Speaker 1: I'm watching it. I'm like, man, I just I don't know, Man,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know that I liked this

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's as simple as this. In some ways,

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Speaker 1: a Bill O'Brien coach team. They want to run the football.

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Speaker 1: I don't care who's playing quarterback. They wanted to be

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Speaker 1: able to run the football. But on the other side

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Speaker 1: times in Texans history they've done this where they have

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Speaker 1: than the meltdown, which is I know, saying a lot,

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Speaker 1: but look, you got to the divisional round, you won

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Speaker 1: if you played your starters in week seventeen and all that,

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Speaker 1: and they didn't do enough to improve on the defense

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Speaker 1: you just can't assume you're gonna bring back what you had,

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Speaker 1: right in terms of performance. You know, you bring back

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. Let's be honest. They made some key plays

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Speaker 1: but you can't assume you're gonna do that. They got

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Speaker 1: four picks that one day at Tampa Bay. That's almost

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Speaker 1: half of what they got in all of twenty twenty. Right,

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Speaker 1: So they also got caught in two thousand and five

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Speaker 1: I'm going back way deep here, but that was a

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Speaker 1: big factor that year. They didn't improve the personnel on

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Speaker 1: offense and they paid the price for that. And the

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Speaker 1: defense is getting older. So at various times in the

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Speaker 1: history of this franchise they've done that. Now everything's completely new,

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Speaker 1: and as we talk about which side of the ball

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Speaker 1: you're rooting for, in practice, it is tough because both

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Speaker 1: sides are in a complete reshuffle reset, and you just

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Speaker 1: don't know until you know, until you see it against

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Speaker 1: an opponent. But it's fun to watch. I got to admit,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's so much fun to watch this camp

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Speaker 1: because everything's brand new, So it's kind of fun to

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Speaker 1: watch it all take place. It's not like, oh, let's

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Speaker 1: get back the divisional round right now. Look, I'd love to,

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Speaker 1: because that's where we left off at the cliffhanger. Uh No,

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Speaker 1: this is starting a new series, not just a new season,

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Speaker 1: a new series, if you will. We're going Netflix in

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Speaker 1: these platforms again. Yeah, yeah, I mean absolutely, You're You're

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Speaker 1: exactly right, And it's it's an opportunity, and look, we

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Speaker 1: you know, we've talked about the Shawn situation, the quarterback situation,

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Speaker 1: and we don't know how that's going to resolve itself.

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Speaker 1: Sean obviously is not there again today and it made

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Speaker 1: national news out on a practice field building up. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's been in the building, and Tim Kelly, I thought,

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Speaker 1: had some very kind words to say about him. But

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Speaker 1: you got a lot of time to you know, put

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Speaker 1: on put out some good film, learn a lot more

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Speaker 1: about the guys you're playing with. Um, so if the

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Speaker 1: season doesn't go the way it's playing, you got a

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Speaker 1: lot of experience, you know from seventeen games. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's only one more game than sixteen, but that one

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Speaker 1: game it's one hundred sixty two hundred snaps, So that's

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Speaker 1: more snaps you get on the field. So I'm looking

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Speaker 1: forward to it. And I'm you know, I've never played

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Speaker 1: seventeen games because in college, you know, I'm gonna play

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Speaker 1: teen games. And if you didn't play, to the player,

435
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Speaker 1: you didn't play in the playoffs he was over with.

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Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to seeing how, you know, how

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Speaker 1: it does with all of our got how with all

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Speaker 1: of our bodies. Who's the toughest guy you faced last year?

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Speaker 1: To be completely honest, um, I probably think it's probably

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Speaker 1: one A, one B, probably the toughest, probably the best

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Speaker 1: guys I win against. Probably Miles Garrett and Clil Man. Yeah. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I always forget about Kalil mack yep, I always forget

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Speaker 1: about Clil Mac. He's he strikes me as a guy

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Speaker 1: that when you talk about consistency, it feels like you

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Speaker 1: got to be consistent within the play too, because you

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Speaker 1: can't just make the first move. He's gonna counter with

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Speaker 1: something every time, every single time. So it's like you

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Speaker 1: stop something, he's coming back with something else. You gotta

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Speaker 1: be like bang bang, Like you gotta be on your

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Speaker 1: p's and q's for planing A, B and C when

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Speaker 1: you face him. Yeah. Because as far as athletic ability,

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Speaker 1: Miles Garrett win, it's that. But when it comes to

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Speaker 1: just pure strength and stuff like that and animal instinct, yeah,

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Speaker 1: clil Mass you know he got that. But I think

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Speaker 1: he's the one A one B with that. Those two

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Speaker 1: guys are pretty good. Titus, thanks so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Yes, sir, I think you'll there's Titus Howard.

