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Speaker 1: Hello, Texans, we are back, Mark Vandermain and John Harris

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Speaker 1: with you. Let's do this as I love that new open.

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Speaker 1: I love names on the open. In the highlights, we

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Speaker 1: very often have these you know, so and so throws

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Speaker 1: a touchdown. But we decided, you know what, we've got

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Speaker 1: these young players, Let's go Mills, let's go Nicko. Let's

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Speaker 1: just do it. Let's just put them out there in

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Speaker 1: the universe. You mean twenty twenty one that, I mean,

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Speaker 1: all all the sounders for one highlights this season is

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Speaker 1: in that open. I'm just kidding. There were some moments though,

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Speaker 1: it was a pleasure to see those guys do those

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Speaker 1: things in the Charger game, the Jaguar game. You know,

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Speaker 1: me ask you a question. This is just I'm just

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Speaker 1: I'm just riffing, because that obviously is what we do

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Speaker 1: on radio. If you trade, would you trade a Chargers

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Speaker 1: Week eighteen, would you trade maybe? Maybe? I mean you

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Speaker 1: talk about change the universe now, yeah, because the Chargers

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Speaker 1: After that, you also would have the Chiefs is the

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Speaker 1: number one seed? Well, I hate that though, but the

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Speaker 1: one of those bitter, shallow people as far as divisional opponents.

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Speaker 1: We all know that about me. And oh, we did

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Speaker 1: watch the super Bowl last night, Johnny a couple of

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Speaker 1: things about that, And we're gonna get to a lot

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Speaker 1: of things today, loving and Nick's to do list, a

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Speaker 1: little bit on the Senior Bowl. Who knows where we

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Speaker 1: go because this is the opening show of season eleven

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Speaker 1: of Texans All Access. Yes, we started it ten years

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Speaker 1: ago twenty twelve with air and Foster are signing a contract.

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Speaker 1: That was the first episode of Toxins All Access with

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Speaker 1: the press conference and we had an airing on and

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Speaker 1: it was very cool. We used to do the show

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Speaker 1: Tuesday's noon to two back then. Now first after the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. It's Monday through Friday, six to seven. We'll

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Speaker 1: be here every night with you and we're gonna have

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Speaker 1: a good time. By the way, tomorrow, Lovey Smith joins

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Speaker 1: us exclusive conversation with the head coach now that he's

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Speaker 1: deep into his tenure as head coach at the Texans.

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Speaker 1: All right, a week ind but hey, he'll love some

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, and the first four or five days

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Speaker 1: million things, yeah, happening, a million things, so you never know,

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Speaker 1: maybe coach let something slip that he's not supposed to,

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Speaker 1: but maybe something slips, like he tells us an assistant coach,

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Speaker 1: because we're getting our information from you know, our sources

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Speaker 1: and people that cover this great sport, and we're well,

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Speaker 1: we can't. I mean, we could say sources say, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Texans will wait, as they typically do, wait till

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Speaker 1: ahead and put it all out there. But which makes sense.

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Speaker 1: could just see Malik saying you got this, like you

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Speaker 1: All right, One thing I'm looking at here, Johnny, I'm

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Speaker 1: He popped right back up after hit. I'll give him that.

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Speaker 1: ends up making it catching against Eli Apple, who, by

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Speaker 1: the way, Eli Apple was kidding towardure my NFL players

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Speaker 1: on Twitter. Look, it's hard. It's hard to cover Cooper Cup,

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Speaker 1: you know, and you hear you are on the biggest stage,

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Speaker 1: guys on Cooper Cup. At that point, there's no Odell

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Speaker 1: He crashed the website. That's pretty amazing. That's pretty incredible.

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Speaker 1: But they had that idea and it crashed the website.

