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Speaker 1: What's up everybody? Welcome in to another edition of Texans

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Speaker 1: All Access, kicking off another week of training camp right

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Speaker 1: here at the Houston Methodist Training Center. I am your host,

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Speaker 1: John Harris Football and I saw that reporter and we

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Speaker 1: are in the Hunday Texans Radio studio and the wee

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Speaker 1: part of this is the Voice of the Texans joining

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Speaker 1: me my partner Mark vandimber Mark. Good evening. You're alive

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Speaker 1: at Slamming Sammy tonight. You miss it, don't you? Of

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Speaker 1: course I've miss Slamming Sammy's named after the great Sam

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Speaker 1: Snead at the Greenbrier. We used to do the evening

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Speaker 1: show there, which was really nice, right it was the

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Speaker 1: end of the day. We'd be sitting there overlooking the

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Speaker 1: eighteenth green of the Greenbriar Old White Course. Whether he

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Speaker 1: used to have a PGA championship or tournament, I shouldn't

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Speaker 1: say championship, And that was awesome to do the show

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Speaker 1: from there, but it's also awesome to be here. And

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Speaker 1: you would get your Cran variant soda, of course, and

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Speaker 1: I would get Anara Palmer and we might share some fries,

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Speaker 1: which got some side eyes for people like yeah, of course,

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Speaker 1: we'll share some frise if we if we need to.

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Speaker 1: We've done enough shows together we can definitely, we can

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Speaker 1: definitely do that, no doubt about that. All Right, little

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Speaker 1: later to the show, we're gonna hear from Blake Cashman. Mark,

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Speaker 1: you had a chance catch up with him, and I

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Speaker 1: want to I want to touch on him. It was

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Speaker 1: a little bit of observations from training camp. We will

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Speaker 1: also have an interview with Jimmy Morrise Yah Jimmy today,

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Speaker 1: and so we're gonna have Jimmy on with us a

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Speaker 1: little bit later in the show. So we've got those

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Speaker 1: two to look forward to. But Mark, I want to

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Speaker 1: just dive right into observations from training camp of what

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Speaker 1: we were able to see. We didn't get to see everything,

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Speaker 1: and obviously I got to see a little bit more

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Speaker 1: than you because you gave me a few breaks. You

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Speaker 1: played interviews and stuff in the show. But first day

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Speaker 1: in Pads, I gotta say, looking back, pretty good, pretty

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Speaker 1: darn good. I thought the offense came back and did

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Speaker 1: some did some really good things today. And I said

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Speaker 1: this to you. I can't remember I said this on

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Speaker 1: the air or off the I can't remember. We talk

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Speaker 1: on and off so often, but Saturday was a struggle

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Speaker 1: a little bit offensively allow check downs, that's finding thorny

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Speaker 1: picks or anything like that. So it's okay. But today,

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Speaker 1: when the run was actually a part of the offense,

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Speaker 1: David Spiels is actually able to deal a little bit more.

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Speaker 1: I thought he looked very very good today. Well, you're

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Speaker 1: seeing execution, you're seeing the short intermediate game work very well.

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Speaker 1: I think the deep ball is not quite where they

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Speaker 1: wanted to be yet. But Johnny, I was thinking about this,

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Speaker 1: if you're Gary Kubiak or Bill O'Brien versus a Lovey Smith,

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Speaker 1: in other words, head coach who's an offensive coordinator type

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Speaker 1: becoming a head coach versus a defensive coordinator type who

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Speaker 1: isn't becoming a head coach. He's been a head coach

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Speaker 1: for a long time. But how do you look at practice?

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Speaker 1: How does Lovey see it? When Lovey sees the offense

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Speaker 1: making plays against the defense, Sure he's happy for the offense,

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Speaker 1: Like David Kelly used to say, I'm rooting for the

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans, or however he put it about training camp

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Speaker 1: practices and which side of the ball he's looking at

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Speaker 1: and what he feels when he sees one side execute

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Speaker 1: over the other, I'm wondering how love he sees it,

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Speaker 1: because you need to develop this offense. I am confident

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Speaker 1: that the defense is going to be much better than

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Speaker 1: it was in twenty twenty one. And I think that, Look,

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Speaker 1: we've been over this material a lot. I think it

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Speaker 1: was better than advertised, better than a lot of the

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Speaker 1: rankings based on the takeaways, based on the fact that

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Speaker 1: the offense struggled. Offense will be better. I believe this

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Speaker 1: defense will be a whole lot better. And I know

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Speaker 1: you feel that way too. Yeah, there's no doubt. And

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Speaker 1: there were plenty of winners today. I thought today at

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Speaker 1: training camp. Of course, everybody loses on the other side too,

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Speaker 1: but I thought there were some guys that stood out,

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Speaker 1: and Mark, I want to hit you with him, and

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Speaker 1: then all right, give you a thought on what those

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Speaker 1: guys potentially could mean for this particular team and some

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Speaker 1: it in the morning, and that's fine, but given the

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Speaker 1: this guy, Holy smokes, these guys one in particular, well,

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Speaker 1: there's not one particular there, there were plenty. The first

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Speaker 1: Rashim Green. And I keep asking myself this mark as

