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Speaker 1: I'm really excited to bring you Texas All Access to

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Speaker 1: Night from the Hunday Texans Radio Studio. I am your host,

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Speaker 1: John Harris, football in a sideline reporter and a little

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Speaker 1: less well. Actually, it's pretty easy. Twenty five hours away

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Speaker 1: from preseason game number three, the first preseason game in

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Speaker 1: one day under two years. August twenty ninth, twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: The Texans took on the Los Angeles Rams. End up

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Speaker 1: losing that game twenty two to ten. But obviously the

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Speaker 1: results of preseason game are four don't really matter. But

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Speaker 1: that was the last preseason game that took place at

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Speaker 1: NRG Stadium. Here's another weird quirk. I did buy the

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Speaker 1: Texas dot Com. Some pretty interesting things. A player in

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Speaker 1: the Texans in his fourth season with the Texans and

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Speaker 1: who that is. Lets you think about who that is.

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Speaker 1: Either way, the Texans on Saturday Night, we'll play just

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Speaker 1: their fifth preseason game since August twenty eighth, twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 1: That's five plus years and just five games because we

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Speaker 1: and eighteen, two and nineteen says five right twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: we didn't play any because of COVID, and then this

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Speaker 1: But we've got to start every Friday show as we

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Speaker 1: will every game weekend, with Mark Vanimer, the voice of

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Speaker 1: the Texans, sitting down with the head coach. You are,

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans, David Cully. Coach, Mark, take it away, coach.

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Speaker 1: Tell me about practice this week before we get to

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Speaker 1: so we had been practicing a little bit earlier and

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Speaker 1: So it was a end season type deal for us.

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Speaker 1: Voice of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Florida State Seminals,

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Speaker 1: So great to visit with you once again, my friend,

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Speaker 1: and tell me how you've been celebrating a Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: ready for Florida State. Yes, Mark, you know I did

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Speaker 1: But I digress. But it was my first legitimate football

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Speaker 1: So I did not go to bucket and training camp

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Speaker 1: and oh my god, we're averaging gat and the half

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Speaker 1: I'll read get back. It's gonna be offensive line hour,

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Speaker 1: I mean segment. James Camping and Max Sharping both joined

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Speaker 1: Deepe Sitter right here on Texas All Axis. It's all Axis.

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Speaker 1: It's all Axis. Wait back to this Friday edition Texas

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Speaker 1: All Access from the Hunday Texans Radio Studio. I'm your

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Speaker 1: host John Harris, and we're back in the day when

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Speaker 1: I was actually the head coaching my high football team.

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Speaker 1: I also coached the offensive line. I was in namored

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Speaker 1: with that position. Love coaching, it always love to learn

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Speaker 1: about the offensive line. Two guys that teach me things,

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Speaker 1: what a player, what a coach. One is Max Sharping

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Speaker 1: and the others James Camping, and both of them individually

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Speaker 1: caught up with Deep City for a little deep slant

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Speaker 1: Exfinity style. So let's start with James Camping, offensive line coach.

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Speaker 1: He's one of the best interviews in that building. Barn

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Speaker 1: dep had a great time talking with Coach Camping. Joining

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Speaker 1: me today on the Deep Scent one on one presented

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Speaker 1: by Xfinity, it's offensive line coach James camp and James,

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Speaker 1: I know, there was so much excitement about this offensive

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Speaker 1: line hitting into training camp in this entire offseason. What

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Speaker 1: excites you most after what you've seen so far these

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Speaker 1: last few weeks um the improvement, you know, and it's

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Speaker 1: it's not just in the games, but it's you know,

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Speaker 1: they're they're doing the things we're asking them to do

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Speaker 1: and try. I think that's that's you know, as a coach,

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Speaker 1: if they just try to do it, and we try

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Speaker 1: to do things for a couple of weeks, and we

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Speaker 1: can always change and go back and do things. But

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Speaker 1: they've they've been very accepting and I think they're performing better.

