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Speaker 1: Hello Texans.

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Speaker 2: Hello, welcome to Friday Night, Mark Vandamier and John Harris.

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Speaker 2: But you thought I was going to break into song there,

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Speaker 2: but it didn't happen. And that's a good thing for everybody.

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Speaker 1: No, not really. I like to listen Friday Night.

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Speaker 2: No, I'm not gonna do it, not gonna do it.

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Speaker 2: But they all know the song. Okay, from back in

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Speaker 2: the day?

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Speaker 1: What is that?

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Speaker 2: Who does that again? Friday Night? The basity Rollers?

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Speaker 3: That was Saturday night, Saturday Night, you get the weekend

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Speaker 3: night Rollers?

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Speaker 1: What are you doing?

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Speaker 3: I can remember it was Saturday or Friday, you know,

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Speaker 3: so you just you know, go with what you got

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Speaker 3: and so Ba City Rollers was Saturday Night.

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Speaker 1: That was way back in the in the day. Friday Night.

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Speaker 1: Just got Paid. That's Johnny Kemp. Johnny Kemp.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just got paid party. You know that, that whole thing.

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Speaker 1: Okay? Uh.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, we didn't mean to get off onto a tangent

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Speaker 2: that early, or did we, because we often did. Last

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Speaker 2: Friday we began the show with Bob Dylan backup bands.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you want to talk about esoteric stuff. My gosh,

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Speaker 2: I think it shows our versatility.

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Speaker 1: I think it does too. I think it does, and

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Speaker 1: I'm okay with to a large degree.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we have a lot to discuss here tonight later

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Speaker 2: on in the show. An interview that's blowing up on

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Speaker 2: YouTube because we just posted it there this week. We

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Speaker 2: aired it a few weeks ago, but it's worth a

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Speaker 2: re listen. It's Davis Mills on the season that was

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Speaker 2: and the season to be, and the offense that is

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Speaker 2: and all of that as we are embarking on a

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Speaker 2: training camp to remember twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Can't wait.

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Speaker 2: Texans in their greatest era ever, coming off three consecutive

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Speaker 2: playoff seasons with playoff wins in each of those seasons.

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Speaker 2: It's never happened before in franchise history. It's the twenty

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Speaker 2: fifth season of Texans football and it is going to

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Speaker 2: be absolutely massive. And Johnny, Will, Terry and Arnold be

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Speaker 2: a part of Texans training camp twenty twenty six because

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Speaker 2: reportedly they worked them out.

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Speaker 1: A lot of teams have interest.

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Speaker 2: He's a tremendous talent, but got into a heap of

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Speaker 2: trouble this offseason kidnapping charges. My gosh, Allegedly guys robbed

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Speaker 2: him and he allegedly kidnapped them, and then he was

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Speaker 2: under house arrest, but he might be cleared and we'll see.

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Speaker 2: When you were telling me they probably did a lot

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Speaker 2: of work on him preliminarily, prior to the twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: four draft, when he was taken to the first round

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Speaker 2: by the Lions.

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Speaker 3: I felt like, I felt like Terry and Arnold was

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Speaker 3: a guy that they would go through draft process. I

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Speaker 3: felt like Terry and Arnold was gonna be guy that

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Speaker 3: they really liked. Everything that I had heard, everything I read, saw,

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Speaker 3: guy that they would really like. But if I remember correctly,

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Speaker 3: Arnold was taken well before the Texas had an opportunity

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Speaker 3: because in the twenty twenty four draft they had traded

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Speaker 3: down to the second round. Go get Stefan Diggs. So

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Speaker 3: I always felt like Terry and We did an eat corner.

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Speaker 3: Obviously we drafted Kamari Lassiter in the second round. Right,

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Speaker 3: my gut tells me, this is my intuition. Okay, did

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Speaker 3: a lot of work. Now nic will tell us its

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Speaker 3: all time. We do work on everybody. And my gut

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Speaker 3: work on the best players, and Terry Old was one

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty four. Now, what is this all about them

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Speaker 3: working him out?

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Speaker 1: Whatever?

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Speaker 3: Dave Burkett of the Detroit Free Press spoke with Nicole Lynn,

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Speaker 3: who is Terry and'nolds's agent. Nicole Linn said that four

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Speaker 3: teams have been quired about Arnold, the Colts, the Jets,

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Speaker 3: the Seahawks, and the Texans. She said that he visited

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Speaker 3: and worked out for the Texans, according to Burkett. Now

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Speaker 3: it's not shown up on any official NFL transaction reports

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Speaker 2: Now, Texans don't release this sort of stuff, and I

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Speaker 2: can tell you this, I don't think a huge percentage

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Speaker 2: So if it did happen, could have happened somewhere else.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what the heck's going on, but it's interesting.

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Speaker 2: But tell me this put him aside for a moment. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that is an area where you'd love outstanding depth. I

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Speaker 2: mean my gosh, he's a hell of a player that

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Speaker 2: already feeling really good about it. Yeah, things, we don't

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Speaker 2: know how good is Jalen Smith going to be? You know,

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Speaker 2: we have Tremont Smith also as a reserve corner. You know,

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Speaker 2: is it worth it? How do they feel about him?

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Speaker 2: Maybe they were just kicking the tires. Who knows, Maybe

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Speaker 2: it was for later. I don't know. Yeah, we just

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Speaker 2: don't know. There's a lot of I don't know to this.

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Speaker 2: We and I just said this a little while ago.

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Speaker 2: They do work on everybody, sure, everybody. I mean kayd Williams.