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Speaker 1: We visited with him on training camp eve actually, and

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Speaker 1: Titus the last first round draft choice of the Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans in twenty nineteen, and that twenty nineteen draft feels

461
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Speaker 1: like a thousand years ago because you had no first

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Speaker 1: rounder in twenty twenty or twenty twenty one. You will

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Speaker 1: next year. We'll see how it all goes. But obviously

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Speaker 1: everyone's following his progress very closely, along with the second

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Speaker 1: round pick from that year, Max Sharping, who we've heard

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Speaker 1: from a couple of times already during Texans Radio. During

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Speaker 1: this twenty twenty one training camp, Neville Hewitt led the

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Speaker 1: Jets and tackles last year. He is coming up. Interesting guy.

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Speaker 1: He's next here on Texans Radio, rolling on here on

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access. Great to have you with us, Mark vandermeron,

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Speaker 1: John Harris with you tonight, and we'll be with you

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Speaker 1: tomorrow morning eight to ten a m as Our Sports

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Speaker 1: Radio six ten morning training camp shows continued through Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: Nikas SiO joins us Friday. More from the General tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: among other things and ty O Claire. It's Antony all right.

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Speaker 1: He's from Quebec and he's a really interesting guy. You

477
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Speaker 1: gotta hear about him playing tight end for this team,

478
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Speaker 1: but right now one of the linebackers. He led the

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Speaker 1: Jets and tackles last year. Neville Hewitt in the mix

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Speaker 1: in that Lovey Smith four three playing backer and Johnny

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Speaker 1: and I caught up with him on training camp eve

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Speaker 1: and talked about how the adjustment was coming here to Houston.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I love it so far. I mean it's hot.

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Speaker 1: It's hotter than the New York New Jersey for sure.

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Speaker 1: But I've played in Miami before as well as though

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Speaker 1: right you did, but it feels a little hotter here. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I feel a little warmer. Conditioning tests a little bit, uh,

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Speaker 1: sweltering for this guy looks too bad. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: it probably wasn't It probably wasn't bad for you because

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Speaker 1: some of the guys when you say, like you say

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Speaker 1: conditioning test to me, I panicked for like weeks conditioning

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Speaker 1: test for you? Piece cake? It was? It was. I

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Speaker 1: want to say that, I would not say it was

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Speaker 1: a piece of cake, which you got to about that

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Speaker 1: third or fourth win. Yeah, it became the two minute

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Speaker 1: drill with a no huddle offense. People don't know that, Nevill.

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Speaker 1: You you've been on a field in the two minute

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Speaker 1: drill and people seen on TV, they don't realize how

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Speaker 1: taxing that is. How tough is it to be out

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Speaker 1: there two minute drill and teams trying to go down

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Speaker 1: the field on you and you're just trying to get

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Speaker 1: You're trying to get the call to the huddle, trying

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Speaker 1: to get the call to everybody. It makes you in

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Speaker 1: your right spot. How exhausting is that to be in

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Speaker 1: a two minute drill? I guess a really good quarterback

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Speaker 1: in the stage. It's one you got to be in

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Speaker 1: great shape, and then you have to be mentally tough

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Speaker 1: because you're gonna be cramping, all kinds of stuff gonna

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Speaker 1: be going on, and you gotta make the play. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you gotta make the play. Cunch time, Novill talk about

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Speaker 1: the linebacking core here, the crew that you have, guys

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Speaker 1: have because I mean, you come in after leading your

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Speaker 1: team in tackles. You had one hundred and thirty something

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Speaker 1: tackles you had to pick, you had a couple of sacks.

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Speaker 1: You had a really good year for the Jets last

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Speaker 1: year started all sixteen games. You had a lot of

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Speaker 1: guys who can play, and it's kind of like musical chairs,

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Speaker 1: not a lot of spots here. So how's it going

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Speaker 1: so far? And what about that competition among the linebackers.