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Speaker 1: But as far as just visually pleasing throughout the day,

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Speaker 1: it was. I thought it was good. I watched a

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Speaker 1: little a little bit of the pregame show. I thought

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Speaker 1: it was a lot like what they had done throughout

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Speaker 1: the year. I thought there were some blips and some

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Speaker 1: hiccups throughout the broadcast they put Mickey Guyden said, Mickey

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Speaker 1: Guyton had Genie Eikos, Genieikos American beautiful and they kind

433
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Speaker 1: of had that little player, but that mess up. I

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Speaker 1: thought there were some replays they should have shown that

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Speaker 1: they didn't show. Oh, yes, they waited. I was the one.

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Speaker 1: They waited until after the extra point to show a

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Speaker 1: touchdown replay. I can't remember which one, but that's rare

438
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Speaker 1: in the NFL. That's very collegiate. Ye, the replay after

439
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Speaker 1: the extra point, not before. And I was thinking, and

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Speaker 1: it wasn't like they were showing compelling shots. I'm thinking,

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Speaker 1: you gotta have that replay up instantly, like that last play,

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Speaker 1: that fourth and one when he throws the ball at

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Speaker 1: the p rhyn. Now, I will give them the fact

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Speaker 1: that there's a lot going out that point they're trying

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Speaker 1: to capture. I mean, you know, Aaron Donald, the Rams

446
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Speaker 1: are celebrating, Yes, I like I can. All the cameras

447
00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:46,000
Speaker 1: are on celebration mode, and the replay machines are not

448
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Speaker 1: as focused on that play as they could have been.

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Speaker 1: But they would have been a good one to see

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Speaker 1: at some point. Yes, that would have been a good

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Speaker 1: one to see how close did that ball to get

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Speaker 1: to p rhyme Because from the side. It looked like,

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Speaker 1: Oh I was claw. I don't. I don't know ultimately

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Speaker 1: how close it was, but it was an interesting game

455
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Speaker 1: to talk about just from NeXT's no standpoint, because the

456
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Speaker 1: Rams kept running the damn ball and had no business

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Speaker 1: doing it. The Bengals kept shutting it down. What would

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Speaker 1: you do if you're McVeigh. You're not gonna trust Stafford

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Speaker 1: on every throw. You just can't. You can't. He threw

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Speaker 1: that bad pick in the first half. I mean there

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Speaker 1: was that deflected one right after the Bengals took the lead.

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Speaker 1: And the Bengals, look, they got a three out of it,

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Speaker 1: would have been nice for them to get a seven

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Speaker 1: out of it. That to me, was the biggest part

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Speaker 1: of the game. When it's they're down three going and

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Speaker 1: a half, they get the touchdown to take the lead

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Speaker 1: on Higgins, then they get the turnover and it's like,

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Speaker 1: put the nail in these guys right now, they're struggling offensively.

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Speaker 1: You go up ten, you could forget about it, but

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Speaker 1: they don't that to set up for the fuel goal

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Speaker 1: and only go up seven, And that to me was

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Speaker 1: a killer because the Rams gona the Rams gonna score

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Speaker 1: twice on you. The way your defense was playing, I

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Speaker 1: really put the pressure on him and they start to

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Speaker 1: tighten up. Maybe maybe you hope for that. I just

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Speaker 1: think the way the Bengals stopped the running against the

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Speaker 1: Titans and a pretty decent Jean the Chiefs are, the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs are are tough to compare it because the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: aren't really gonna run the ball. I mean they did

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Speaker 1: with Mahomes, but in the second half the Bengals pretty

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Speaker 1: much shut him down. But the Rams did nothing. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Reader and BJ Hill and those guys up front, just

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Speaker 1: eight things alive, eight alive. And it just showed how

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Speaker 1: just those editions of Reader and BJ Hill, drafting Logan Wilson,

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Speaker 1: drafting Jermaine Pratt, the other players they brought in, the

486
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Speaker 1: way the Bengals built that defense is just really it's

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Speaker 1: really interesting because they spent a lot of money on Reader,

488
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Speaker 1: they spent a lot of money on Trading Hendricks, and

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Speaker 1: they spent not a lot of money on Mike Hilton

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Speaker 1: or Nickel, and those three guys were massively, massively important.

