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Speaker 1: What's happened everybody, TG, I have Thank God Friday. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: even in the summer. Hopefully you got a good weekend plan.

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Speaker 1: Welcome into the show Texas All Access from the Hunday

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio Studio. I am your host, John Harris, football analyst,

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Speaker 1: sideline reporter, and this is going to be an interview Friday.

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Speaker 1: That's right, Mark and I during media Day is a

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Speaker 1: chance to catch up with a lot, a lot a

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Speaker 1: lot of the Texans players forty to be exactly. We've

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Speaker 1: been playing them at different points throughout and we're getting

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Speaker 1: to a point now where we gotta play them before

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Speaker 1: too long because we're twelve days away from camp starting,

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Speaker 1: and once we get to camp, it's all about what's

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Speaker 1: happening in training camp. So it's gonna be interview Friday.

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Speaker 1: So you're gonna hear from Austin Deculus, Kurt Heinish, Tommy Townsend.

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Speaker 2: You're also gonna hear from Jakub Johnson.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna hear from Tommy and Yakub in this first segment,

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Speaker 1: but we're gonna kick it off with the guy. A

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Speaker 1: lot of people did a little doghead turned the first

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Speaker 1: day of OTAs because the media got out there just

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Speaker 1: on the social media after practice and said, here's what

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Speaker 1: the first offensive line looks like. And a lot of

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Speaker 1: people out there were like, who is Jake Andrews? And

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Speaker 1: I just remember seeing it. I thought, I'm not surprised.

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Speaker 1: I saw him when he was at the Senior Ball

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Speaker 1: back in twenty three. I thought he had the right

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Speaker 1: temperament to play center in the system. He had played

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Speaker 1: up a little bit. He had played at Troy University

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Speaker 1: before he got to the Senior Bowl. His offensive line coach,

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Speaker 1: offense coordinator there was Kole Popovich. I think you've heard

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Speaker 1: of him. So what Jake Andrews tried it out with

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Speaker 1: the first unit at center. Not really surprised, but I

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Speaker 1: think there were a lot of people that were out

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Speaker 1: there that were surprised. But I got to know Jake

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Speaker 1: a tiny bit at the Senior Bowl a couple of

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Speaker 1: years ago, talk to him, ask him about his wrestling background.

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Speaker 1: Of course, he wasn't gonna remember me, and I knew

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Speaker 1: he wasn't. But that said, I knew that what Texas

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Speaker 1: had gotten in Jake Andrews very intriguing candidate. To start

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Speaker 1: on this offensive line. Through Out OTA's mini camps, he

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Speaker 1: was there's the number one center most of the time.

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Speaker 1: Now does that whole throughout season, don't know, But if

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Speaker 1: it does, I'm pretty confident Jake Andrews is gonna be

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Speaker 1: the right guy at center, Very confident in that. I

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Speaker 1: do think there's gonna be a competition, and that's why

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Speaker 1: I say it that way.

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Speaker 2: If he emerges as the.

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Speaker 1: Starter, he will have beaten out Jared Patterson, beating out

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Speaker 1: Jew Scruggs and anybody else they try at center.

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Speaker 2: But Jake Andrews stepped.

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Speaker 1: In the studio for the very first time at a

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Speaker 1: good time talking to Jake Andrews kickoff interview Friday.

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Speaker 3: Joining us in a Hundai Texans radio studio for the

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Speaker 3: first time ever. It's Jake Andrews Center. Welcome, Jake, appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Thank you all right. So you're new to the team,

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Speaker 3: not new to the NFL, though, So what are you

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Speaker 3: thinking so far? Texans practice is underway, the meetings, a

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Speaker 2: What do you think.

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Speaker 4: I'm having a lot of fun right now.

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Speaker 5: I'm just honestly just lucky to be here, blessed to

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Speaker 5: be here trying to enjoy it as much as I can.

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Speaker 4: It's a lot different than where I'm from.

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Speaker 5: I feel like, you know, there's I've always heard there's

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Speaker 5: thirty two teams that do business thirty two different ways,

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Speaker 5: and so I like the way they do it here,

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Speaker 5: and I'm like, I said, really happy to be here

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Speaker 1: So a couple of years ago, I said this the

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Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl. I think it was twenty three at

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Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl, and my buddy Manzerline was talking to you,

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Speaker 1: and so I saw Lance, and so I just was

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Speaker 1: some point I remember saying to you, you're a wrestler,

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Speaker 2: And you were like, yeah, did you know that?

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Speaker 1: I was like interior offensive linemen that wrestle had like

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Speaker 5: Very important to me, not only for football, but just

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Speaker 4: And so yeah, it's been really important. I'm glad i'd

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Speaker 5: I would advocate for everybody to at least try to

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Speaker 2: Right and so, yeah, so you were a heavyweight, right

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Speaker 2: I was. Yeah, so at a heavyweight, you don't have

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Speaker 5: They used to have they used to be called super heavyweight.

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Speaker 5: So like what heavyweight is now, which is two eighty

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Speaker 4: No, not till my senior year. Yeah, I had to

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Speaker 7: Oh really?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, cool, because I'd get heavy for football and then

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Speaker 2: So yeah, how tough was that? Pretty well?

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Speaker 1: In college he was our full back at two hundred

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's crazy. We had We had a guy that

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Speaker 4: So he had to cut all that weight and they have.

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Speaker 5: This like hydration test where you have to be so

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Speaker 5: So yeah, it was tough, but that's that kind of

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Speaker 4: Do that, you can you can do anything.

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Speaker 3: So you're at Troy with Kole Popovich, right, I was, yes,

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Speaker 3: all right, So tell the listeners viewers about Cole Popovich.

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Speaker 3: What kind of coaches he what kind of guy? Has

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Speaker 5: Whenever somebody asked me about pop I just the thing

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Speaker 5: that comes to my mind is winning. That's all he

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Speaker 5: He wants to go home, hang out with his family,

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Speaker 5: winning again. You know what I mean. Awesome, dude. I

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Speaker 5: wouldn't be here without him. I'll go ahead and say that.

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Speaker 5: I wouldn't say that about a lot of people. If

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Speaker 5: but he's definitely one of them.

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Speaker 4: He came to Troy my senior year.

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Speaker 5: I've been trying since I was knee high to a cricket,

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Speaker 4: Nobody would ever let me do it all growing up.