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Speaker 1: All right. We've talked about the starting five. How whatever

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Speaker 1: the positions are heading into camp, that's not necessarily what

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Speaker 1: they'll be heading into week one. You want to get

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Speaker 1: the best five players on the team. What do you

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Speaker 1: think of the talent level in your room? I like

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Speaker 1: our talent a lot, and I like the fact that

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Speaker 1: they're flexible. And in order to be flexible, they have

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Speaker 1: to be able to absorb a playbook, understand concepts not plays,

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Speaker 1: and understand the wise of the plays. So if they

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Speaker 1: go from left to right, or they happen to go

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Speaker 1: from position to a position, they understand what that other

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Speaker 1: position is required to do. So their mental capacity to

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Speaker 1: change and change blocking schemes even within sometimes here we'll

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Speaker 1: you know, take a guy's playing left card, maybe go

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Speaker 1: back and play right guard or a right tackle, go

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Speaker 1: play left card, and it helps it helps a lot,

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Speaker 1: you know, when you're building a team. Speaking of versatility,

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Speaker 1: how about Titus Howard, he played left guard, He played

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Speaker 1: a lot of lright tackle, more right tackle than left guard,

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Speaker 1: and now he's back at at left guardian. What have

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Speaker 1: you thought about his versatility and his ability to make

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Speaker 1: that switch. Ah, he's a very bright kid, and he

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Speaker 1: doesn't he doesn't need as much time as young people

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Speaker 1: do to as simulate things. He truly understands concepts. He

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Speaker 1: doesn't like learn plays, he'll learn the why of the play.

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Speaker 1: So he's what I you'd call a problem solver at

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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. If stuff isn't going good or

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Speaker 1: it wasn't a precise a look that we were planning on,

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Speaker 1: he can fix it because he understands a concept. And

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Speaker 1: so whether he's playing left tackle, right guard, with any

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Speaker 1: of those positions. I mean, he's very flexible man. I

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Speaker 1: mean he he could put his hand on the ball

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Speaker 1: if he had to. I mean he's a very very

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Speaker 1: flexible person. So that gives you a lot of flexibility

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Speaker 1: to work with people like that. Okay, you've got one

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Speaker 1: more preseason game, So how do you feel like your

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Speaker 1: depth is coming along? How important is this final preseason

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Speaker 1: game to sort of solidify your room? Very It's very important,

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Speaker 1: and it's now you know, usually you have four and

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Speaker 1: not only having three. So I think for you know,

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Speaker 1: every guy that's in that room, it is so important

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Speaker 1: for them to play well and to make sure that,

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Speaker 1: you know, uh, make the evaluations hard. And you know,

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Speaker 1: that's the only thing I'm gonna ask him, is make

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Speaker 1: sure that we understand that we collectively, if we're moving

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Speaker 1: the ball and we're doing things well, collectively, we'll all

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Speaker 1: shine better. And you know the fact that matter in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. Not everyone's going to be on this team,

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Speaker 1: and that's sad because you really love those kids, and shoot,

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Speaker 1: you want them to get jobs. So that's that's important.

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Speaker 1: It's important coaching, and I think it's so you know,

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Speaker 1: and because they're out here, I mean, is it's hot.

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Speaker 1: It's like there's two hours and you know, this is

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Speaker 1: the last padded practice for them, so they got to

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Speaker 1: prove it again tomorrow mentally, and then they have to

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Speaker 1: keep going forward. And you want everybody just to have

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Speaker 1: a hell a lot of fun and enjoy it, you know. So, coach,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you're on Instagram, but Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: posted a picture with you at Green Bay along with

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Speaker 1: David Booksar and just how much you've meant to his career,

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Speaker 1: and David Culley talked about this too. How you mean

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Speaker 1: so much for the young the development of young players?

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Speaker 1: Do you really have a good reputation for that? So

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Speaker 1: you know, what does that mean to you to see

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Speaker 1: a guy like Aaron Rodgers and David Bukdiari, the guy

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Speaker 1: that you've coached for so many years, really shouting you

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Speaker 1: out in Green Bay? And what do you think is

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Speaker 1: the key behind your success and really developing some of

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Speaker 1: these young players? You know, I just I'm very grateful

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Speaker 1: for both of them for the nice things they said,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, I love them both dearly. And you know,

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Speaker 1: they're really good football players, you know, and you know,

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Speaker 1: or to be honest with you, and it starts with

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Speaker 1: like the scouting departments and the people that they bring in.