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Speaker 3: The year after they drafted CD Stroud, they stood work on.

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Speaker 3: My gut tells me again tuish intuition that they did

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Speaker 3: et cetera. That they felt pretty good about what in

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Speaker 3: the character of Terry and Arnold. Now do your due

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Speaker 3: diligence on it. Talk to him, what happened? Talked to Nicolon,

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Speaker 3: his agent. The colon is also the agent of well

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Speaker 3: Anderson Junior. So there's there are some connections through all

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Speaker 3: of this. Now, if Terry and Arnold is full of

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Speaker 3: didn't do this, and yet it turns out that he yeah,

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Speaker 3: well he did it. Okay, well walk away, but you've

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Speaker 3: at least done your due diligence. Something happened, Yeah, something happened.

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Speaker 3: Now what level he was a part of, Whether people

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Speaker 3: are just trying to dive him out, who knows? Nobody

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Speaker 3: knows at this point. If you read the article, it

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Speaker 3: doesn't paint him in a good light. Maybe it's not

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Speaker 3: him who knows. But at this point, do you do

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Speaker 1: And go ahead and do it.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't mean and I think this happens a lot

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Speaker 3: guy came into the building for a thirty visit. They

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Speaker 3: must be interested in him, right, It's like that, not always.

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Speaker 2: Maybe he's not a bad guy. We're working him out now.

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Speaker 2: We're not gonna sign him now, but maybe they want

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Speaker 2: to find out for later.

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Speaker 1: That's who knows.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and after those of you who are getting a CJ.

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Speaker 2: Gardner Johnson vibe, I understand that because hey, wait a minute,

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Speaker 2: we have a good thing going here. We have properly

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Speaker 1: CJ.

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Speaker 2: Look, I don't know. Maybe Terry and Arnold when he's

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Speaker 2: don't know. Maybe that's true, r. Maybe there are different

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Speaker 1: But CJ.

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Speaker 2: Gardner Johnson had mas all over the place apparently, and

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Speaker 2: wasn't the greatest fit in the world, to put it mildly,

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Speaker 2: And it's interesting that when he left you started winning. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you started winning a whole lot, right, and you won

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Speaker 2: twelve games.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So I don't know what to make of it

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Speaker 1: other than I'll wait and see. That's exactly so much.

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Speaker 1: That's the exact way to say it.

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Speaker 3: Mark, It's wait and see, you know, but you're at

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Speaker 3: least say, there are two ways to look at this number.

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Speaker 1: One say down the road.

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Speaker 3: You know, the Texans did all this, They had their conversations,

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Speaker 3: and at the end of it they just went no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 3: we're not doing it. Well, you're not going to tell

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Speaker 3: anybody that, right, You're not got telling anybody that enough.

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Speaker 3: So maybe they've already made it. Maybe they had made

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Speaker 3: through the process like no. But maybe they looked at

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Speaker 3: it and hey, listen, we really like this kid in

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty four. This seems out a character. Let's do

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Speaker 3: our research on this. That feels like a very nic

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Speaker 2: Well, the workout could have been a I want to

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Speaker 2: look him in the eye as much as anything else.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you never know, who knows. Okay, So it's to me, I,

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Speaker 3: I you, you and I talked about before the show.

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Speaker 3: You're like, hey, you want to talk about this, and

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Speaker 3: like yes and no, because I think people will see

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Speaker 3: the whole visit thing and think, oh, they're signing him,

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Speaker 3: and then they also they go to that level of

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Speaker 3: well look what this guy did.

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Speaker 1: Look what happened, et cetera. Look, it's information gathering. Well,

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Speaker 1: I can tell you this what it is.

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Speaker 2: If they do sign him, they're very satisfied that he's

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Speaker 2: been exonerated exactly, and he's not the guy the picture paints.

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Speaker 1: Him to be right now, So that would happen.

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Speaker 2: There's no way they're taking on somebody with the gosh

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Speaker 2: no that they would not like.

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Speaker 1: So it's exactly right. That's where we'll leave that right now.

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Speaker 2: This morning on the Sports Radio six to ten morning

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Speaker 2: program with Luke and Seth Luke filling him for Sean,

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Speaker 2: who you would all have been in touch with a

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Speaker 2: little bit as he travels across the country and.

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Speaker 1: Thinks about it as well.

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Speaker 2: But they went over this infrastructure study that CBS Sports

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Speaker 2: does every year, but they changed it infrastructure rankings for

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Speaker 2: the offenses around the NFL. And they've changed it because

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Speaker 2: they used to put the quarterback in there and now

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Speaker 2: they take the quarterback out because they're trying to paint

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Speaker 2: a picture of what does the team's infrastructure look like

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Speaker 2: to help the quarterback be successful. Right, So the rankings come.

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Speaker 1: Out essentially everything but the quarterback.

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Speaker 2: It's everything about the quarterback, which is cool to rank coordinators, coaches,

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Speaker 2: coordinator all that. Coordinator ranking wide receivers, running backs, offensive

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Speaker 2: line obviously tight ends that kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: All right, So the Dolphins have their own tier.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to start from the very bottom here, and

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Speaker 2: I'm going to freak out at one point. They have

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Speaker 2: their own tier. It's Tier seven and all it belongs

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Speaker 2: to them exclusively.

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Speaker 1: Tier seven.

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Speaker 2: They're thirty second in the league with a two point

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Speaker 2: five to five. It's one through five and three being

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Speaker 2: average or something like that. So they're well below average.

