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Speaker 3: Send us up the question, Harris, Game day.

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Speaker 4: Love the energy stop by Stingley Portray.

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Speaker 3: Texans have the ball on the pit and if.

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Speaker 3: We are working tonight, Texans here on the Honday Texans

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Speaker 3: Radio Studio at NRG Stadium, Mark Vandermere with you with

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Speaker 3: John Harris and joining us as always on a Thursday night,

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Speaker 3: and by always I mean ninety nine point nine percent

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Speaker 3: of the time. John McClain, the General, and good evening, gentlemen.

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Speaker 3: Let's rock. We are alive. We've got a lot to

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Speaker 3: few moments. Let's get it too OTAs. John. Welcome to

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, thank you guys for having me on.

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Speaker 2: Mark Berman's last day on KRIV channel twenty six is

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Speaker 2: my takeaways from OTA's OTAs are about about learning mentally.

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Speaker 1: He's only his third year. You kind of know what

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Speaker 2: not to say, write or broadcast something you heard off

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Speaker 2: the record, and that was the case. And I regret

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Speaker 2: that I've not been able to meet more Texans that

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Speaker 2: get to know them like I knew the oilers, and

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Speaker 2: when I'm covering guys, I'm not friends with them. But

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Speaker 2: after the career is over, I'm friends with a lot

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Speaker 2: of oilers who I covered because I just got to

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Speaker 2: spend more time with them. And that's just a change.

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Speaker 2: And I think it started. The first coach that I

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Speaker 2: know they wouldn't let his assistant coaches talk was Bill

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Speaker 2: Parcels after they won their second Super Bowl. He just

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Speaker 2: decided one voice, and nobody really knew why. I remember

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Speaker 2: the Bell Belichick shut down practice in the playoffs. Media

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Speaker 2: couldn't watch practice, and everybody went nuts. Media been watching

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Speaker 2: practice since the invention of football. And I asked Jack Pardee,

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Speaker 2: who was also in the playoffs. I said that coach

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Speaker 2: at Cleveland, Belichick, he's shutting the media out of practice.

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Speaker 2: So I said, why don't you do that? Because this

447
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Speaker 2: was the playoffs only time Belichick went to the playoffs

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Speaker 2: in his first six years as a coach. And Party said, well,

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Speaker 2: you know, I played fifteen years and I was the

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Speaker 2: head coach of the Redskins and the Bears, and I

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Speaker 2: have never seen a media person affect the outcome of

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Speaker 2: the game ever, And if I ever do, then I'll

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Speaker 2: shut down practice. And I have told so many head

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Speaker 2: coaches through the decades about Party, and there's some didn't

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Speaker 2: know who he was, and others are like, what he

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Speaker 2: must have been crazy, But somehow they had dynasties and

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Speaker 2: they won. And you still got to watch practice, doctor

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Speaker 2: assistant coaches and get to know the players. And I

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Speaker 2: regret that. You know, you roll with the times, and

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Speaker 2: that's just the way it is. I'll never forget another story.

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Speaker 2: When the Packers won the Super Bowl with farm and

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Speaker 2: they just got good. I was covering the NFL between

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Speaker 2: the Others and IT and the Texans, and I was

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Speaker 2: in Green Bay at Ron Wolf, his office of the GM,

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Speaker 2: and he asked me if I want to go to

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Speaker 2: lunch and he said, you know, it's probably the last

467
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Speaker 2: time I'm gonna get to go to lunch with a writer.

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Speaker 2: Said why. He said, well, my PR guy says there's

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Speaker 2: something called email out there, and as soon as something happens,

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Speaker 2: it goes all over the country. And he said that'll

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Speaker 2: be too bad. And I said, yeah, that will be

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Speaker 2: too bad. One time, Marty Schottenheimer wouldn't let his coaches talk.

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Speaker 2: Now as president Pro Football Rights of America, and he

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Speaker 2: invited me to go to his room. It's the league

475
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Speaker 2: meetings at the Biltmore, And I said, Marty Wade Phillis

476
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Speaker 2: has been a head coach four times and he's your

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Speaker 2: defensive coordinator. You won't even talk to the media, So

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Speaker 2: why not, he said, because if they say something stupid,

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Speaker 2: it can go all over the country immediately with email.