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Speaker 1: If you have good departments and they bring in good people,

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Speaker 1: and that's what we did here and obviously there in

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Speaker 1: Green Bay. It's it's sure makes a coach a lot easier,

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Speaker 1: you know, and you're not you're not worrying about the

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Speaker 1: character of somebody. That character has already been established in

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Speaker 1: the background and all the word scouts do to do that.

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Speaker 1: It really starts there. So you get him here you

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Speaker 1: just enhance, you know, and keep the everybody involved in

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Speaker 1: the process, and I think that helps everybody. What about

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Speaker 1: guy like Justin britt He came in here this offseason

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Speaker 1: and he's really been an anchor for that offensive line.

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Speaker 1: He's had so much experience. He's new to your scheme,

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Speaker 1: but what is he meant to the room? In that communication,

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Speaker 1: he talked about how he's really over communicating right now

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Speaker 1: because everyone sort of knew in their positions. He's new

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Speaker 1: as well. But you know, is that something that he's

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Speaker 1: going to need to do. When do you sort of

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Speaker 1: see that communication the chemistry really coming together post group um?

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Speaker 1: I think you know, as a center, you have to

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Speaker 1: continue to do it all the time because they kind of,

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Speaker 1: you know, you rely on them to drive meetings, to

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Speaker 1: drive urgency even off the field, and I think it's

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Speaker 1: important and he's he's the type of guy that does that.

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Speaker 1: He's also a young man who didn't get the play

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Speaker 1: last year and went through the first time of having

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Speaker 1: a situation, you know, you call him situations when you're alignement.

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Speaker 1: What happen with his leg and so now he's back

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Speaker 1: feeling strong and he you know, he wants to play football,

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Speaker 1: it's too much fun. I mean, you're talking about a

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Speaker 1: guy who out of Missouri. I mean, this kid started

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl right tackle as a rookie and was

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Speaker 1: on some really, really good teams in Seattle, and shoot,

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Speaker 1: we're fortunate to have this guy. I mean, he's he's

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Speaker 1: everything that I was told about him from other coaches,

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Speaker 1: and I've been very pleased with him. All right, Coach,

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Speaker 1: before I let you go, one final question. Two of

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Speaker 1: your players have dads that are oline coaches. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: make you guess who they are, and then tell me

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Speaker 1: what's the difference. Is there a difference in coaching guys

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Speaker 1: whose dads were coaches versus other guys. The only difference

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Speaker 1: is that I've called Charlie Andy like half the time

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Speaker 1: in the first couple of weeks because they look so similar,

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Speaker 1: you know, And I don't know if there's so much

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Speaker 1: of a difference, but it's just you can tell that

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Speaker 1: he's Alignment's son. He's a very well mannered kid, and

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Speaker 1: he's a good person. He works his tail off, and

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Speaker 1: you know, his dad's a hell of a coach. She's

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Speaker 1: a heck of a ball player too, And I mean

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Speaker 1: his dad's inn a heck of a job. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: I love his father's a good man, and this other

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Speaker 1: one I don't. I'm trying to think. I'll give you

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Speaker 1: a hint. He's you. He has followed you to three

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Speaker 1: different teams justin Yeah, his dad was a high school

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Speaker 1: offensive line coach. Are you serious? He's never told me that. Well,

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Speaker 1: now do you know? You can tell he's not polite,

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Speaker 1: and we'll meet him. I'll be dark because he is

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Speaker 1: completely opposite. He's a bad kid. He's a good he's

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Speaker 1: a terrific kid. He's both those kids. Are you know,

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Speaker 1: if you have daughters, you want something then to marry

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Speaker 1: something like that. They're good people, they're outstanding people. It's

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Speaker 1: been a pleasure chatting with you, coach. Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for the time. Thanks. Now, I imagine that coach camping

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Speaker 1: behind closed doors can deliver some donkey barbecues. But he's

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Speaker 1: pleasant to talk to you. I'd love talking to him.

