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

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Speaker 1: inside at RG Stadium. Another OTA session, Week three is

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Speaker 1: well in progress. Mark Vanderman or John Harris with you tonight, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: we were out there sweating it out. Feels good. Mini

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Speaker 1: camp next week, then the desert, then training camp. We

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Speaker 1: are ready to go, as always we are, and that's

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Speaker 1: kind of the way it should be. Is I was

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Speaker 1: kind of as I was closing the show last night,

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about that. Man, we're that close. It's

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Speaker 1: two We've seen all the OTAs. We're gonna see yeah,

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Speaker 1: oh wow, Yeah, that's right. But I think they have

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Speaker 1: another one tomorrow. But we'll see the mini camp next

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Speaker 1: week and we'll see how much Mini camp takes place.

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Speaker 1: Last year they canceled the whole thing. This is obviously

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Speaker 1: a new head coach. We'll see a lot of head

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Speaker 1: it's a good team building activity. You guys leaving ye,

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Speaker 1: that's a good team building activity. So we'll see if

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Speaker 1: that happens, because that happens with a lot of coaches

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Speaker 1: around the league. And then a mini week break sorder

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Speaker 1: for the coaches and front office people longer for the players,

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Speaker 1: but the players are not breaking much. In fact, that's

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Speaker 1: one of the questions that's going to come up in

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Speaker 1: the conversation right now with running back Rex Burkhead entering

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Speaker 1: practice activity. Rex, what do OTAs do for you? Here?

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Speaker 1: You are year ten, You've been through it all. How

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Speaker 1: focus on some little details, especially again these younger guys

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Speaker 1: in here, you know, learn the playbook team for us,

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Speaker 1: you know, as veterans, learned a new playbook with pep

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Speaker 1: here and growing as a team every single day, going

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Speaker 1: to know our new teammates and making sure we're taking

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Speaker 1: strides forward and then I steps back. Rex, we talk

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Speaker 1: about this all the time. From a sixteen game season

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Speaker 1: Was to take a little bit more time off this

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Speaker 1: you got to do certain things to make sure you

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Speaker 1: taking care of your body, and that starts now in

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Speaker 1: their routines. Can you boil it down to one thing though,

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Speaker 1: Let's say I'm an undrafted free agent here, i am

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Speaker 1: on Texans campus. Rex, You've been around for a decade.

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Speaker 1: What does it take. What's the one thing that you

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Speaker 1: That's what this is. You know, if you want to

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Speaker 1: Ques every single day, and there's high expectations and you

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Speaker 1: got to meet those whenever your numbers called rex year

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Speaker 1: after year, running back room changes. Last year a lot

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Speaker 1: different from last year or maybe from other places you've been. Yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: Like I said, some good guys who'd love to work.

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Speaker 1: That's what it's really special is it's guys who loved

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Speaker 1: Is it strange to break through the line and OTAs

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Speaker 1: probably four or five games, six seven games in the year.

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Speaker 1: Last year it kind of felt like you found a groove.

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Speaker 1: You know, it opens up the running game and vice versa.

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Speaker 1: I try to do. Well, you've been around for a

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Speaker 1: while now, but how does it feel to be back

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Speaker 1: I just think Rex Burke hit is a guy that

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Speaker 1: Rex Burke had a sixth round raft choice once upon

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Speaker 1: And he certainly didn't dance away from or move away

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Speaker 1: the NFL, and these things happen. But you mentioned Marlon

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Speaker 1: notice today is Marlon Mack got some juice, got some speed.

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Speaker 1: out and about and love being Texans and want this

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Speaker 1: team do well, we're behind you, and if there's anything

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Speaker 1: that we can do to help, then then we're all four.

