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Speaker 1: Hello, Texans, Welcome to the show. Another one coming your

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Speaker 1: way from the heart of West Virginia, at least one

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Speaker 1: of the organs of West Virginia. It's White Salt for Springs,

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Speaker 1: home of the Greenbrier Resort where the Texans are holding

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Speaker 1: training camp this week. And another reminder, when we say resort,

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Speaker 1: they're in a sports performance center, a different building than

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Speaker 1: the actual resort facility. But it doesn't prevent you from

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Speaker 1: walking around the grounds and join the scenery. It's beautiful

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Speaker 1: here in the mountains. The weather's great. We've said it

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Speaker 1: all and we're still at Slam and Sammy's Sam Sneed's

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Speaker 1: Sports Bar on the golf course. Old White here at Greenbrier,

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Speaker 1: the eighteenth hole, the par three overlooking it doing silly

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Speaker 1: commentary for the golfers who try, at varying degrees of

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Speaker 1: difficulty and excellence to get to the green in one.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, here we are, Johnny, how you doing tonight?

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Speaker 1: Another day in the books of camp. This was hat day,

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Speaker 1: as Andre Johnson would call it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, hat day. It was good to have a hat day,

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Speaker 2: I think for the guys. It was a beautiful It

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Speaker 2: was overcast the entire time. It would have been one

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Speaker 2: of those where the guys are like, man, we had

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Speaker 2: traded one of these days for a day in Houston

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Speaker 2: to be in pads.

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Speaker 3: But it was as we said.

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Speaker 2: I think it was day three or day four when

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Speaker 2: they had one of these back at home and it

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Speaker 2: was definitely needed. I don't think there was any question

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Speaker 2: about it. It was definitely needed. Then they went into Bubble,

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Speaker 2: got their work done, did some stuff today that I

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Speaker 2: think will help them in the long run. It worked

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Speaker 2: on a lot of situational stuff at the end of games,

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Speaker 2: which I think if you can be really good at

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Speaker 2: the end of games, it saves you three points, it

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Speaker 2: maybe saves you seven. I mean, if you're able to

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Speaker 2: be really good at the end of a game, I mean,

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Speaker 2: I guess maybe it's a measurable whether it's three or seven.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's just what you're able to do. So

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Speaker 2: they worked on a number of different situations at the

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Speaker 2: end and executed him talk through them. There was a

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Speaker 2: time where near the end of it, Nick Cayley, Jamika

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Speaker 2: Ryans and CJ and I think Frank was there too.

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Speaker 2: Frank helps with the situationals off at the end. You know,

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Speaker 2: one to time call time out, all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 2: So they all kind of kind of huddle about. It

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Speaker 2: was like a minute or so where they just literally

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Speaker 2: it was interesting because they did it one They did

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Speaker 2: the situation one way where they got a first down

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Speaker 2: down inside the five with about seven eight seconds left,

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Speaker 2: and then they they waited to spike it until they

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Speaker 2: chip shot where you go. When they did the drill.

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Speaker 2: Second time, they came back around and they spiked it early.

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Speaker 2: They spiked it immediately, so they had eight seconds left,

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Speaker 2: and that was when they started talking to one another.

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Speaker 2: And I thought that was interesting because I guess the

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Speaker 3: A shot for the end zone.

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Speaker 2: You know, we're down three, we know we have the

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Speaker 2: field goal pretty much in hand. Let's see if we

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Speaker 2: can go ahead and get a touchdown here win a

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Speaker 2: you know, go to halftime.

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Speaker 1: Tied instead of up by four or whatever it might be.

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Speaker 1: So they have a certain amount of time on the

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 2: I don't know whether it's six in a it's in

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Speaker 2: what are the things you can do? You obviously have

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Speaker 2: to throw the bonnie in zone. There's no question.

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Speaker 3: I can't take a sack.

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Speaker 2: You can't take a sack, and you cannot scramble one

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Speaker 2: of them because that's gonna kill your time. And so

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Speaker 2: they were gonna quick slant Jade Higgins. In the end

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Speaker 2: you caught it touchdown. Great job, But you're right, there

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Speaker 3: You get the feeling out process.

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Speaker 2: And I think you know, that's why it was interesting

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Speaker 2: to me when they did it two different ways. How

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Speaker 2: And then they did it the other way, and that

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Speaker 2: So it was good to getting that situation work done,

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Speaker 2: which you this is the perfect perfect time to do it.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow, my guess is the way back in pads. We'll

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Speaker 2: fly to Minnesota on Friday and play football. We will

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Speaker 2: play a football game on Saturday at three.

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Speaker 1: Now, they did all this with the starters, I'll put

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Speaker 1: that into air quotes, and against the Minnesota Vikings late

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Speaker 3: So they all watched this.

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Speaker 1: But tomorrow you gotta work on some of this stuff again,

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Speaker 1: getting on the field for you know, quick field goal situation.

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Speaker 1: You know, those situations do come up in preseason games

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Speaker 1: and you want to execute them properly. So they'll probably

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Speaker 1: beck in Pat's probably tomorrow a good good practice lathered up,

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Speaker 3: We don't know for sure yet, but we might know

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Speaker 3: more tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Obviously we'll know three o'clock Saturday, and you'll hear it

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Speaker 1: right here alive. I'm eager to see who's gonna be

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Speaker 1: out there, we all are, whoever it is. I'm just

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Speaker 1: let's go preseason or not.

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Speaker 3: I'm ready to go. Yeah. Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: And obviously last year Week three was we've not won

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Speaker 2: in Minnesota. I'm correcting that, and preseason we have. We

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Speaker 2: so I feel like it was funny because in twenty

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Speaker 2: I don't know, we won't go back up to Minnesota

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Speaker 2: but we would go back up there, and man, that's

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Speaker 2: one hell of an environment to go up there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that is one hell of an environment to go

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Speaker 3: up there at top play year for the first half.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure. I'm sure it'll have some juice.

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Speaker 1: I'll have some skull going out. I want to see

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Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy for sure. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 1: They want to see JJ. That happened to be the

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Speaker 1: talk of Minnesota. Right now, did we do the right thing?

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Speaker 1: The fans, the media? All right, let's do this, okay,

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Speaker 1: loose look at the initial fifty three Oh boy, okay,

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Speaker 1: so and this is talking about our children. Really we

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Speaker 1: kind of tough.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we talked about this leaving lunch today. We're like,

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Speaker 2: all right, and we haven't done we have done our

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Speaker 3: Let's sit down and do it.

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Speaker 2: So you did yours, and then we walked over here,

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Speaker 2: and you know, right before the show started, I'm like,

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Speaker 2: all right, let me see, let me see how close

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Speaker 2: I can get. And I wrote down what I would

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Speaker 2: like to see happened, and I had fifty eight.

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Speaker 3: Now, I don't think you're a dick fight.

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Speaker 2: I don't think the NFL is gonna allow the Texans

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Speaker 2: just because I want them to have fifty eight to

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Speaker 3: But then I started, I tell picking the NCAA tournament. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: And so then I was like, Okay, there are some

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Speaker 3: There's one move in particular, I do.

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Speaker 2: Not want to do, and I'm trying to think of

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Speaker 2: any which way to not have it happen. But I

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Speaker 2: also with mine, I also factored in. Guys, I think

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Speaker 2: so I factored in.