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Speaker 5: like I said, without him, I wouldn't be here. He's

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Speaker 5: he's a great man, man of God, fierce competitor even

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Speaker 5: just as a coach, really smart, very detailed in the

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Speaker 1: So was that something you wanted to do to play

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Speaker 2: What? What was it about playing center? Did you think

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I wouldn't have ever, you know, said

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Speaker 5: if I'm going to do you know, but I always

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Speaker 5: wanted to do it because you're in the middle of

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Speaker 3: Jake, What can you share with us about the system?

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Speaker 3: What's going to be run here in this offense? Without

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Speaker 3: giving away too many secrets to the enemy.

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Speaker 5: The ball is gonna be run, I tell you that much.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna run the football. Tayli's doing a good job

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Speaker 5: with putting all that stuff together. We're gonna protect cj

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Speaker 5: from We're gonna try to make it our lives work

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Speaker 5: at all. Yeah, we're gonna pound the rock and we're

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Speaker 5: gonna air it out. We're gonna keep people on their

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Speaker 5: that they just got done playing in the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 2: Jake.

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Speaker 1: You've had I don't know how many new players to

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Speaker 1: the Texans that have been and so guys are getting

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Speaker 1: to know one another. You're lining up to somebody you

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Speaker 1: never lined up next to more than likely.

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Speaker 2: What's that been like to help foster the chemistry.

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Speaker 1: What have you guys kind of been doing to make

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Speaker 1: sure that you guys are thinking as a group as

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Speaker 1: opposed to guys that just got to know each other

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Speaker 1: within the last month or so.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, for me, it's easier because I ran this system

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Speaker 5: exact system, different verbiage in college my senior year, dur

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Speaker 5: my rookie year when I was in New England, I

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Speaker 5: ran the same thing with Bill O'Brien, And so.

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Speaker 4: For me it's been pretty easy because.

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Speaker 5: I can communicate with guys who are seeing this stuff

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Speaker 5: for the first time, right, and you know, it's easy

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Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, Jake, thanks so much for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Good luck to you.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 6: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: It's a good dude right there.

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Speaker 1: Tommy Townsend aka Tommy Rockets, that's in the game.

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Speaker 2: I came up with him.

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Speaker 1: He liked that, and he's back for year two and

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Speaker 3: On an interview Friday, Tommy town said with us, Okay,

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Speaker 9: Yeah, something like that. What I like to do is

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Speaker 3: You know, so other punters and kickers and those kinds

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Speaker 9: Oh yeah, specialists. Yeah, it's a it's a unique little

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just just get after it. Temmy.

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Speaker 1: You want a quote unquote pitch count during the offseason,

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Speaker 1: Like there's a certain number, it's a certain number of

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Speaker 2: Honestly, not really.

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Speaker 9: I feel like that's the time for me to really

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Speaker 3: I want to get back to the San Diego thing

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Speaker 3: just for a moment here. What's the craziest thing you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we haven't.

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Speaker 9: I haven't brought out the garbage can just yet, but

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Speaker 9: we just do the typical like work on distance direction

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Speaker 9: and then my favorite, my favorite game is big ball.

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Speaker 9: So big ball, Big ball, so you hit the highest

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Speaker 2: And we've got like a different little way of.

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Speaker 3: Right, but yeah, right, it's fifty it's five seconds, but

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Speaker 2: But uh, yes, we'll do stuff like that.

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Speaker 9: But I enjoy big ball because that's, uh that's kind

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Speaker 1: Tommy rockints, yeah, to hang it up there there. How

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Speaker 1: experimental do you get in the off season, Tommy. I

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Speaker 1: remember watching NFL films and I want to and I, God,

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Speaker 9: I mean that's the main goal right there, is just

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Speaker 9: And then yeah, same thing with like plus fifty area balls,

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Speaker 9: But I haven't gotten to the banana punt yet. I

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Speaker 1: But one of the things you and I talked about

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Speaker 2: Know, outside mostly other places.

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Speaker 1: Then you come in here and you punt inside where

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Speaker 9: I'm regardless of what the weather is, I'm only gonna

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Speaker 2: So but I mean it's all.

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Speaker 9: About in order to learn how to punt in the wind,

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Speaker 3: All right, I have a game changing idea for you

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Speaker 3: and fairwell, okay, I think I think this will become

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Speaker 9: on Thursdays just to get the visuals and specialists, so

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Speaker 9: I walked the field you know, a couple hours before

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Speaker 1: So I got to ask you, since you brought it

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Speaker 9: of fun getting back there. I got some great advice

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Speaker 2: When you're you know, pregame.

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Speaker 9: One of my buddies told me, he's like, listen, like

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Speaker 9: So so that's something I tried to do, is I

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Speaker 3: We appreciate you visiting. Best of luck, Tommy. Yeah, thanks you,

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: I love that dude, man.

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Speaker 1: And as long as he's popping rockets and he's Tommy rockets,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a fantastic season. Hopefully he doesn't have

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Speaker 1: just punts very little this year twenty twenty five, but

442
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Speaker 1: you know he's gonna have to hit a couple of

443
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Speaker 1: key once throughout the year and a great punter we

444
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Speaker 1: have found over the years is it. I don't want

445
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Speaker 1: to say it's a luxury. It's something that you've got

446
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Speaker 1: to have and when you need it. Man, it's almost

447
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Speaker 1: like you know, car insurance. It's like you don't really

448
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Speaker 1: want to pay for it, but you know you've got

449
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Speaker 1: to be covered and once you have an accident, oh,

450
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Speaker 1: it comes in so handy.

451
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Speaker 2: Punters are kind of like that. Now, what about fullbacks?

452
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Speaker 2: Are fullbacks like that?

453
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Speaker 1: Well, the one that Texans have and they got a

454
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Speaker 1: couple of them actually right now, but the one they

455
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Speaker 1: signed Jakub Johnson one of the more intriguing and interesting

456
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Speaker 1: people in that building for the Texans. We caught up

457
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Speaker 1: with him and what a story he is. Take a

458
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Speaker 1: listen to this interview.

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Speaker 3: Yakub Johnson joining us in studio. Your first visit to

460
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Speaker 3: the hun Day Texans radio studio. Well it's their first time, yeah,

461
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Speaker 3: and I'm really pulling for you, not just because of

462
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Speaker 3: the what you can do on the field, but I

463
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Speaker 3: want to say Yakub as a play by playing ass

464
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Speaker 3: I want to say that a lot.

465
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Speaker 2: So I think it was so far for you.

466
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Speaker 7: Good Man, good just getting settled in. I had had

467
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Speaker 7: a newborn in the spring, so I'm I'm dealing with that.

468
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Speaker 7: But yeah, man, used to this. Its been a really

469
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Speaker 7: cool city so far.