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Speaker 1: it pertains to Rashime Green, and people have asked me,

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Speaker 1: and it's a pretty easy answer in some sense, but

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Speaker 1: why didn't the Seattle Seahawks bring him back? If he's

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Speaker 1: so good? John, why did they bring him back? And

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Speaker 1: I instantly say, well, it's a defensive change, kind of

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Speaker 1: a defensive regime change, so they wanted to go in

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Speaker 1: a different direction and Rashim was available. And it made

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Speaker 1: me think, guys, why didn't the other teams just missed

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Speaker 1: the boat? Like? What is it? They's he's a younger,

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Speaker 1: four year veteran. I mean, I think the guy just

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Speaker 1: I think he might even beat twenty four. Like what

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Speaker 1: did they miss? Because the guy that I'm watching has

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Speaker 1: he's about two hundred eighty pounds long. He looks like

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Speaker 1: he was just he's a cyborg, looks like he was

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Speaker 1: me question myself and what I think good football player

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Speaker 1: is because I'm watching him going this guy should have

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Speaker 1: been picked up by allotted for teams, and I'm so

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Speaker 1: glad he's here. I'm hoping they just all missed for

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Speaker 1: some reason and we've got a gem with Rashime Green.

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Speaker 1: Your thoughts, Well, he just turned twenty five in May,

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Speaker 1: so he is young. He was injured during twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: Maybe that has something to do with it. Look, I

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Speaker 1: don't know. Sometimes guys leave after four years. You don't

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Speaker 1: resign all your free agents. Maybe it's not even a

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Speaker 1: total money thing, it's just something else. You have other plans.

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Speaker 1: Because he did play off sixteen games, or he did

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Speaker 1: playoff seventeen games rather last week, had started last year

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Speaker 1: and started sixteen for the Seahawks. I think that it's

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Speaker 1: one of those deals. Ben Jones and Brandon Brooks come

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Speaker 1: to mind here as players who were good. You didn't

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Speaker 1: resign them because he had your reasons, whatever, and they

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Speaker 1: go on to do very well, and do you at that. Look,

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Speaker 1: you had some success without them, Let's be honest. You

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Speaker 1: won divisional championships without them. Could you have been better?

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Speaker 1: With them. We could debate that all day. Did you

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Speaker 1: have some money to sign them? All that sort of stuff. So,

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Speaker 1: for whatever reason, the Seahawks did not pull the trigger

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Speaker 1: on getting Machine Green back. But the Texans have him now,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, it looks like he's extremely happy to be here,

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Speaker 1: like he wants to play for even bigger money, bigger reasons,

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Speaker 1: bigger results, and hopefully he can get them here because

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Speaker 1: the guys I keep hearing you talk about making plays

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Speaker 1: on defense. Oh, look at Jerry Hughes, Look what he

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Speaker 1: just did. Look at Mario Addison, he just makes a play.

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Speaker 1: Rashim Green Good. And I haven't even gotten to the

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Speaker 1: rookies yet. These are new additions that are vets. Steven

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Speaker 1: Nelson likely starting at corner. We think maybe we'll see,

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Speaker 1: but he can do it. He was a starter on

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Speaker 1: a playoff team. Let's see what these players can contribute

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Speaker 1: in addition to the vets that you brought back. Who

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Speaker 1: were the good ones you mentioned? Steven Nelson. I feel

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Speaker 1: like he's had a really good good camp to start.

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Speaker 1: The first three days US they had a couple of

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Speaker 1: looks really good in coverage and the one thing that

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Speaker 1: just seeing in the NFL so often defense passenger farings,

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Speaker 1: Steven's been in the NFL for a while, but the

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Speaker 1: NFL is very very particular about what they let go

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Speaker 1: very stingy with flags when guys are that handsy, yes

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Speaker 1: should say stingy. They they're free to throw the flags

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Speaker 1: when guys are that handsy and physical, and I'm not

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Speaker 1: seeing that from Steven. Steven has been very good in coverage, feet,

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Speaker 1: I feel like it has had a good one. Mario

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Speaker 1: Addison Jerry Hughes, I'm glad you bought a Mario Addison.

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Speaker 1: I've always and we've played probably over the years Mario

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Speaker 1: in the past, asked Mario Addison always freaked out about him.

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Speaker 1: I always felt like he was gonna wreck something, just

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Speaker 1: the way that he went after the quarterback, how he

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Speaker 1: just relentless he was when he was younger, and then

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Speaker 1: when the Texans signed in my thought, damn gosh, I

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Speaker 1: wish we'd had him five seven years ago. I'm glad

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Speaker 1: five seven years ago. I'm watching him pass rush today

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Speaker 1: in one on ones and it's a clinic. It is

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Speaker 1: a clinic. I'm I was kind of taken aback because

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Speaker 1: I'm seeing it, like, did he just completely blow by

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Speaker 1: Mario Addison got me really excited about some of the

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Speaker 1: combinations that they could put up front with this pass rush,

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Speaker 1: I thought was another winner today. That's Oba o'carronquo. Holy smokes.

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Speaker 1: There are a couple of absolute highlight plays today in practice.