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Speaker 2: I said, why do you hire coaches that you worry

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Speaker 2: about saying stuff that's stupid? And he's like, uh, And

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Speaker 2: I said, did the media help you get a head

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Speaker 2: coach and job when you were assistant coach? Yeah? Did

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Speaker 2: you talk to the media whenever you wanted?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: So will you let your coaches talk?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 3: Great stuff?

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Speaker 2: Right? There.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I remember even here in the Kubiak era,

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Speaker 3: I'd grab assistant coaches in their office, bring them downstairs

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Speaker 3: do ten minutes of radio. But you know that was me. Anyway, general,

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Speaker 3: what do you have to promote? On Sports Radio six ten,

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Speaker 3: dot com and the Utopia Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Utopia Podcast with Sean bender Gas, We've got two up

496
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Speaker 2: in which we talk a lot about the Texans and

497
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Speaker 2: the OTAs, we talk a lot about the Astros. And

498
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Speaker 2: then I had a column. It was posted this morning

499
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Speaker 2: on Davis Mills, yesterday on CJ. Stroud, and my next

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Speaker 2: one will be on Monday when I'm gonna we're all

501
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Speaker 2: talking about the offense. I'm going to write about Matt

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Speaker 2: Burke and Tamiko Ryans's defense on Monday.

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Speaker 3: Very nice. Thank you very much for joining us, sir.

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Speaker 2: Guys, Thank you very much, and have a great weekend.

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Speaker 3: All right, coming up, you too, Coming up, it's Who's Better.

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Speaker 3: We've got opponents, we have position groups of the Texans,

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Speaker 3: we have far flung destinations for football games, and of

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Speaker 3: course something about the media. Let's get into it next.

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Speaker 3: Who's Better Here on Texans Radio Tixan's Radio continues. In

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Speaker 3: a moment, we returned to Texans all excess. Jere we

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Speaker 3: doing here in the Hunday Texans Radio studio, Mark VanderMeer,

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Speaker 3: John Harris with U Tanna play Who's better? Johnny? Let's roll?

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Speaker 1: There we go.

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Speaker 3: Who's better? Better position group for the Houston Texans in

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, the running backs or the defensive backs. Yes,

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Speaker 3: we're going brother against brother here within the family. Who's

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Speaker 3: gonna be better? And I guess you have to grade

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Speaker 3: it on a curve relative to where you started or

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Speaker 3: whatever you tell me.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if it's truly, if it's truly who's better?

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Speaker 4: To me, it's a secondary Now, I said yesterday, I

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Speaker 4: do think that there is one of the one of

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Speaker 4: Darry Xavian, Mike Boone who mis Jared Doaks. One of

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Speaker 4: those guys I think is gonna urge as a really

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Speaker 4: solid number three weapon, and however you want to use him.

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Speaker 4: I think one of those guys is going to emerge.

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Speaker 4: But I just look at the secondary and I think, Okay,

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Speaker 4: they're extingly at one corner. I think is gonna end

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Speaker 4: up being what we thought he what we thought he

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Speaker 4: was going to be. I think Jimmy Ward is going

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Speaker 4: to be a fantastic addition at safety, and of course

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Speaker 4: they have Jaylor Petrie kind of like running backs have

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Speaker 4: Damian Pierce. I think the difference is a secondary has

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Speaker 4: Steven Nelson. And Steven Nelson last year I thought played

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Speaker 4: very well and I don't think he got a lot

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Speaker 4: of credit for it because obviously the Texans were three

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Speaker 4: thirteen and one.

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Speaker 1: But I thought he did really well last year.

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Speaker 4: And you know, I know, listening to Ron Hugey, you

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Speaker 4: know he remembered him from Kansas City and covered him

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Speaker 4: in Kansas City. And I remember when the Texas signed

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Speaker 4: Steven Nelson, he was like, oh man, if they get

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Speaker 4: to Steven Nelson from Kansas City, this couldn't.

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Speaker 1: This may not be great.

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Speaker 4: But I don't think they got that player. I think

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Speaker 4: they got up developed, mature veteran who knows how to

547
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Speaker 4: play the corner position. He played it pretty well. Lovey system.

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Speaker 4: We'll see how it fits in into Dimiko and Matt

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Speaker 4: Burks system. But I think Stephen Nelson to me, is

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Speaker 4: kind of the difference, if you will, between them, that

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Speaker 4: he's established himself, but there's there's not a third running

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Speaker 4: back where.

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Speaker 1: You go, Okay, he's absolutely the guy.