470
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Speaker 2: Yes, this is the break for you. Yes, yeah, did

471
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Speaker 2: you come over here?

472
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Speaker 7: When I come to work, I get my sleep, man,

473
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Speaker 7: I get my food.

474
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Speaker 6: Good time.

475
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's got that you're adjusting to a new city.

476
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Speaker 1: What do they tell you the three things moving, having

477
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Speaker 1: a child, and working and changed your job.

478
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Speaker 2: You hit two of the three. But what has it

479
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Speaker 2: been like for you being in Houston, Yaka?

480
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Speaker 1: What did you know about the Texans and what made

481
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Speaker 1: it the right place for you and your family?

482
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Speaker 7: I mean really only LA against the Texans a few

483
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Speaker 7: times in my time in the league, and you know

484
00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:05,879
Speaker 7: they always defense, always showed up. So it was always

485
00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:07,520
Speaker 7: one of those games where you knew you had to

486
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Speaker 7: get your mind right going into it. And now I'll

487
00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:13,720
Speaker 7: see why, you know, like working extremely hard coaching staff here,

488
00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:16,200
Speaker 7: really I think got it, got it dialed in. I've

489
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Speaker 7: been with a few franchises in the league so far,

490
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Speaker 7: and this is a place where I can tell, Hey,

491
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Speaker 7: every part of the building, every part of the organization

492
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Speaker 7: is is bought into what you have to do to win,

493
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Speaker 7: and that's that's really exciting.

494
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Speaker 2: Man.

495
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Speaker 3: What can you tell us about how football is going

496
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Speaker 3: down in Germany for players? Okay, you know the league

497
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Speaker 3: loves it there and NFL Europe back in the day

498
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Speaker 3: loved it there.

499
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Speaker 2: But what about for players? What is playing football like

500
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Speaker 2: in Germany?

501
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Speaker 6: All right, let me start by saying it changed a lot.

502
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Speaker 6: Like when I started.

503
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Speaker 7: I'm talking about you got the the O line, you

504
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Speaker 7: got the guys a thirty two pack of beer after

505
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Speaker 7: the game, a couple of cigarettes getting cracked open, like

506
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Speaker 7: it was a it was a different experience then like

507
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Speaker 7: now now it's it's got a lot more professional. You

508
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Speaker 7: have a professional European league again that I'm I'm involved

509
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Speaker 7: with a little bit. But yeah, I think you have

510
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Speaker 7: an area where there's a lot of excitement. It's a

511
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Speaker 7: lot of growth. Like every year there's like people are

512
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Speaker 7: just discovering the sport, you know. I mean, like, imagine

513
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Speaker 7: when football first came in your life, how excited you

514
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Speaker 7: were about it.

515
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Speaker 6: I feel like.

516
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Speaker 7: All of Germany and the surrounding countries are experiencing that

517
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Speaker 7: for the first time.

518
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Speaker 6: So it's pretty cool.

519
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Speaker 1: So we know each country and obviously it can happen

520
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Speaker 1: in the United States too. Kidschen Germany don't grow up

521
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Speaker 1: playing American football, yeah, but now it's being introduced to them.

522
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Speaker 1: So are we seeing a little bit in Germany? Instead

523
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Speaker 1: of playing soccer, you might go play American football. You

524
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Speaker 1: see maybe a little bit of a turnaro way. I

525
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Speaker 1: know it's hard to break down kind of something that's

526
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Speaker 1: systemic like soccer and those sports are a big, huge deal,

527
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Speaker 1: but it is American football making inroads a little bit

528
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Speaker 1: more and more with younger kids.

529
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Speaker 6: I think that's exactly what's happening.

530
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Speaker 7: And I know we have a lot of criticism for

531
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Speaker 7: social media and phones and everything, but I really think

532
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Speaker 7: that played a big part because football is not a

533
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Speaker 7: second most watched sport in Germany really, and kids are

534
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Speaker 7: sharing highlights and clips and and you know that's that's

535
00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:06,600
Speaker 7: what makes football are exciting. You see those clips, you

536
00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:07,879
Speaker 7: were like, hey, I want to I want to do that.

537
00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:10,080
Speaker 7: I want to get involved with that. And I think

538
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Speaker 7: more and more kids are starting because of that. When

539
00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,119
Speaker 7: when when I started, football was invisible, right, it was

540
00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:18,720
Speaker 7: kind of a sport for misfits. That's how I ended

541
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Speaker 7: up with football. I was trying to play soccer, but

542
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Speaker 7: they didn't have any uniforms that would fit me at

543
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Speaker 7: some point, you know what I mean. So I had

544
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Speaker 7: to find somewhere else if I could fit in. And

545
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Speaker 7: I think it's changing, it's becoming more of a mainstay

546
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Speaker 7: of really German and European culture.

547
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Speaker 3: How are they Stuttgart Scorpions doing now, Yeah, that's what

548
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Speaker 3: I want to know.

549
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Speaker 7: The Scores are still an excellent youth program. Their their

550
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Speaker 7: adult team kind of evolved into the Stutgart Surge, which

551
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Speaker 7: is like one of the competitors in the European League

552
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Speaker 7: of Football.

553
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Speaker 2: Now I like Scorpions better.

554
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Speaker 6: I know, you got a nice ring to it, right,

555
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Speaker 6: I guess what I was saying.

556
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Speaker 2: But logo is probably a scor it was we got

557
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Speaker 2: the stinger, you know. My gosh.

558
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Speaker 1: You mentioned a little bit briefly about being involved with

559
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Speaker 1: the Are you involved with German team or a German league?

560
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Speaker 7: What are you involved with? So I'm I'm a part

561
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Speaker 7: owner of the Stuctgud Surge. So I just try to

562
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Speaker 7: help grow that. That's that team, that franchise, and then

563
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Speaker 7: through that trying to grow football in that entire region.

564
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Speaker 7: So like I'm from the south west of Germany, stut Guard.

565
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Speaker 7: We're known for cars, you know, Mercedes, you know car fast,

566
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,320
Speaker 7: fast roads, autumn and all that stuff. But I just

567
00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:33,560
Speaker 7: tried to do a kids camp there every year and

568
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Speaker 7: try to help the franchise, you know, be a successful.

569
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Speaker 2: Led to you coming to Jacksonville.

570
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Speaker 7: Long journey I was at some point I was one

571
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Speaker 7: of the better players in Germany. I was trying to

572
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Speaker 7: figure out a way to get to a college. I

573
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:51,639
Speaker 7: sent about six hundred emails to every FBS program you

574
00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:57,120
Speaker 7: check your archives. I sent you an email every head coach, linebacker, coach.