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Speaker 1: One a pass rush and then one when he absolutely

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Speaker 1: Mac had to avoid the tight end like jump cut

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Speaker 1: the one part of Obo's game that he's not really

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Speaker 1: known for. He's known for his quickness and his twitch

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Speaker 1: off the edge in the pass rush game. But man

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Speaker 1: if he gives you that playing the run, my goodness

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Speaker 1: you know, like you know Julia, Louis Dreyfuss and Seinfeld

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Speaker 1: like exclamation point. I had to finish the sentence with that.

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Speaker 1: He was outstanding. We haven't even talked about last year

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Speaker 1: as players, right, we haven't talked much about Jonathan Grenard

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Speaker 1: yet to practice Ross Blacklock, Roy Lopez. We have a

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Speaker 1: little bit, but a lot of the players we've been

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Speaker 1: discussing are the new editions, and we were pretty excited

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Speaker 1: about the guys who were coming back. Yes, you know,

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Speaker 1: I know Malik, You're excited about him. He's looking like

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Speaker 1: he found something in this Lovey Smith system. You mentioned

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Speaker 1: as well. You know, people forget Lovey in Chicago had

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Speaker 1: four defenses that were in the top four in the league. Right,

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Speaker 1: he averaged no worse than a top ten finish. That

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Speaker 1: was the average finish of the Lovey Smith defense. During

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Speaker 1: his almost decade long run in Chicago, one of the

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Speaker 1: defenses slipped into the twenties, but that was one year.

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Speaker 1: Everything else was very highly ranked. Lovey knows how to

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Speaker 1: these guys are certainly taking note and taking hold of

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Speaker 1: this system. And I think the league's a guy. Last year,

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Speaker 1: you could kind of see it, I don't want to

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Speaker 1: say it with the Raiders. I watched a lot of

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Speaker 1: evolution of players that can play in that spot. And

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Speaker 1: so the Texans have a feel like Chris Moore is

428
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Speaker 1: much bigger than Chad beebe Bby can run all those

429
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Speaker 1: routes that we just talked about on the inside. Budd

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Speaker 1: He's also shown he can go down the field, which

431
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Speaker 1: was kind of nice to see because I think if

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Speaker 1: you can do that from the slot, and you got

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Speaker 1: an opportunity because the way defenses are playing, if you're

434
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Speaker 1: gonna put a safety on the inside receiver, you just

435
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Speaker 1: cook him with that slot fave that guy can run

436
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Speaker 1: and go up and get it and you got a shot.

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Speaker 1: And whether that's Chris Moore, Chad Bby, Baby Davis has

438
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Speaker 1: done some good things. The slot position is just it's changed,

439
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Speaker 1: and it's changing as we're kind of going through. But

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Speaker 1: BB is kind of the the stereotypical slot that we

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Speaker 1: think of. But man, he's been highly productive. He and

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Speaker 1: he and Chris Moore I think have been very good.

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Speaker 1: All Right, we talk about tight ends, We talk about

444
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Speaker 1: Brevin Jordan, we talk about look Faraoh Brown. You know, ye,

445
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Speaker 1: he's got a lot of potential. But TQ becomes available

446
00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:59,320
Speaker 1: as of tomorrow, he's off the pub Tigan Couturiano. So

447
00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:01,399
Speaker 1: what do you expect thing from him? What can he

448
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:04,879
Speaker 1: bring to this team at that spot, Physicality at the

449
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Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. If there's one claring weakness with oh

450
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Speaker 1: Claire not on the field with Antoniolle, Claire and I

451
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Speaker 1: saw him in the hallway earlier today, and I don't

452
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Speaker 1: know when we're gonna see him. It might might be

453
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Speaker 1: a while, it might be a few days, who knows.

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Speaker 1: But I got a feeling that we're probably not gonna

455
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Speaker 1: see him a while. I think that's the way Lovey

456
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Speaker 1: said it the other day. We're not going to see

457
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Speaker 1: him for a while. Teagan brings that physicality at the

458
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Speaker 1: edge of the line of scrimmage, the end of the the

459
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Speaker 1: lot of scrimmage. But he's a rookie. So does this

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Speaker 1: take for a blocking type of tight end to get

461
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Speaker 1: going well in the run game. If you can figure

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Speaker 1: out who to block, then you should you should be okay. Now,

463
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Speaker 1: it's a little different block blocking Joey Bosclue mac as

464
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Speaker 1: opposed to what you're blocking in college. So that's gonna

465
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Speaker 1: take a little while, no doubt. Remember C J. Fort

466
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Speaker 1: Orwitz in fourteen, it took him a little while, but

467
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Speaker 1: by the end of fifteen he was starting to get it.

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Speaker 1: By sixteen he was a heck of a I mean

469
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Speaker 1: he was a tremendous by Remember he cut a touchdown

470
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Speaker 1: he did as from Aaron Foster. He did, he did.

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Speaker 1: It's good to have TQ back. He's gonna need those

472
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Speaker 1: reps against Grenard, against Mario Addison, against those edge players.

473
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Speaker 1: He's he's definitely gonna need those reps. Now, they're gonna

474
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Speaker 1: have to ramp him up slowly because he missed almost all,

475
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Speaker 1: if not all, of OTA's in any camp. He's missed

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Speaker 1: all of training camp up to this point. So he's

477
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Speaker 1: been rehabbing, so he stayed in shape. I mean, dudes

478
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Speaker 1: to rehab. They're in shape. Now you're gonna start banging

479
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 1: a little bit, so you gotta be in football shape.