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Speaker 1: But they drafted Jesse Bates in the second round, which

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Speaker 1: is big, and then they took kind of a cast

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Speaker 1: off in some sense, Woozier number twenty two, who with

494
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys really didn't stick. He gets the Cincinnati and

495
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Speaker 1: it fits. Handing love is a great year, and so

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Speaker 1: mix of draft and freed and they got that. Would

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Speaker 1: you pick up to go back? Though? Man? You know

498
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Speaker 1: you know how hard that is? It is so hard,

499
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Speaker 1: and we'll get to AFC. THEFC is really hard. A

500
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Speaker 1: couple of other things about this game or aspects of it.

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Speaker 1: Why I was rooting against the Rams. It's not that

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Speaker 1: I don't like the Rams, although I don't. I don't

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Speaker 1: like anybody, Okay, except the people who play in this building.

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Speaker 1: That's just how I am. That you give me your

505
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Speaker 1: repeat scenario and Lovey and Nick's to do list. We

506
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Speaker 1: gotta get the senior bolt. We might have to continue

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Speaker 1: this tomorrow, but we're gonna continue in next here on

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio. Mark Vandermann, John Harris with you Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: Great to have you with us for another season of

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access. Monday through Friday, six to seven pm.

511
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Speaker 1: Tune in every night. We'll be at the combine and

512
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Speaker 1: what is it, Johnny? Two weeks? Two weeks weeks still

513
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Speaker 1: Combine shows and I'm looking forward to catching up with

514
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Speaker 1: all our peeps around the league and talk about what's

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Speaker 1: happening this offseason. All right, so happening this offseason may

516
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Speaker 1: or may not include more players wanting to go to

517
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Speaker 1: other teams but they are currently under contractor Ray currently

518
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Speaker 1: under contract. Well, one thing I didn't like about this

519
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl and the Rams winning it. I don't like

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Speaker 1: the whole dream team thing and players trying to broker

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Speaker 1: their way out. Now, I wouldn't know anything about it.

522
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Speaker 1: I'm not even talking about a particular situation close to home.

523
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Speaker 1: Yeah I'm not. I'm really not. But and I don't

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Speaker 1: behoove somebody from wanting to work in a certain place, right,

525
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Speaker 1: But the whole Stafford thing it. I have nothing personally

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Speaker 1: against Matt Stafford, and they traded for him, fair and

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Speaker 1: square and all of that. But I always felt like

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Speaker 1: he was anointed this. He's one of the best quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: in the league. It's the Lions stink. I'm like, Well,

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Speaker 1: the Lions haven't always had this stinky performs. Okay, They've

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Speaker 1: had some winning seasons, they've been to some postseasons, and

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Speaker 1: you don't pin at all on the quarterback, of course,

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Speaker 1: but you don't completely exonerate him either. For twelve years

534
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Speaker 1: in Detroit and no playoff victories and only four winning seasons,

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Speaker 1: I cannot completely let him off the hook for that.

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Speaker 1: If he's that good, they should be better now. He's

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Speaker 1: a good quarterback, and it made the difference for the Rams.

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Speaker 1: There was that good meme though, which was the Leo

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Speaker 1: DiCaprio with the drink pointing to the TV. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it's and it's Jared Goff watching TV seeing Matthew

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Speaker 1: Stafford throw two picks in the Super Bowl, right, And

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Speaker 1: I thought that was a great meme. But your thoughts

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Speaker 1: on that kind of thing. I agree with you about

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Speaker 1: Stafford thing. I know, I know Drey. If Drey were here,

545
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Speaker 1: he would say, I told y'all, and and he's right.

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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford is extremely talented, dude. Smart. The arm, the

547
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Speaker 1: arm is incredible. I mean, he's he had, but he

548
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Speaker 1: had a support system around him this year. That was

549
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Speaker 1: I mean five ten times where he had Detroit. I mean, look,

550
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 1: he had Megatron at times, and they had Sue on defense.