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Speaker 2: And the distance between Dolphins and the Dolphins in last

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Speaker 2: place and the next closest team is larger than the

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Speaker 2: distance between any other two teams in the rankings. Oh

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Speaker 2: my gosh, coach Hafley, you are taking on a tough

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Speaker 2: task here in Miami. We'll see how it goes. But

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Speaker 2: they're thirty second. No need to really focus too much

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Speaker 2: on them. Tier six help needed, all right? These are

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Speaker 2: teams ranked thirty one through twenty nine. I'm going up here.

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Speaker 3: I think Dave Ball is the top half of the

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna tell you it's the greatest group in

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Speaker 1: Now the receivers are young. The receivers are young, and.

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Speaker 2: The old line has been revamped. Probably the issue they

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Speaker 2: This was not a great offense last year. We all

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Speaker 1: Johnny, I don't like this at all. I don't think

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Speaker 3: I just think that as I've looked at all these

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Speaker 1: Right, that's gonna help CJ.

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Speaker 3: Stroud And we really believe Jane Higgins, then you're gonna

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Speaker 3: you're basically in one of those two camps, because each

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Speaker 1: You know, what does Braden Smith have left?

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Speaker 1: Like you were forecasting here.

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Speaker 2: In a sense of course, and for all teams, anybody

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Speaker 2: I don't care how high you drafted Cam Woard good

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Speaker 2: Jeff Dubin wrote this thing for CBS Sports with the

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Speaker 1: Here's what he writes.

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Speaker 2: The Texans would probably rank higher if we had seen

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Speaker 2: I think you saw enough though to know that they're

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Speaker 2: All right, agreed there, healthy Dell. No question, we see

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Speaker 1: Nice.

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Speaker 2: The guys talked a lot about that this morning. Seth

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Speaker 1: I get it.

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Speaker 2: This team was thirteenth in points per game scored. Now

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Speaker 2: It says Kelly is an above average play caller, but

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Speaker 2: the offensive line will likely be lucky to achieve average status.

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Speaker 2: I disagree with that. I if I don't get average

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Speaker 2: I'm upset I didn't get to be average with everything

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Speaker 2: I put into the line. I gotta have average.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can.

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Speaker 2: Pound the table say I want average, and it sounds

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Speaker 2: ridiculous to say it that way, right right?

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Speaker 1: Give me average?

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Speaker 2: How many times have that has that been said in

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Speaker 3: Basically the offensive line to epitomize sees get degrees.

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Speaker 1: At how many teams? How many teams in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: Could you look at it and say, look, if you

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Speaker 2: Or to the Super But he's saying that he does

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Speaker 3: Just based on past history in not believing in season

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Speaker 1: I have to think.

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Speaker 2: Now you can pull out any analytic you want. If

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Speaker 2: of two things have happened. One, people got hurt who

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Speaker 2: can't get hurt. Yes, so let's move remove that from

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Speaker 1: Expeerimid couldn't find chemistry.

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Speaker 2: Low average is unacceptable to me. They have to be

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Speaker 3: I just don't think given. And look, I understand why

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Speaker 1: I see other.

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Speaker 3: Built Ye, if they can stay healthy, they're gonna be

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Speaker 2: And it's not gonna happen week one either, right, I mean,

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Speaker 2: if they don't like what they see. I understand this.

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Speaker 2: It's happened NFL football. You practice in front of the media.

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Speaker 2: Eventually you have eight open practices here. All the fans

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Speaker 3: Nobody really gets to see the offensive line and practicing

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Speaker 1: Let's be honest.

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Speaker 3: Well, so they're other than what they see they could

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Speaker 1: They can't.

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Speaker 2: I mean, well, you're right because the fans who are here, right,

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Speaker 1: But I get your point.

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Speaker 1: So there's that, Johnny.

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Speaker 2: Let me let me continue here though with this offensive

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Speaker 1: Because I have something for you also.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So then you go to tier four average because

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Speaker 2: and guess what, there's not an AFC South team in here.

440
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Speaker 2: So that means our friends in Indianapolis and in North

441
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Speaker 2: Florida are ranked even a high than this.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I actually don't. I don't find that. Uh you

443
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Speaker 1: don't find that surprising. I don't really.

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Speaker 2: The Cults are seventeenth. I go all the way up

445
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Speaker 2: to eleven in the next category, which is above average,

446
00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,640
Speaker 2: the culture seventeenth, and look we can dive into these.

447
00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:23,400
Speaker 2: The Jags are ranked sixth in offensive infrastructure around the quarterback. Johnny,

448
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Speaker 2: I don't agree with that at all. They lost a

449
00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,680
Speaker 2: chin as we pointed out with the run game. Yeah,

450
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Speaker 2: it's kind of a big thing, especially for a quarterback

451
00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:35,960
Speaker 2: like that, kind of a big deal. Look, I like

452
00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:39,320
Speaker 2: the young receiver group, but I'm not ready to hang

453
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Speaker 2: my hat on that.

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Speaker 1: You know, Myers, Parker Washington. I get it. These guys

455
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Speaker 1: are good. Are they that good?

456
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Speaker 2: If we looked at all thirty strange as your tight end?

457
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Speaker 2: I mean, are you guy with him a lot of money?

458
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Speaker 2: I know he's he's a good tight end, good tight end?

459
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Speaker 2: Is he a great tight end?

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Speaker 1: I don't.

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Speaker 2: I think the group is solid. I can't call them

462
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Speaker 2: sixth in the lead.

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Speaker 1: You know, what's everything? There's a couple of things.