480
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Speaker 1: But if there is a glaring wheatness right now, it's

481
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Speaker 1: that I feel like the offensive line is gonna be

482
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Speaker 1: much improved. But if we're talking about the offensive line

483
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Speaker 1: being much improved, that tight end spot that that can't

484
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Speaker 1: be a breakdown. You can't block say you're running outside zone,

485
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Speaker 1: you can't block it great with those five up front,

486
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Speaker 1: and the tight ends is getting whipped over there because

487
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Speaker 1: then the defensive end is gonna tell you to cut

488
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Speaker 1: it back or he's gonna go tackle a guy in

489
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Speaker 1: the backfield for a TfL. So that that position becomes huge,

490
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Speaker 1: really important. And that's what oh Claire did a really

491
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Speaker 1: nice job with last year at least giving them an

492
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Speaker 1: opportunity to get to the edge of the perfect. But

493
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Speaker 1: they've got to have somebody that can block the edge,

494
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Speaker 1: and hopefully that's what TQ can step in and start

495
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:18,239
Speaker 1: doing Adam minimum the passing game. Hey, that'll come. You

496
00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:20,399
Speaker 1: get that. That's got to be like your extra credit

497
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:23,359
Speaker 1: type stuff which you're getting graded on, is whether you

498
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Speaker 1: can block somebody to launch scrimmage or not. Another thing

499
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:29,960
Speaker 1: impossible not to notice today was Kevin Hogan not not there. Yeah,

500
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Speaker 1: that was the flip side of that transaction. Kevin Hogan

501
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Speaker 1: released today Wave out of Texans and TQ comes off

502
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Speaker 1: the pup list. So Texans at three quarterbacks back to three.

503
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Speaker 1: They were four for a little bit, but they're back

504
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Speaker 1: to three. Davis Mills and Kyle Allen and Jeff driscoll

505
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Speaker 1: and I would imagine they'll probably stay at that three

506
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Speaker 1: for right now unless God forbid something happens to YEA,

507
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Speaker 1: let's not happy not happen to anybody, please, No, let's

508
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Speaker 1: not have anything happen to them, or Blake Cashman or

509
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Morrissey. They are both up next right here in Texas.

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Speaker 1: All axis X straight here in Texas. All axis X

511
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Speaker 1: straight here in Texas, All axis X straight here. August

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Speaker 1: is here. Yes, sir, welcome into Texans All Access. August first,

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Speaker 1: twelve days away for the Texans first preseason game against

514
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Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints, will take place at Energy Stadium on

515
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Speaker 1: Saturday night. Cannot wait for that to take place, but

516
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Speaker 1: we got plenty of training camp practices to get through,

517
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Speaker 1: plenty of Texas Training Camp live shows, and a lot

518
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Speaker 1: of Texans All Access shows. I am your host of

519
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Speaker 1: Stevenee John Harris, football analyst and sideline reporter, and I

520
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Speaker 1: had the opportunity to catch up with one of my

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Speaker 1: favorite people in the building. I absolutely love this guy.

522
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Speaker 1: I think he's everything in football is about. He's got

523
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Speaker 1: a great demeanor. I think he's tough as a snake

524
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Speaker 1: out on a field, and that is Jimmy Morrissey and

525
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Speaker 1: I tell a little bit of the story. But back

526
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Speaker 1: in Chober, October or November, I can't remember. When we

527
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Speaker 1: went to Miami last year, an opportunity to call the

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Speaker 1: game from the booth that night, So that was my

529
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Speaker 1: first time to ever call an NFL game from the booth,

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Speaker 1: which was just incredible. It was also the first start

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Speaker 1: in his young NFL career for Jimmy Morrisey at center

532
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Speaker 1: and I look out there and he's going against ray

533
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Speaker 1: Kuan Davis, and I just look and think, oh my god, Jimmy,

534
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Speaker 1: good luck. Jimmy six two and a half maybe three

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Speaker 1: h five Ray Kuan six seven and a half six eight,

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Speaker 1: three fifteen, and Jimmy got all his mess man. I

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Speaker 1: loved it. That just showed me a lot about Jimmy Morrissey.

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Speaker 1: We talked about that, how camp has been going, and

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Speaker 1: one of his best friends was the first rounder last

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Speaker 1: year quarterback, the only quarterback. We'll do that right here

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Speaker 1: with Jimmy Morrisey. All right, it's great to catch up

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Speaker 1: with one of my faves in the building, Jimmy morris

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Speaker 1: You know, Jimmy, you were here last year, but you

544
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Speaker 1: weren't here for training camp. The proverbial first question, how

545
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:54,640
Speaker 1: are you handling the heat, Big Sella. It's been fine. Yeah.

546
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Speaker 1: I was here all all season and during the summer,

547
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Speaker 1: so used to the heat. Once it picked up. This

548
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Speaker 1: is just my first time in pads and the August

549
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Speaker 1: heat of Houston. It's been good. You know. I've had

550
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Speaker 1: a chance to talk and we kind of share something.