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Speaker 1: They had some high level talent. They just didn't have

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Speaker 1: it across the board the Rams. I mean, if you

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Speaker 1: think about the Rams to defense. Maybe right, single name

554
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Speaker 1: guys like Vaughan A. D. H. J. Ramsey. I mean

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Speaker 1: guys that are our first name, Like when you just

556
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Speaker 1: to say their first name, Odell, like you know exactly

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Speaker 1: what we're talking about, right, I mean, but they got

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Speaker 1: they I mean Andrew Whitworth, I mean he's forty. I

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Speaker 1: will say this about the Rams offensive line. I was

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Speaker 1: a little bit surprised the Rams had such trouble trying

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Speaker 1: to block the Bengals. The Rams offensive line. I never

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Speaker 1: thought the Rams offensive line was great, but I thought

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Speaker 1: it was good enough. Man, last night it was it

564
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Speaker 1: was not good. But yeah, you lose Odell Beckham Junior

565
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Speaker 1: and and both Michaels and and Consort. They're saying, oh

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Speaker 1: my god, what are they gonna do? What they gonna do?

567
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 1: Behams out like throw out to the best receiver in

568
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Speaker 1: the league. Yeah, is something hard? Hard It would have been.

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Speaker 1: It would have been way more of a problem for

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Speaker 1: them if Cup had gone versus beccam right, they were exactly.

571
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Speaker 1: No one thought, oh, they're gonna be fine necessarily, but

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Speaker 1: you cannot lose Cooper Cup. And I would have lost

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Speaker 1: my mind if they made Stafford the MVP last night. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it had to be Cup or Aaron Donald. It could

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Speaker 1: not be Stafford last night. Not that he played badly,

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Speaker 1: he didn't deserve the MVP. The MVP was Cup or

577
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Speaker 1: Aaron Donald because of those last two defensive plays he made,

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Speaker 1: which were ridiculously good. I mean, just that just put

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Speaker 1: the brakes on the Bengals. You know, when they got

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Speaker 1: that first pass to Ramsey on their final drive, I thought, Okay,

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Speaker 1: here we go. Yeah, we're at least getting into field

582
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Speaker 1: goal range? Here are we not? And they couldn't do that.

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Speaker 1: This is the one thing I thought about later on.

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Speaker 1: It's copycat league, right, I mean, we're gonna spend do we.

585
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Speaker 1: NFL teams are gonna spend a lot of time looking

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Speaker 1: for the next Deebo Samuel. They're gonna be looking for

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Speaker 1: the next Tyreek Hill, Um, you know who else was

588
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 1: successful this year? Or they're gonna trying to find the

589
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 1: next George Kittle. They're gonna find Oh, who's the next

590
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 1: Cooper cup Um? You know, oh man, can we find it?

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Speaker 1: Jamar Chase, I think I think some of those guys

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Speaker 1: are in different categories. No, I know, you're all the

593
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 1: same one. They're not like trying to find it. Next,

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Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel is gonna be like you forget that, I

595
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 1: mean Debos, I mean Debo didn't even Deebo Samuel didn't

596
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Speaker 1: even know he's a Deebo Samuel. But I think they're

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying there are a lot of those guys either,

598
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Speaker 1: but I'm saying that is the copycat aspect of this.

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00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 1: I mean, because the Rams just have great players, right,

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Speaker 1: But what I'm getting at is, how did the Rams

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Speaker 1: get all those great players? Well, some of them joined

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00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 1: the team late. They play home grown, right right, they

603
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 1: claimed ov J. They traded a second. Now, this is

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00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 1: gonna be tricky. They traded a second and a third,

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00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 1: a second and a third. This leads me. Now, I

606
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Speaker 1: know what I'll say today, they have any picks ever,

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Speaker 1: after what they gave up for staff, they traded a

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Speaker 1: second and a third for von Miller, who's an understrict

609
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 1: free agent at the end of the year. Right now,

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00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: well worked. That's why I'm gonna If the Rams don't

611
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl, they get skewered for that, but