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Speaker 4: The good thing is we're talking about these two groups,

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Speaker 4: and over the years we've been we've been kind of pushing, Hey,

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Speaker 4: we need the secondary to be better, we need the

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Speaker 4: running backs to be better.

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Speaker 1: Well, those two.

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Speaker 4: Position groups have improved immensely, immensely with bordering on elite

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Speaker 4: talent and free agents that have come in in Nelson's

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Speaker 4: case and hopefully have come in in Jimmy Ward's case

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Speaker 4: and turned that whole thing around in the back end.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, the secondary, you throw in Desmond King, Tavier Thomas,

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Speaker 4: I mean you can go, you can go a good

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Speaker 4: six to seven deep back there. And who's to say

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Speaker 4: whether I got that Kendall Sheffield can show a little

567
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Speaker 4: bit more in this system that maybe he did in

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Speaker 4: Lovey's system. I mean, that's a guy could fly. He's

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Speaker 4: got starts in the league too. So I think the secondary,

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Speaker 4: and maybe there's just because they're more bodies, there are

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Speaker 4: more guys you could talk about. I do think the

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Speaker 4: running backs are gonna be a really solid group Pearson

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Speaker 4: Singletary together, But the third guy's gotta emerge in a

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Speaker 4: seventeen game season, must emerge for this offense to get

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Speaker 4: to a different level.

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Speaker 3: All Right, who's better Johnny Texans opponent the New York

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Speaker 3: Jets or Texans preseason opponent the Miami Dolphins the way

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Speaker 3: they are now, Dolphins top five offense, last year, Jets

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Speaker 3: top five defense, but now they have Aaron Rodgers. Who's better?

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's a ridiculous question. The Dolphins should

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Speaker 3: be pretty good second year of the system with Mike

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Speaker 3: McDaniel running the show.

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Speaker 4: Oh no, I'm gonna say the Dolphins, okay, because because

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Speaker 4: I think the Yeah, I think Rogers and what he's

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Speaker 4: got offensively. Look, there's still questions about Breese Hall, whether

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Speaker 4: Breese comes back and when he comes back off that

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Speaker 4: torn a cl I mean, we'll see it, will more

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Speaker 4: than likely see him when we.

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Speaker 1: Face the Jets in December.

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Speaker 4: But early on, you know where Weinsbury's Hall, What's what's

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Speaker 4: he what's his status?

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Speaker 1: Of course, the receivers I think.

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Speaker 4: Improved and lobuhold Allen's ard walked out or went to

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Speaker 4: practice the other day and it was not anything bad.

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Speaker 4: He just got hit in an area that you know,

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Speaker 4: we don't like to get hitt in as guys. So

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Speaker 4: he's gonna be okay. I think the offense for the

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Speaker 4: Jets will be better. I think the big key for

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Speaker 4: both is the offensive line for both. But you add

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Speaker 4: Devon a Chain from out of A and M to

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Speaker 4: Miami's offense, I think Miami's offense is scarier, and I

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Speaker 4: think the Jets defense is really really good now. They

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Speaker 4: like I said the other night, they need to get

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Speaker 4: Quinn Williams back. That's a big deal for the Jets

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Speaker 4: figuratively and literally. They need him back. He's a game

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Speaker 4: changer in the middle. If they don't have him, I

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Speaker 4: think the Miami Dolphin, the Miami Dolphin defense might be

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Speaker 4: overall better because you got Jalen Phillips, who's emerging out

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Speaker 4: on the edge. You added Jalen Ramsey at corner to

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Speaker 4: go with Xavian Howard, and you've already got Javon Holland

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Speaker 4: at safety, who I think is already one of the

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Speaker 4: top ten safeties in the league, if not higher top seven,

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Speaker 4: top five. So you've got playmakers on the Miami side.

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Speaker 4: I can't believe I will say this. I'm happy that

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Speaker 4: we're facing Aaron Rodgers and the Jets as opposed to Miami.

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Speaker 4: I think Miami a second year McDaniel, Mike McDaniel's offense

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Speaker 4: in his team.

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Speaker 1: I think the pieces they've added I think makes Miami

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Speaker 1: scary good.

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Speaker 4: So that could be a dark horse to get in

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Speaker 4: the top three in the AFC, the Miami Dolphins, because

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Speaker 4: you know, look, Buffalo they'll be there, Kansas City will

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Speaker 4: definitely be there if Burrow stays healthy.