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Speaker 1: And I used I used to there was always a

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Speaker 1: little bit of envy in some sense when I would

431
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Speaker 1: watch the Hurricanes and you would look down there, like

432
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Speaker 1: you know when you were there, and there would be, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, there would be you know, former Hurricanes down

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Speaker 1: on a field. Michael Irvan's down on the field. You know,

435
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Speaker 1: a Lonzo's down on the field. Um. They would just

436
00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:13,119
Speaker 1: be down on the field. They'd be talking to the

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Speaker 1: players and they just there was just that bond. I

438
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Speaker 1: mean when we talked to Brevin Jordan the other day

439
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Speaker 1: and I asked him, you know, hey, what you know,

440
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Speaker 1: if it's a Canes thing, you wouldn't understand, and he

441
00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:23,720
Speaker 1: just looked at you like, yeah, we understand, and you

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Speaker 1: get it. And you watch how those former players are

443
00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:31,960
Speaker 1: are you know, welcomed back in. You know, they set

444
00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:35,800
Speaker 1: they set the tone for the program, so hey, come on,

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Speaker 1: let's go. And I just I've always been sort of

446
00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,240
Speaker 1: envious of that because, I mean, I went to university

447
00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:43,240
Speaker 1: where we were from all over the country. Then once

448
00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:46,280
Speaker 1: you graduate, you're from all over the country. Um, you know,

449
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Speaker 1: for for Miami players, you know a lot of those

450
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Speaker 1: guys are from that area. You know they're from They're

451
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Speaker 1: from South Florida. That's home for them. So uh, having

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Speaker 1: a university where they're able to go back and feel

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Speaker 1: respect did and welcomed, I've always I've always loved that,

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Speaker 1: But I think it can be just as valuable for

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Speaker 1: a professional football team. Obviously in the city of Houston,

456
00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:10,159
Speaker 1: where a lot of players reside and decide to reside

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Speaker 1: here after their careers are over. To show the guys, hey,

458
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Speaker 1: we played here, we loved it here. You guys can

459
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Speaker 1: end up like us in this great city and we

460
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Speaker 1: really want you to do well and kind of this

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Speaker 1: symbiotic relationship. So I'm with you know, you know me,

462
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Speaker 1: I'm a sucker for things like that. Sure, for camaraderie

463
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Speaker 1: and family in a football sense, I just feel like

464
00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:33,879
Speaker 1: that's always really cool and and any team can use it,

465
00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,840
Speaker 1: but I definitely think this team could use it, especially

466
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Speaker 1: after the last two tough couple of years, especially going

467
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Speaker 1: through COVID and all that. For these players here now

468
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Speaker 1: to know, Hey man, you got a group of you

469
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Speaker 1: got a group of a lum so to speak, that

470
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Speaker 1: are that are They're here for you, you know, and

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Speaker 1: if you need us, let us know, and we're here

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Speaker 1: and we're supporting you. One of the shows, and this

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Speaker 1: is semi related, one of the shows on Serious X

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Speaker 1: and m NFL Radio. By the way, we've got some

475
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Speaker 1: interesting news coming up about that coming weeks, a couple

476
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Speaker 1: of weeks from now, something like that. Stay tuned. Mild

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Speaker 1: t is not a very good one. One of the

478
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Speaker 1: shows was talking about teams around the league and they

479
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Speaker 1: were doing a Texan segment, and you know, I go

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Speaker 1: crazy when they do a Texan segment, and I'm thinking

481
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Speaker 1: you left out this and this, and now you're emphasizing

482
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Speaker 1: the wrong thing here. And it's easy to grade when

483
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Speaker 1: you know your team so well. But they talked about

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Speaker 1: does this team have an identity? And we use that

485
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Speaker 1: word earlier this segment, and I'm going to throw it

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Speaker 1: to you. What is the preferred target identity of the

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans. I think we understand what they want to be,

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Speaker 1: but can we verbalize it in an elevator pitch? This

489
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Speaker 1: is the kind of team they want to be and

490
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Speaker 1: it can get you. Is it going to get them

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Speaker 1: to the postseason this year? Obviously they'd love to do it,

492
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Speaker 1: but they want a big improvement. They want a big

493
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Speaker 1: bounce from what they were last year and the year before.