575
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Speaker 7: I was a linebacker at a time, position coaches, anybody

576
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Speaker 7: who whose email I could find in the staff directory

577
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 7: was getting a personalized email from me. I got three responses.

578
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Speaker 7: They said, Hey, we need to see you playing in America.

579
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Speaker 7: And after I graduated in Germany, I just kind of

580
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 7: ran out of options and called some family that I

581
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:16,320
Speaker 7: had in Florida asked if I could stay with them

582
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Speaker 7: for a few months and played a season of high

583
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Speaker 7: school ball for the Rebolt Trojans in Jacksonville.

584
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you not talked about this. I was coaching a

585
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Speaker 1: little bit after a little bit before you. But I

586
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Speaker 1: coached at Episcopal, knew all about Rebaul and when we're

587
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 1: putting the story together, I'm like, man, how do you

588
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Speaker 1: go Germany to Jacksonville.

589
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Speaker 2: Now it's not as it's not as wild as it

590
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Speaker 2: seems because.

591
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville is a military yea, so you get a lot

592
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Speaker 1: of guys going to Jacksonville.

593
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Speaker 2: Because they stay there because they're involved in the military.

594
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Speaker 2: So that was kind of my first thought.

595
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Speaker 1: But then when you you play it that way, So

596
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Speaker 1: you were at Reboult for what one year? Yes, six months?

597
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Speaker 1: Six months, and then you go to college after that,

598
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Speaker 1: you got your offer after that?

599
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I got my first offer was the Idaho Vandals.

600
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Speaker 7: I was and I was superhigh. I was like I

601
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:02,639
Speaker 7: was getting ready to commit on the spot just because

602
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 7: that My whole journey was like I didn't have no

603
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Speaker 7: guarantee that this was going to work out. And once

604
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:09,400
Speaker 7: I got that offer, I was like, Okay, at least

605
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,360
Speaker 7: I'll be able to actually do this. But an, yeah,

606
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,520
Speaker 7: later on through the season, just being in Florida, you

607
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 7: play against like some really highly recruited guys. The Tennessee

608
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:21,439
Speaker 7: coaches were at one of the games against Baker County.

609
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Baker County well, yeah, that is not a

610
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Speaker 1: place you want to play on the road.

611
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Speaker 7: Were throwing stuff at the buses and everything like it

612
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:30,399
Speaker 7: was bad, but that stories.

613
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Speaker 6: Yeah, but we had we had fun, man.

614
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Speaker 7: But yeah, got the offer and then visited the university

615
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:37,920
Speaker 7: and obviously they put you in that stadium one hundred

616
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Speaker 7: and two thousand people and everything, Like, I.

617
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Speaker 2: Was your reaction to that Neil Stadium? Unreal?

618
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Speaker 6: Unreal?

619
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Speaker 7: Like I thought I knew big stadiums from like soccer.

620
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Speaker 7: You could have never told me that a university for

621
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Speaker 7: university athletes is going to have like one of the

622
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Speaker 7: biggest stadiums in the world, and just the atmosphere and

623
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Speaker 7: there the whole the pageantry I think it's called around

624
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:02,720
Speaker 7: the traditions, the band and walking into the stadium with

625
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 7: the whole team and everybody showing up.

626
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 2: Like all amateurs.

627
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:12,920
Speaker 7: Yeah right right, but this is I mean real, this

628
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,720
Speaker 7: is before nil. Like that was the second week of COVID.

629
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Speaker 7: I got there and like they're like, hey man, here's

630
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 7: a forty dollars check. I was like, okay, okay, so

631
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Speaker 7: take us.

632
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 1: Through the transition because you no longer play linebacker. Yeah,

633
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,439
Speaker 1: probably could, but don't you not play full back? And

634
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,880
Speaker 1: so all right, you're a true full back doing everything there?

635
00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 1: How did you make that transition? Where did that transition

636
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 1: happen to get you to the league? Playing full back?

637
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 7: Coming from Germany and you know, not having the level

638
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 7: I would say of football knowledge that that kids over

639
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 7: here have just the natural instincts. I had a lot

640
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 7: of catching up to do in college, and you know,

641
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 7: they tried me out at different positions. I was at linebacker,

642
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 7: middle linebacker, outside, defensive end. Eventually transitioned over the tight

643
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,000
Speaker 7: end and kind of stuck there. They kind of appreciated

644
00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 7: my toughness and what I could do in the in

645
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 7: the run game, and honestly, you know, had had a

646
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 7: decent career. I always you go back and ask the coaches,

647
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,680
Speaker 7: you know, I'm always been a hard worker, but never

648
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,199
Speaker 7: could really put it all together to like become a

649
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,160
Speaker 7: starter or something like that. Then went back home to Germany,

650
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 7: played a season out there, and I think really learned

651
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:20,439
Speaker 7: a lot during that time. Got picked up by the

652
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,120
Speaker 7: International Pathway program and they were the ones that were like, hey,

653
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,360
Speaker 7: you know what, you should probably play fullback. Let's try

654
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 7: this out, And ended up working out.

655
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Speaker 3: Yeah, working out very well. Yakup's thanks a lot for

656
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 3: joining us. Best of a lot to you appreciate it.

657
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:36,040
Speaker 1: What a really intriguing dude, Yakub Johnson is. I mean,

658
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 1: you're talking about some soft hands out of the backfield.

659
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 1: He made a nice one handed catch during OTA's mini camp.

660
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,359
Speaker 2: That okay, all right.

661
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:45,159
Speaker 1: If you got a guy that catch the ball like

662
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Speaker 1: that and two hundred and seventy pounds and he'll hit

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Speaker 1: you right in the mouth, man, you've got a really

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Speaker 1: intriguing weapon for Nick Cayley. I think he's really excited.

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Speaker 1: Nick Kelly is to have Yakub Johnson here in He's

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Speaker 1: all right. We get back two other guys that have

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Speaker 1: been around, they've seen some things here with Houston Texans.

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Speaker 1: Austin Deculus and Kurt Heinez here on an Interview Friday

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Speaker 1: and Texans All Access.

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Speaker 2: There right we are.

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Speaker 1: What's happening everybody, Welcome back to this Friday edition of

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access an Interview Friday edition. If you're just

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Speaker 1: joining us on the show, I appreciate you being here

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Speaker 1: with me, your host, John Harris, Football and Olside Love

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Speaker 1: Reporter for your Houston Texans from Thenday Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: You've missed Tommy Townsend punter, Jakub Johnson full back, and

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Speaker 1: Jake Andrews Ovens lineman more than likely center, maybe starting center.