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Speaker 3: What number one, this is buying Liam Cohen play caller

465
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Speaker 3: to the extreme? That that that's I could go through

466
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Speaker 3: all thirty two teams and tell you where they're ranked

467
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Speaker 3: and go, oh, they're overvaluing this.

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Speaker 1: They're undervaluing this. Should I read you the Jaguars passage?

469
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Speaker 1: When do they get to the point of Travis Hunter?

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Speaker 2: Okay, they don't mention him here? Ranking them this high

471
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Speaker 2: in the list might be surprising at first glance. Yes

472
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Speaker 2: it is, it is, but it speaks to how well

473
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Speaker 2: they were able to play last season. Okay, Liam Cohene

474
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Speaker 2: has established himself as one of the best play callers

475
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Speaker 2: of the NFL.

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Speaker 1: There it is, Jack. The offensive line is an above

477
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Speaker 1: average unit. Okay, it's good.

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Speaker 2: The pass catcher corps has incredible depth, beyond almost any

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Speaker 2: team in the league.

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Speaker 1: Wait, wait, wait, interesting, what still has a potential star

481
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Speaker 1: and Brian Thomas junior?

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Speaker 3: This guy overvaluing a guy that was crappy last year?

483
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Speaker 1: Right trade last year?

484
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Speaker 2: If he can rediscover his rookie form, why does he

485
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Speaker 2: get the big If that's exactly, why does he get

486
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Speaker 2: a big if and we don't get any If that's right,

487
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Speaker 2: I wanted in Mark, let them do it. The running

488
00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 2: back duo is only average, but the jag strength in

489
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Speaker 2: other areas makes up for it.

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Speaker 1: No, it doesn't, because the run game is what fed

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Speaker 1: the pass game. Last year. H was a freaking study.

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Speaker 1: He was a top one hundred player in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Last year. You lost him. That's a big. That's a

494
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Speaker 1: big freaking Is he is he really in the top

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Speaker 1: one hundred. He's already been in h yeah, how about that.

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Speaker 1: I can't remember what number he was though, but he's

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Speaker 1: in there.

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Speaker 2: But he was even if he's not, he was good

499
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Speaker 2: last year. That was the player they wanted to see

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Speaker 2: when they drafted him. That was a good year for him.

501
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's in that Trevor Lawrence draft. He was tremendous.

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Speaker 2: And now he's gone, so.

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Speaker 1: Let's see he.

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Speaker 3: I guarantee he was in here because I saw his

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Speaker 3: I saw his ninety six ninety six okay.

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Speaker 1: So and now he's with the New Orleans Saints.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, so okay, I'm glad you brought this up

508
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,200
Speaker 3: because I saw this article and I clicked on it.

509
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Speaker 3: I was just like, this is gonna make me mad.

510
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Speaker 3: But it's by Ted Wynn, who writes for The Athletic

511
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Speaker 3: and Ted is very very good. Is his Twitter handle

512
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Speaker 3: is at film Analysis. Ted's extremely good. He knows he

513
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Speaker 3: knows ball. He's a ball nor, like a really good one.

514
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Speaker 3: He knows his x's and no's as well. He's done

515
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Speaker 3: some high school coaching. So he did an article five

516
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Speaker 3: offenses positioned to break out in twenty twenty six.

517
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Speaker 1: So that got me to break out, to break out.

518
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Speaker 3: But then he said, then the headline once you click

519
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:45,119
Speaker 3: in the article says Jaguars, Chargers, Broncos among five offenses

520
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Speaker 3: positioned to break out in twenty twenty six. And it

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Speaker 3: started like, God, dang it, really like I started to

522
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Speaker 3: get mad, and I'm going through the article and I'm like, Jaguars, Broncos,

523
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:56,960
Speaker 3: I see Dvoa stuff, and then I get to the

524
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Speaker 3: third team on the list, the Houston Texans. Really yeah,

525
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Speaker 3: So now I like him. Here's what Ted says, and

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Speaker 3: I quote. I get it. It's hard to believe the

527
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Speaker 3: Texans have much hope on offense based on the last

528
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Speaker 3: time we saw them, when they turned them ball over

529
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Speaker 3: five times against the Patriots in the playoffs. Nick Keyley's

530
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Speaker 3: first season at Houston do C could hardly be considered

531
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Speaker 3: a success, but the offense had a few big games

532
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:23,879
Speaker 3: against good defenses Jaguars, Chargers, Steelers. I still believe they

533
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,080
Speaker 3: giving CJ. Stroud more agency at the line. Scream has

534
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:28,280
Speaker 3: been trying to improve the pass protection scheme from Bobby

535
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Speaker 3: Sloke's system. Were the right moves despite the growing pains

536
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Speaker 3: last season. He kind of honds in on Kayley as

537
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Speaker 3: a play caller. It's hard to overcome one of the

538
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Speaker 3: worst offensive lines in the league that struggled with run

539
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Speaker 3: block and pass Protech Lions ranked thirtieth in ESPN's pass

540
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:45,880
Speaker 3: block win rate and thirty second in run block win rate.

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Speaker 3: GM Nick Cassario overhauled the O line, adding three new

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Speaker 3: potential starters. Sign Brady Smith why Taylor. Smith was the

543
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,960
Speaker 3: best right tackle in the market, but Taylor's game has

544
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:55,920
Speaker 3: sharply declined.

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Speaker 1: Okay. They also drafted.