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Speaker 1: So what do you think? That's a great question. It's

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Speaker 1: a great target identity. I could tell you. On defense,

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Speaker 1: I think we described it pretty well. I think it's create,

497
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Speaker 1: create havoc, and go get the football. Yeah, and when

498
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Speaker 1: you when you play us, you know it's gonna be

499
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Speaker 1: a pretty physical matchup. And guys are gonna play fast

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Speaker 1: and they're gonna they're going to be physical, but they're

501
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Speaker 1: gonna go get the football. Right, And last year takeaway

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Speaker 1: number was top five, top six in the history of

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Speaker 1: the franchise. Very good, very healthy takeaway number. The all

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Speaker 1: time high is twenty fourteen with the thirty four We

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Speaker 1: talked about it with Romeo Cornell. Offensively, I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: say they want to ground and pound necessarily. I know

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Speaker 1: they want to run the ball. I know they want

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Speaker 1: to get yards on the ground, especially more than last year,

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Speaker 1: please thirty second in the league. But what about this.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's a gun sling and we're gonna

511
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Speaker 1: go deep all the time thing either. It is somewhat

512
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Speaker 1: of a surgical passing attack with an effective ground game.

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Speaker 1: But that sounds so unsexy the way I put it, Well,

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Speaker 1: it's yeah, I don't I don't know if from an

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Speaker 1: identity standpoint, I feel like the identity is one of

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Speaker 1: physical balance that we'd like to be able to hammer

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Speaker 1: you up front a little bit. And look when you

518
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Speaker 1: look at Titus Howard, when you look at aj Can,

519
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Speaker 1: and you look at some of the bodies that are

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Speaker 1: going to be up there this year, you think, man,

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Speaker 1: they should be able to move people off the ball.

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Speaker 1: And it's going to be a group that physically can

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Speaker 1: start to move people a little bit. Now, look in

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Speaker 1: the NFL movement is it might be only be six inches,

525
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Speaker 1: But as long as that's six inches, isn't going back

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Speaker 1: in the backfield force and backs to have to cut

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Speaker 1: before they're ready to or before their key read tells

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Speaker 1: them too. So I think they're going to be physical front. Now,

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Speaker 1: I don't think it'll be the best running attack in

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Speaker 1: the league. I don't think it'll be the best passing

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Speaker 1: attack in the league. But I think in combination, when

532
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Speaker 1: there's balance there amongst those two, those two, you know,

533
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Speaker 1: run pass balance there. I think this offense can be

534
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Speaker 1: selectively aggressive, almost like almost like Floyd Mayweather as a boxer.

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Speaker 1: You know when you watch Floyd, now, Floyd's Floyd's very defensive.

536
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Speaker 1: He doesn't get hit a lot, but when he picks

537
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Speaker 1: and chooses his spots where he's going to live, there's

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Speaker 1: some shots he finds the right punch to throw at

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Speaker 1: the right time. And I think there can be part

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Speaker 1: of that. You run the ball until you get the

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Speaker 1: right opportunity to hurt them in the passing game, and

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Speaker 1: I feel like that's kind of the the approach. Now.

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Speaker 1: We'll see how that develops, but I think things are

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Speaker 1: going to be very surgical. Is a very good word.

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Speaker 1: I like that word surgical. It's I think that's a

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Speaker 1: really good word that fits. I'm glad I got a

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Speaker 1: good marker on that one. Okay, coming up, it's more

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Speaker 1: likely to happen we have quarterbacks on the docket. We

549
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Speaker 1: have Texan skill players, we have college football, and we

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Speaker 1: even have off field stuff involving a former Texan and

551
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Speaker 1: a current coach. But let you know next on Texans Radio,

552
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Speaker 1: Mark Vadimarin, John Harris with you Texans Radio. Great to

553
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Speaker 1: have your listening. Are you ready for more likely to happen?