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Speaker 1: I want a super Bowl. It's all good. Yeah. So

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Speaker 1: if we did that and we want a super Bowl

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Speaker 1: and be like, yeah, second and third poll. I think, look,

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that Bill O'Brien automatically thought they were

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Speaker 1: gonna go to the super Bowl in nineteen and maybe

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Speaker 1: that's not why he did it anyway, with the Laramie

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Speaker 1: deal and all of that. But you know, you bring

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Speaker 1: in Laramie for the investment they made, You're thinking, okay,

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Speaker 1: we're rolling here, let's go, let's go, And there they

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Speaker 1: were twenty four to nothing. Geez, did I bring that

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Speaker 1: on the opening show of the season? Why why you're

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Speaker 1: bringing me down? Well because, Johnny, but finish your point was,

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Speaker 1: and you gotta mention it with Laramie is how many

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Speaker 1: teams will will? I don't say, look at the Rams

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Speaker 1: method and go, Okay, the Rams were in a spot

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Speaker 1: where that could work for them, but are there gonna

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Speaker 1: be some teams that are gonna be in that spot?

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Speaker 1: Going all right? Bleep? It didn't? Didn't the Cardinals kind

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Speaker 1: of kind of do that arts Yeah, why and what

631
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Speaker 1: to get him? It got him and it got him

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Speaker 1: an angry quarterback, you know, a bounced a bounced out

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Speaker 1: first round, awful looking game at LA. So they got

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals have got some things to do they got,

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00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 1: they got an offseason to trying to make a quarterback.

636
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: Is a lot of drama coming. Everyone's talking about Aaron Rodgers,

637
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson sitting down next to the commissioner during the game,

638
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: and where's Russell Wilson going? And there are a lot

639
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 1: of potential destinations there and we might have something growing here.

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00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 1: You never know, so uh, a lot of drama there.

641
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 1: But yeah, I just think that teams that are, you know,

642
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 1: pushing their chips to the center of the table. Look,

643
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 1: it worked out for the Rams. I don't know if

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00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 1: the Titans, you know, they look at being the number

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00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: one seed and what happened. Are they thinking we got

646
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Speaker 1: to make some kind of gigantic move at the most

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00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 1: important position at the team or we're good? I know

648
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 1: what they've said, but it has to be a discussion

649
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 1: at some point. And then you got the Colts with

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00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: that same position. Well with Wentz, obviously he's got to

651
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: be going somewhere, but what are you gonna get for him?

652
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Speaker 1: And who are you gonna get to replace him? Easier

653
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: said than done to get somebody really great. Yeah, and

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00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 1: they don't have a first round pick this year because

655
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,240
Speaker 1: that went for Wentz. So, if you're gonna, if you're

656
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 1: gonna try and get in this, you know, Aaron Rodgers

657
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: sweepstakes if there is one, if you're gonna try and

658
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 1: get in this Russell Wilson sweepstakes if there is one,

659
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 1: to go get a quarterback. So I'm gonna ask you

660
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: the question. Effort, Landry and John talk about this. Chris

661
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: Bower picks up the phone and I heard that too.

662
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Speaker 1: There's no way that's a deal. Offer me everything, offer

663
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: me your next ten drafts. All right, I can't go there,

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Speaker 1: but let's just presume it would be a really attractive

665
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Speaker 1: or the most attractive offer. There's no way in the division,

666
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Speaker 1: no shot, no chance. I know there have been division

667
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: trades before, like Wes Welker going from the Dolphins to

668
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 1: the Patriots. Oh, he's never gonna turn. Oh wait a minute,

669
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: look and well Welker was pretty good in Miami with

670
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 1: Dante Colepepper thrown on the ball and he went for

671
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Speaker 1: a two and a seven, I think to the Patriots, Yeah,

672
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: and look what happened there. There is no shot I

673
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 1: am doing this a quarterback trade. Can you remember a

674
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 1: quarterback trade in the division? I can remember a quarterback

675
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 1: leaving a place. Actually bledso Bledsoe went to the Bills.