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Speaker 3: Mal er Keelan Rutledge in the first round, but he'll

547
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Speaker 3: move from Gardis, which won't be an easy transition. Ariata

548
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 3: Erstrie was up and down play well enough to continue

549
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 3: to be developed. How much he improves will be a

550
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Speaker 3: key for this offense. Then he goes into Montgomery, says

551
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 3: Montgomery's a massive upgrade, and his presence puts Woody marks

552
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 3: in a number two slash, third down back roll for

553
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:21,120
Speaker 3: which he's more suited. The run game should be better

554
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:22,960
Speaker 3: and should take the load off Stroud's shoulders.

555
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Speaker 1: Nico's the headliner.

556
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Speaker 3: Jaydon Higgins had five hundred and twenty five yards and

557
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:29,359
Speaker 3: six touchdowns as a rookie. He's got a lot of

558
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Speaker 3: speed and on tap potential. Also, Tank Dell could return

559
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,200
Speaker 3: from a could return from a grusive injury suffered in

560
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: Then he continued, We've seen young qbs.

562
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Speaker 3: Like Trevor Lawrence and Baker Mayfield struggle in bad offenses

563
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,399
Speaker 3: and have their careers resurrected when the surroundings improve. Stroud

564
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Speaker 3: struggled for two seasons after a strong rookie campaign, but

565
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Speaker 3: I still believe he can rebound in his second season

566
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Speaker 3: in Calle's offense. With the season added responsibility at the

567
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Speaker 3: line of scrimmage under his belt, Stroud should be much

568
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Speaker 3: more comfortable and theoretically the to adust protections and change

569
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Speaker 3: plays can be an advantage.

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Speaker 1: And then the final couder graw.

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Speaker 3: If the offense can finish in the twelve to fifteen

572
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 3: range and offense dvoa, they can be Super Bowl contenders. Yep,

573
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Speaker 3: I think Ted win and that was all curtsy. If

574
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Speaker 3: Ted winning the athletic I think Ted hit it right.

575
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Speaker 1: On the nose.

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Speaker 3: But you put the Texans in one of the top

577
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Speaker 3: five offenses positioned to break out. Four of those were

578
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Speaker 3: in the AFC, and four of those are gonna be competitors.

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Speaker 3: In fact, I think all not the Broncos, but Jags, Jags, Chargers,

580
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Speaker 3: and Texans three to four.

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Speaker 1: They'll all play each other.

582
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Speaker 2: So if nothing's ezy, no, But when you look at

583
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 2: the AFC versus the NFC, like Kevin Clark, we could

584
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Speaker 2: do this next week. Had his NFL Contenders set up

585
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Speaker 2: today on ESPA.

586
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Speaker 1: I saw it.

587
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 2: His favorites are the Rams and the Seahawks. So that's

588
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,959
Speaker 2: two NFC teams being the favorites. Yeah, and in the

589
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Speaker 2: contenders group, that's the second group. He only has two

590
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Speaker 2: NFC teams. The rest are AFC teams and the Texans

591
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 2: are not in that.

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Speaker 1: Get the Bengals in there. I mean, I'm telling you,

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Speaker 1: the Bengals are getting just a lot of love this song.

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Speaker 2: The Texans are in the almost contenders or whatever you

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Speaker 2: call them.

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Speaker 3: Is what's the iff the offense? If the offense can

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00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:18,680
Speaker 3: be twelve to fifteen.

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Speaker 2: The Bengals, oh, there was going to be so much

599
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Speaker 2: better on defense.

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Speaker 3: Okay, if the defense is better, I mean, I'll take

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Speaker 3: your word for it.

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Speaker 2: But why don't Why do they get the if and

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Speaker 2: we don't get the I mean we get the if,

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00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 2: but they get doubt.

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Speaker 1: They have Joe. That's what quarterbacks do for you. That's

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Speaker 1: a question. Joe Burrow and look c J.

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Speaker 3: Strouck, there's no question Ted Ted Winn hit on all

608
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Speaker 3: those things he on every single thing. O line gets

609
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Speaker 3: better and all of a sudden, the run game gets

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Speaker 3: better when you got what He's the one national writer

611
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Speaker 3: that said David Montgomery's addition is the number one back

612
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 3: slots Woody marks in the right spot for him that

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Speaker 3: he'll fit perfect.

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Speaker 2: This could be a nice thunder and lightning situation for

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Speaker 2: your huston in Texans. And a guy that we love

616
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Speaker 2: seeing play, but we really don't want to see him

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Speaker 2: play is coming up. That would be Davis Mills, and

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Speaker 2: he's next here on Texans Radio.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: We had a very active first segment and we're gonna

621
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Speaker 2: have an active second segment because we're going back to

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Speaker 2: an interview that just got released on YouTube this week.

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Speaker 2: It's been on Texans TV, or maybe it's going up

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Speaker 2: this week.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Davis Mills quarterback, longest tenured Texans position player, and when

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Speaker 2: Johnny and I caught up with him at the internal

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Speaker 2: media day, that's how we began the conversation labeling him

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Speaker 2: as that how's.

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Speaker 1: It go with Davis I'm doing well. How are you?

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Speaker 4: Guys?

632
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Speaker 1: How does it feel to hear that?

633
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 2: Because Emy's been here longer than anybody right now, he's

634
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Speaker 2: a kicker, though definitely an exclusive class position players. You're

635
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 2: the man. Nico is drafted a few moments later, Brev

636
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Speaker 2: after that.

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Speaker 1: So how does that feel?

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Speaker 4: Extremely? Extremely grateful, I mean got here going into year six,

639
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 4: I mean feels like it kind of flew by.

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Speaker 1: My God, making us feel old.

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Speaker 4: Davis, I know, right, No, I mean happy to be

642
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 4: here for another year, excited for the opportunity and ready

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Speaker 4: to see where we can go as a team.