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Speaker 1: In our first segment, they were fantastic interviews, really a good,

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Speaker 1: good time with each of those three, and we got

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Speaker 1: two of them coming to you in this segment, starting

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Speaker 1: with a guy that played as much college football as

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Speaker 1: you could possibly play back in the day, and that

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Speaker 1: is Austin Deculus. Guy was at LSU it seemed like

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Speaker 1: for nineteen years and played about nineteen thousand games at LSU,

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Speaker 1: but he grew during that time, came to the Texans,

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Speaker 1: stepped away from the Texans as he was waived released,

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Speaker 1: bounced around a couple of teams, came back to Houston,

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Speaker 1: and it's back with the Texans for twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: He's come a long way, he has grown a lot.

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Speaker 1: I think there's something there with Austin Deculus, and he's

691
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Speaker 1: definitely very very good on the mic.

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Speaker 2: Here's Austin Deculus with Mark and myself.

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Speaker 3: In studio with us. It's Austin Deculous. Austin, how's it

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Speaker 3: going doing good?

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Speaker 2: How about yourself? Let's get that microphone right, right, right

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Speaker 2: up there.

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Speaker 9: Good.

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Speaker 1: So it's just down there were all the running all

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Speaker 1: the small running backs, but you know.

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Speaker 3: Right there, Okay, we got It feels like you were

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Speaker 3: drafted last Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it just feels so recent. It does.

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Speaker 3: Yet it's been a journey, he most that we're here.

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Speaker 3: You weren't here, you're with another team. Now you're back.

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Speaker 3: So what's it been like that whole path?

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Speaker 10: I mean, like you said, it has been has been

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Speaker 10: a journey full of ups and downs, you know, uh,

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Speaker 10: being able just to see that the grass isn't always

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Speaker 10: green there on the other side, you know, being able

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Speaker 10: to go and just see all the different aspects of life,

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Speaker 10: and me personally being the first I'm living in New

712
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Speaker 10: Jersey or living up north. Is my first time not

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Speaker 10: living either Louisiana or Texas, so it's a little weird.

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Speaker 10: But the journey a lot really really helped me and

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Speaker 10: just help me mature, help me just grow up and

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Speaker 10: just be able like to add different aspects of overall

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Speaker 10: to my life and to my game.

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Speaker 2: So how have you changed as a player?

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Speaker 1: Because I asked that for a reason because I remember

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Speaker 1: you as a rookie and we're like, man, we've seen

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Speaker 1: you so much at LSU. We're like there's something there

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Speaker 1: where you go when you come back, and then you're

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Speaker 1: you're on a field as a six offensive line at times.

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Speaker 1: You played in that game week teen against the Titans,

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Speaker 1: like man, different looking player, gotten better and better each

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Speaker 1: year even though you had gone away. Why are you

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Speaker 1: different from the time at finishing LSU rookie year till now?

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Speaker 2: How do you feel like you're different? Austin?

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Speaker 10: I feel like just overall I'm different in the aspect

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Speaker 10: that my personally, I just don't try to make one play,

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Speaker 10: one bad play, one medium play and like continue to snowfall, yeah,

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Speaker 10: snowball into multiple bad plays, right, and then overall I

733
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Speaker 10: just think that as I've been in the league, you know,

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Speaker 10: I've been blessed to be able to part rooms that

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Speaker 10: have had amazing vets, Hall of Fame offensive lineman type

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Speaker 10: guys here different places, like the Jets, I was with

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Speaker 10: guys like Tyron Smith, being able like just to learn

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Speaker 10: from the guy that I immediately wanted to play old

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Speaker 10: line after as soon as I saw it, you know,

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Speaker 10: So just being able to just to part of that

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Speaker 10: journey is just being able like to pick different minds.

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Speaker 10: Just be able to be in different rooms and stuff

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Speaker 10: really has helped just overall just add to my game.

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Speaker 3: So the systems you ran with the Jets, Saints, and

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Speaker 3: now you're back here and it's different. You got Cole Popovich,

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Speaker 3: you know, but he's the head guy now with the

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Speaker 3: offensive line.

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Speaker 2: So how is that different?

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Speaker 10: I mean, Coach pop He's gonna run that room. You know,

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Speaker 10: He's gonna run that room the way that he wants it.

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Speaker 10: He and the thing is he doesn't expect us to

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Speaker 10: do any thing that he doesn't think that we can do.

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Speaker 2: You know, he has very high expectations for us.

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Speaker 10: He just if you ask him this, he's going to

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00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 10: be like, you know what, we're just working on getting

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Speaker 10: better because that's his overall motto is just getting better

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Speaker 10: every day. And then I feel like it's a little

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Speaker 10: bit different just being able to go through different offenses.

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Speaker 10: I think this is like my fifth or sixth offense

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Speaker 10: I've learned within the pass going into four years.

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Speaker 2: So but as you like start.

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Speaker 10: To be around the game and stuff, you just to

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Speaker 10: like start to realize that a lot of is very similar.

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Speaker 10: It's just very small details. It's what makes everything different.

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Speaker 10: But everything's pretty much like borderline same.

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Speaker 1: So so we talked a couple offensive linemen with Fasten

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Speaker 1: this because you get in into OTA's in mini camp

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Speaker 1: and it's a contact sport, right, It's like basketball, you

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Speaker 1: bag a little bit, but get to the falls collision sport,

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Speaker 1: and then that's where the focus becomes about the offensive

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Speaker 1: defensive lines because now guys are put on the patch.

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Speaker 1: So while you go through OTA's and mini camps Austin,

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Speaker 1: what's your focus? What's the biggest thing that you want

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Speaker 1: to work on during OTAs? Is it feet, is it

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Speaker 1: still working on the hand placement? Is it just the

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Speaker 1: new offense knowing all the pieces to it. What's kind

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Speaker 1: of the biggest thing for you going through ots in

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Speaker 1: many camps.

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Speaker 10: I'll just say majority of just continue to just not

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Speaker 10: just know the playbook, but master it. You know, that's

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Speaker 10: always the first thing you try to do. But I

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Speaker 10: would say just every every year I try getting better

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Speaker 10: and then I feel like my tape has been showing

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Speaker 10: that year by year. But just work on consistency as

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Speaker 10: a whole, you know, just to not be able to

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Speaker 10: just go team plays back to back being good and

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Speaker 10: then just have that one keep on popping up so

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Speaker 10: every now and again, you know, So I feel like

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Speaker 10: just overall, just consistency and just mastering the playbook are

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Speaker 10: like my two things, right, but then overall just being

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Speaker 10: able just to be coachable and just do what pop

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Speaker 10: ass war.