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Speaker 1: I think it's cool. It's gonna it's gonna make everybody better. Um,

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Speaker 1: that's one thing I've seen because when I was in

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Speaker 1: New Jersey, well in New York with a you know,

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Speaker 1: we had uh, several guys like Mosley and at one

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Speaker 1: point Darren Lee was there, um, several guys, and so

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Speaker 1: here it's you know, we got Kirk m Pierre, all

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Speaker 1: these guys you know that come from other places that

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Speaker 1: played pretty well, you know, and it's an older group,

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Speaker 1: so you know, it's going to be more on us to,

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Speaker 1: you know, to lead the way a little bit because

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Speaker 1: we're older, experienced with veterans. So I think it's a

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Speaker 1: great group, great group of guys. I didn't realize this completely.

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Speaker 1: I knew, like you said, I knew there were some

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Speaker 1: new guys in a linebacking corps. What I didn't realize

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Speaker 1: was that we only have one, as you would say,

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Speaker 1: stacker off the ball linebacker coming back from last year,

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Speaker 1: just one just Zach Cuttingham coming back. So, like you said,

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Speaker 1: not only are you knew this situation, but everybody's new.

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Speaker 1: I mean literally everybody's new in that situation. But it

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Speaker 1: also creates opportunity though too. Yes, I mean no man

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Speaker 1: is bigger than his opportunity, you know. And it's a

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Speaker 1: great opportunity for everybody in the room, for people that

542
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Speaker 1: haven't had a chance to see you play. Whether you

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Speaker 1: know people than the fourth three defense, they know Mike

544
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Speaker 1: Sam Will what you play, all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Leave that aside when they watch you play on the field.

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Speaker 1: What do they see? What do you give people? What

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Speaker 1: are they What are the Texans fans gonna love about

548
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 1: watching Devil Huitt play. I believe I earned everybody's respect

549
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Speaker 1: and due time. I go one hundred miles four And

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Speaker 1: I know smash Mouth football. I grew up watching smash

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Speaker 1: Mouth Monday night. You know NFC football. I grew up

552
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Speaker 1: in Maryland. So that's what I know. I know was

553
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 1: go hard and you know, fly around to the ball

554
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Speaker 1: and hit folks, and that's what you want your linebackers.

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Speaker 1: And what about Lovey Smith, what's it like working for

556
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Speaker 1: him so far? It's awesome. I mean, it's cool. Is

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Speaker 1: it's um? His system is a four three defense. You know,

558
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Speaker 1: guys get to make a lot of plays in this defense.

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Speaker 1: I mean, once you understand what you're supposed to do

560
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Speaker 1: and where you're supposed to be, your opportunity is there.

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Speaker 1: That's the That's the one thing I've seen in Ota

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Speaker 1: since i've been here, is you'll have an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: make plays. You got to know what you're doing though,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of different locker rooms over the years,

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Speaker 1: and there's always a lot of talking before pads go on.

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Speaker 1: A lot of guys talking. Is this something like that?

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Speaker 1: Is it kind of like that in the NFL too,

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Speaker 1: where there are guys talking about, oh man, we're talking

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Speaker 1: at the pads on wait till these guys see what

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Speaker 1: I can do in the pad? Is it that? Or

571
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Speaker 1: is that more kind of a high school college thing

572
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Speaker 1: where people are talking about what they're gonna do before

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Speaker 1: the pads go on, and then they go out there

574
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Speaker 1: and they kind of a little bit meaker than you think.

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Speaker 1: I think. I think everybody is different. Just depends on

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Speaker 1: the situation then, um, but I know most guys went

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Speaker 1: after you putting in that work all year and it's

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Speaker 1: it's time to go. You know, everybody knew around July

579
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Speaker 1: and the July begin in August. Your mind gotta be right.

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00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 1: You gotta have your mind right, and you gotta be

581
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 1: itching to get out there and compete and get better

582
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Speaker 1: every single day. Are they a bunch offensive guys in

583
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Speaker 1: there talking trash about how more physical they are than you? Nah?

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Speaker 1: I mean I haven't ran into them yet, but yeah,

585
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Speaker 1: what's it? What's it like when you're with one AFC

586
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Speaker 1: East rival going to the other Miami and then the Jets,

587
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Speaker 1: because those guys are bitter, bitter rivals as you. Well though,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's kind of cool because once you with

589
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Speaker 1: one team and then you know they don't bring you back,

590
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Speaker 1: you go to the next team, You're like, well, I

591
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 1: can't wait to play them. So, I mean that was cool.