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Speaker 3: Year six, Davis Mills walks in and there is rookie

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Speaker 3: Davis Mills who had just walked into the building. What

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Speaker 3: would be your one piece of advice to give to

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Speaker 3: rookie year Davis Mills.

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Speaker 4: Take in as much as you can, and I mean

649
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,960
Speaker 4: you're kind of going to be swimming in information and

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00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,200
Speaker 4: doing a lot of things that maybe you've never done before.

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Speaker 4: But kind of stepping into the fire. You gotta put

652
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Speaker 4: a lot of a lot of stuff on your back

653
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Speaker 4: and really just own it. Yeah, and but really be it.

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Speaker 4: Come in, try to get as comfortable as you can

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Speaker 4: as fast as possible, because there's really no way of

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Speaker 4: getting fully comfortable. You just kind of kind of live

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Speaker 4: in the live in the moment, and really take advantage

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Speaker 4: of every day, find a way to get better every day.

659
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Speaker 4: There's always people in the building. You can talk to

660
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 4: older teammates, coaches who have been around, seen a lot

661
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 4: of football, so there's always guys who will share little

662
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 4: tidbits with you to make you a better player. You

663
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 4: just got to kind of seek it out sometimes, so

664
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 4: just soak it all in and find a way to

665
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 4: have fun while you're living your childhood dream there.

666
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 2: I mean, you stepped right into the fire week two

667
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 2: of your rookie year. Halftime, you got to cume in

668
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 2: ty Rod gets hurt and bam and before we could blink,

669
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 2: twenty five starts in this league, which has to help because.

670
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: There's nothing like playing the game.

671
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 2: Yet you didn't have time to really watch and soak

672
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 2: up much before that, for sure.

673
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I mean even going back to that Week

674
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 4: two game up at Cleveland my rookie year, Tyrod went

675
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 4: down right before halftime. I got told I didn't really

676
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 4: know what happened because he scored on the play. He

677
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 4: got hurt right went in the locker room. We kicked

678
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 4: it off. I don't think we got another possession of

679
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 4: the first half. So I go in the locker room.

680
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 4: They're just looking at me, like, hey, you're going in

681
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 4: the second half. He stayed in the locker room, and

682
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 4: I was the only other quarterback who traveled that week,

683
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 4: so I was just coming back to the bench looking

684
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 4: at the iPad, not even really knowing what I was

685
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 4: supposed to be looking for. But yeah, I mean ended

686
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 4: up kind of starting another string full of games there

687
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 4: and then came back in the end of that season,

688
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 4: started my whole second year, and then kind of here

689
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 4: and there since then. But I'm grateful for every opportunity

690
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 4: I get to go out there and play with my brothers.

691
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 4: There's a lot of guys We've made a lot of

692
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 4: great relationships my time here in Houston, and I mean,

693
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 4: it's always fun getting out there and getting those real

694
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 4: time reps and you're actually gonna get hit. I mean,

695
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 4: it's invaluable going out there and playing and getting game time.

696
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 4: And I feel like I've developed a ton since my

697
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:42,239
Speaker 4: rookie year and since I've been in the league, and

698
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 4: I feel like I'm playing some of my best football

699
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 4: currently and I know it's only the off season, but

700
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:50,719
Speaker 4: I still have that confidence that I've had since I

701
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 4: was a little kid stepping on a football field, feeling

702
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 4: like you're you're the man out there and you can

703
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 4: go out there and win whatever game is necessary. So

704
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 4: it's fun. I'm really forward to season.

705
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 3: And David, there were a lot of necessary wins right

706
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 3: there in the middle of the season that we had

707
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 3: to have for this team to get to the playoffs,

708
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 3: and you had to step in. And it started against

709
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 3: Jacksonville when you start that game and we're like, Okay,

710
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 3: we gotta I know, you know this, you got we

711
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 3: gotta get off their good start. Let's go have a

712
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 3: good drive. And then it didn't start really the way

713
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 3: that you wanted to. But at some point, it felt

714
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 3: like in that game against Jacksonville, like your confidence it

715
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 3: just felt like it. And maybe your confidence was there

716
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 3: the whole time, but it felt like there was this

717
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 3: confidence switch that got flipped and all of a sudden,

718
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 3: you start throwing the ball like we had never seen

719
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 3: you here in Houston in that particular game, and it

720
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 3: felt like it felt like you felt like you could

721
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 3: make any throw on the field.

722
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: At that particular.

723
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 3: Moment in that particular game, you take us through kind

724
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 3: of what that was like, you know, obviously going down

725
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 3: to Jacksonville, but then kind of getting us out of

726
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 3: the abyss, and then the way that you played in

727
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 3: the fourth quarter.

728
00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it was fun. That was kind of

729
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:00,520
Speaker 4: the first week in a while where you gotta whole

730
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 4: game plan and and week worth of work put in

731
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 4: to prepare for the game. So coming out didn't start

732
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:12,400
Speaker 4: off too hot. Threw a pick. I mean, saw the

733
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 4: look pre snap, knew exactly they were in cover zero sending,

734
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 4: everybody knew where I needed to go with the ball,

735
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 4: and the defender just made a good, really good play.

736
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:22,839
Speaker 4: So wasn't too upset about that. Obviously, you never want

737
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 4: to turn the ball over, but I knew my process

738
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,720
Speaker 4: was good. I knew I saw what the defense was doing,

739
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 4: and I mean props to their dB made a really

740
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 4: good play jump in that pass. But coming off the sideline,

741
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 4: like all you can do is really just like smile

742
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 4: and be like, all right, let's get him on this

743
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 4: next drive. So and then yeah, once we got into it,

744
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 4: I think we scored before half and then kind of

745
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 4: kind of started rolling in the second half, and there

746
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 4: was a feeling like make a couple of throws and

747
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 4: be like, all right, the balls going exactly where I

748
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 4: wanted to today.