554
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Speaker 1: Let's go. You know that, of course you are ready.

555
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:13,440
Speaker 1: Let's have the first one more likely to happen, more

556
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Speaker 1: likely to have fourteen starts next year? Baker Mayfield or

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo. Are you talking twenty twenty two or twenty

558
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 1: twenty three? Yeah, well, yeah, I shouldn't say next year.

559
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:27,879
Speaker 1: I already you know what. I asked that question like

560
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Speaker 1: it's February or something, because that kind of applies. It's

561
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Speaker 1: not the next calendar year, but it feels like the

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Speaker 1: next year. It's freaking June. Like we said, we're less

563
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Speaker 1: than two months away from preseason stuff or at least

564
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Speaker 1: training camp. I should say Baker Mayfield. So Mayfield gets

565
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Speaker 1: traded or released and picked up as or more or

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Speaker 1: plays for his current team, Johnny, do you think they're

567
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Speaker 1: going to reconcile if need be? And we all know

568
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Speaker 1: what if need be would be. Yeah, after I do

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Speaker 1: think there's a possibility of that. I mean, if you're

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Speaker 1: the Brown sitting on a team that you know the

571
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 1: window is open. And look Baker Mayfield last year. Now

572
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 1: he's guilty of his own bad decision making. Yeah, in

573
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: the game against US, Justin Reid has the interception and

574
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:12,159
Speaker 1: he decides he's gonna go play Joe Hiro and in

575
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:15,439
Speaker 1: turn into Jack Tatum or Ronnie Lott or whatever safety

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Speaker 1: you want to insert into that mix, and go make

577
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 1: this hit on Justin Reid and it changed his entire

578
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 1: season and maybe his entire football life because he makes

579
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: that tackle, he hurts his left shoulder and his mechanics,

580
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 1: everything are off the rest of the year. Fast forward

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Speaker 1: to this year. Now, obviously there were some things off

582
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 1: the field and he was upset about the whole And

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Speaker 1: I don't blame him to a degree. They're going after

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Speaker 1: a guy with all the baggage that the Shawan has

585
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 1: and you're sitting there is bakery, like, wait a second,

586
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 1: what's going on? But that team has enough talent that Okay,

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00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:48,480
Speaker 1: if the Shan can't play for the season, or can't

588
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 1: play for a significant amount of the amount of the season,

589
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 1: then you want to turn that over to whom Kobe Brissette,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that. I totally want to do that, Baker,

591
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:02,400
Speaker 1: come on, kiss him, take up though it's bad, it's

592
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,200
Speaker 1: real bad. It's real bad. They already broke up with him.

593
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 1: Now they're saying we want you back. Yeah. But sometimes

594
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 1: if if both sides are like, look, you did me wrong,

595
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:16,200
Speaker 1: I did you wrong, let's this isn't This isn't for

596
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 1: the Browns. This is for me. Okay, the Browns are like, look,

597
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:21,680
Speaker 1: you do what you gotta do. We'll reap the benefits

598
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: of that. But you got the opportunity over the next

599
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:26,200
Speaker 1: how many ever games to show that you still have

600
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 1: got it. And if he shows that he's still got it,

601
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 1: then he'll have the opportunity after that to go somewhere

602
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 1: and do some things with his next team. At that

603
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 1: particular point, I just think it's gonna be tough for

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Speaker 1: Baker and for Jimmy to find a team. Jimmy's issues

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00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 1: the shoulder, right, is he gonna be healthy enough to

606
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Speaker 1: even step into it. Here's my scenario, Johnny, Jimmy gets

607
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 1: healthy by late July, training camp starts, somebody gets hurt yeare.

608
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, some team does not like their quarterback

609
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 1: situation whatsoever? That the one like a Carolina or something.

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Speaker 1: You know what, We'll take a rock. Oh, I got one.