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Speaker 1: I could talk to him for hours talking ball, not

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Speaker 1: talking ball, just talking about life in general. He is

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Speaker 1: absolutely fantastic. And he was a green Bay Packer. You

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Speaker 1: coached the Green Bay Packers a young man who grew

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Speaker 1: up in Green Bay as a Packers fan is offensive

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Speaker 1: lineman Max Sharping. DPCU caught up with him as well.

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Speaker 1: It's a deep scent one on one present VI Xfinity.

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Speaker 1: My guest today, Max Sharping. Max the year three. How

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Speaker 1: has camp in the preseason been for you so far?

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Speaker 1: I think it's been going good. It's hot out here,

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Speaker 1: but I think we actually looked out pretty pretty good

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Speaker 1: for the whole the whole thing. It wasn't as bad

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Speaker 1: I didn't think. But it's been going well. Two preseason

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Speaker 1: games in and two wins, even though technically they say

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Speaker 1: they don't count, but it's always good to come out

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Speaker 1: with w windy Camper. I think your blood is thinned

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Speaker 1: out being in Texas. I can't believe you don't think

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Speaker 1: this is hot. But here you are in year three.

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Speaker 1: You're you're moving all over the line, so right guard,

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Speaker 1: left guard, you sort of play at all. You know,

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Speaker 1: how has the adjustment been for you? How has it

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Speaker 1: been playing for James Camping and new scheme and how

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Speaker 1: much have you feel like you've really grown under Himmer?

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Speaker 1: I think Camp's been great for everybody. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: he's obviously been around a really long time, and you know,

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Speaker 1: when you have a guy with that experience and the

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Speaker 1: guy he's he's coached every every guy you can think

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Speaker 1: of in Green Bay for the past however many years,

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Speaker 1: and then he's been to two different places with Cleveland

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Speaker 1: and the Chargers last year. So I mean, we're just

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Speaker 1: lucky to have him, and I think his mentality that

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Speaker 1: he brings to the room has been great for all

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Speaker 1: of us, especially me and uh, moving around it's been

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Speaker 1: it's been a challenge sometimes, but you know, we're trying

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Speaker 1: to make the best of it, you know, get get

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Speaker 1: better every single day at at one thing. You know,

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Speaker 1: just keep progressing, seeing seeing how how good we can be.

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Speaker 1: What do you think is the biggest challenge of moving

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Speaker 1: from one side to the other. For me, it was

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Speaker 1: it's just been switching my feet around. My hips seem

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Speaker 1: like they're a little bit out of line sometimes. So

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Speaker 1: really it's just trying to maintain pad level work on

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00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 1: techniques that maybe I was really good at on the

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Speaker 1: left side, and it's a little bit different on the right,

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Speaker 1: just because of the way your stance is different, um

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00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 1: and how you need to use your hands compared to

643
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: you know, one side versus the other. So I think

644
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: it's just working on those techniques, trying to get better

645
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 1: at at those where I was comfortable on the left side,

646
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 1: just trying to get that comfortable on the right. Yeah,

647
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 1: you know, I have heard this over and over again

648
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 1: that you're the smartest guy in the room. And the

649
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 1: other day justin Britt, I mean when a seven year

650
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: VET says that you have helped him make the transition

651
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 1: to the Texans and he says it, I think that

652
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 1: really says a lot. So you're now officially the smartest

653
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 1: guy in the room. What do you do in your

654
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: free time? Are you taking like are you doing quiz shows?

655
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 1: Are you doing trivial pursuit? What? Why do you think

656
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 1: people think you're the smartest guy in the room. Is

657
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 1: it just how you approach the game? Are you do

658
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 1: you have a photographic memory? I want to know more

659
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 1: about this. Well, first of all, we did have a

660
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: guy in the room that graduated from Harvard, So I

661
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 1: don't know if I can take this distinction very easily.