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Speaker 3: So absolutely all right, So you got married this offseason, right,

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Speaker 3: correct you too?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Well it's going around around.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So did you participate in shopping for the registry and

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Speaker 3: stuff like that or did you just leave that to.

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Speaker 2: Her all her all her smart man? Smart man? So

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Speaker 2: what did she entrust you to do?

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Speaker 1: Were you in charge of the band flower anything?

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Speaker 2: The show show out? That's it? You could.

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Speaker 3: That's good, But that's different too, right now. That's that's

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Speaker 3: gonna be great for your life. Your career can really

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Speaker 3: take off now because of that stability.

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Speaker 2: Does that help you think?

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Speaker 10: I mean, she's it's not really like it's not really

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Speaker 10: the stability is just because she's been the same woman

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Speaker 10: since day one. So there's really never been any question

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Speaker 10: on stability.

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Speaker 2: Uh, just it.

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Speaker 10: You know, it's a little bit happier, you know, just

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Speaker 10: knowing the fact that she gets to change her last

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Speaker 10: name to mind and then you know, just we get

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Speaker 10: the we had the opportunity. We had that, that chance

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Speaker 10: just to be able to confess and like our love

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Speaker 10: for each other in front and like our family and

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Speaker 10: friends and stuff.

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Speaker 2: So I feel like that that's really what it was.

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Speaker 2: Houston girl Louisiana girl.

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Speaker 10: Uh, she was born in Orlando, but she has family

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Speaker 10: from Louisiana.

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Speaker 2: All Right, he's got to be a connection there. Okay.

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Speaker 1: I got to ask, just because I'm such a big

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Speaker 1: college football guy, your tigers this year, how are they

826
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Speaker 1: going to be?

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Speaker 2: They're going, They're going all the way. I don't care. Yeah,

828
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Speaker 2: one hundred percent. That's Meyer is going to bring them both.

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Speaker 10: All right, say it right here, my dog nuts bus

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Speaker 10: We trust, Yes, sir, he's.

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Speaker 1: Many receptions against A and M.

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Speaker 2: He mounted down against a M. He can't do that anymore. Nah,

833
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Speaker 2: he knows, he knows what to do. He knows what

834
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Speaker 2: to do, and then he's gonna go. You know he's

835
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Speaker 2: gonna be good. Yeah, he's good for you. Long break

836
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Speaker 2: prior to camp, how is it spent? The first week?

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Speaker 10: I'm right after we have our family barbecue on probably

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00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 10: driving to Destin, Florida for about be there for about

839
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Speaker 10: four days, and then come back and just hit ground

840
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Speaker 10: run though, so just work out. Yeah, I took all

841
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Speaker 10: the honeymoon and all that trip. Whenever I win, it's

842
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:09,759
Speaker 10: for the winds though, no more, no more time off.

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Speaker 3: So sounds good, Austin, thanks a lot for johnnyus.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate it. Good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, man, you gotta get that honeymoon in. You gotta

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Speaker 1: get that done. I mean, I know there are guys

847
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Speaker 1: that have done it different ways. And we talked to

848
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Speaker 1: Jay Canson. You think it was the first interview we played.

849
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Speaker 1: He went and got married and then came back. So

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Speaker 1: I think he got married in between OTA's and mini

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Speaker 1: camps and they came back for mini camps to miss

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Speaker 1: a day, they miss a minute, and then I think

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Speaker 1: he was going to take a honeymoon at some point.

854
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:37,240
Speaker 1: So I got ticked that honeymoon in and uh Goodsey

855
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 1: Dawston has done that all right. Another guy that has

856
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 1: been just grinding from the time he got here to Houston,

857
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 1: but he's found a way to make it on this roster,

858
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 1: get another contract to stay with the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 2: On the defensive line.

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Speaker 1: That's got a lot of bodies, a lot of talent,

861
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Speaker 1: a lot of dudes, and Kurt Heinisch continues to be

862
00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 1: a big part of everything that goes on here with

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Speaker 1: the text defensive line. And he sat in a hot

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Speaker 1: seat with Mark and myself. Here's Kurt Heinisch the domer. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's for Sean Pendergast.

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Speaker 3: It's studio with us now Kurt henish on your defensive line,

867
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Speaker 3: part of your Houston Texans defense.

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Speaker 2: And Kurt, how's it going.

869
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Speaker 3: It's going good Man, good offseason, everything going well, practice,

870
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Speaker 3: all of it.

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Speaker 11: Yes, sir, Yeah, I'm uh. I'm excited for fall camp

872
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 11: and to get started.

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Speaker 1: You getting a lot of guys back from last year,

874
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: plus you bring back Sheldon Rankins into the room from

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: It's like family reunion the defensive line room. What's up

877
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 2: been like?

878
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 8: It's been cool.

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Speaker 11: I mean, obviously we haven't had anyone everyone back for OTAs.

880
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,799
Speaker 11: We've got some more guys kind of trickling in here

881
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,840
Speaker 11: towards that mini camp, but it'll be cool to have

882
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 11: everybody back of the room. The dynamic between everybody, and

883
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 11: there's gonna be a lot of us, there's gonna be

884
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 11: a lot of there's gonna be.

885
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 8: Some standing room only in that defensive line room. In'to

886
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 8: after camp. H No, but it's cool.

887
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:53,400
Speaker 2: It's cool to have.

888
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 11: Everyone back rank. I'm the only person I really missing

889
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 11: his Malik. That'd be fun, fun, It'd be fun to

890
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 11: have him back. I'd like to see the end of

891
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:01,720
Speaker 11: the room with everyone with him.

892
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 3: To What do you attribute the defensive line room culture?

893
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 3: It being so good, the camaraderie, the chemistry.

894
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 2: I think it.

895
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 11: You know, Rod Wright has done a great job with that,

896
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 11: and uh, you know, just some of the leaders that

897
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:18,400
Speaker 11: we have in the room, you know, like will we

898
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 11: all just kind of hold each other accountable. There's kind

899
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 11: of a standard that you must meet when you walk

900
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:26,399
Speaker 11: into that room every day. Your attitude kind of gets

901
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:28,879
Speaker 11: checked at the door and everyone you're kind of working

902
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 11: together for one common.