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Speaker 1: My very first game up in NFL booth was your

552
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Speaker 1: first start against Miami, and I look down there and

553
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 1: you're starting, and I look across and there's ray Kawan

554
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 1: Davis who's like six eight, and you're going against him,

555
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 1: and I'm like, man, Jimmy boy, long day ahead. But yet,

556
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Speaker 1: how'd your own How did you feel when you think

557
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 1: back to your rookie year getting to start, you did,

558
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:26,640
Speaker 1: get into playing time, you did. How did you feel

559
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 1: overaw about the way you played last year? First thing,

560
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 1: I was extremely grateful I had the opportunity, you know,

561
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Speaker 1: looking back on it, but to be frank and honest

562
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 1: with you, a little disappointed with my play. I learned

563
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 1: a lot though, which you know, doing a lot of

564
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,439
Speaker 1: self examination and self scouting on myself and put in

565
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 1: the off season. So it was a great learning experience.

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Speaker 1: I wish I would have played better, but I know

567
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 1: things I need to work on now and I've already

568
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,639
Speaker 1: seen me, you know, improve them so far. What are

569
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Speaker 1: the things that you wanted to do coming into this camp,

570
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Speaker 1: whether it center or guard, whatever it might be. What

571
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 1: was we're kind of a couple of things that you

572
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 1: wanted to accomplish coming into this camp, Yep, I wanted

573
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Speaker 1: to get extremely comfortable with the playbook. I wanted to,

574
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Speaker 1: you know, become a lot more confident justin you know,

575
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Speaker 1: calling the play or calling the communication upfront with the guys,

576
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 1: which in Pep's offense has been great. I love the

577
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 1: terminology and what he's dialing up. And then you know it,

578
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 1: try to be a good teammate and come out here

579
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:24,119
Speaker 1: and compete every day. What's that relationship between a center

580
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,440
Speaker 1: and a quarterback got to be? I mean you've seen

581
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 1: over the years your centers and quarterbacks always hanging out,

582
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: and of course quarterback wants to be in a fish

583
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Speaker 1: offensive line and offensive line and say no, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: you've got to have that communication. It's got to be

585
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 1: on point between the two of you. How it was

586
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 1: that and how was it with Davis last year to

587
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: start you out with him? It was good, It was

588
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 1: really good. Davis and I are close friends. Even with

589
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Speaker 1: all the quarterbacks in the centers in the room, we're

590
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 1: all pretty tight. We spend a lot of time with

591
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Speaker 1: each other, and you have to, you know, like you said,

592
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Speaker 1: you have to know how we communicate, and you got

593
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 1: to be on the same page at all the time.

594
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Speaker 1: So they do a really good job of that. And JB.

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Speaker 1: Scott and I, you know, we make sure that we

596
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Speaker 1: spend a lot of time with quarterbacks. Okay, haven't gone

597
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Speaker 1: to pitt and you're from Pittsburgh. Correct, from Piladelphia? Oh okay?

598
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 1: Oh oh boys, yeah across the state. Yeah, fighting words

599
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 1: or no, no, no, I love both cities. They're both

600
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Speaker 1: at the Cheese Steak or Primanny Brothers sham with cheesesteak

601
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Speaker 1: all the way. Okay, here, now here's the here's the

602
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 1: other one is the the pork sandwich. Which one's better,

603
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 1: the cheese steak or the poort. You're going with cheesteak

604
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 1: all the way? Cheesesteak Okay, yeah, I'm at cheesteak guy

605
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 1: all the way. Permanny Brothers, No way, No. I like

606
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: Primanny Brothers. Loved it. I had a lot of time.

607
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Speaker 1: I had a lot of you know, fun lunches and

608
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 1: dinners up Permanny Brothers in college. But the cheese steak

609
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 1: is just close to home from me, all right. In college.

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Speaker 1: I got to ask this because I love the draft.

611
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Speaker 1: In college, you had Kenny Pickett's hands underneath you, and

612
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Speaker 1: now you see him going to Pittsburgh Steelers. When you

613
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Speaker 1: see a former teammate, a friend of yours making in

614
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Speaker 1: the NFL, what does it mean to you to see

615
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Speaker 1: guys that you played with or guys that you played

616
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Speaker 1: against high school, maybe in Philadelphia make it into the league,

617
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Speaker 1: because not a lot of guys end up making it

618
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Speaker 1: to this point. I love it. I love seeing my

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Speaker 1: you know, friends and former team they succeed, especially Kenny.