749
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,919
Speaker 3: The one ton eCos, the one I think where we're

750
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 3: like whoa, like he's on it. When you threw that

751
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,359
Speaker 3: seam ball at Nico, it is like three guys are

752
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 3: there and you stuck it on Eco or like Okay

753
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 3: Davis is on one today. Like it felt like at

754
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 3: that point you could make any throw.

755
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, that's a that concept. It was just

756
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,319
Speaker 4: standard like four verticals. I always joke around in the

757
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 4: building and say like basically that's my favorite playing football.

758
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 4: Depending on where the quarterback throws the ball, it's impossible

759
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 4: to stop as a defense because there's I mean, you're

760
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 4: just running a straight line and you can pull him inside,

761
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 4: you can throw a back shoulder, you can throw it

762
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 4: over the top. And Nico got carried underneath from uh

763
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 4: I think Devin Lloyd and started bending it on the

764
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 4: two high safety. But there was a little gap. If

765
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 4: I hit back shoulder right over top of Lloyd's head,

766
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 4: Like I mean that it's undefendable, yeah, because there's he's

767
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 4: never gonna throw it to that spot.

768
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 3: Yep, if you throw it to that spot, that's always

769
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:51,279
Speaker 3: the easiest thing to do.

770
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 4: I mean I got a ton of reps of that

771
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 4: stuff in college. Ran four verts i would say, probably

772
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 4: five or six times a game, and a ton in practice,

773
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 4: so I was used to throwing. I mean, another guy

774
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 4: in the league right now, Kolbe Parkinson, I had a

775
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 4: six seven tight end who had a really good catch radius,

776
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 4: and I threw a lot of those very similar balls

777
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 4: to him coming up. So I was really comfortable doing

778
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 4: that and having a big frame guy like Nico to

779
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 4: go out there and be able to adjust to those.

780
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,440
Speaker 4: It's it's not as hard of a throw as what

781
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 4: it seems to be.

782
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 3: It was seemingly Have you heard his game winning call

783
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:26,400
Speaker 3: of your touchdown?

784
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 1: Have you heard it?

785
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 4: I think I have your name a lot. Yeah.

786
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, because it's a great car. And at some

787
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 2: point I'm running, you make the decision. Here we go,

788
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:41,360
Speaker 2: I'm running, Dave. Yeah, At what point do you realize

789
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 2: I got this because there was a who boxed who?

790
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: Yeah he boxed the box box two guys out. Yeah.

791
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, but yeah no it it opened up, got a

792
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 4: little pressure off the right side, which allowed me to

793
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:59,400
Speaker 4: step up because kind of I guess the way the

794
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 4: defensive line game was the big gap on the left

795
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 4: side opened up and I was able to kind of

796
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:06,240
Speaker 4: step up in the pocket like we always talk about,

797
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,479
Speaker 4: and it just opened. I saw there was a running

798
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,240
Speaker 4: lane for me, and I just took off and trusted

799
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,439
Speaker 4: my speed, trusted the training for the strength staff here

800
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 4: to try to get me as fast as I could be,

801
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 4: and I mean I did what I needed to do

802
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 4: to get the end zone.

803
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 1: After afterwards we said, he's a running quarterback.

804
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 2: I told you, but you tell us better throw the

805
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 2: one to Schultz to begin that drive or the one

806
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 2: to Nico. It at Tennessee where it was third and

807
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 2: long and you had to throw it an nego to

808
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 2: get at the field goal range on third and long.

809
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 4: I think I liked the the one to Dalton on

810
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:44,399
Speaker 4: that third because I was a what we were backed

811
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 4: up on our own on like our own seven yard

812
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 4: line third and long. It's like you got to have

813
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 4: this play or else the game's over.

814
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 3: So I mean that situation was pretty similar in Tennessee.

815
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 3: I mean, you got sacked and then got a little bit.

816
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 3: So it's third sixteen and they throw you cover to

817
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 3: and you. I mean they've they I don't know how

818
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 3: many times, Davis, I've seen that replay the corner falling off,

819
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 3: misses the ball by like two inches.

820
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: But the safety camp, it's like the perfect spot to

821
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:11,360
Speaker 1: throw the football.

822
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:13,359
Speaker 3: You're off by two inches and he knocks it away

823
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 3: and who knows what happens, but you put it in

824
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,440
Speaker 3: the right spot to n Eco. I mean, I think

825
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:19,080
Speaker 3: a lot of people would say the throw to Nico,

826
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:22,359
Speaker 3: but I say it was a throat adult because it's

827
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 3: kind of a I mean, the way he's crossing, he's

828
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 3: crossing and getting depth, so your throw can't be straight

829
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 3: where he's gonna get it, like you're throwing it to

830
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 3: him downfield too, so he can.

831
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 1: Turn and run.

832
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 4: And he was also a backside of the concept. So

833
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 4: I was looking to the left first and kind of

834
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,360
Speaker 4: snap back and saw him for a split second and

835
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 4: just tried to lay it out there.

836
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 2: Stanford guys man, Okay, So state of the offense address

837
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 2: this year versus last year?

838
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 1: What you're seeing OTA's mini camp this time of year.