903
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,279
Speaker 8: Goal, and it just.

904
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 11: It seems like, you know, you're either living up to

905
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,359
Speaker 11: that standard or you're not in the room. That's kind

906
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:41,799
Speaker 11: of just the culture that Ride's built. And it's great.

907
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 11: It's very competitive and you know, we get after it

908
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,919
Speaker 11: where you know, we always say that when you see

909
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 11: the Houston Texans logo and you or you see the helmets,

910
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,359
Speaker 11: you want to think of the Texans defensive line, that's

911
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 11: what you want to think of. When when you see

912
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 11: that that logo, you see that helmet, like when you

913
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 11: think of the Texans, you think of the front that

914
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 11: they have and that you know, we talk about we

915
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:02,759
Speaker 11: want to be the engine of the team.

916
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 8: We want to be the team. You know, you only

917
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 8: go as far as we take.

918
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 2: You set the standard, baby, and you have.

919
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've blown up games, absolutely changed games around.

920
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:14,360
Speaker 2: You've been in the league.

921
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:15,799
Speaker 8: This is your four, your four.

922
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 2: God dang man, time is flying down. Yeah, it is.

923
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:23,479
Speaker 1: Time is absolutely flying by. So I've asked this question

924
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,919
Speaker 1: a few guys. I'll ask you, if you your four,

925
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 1: Curt Heinish can go all the way back to rookie year,

926
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 1: Curt Heinish, give him one piece of advice.

927
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 2: What's that?

928
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 1: What's the best piece of advice you can give to

929
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:38,279
Speaker 1: rookie year, Curt Heinish.

930
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 11: Man, I think being where your feet are and just

931
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 11: keeping your head down, notes to the grindstone, working every

932
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 11: single day, not worrying about what you can't control, just

933
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 11: worry about what you can control, and what you can't

934
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 11: control is how hard.

935
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 8: You work in your attitude. That's what I was home.

936
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 3: But do you feel like you needed to hear that?

937
00:39:57,680 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 3: Then I feel like you've always had that.

938
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 11: Absolutely, But you know, there are times where you know

939
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:05,800
Speaker 11: you're thinking ahead, or you know you have anxiety about something,

940
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 11: or you know you're you're stressed about something. I think

941
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 11: that for me personally, I think that I would tell

942
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:14,920
Speaker 11: myself continue to work extremely hard, you know, I would,

943
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:17,719
Speaker 11: you know, tell myself the the harder you work, the

944
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 11: luckier you get. That's what I would. Okay, Yeah, that

945
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 11: would be the advice that I give myself.

946
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 3: Have you changed much in your behavior off the field

947
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 3: as far as what you eat, how you take care

948
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 3: of your body, that kind of thing.

949
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 11: Absolutely, My diet now is completely different than when I

950
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 11: entered the NFL, and even growing up, I you know,

951
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 11: my I'm able to I'm in a fortunate enough position

952
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 11: where I'm able to afford you know very well, you know,

953
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:45,839
Speaker 11: quality meats and vegetables and fruits and stuff like that. Uh,

954
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 11: you know, living a have a really good diet, you know,

955
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 11: not eating hamburgers and hot dugs a couple of times

956
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:53,919
Speaker 11: a week growing up, you know, And there's nothing wrong

957
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 11: with that, but I just, yeah, my diet has changed

958
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 11: a lot, and my body composition has changed a lot.

959
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,880
Speaker 11: So yeah, I mean That's been something that I really

960
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 11: have dove in on since I've been in the NFL.

961
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 1: So when you're training camp and as hot as hell,

962
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 1: how is that changing your diet? I mean, because you

963
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:14,399
Speaker 1: burn off a lot of weight, you like, you think, man,

964
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:14,759
Speaker 1: I need to.

965
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 2: Get a cheeseberger get it back?

966
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:18,279
Speaker 1: And how does your how does your diet kind of

967
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,840
Speaker 1: change your training camp when hell hits?

968
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 11: Uh, It's kind of one of those things that's you know,

969
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:27,359
Speaker 11: if I'm trying to replenish after a really hot day,

970
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 11: you know, do I want to implement some more carbohydrates

971
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:33,879
Speaker 11: to my to my meal if I know that I'm

972
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 11: not having as hard of a workout or it's hard

973
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:39,520
Speaker 11: of a practice tomorrow? Do I not eat as much

974
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 11: carbs because I don't want to, you know, have the

975
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:45,320
Speaker 11: whatever the extra carbs get stored as you know, glucase

976
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 11: and turning the fat or whatever. How that works. You

977
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:50,880
Speaker 11: know that That's kind of how I look at it.

978
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 11: But obviously Lad Harris does a great job with with

979
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 11: that and monitoring your body weight and all that kind

980
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:00,239
Speaker 11: of stuff. So yeah, it's kind of want to just

981
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 11: kind of take up a day by day.

982
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 1: How much do you meet with Ladd throughout a season,

983
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 1: throughout the off season to kind of make sure that

984
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 1: or Ladder somebody from his group to kind of make

985
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 1: sure that you were staying on on track, if you will.

986
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:19,799
Speaker 11: I usually meet with him, probably once or twice an

987
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:22,239
Speaker 11: off season, but once at the beginning I tell him

988
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 11: my goal is what I want to do, what I

989
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 11: want my body composition to be when the off season

990
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,400
Speaker 11: is over. And then usually one during that process to

991
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 11: check in see how things are going, you know, run

992
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 11: a dexcess scan, run a couple other tests to see

993
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 11: how it's working out so far, and then.

994
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 2: When you're eating a brisket sandwich you avoid him.

995
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 11: Yeah, I do have days, and I think that there's

996
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:45,400
Speaker 11: I mean, if you do if you just do straight

997
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 11: strict diet like twenty four to seven like you're gonna

998
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 11: it can be just so mundane and boring and this

999
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 11: and that, like and it just kind of sucks, right,

1000
00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:00,279
Speaker 11: And like at the same time, it's like like you

1001
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 11: can have days where you have like you know, uh,

1002
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:07,319
Speaker 11: a scoop of ice cream or like in uh, you know,

1003
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:09,920
Speaker 11: a cup of chocolate milk or something like that. Right,

1004
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 11: Like it's you do have days where you have cheat

1005
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 11: meals right like that, but you try to stay very,

1006
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:19,760
Speaker 11: very diligent and stay very.

1007
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 2: You said the words cheat meal. That got me thinking,

1008
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:22,399
Speaker 2: what's Kurt Heinish's cheat meal?