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Speaker 1: How about this? What happens if down in Miami to

612
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 1: what doesn't look good or gets hurt? Who is not

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00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: looking good? Or he gets hurt? Oh, with that squad

614
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 1: and all their talent, garoppolo could feast there a healthy garoo.

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00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 1: McDaniel having been with San Francisco going, Jimmy knows him

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Speaker 1: really well. That's a great point, Johnny, all right, more

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Speaker 1: likely to happen, more likely to happen. Damian Pierced seven

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00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 1: hundred yards or Nico Collins seven hundred yards. NiCoT right

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Speaker 1: there without even thinking about it. Yeah, let me just

620
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Speaker 1: set it up for you. Nico last year four hundred

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Speaker 1: forty six receiving yards on thirty three catches, all right,

622
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 1: so he averaged thirteen and a half per catch, So

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Speaker 1: he should do more than thirty three, you would think.

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Speaker 1: So year he played fourteen games, he missed three games, right,

625
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 1: fourteen games, twelve starts, so he had four hundred and

626
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Speaker 1: sixty yards in the fourteen so he was like thirty

627
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Speaker 1: to thirty five yards per game somewhere in that range

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Speaker 1: out that's another one hundred five, five hundred and fifteen yards.

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Speaker 1: On top of that, you're talking five to sixty ish

630
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Speaker 1: five seventy ish as a rookie. Can he get to

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Speaker 1: seven hundred Yeah? I think first of all, his targets

632
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 1: will go up. I think more teams will try and

633
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Speaker 1: take away Brandon Cooks. If Nico can play off seventeen

634
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Speaker 1: games and you're talking seventeen games, that's to seven hundred yards.

635
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Speaker 1: That's forty two, forty three yards per game. Yeah, I

636
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Speaker 1: think Nico can get the forty three yards per game.

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Speaker 1: I think I think that that can happen. He's he's

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Speaker 1: got to Now when when John Metschi's ready to go,

639
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 1: will the touch has change? Sure, I think they'll I

640
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: think they'll change. But I think Nico's gotta Nico's gonna

641
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 1: get to a point where the way that they are

642
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 1: gonna want to run the football, and what then can

643
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 1: come off of those runs. I'll have some big players

644
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 1: to catch average will go off. That can happen. I

645
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 1: think running catch opportunities also, or catching run opportunities right

646
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,959
Speaker 1: where he catches a slant and because safeties are screaming

647
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 1: up to the run, he cants into slant and boom.

648
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 1: He could turn it up into into something I would

649
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: love to see. Damian gets seven hundred yards. But he's

650
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: got Rex in front of him, He's got Marlon Mack

651
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: in front of him, potentially Royce Freeman in front of him,

652
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 1: and you got Jed Anderson, who has been very impressive

653
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: during his OTA's to watch. Damien's got some room to

654
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: kind of. He's got to work his way through. And

655
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 1: I don't know that he will get to week one

656
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 1: as the starter. So if he gets week seven, Week eight,

657
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 1: week nine, where it all of a sudden he's starting

658
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: to get a little bit more of the carry's now,

659
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 1: he's only got a half season to get the seven hundred.

660
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: I don't know he's totally gonna get there. I'm going Niko. Okay,

661
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 1: you'll go with Niko. I think it's a pretty good pick.

662
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 1: Pierce forty one yards per game. It's possible once he

663
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 1: gets gonna have like three or four games where he

664
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: gets a hundi plus it's gonna be running back by committee,

665
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 1: and that's not an insult to anybody, but they're gonna

666
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 1: have a stable, he'll be part of it. He'll have

667
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 1: some big days seven hundred in a seventeen game schedules

668
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:52,200
Speaker 1: and not a ton. And by the way, when we

669
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 1: were talking about Niko with the fourteen games played, I

670
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 1: think in today's NFL, it's very reasonable to expect that

671
00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: guys are gonna sit out of game or two now,

672
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 1: like load management. But it just has to happen because

673
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 1: of whatever reason, mild injuries or a more serious one.