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati will be in that mix.

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Speaker 4: But I think Miami adding Jalen Ramsey was big in

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Speaker 4: the secondary, and I think continued development of some of

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Speaker 4: their young players Christian Wilkins, Jalen Phillips, John Holland. I

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Speaker 4: think that's gonna make that a complete football team that's

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Speaker 4: tough to beat this year.

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Speaker 3: Well, they're doing the two jiu jitsu training and that

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Speaker 3: to help the Miami Dolphins as well. They'll be here

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Speaker 3: for the only home preseason game that the Texans have

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Speaker 3: in the twenty twenty three slate. All right, who's better,

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Speaker 3: Let's do this now. You don't have to go back

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Speaker 3: to where they were projected to finish when they were

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Speaker 3: coming out of college or to be in the NFL

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Speaker 3: when they were coming out of college. It's based on

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Speaker 3: where they are right now. Johnny Better quarterback to start

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Speaker 3: a franchise with at this moment, would it be and

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Speaker 3: these are recently highly drafted quarterbacks, would it be Justin

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Speaker 3: Herbert or Trevor Lawrence? Their numbers are remarkably similar except

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Speaker 3: for the yards, which is a big exception. But Herbert's

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Speaker 3: team doesn't run the ball as well as the Jaguars do.

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Speaker 3: With Eta, we talked about him last night a little bit,

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Speaker 3: I believe, but they have really similar numbers tds to picks,

646
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 3: yards per attempt, that kind of thing. Who would be

647
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 3: a better quarterback to start a franchise with? I know

648
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 3: Herbert at a bad second half of that playoff game,

649
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 3: but Lawrence had a bad first half of that playoff game.

650
00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 3: What do you think?

651
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, these two are really interesting to me. This is

652
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 4: a great question. Mark this really close because you you

653
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 4: know how much I think of Justin Herbert. I think

654
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 4: Herbert came into the league and just he tore it up.

655
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 4: I mean when he was at Oregon, it felt like

656
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 4: they had the reins on him the whole time, and

657
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 4: they finally, by the time he got the Senior Bowl

658
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 4: unleashed him. And you're like, what, this guy has throwing

659
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 4: acumen that we didn't think he had. And I even

660
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 4: thought he was gonna be good. I didn't think he

661
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 4: was gonna be this good. We all thought Trevor was

662
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 4: gonna be good. I'm gonna give the edge to Trevor

663
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 4: for one, one particular reason, and it's kind of an

664
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 4: intangible I think Trevor I don't want to use the

665
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 4: word cocky, but I get the feeling that Jacksonville believes

666
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 4: it can win every single game, not because solely of

667
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 4: the talent of Trevor Lawrence. I think they look at

668
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 4: him and think that guy will find a way to

669
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 4: just win this ballgame.

670
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: They believe in him, and he's got a confidence in arringance.

671
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 4: There was a little dust up at the end of

672
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 4: the Titans Jaguars game and Jeffrey Simmons and I think

673
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 4: it was Tier Tart.

674
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 1: Maybe they're kind of getting after the Jaguar.

675
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:12,839
Speaker 4: Line the game that was in Tennessee, and Lawrence got

676
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 4: in between both of them and they were yapping to Lawrence,

677
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 4: and you saw him point up at the scoreboard and

678
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 4: it was thirty six twenty two. He pointed up at

679
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 4: the scoreboard and both Titans you kind of just kind

680
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 4: of dropped their head and moved away.

681
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 1: It was as if to say, look, you're not gonna

682
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: mess with us.

683
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 4: He's that guy for them, and I think they they

684
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 4: believe that entire community believes.

685
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 1: That they're gonna win games solely because Trevor Lawrence is there.

686
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 4: I think the Chargers believe they can be good and

687
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 4: the offense can be good because Justin Herbert's there. I

688
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 4: don't know if they totally buy into the fact that, oh, yeah,

689
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,959
Speaker 4: he is. I mean, he's the leader, there's no question.

690
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 4: But do they believe in him the way that Jacksonville does.

691
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 4: I don't think so, and I think that would be

692
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:55,760
Speaker 4: the difference to me, because both of them every single

693
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 4: piece of physical talent you could want in a quarterback

694
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 4: those two guys have. I just think Trevor's got a

695
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 4: little bit of, as they say, bleep in his system.