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Speaker 3: But you don't know that. We don't know. No, no, no,

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Speaker 3: that's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: It's again, we have no insight info into this, yes,

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Speaker 2: just you know, seeing what we've seen and kind of

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Speaker 2: projecting forward. We have no idea like, for example, is

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Speaker 2: Joe going to be ready for LA We don't know.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go on for this exercise.

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Speaker 1: I'll say no because if Joe's ready, Yes, that's awesome,

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Speaker 1: I said, And that makes some painful things happen as

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Speaker 1: a result, But it's good pain because you have Joe

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But let's go broad stroke here, because you know, doing

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Speaker 1: a fifty three man roster on the radio. I want

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Speaker 1: to keep it radio friendly. So some broad stroke stuff here. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm keeping two quarterbacks, it's not keeping three. You and

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Speaker 1: I have not discussed what we were doing. I did

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Speaker 1: the same thing.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I kept two because I kept looking for more

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Speaker 1: At first I had three. I said I don't have

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Speaker 1: the luxury of keeping three. Exactly, I can't do it.

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Speaker 1: And the other thing is this slowvis Mertz.

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Speaker 3: We love you.

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Speaker 1: I got a feeling that you're going to be available

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Speaker 1: for the practice squad, both of you. I can make

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Speaker 1: a decision about it later based on preseason performance. Now,

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Speaker 1: if one of these two just lights it up and

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Speaker 1: somebody's got quarterback problems, yes, you expose one of them

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Speaker 1: and it could be an issue, right or God forbid,

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Speaker 1: you have a quarterback injury situation.

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Speaker 3: Probably no, you're not. So let's see. I did that.

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Speaker 3: I did two quarterbacks as.

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Speaker 1: Well, two quarterbacks, and one's gonna end up on the

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Speaker 1: practice squad of the other two. All right, O, line,

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Speaker 1: I had nine. Okay, I wanted ten. I wanted ten,

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Speaker 1: but I had nine.

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Speaker 3: But this is dang it. I got nine as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this forced a painful cut because I figured, you know,

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Speaker 1: you look at the guard situation right now. Juice is

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Speaker 1: running with the ones. They make a big deal out

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Speaker 1: of this. He wasn't last week. Who knows what next

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Speaker 1: week brings. But you know ed Ingram, Lake and Tomlinson,

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Speaker 1: these veterans you brought in in the offseason.

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Speaker 3: Do both of them make it for sure? Does your

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Speaker 3: boy Jaylen Thomas? Is he a lock? We're gonna hear

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Speaker 2: So like you don't, those guys can go from off

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Speaker 3: They don't know. They don't know yet.

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Speaker 1: They want to see it the next few weeks, joint practices,

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Speaker 2: If there is a position I look at and think

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Speaker 3: That would be, but I could. I could see that.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't do it. I could not do it. I

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Speaker 2: I feel like Justin Watson has got to be on

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Speaker 2: I mean just having that resource, and he's still damn productive.

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Speaker 3: So I just I had to find something. And I

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Speaker 1: I think if X is not on the fifty three initially,

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Speaker 3: And I worry if the teams that are hurting for receiver,

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Speaker 2: If okay, But but here's the thing. If and Braxton's

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Speaker 2: My biggest thing with Braxton is I feel very comfortable

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Speaker 2: I don't, If I don't have Braxton, who's returning punts?

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Speaker 2: And you don't want Kirk to do it because he's

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Speaker 2: him to have guy there. If God willing, something happens

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Speaker 2: and Christian Kirk just has to catch the ball before

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Speaker 2: like Barrios because he's so comfortable catching it and he's

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Speaker 2: So I ended up keeping six and X is that guy.

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Speaker 3: And you're right. If X is exposed to waivers, he's gone.

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Speaker 3: And I don't even want to do that. I don't

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Speaker 2: And if you remember last year, the first Hall of

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Speaker 2: was like, to me, that's when you really kind of

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Speaker 3: And I just ends up making the Player of the Year.

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Speaker 3: I struggled with that.

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Speaker 1: By the way, receiver injury bug has bitten, Jared Wayne

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Speaker 1: Deceifa's back here, has been here before, so getting a

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Speaker 1: I mean, we were talking about it last year. Unbelievable talent,

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Speaker 3: Tight ends.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I wanted four, you know, I wanted four, but

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Speaker 1: I had to go with three. It's some funny how

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Speaker 3: Poor Luke. Maybe maybe he might get picked up, who knows.

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Speaker 3: And look, we're we've got a long way to go.

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Speaker 1: We have three preseason games, two joint practices, that's five

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Speaker 1: you don't hope for guys to get hurt, but sometimes

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Speaker 3: But that's what I said. Three.

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Speaker 1: And you know that you already have a player hurt

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Speaker 1: here at this position group. So I know that Jake

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Speaker 1: Moreland would love to get five on the fifties. It's

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Speaker 1: not going to happen though, in all likelihood. All right,

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Speaker 1: running backs, this was tough too, man. I went four.

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Speaker 1: I went, if Joe's on, ir whatever he's on, and

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Speaker 2: Gotta have what he marks? I gotta have what he

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Speaker 2: marks with that? Also, tell like what am I gonna

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Speaker 2: do about Brums exactly? Like without British?

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Speaker 3: Like, what do you do?

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Speaker 2: Like He's gonna be tremendous on special teams, can play

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Speaker 2: both fullback and tailback. But I I did the same thing.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, I gotta go with four running backs. Oh

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Speaker 2: my gosh, Well, so did you keep did you on yours? I?

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Speaker 3: Did you know? I couldn't? I did? Well, what do

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Speaker 3: you got, all right, let's go to defense. But I've

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Speaker 3: Yeah that ex so's that's where that's where extra spot

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Speaker 3: comes in. I just think they're gonna but you let

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Speaker 3: British walk. I know, but I but I had to

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Speaker 3: keep Yakab.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like he's he's a more complete

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Speaker 2: the most painful cut on the team. Most painful cut

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Speaker 2: on the team is on the D line because on

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Speaker 2: the D line, obviously you know your top two ends

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Speaker 3: But I'm gonna assume he's back. Okay, I did. I

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Speaker 1: No, you took the easy way I did. Everybody's gonna

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Speaker 3: We've got four weeks. That's a pretty deep ir list,

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Speaker 3: right that. I'm telling you.

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Speaker 2: I've seen it before that way, you've seen it before. Now,

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Speaker 2: I don't want it to be that way, but I

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Speaker 2: do know. Well, I'll tell you this, if if I

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Speaker 3: Yep. Then I got a really tough decision.

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Speaker 2: I got to I mean, I've got a So I

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Speaker 2: kept fifty one fifty five yep. Darryl Taylor's definitely in

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Speaker 3: I thought Autrey is on ir okay, So you went

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Speaker 2: Went Barnett, I did, okay, So then d Line, I

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Speaker 2: went Sheldon fully hopefully full you can get back here soon, Rio,

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Speaker 3: I went five inter defenseive linemen.

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Speaker 2: Because there's if training camp matters in some sense, and

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Speaker 3: In his camp.

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Speaker 2: He has been outstanding, and he was outstanding the last

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Speaker 3: Tommy is on the team, you know, so I feel

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Speaker 1: So that does put a lot of pressure on you, though,

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Speaker 1: because I are you know, you've got to look at

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Speaker 3: I don't know that. That's another difficult decision. So a.

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Speaker 1: Lack of information that you have here when you're coming

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Uh wait, did you have Bird and or No

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Speaker 2: I could, I couldn't. I think those two would be

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Speaker 3: Right now, how many linebackers do you have?