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Speaker 1: And then I kind of played against everybody in the

593
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Speaker 1: division for through six years. Yeah, so I had a good,

594
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Speaker 1: good idea and a good field for whatever I was going. Again,

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Speaker 1: I would imagine general manager Nickossarry had a chance to

596
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Speaker 1: see you play a number of times over the years.

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Speaker 1: Times you're ready for a little either or it's very

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Speaker 1: easy air B option. We're kind of interesting answers on

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Speaker 1: some of these. All right, first one, football is over.

600
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Speaker 1: You gotta pick a new professional sport. Do you want

601
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Speaker 1: to be either a Premier League soccer star or a

602
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball star Premier Soccer league? Okay, all right,

603
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Speaker 1: that's been the one most people are COMMA, So I've

604
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Speaker 1: been a little surprise future occupation either coach or GM

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Speaker 1: M GM kind of like the GM rule. Yeah, nobody

606
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Speaker 1: wants to be a coach because the coaches work forever.

607
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Speaker 1: They don't go home exactly. They're here all day exactly.

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Speaker 1: They are here all day and sometimes all night. H

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Speaker 1: Jordan's Space Jam or Lebron Space Jam. I don't think

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Speaker 1: it's fair if I say, you say what you want.

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen the Lebron Okay scale one to ten grade,

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Speaker 1: the Michael Jordan's Space Jam ten okay? Good? Okay? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Roller coasters or mini golf, mini golf, Instagram or TikTok.

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Speaker 1: I just got into TikTok, and I think Instagram. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna go with Instagram, but TikTok is very interesting. Really? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: are you on TikTok? I'm not on? Its addicting, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: why why got the reels on Instagram? They are they

618
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Speaker 1: are addicting. I mean that's crazy. I don't know, like

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Speaker 1: Jay Z or Kanye. You're gonna win an Olympic gold

620
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Speaker 1: medal either swimming or gymnastics. That's all that. Okay, you

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Speaker 1: went to a great college. You went to Marshall. Right,

622
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Speaker 1: you cannot go to Marshall anymore. You're in high school

623
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Speaker 1: and you got two options. You're gonna go to either

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Speaker 1: USC or Alabama Gamecocks or Trojans. Oh, good question, Southern

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Speaker 1: California USC, tro great question, Trojans. I like it. Wow,

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Speaker 1: you're the first guy to pick USC. Yeah, and you're

627
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Speaker 1: the first guy to ask which USC. Also, that was

628
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Speaker 1: watching Reggie Bush. Oh they yes, see the Pete Carroll

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Speaker 1: trojan See, you're right. You talked about that mark all day.

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Speaker 1: If I had said Pete Carroll Trojans, that might have

631
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Speaker 1: got a little bit more. That's right, grown up with

632
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Speaker 1: Reggie Bush. So Marshall, what was it like going there?

633
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Speaker 1: Because I've been there and you can't get there from anywhere.

634
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Speaker 1: So I went to Georgia Military College first for two

635
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 1: years and then I transferred to Marshall. It was a cool,

636
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 1: it was a cool experience. I mean going from a

637
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 1: junior college where you had curfew every night. Yeah, um,

638
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 1: and then going to Marshall. I loved it. I had.

639
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 1: I mean, anything was gonna feel like a great time college.

640
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 1: I mean, holy cow. I mean you could stay out

641
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 1: past midnight. I mean that's probably didn't matter at that point.

642
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 1: In Huntington, West Virginia. It doesn't matter. Well maybe on

643
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: a college campus though, it's a good time. Yeah, it's

644
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 1: small a town, nothing must to do, but yeah, you

645
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 1: can make fun of anything. Absolutely well. It's great to

646
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 1: have you on the team. Thanks a lot for me

647
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: with us. There's new linebacker Neville Hewitt. Hard not to

648
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 1: notice out there on the field where number forty three.