696
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 1: He's got that. I don't know if Justin's got that

697
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 1: quite yet. Maybe he gets it, Maybe it's there and

698
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 1: he just hasn't unearthed it yet.

699
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 4: Maybe we just don't see it enough because we don't

700
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:16,359
Speaker 4: play the Chargers every year, although we have the last

701
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,800
Speaker 4: couple of years. I just think Trevor's that guy, and

702
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:21,840
Speaker 4: I think we're gonna be feeling the pain of that

703
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 4: for a long time. As I was reminded today by

704
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 4: Mike Dempsey and Jacksonville, I told him that Trevor could

705
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 4: just take the year off, and you know he'd your

706
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 4: demand from him, Mark, and that's Trevor, just take the

707
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 4: year off so we don't see him twice. But Mike

708
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 4: said no, he wasn't gonna talk to him and tell

709
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:40,879
Speaker 4: him that, which I thought was very rude of Mike

710
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 4: to say that. But yeah, so Trevor's gonna be there

711
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 4: twice a year, and that's not good.

712
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,360
Speaker 3: I used to wish this for Andrew Luck and it worked,

713
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 3: and sometime for Trevor Lawrence not to get hurt, but

714
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 3: just to take a year off or maybe retire just

715
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 3: for safety reasons and to protect his hair so he

716
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:57,560
Speaker 3: doesn't get split ends and that kind of thing. Would

717
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 3: hate to see that happen, Johnny. So see if that

718
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 3: can come through. And you know, the Chargers need to

719
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:05,720
Speaker 3: run the football a lot better. So do the Texans.

720
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 3: By the way, we think about Pierce all the time

721
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:11,319
Speaker 3: and how good he looked, the Texans still finished second

722
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 3: to last in rushing yard direct that's gonna change this year.

723
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 3: Hot take hot prediction right, there that will definitely change,

724
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 3: all right, A couple of quickies for you. Who's better

725
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:25,439
Speaker 3: The Steelers are toying with the idea or lobbying or something.

726
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 3: I didn't read the whole story, but who cares. They

727
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,760
Speaker 3: would like to play a game in Ireland. Better location

728
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,240
Speaker 3: to play a game in your opinion, Ireland or Germany.

729
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:36,800
Speaker 3: Where would you want to go, Johnny, Ireland or Germany

730
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 3: to play a game. We're gonna have games in Germany,

731
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:41,320
Speaker 3: we did last year, we will this year. But what

732
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 3: about Ireland?

733
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:44,240
Speaker 1: I think they would be a great spot.

734
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 4: UCF and Penn State played there in fourteen, which is

735
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:52,800
Speaker 4: supposed to be O'Leary v. O'Brien, which is an irishman's dream, seemingly,

736
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 4: but then Bill took the Texans job, and I can't

737
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 4: remember for I think O'Leary coached that team at that point,

738
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 4: but he was gone shortly thereafter. Anyhow, Nebraska Northwestern played

739
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 4: there last year, so I think Ireland has been shown,

740
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 4: you know for the college game.

741
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,800
Speaker 1: Hey, yeah, I'd much rather go to Germany.

742
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 4: It sounds it and it just feels when you watch

743
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 4: a game in Germany, And I don't know, maybe it's

744
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 4: because there's been a game in Germany versus an NFL

745
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 4: game in Ireland. The passion for the German from the

746
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 4: German fans is incredible. I remember when the Ryan Fire

747
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 4: was in the World League of American Football and it

748
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:35,839
Speaker 4: was always passionate. The Frankfurt Galaxy, I think it felt

749
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,879
Speaker 4: like it was a it was a Premier League game

750
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 4: on steroids.

751
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:42,840
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just crazy and chance and everything.

752
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:45,280
Speaker 4: So I think I'd want to experience that in Germany,

753
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 4: although I think either one is pretty good, but I'll

754
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 4: go to Germany with Alan Mark.

755
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I'd pick Ireland actually, and maybe it's

756
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:57,320
Speaker 3: because of the way my mother felt about the Germans

757
00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 3: having grown up in the Netherlands. Sorry Germans, she said, it,

758
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 3: not me, all right. A media partner for the NFL

759
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 3: is back. You thought they were gone, but they're back.

760
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 3: Who are they? Other stuff going on around the league

761
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 3: as well. We'll get to it next here on Texans Radio.