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Speaker 2: I have six? I have six because five see I

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Speaker 2: went five here. Oh I want to see who you

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Speaker 2: let go? I want to see you so hurt.

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Speaker 3: So the zero c Harris, Henry E J. Hanson. I

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Speaker 3: I know.

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Speaker 1: And Neiman's probably gonna make it because you need him

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Speaker 3: I mean, this is a lot of play, but you

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Speaker 4: Here.

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Speaker 1: You get to elevate from the practice squad and you

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Speaker 1: the practice squad. This week, we're bringing in this guy,

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Speaker 3: You know, you work it like that.

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Speaker 1: Because I look at my initial fifty three and then

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Speaker 2: That was That was the That was the next question

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Speaker 2: of all right, well some something's got a ghost when

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Speaker 3: I ended up keeping ten.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, But it came down to and this is the

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Speaker 2: safety and D'Angelo ross at nickel and let go Miles Bryant.

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Speaker 3: Oh. More I think about it, the more I'm like,

441
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Speaker 3: you know, I think Miles makes it with the Angelo

442
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Speaker 3: because Miles can play safety if you need him to. Yeah,

443
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Speaker 3: and he plays that nickel. Yeah.

444
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Speaker 2: I think I think that's probably you know what, I'm

445
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Speaker 2: changing my mind. I think that's the that's a probably

446
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Speaker 2: better way to go with Miles. Miles has had one

447
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Speaker 2: hell of a training camp, not that Russ hasn't, but

448
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Speaker 2: I feel like.

449
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Speaker 3: We don't know.

450
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Speaker 2: We don't have no idea what's gonna happen with Jimmy

451
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Speaker 2: Ward at all. But I assume it's a I think Miles.

452
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Speaker 2: I think so too. I think Miles. That's where I

453
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Speaker 2: put him. Initially, I think my can play safety, he

454
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Speaker 2: can play nickel. I think he's he's the ball player. Okay,

455
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Speaker 2: so I changed my mind. I put Brian in there.

456
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Speaker 2: That still gives me my fifty three. I just I

457
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Speaker 2: swapped that out of it. J. Yeah, MJ's gotta make it.

458
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Speaker 2: MJ's had a hell of a camp at safety man.

459
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Speaker 2: So he's a captain on special teams. Yeah, yeah, ye know,

460
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Speaker 2: he's a personal protector. He gets them all lined up.

461
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's you gotta have hm J.

462
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Speaker 3: Stewart.

463
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Speaker 2: I mean he said it the other day. To me,

464
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Speaker 2: is like aging like a fine wine, Like dude, I

465
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Speaker 2: hope I aged that way because he's played really, really well.

466
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Speaker 2: He's had a number of interceptions, he has made a

467
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Speaker 2: number of plays. He feels really he just looks and

468
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Speaker 2: feels comfortable in his defense. So he's that piece at

469
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Speaker 2: safety that I think you got to have to go

470
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Speaker 2: along with CJ. Gardner, Johnson and Kaylen Block.

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Speaker 1: I had Treymont making it because I've got Derek Stingley,

472
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Speaker 1: I have Kamari Jalen Smithsehel o'ross.

473
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Speaker 3: And Treymont Tremont. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I feel like pe Tree, Miles Bryant. Then

475
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Speaker 1: I went Kaylen, CJ. Gardner, Johnson, and Stewart yep. So

476
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Speaker 1: I went with ten DB's total.

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Speaker 3: That's why, Yeah, that's why I have. Yeah, you guys

478
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Speaker 3: that can play multiple positions.

479
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, And I think that's what you you'd like

480
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Speaker 2: to have as many of that in the secondary as

481
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Speaker 2: you possibly can. But then you get your three specialists,

482
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Speaker 2: Austin Bringman, Kymie Fairbairn, and Tommy Townsend. That was where

483
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Speaker 2: I screwed up the first time because I had twenty

484
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Speaker 2: nine offensive.

485
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Speaker 5: Players twenty six defenses, like, oh man, I only gotta

486
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Speaker 5: cut two. And then I was like, oh crap, I

487
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Speaker 5: forgot this special So I always put them up first.

488
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Speaker 5: But here's my question, and I don't know if anybody

489
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Speaker 5: can really answer it.

490
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Speaker 1: Oh, yes, they probably can Frank Ross could tell us

491
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Speaker 1: why is it so difficult? He's got to have a

492
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Speaker 1: reason to teach somebody. Two guys on the team who

493
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Speaker 1: are definitely gonna dress on Sunday to long snap, is it?

494
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Speaker 1: I guess it's that hard and you have to be

495
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Speaker 1: totally focused.

496
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Speaker 3: On that and nothing else. Yeah, but you gotta have

497
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Speaker 3: there's there's a backup. There is.

498
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Speaker 2: We don't know who that is, but there is there

499
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Speaker 2: is a backup because if something were happened to Austin,

500
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Speaker 2: you gotta have. You gotta have some bad un answer,

501
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Speaker 2: which my guess is one of the centers. Maybe that

502
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Speaker 2: might be tight end. Tight End, could be.

503
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Speaker 3: Tight end type guy.

504
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Speaker 2: You know Luke Joel Jason, you know how exactly you

505
00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:15,399
Speaker 2: know how Luke was shake could end up making a

506
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Speaker 2: sucker right there. He's he's the backup.

507
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Speaker 1: I haven't seen him do it, No, I know I have.

508
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what if you've seen anybody else do it.

509
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Speaker 1: If I'm one of these young guys, I'm coming out

510
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Speaker 1: early and I'm practicing.

511
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Speaker 2: If i know I'm in a position battle, Yeah, I'm

512
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Speaker 2: going out there. I'm going right in front of Frank

513
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Speaker 2: and I fire and bullets I'm gonna make Frank.

514
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Speaker 3: Think about it.

515
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Speaker 1: Sorry, Austin, nothing personal here, It's business, not personal, aus Brinkman.

516
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Speaker 2: I mean, if you had a roster player that could

517
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Speaker 2: long snap, I mean that's the ultimate because then you

518
00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:46,440
Speaker 2: don't have to keep a spot for a specialist. But

519
00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,000
Speaker 2: us is pretty damn good. I mean, he fis some

520
00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:52,280
Speaker 2: fastballs back there, and he'll get better and better. You know,

521
00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:54,760
Speaker 2: we just for over years. I'm not we never took

522
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Speaker 2: weeks for granted, no we didn't, but we knew that

523
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Speaker 2: it was gonna be a good snap every time.

524
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Speaker 3: So we knew that was not gonna that's gonna be

525
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Speaker 3: a big issue.

526
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Speaker 1: That's a moment. That's a moment on Saturday, the first

527
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Speaker 1: non John Weeks long snap. I don't think we've had

528
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Speaker 1: anybody else do it in this whole time, even in

529
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Speaker 1: the preseason.

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Speaker 3: I don't think so. We might have once, I don't know.

531
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Speaker 3: I know we've had other guys in camp. Yeah, but

532
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Speaker 3: I feel like it's happen, but not often. Yeah, not often.

533
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Speaker 3: Forty six was stepping over. Let's just put it this way.

534
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Speaker 3: In a regular season game, it's gonna be a big.