676
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: Donovan McNabb went from the Eagles to the fourteam formerly

677
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: known as the Redskins. Right, but I don't know if

678
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 1: that was a trade though, She's a lot has happened

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00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: since we left. I mean bledso I mean Bledsoe was

680
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: still in his prime. So yeah, and he goes to

681
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Speaker 1: and he goes to Buffalo. They're like, we got Tom Brady,

682
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: We're good. And he goes to It's it's crazy to

683
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 1: think about I I'm with you. I lean that way,

684
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 1: but man, you get to the point where you're like,

685
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 1: what if it's the only what if the only best

686
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 1: deal you get. I'm gonna say this, if that is

687
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 1: a great offer, there will be others. There's no chance

688
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 1: that that's going to be the only one. Who scares

689
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,759
Speaker 1: you more going to Indiapolis. We'll leave the shot out

690
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,959
Speaker 1: of this. Who scares you more going to Indiapolis? Aaron

691
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:26,839
Speaker 1: Rodgers and Russell Wilson because Rogers we know how great

692
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 1: he is. But for how long is he gonna do it?

693
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 1: Wilson's gonna do it for longer? I don't know. Does

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00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 1: Wilson really do it for that much longer. He will

695
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 1: do it longer, but that much longer A lot to

696
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 1: go over here. Okay, So a week ago, my blood

697
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 1: pressure went down. I was calmed. I was put in

698
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: a state of football relaxation and zen, which I don't

699
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 1: even really know what it means. But let's talk about

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Speaker 1: that next here on Texans All Access. All right, Mark

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Speaker 1: vandermaron John Harris with you Texans Radio made voyage for

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00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two season of Texans All Access. We'll

703
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Speaker 1: be with you Monday through Friday, six to seven pm.

704
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 1: All right. So, a week ago Johnny Lovey Smith named

705
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Speaker 1: head coach at the Texans, and I just felt as

706
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 1: I heard him speak at the podium, my football blood

707
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:20,959
Speaker 1: pressure went down. I was calmed. I was just put

708
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 1: in a relaxed state of confidence, of optimism, hope, not

709
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 1: that I didn't have it before. Look, I really felt

710
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 1: like this was going to be a good offseason for

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00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 1: this team. A lot of good moves being made, some

712
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:37,439
Speaker 1: nice foundation laying pieces in twenty twenty one, and we'd

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00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:41,400
Speaker 1: we'd see the development of these guys and other aspects

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Speaker 1: of the organization. But there's something about Lovey. He's coached

715
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 1: a long time in this league. He's been in some

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00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:51,239
Speaker 1: big games. I know the record isn't perfect all right,

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Speaker 1: but he's been there. He's been on the big stage

718
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 1: before that stage we saw last night, he's been there.

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Speaker 1: I know I didn't win the game, but he's been

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Speaker 1: there and that means something in the National Football League.

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Speaker 1: And I think he's good to go. A lot of

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00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: energies and outstanding physical shape. I am eager to see

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00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 1: what Lovey Smith does as the mentor of the Houston Texans.

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00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 1: I am with you. We've talked about this on the

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00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 1: podcast a few times. I felt the same way. There's

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00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 1: a lot of confidence and seeing him go, seeing him

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00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 1: walk up to the stage and sitting and you were

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00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:25,319
Speaker 1: talking at the podium while Nick and Lovey were up

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00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 1: on the stage, and then you threw it over to

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00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 1: Nick and they made opening statements and then they started

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00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: talking about Yeah, of course the fire alarm ran off

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00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,719
Speaker 1: and kind of create a little bit of care. Nick

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00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:40,320
Speaker 1: and Lovey handled that as well as humans possibly could

734
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: have been losing my mind. I would have been losing

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00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 1: my mind. Look, we've done shows through all kinds of stuff.