762
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 3: Stay tuned for more on the Houston Texans and the

763
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 3: NFL on Texans All Excess. Tixans Radio is back. Sometimes

764
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:29,839
Speaker 3: I just like reading little headlines from Pro Football Talk,

765
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 3: including this one Davante Adams. Things get taken out of context.

766
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 3: I love everybody here, and I could label this as

767
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 3: things my ten year old might say, Hey, I got

768
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 3: to take it out of context. I really do love

769
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 3: everybody here, all right, Johnny, I'm gonna phrase this as

770
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,360
Speaker 3: a who's better kind of thing? Are you ready for this?

771
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 2: All right?

772
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:57,400
Speaker 3: Better return when you thought it was over, Case Keenum

773
00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 3: coming out of the Deer Blind in two thousand fourteen,

774
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:06,320
Speaker 3: or direct TV is back actually, just to do the

775
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 3: bars and restaurants and that kind of stuff. The big

776
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 3: public place is because it's hard to negotiate or work

777
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 3: the YouTube arrangement in those locales. I think I know

778
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 3: the answer to this one.

779
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: Wow, it's direct TV.

780
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 3: They it's gotta be Case. Come on, I'll never forget

781
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 3: him beating the Ravens and all that. We talked about

782
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:26,840
Speaker 3: that on a recent show now, but that was the

783
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 3: complete It's apples and oranges and peas or something, all right,

784
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 3: But the direct TV thing is interesting.

785
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, very much so. No, I will always be Case.

786
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding with that. But I just didn't.

787
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 4: When Case came back, there was a part of me

788
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 4: that felt like, well, yeah, it's Case. He's gonna figure

789
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 4: it out. I don't know why I felt that. It's

790
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:48,360
Speaker 4: still I don't want to minimize what he did, but

791
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 4: that story was great. I was so glad he told

792
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 4: us that story because it confirmed everything that we knew

793
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 4: and then some.

794
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 1: But direct TV is back, huh. I didn't see that today. Mark,

795
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 1: direct TV is back. Good for them.

796
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 3: Here's the thing. It's hard to get the YouTube. I

797
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 3: want to call it the DirecTV deal, but it's a

798
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,400
Speaker 3: Sunday ticket deal. It's hard to get the Sunday ticket

799
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:17,959
Speaker 3: deal into bars and restaurants. DirecTV already has the infrastructure

800
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 3: for that, so they're gonna do it. They need to

801
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 3: charge separately for it because they charge. If you own

802
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 3: a bar, restaurant, sports bar, or whatever, you get charged

803
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 3: at different rate than if you have a residence and

804
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 3: you're buying the Sunday ticket package. So that's how it goes.

805
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:35,800
Speaker 3: I've never had Sunday ticket I have Red Zone obviously,

806
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 3: but I've never had the Sunday ticket package.

807
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: I don't need it.

808
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 3: I do Texans games on the air, and when I'm

809
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 3: not doing a Texans game, I'm at home watching Red Zone.

810
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 3: I mainline it. It's intravenous. I don't leave the couch.

811
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:50,320
Speaker 3: It's a problem, really, So there it is. I'm not

812
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 3: gonna watch much this year because we have all these

813
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 3: noon starts, right, so I guess I'll watch a little

814
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 3: when I get home. But the afternoon window doesn't have

815
00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:58,719
Speaker 3: as many games, so it's not as much of a

816
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,400
Speaker 3: must as opposed to when the Texans are in a

817
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 3: buy or whatever and I'm just sitting down at noon

818
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 3: and I'm surgically attached to the couch for the next

819
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 3: seven hours. Because that's just how it goes. But that

820
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 3: is how it goes. Indeed, Direct TV is back for

821
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 3: bars and restaurants, Johnny the app viewing experience. I think

822
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 3: YouTube is going to do fine with this, although they

823
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 3: did point they changed something today. They made an announcement

824
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:26,840
Speaker 3: that I think the four screen thing you had to

825
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 3: charge extra. I'm going to butcher this, but they made

826
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 3: it more affordable to get all the amenities or more

827
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 3: of the amenities from the Sunday ticket package the way

828
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 3: they are laying it out, So I don't know if

829
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 3: they're having problems selling it or not. I haven't seen

830
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 3: much marketing. Look I am who I am. I haven't

831
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,759
Speaker 3: seen any YouTube marketing of the Sunday ticket package, which

832
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 3: is interesting. Have you have you seen any ads come

833
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 3: across your screens?