662
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: I will have to bring him up and JVS and

663
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 1: they'll slouch himself. So now, I mean in my free time,

664
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 1: I actually listened to podcasts a lot. I like to read,

665
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 1: so you know, I just I like if I'm watching TV,

666
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,959
Speaker 1: like educational TV shows, so I guess I kind of

667
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 1: can understand where they're coming from. Do you have time

668
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: these days to read or watch educational TV? Is that

669
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 1: what you do in your downtime? No? Most of the time,

670
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: I don't have any time for that stuff. So I'll

671
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 1: listen to podcasts on the way and might drive in

672
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 1: every morning and then on the way back. All right,

673
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 1: can you tell me what your favorite podcast these days is.

674
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 1: I'm always looking for a good podcast. I'm big on

675
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: the Joe Rogan experience because he just covers every single

676
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: topic known to mankind. So I like the variety. You know.

677
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 1: I'm very interested in random topics at different times, so

678
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 1: I can just pick one that I'm interested in at

679
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 1: the time, and then I can be on a completely

680
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:43,479
Speaker 1: different subject the next day if I want to be.

681
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 1: So that's one of my favorite ones. I think I

682
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: suggest that maybe you start a book club or something

683
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 1: for your fellow offensive lineman. You've got a lot of

684
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: respect in the room. I would ride the waves of

685
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: that are maybe like a podcast club. Oh gosh, we'll see.

686
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'll get together with Coltoner for that

687
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 1: book club. All right. I know you talked about the

688
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 1: biggest thing that changed for you in year three. You'd

689
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: said this maybe earlier in camp, it was your confidence

690
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 1: level that You've really gotten to boost in your confidence.

691
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: What do you attribute that to? Do you attribute that

692
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: to just playing reps? Were you doing something different in

693
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 1: the off season? You know? Why do you think your

694
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 1: confidence is at a higher level this year or is

695
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: it it is just time in the league. Yeah, I mean,

696
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 1: I think it's just a combination of different things. I mean,

697
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 1: sometimes you just feel more comfortable on end off the

698
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 1: field in your life, and I think right now I'm

699
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 1: just at a good spot, good headspace, And I think

700
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 1: it's just that confidence has just grown. Every time I

701
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 1: step out on the field, I feel like I'm trying

702
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 1: to get better. And once you start building a little confidence,

703
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 1: you know, you just try to keep it going. So

704
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 1: I think it's just a combination of things. Last year

705
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:47,759
Speaker 1: was a tough year just all around for the team

706
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: and yourself included just a lot of adversity. How do

707
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 1: you bounce back from something like that? And what was

708
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 1: sort of your mindset hitting into the off season in

709
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,360
Speaker 1: this season. I think I kind of almost hit on

710
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:58,879
Speaker 1: a couple of times. Just trying to get better at

711
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,399
Speaker 1: like one or two things every single day. I mean,

712
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,479
Speaker 1: that's that's the best way you can improve yourself. And

713
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 1: hopefully as a team we can can take that and

714
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: just keep getting better every single day. All right, that's

715
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 1: gonna do it. For our offensive line segment, I can

716
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 1: do a whole offensive line show and then do a

717
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,360
Speaker 1: whole week of shows on the offensive line, but that

718
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:19,799
Speaker 1: will have to wait for another week. Coming up next

719
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 1: is Drew's Final Word, and this week Christian Kirksey and

720
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 1: I catch up with a guy who might now be

721
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 1: one of my favorite guys in the entire building. Stick

722
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 1: around and find out who that is. Next right here

723
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 1: in Texans All Access act right here in Texans All Access.

724
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Speaker 1: Actually here we got one false segment This Friday is

725
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 1: shoe of Texans All Access. I am John Harris, and

726
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,280
Speaker 1: my good friend is Drew Doherty. He gets the final

727
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 1: word every Friday of game week, and this week it's

728
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 1: with linebacker Christian Kirksey. Preseason comes to a close, and

729
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,320
Speaker 1: it comes to a close against maybe the greatest quarterback

730
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 1: of all time and Tom Brady. What sort of a

731
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,360
Speaker 1: test does he give you, And what sort of a

732
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 1: test does he give this defense? You know, when you're

733
00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 1: gonna get somebody of that caliber who's been there, who's

734
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 1: seen it all, you have to be sharpen your tools.