674
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 1: I think you're absolutely totally right about that. I'm more

675
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 1: likely to happen next one, more likely to happen, more

676
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: likely to get the next non SEC Natty, the non

677
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 1: SEC national championship. Will it be the Big Ten, Will

678
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 1: it be the Big twelve or whatever's left of it?

679
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 1: Will it be the PAC twelve? Yes? Will it be

680
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 1: the ACC or will it be Not Dame Notre Dame. No.

681
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: Although I like Marcus Freeman's head coach, I think he's

682
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 1: He's recruited very very well. He got a guy this

683
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 1: summer out of Denton guy. Or it was funny. I

684
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 1: was actually watching a quarterback from Austin Westlake because he's

685
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 1: going to Clemson, and I watched the state championship game.

686
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: So I'm watching Denton. Guyer's got a quarterback on Oklhoma.

687
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 1: This game unbelievable to play in talents over place. And

688
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 1: also this is this guy twenty two. That guy's good.

689
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's going to Notre Dame. So Marks Freeman's

690
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: doing some recruiting. But I think when it comes to

691
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: winning a national championship, I think you either a need

692
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 1: to roll through the SEC because that battle tests you,

693
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 1: that hardens you, and if you come out of there

694
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: with one loss, then you're gonna be in great shape.

695
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: You're gonna get some favor from the committee. Or you

696
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: need to be in a situation where you emerge as

697
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 1: the team in that particular conference and nobody really could

698
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 1: challenge you. So you roll through the regular season, maybe

699
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 1: not battle tested, but you're talented and you can beat

700
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 1: anybody anytime. That is going to be the USC Trojans

701
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 1: in due time. Okay, the players that they have going

702
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: to USC, the transfers that I've gone into USC this

703
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:43,480
Speaker 1: year are incredibly talented, and Lincoln is now getting some

704
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: of those guys. Let'll give a guy from modern day

705
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 1: high school relief brown running back who looks God, I

706
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 1: can't believe MNA say this because there was nobody that

707
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: ever looked like this guy's Reggie Bush. But you watch

708
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 1: Relie and you're like, whoa. And he was gonna go

709
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: to Oklahoma when Lincoln Riley went to USC, oh, I'm

710
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: gonna stay home and go to USC. I think Lincoln

711
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 1: Riley is gonna start to change West Coast football back

712
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,440
Speaker 1: to hey, we go to USC now, now, can you

713
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: get him one of the top I don't know, but

714
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 1: I feel like USC is gonna be the one that

715
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:16,839
Speaker 1: has the opportunity to do it because Riley will get

716
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 1: a big time quarterback, and he will get a lot

717
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 1: of that local talent to stay home, and because of that,

718
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 1: USC will get that juggernaut. Not maybe all the way back,

719
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,360
Speaker 1: but they're gonna position themselves to dominate the Pac twelve

720
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:31,800
Speaker 1: and be in position to be in the playoff. The

721
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 1: only other one I would say is Ohio State, but

722
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,839
Speaker 1: I don't think O High States recruiting has been as

723
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 1: good the last couple of years. This team this year though,

724
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: oh Man, so this year yeah, okay, all right? One

725
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:48,800
Speaker 1: more here, more likely to happen, more likely to shave

726
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 1: their beard first or next. Ryan Fitzpatrick Lovey Smith. What

727
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: do you have, Fitzy. Yeah, because he's got the TV

728
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 1: gig and maybe to do it for that, Although do

729
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 1: you want to do that? This is your brand, this

730
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 1: is your and I think because it's his brain and

731
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,320
Speaker 1: it is a identity. I don't think a TV that

732
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 1: was kind of the first, Oh, TV, you'll make him

733
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Speaker 1: shave it. I think TV would tell him No. I

734
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:15,880
Speaker 1: think if the TV is smart, let me be honest,

735
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: let me keep it, keep it. That's your identity. Why

736
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: do you want to go clean shaven, look like everybody else? Yeah,

737
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: although these days with a beard, you look like everybody else.