535
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Speaker 2: Mom he he is tweeting John Weeks's tweeted some pictures

536
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Speaker 2: or posted pictures on Instagram from San Francisco, and it's

537
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Speaker 2: the weirdest thing. It is the weirdest thing to see

538
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Speaker 2: him in a forty nine jersey like odd as like

539
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Speaker 2: there there have been Texans and other jerseys that it

540
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Speaker 2: wasn't odd. It was just kind of frustrating. Like when

541
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Speaker 2: hop first went to the Cardinals, it was like, that

542
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Speaker 2: doesn't look right.

543
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Speaker 3: From any lot. What Johnson to fall thank you? That

544
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Speaker 3: was one.

545
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Speaker 1: You know.

546
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Speaker 2: The other night we had a we had a dinner

547
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Speaker 2: with you know, our internal I wanted to think about that,

548
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Speaker 2: what's the weirdest athlete in a different jersey that.

549
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Speaker 3: You ever saw? For us, just anybody. There's so many

550
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Speaker 3: examples of that. I mean Andre Andre and he was weird.

551
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Speaker 3: Andrea in a Colts jersey. I was like, I don't

552
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Speaker 3: like it.

553
00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 2: Andrea Ina Titans jersey look bizarro. That looked bizarro world.

554
00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:19,359
Speaker 2: Keimlija wanted the Raptors is the one that I always

555
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:22,800
Speaker 2: think about like that. That was just crazy, That was

556
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Speaker 2: not right, all right?

557
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Speaker 1: Coming up Evan Washburn, He's been on the sideline for

558
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Speaker 1: numerous Texans games. He's gonna work with JJ Watt. He's

559
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Speaker 1: next here among others on Texans Radio. Back to the

560
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Speaker 1: Green Briar Texans Radio, Mark Factor, Mair and John Harris

561
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Speaker 1: with you and training camp will wrap up here after

562
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Speaker 1: tomorrow's practice. They won't travel till Friday, so they'll meet

563
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Speaker 1: and do things like that to get ready for preseason

564
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Speaker 1: game one Saturday and three. It'll be live right here

565
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Speaker 1: now on the TV calls this year when the networks

566
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Speaker 1: really get rolling in the regular season, JJ Watt's gonna

567
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Speaker 1: be a color commentator with Iron Eagle as his play

568
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Speaker 1: by play guy, and on the sideline in that crew

569
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Speaker 1: will be Evan Washburn and Evan stopped by practice this week.

570
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Speaker 1: I had a chance to catch up with him and

571
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Speaker 1: ask him his impressions of Texans practice.

572
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Speaker 6: I think there's some real issues on the defensive side

573
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Speaker 6: of the ball, a lot of concern there. No, it

574
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Speaker 6: was impressive to see that group getting ready to come

575
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Speaker 6: out here. Obviously, I'm consuming as much of the content

576
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Speaker 6: from you all, from everybody who's here day to day

577
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Speaker 6: and what they've been saying about. That unit lived up

578
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Speaker 6: to the billing in what was a pretty competitive practice.

579
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Speaker 6: I mean, you're seeing guys taken to the ground in

580
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Speaker 6: certain periods, so I thought that was a great indicator

581
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Speaker 6: of what that group can be. And then just getting

582
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Speaker 6: a sense and then more so talking to guys like

583
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Speaker 6: CJ after practice about where this offense is and what

584
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Speaker 6: is a developmental stage of bringing in an entire new scheme.

585
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Speaker 1: How helpful is this time of year to your job

586
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Speaker 1: during the regular season on the sideline.

587
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Speaker 6: I would say it's foundational in a lot of ways.

588
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Speaker 6: Not to say you're really referencing something I saw today

589
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Speaker 6: if I were to have you week three or five,

590
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 6: because so much of this will not be irrelevant but

591
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Speaker 6: old news. But I just feel much more comfortable talking

592
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Speaker 6: to a head coach talking to players being able to reference. Hey,

593
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 6: remember when I saw you out in the Greenbrier. It

594
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Speaker 6: was cool to see a player make a play here

595
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Speaker 6: and then see where they are or maybe aren't when

596
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Speaker 6: we're catching them in the middle of the season. So

597
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Speaker 6: I just find it a really useful practice. Just also

598
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Speaker 6: get caught up on who's on what team and how

599
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Speaker 6: are things feeling.

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Speaker 1: How about being on the sideline? What's important about being

601
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Speaker 1: a great sideline reporter, Evan, I.

602
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Speaker 6: Think you have to be the editorial consultant chief of

603
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Speaker 6: a broadcast crew, because if you think about it and

604
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Speaker 6: you know this, you do it at the highest level.

605
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Speaker 6: Pay by play and analysts are talking for the entire

606
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Speaker 6: three hours. A quality sideline person is basically making sure

607
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Speaker 6: we're not missing anything. Now, the obvious things are, hey,

608
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Speaker 6: this player got injured, but the little things from like

609
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Speaker 6: a storyline standpoint, Hey, it's the second quarter and we

610
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Speaker 6: haven't hit something that we talked about last night because

611
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:10,399
Speaker 6: they're so caught up and literally play to play. So

612
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Speaker 6: I really think, outside of covering injuries, covering things that

613
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Speaker 6: happen on the sideline, what are we missing? What is

614
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Speaker 6: the viewer missing that we have context on that we

615
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,200
Speaker 6: should be delivering usually early in a game, because we

616
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Speaker 6: like to do it. First and second quarter we're set

617
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Speaker 6: in the menu, and then third and fourth quarter the

618
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Speaker 6: game dictates where we're going.

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Speaker 1: Have you met much yet with JJ Watt, new color

620
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Speaker 1: commentator on your crew with Iron Eagle.

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Speaker 6: Well, thankfully JJ has been in the mix with us

622
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Speaker 6: for a couple of years doing the studio at a

623
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Speaker 6: part time capacity, so we've crossed pass at seminars some

624
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Speaker 6: of the times they've come out on the road for

625
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Speaker 6: playoff games. And I don't have to tell you this

626
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Speaker 6: or your listeners or fans.

627
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Speaker 7: I mean, he's the best.

628
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Speaker 6: He's such a easy guy to be around, and I

629
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Speaker 6: think what he's going to bring to our group is

630
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Speaker 6: not just the football acumen in the knowledge, but just

631
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Speaker 6: a level of energy that's going to be exciting. So

632
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,480
Speaker 6: we've had a couple zooms we're gonna get together next week.

633
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 6: It's really it's something we're all looking forward to and

634
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,359
Speaker 6: pumped forward. But now he's the rookie again, so I

635
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Speaker 6: think he's got to recognize that as well.

636
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Speaker 4: Well.

637
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Speaker 1: How many rookies have you worked with as color commentators

638
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Speaker 1: or play by play people at the network level for NFL?

639
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 4: Great question.

640
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Speaker 7: This will be my first.

641
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Speaker 6: I came in with Dan Fouts, who was anything but

642
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Speaker 6: a rookie Hall of Famer both as a player obviously

643
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Speaker 6: and in my opinion a broadcaster. And then Charles Davis,

644
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 6: who is as professional, prepared and honestly as good as

645
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Speaker 6: anybody at doing the job. He's been with us the

646
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Speaker 6: last four or five years. He was anything but a rookie.

647
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Speaker 6: So JJ's the first, and I like to say it's

648
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Speaker 6: the first time for me that I'm not the youngest

649
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Speaker 6: guy on a crew, so it's good to have somebody

650
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Speaker 6: that's a fellow millennial on the crew.

651
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Speaker 3: So how did you get started?