735
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,799
Speaker 1: You have to make sure you diskish property. You got

736
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 1: to make sure you're lying the right way, because, like

737
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:09,799
Speaker 1: I said, he's seen it all, so you know, all

738
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: the ins and out, so we got to make it

739
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: as tough as possible for him. This would be a

740
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 1: good find to see where our defense is at. How

741
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: sharp do you think those tools are right now at

742
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 1: this point? Well, obviously, you know we haven't started week

743
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 1: one yet, but I think that we're in the right

744
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 1: place right now. You know, we've seen in the last

745
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: two preseason games and you know, seeing the things that

746
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,799
Speaker 1: we're doing, and you know, watching the film, and we

747
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,879
Speaker 1: can always get better. Our goal is to be better

748
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 1: than you know yesterday. So each and every day we're

749
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 1: trying to sharpen our tools, and I think that we're

750
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,400
Speaker 1: moving in the right direction and I think we're on

751
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 1: paved We're just gonna keep working together and talking with

752
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 1: Lovey Smith, he was very very adamant about how great

753
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: a communicator you are, what's been the biggest challenge coming

754
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 1: into a new team to be that communicator or is

755
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: it just something that's something that comes naturally to you

756
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: first and foremot just been a new player on the team.

757
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 1: You always win the game the trust of your teammates.

758
00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 1: You want to be yourself man in a way that

759
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:02,839
Speaker 1: you know how to lead. And I think I have

760
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: a great relationship with my teammates. I think that we're

761
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 1: moving in the right direction with our bond. So you know,

762
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: as I stated before, you know, they make my job

763
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: so much easier when we have that good relationship and

764
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:14,799
Speaker 1: they know what they're doing. You know, I just go

765
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 1: out there and do a coach tells me to do.

766
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 1: I think collectively we all communicate well. And like I said,

767
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 1: they're sharp, they know what to do. So I'm just

768
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,400
Speaker 1: relaying the message stuff. I imagine that's a process. But

769
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:27,760
Speaker 1: how quick did that process take for you? To be honest?

770
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 1: You know, last year was my first year playing mike

771
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 1: in Green Bay, and I had to adjust to that.

772
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,799
Speaker 1: This year, I'm just you know, more comfortable being and

773
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: being in that role. You know, a lot of times

774
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: people say, you know, a linebackers a linebacker, but it's

775
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 1: you know, it's different when you have to think more

776
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 1: mentally with you know, getting a call, make sure everybody's

777
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 1: lined up. So this year, you know, I got way

778
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 1: more comfortable and I love you is he's helping me

779
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 1: out too, and he's he's he's make sure I know

780
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,239
Speaker 1: what to say, what to do. So I think collectively

781
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 1: it all helps for those listening. You just said the

782
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 1: mic and you're talking about the middle linebacker position. It's

783
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: nicknamed the mic linebacker. You've got that dot on your helmet,

784
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:02,800
Speaker 1: which means you have the plays coming in from the

785
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator from the sideline. So that's one of those things.

786
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 1: It's incredibly important to this team. How nice is it

787
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:10,399
Speaker 1: gonna be to play in front of fans and it's

788
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:13,399
Speaker 1: the home fans at Energy Stadium. You know it's gonna

789
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: be It's gonna be nice. Man, with what we all

790
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 1: went through as a country, you know the world just

791
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 1: with COVID and something that we we we've never seen

792
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 1: having this year to you know, be able to appreciate

793
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,319
Speaker 1: the fans and the fans appreciate the games. I think

794
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 1: from both sides, you know, everybody's gonna be pumped. The

795
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 1: fans are in and we are as well, so you

796
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 1: know it's it's it's exciting, you know, it give you

797
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 1: an extra edge. Y'all dreamed about playing in a in

798
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 1: a stadium full of fans, so you know, on our

799
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:41,919
Speaker 1: in as player as we love it when we see

800
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 1: our home fans in the stands. And for me playing

801
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 1: in front of a new fan base, you know, I'm

802
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 1: excited for it. And this whole answer has been with

803
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: a smile on Christian Kirksy's face. It's been nice to see.