649
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: You'll see him in the preseason game a week from

650
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 1: Saturday against the Green Bay Packers. All right, up, next,

651
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 1: couple of interviews that I have not gotten to yet

652
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: that I've really wanted to, including COMMU Gruge Hill. Interesting

653
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 1: linebacker board. We're staying with the linebacker theme. That's next

654
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: here on Texans Radio. It's Texans Radio. If you haven't

655
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 1: been to the app, go to the app. You got

656
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 1: to check it out. All the great content is there

657
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 1: from camp, all the behind the scenes stuff we've got

658
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 1: going on, the question of the day, We've got Mike Dobs,

659
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 1: we have articles, we have everything you need to get

660
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 1: to know this football team, because with fifty two players,

661
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: you've got some homework to do now. The preseason opener

662
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 1: will be really helpful. That'll be against the Green Bay

663
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 1: Packers a week from Saturday night, lambeau Field Live on

664
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Speaker 1: ABC thirteen, Live on Sports Radio sixteen The Bull one

665
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 1: hundred point three FM, all over the lone Star State

666
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 1: and beyond TV radio. We've got your covered. It's gonna

667
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,359
Speaker 1: be great to see this team out there for the

668
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,839
Speaker 1: first time doing their thing against a good team Green

669
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 1: Bay thirteen and three each of the last two years

670
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 1: and exit in the NFC Championship Game each of the

671
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 1: last two years. So we'll see what Matt Lafleur, former

672
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 1: Texans assistant, has up his sleeve. Now Comu Gruge Hill,

673
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,280
Speaker 1: We'll see what he has up his sleeve. Former Miami Dolphin.

674
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 1: Texans will play the Dolphins in South Florida this year.

675
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:38,359
Speaker 1: He's on this squad trying to make it as a linebacker.

676
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 1: And I've talked to him after practice and I thought

677
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,839
Speaker 1: maybe it's not much different heat wise anyway between here

678
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 1: and South Florida. It's actually a blessing to be out here.

679
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 1: I'm loving the heat because I got that advantage last year.

680
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean it's hide out here though. How's

681
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 1: the scheme for you? This Lovey Smith for three? I

682
00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 1: love it, man, I'm not even lying. I think this is,

683
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:01,400
Speaker 1: you know, the best scheme to This scheme fits me perfectly.

684
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 1: Um allows me to play a lot a lot of

685
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 1: guys to just go out and do their thing and

686
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,319
Speaker 1: play loose and play aggressive. So I'm loving it so far.

687
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 1: So I get a nice dive for a pass breakup

688
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: in this practice. What's that dimension like for you? Covering

689
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:15,799
Speaker 1: guys and trying to make those plays? You know, that's

690
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 1: where I really um, you know, holding my head high

691
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:20,319
Speaker 1: and you know, I feel confident in the past game

692
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 1: and that's something I really try and perfect and be

693
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 1: the best at. So I'm just working throughout every day,

694
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,399
Speaker 1: working with coach love you, working with Miles m He's

695
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: trying to get better. It's the satisfaction that I'm playing

696
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: linebacker though, to hit somebody bring them down. I think

697
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:35,400
Speaker 1: the game is a little different now, you know, we

698
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 1: don't have those two hundred and fifty sixty pound linebackers.

699
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 1: You know, we got guys that can actually you know,

700
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 1: we run around and we're flying around, um, you know,

701
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,919
Speaker 1: getting interceptions, getting sacks, getting all this kind of stuff.

702
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:47,800
Speaker 1: So but yeah, I mean, nothing's gonna beat the feeling

703
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 1: of laying someone out all right, Eastern Illinois, so this

704
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: is a hotbed for pro football. You're obviously well aware

705
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:56,840
Speaker 1: of that. What drew you to that school? It was

706
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: actually my only offer. Um, I didn't start really playing.

707
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: My only year of saying football was my senior year

708
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 1: high school. And he's my only offer. My mom made

709
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 1: me go. So yeah, the rest is history. Was it

710
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: a bit of a culture shock coming from Hawaii to

711
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 1: go to Eastern Illinois? Absolutely? I mean I never I

712
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:12,880
Speaker 1: never left Hawaii in my entire life. And then I

713
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 1: didn't even have a visit to eat Illinois. I just

714
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: got dropped off and I was ready for camps. So um, yeah,

715
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:19,839
Speaker 1: the first six months were different. Coach of shock. Um,

716
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:22,239
Speaker 1: you know, middle of the corn fields and all that

717
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. So it was crazy. What do people

718
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 1: not know about what it's like to live in Hawaii?