652
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Speaker 1: I know you went to Delaware and my good friend

653
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Speaker 1: Mike Corey used to be voice of the Blue Hens

654
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Speaker 1: and I was with him at U MASS He was

655
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Speaker 1: a student when I was the play by play announcer there.

656
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:07,159
Speaker 3: So Delaware to what how did you get started in

657
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Speaker 3: this business?

658
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Speaker 7: Wow?

659
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Speaker 3: How much time do you have one?

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Speaker 7: Mi?

661
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Speaker 4: Core is a great guy. I really enjoyed his friendship

662
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Speaker 4: and getting home over the years.

663
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Speaker 6: The best way or the fastest way I should say

664
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Speaker 6: to describe it, went to Delaware, played lacrosse, lacrosse stream

665
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Speaker 6: ended because I got injured final game, and then it

666
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 6: was what are you going to do next? I love sports,

667
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:29,160
Speaker 6: played every sport growing up. I like entertainment TV. Maybe

668
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,719
Speaker 6: these two things can marry. Was fortunate enough to get

669
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Speaker 6: an internship at a TV station in Washington, DC, live

670
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Speaker 6: in Baltimore, and that kind of gave me my master's

671
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Speaker 6: degree and all the things you need to do, whether

672
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Speaker 6: it's editing, shooting a game with a camera, writing scripts,

673
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Speaker 6: all those things. And then in conjunction with that, I

674
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Speaker 6: actually started calling lacrosse games collegiately locally because in Maryland

675
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 6: the DC area, it's a big deal, so college games

676
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Speaker 6: are on TV cable access. So I was the analyst

677
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Speaker 6: and that got me an opportunity the following year at

678
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Speaker 6: CBS Sports Network, our cable station as a color analyst

679
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 6: doing college lacrosse games. Once I had that relationship, I

680
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 6: started sending them clips of me doing one man band.

681
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 4: Stuff in Baltimore.

682
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Speaker 6: In DC, they had a last second opening in twenty

683
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Speaker 6: twelve for a college football sideline reporter. They were, I

684
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Speaker 6: don't know, crazy enough to give me that chance, and

685
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 6: that sort of opened the door to be a sideline reporter.

686
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Speaker 6: Within two years, I got bumped up to NFL and fourteen,

687
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Speaker 6: and now twelve years later, this is where we are

688
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Speaker 6: and it's now a career. So I'm fortunate. But I

689
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Speaker 6: also say, as you know, in this business, everybody's kind

690
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 6: of got their path and just kind of have to

691
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Speaker 6: find it.

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Speaker 1: People always ask me what's my most memorable game or moment,

693
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Speaker 1: but it's often something that would be under the radar.

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Speaker 3: Something.

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Speaker 1: Do you have anything like that, A couple of memories,

696
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Speaker 1: moments and games or games themselves that will always live

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Speaker 1: with you.

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Speaker 6: It's a fun exercise and and do it because I

699
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Speaker 6: do appreciate what we get to do every week. I

700
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Speaker 6: think the two that come to mind. One is a

701
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Speaker 6: big time moment. It was I always mix this up

702
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Speaker 6: because it was the twenty nineteen Super Bowl, but it

703
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 6: was the twenty eighteen season. It was whenever New England

704
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Speaker 6: beat Kansas City overtime AFC Championship game, going to beat

705
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Speaker 6: the Rams in the super Bowl. So I was on

706
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Speaker 6: the Patriots sideline for that game. Tracy Wilson on the

707
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Speaker 6: chief sideline they win in overtime, we do on the

708
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Speaker 6: field post game with Tom Brady and to have that

709
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Speaker 6: moment with that legendary player, he had kind of lost

710
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Speaker 6: his mind in a good way. He maybe dropped a

711
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Speaker 6: couple le f bombs on the broadcast, which you know,

712
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Speaker 6: maybe isn't the right thing, but I enjoy it because

713
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Speaker 6: we root for authenticity. So that was that was special.

714
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Speaker 6: And then the second one, more so just because of

715
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Speaker 6: where I came from. When I got to be on

716
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Speaker 6: the sideline for the Ravens Chiefs AFC Championship game, I've

717
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Speaker 6: lost real rooting interest, but for that city where I've

718
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Speaker 6: called home now for ten plus years growing up down

719
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Speaker 6: the road in Annapolis. For them to have their first

720
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Speaker 6: AFC Championship game and to be part of the broadcast

721
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Speaker 6: to experience that environment, didn't go away. They wanted to go,

722
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Speaker 6: but that was pretty special.

723
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Speaker 3: Awesome. Evan, thanks a lot for your time.

724
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Speaker 4: You sure man. Always good to see you.

725
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Speaker 1: Evan Washburn's sideline reporter extraordinary for CBS now Let's shift gears.

726
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Speaker 1: Ben Solac also had practice this week. He's of ESPN

727
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Speaker 1: big time digital reporter for them. Is he a reporter?

728
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 1: Not really, He's an analyst, yes, sort of uses a

729
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Speaker 1: lot of analytics as he breaks down the NFL.

730
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Speaker 3: He's basically a football nerd in a very good way.

731
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Speaker 1: I talked to Ben Solac, all right, Ben, tell me

732
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Speaker 1: your general thoughts here of observing Texans practice Day one.

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Speaker 8: Texans defense pretty good. I think that's been that kind

734
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Speaker 8: of that. That's the running jock I've heard from everybody else.

735
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Speaker 8: But it's just a reminder. In training camp, you're installing

736
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Speaker 8: a new offense. You're dealing with offens the line of

737
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Speaker 8: rotations because you're trying to figure out who you guys

738
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Speaker 8: are going to be, and meanwhile they ain't rotating.

739
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Speaker 9: This is Will Anderson and Daniel Hunter every time.

740
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Speaker 8: Stare e seemly Kamar Lasser every time, you know, And

741
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Speaker 8: that's that's a good way to cut your teeth. That

742
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Speaker 8: they're rotating a lot of wide receivers as well. So

743
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Speaker 8: it's always going to be a situation that is advantageous

744
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Speaker 8: to the defense that's going to show out. But you

745
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 8: still see cg making good reads against the blitz, right,

746
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 8: you still see uh giden Higan's getting a separation.

747
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Speaker 9: And then there's those pockets of brightness.

748
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 8: So it's what August first, August second, there's you know,

749
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Speaker 8: there's there's weeks and this this offense is going to

750
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Speaker 8: be a discovery thing.

751
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Speaker 9: It's gonna be something that gets figured out and ironed

752
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Speaker 9: out over time.

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Speaker 3: All right, So tell me doing what you do?

754
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Speaker 1: What are you observing here? Most of all, what angle

755
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Speaker 1: are you looking for when you come to a practice

756
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Speaker 1: like this?

757
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Speaker 8: So all right, you're bomping from training camp, training camp

758
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Speaker 8: to training camp. The first thing you want to do

759
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Speaker 8: is you want to see how some of the positional battles,

760
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Speaker 8: some of the snaps are being distributed. Right, it was

761
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Speaker 8: like a big rotation, a tight end. I didn't know

762
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Speaker 8: coming in that I was going to see a lot

763
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Speaker 8: of cads over with the ones. Brevin Jordan had a

764
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Speaker 8: cup with the ones. You know, you're seeing that Daria

765
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Speaker 8: Anglebiwalle is still clearly you know, their third down back,

766
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Speaker 8: and then what marks gets opportunity with the second team? Right,

767
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Speaker 8: so you're you're kind of learning, okay, where are they

768
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Speaker 8: shuffling right now at their positional groups, and a lot

769
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Speaker 8: of time you're specifically looking at the rookies, right. You

770
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Speaker 8: want to see how these guys look, how they physically

771
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Speaker 8: are put together, and then how they behave do they belong?