736
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:49,439
Speaker 1: We've been in closets and Denver. We've been god knows

737
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:52,399
Speaker 1: where doing shows on the middle of people, and I mean,

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00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 1: you know, we wunded with people hanging on tops off

739
00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: the rafters and and yeah, bangers in mask and it's

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00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 1: front of us. It's disruptive, but the fire alarm may

741
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 1: may have taken the cake. But but then with you,

742
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 1: I had that same had that same sort of feeling.

743
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 1: And then along with all that was kind of a

744
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 1: it's kind of like a mini tightal wave of stuff.

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00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 1: It was love. He's being named a head coach, frank'stang

746
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 1: as a special teams coordinator, and Pep's coming on and

747
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: gonna be promoted to be the offensive coordinator. I kind

748
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: of felt like, oh, damn man, Okay, all right, I

749
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 1: like how these puzzle pieces are coming together now I

750
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 1: don't I didn't want to see our guy Bobby King

751
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 1: go elsewhere. I definitely did not want to see James

752
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:37,880
Speaker 1: Camping go elsewhere. But that's live in the NFL. No

753
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:39,879
Speaker 1: matter whether you're changing the head coaches or not, there's

754
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: always two three coaches that are moving on for for

755
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: whatever reason, and so there's gonna be changed. But the

756
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 1: fact that love you taking over and Pep stepping up

757
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 1: being the offensive coordinator. With Frank as a special team's quarder,

758
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: Frank Ross is gonna be a head coach someday when

759
00:37:57,560 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 1: Frank wants to be a head coach and he feels

760
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 1: the time time is right. Not a lot of special

761
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,799
Speaker 1: teams coaches coordinators are getting opportunities. Joe Judge got one,

762
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: but you know, Dave Talbot from the Chiefs should have

763
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: had an opportunity and maybe still will get one down

764
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 1: the road. But I think Frank Ross is gonna be

765
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 1: a heck of a head football coach when he gets

766
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 1: an opportunity. He's been a really good special teams coordinator.

767
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 1: He's one of my he's one of my most fun

768
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:22,320
Speaker 1: guys to talk to just about about anything. So that

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Speaker 1: sort of it's I don't want to say continuity because

770
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:28,840
Speaker 1: it's not really continuity because head coach is different and

771
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator is different, but yet there's still continuity there.

772
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 1: And with Lovey having been there, done that sort of thing,

773
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 1: stepping in and feeling great pride and being the Texans

774
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: head coach as a Texan, Oh, that was pretty cool too.

775
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 1: But now it's time we get to work, like Okay,

776
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 1: all the pop and circumstance and the press conferences and

777
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 1: all that. All right, staffed together, then you on's staffs together.

778
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 1: Then you're moving on to what are the improvements do

779
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 1: we have to make into building? What else do we

780
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,479
Speaker 1: have to do infrastructure wise? And then it's we build

781
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: this thing for twenty twenty two and beyond. So what

782
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:05,319
Speaker 1: do we got free agency? What are we looking at?

783
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,479
Speaker 1: What players can we retain? What players are we gonna

784
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 1: have to then fill where's our biggest void going to be?

785
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: Have to continue obviously to work the phones on the

786
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:16,440
Speaker 1: whole the Shawn situation, what's going to happen there? And

787
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,759
Speaker 1: then getting it down to the draft, where I think

788
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 1: the nuts and bolts of this organization on the field

789
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 1: going forward is going to be found. I don't know

790
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 1: if Nick is going to tell us this or love you.

791
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 1: We'll ask Lovey this tomorrow. I mean, I'm sure Nick

792
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 1: would say something about it. But to what degree did

793
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: they talk about some of the defensive players they brought

794
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: in last year? Right, Guys who are around the league,

795
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 1: who had promise, like a Comu Gruge, a Hill obviously

796
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 1: Malique Collins, guys who had film out there, and I

797
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:48,800
Speaker 1: want to know what the collaboration was like and what

798
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:52,279
Speaker 1: it will be like moving forward, because obviously this is

799
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 1: Nick's baby as far as player acquisition goes. But I'm

800
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:58,239
Speaker 1: wondering what kind of input the head coach is going

801
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: to have because it's a diff situation now, and you're right,

802
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: he has been here a year and he's seen the guys.