1009
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 11: Man, I'm so afraid of of I know I have

1010
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:34,879
Speaker 11: some cheat meals, but I'm so afraid of someone else

1011
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 11: getting the edge on me and not having a cheat

1012
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 11: meal that I I While I'm doing it, I'm like,

1013
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:46,880
Speaker 11: I get like stressed while I can't enjoy it. My

1014
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:50,280
Speaker 11: girlfriend and I we went to La Lucha in the Heights.

1015
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 11: They have incredible fried chicken.

1016
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 2: Fried chickens incredible. Did you avoid it? No?

1017
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:57,360
Speaker 11: We got it, and it was like I'm like, IIOK,

1018
00:43:57,360 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 11: A couple of bites of this and I'm just like

1019
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 11: I was more stressed out, like sick to my stomach

1020
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 11: eating it, and I was just like, I can't finish this.

1021
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 11: And you know, I like just one of those things.

1022
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 11: It's like I feel like if someone's getting ahead of

1023
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:13,760
Speaker 11: me or doing something better than me, it's like, oh gosh,

1024
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:15,400
Speaker 11: you know, it's it's really hard for me to do.

1025
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,360
Speaker 2: No, it makes sense. I can eat that whole bird.

1026
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:20,719
Speaker 8: I've done it before and in the office in like

1027
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:22,319
Speaker 8: in the off season, when the season's over.

1028
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 2: I've done that place.

1029
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, so the break prior to training camp, it's got

1030
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:29,600
Speaker 3: to be tough because we've talked to a lot of

1031
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 3: guys and they're saying, man, you really can't take a break.

1032
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,879
Speaker 3: You know, you just got to keep rolling because you'll

1033
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:36,840
Speaker 3: fall behind going.

1034
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 8: Aftert is going in and break you get. Yeah.

1035
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:42,319
Speaker 11: No, it's pedal of the metal. You're you're you're all

1036
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:45,600
Speaker 11: in until when your season's over. It's one of those situations.

1037
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:47,839
Speaker 11: And it, like I said, you're gonna have days where

1038
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:49,440
Speaker 11: you are gonna want to cheat, do this and that,

1039
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 11: and you know you might have a birthday party and

1040
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 11: niece's birthday party, and you might have a slice of

1041
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:56,439
Speaker 11: cake you know, here and there maybe once in a while,

1042
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:58,280
Speaker 11: but no, it's it's petal of the metal.

1043
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 2: Very good, Kurt, thanks a lot for joining us. We

1044
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 2: appreciate it.

1045
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 8: Cool.

1046
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:04,839
Speaker 2: Yes, very very cool. Okay, we finish up.

1047
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 1: We'll go round the NFL site sounds things happening from

1048
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 1: around the league.

1049
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,720
Speaker 2: We'll do that next on Texans All Access. What's Happened Everyday?

1050
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:16,799
Speaker 1: We got one final segment Friday issue Texans All Access.

1051
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:21,440
Speaker 1: As we sit twelve days away from the start of

1052
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 1: training camp eleven days away, the guys return to the building.

1053
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:29,280
Speaker 1: Both rookies and vets are due on July twenty second,

1054
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 1: then start practice on the twenty third, essentially practice for

1055
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:37,760
Speaker 1: a week, A little over week fly the Greenbrier cool

1056
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 1: off as we practice a little bit to gear up

1057
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:43,080
Speaker 1: for the first preseason game against Minnesota, come back week

1058
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 1: in Houston Panthers arrive joint practices, preseason game against the Panthers,

1059
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 1: and then the following week take off for Detroit for

1060
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 1: the final preseason game, and then two weeks after that

1061
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 1: a little over that kicking off against the LA Rams

1062
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:05,080
Speaker 1: in Sofi for the very first regular season game in

1063
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:08,360
Speaker 1: Los Angeles at Sofi Stadium. Now, there have been two others.

1064
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 1: One was in Carson between nineteen one was in the

1065
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 1: Colleague in twenty seventeen Coliseum where the Trojans play against

1066
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:17,400
Speaker 1: the Rams. But this is the first time a regular

1067
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 1: season game for the Texans at Sofi Stadium, so looking

1068
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 1: forward to that, and it won't be the only stop

1069
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:26,719
Speaker 1: in LA. There will be a second one in December

1070
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 1: just after Christmas, taken on the Chargers in so Far

1071
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 1: as well. News around the NFL. Chicago Bears GM Ryan

1072
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 1: Poles signs extension through twenty twenty nine to stay with Chicago.

1073
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:45,320
Speaker 1: Now why is the big deal? Well, apparently it matches

1074
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: up with Ben Johnson, a new head coach with the

1075
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears. The Bears during polls run are I think

1076
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 1: the number is fifteen and thirty six. But he gets

1077
00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:00,799
Speaker 1: an extension, and I know when you hear that, you're like,

1078
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:01,839
Speaker 1: fifteen to thirty six.

1079
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:03,239
Speaker 2: My god, man, how do you keep a job?

1080
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 1: I keep in mind, you know, during the first couple

1081
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 1: of years mal Nick was here and the record wasn't

1082
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 1: that great, but you could see progress in the salary cap.

1083
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 1: You could see progress in the play a little bit.

1084
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:17,640
Speaker 1: As things are going. Young players a kind of stepping up.

1085
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 1: You know, Nico Collins had been drafted. You know, Davis

1086
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 1: had done some decent things, et cetera, et cetera. All

1087
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 1: of a sudden twenty twenty three and then the Dan

1088
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:28,160
Speaker 1: breaks for the Texans. Hopefully it breaks even more this year,

1089
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 1: but you get the point. Ryan Poles signs the extension

1090
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:33,440
Speaker 1: with the Bears, keeping them through twenty twenty nine. I

1091
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:35,719
Speaker 1: do think the Bears will be better and the first

1092
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 1: one I'll tell you would be Ryan Poles.

1093
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 2: N I kid, I kid.

1094
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Speaker 1: He's talked so much about that Bryce Young trade, about

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Speaker 1: everything that he did to pull that off.

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Speaker 2: It's just it kind of stuck with me. So I

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Speaker 2: don't know.

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Speaker 1: It seems like a good dude, Ry Poles, good luck.

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Speaker 1: I think the Bears are gonna need it in that division,

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Speaker 1: no doubt. All Right, that's gonna do it for today's show.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate Jake Andrews, Tommy Towns and Yakub Johnson, Austin Deculus,

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Speaker 1: Kurt Hims, My man Mark, all you for listen. We'll

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Speaker 1: see next time. It is always Go Texans