772
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Speaker 8: Are they lining up the right spots and they getting

773
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Speaker 8: in and out of the flow. I felt like Jalen

774
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Speaker 8: Noel is walking out like a veteran right away. He's

775
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Speaker 8: lining himself up, he's pointing things out, he's winning on

776
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Speaker 8: routes to say, okay, like you can start to get

777
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Speaker 8: a sense that these guys belong. And then the other

778
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Speaker 8: thing you're always looking for is operation right, especially when

779
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Speaker 8: you got like a first time offense. There was I

780
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Speaker 8: think one moment where Jaden Higgins was lining up little

781
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Speaker 8: bitning correctly and they had to fix him. But other

782
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Speaker 8: than that, really smooth operation. And a lot of what

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Speaker 8: coaches can control in training camp is the prestab stuff.

784
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Speaker 8: And then the ball is snapped and a guard goes

785
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Speaker 8: the wrong way and it's an immediate pressure and okay,

786
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Speaker 8: we gotta throw.

787
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 9: That play out. But presa break the huddle effectively? Do

788
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Speaker 9: we get through the most effectively? Do we lineup correctly?

789
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Speaker 8: Everybody know their jobs and so you know, I was

790
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Speaker 8: in Cleveland, I got like four quarterbacks goaling. There's a

791
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Speaker 8: lot of pre snap issues. You're here in Houston. The

792
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Speaker 8: pre snap operation was very, very good offense and defense.

793
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Speaker 8: That leads you to believe that the install's going well

794
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Speaker 8: and the team's being to understand what's expected of them.

795
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Speaker 1: Your impressions of Demico Ryans entering year three, I know

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Speaker 1: he's breaking in a new offensive coordinator.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: I think Demiko Ryans is the most underrated head coach

799
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Speaker 8: in football. I've been an enormous fan since the San

800
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Speaker 8: Francisco days. You cannot find a player with something less

801
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Speaker 8: than glowing to say about what Demiko has been to them.

802
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Speaker 8: You see how quickly he rows up through the ranks.

803
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,399
Speaker 8: You see how effectively he wins on the chalkboard. They're

804
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 8: great against elite quarterbacks not named Lamar Jackson. They got

805
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 8: to figure out the Lamar Jackson problem. I'm sure they're

806
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 8: working on it, but they're really good against the elite quarterbacks.

807
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 8: He's won two postseason games in two seasons, one in

808
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:27,800
Speaker 8: each season. He's the eighth head coach NFL history to

809
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Speaker 8: do that at least one playoff win in each of

810
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Speaker 8: his two seasons. You go and you look at the list,

811
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Speaker 8: like the last guys to do it were Matt Lafleur

812
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Speaker 8: and the Harball Brothers. Right, is just a good list

813
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Speaker 8: to be on. I think that there are a few

814
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Speaker 8: coaches in the league I would trust more from a

815
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Speaker 8: culture perspective, from an intensity perspective to get the team

816
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Speaker 8: ready for a Sunday than Damiko Ryans. And there's few

817
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:48,240
Speaker 8: coaches that I would trust more in a playoff environment,

818
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 8: in a well off chance against a really good team

819
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Speaker 8: to at least have the defense really show up there.

820
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 8: We're going to see what the offense looks like again

821
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 8: excluding the Ravens because they have a raven problem to

822
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 8: figure it out.

823
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Speaker 9: But the other guys that are really good against.

824
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Speaker 3: Him and so like with as ESPN.

825
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 1: So tell me, I saw some tweets you talking about

826
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: Kaitlyn Bullock, but he wasn't the guy that you were

827
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Speaker 1: initially looking at. Besides him, Well, tell me about your

828
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:13,479
Speaker 1: thoughts regarding him and then some other players that don't

829
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 1: get as much publicity.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm here working on a big Derek Stingley piece.

831
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Speaker 8: So you're watching a lot of the secondary and I

832
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:21,879
Speaker 8: already knew I like Bullock. His rookie season was great.

833
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,439
Speaker 8: This guy's clearly good washing back to the second times

834
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Speaker 8: on these most is not just extremely fast and has

835
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Speaker 8: really really remarkable range, which we should pause for a

836
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Speaker 8: second and say that. You know, in the late twentyds

837
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 8: and early twenty tens, Ed Reid ORL. Thomas, we thought

838
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 8: this is how safeties worked. Like the league was like, right,

839
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:40,880
Speaker 8: you got to find more deep middle safeties, find these

840
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,399
Speaker 8: post safeties, find these guys with range, And we tried

841
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,320
Speaker 8: to have a bunch of imitations of those guys, and

842
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 8: we couldn't do it because it's actually a really rare

843
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 8: skill to have that sideline a sideline range that's fallen

844
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 8: out of favor. It's all too high defenses now, right,

845
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:54,880
Speaker 8: Bullock is one of like legitimately five guys in the

846
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 8: league who you can actually just put back there in

847
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 8: the middle and say, you know, make a play against

848
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 8: the Hashes on the right sideline, and they make a

849
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 8: play against Ashle on the left sideland he has that

850
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 8: legitimate range to him. And it's not just the speed.

851
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 8: He sees it fast right, he's moving before the quarterback

852
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 8: separates his hands and his angles are great. That was

853
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 8: really the thing that's set out on rewatch is that

854
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 8: his first step takes him exactly where he's supposed to go.

855
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 8: A lot of times he's young safety, they gotta weave

856
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 8: and they gotta adjust to the ball and whatever. He's

857
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 8: straight as an arrow to where he's supposed to be

858
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 8: really really good angles. Bullock is gonna quickly become one

859
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 8: of the best safeties in the league if he keeps

860
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 8: this up.

861
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:28,799
Speaker 9: He's got to stay healthy. He's a little bit thinner.

862
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:30,279
Speaker 8: You know, there's some run defense stuff to do, but

863
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 8: from an impactful perspective in the secondary, it's clearly a

864
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 8: rising star. Kamara Lass was the exact same thing. I

865
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 8: think this is the best secondary in football. And then

866
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:39,960
Speaker 8: you know, I think as he's al sho here probably

867
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,280
Speaker 8: doesn't receive the credit he's due at the linebacker position.

868
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 8: Highly physical player, good taking on poland guard, stepping down there,

869
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Speaker 8: playing with the trees.

870
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Speaker 9: That's a player that gets underappreciated.

871
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 8: And then Tim Settle was the other guy in that

872
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 8: defense who just every single game one or two run

873
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 8: defense plays, one or two penetration plays, because this is

874
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 8: always going to be a front that prioritizes the pass rush,

875
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 8: and accordingly, they can lose a little bit and run defense.

876
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 8: But if you get one, make a little bit of

877
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 8: a splash and get to that second and twelve, then

878
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 8: the dogs can eat and Tim Settles that guy who

879
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 8: makes those plays for them.

880
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 1: It's hard to tell right now in August. But what

881
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: do you think of Nick Chubb being on this team

882
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: and what he might be able to do?

883
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:12,800
Speaker 9: I think it's hard to tell in August.