719
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 1: Everyone assumes it's just a beach paradise, but it's a

720
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 1: city with Honolulu and then you have the other areas

721
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: and everything. What kid you tell us about that. I

722
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 1: like to joke around that Hawaiians are like rednecks really

723
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 1: because you know, we don't we don't need much, you know.

724
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 1: We we got the beach, we got our trucks, we

725
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,840
Speaker 1: got you know. I never even wear a shirt or

726
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 1: shoes back home. Um, and you know, Hawaii is just

727
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: a very prideful place. Everyone's really close, very family orientated.

728
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 1: And yeah, all right, so how often do you get

729
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 1: back if I'm not here? I'm there, that's for sure.

730
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 1: Which city you played in? That the best place to

731
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:02,879
Speaker 1: live other than here, of course, but the best place

732
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 1: to live in your career. I love you. I'm not

733
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:07,319
Speaker 1: I'm literally not even just saying this just for like

734
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 1: the podcast or anything. I truthfully love it here. I

735
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 1: love Texas. And I even told one of my what

736
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:14,399
Speaker 1: we told my agent. I was like, if I ever

737
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 1: have a chance to play in Texas, let's take it.

738
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 1: So I'm loving it all right, thanks a lot for

739
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 1: joining us, A good love, Thank you, comu Gruge Hill.

740
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: Now he played for the Dolphins, so a little bit

741
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:27,760
Speaker 1: of a Florida guy right there. But Vernon Hargraves definitely

742
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 1: is a Florida guy. His dad coached at the University

743
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:34,479
Speaker 1: of Miami, coached linebackers, had Jonathan Vilma and those guys.

744
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:37,720
Speaker 1: DJ Williams, the late Chris Campbell had a good squad,

745
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 1: Dan Morgan Man. His dad coached a lot of great players.

746
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,319
Speaker 1: And we played this on the morning show. But it's

747
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 1: worth it two minutes with a Texan to hear it

748
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 1: again with Vernon Hargraves, who definitely has been around here

749
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 1: for a while. Feels like he's a salty veteran of

750
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 1: this Houston Texans organization, but it really hasn't been that long.

751
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 1: Got here in twenty nineteen. So Vernon hard Graves. We

752
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,399
Speaker 1: caught up with him after practice and he talked about

753
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 1: what's different about this season. I feel a lot more

754
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:10,359
Speaker 1: comfortable year six for me, I feel feel like I've

755
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: been here before, you know, still still getting comfortable, still

756
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: just trying to make plays, but I feel a lot

757
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 1: more experience. I feel like a veteran. All right, So

758
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:20,919
Speaker 1: I just told you I used to be the voice

759
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,319
Speaker 1: of the Hurricanes. You're a Gator, So how did that

760
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,719
Speaker 1: work out? How did you arrive at Florida? Well, let

761
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 1: me let me tell you this. So they fired my

762
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:30,839
Speaker 1: dad and I was young when they did, right, So

763
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 1: that stuck with me. Oh they fired my dad. They

764
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 1: didn't want my dad. You know, that kind of stuck

765
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: with me. So as a kid, I was like, oh,

766
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 1: I'm not going to Miami. That stuck in my head.

767
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 1: And you know when I got to when I got

768
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 1: older and when I got to school and I took

769
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:43,399
Speaker 1: my visits, I actually went back and it was the same.

770
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:44,799
Speaker 1: It was the same facility, it was the same thing.

771
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 1: I still remembered everything, so what's up every day? So

772
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 1: you know, that's kind of what it was. I kind

773
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 1: of just didn't want to go back there, you know,

774
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 1: being there done that type of thing sort of, and uh,

775
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: you know, Florida had a good coach was the reason

776
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:57,280
Speaker 1: why I went. And it was a real easy decision

777
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,359
Speaker 1: for me, though it wasn't. I was a few years

778
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 1: removed by the time it was time for me to

779
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: make a choice, so it wasn't that our Does your

780
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 1: dad have interesting stories about the legendary players he's coached?

781
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 1: He oh man, he got stories for days, stories of days.

782
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 1: He can talk to you all night about Sean Taylor, Arey,

783
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 1: Saint Tana, maus Ken Dorsey, I can keep going, you know.