803
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 1: And the other factor is who do you retain? Who

804
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 1: do you make substantial offers to remain Houston Texans. Guys

805
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,359
Speaker 1: who are about to hit the market here might want

806
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:15,759
Speaker 1: to test the market, or maybe you can say, look,

807
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:17,719
Speaker 1: we'll pay you X and you're gonna stay here. Who

808
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:19,240
Speaker 1: knows how it plays out. There a lot of different

809
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:21,840
Speaker 1: ways that could go, but I'm excited to see it.

810
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 1: It was great to see him get the gig and

811
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Speaker 1: move forward this way. Davis Mills. A lot of talk

812
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:32,359
Speaker 1: about him, Like you said earlier, Johnny, you put it, well,

813
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 1: he's the starter. No one's saying, look, he's gonna play

814
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:38,960
Speaker 1: here for fifteen years, he's got tenure already, He's guaranteed

815
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 1: to be the starter. Nobody's saying that. He's the guy

816
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 1: in the driver's seat right now, and he'll have an

817
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:45,759
Speaker 1: opportunity to prove himself and that's all you want to

818
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:50,920
Speaker 1: see right now. Yeah. Absolutely, And with this whole coaching search,

819
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: it was a it was a really interesting study in

820
00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: human dynamics and just watching people react to certain things

821
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 1: and what they what they believed in, and what they

822
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Speaker 1: do believe in. What should be a head coach, what

823
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 1: shouldn't all that kind of stuff. And obviously Josh McCown's

824
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: name gets gets brought up in and I don't know

825
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 1: if Josh McCown will be here. I've said I said

826
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Speaker 1: this to you. I said on the air, I think

827
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:15,239
Speaker 1: two three years ago that I wanted Josh McCown to

828
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:17,439
Speaker 1: be part of this organization some way, shape or form.

829
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 1: And maybe that comes to fruitione maybe not, but I

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Speaker 1: feel like, what's in place, it's time to rock now,

831
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 1: let's go. Yeah, let's go. Not to say that, you know,

832
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:29,040
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one was some throwaway year. In fact, I

833
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 1: think we're gonna look back at twenty twenty one and think, Okay,

834
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:37,320
Speaker 1: that's when a rocky ship hopefully found some stability. And

835
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 1: over the next few years, not only was stability the norm,

836
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 1: there was more greatness added on top of that and

837
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:47,239
Speaker 1: got the team back to where we want it to

838
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:49,840
Speaker 1: be like it was in twenty eleven, twenty twelve, you know,

839
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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, that now it gets to the

840
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:55,239
Speaker 1: point where it's stable for so many years that you

841
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 1: just get back in the mix and back in the mix.

842
00:41:57,560 --> 00:41:59,919
Speaker 1: But I'll say this though, in the AFC, oh boy,

843
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 1: it's tough. It's tough these quarterbacks in this in this conference. Wow.

844
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Speaker 1: How about what Nick said though during last year, even

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Speaker 1: before last year, about process, about this year's about getting

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Speaker 1: the organization going, getting a flow. These are my words,

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Speaker 1: not his. Now but you did all that, and like

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Speaker 1: you said, not all the faces are the same. But

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Speaker 1: you still love Lovey here, and we always felt that

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Speaker 1: way about Lovey the defensive coordinator. Hey, you have a

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Speaker 1: head coach in the building right there. You still have Romeo, right,

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Speaker 1: Romeo was here last year as a senior advisor. I

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Speaker 1: got smart people in the building. Yeah, you got experienced people.

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Speaker 1: You got good brains here to draw from. Yes, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: all right, that's gonna do it for tonight show. Great

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Speaker 1: to have you listening. Texans All Access Monday through Friday,

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Speaker 1: six to seven pm. Tomorrow night. Lovey Smith joins US

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Speaker 1: opening segment be here, have a great night everyone, and

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Speaker 1: go Texans.