884
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:16,919
Speaker 8: You know, it's the big question because Nick Cayley could

885
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:18,879
Speaker 8: be a wizard. But if they can't chop a first

886
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:20,879
Speaker 8: intend into a second and six with a handoff, then

887
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,799
Speaker 8: you're climbing an uphill battle, right that's a long road

888
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,800
Speaker 8: to hoe. And so their number one question over the

889
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 8: next month is figuring out, Okay, if we don't have

890
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 8: Joe Mixon for let's say at least a four week period,

891
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 8: six week period.

892
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 9: I don't know where he's gona be out with the

893
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 9: injury thing.

894
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:35,800
Speaker 8: I don't want to get yelled at by Demico, and

895
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 8: so whatever it ends up being, if he's out for

896
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 8: an extended period, how do we want to get our

897
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 8: running game touches to whom we want to give them,

898
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 8: and how do we want to line those guys up.

899
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,400
Speaker 8: You're never gonna be able to see what Chubb's full

900
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 8: athletic profile looks like until we get to September, because

901
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 8: there they're you know, they will still be rehabbing him

902
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 8: and onboarding him and preparing him athletically to kind of

903
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 8: peak when the season starts, and so you don't want

904
00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 8: to make big assumptions there. But yeah, we haven't seen

905
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 8: Chubb looked the way he looked pret injury since the injury,

906
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 8: and so I think it's still a riddle for them

907
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 8: to solve with a Goomba Walle, with Woody Marx, with

908
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 8: whatever running backs might be available in for agency, and

909
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 8: then obviously with Joe Mixon, what does he look like

910
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:12,800
Speaker 8: when he comes back their running back touches is the

911
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 8: biggest question for them on offense.

912
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:16,799
Speaker 3: Where else have you been on your training camp tour

913
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:17,840
Speaker 3: other than Cleveland?

914
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 9: Did Detroit? Cleveland? Buffalo, Philadelphia, DC, Baltimore? This is stout

915
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 9: number seven.

916
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Speaker 1: Okay, So who has impressed you or surprised you among

917
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 1: those stops? What team Texans played Baltimore? Obviously it'll be

918
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:33,799
Speaker 1: on the road. They've never won in Baltimore. They've never

919
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:34,800
Speaker 1: beaten Lamar Jackson.

920
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 3: It's time. What do you think of the Ravens.

921
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:38,880
Speaker 9: I think the Ravens are gonna be really, really good

922
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 9: this year. There's no two ways around it.

923
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 8: They did not have huge substantive moves in terms of

924
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 8: personnel or coaching staffs this year. But the secondary is

925
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 8: the big question right where Nate Wigans now moves into

926
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Speaker 8: the corner one spot and I're gonna continue to play

927
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 8: Marlon hump For on the inside, and then corner two

928
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 8: is a conversation between Chidobea Woozier and Jay Alexander, whom

929
00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 8: they added in free agency. And that's that last year

930
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,280
Speaker 8: for them, there was a they were really bad defense

931
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 8: to start of the year and they got really really

932
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 8: good late in the year because they made changes in safety.

933
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 8: They have Pyle Hamilton now and the rookie Malachi starts.

934
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:10,839
Speaker 8: They expect to be good there again. But you still

935
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,240
Speaker 8: you're gonna leave your corners in isolation. You have great safety,

936
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 8: that's gonna happen. And Wiggins was a player who statistically

937
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,439
Speaker 8: was great. Advanced stats love him, but they were still

938
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:19,959
Speaker 8: you know, he was their corner too. They were pulling

939
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 8: them off the field. He was a little bit of

940
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 8: a rotation, right. They got a lot of penalties last season.

941
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:25,320
Speaker 8: This is like a young player who they want to

942
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 8: you know, sharpen his skills. Now he's an NFL guy.

943
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 8: And then, like I said that, right now, they have

944
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 8: a battle at corner too. And so if there's a

945
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 8: question mark for the Ravens, it's at that position. But

946
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 8: I mean offensively, defensive line, schematically what that team is. Yeah,

947
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 8: they're gonna be good.

948
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 1: Okay, tell me what do you have going on on

949
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:44,240
Speaker 1: the website or wherever people can get your content.

950
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 8: Yeah, So, like I said, I have a big piece

951
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:47,920
Speaker 8: coming out on Stingley. I'm doing a series this year

952
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:50,800
Speaker 8: at the beginning of the season on underappreciated stars and

953
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,880
Speaker 8: what makes them so good. So probably speaking to to Texans.

954
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:56,359
Speaker 8: I think that there's no under appreciation there on Derek

955
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 8: Stanley from the fan base, but nationally, you know, you

956
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:00,400
Speaker 8: obviously hear a lot about certain You've heard a lot

957
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 8: about Sauce, but you know Stanley more than holds his

958
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 8: own against those guys, and it's important to talk about why.

959
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 9: So that peace will be coming out sometime early September.

960
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 8: But you know, if you got the app and you've

961
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:11,400
Speaker 8: said to the app you're Texans fan, it'll get sent

962
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 8: right to you.

963
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 3: Awesome, Ben, thanks to left for joining us.

964
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:17,719
Speaker 1: Thanks sir, all right, it's Ben Solac from ESPN coming up.

965
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 1: Final segment on the Way, you're gonna hear from John

966
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:23,600
Speaker 1: Metchi and also Jalen Thomas. Both those guys are gonna

967
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,399
Speaker 1: play a bunch this weekend at Minnesota. Thomas a bunch

968
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:28,800
Speaker 1: of guard and he could be a big surprise on

969
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: this old line. We'll hear from those players next as

970
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 1: Texans All Access continues. Final segment here, Let's get right

971
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,839
Speaker 1: to it, Jalen Thomas making some noise on the offensive line.

972
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:40,799
Speaker 3: John Harris visits with him. All right.

973
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:45,239
Speaker 2: Trenny Camp twenty twenty five continues on a wonderful here

974
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 2: at the Greenbrier. Jalen Thomas, do you agree wonderful day yesterday?

975
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 4: It's honestly beautiful, honestly beautiful. Take a plain.

976
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,439
Speaker 2: You played SMU, so I'd imagine we didn't. You didn't

977
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 2: have many days like this when you were in.

978
00:40:58,560 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 3: College, did you?

979
00:40:59,239 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 7: Oh?

980
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 4: No, I think it's houston.

981
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:03,400
Speaker 3: To get used to that.

982
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 2: Maybe had a pretty good camp thus far. I asked

983
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 2: Jake this morning I saw him.

984
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 3: I said, how's the body feel on day twelve?

985
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:12,479
Speaker 4: Definitely not like day.

986
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 10: One, I'll tell you that, but I mean still feel good, honestly, yeah,

987
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:18,359
Speaker 10: still a little early in the camp, though still feel good.

988
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 3: How's the offensive line coming together?

989
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,799
Speaker 2: Obviously different combinations day after day, all that kind of stuff,

990
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 2: But how do you feel like it's coming together when

991
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:26,719
Speaker 2: you guys go back and watch film at the end

992
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 2: of the practice. How do you guys feel about how

993
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:28,799
Speaker 2: the unit's coming together.

994
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 10: I think it's coming up good or good. I think

995
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 10: everybody's putting in work. Everybody's coming out here just to work.

996
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:34,800
Speaker 10: I think that's the big emphasis in the off season

997
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:37,880
Speaker 10: is that you know, we're gonna work this, this, this,

998
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 10: this preseason, and that's all we're gonna worry about.