738
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, so I could see a TV

739
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 1: network saying now we'd like for you to shave it.

740
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 1: Then he's just you know, being a team guy and

741
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:35,719
Speaker 1: does it. But no, that's that's not become that's become

742
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: Love's identity exactly. Defensive football takeaways beard. I think the

743
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,360
Speaker 1: beard is worth at least two and a half wins,

744
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: that's what I give. Absolutely, maybe you could push it

745
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 1: to three. Yeah, it's possible. The beard is home field advantage,

746
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 1: it's road prowess, yes, all of it. The players feed

747
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:58,240
Speaker 1: off the beard, not literally coming up we have around

748
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 1: the league stuff. We have quarterback derby. Who's the most

749
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: compelling quarterback story that's left this offseason? And we'll give

750
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: you the candidates right now. Lamar Jackson, Baker Mayfield, Jimmy Garoppolo,

751
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. You tell me next, and you're not allowed

752
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 1: to package anybody in there with Baker Mayfield plus another

753
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 1: story we're following that's just too good to be true,

754
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 1: it seems although is it going to work out for them?

755
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 1: It's really going to disappoint me. It's Texans Radio, all right,

756
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 1: final segment. We have a lot to do. Boy do

757
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 1: we have a lot to do before the close of

758
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 1: business today on Texans All Access, Johnny most compelling quarterback

759
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: story in the league that's left for the twenty twenty

760
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 1: two offseason, Baker Mayfield, Lamar Jackson, Kyler Murray, Jimmy Garoppolo.

761
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 1: You want to add a wild card in there? And look,

762
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 1: I'm not going to get into the big story yet

763
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 1: there because we all know we'd follow it. We talk

764
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 1: about that it's like a Hall of Fame, one that's

765
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 1: always going to just be up there that there's nothing.

766
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,360
Speaker 1: Those are the candidates. You cannot add the other one

767
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 1: in there's a wild card, even though his situation plays

768
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 1: into the Baker Mayfield situation. Although I don't think he

769
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,359
Speaker 1: would ever miss time and I don't think he would

770
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: hold out. I'm intrigued by the Lamar Jackson one. Yeah,

771
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 1: I think where Baker Mayfield and Jimmy Garoppolo end up

772
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: going is gonna be okay. But Lamar's just he's an

773
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: interesting guy, doesn't have an agent. His mom does all

774
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 1: of his agent work basically and handles all that. And

775
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: I don't think there's bad blood between he and the Ravens.

776
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 1: I just think he's like, you know, we'll get to

777
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: who we get to. Its sort of thing. And I

778
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:37,319
Speaker 1: think he represents Baltimore extremely well. I think he loves

779
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 1: playing for the Ravens. So but that that story is

780
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 1: more to me. That's a c It's just curiosity. How

781
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 1: else do you want to go? Yeah, the coach loves you. Yeah,

782
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 1: I don't think he wants to go anywhere. I just

783
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: think it's it's worth watching because like, is he gonna

784
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,359
Speaker 1: sign a contract? Is he gonna like as he said

785
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 1: about the lack of receiver acquisition, Maybe I have the

786
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:01,719
Speaker 1: trade of Hollywood Brown. I know, he tweeted draft it

787
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 1: was funny. He treated tweeted on Draft night on the

788
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:07,839
Speaker 1: first round about, you know, kind of shaking his head

789
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,720
Speaker 1: about it. You know, Hollywood being traded to the Arizona Cardinals,

790
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 1: and everybody thought he was talking about Tyler linder Bom

791
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 1: his new center. He's like, no, no, man, I wasn't

792
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 1: talking about tyme. I'm gonna like Tyler, and then he

793
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 1: just stopped it right there. So it's just kind of