834
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 4: Well, because I have YouTube TV, Yeah, I see them

835
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 4: until I see because I have them, so I get

836
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 4: emails all the time. Hey, I don't know if we

837
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 4: told you this, but you can get Sunday ticket Now.

838
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:03,439
Speaker 4: I don't that I've seen outside of that, but hard

839
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 4: for me to know, just because I get emails all

840
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 4: the time. That's a Sunday ticket. But I did that

841
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:13,320
Speaker 4: quad box thing, Yeah, the multiview thing during the NCAA tournament.

842
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 1: Now they controlled it. They didn't allow me to do

843
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 1: it back back back back with PlayStation View.

844
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 4: I had PlayStation View and I could pick what I

845
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 4: wanted to put in the quad box and that was awesome.

846
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:28,279
Speaker 4: This with the NCAA tournament was awesome. But you they

847
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 4: would give you options. They would say, you can get

848
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:33,920
Speaker 4: these two games in a like a dual box. You

849
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 4: could get this one that has three games going on,

850
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:38,319
Speaker 4: or you can get this one that had four if

851
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:39,840
Speaker 4: you had four games going on. But they would do

852
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:42,759
Speaker 4: it for you, which I didn't love that part of it,

853
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 4: but they were just experimenting with it for the first time.

854
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 1: So if they have that.

855
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:52,320
Speaker 4: If you have the multiview with Sunday Ticket and you

856
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 4: now can watch four games at once. That's not quite

857
00:42:56,440 --> 00:43:00,399
Speaker 4: Red Zone, but man, that's pretty sweet if.

858
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:00,840
Speaker 1: You can do that.

859
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:03,320
Speaker 4: I won't get it, because, like you, I'm with you

860
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 4: every Sunday, and I don't know that I want it

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Speaker 4: just for the two or three weekends that you know,

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Speaker 4: at home with a bye week or whatever the case

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Speaker 4: might be. So and I'd rather keep that job, so

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Speaker 4: I don't want to sit on the couch for twelve

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Speaker 4: hours just going I can't leave the couch because Sunday

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Speaker 4: Tickets IV is stuck in my arm because I'm taking

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Speaker 4: it intraveniously.

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Speaker 3: Uh, Premier League. Do they do something like that with

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Speaker 3: Premier League? Because there're a lot of games on at

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Speaker 3: the same time in the Premier League as well, So

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Speaker 3: not if they have a package like that.

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Speaker 1: No, not yet. Not yet.

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Speaker 4: NCAA tournament was kind of the first Foray for YouTube,

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Speaker 4: but I think they've been playing with this for a while.

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Speaker 1: I think college football is where they want to go

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Speaker 1: next with it.

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Speaker 4: But man, if they do that with Sunday Ticket, but

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Speaker 4: then again, I don't want them going to Sunday Ticket

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Speaker 4: when that thing is not scrub perfectly working the way

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Speaker 4: that it needs to. Because I think the fans will

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Speaker 4: love think fans will love the multi view. If you

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Speaker 4: got big sixty five seventy inch TV year at home

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Speaker 4: and you get I mean you get four games and

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Speaker 4: Mark it was really easy. Like if I wanted the

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Speaker 4: sound on one, I would just slide my finger on

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Speaker 4: my remote from one game to the next and the

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Speaker 4: sound is seconds later.

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Speaker 1: This sound was a different game, it was.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes they get frustrated. Sometimes you get frustrated with red

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Speaker 3: Zone because I want the game to breathe a little bit,

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Speaker 3: and they'll pull away from it. But that's okay. I

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Speaker 3: figure it out. I live with it anyway. That's it

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Speaker 3: for the show tonight. Tomorrow night, we're gonna have some

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Speaker 3: of that Mark Berman conversation with Dbcity, which is up

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Speaker 3: on Houston Texans dot com and the Texans app right now.

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Speaker 3: And I just finished off a podcast. I recorded it

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Speaker 3: today with John Lopez. I'm gonna put it out tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: It is fun stuff. It is gonna be good. Enjoy

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Speaker 3: that over the weekend. I will let you know on

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Speaker 3: Twitter when it's gonna drop. As they say, Johnny, Thanks

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Speaker 3: a lot for being with us as always, John McClain

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Speaker 3: as well, Thank you Chris for producing. Have a great

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Speaker 3: evening everyone. This show will be up on podcasts soon.

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Speaker 3: Enough Go Texans. This is Texans Radio on Sports Radios

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