784
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, he has the stories, all right. So

785
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:19,919
Speaker 1: the heat in Houston. I do ask some people about

786
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:22,239
Speaker 1: this who have been to Florida and played in Florida

787
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: versus here. How is that for you? I'm still trying

788
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 1: to figure that out, but I think I think Houston

789
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 1: got it. I think Houston is probably the hottest place

790
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:32,799
Speaker 1: I've been. I've been in Miami, Gainesville. You know, I

791
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 1: think Houston got it. Okay, So what is this system

792
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 1: like for you? How's it different? Uh? You know, because Lovey,

793
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 1: he's been around a long time. You know. It's a

794
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 1: simple defense, but you know he wants you to execute

795
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: it a certain way, you know, so I like to

796
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,879
Speaker 1: call it simply complicated. That's what I've been telling guys.

797
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 1: You know, it's not all too much, but what he

798
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 1: wants you to do. The techniques that we have to

799
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 1: play have to be played that way for the defensive work.

800
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 1: So well, you know, it's just stay in your playbook,

801
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,440
Speaker 1: getting those reps in. What is it about the DBS?

802
00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 1: Why are you guys so close as a group. Um,

803
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:02,400
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know, but when I first

804
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 1: got here in twenty nineteen, they were like that. When

805
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 1: I got here, they all hung out off the field.

806
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: They always do stuff off season, hanging out after practice,

807
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 1: were with each other, meaning rooms were always walking around

808
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:14,919
Speaker 1: eating together. That's the that's the culture I walked into.

809
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: So I just jumped right in and uh yeah, I

810
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:18,760
Speaker 1: mean they embraced me like I was one of theirs,

811
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: like I've been here and uh you know, we're just

812
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 1: keeping that thing roll and we have to be close

813
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:23,839
Speaker 1: because we played the hardest position. Well what about off

814
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 1: the field here and all these new players here with

815
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 1: the Texas. Oh yeah, it's tough. It's tough getting to

816
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,799
Speaker 1: know everybody, our new coaches, new GA's, new equipment people.

817
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,040
Speaker 1: You know, there's new people everywhere. But you know, it's fun.

818
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:35,720
Speaker 1: It's fun getting no guys. Everybody's you know, everybody understands

819
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 1: that everybody's new. So we're taking a slow but we're

820
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 1: getting to know everybody. And like I said, we're just

821
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 1: trying to piece it together. All right. You're making plays

822
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 1: of practice here after a while, with practice where you're

823
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 1: going against your own team all the time. Do you

824
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 1: get to those these receivers pretty well in their moves?

825
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:49,879
Speaker 1: Of course, of course. I mean that's why that's why

826
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 1: I practice is. Practice is hard because you know who

827
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:53,359
Speaker 1: you're going against, you know what type of routes they running,

828
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,400
Speaker 1: you know off fast they are, and uh, you know

829
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:57,480
Speaker 1: that's why it's practiced stuff. All Right, thanks a lot,

830
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: thank you, I appreciate it. Vernon Hardgray, you know his

831
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 1: story as a Texans defensive back. We've got four more

832
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:08,400
Speaker 1: interesting stories tomorrow. New guys to this team, well relatively

833
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:11,640
Speaker 1: with Isaiah Coulter entering year two. But we talked about

834
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 1: it how those rookies last year really didn't get a

835
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: fair NFL shake without the preseason games, with a shortened

836
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:21,839
Speaker 1: training camp, with no OTAs so culture in year two,

837
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,839
Speaker 1: try to make the most of it. Also, Chris Moore

838
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:27,760
Speaker 1: will join us, Anthony A. Claire, who we talked about earlier,

839
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 1: former Canadian football player now in the NFL, never played

840
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:32,959
Speaker 1: in the CFL, just played in high school in college

841
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 1: football in Canada. And Alex Ericsson a player you want

842
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:40,720
Speaker 1: to hear more about playing receiver. Hard not to notice

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Speaker 1: out there. That's gonna be tomorrow morning. Eight to ten

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Speaker 1: am plus the General John McClain, Andre Where's going to

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Speaker 1: stop by? Seth Paine's gonna stop by, So we'll have

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Speaker 1: Methodist Training Center. Well that's gonna do it for tonight.

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Speaker 1: I want to thank everyone who listened to the program.

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Speaker 1: You can listen to this one again on the Texans

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