804
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: So how many of the Kirkzy family will be out

805
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 1: there because you've got some family here locally, Oh, the

806
00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: whole family. And what numbers are we talking? I don't

807
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 1: even know yet, but usually my mom she had to

808
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: tell me and she'd be like, you know, so it's

809
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,280
Speaker 1: coming this and that. But you know I have aunt's, uncle's,

810
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 1: you know, nieces, you know, my girlfriend, my daughter. You know,

811
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna you know, support, So I can't wait to

812
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 1: see that. Man. I've really grown to love Christian Kirksey.

813
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be fabulous for this team, leadership,

814
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,839
Speaker 1: everything and a guy that's been great I think thus

815
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 1: far in camp for all of these brought to it

816
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:29,320
Speaker 1: is wide receiver Jordan Vsy. We had a tremendous talk

817
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 1: and here this all right, I am walking across he

818
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:34,759
Speaker 1: used to bet this training center turf with a guy

819
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: that has been really impressive. From what did you get here?

820
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 1: A Jordan vs. Get Day two, Day three, Day two,

821
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 1: Day two, Day three. It was a quick transition for me. Man.

822
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: I was actually in Gamesville, Florida when I got the call.

823
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:49,360
Speaker 1: When my little brother, he was down there training with

824
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 1: me getting ready for his high school season, got the

825
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 1: call and had to end up leaving from Gamesville, Florida

826
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:58,319
Speaker 1: from Rush and drove four hours to Atlanta to get

827
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 1: to the airport and me get all the way here

828
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 1: to Houston and practice the next day. But we've been

829
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 1: going at it so far from there and since then.

830
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 1: So yeah, I remember seeing you show up and we're

831
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 1: looking around and we've seen number eighty four and I'm like,

832
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 1: holy hell, who is that? But you got to try

833
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 1: to show out here, show up here. And from that

834
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 1: point you've been making plays. You do special teams, you

835
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:22,399
Speaker 1: dude receiving, and it feels like your goal is dumb matter.

836
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:24,359
Speaker 1: I just gotta make plays, Yeah, exactly, and I think,

837
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 1: you know, that's just about being um and understanding my

838
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 1: situation as well. My learning curve and my process is

839
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:31,399
Speaker 1: going to be a little bit different than guys because

840
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: I just got here. You know, they kind of got

841
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 1: into the background of it, can run around some things.

842
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:36,840
Speaker 1: So everything I do is kind of gonna be on

843
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 1: front street, my mistakes and everything. So I got that,

844
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: so I know I had to just throw myself into

845
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 1: it and then just make plays as they come. At

846
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 1: the end of the day. Is football and I'm a

847
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 1: fourth year guy, so I know NFL football pretty well,

848
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 1: so I can adapt and learn the offense. But it

849
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:50,840
Speaker 1: don't take that much to make special team plays. So

850
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 1: you just go out there. That's all hard, right there.

851
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 1: So yeah, so you're not were talking before we started

852
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,319
Speaker 1: this interview, and you told me kind of how you

853
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:01,839
Speaker 1: got here. I mean, you're from Alabama, but you end

854
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Speaker 1: up playing at Cal and you end up here. It's

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Speaker 1: a crazy journey in some sense. Does that give you

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Speaker 1: some sort of perspective on a day when it's ninety

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Speaker 1: five degrees and you're like, man, it's so hot, I

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Speaker 1: just want to stop. Do you think about that journey

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Speaker 1: and where it's where it's put you in what it

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Speaker 1: can do for you. Oh yeah, for sure. I mean

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Speaker 1: I've been kind of motive by a lot of adversity

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Speaker 1: in my life. So it was crazy to be here

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Speaker 1: in Houston and coming from games. Feel like I said,

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Speaker 1: it's actually a lot like this, probably the only place

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Speaker 1: that you can even get close to it with the

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Speaker 1: humidity and just in a rain one second ten minutes later,

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Speaker 1: even more human and hot. So it was cool to

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Speaker 1: be in those situation and understand that I was prepared

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Speaker 1: for it so and just being able to come in

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Speaker 1: how I was able to be prepared physically to be

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Speaker 1: able to withstand everything I've ben have to go through

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Speaker 1: because as you know, we've been having a lot of

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Speaker 1: injuries in the receiving room yea, and a lot of

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Speaker 1: that's kind of fell on my should as far as

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Speaker 1: the workfolding. Just got to step up to the test

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Speaker 1: and kind of just be an iron man about it.