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Speaker 1: He's one of my closest friends. H just extremely proud

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Speaker 1: of him. He could have came out last year and

622
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Speaker 1: gotten drafted the year I came out in twenty one,

623
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Speaker 1: but he bet on himself one back and was the

624
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Speaker 1: highest drafted quarterback and he's gonna do great things in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 1: I'm really excited to see him play three preseason games

626
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Speaker 1: coming up. I mean, they're not going to get here

627
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Speaker 1: as fast as says. We'd like them all too. But

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Speaker 1: first day in pads was today? How do you feel

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Speaker 1: to get the pads back on? You guys have to

630
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Speaker 1: go all offseason. You can't hit anybody, you can only

631
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Speaker 1: do so much. But then you get to kind of

632
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 1: lease today. How's that field fantastic? It's Football's back so

633
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Speaker 1: I love the sport. This is what I love to

634
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Speaker 1: do when I'm happy. It's back okay in high school

635
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Speaker 1: and college in particular, and a lot of guys that

636
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Speaker 1: talk trash in a locker room. Yeah ay, wait till

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Speaker 1: it pads get out. Then you get him on the

638
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Speaker 1: field and you're like, come on, you're a poser. Does

639
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 1: that happen in the NFL too, or just guy's pretty

640
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Speaker 1: quietbout until they get on the field. It does, But

641
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Speaker 1: there's a professional relationship in the locker room here, and

642
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 1: it's also you know, we're all friends and well, we're

643
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Speaker 1: trying to achieve a common goal. We're trying to be

644
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl champs this year. So there is a lot

645
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Speaker 1: of banter, which is good it's a football locker room.

646
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Speaker 1: But there's also a good working relationship we have between yeah,

647
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: offense and defense on this team. The one Jimmy Morrisey,

648
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 1: appreciate your time, brother John, thank you. That dude needs

649
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: to keep his day job because he's good on the mic.

650
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 1: But you know, I had to pro for information about

651
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett. Texans won't face the Steelers this year, at

652
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 1: least not until if there's a playoff meeting. At that point.

653
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 1: But Kenny Pickett first round rookie. And one of the

654
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: things that Jimmy said that resonated with me as he

655
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 1: said it was he bet on himself. He went bet

656
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Speaker 1: on himself. He went back to Pitt for the twenty

657
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Speaker 1: twenty one year and he had Mark Whipple by aside

658
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Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator. And that's somebody that I know well

659
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Speaker 1: for my days at Brown. I didn't play for Whip,

660
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 1: but he was in luve of Brown. He actually recruited

661
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Speaker 1: Episcopal down to Jackson when I was there. He came

662
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 1: to year after I graduated, so I had a whip.

663
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Speaker 1: Mark knows him from his days at you Mass. We

664
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Speaker 1: love him. And we saw what Whip was doing with

665
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Speaker 1: last year with Kenny Pickett, and it was just it

666
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: was fantastic. It was absolutely great stuff. His center for

667
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Speaker 1: three years was Jimmy Morrissey from Philly went to Pitt.

668
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Speaker 1: Interesting like some cheese steaks, so do I. I'm pretty

669
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Speaker 1: sure I could eat a cheese steak every single day.

670
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Speaker 1: I shouldn't and I won't because I shouldn't, but I could.

671
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: I could eat a cheese steak every single day. My

672
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Speaker 1: son's the same way. We absolutely love cheese steaks, and

673
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Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe we should have lived in Philadelphia

674
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Speaker 1: because that's the case. But there are a lot of

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Speaker 1: other things that I'd like to eat too, A lot

676
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Speaker 1: of other things I liked to eat, including a juice Lucy,

677
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Speaker 1: which is famous in Minneapolis, where the University of Minnesota is.

678
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Speaker 1: And I mentioned the University of Minnesota because our next

679
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:40,240
Speaker 1: interview played his college ball at the University of Minnesota,

680
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 1: and he was a tremendous player for the Golden Gophers,

681
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Speaker 1: and I thought he had a career playing in the NFL.

682
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 1: I didn't see him blown up to combine when he

683
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Speaker 1: was coming out of Minnesota. And that was Blake Cashman.

684
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Speaker 1: And immediately upon arriving with the New York Jets, that

685
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Speaker 1: guy was in the starting lineup. But see arrived, it's

686
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 1: been an injury. It's been an injury. It's been injuries.

687
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 1: When that dude is healthy, he has been highly productive.

688
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 1: So I was very curious to see what we were

689
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Speaker 1: gonna get from Blake Cashman in training camp. You greet

690
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Speaker 1: my observations at Huston Texas dot com the Harris Hits,

691
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Speaker 1: and one of them today is about Blake Cashman. The

692
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Speaker 1: fact that there were two interceptible balls today and they

693
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Speaker 1: were both the result of Blake Cashman. One he made

694
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Speaker 1: a break on a ball hit him writing hands dropped it.

695
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Speaker 1: The second one he wasn't gonna pick it off, but

696
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Speaker 1: he darted in front of a receiver and I mean

697
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 1: dove in front of receiver, knocked the pass away, almost

698
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Speaker 1: ended up in hands of defender. Then they got an interceptions.

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Speaker 1: But man, they made some plays. Garret Waller made a

700
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Speaker 1: few yesterday Saturday, should say, and then today it was

701
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Speaker 1: Blake Cashman. Well, Blake Cashman, who has been very impressive

702
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Speaker 1: speed four or five speed, great feet. I just watched

703
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Speaker 1: his feet of practice, very very impressive. Blake Cashman cut

704
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Speaker 1: up with our good friend Mark and Ameer Vandy take

705
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Speaker 1: away Blake Cashman with us. Blake, what's been like coming

706
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Speaker 1: to Houston and being part of this thing? It's been

707
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Speaker 1: absolutely great. Since I've gotten here, you know, immediately jumped

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Speaker 1: into a great room, a room with a lot of

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Speaker 1: depth at linebacker, a lot of experience, a lot of