794
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: I'm more curious than anything else. It's kind of like,

795
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 1: you know when Pippa hear is kind of a noise

796
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 1: and it's kind of like weird because it kind of

797
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: doghead turned like whoa, what was that. That's kind of

798
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: the way I reacted. Yeah, the Baltimore thing is just

799
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 1: kind of it's really curious to me. So and I

800
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 1: like Lamar. I've always been at a Lamar guy. I

801
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 1: just I never wanted I did not want to see

802
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 1: him in Jacksonville. I remember the three of us cheering

803
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 1: in this room when the Jaguars passed on him back

804
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen because you were like, we do not

805
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 1: want to see this guy twice a year. I don't

806
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 1: want to have to defend against oh Man because Taven

807
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: Brian just tore it up down to Jacksonville. That still stings.

808
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:02,280
Speaker 1: But I just think Baltimore's It's interesting because I honestly

809
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: feel like since then it takes a step back. Pittsburgh

810
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:09,439
Speaker 1: isn't altogether there. Cleveland is just kind of a mess

811
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:13,399
Speaker 1: with everything that's quarterback and whatever happens there. I feel

812
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 1: like Baltimore's position to really make a solid comeback. It's

813
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 1: not even so sneaky. Look at the close games down

814
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 1: stretch with Huntley Lamar, without Lamar, they with Lamar, and

815
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 1: I don't care who's out there. Well, I should be

816
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 1: concerned if I'm a Ravens fan, and I'm not. But

817
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 1: as long as they have Andrews and relatively healthy line

818
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 1: and the running backs all got hurt last year. Look

819
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 1: with relative health is my point here, they should be

820
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 1: really good and they should contend for that division. That

821
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 1: shouldn't be a surprise to anybody. Kyler Murray baffles me

822
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 1: because of the I don't know is he really I

823
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: wonder what the proposal is for him? Right? It can't

824
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:59,839
Speaker 1: be Watson like is it the next level? Like that's

825
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,879
Speaker 1: what you would think for the number one overall pick.

826
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 1: Has he played like it? You gotta get to the

827
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 1: other story though, otherwise we're gonna run out of time. Okay,

828
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 1: let's let's get to it, all right, Matt Patricia. You

829
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 1: could see it working because you know they've done strange

830
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: things before and they've worked. Right, you could see it working.

831
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,760
Speaker 1: But if it doesn't work, oh boy, what a story.

832
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:29,400
Speaker 1: What great press conference is, what narratives coming out of

833
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:33,280
Speaker 1: New England. I cannot wait to see how this unfolds.

834
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:34,719
Speaker 1: And we don't play them this year for the first

835
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 1: time in a long time. But here's the flip side.

836
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 1: What if it works? Oh boy? You know, Gotsy went

837
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: from offense to defense back to offense. But it wasn't

838
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:48,320
Speaker 1: like he was lighting it up in Miami. Look, and

839
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:51,760
Speaker 1: here's another dimension of this. A coach is a coach.

840
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 1: You know, Parcels could coach offense. Belichick and coach offense.

841
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,759
Speaker 1: Great coaches are great coaches. Is Patricia a great coach?

842
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:00,919
Speaker 1: He might not be a great head coach. Maybe he's

843
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 1: a great coordinator or caller of plays or figuring out

844
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 1: how to execute on either side of the ball. I

845
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 1: guess we'll see. Yeah, Well, I'm about to give you

846
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:15,439
Speaker 1: another story. This is from Zach Keefer, covering a colt

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Speaker 1: They think he'll be ready for the regular season. Who

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Speaker 1: do we play week one? Not Darius Leonard? Okay, not

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Speaker 1: It's true. Seen it happened too many times. So I

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Speaker 1: wish that on Andrew Lucket it came true that he

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Speaker 1: should retire because of safety reasons. Yes see, you're welcome, Houston, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: thank you, gotta Mark, thank you. That's it for the

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