999
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:42,160
Speaker 3: And it feels like you guys have that camaraderie too.

1000
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 4: I think this is one of the closest groups I've

1001
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:45,399
Speaker 4: been around.

1002
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, but for sure, very cool. I'm glad you're here now.

1003
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 3: In college, you play tackle.

1004
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 2: You probably played all over the line throughout your career,

1005
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 2: but she feels like more you're at guard now. How

1006
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:56,320
Speaker 2: do you feel playing inside? Do you feel like that

1007
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:58,800
Speaker 2: suits your skills? I mean, you've got to build to

1008
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 2: play guard. How do you feel How do you comfortable

1009
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 2: do you feel playing that spot inside?

1010
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 10: I feel comfortable. I feel like guard. Is it fits

1011
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 10: me best, especially in the league. Yeah, don't have the

1012
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 10: longest arms. Yeah, And I think I'm a pretty strong guy,

1013
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:14,640
Speaker 10: and who can who can move, who can move a

1014
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:15,359
Speaker 10: little bit in the middle.

1015
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 4: So I think I'm guard really fits me on in

1016
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 4: the league.

1017
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:20,400
Speaker 2: I thought it was interesting when it was posted this

1018
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:23,799
Speaker 2: summer that guys that got extensions that played tackle had

1019
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 2: some of the shortest arms at tackle.

1020
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 3: So I thought it was interesting when you said that.

1021
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 3: I kind of chuckled at that point. Okay, let's go

1022
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 3: inside the the old line room for this one.

1023
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 2: I need you to be honest. There are times at

1024
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:36,320
Speaker 2: the end of practice where coach will call up a

1025
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 2: player and if you catch the punt, you get out

1026
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 2: of meetings that night. You got a sprints or whatever

1027
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 2: it might be. So if the team had to bet

1028
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 2: on one offensive lineman to catch the punt to get

1029
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:48,480
Speaker 2: out of meetings, who would it be?

1030
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:51,279
Speaker 4: Like? Have you really been?

1031
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 3: I feel like?

1032
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 10: I mean he was a quarterback in high school and college,

1033
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 10: so he has very good ball skills.

1034
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:00,040
Speaker 4: Definitely, say Titus, Okay.

1035
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 3: Where would you be on the list? Would you be

1036
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 3: one of the guys up front to make that catch?

1037
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 4: Top three?

1038
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:09,800
Speaker 3: Okay, Saturday we go to Minnesota.

1039
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:11,919
Speaker 2: Well, Friday we go to Minnesota, but Saturday we play

1040
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:14,920
Speaker 2: in the Minnesota Vikings. To see a different color jersey,

1041
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 2: you've been going after the same guys you've been seeing

1042
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 2: in practice. How important is it and how much do

1043
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:22,240
Speaker 2: you desire seeing a different color jersey On the other.

1044
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 10: Side, I desired it a lot, especially not being able

1045
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 10: to play last year. So yeah, definitely, it feels good

1046
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 10: this time to finally hit somebody other than my teammates.

1047
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:31,359
Speaker 10: So it'd be amazing get out there and play.

1048
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 2: It'll be amazing to watch you. Jaylen, you had a

1049
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:34,479
Speaker 2: really good camp man, it's been fun watching.

1050
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 3: Thank fore time, Thank you.

1051
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,479
Speaker 1: There's Jalen Thomas with John Harris. Let's get to John

1052
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 1: Metsche Now my visit with the receiver entering year four? John,

1053
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 1: what are your impressions of the Greenbrier so far?

1054
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 7: It's nice, man, It's definitely different. You got the mountains.

1055
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:51,320
Speaker 7: The weather is different, that's for sure, all the greenery,

1056
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:54,719
Speaker 7: you know what, second third day out here, so just

1057
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 7: still soaking it in.

1058
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:59,320
Speaker 3: Yeah. Does the practice feel different out here? Afterwards? You

1059
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 3: feel like you might have a little more left or

1060
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 3: something like that.

1061
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 7: I mean, you're always trying to exhaust yourself in practice. Yeah,

1062
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 7: that's how you build. There's more air out here, you know,

1063
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:10,399
Speaker 7: there's more air in the air, that's for sure.

1064
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 3: How's it going for you so far? What's your assessment?

1065
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 7: It's going well. It's trying to get better every day.

1066
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 7: That's really the process. Just be better today than you

1067
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:21,279
Speaker 7: wear yesterday and take it like day by day.

1068
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 4: Honestly.

1069
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 3: How tough is it against this defense? They look pretty good?

1070
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 7: Yeah, said, defense looks good. Offense looks good. It's that

1071
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 7: iron Sharper's iron mentality that coach Ben Harbin.

1072
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 3: On how is the offense different for the receivers.

1073
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 7: I think it's kind of like just a dynamic you know,

1074
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 7: it's kind of we always have a dynamic group. Everyone

1075
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 7: can play everywhere, right, there's a lot of talent. Kind

1076
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:50,360
Speaker 7: of seems like always. But I think that's good because

1077
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 7: we all help each other and it's just that iron

1078
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:53,839
Speaker 7: sharper and iron in the room.

1079
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 4: You know.

1080
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:56,360
Speaker 1: I see you lining up all over the place. Do

1081
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: you have a favorite spot to line up.

1082
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 7: Or is it just whatever happens, whatever happens or wherever

1083
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:01,879
Speaker 7: the ball's going.

1084
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:03,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't mind either.

1085
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 7: I don't mind anyway.

1086
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 3: What about downtime here? What do you guys do? How

1087
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:09,800
Speaker 3: do you bond or spend your time whatever it is?

1088
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, guys just hanging around a lot more, whether

1089
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 7: they're walking back and forth. There's stuff to do, just

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Speaker 7: green Brian, you know, bowling, a lot of team bonding

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Speaker 7: stuff like that. Guys go bowling or golfing and stuff.

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Speaker 7: So it's definitely it's definitely really good from that aspect.

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Speaker 7: We got to spend a lot more time with each

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Speaker 7: other off the field.

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Speaker 3: You good at bowling? Yeah, can you spend the ball properly?

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Speaker 7: I just learned this offseason. That wasn't my style, but

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Speaker 7: I just learned this offseason.

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Speaker 3: What we do before rolling, it's straight, hoping it hits

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Speaker 3: the gap.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm a straight line shooter. Straight shooter.

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Speaker 3: It's tough, isn't it.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean not straight. It's easy for me. I'm

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Speaker 7: straight spending the ball, spinning the ball.

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Speaker 4: That's tough.

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Speaker 7: That's a whole different game, but I picked it up

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Speaker 7: and it's kind of it's kind of fun.

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Speaker 1: What's your favorite game to play, whether it be cards, chess,

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Speaker 1: backgam They have so many different things here and you

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Speaker 1: guys play Uno and all of that.

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Speaker 3: What do you like.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, UNO's a good one. I just started playing cards recently,

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Speaker 7: but I like to who know that we play as

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Speaker 7: as a team.

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Speaker 3: Cool, John, Thanks a love for joining us. Good le.

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Speaker 3: I always love catching up with John Metchi. All right,

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Speaker 3: that's the show. It's over.

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Speaker 1: Area forty five is next shot of seth back at

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Speaker 1: practice tomorrow with their show, and we'll be back here

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Speaker 1: at slamming. Sammy's doing the nightcap and letting you know

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Speaker 1: what happened at practice that particular day, which would be tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Have a great night, enjoy Area forty five Go Texans,