710
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Speaker 1: great leadership, and you know, my teammates, my other linebackers

711
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Speaker 1: in the room with all the coaches to have everyone's

712
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Speaker 1: kind of accepted me been very professional and welcoming, and

713
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 1: it already feels like home projections. Fans who don't know

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Speaker 1: about the Blake Cashman game, tell us what you bring

715
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Speaker 1: it to the table here for this team. I think

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Speaker 1: I bring a lot of versatility to the field. I

717
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Speaker 1: think I can play all three linebacker spots, Mike, Will

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Speaker 1: and Sam. Obviously, so far in my career when I've

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Speaker 1: been healthy, I've been kind of known for my special

720
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: teams to play. But I think if you were to

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Speaker 1: go and look back at my film my rookie year

722
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Speaker 1: when I was fortunate enough to be starting each week,

723
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Speaker 1: you'd see how much I've proven just let alone, when

724
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Speaker 1: I've been here, I felt like I've made great strides.

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Speaker 1: And uh, you know that's also credit to the coaches

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Speaker 1: and the guys I'm in the room with, because they've

727
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Speaker 1: been so helpful and just teaching me the new system,

728
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Speaker 1: teaching me the techniques that are required at the linebacker

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Speaker 1: position here for the Texans. So I'm excited to, you know,

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Speaker 1: see how I progress and where I'm at come the

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Speaker 1: end of the preseason. Like we all know, there's a

732
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Speaker 1: huge difference between what you're doing out here, even in

733
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Speaker 1: pads and in the games. But for special teams, is

734
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Speaker 1: they're even a greater difference because you guys are practicing

735
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Speaker 1: how to line up in some technique stuff. But it's

736
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Speaker 1: real guns blazing out there when you're on the field

737
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Speaker 1: in a game situation. Oh yeah, I mean, it's it's man, man,

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Speaker 1: It's it's war once you step between the white lines,

739
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Speaker 1: you know. I think it's all about no matter what

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Speaker 1: positions you are on offense or defense or special teams,

741
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Speaker 1: it's about knowing who the man is across from you.

742
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Speaker 1: And that comes in preparation during the week and studying

743
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Speaker 1: game film because at least for special teams, I think

744
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Speaker 1: kickoff return, you know, having to run downfield, set in

745
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 1: block a guy that's running a forty as fast as

746
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Speaker 1: getting on you down the field is as hard as

747
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Speaker 1: it gets. But knowing who that man is. Is he

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Speaker 1: a guy that's going to give you a lot of

749
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Speaker 1: speed and wiggle and try to just run by you.

750
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Speaker 1: Is he a guy that's gonna try to get you

751
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: to set your feet and then run through you. It's

752
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 1: all about just knowing the man across from you and

753
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:25,880
Speaker 1: studying throughout the week, and that's going to set you

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Speaker 1: up for success come game time. Blake Cashman with us,

755
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 1: how hard is it to not blow people up in

756
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: a padded practice when in a game situation you could. Yeah,

757
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 1: it's a great question because, you know, especially once we

758
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:40,720
Speaker 1: put the pads on for the first time, there's obviously

759
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:44,400
Speaker 1: a lot of more excitement coming into practice. Everyone's ready

760
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 1: to start hitting, and it really starts to feel like

761
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 1: football again. But you know, it comes with experience, I think,

762
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: and just understand the big picture. You know, the healthiest

763
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: teams are usually the ones that go the farthest and

764
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Speaker 1: have the most success. So it's all about getting great

765
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Speaker 1: quality working but at the same time taking care of

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Speaker 1: your teammates. So obviously you got to thump around out

767
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,720
Speaker 1: there a little bit just to get accustomed to hitting

768
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Speaker 1: in the physicality. But at the end of the day,

769
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Speaker 1: you want to take care of your teammates, keep everyone up,

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Speaker 1: keep everyone healthy. So we have everyone we need to

771
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Speaker 1: come game time. All right, You're from Minnesota and you

772
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 1: played for the Jets, so you lived in suburban New York,

773
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Speaker 1: New Jersey. So what's that like compared to Houston in

774
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Speaker 1: your opinion, the experiences, I mean, the climate's a major difference.

775
00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 1: I think that's the obvious thing to point out, But

776
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Speaker 1: in terms of kind of living in the city and

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Speaker 1: working within the city, kind of brings me back to

778
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Speaker 1: my college days because when I played at University of Minnesota,

779
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 1: our campus was right there, basically in downtown Minneapolis. So

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Speaker 1: being back in kind of like a downtown area, you know,

781
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: makes me feel like, I mean college again a little bit.

782
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Speaker 1: But yeah, it's very different from being in the suburbs

783
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Speaker 1: of New Jersey. But I've loved it so far. Everyone's

784
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 1: been so great to me, and I hope everything you

785
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 1: know works out for me. Priscy down here, all right,

786
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Speaker 1: We hope so too. Blake, thanks a lot, Thank you.