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Speaker 1: And you know, that's just been in my mindset about

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Speaker 1: everything since the beginning with football. Souff. Yeah, okay, so

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00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: you did play it. Now. I know people that go

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00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 1: to KYL don't like dudes that play at Stanford and

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00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:07,400
Speaker 1: yet every single day you got a quarterback with Stanford

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00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 1: throwing the ball. How are they gonna feel about that? Oh? Man, hey,

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Speaker 1: they're going to get used to me. And Dave's got

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Speaker 1: a pretty good connection, man. I remember talking to him,

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Speaker 1: joking with him. I think we had a big play

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00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 1: in two minute one day and I was like, man,

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Speaker 1: I know you went to Stanford, but we can make

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Speaker 1: this work. And we both laughed about it. But since then,

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Speaker 1: you know, we've just kind of been making plays. It's

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Speaker 1: been cool to be able to I ain't even gonn

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Speaker 1: lie to you, John. Most of them my guys that

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Speaker 1: I actually have really good friends from Stanford days. So

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Speaker 1: it was funny to be able to say that. You know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people gotta think we hate each other,

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Speaker 1: but it's a mutual respect though, for sure. All right.

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Speaker 1: I started this segment a couple of weeks ago. It's

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Speaker 1: called say something nice about. So I see two guys

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Speaker 1: walking in front of us that played in the league

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Speaker 1: for a while, say something nice about mark Ingram and

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Speaker 1: Philip Lindsay. Mark Ingram and Philip Lindsay are yin and Yang,

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00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:51,879
Speaker 1: one crazy and one one silent and awkward. So they

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00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: both might guys though for sure, all right, say something

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00:42:55,719 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 1: nice about your receivers. Coach Robert Prince RP truly daring

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Speaker 1: me a great teacher of fundamentals, been good as far

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Speaker 1: as being able to help me, be able to come

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Speaker 1: in here and give my process going. So our female

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Speaker 1: a great man. I love him. Say something nice about

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00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:14,839
Speaker 1: Nobody says anything nice about rookies. Let's say something nice

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Speaker 1: about Nico Collins. Oh man. People don't know about it,

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Speaker 1: but Nico actually from a rib Of high school of mine,

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Speaker 1: so it's kind of hard to you know. So Nico

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00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:25,959
Speaker 1: a great kid, though very tenacious in his gameplay. People

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Speaker 1: think he's quiet and Seldo him, but when he's playing

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Speaker 1: and his stuff, it's him and nuts the ball. So

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Speaker 1: I really love Nico's game and how he comes out

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Speaker 1: and just you know, everybody thinks he's quiet, but he's

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Speaker 1: really a monster. That was an absolute blast, as was

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Speaker 1: training camp, and it is done preseason game number three

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Speaker 1: that some cuts start happening and then we start honing in.

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Speaker 1: On September twelfth, The Big Big Thanks to Jordan VC

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Speaker 1: to Christian Kirkschy, the Drew Doherty, the DPC to James

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Speaker 1: Camping and Max Sharping to Gene decker Off the voice

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Speaker 1: of the Knowles and the Bucks, to Mark vandermir and

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Speaker 1: of course the head coach David Culley. A big thanks

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Speaker 1: to all of you for listening, reading, interacting throughout all

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Speaker 1: of training camp. It all comes to a close tomorrow

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Speaker 1: night at seven o'clock, Big one against the Bucks be there.

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Speaker 1: We love you, thanks for listening and let's always go Texans.