787
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Speaker 1: One thing has stood out to me. A number of

788
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 1: things have stood out to me, but one thing in particular,

789
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: especially with these linebackers. Hey, they can all run and

790
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:21,760
Speaker 1: b this is a deeper group at linebacker than maybe

791
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 1: they even anticipated. The addition of Christian Harris, trading for

792
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 1: Blake Cashman and bringing him to Houston. Those two editions

793
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Speaker 1: and you're throwing Garrett Wallow's rise, bringing back Christian Kirksey

794
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: and having Kamo Groucier Hill come back along with Kevin

795
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 1: Pierre Lewis You've got a lot of guys in this

796
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Speaker 1: linebacker room, and then you get to a point where

797
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 1: you see a guy like Tay Davis and you're like, man,

798
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 1: he's he's good. This depth at linebacker has been very impressive. No,

799
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:54,800
Speaker 1: by the way, Nevil Huet is still here hitting dudes

800
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:57,759
Speaker 1: left and right. All right, we get back. We'll go

801
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:02,240
Speaker 1: around the league. Obviously, there was a a big announcement

802
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 1: made today from Suel Robinson. We'll touch on that just

803
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: a little bit. We'll go around the league next. Right

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Speaker 1: here in Texas All Access, we got on fa segment

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Speaker 1: this Monday ed issue of Texas All Access. Glad you've

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Speaker 1: been with me, John Harris Footpaully on All Sider reporter

807
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Speaker 1: and the author of Harris Hits My Training Camp Observations.

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Speaker 1: I've been doing them since twenty fourteen, although they've been

809
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Speaker 1: sidetracked at times because I was asked to sidetrack them.

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Speaker 1: But they're back and hopefully you guys enjoy them. Today's

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Speaker 1: effort is meaty, it's beefy, it's lengthy, but you're gonna

812
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Speaker 1: get a lot from at Houston Texas dot com. Go

813
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Speaker 1: check it out the app. You can also check out

814
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Speaker 1: my ninety man roster preview. You can check out the

815
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Speaker 1: first two days each morning. I try and tweet out

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Speaker 1: if you miss it. So if you don't have the

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Speaker 1: time now, oh, John'll remind me the morning. Yes, I

818
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Speaker 1: will remind you in the morning to do that. As such.

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Speaker 1: Texas training Camp five eight to ten tomorrow, and on

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Speaker 1: Today show, we talked briefly about the suspension that is

821
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Speaker 1: soon to be handed down by the NFL. Now Sue L.

822
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Speaker 1: Robinson has been investigating this case with Deshaun Watson and

823
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Speaker 1: determined six games was the number. Now, the NFL has

824
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Speaker 1: three days to appeal that's been built into the CBA.

825
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Speaker 1: We'll see what the NFL does at this point. But

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Speaker 1: if the suspension does stay at six games, I thought

827
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Speaker 1: it was interesting to kind of look at what are

828
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Speaker 1: the Browns looking at and so Mark and I actually

829
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:35,719
Speaker 1: pulled up. We did this kind of off the air

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Speaker 1: this afternoon. At some point we looked at, Okay, well

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Speaker 1: if it is six games, and what six games is

832
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Speaker 1: he missing? Well, they started at Carolina with the face

833
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield revenge game, then they face the Jets. Could

834
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Speaker 1: very well be two and oh third game against the

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Studios at home. Fourth game Atlanta, they could be

836
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Speaker 1: four and oh right out of the shoot with Jacobe Brissette.

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Speaker 1: Fifth game is at Atlanta, which DeShawn will miss. That's

838
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Speaker 1: his home town. The six game two, three, four, five, sorry,

839
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Speaker 1: fifth game is Los Angeles against the Chargers. That's at home,

840
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 1: as is a trip from the Patriots. So Chargers and

841
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: Patriots at the end of the six then the Shawn returns.

842
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 1: They go at Baltimore, back home against Cincinnati on a

843
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,839
Speaker 1: Monday night, a bye week. Then they go four out

844
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Speaker 1: of five on the road at Buffalo, at Miami, at

845
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: Buffalo against the Buccaneers. That's the only home game the Bucks.

846
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 1: They come to Houston, and then they go to Cincinnati

847
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Speaker 1: four to five out of the bye week. So after

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Speaker 1: the sixth game, the Browns will play five out of

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Speaker 1: seven games on the road, and they play playoff team Ravens.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry they weren't a flaoff team last year. My bad.

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Speaker 1: They've been Super Bowl contender. Cincinnati, Miami won ten games.

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Speaker 1: Buffalo is probably the best team in the NFL. They

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Speaker 1: play the Bucks, maybe the second best team in all

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Speaker 1: they playoffs. Hopefully we're gonna be much better and then

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Speaker 1: they play Cincinnati at Cincinnati. That is a rough, rough

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Speaker 1: go and it doesn't finish well either. After Cincinnati, they

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Speaker 1: play Baltimore home, New Orleans at home. They do go

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Speaker 1: to Washington like we do, No Washington comes here, and

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Speaker 1: then they play at Pittsburgh. That is a rough eleven

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Speaker 1: game finish to the schedule, if it does indeed stay

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Speaker 1: at six games for to Shaun Watson, all right, big

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Speaker 1: thanks to Mark, to Mamakers, Santiago to play Cashman, Jimmy Morris,

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Speaker 1: see to all you for listen. We'll see you Tomorrowyboddy,

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Speaker 1: and as always, go Texans.