839
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:52,799
Speaker 4: I think this time of year right now, we're I mean,

840
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 4: I think light years ahead of where we were last year.

841
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 4: We're in a really good spot. It's always nice going

842
00:38:58,040 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 4: into the year two of an offense instead of having

843
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 4: a we install the entire thing for the first time.

844
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 4: I've been through that a couple of times here, but

845
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 4: year two of the offense that's a big jump to

846
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 4: build off what we did well last year but also

847
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 4: add in new things. And I think coach Kayley's done

848
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 4: a great job really taking inside of all of his players,

849
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 4: especially us in the QB room, really kind of building

850
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 4: offense around us and around CJ to things that he

851
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 4: does really well and things he's done in the past

852
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 4: that he feels really comfortable doing. So, I mean, he's

853
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 4: really an open book with how we've been installing plays

854
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 4: up to this point. And we obviously have the base

855
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 4: installs of what the foundation of this offense is, but

856
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 4: then there's things he's like, all right, what do you

857
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 4: guys want to put in to add to the end

858
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 4: of this install that we can run and rep and

859
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 4: make sure everyone's comfortable with, because once you get later

860
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 4: in the season, a lot of it really is just

861
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 4: game plan and making sure we have content concepts that

862
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 4: are built in to go against these certain defenses, and

863
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,479
Speaker 4: a lot of times or from times in my past.

864
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,240
Speaker 4: When you're in you're really running like the foundation plays.

865
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 4: But it seems like we're already kind of getting ahead

866
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:07,239
Speaker 4: to work some of those game plan related plays that

867
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 4: you might only get to run a handful of times

868
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:12,840
Speaker 4: a season. But if we're already getting reps this early

869
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 4: in the spring, it's it's valuable because it's kind of

870
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:18,839
Speaker 4: just everything starts loading into that memory brank in our

871
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 4: in our heads, and we're able to pull back on

872
00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 4: some of that training that we put in to make

873
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 4: it effective in the season.

874
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: Well, can you tell us about Jerry and how he's

875
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: impacted the room.

876
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:32,279
Speaker 4: He's been great, nothing about respect and good things to

877
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 4: say about him. Knows the offense extremely well, and he

878
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 4: does a great job coaching and kind of portraying his

879
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 4: knowledge to us as players. So I'm excited to be

880
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:42,960
Speaker 4: in the room with him. He was there last year,

881
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 4: but he's taking on a bigger role this year. It's

882
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 4: gonna be fun, all right.

883
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 2: So you have a little bit of off season before

884
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 2: training camp.

885
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 1: How's the golf game? Oh boy? Yeah? I ask you

886
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 1: every time we go to if you had any team.

887
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 4: I've been able to play a little bit not as

888
00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:59,759
Speaker 4: much as I was able to last year. I had

889
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 4: a new born in January, I did so. My son

890
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:06,799
Speaker 4: is five a little over five months now.

891
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:07,320
Speaker 1: Sleeping.

892
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:09,879
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he started sleeping to the night like seven

893
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:12,279
Speaker 4: eight weeks old. So, oh my gosh, my wife is

894
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 4: crushing it.

895
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:17,839
Speaker 1: Your life is on cruise contrip. But even the dad

896
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:18,720
Speaker 1: if you're not sleeping.

897
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 4: But the golf game, it's still a work in progress.

898
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,400
Speaker 4: It's trending right now. Hopefully get a couple of rounds

899
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 4: on this summer.

900
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 1: Is Emy the best? Or could you take him? So?

901
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 4: I played with him this weekend and he'll be by

902
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:36,359
Speaker 4: one stroke, so I would give it to him, all right?

903
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 4: Eight eight days out of time?

904
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: What stroke? Who was telling us they beat Emy? Or

905
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 1: was on par with me earlier today? That wasn't mert.

906
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,759
Speaker 2: It might have been No, I can't think a lot

907
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 2: of guys today. Yeah, but it's a it's a pretty

908
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 2: tight battle. But Emy, he's got the experience, he's.

909
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:55,240
Speaker 4: Got it right now. He's I think he has golf

910
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:55,799
Speaker 4: and ping pong.

911
00:41:56,520 --> 00:42:01,319
Speaker 2: Kroger told us, Oh, Kroger, that's right, that's right. Pink

912
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:03,880
Speaker 2: Pok's tough, Pink pox tough. Yeah, he's probably got that

913
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:06,319
Speaker 2: precision down one more for you. And this is very

914
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:08,399
Speaker 2: important because you have the newborn and everything. But when

915
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 2: you settle down to watch a show with the wife,

916
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 2: what is it Because there's probably some stuff she wants

917
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 2: to watch that you don't vice versa.

918
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 1: How do you handle that?

919
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 4: Most of the time, it's her choosing the TV shows.

920
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:23,720
Speaker 4: She's not super interested in all the stuff I always

921
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 4: want to watch. I'll watch anything. I mean spending time

922
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,799
Speaker 4: with her, especially when the babies asleep, it's uh, we

923
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 4: don't get a lot of time during the day to

924
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 4: do that, have some one on one time. So whatever

925
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 4: she wants to put on the TV, we can watch.

926
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:40,600
Speaker 1: What are you watching? Now? What's once you are you watching?

927
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:44,279
Speaker 4: We just finished Paradise on Hulu, which was pretty good,

928
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 4: and then like this offseason, I finally went back and

929
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 4: watched All a Yellowstone. Oh wow, So I never finished that.

930
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:51,319
Speaker 1: Okay, I gotta start that.

931
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:54,359
Speaker 2: You got Duck Rams, you got to continue. Here we go,

932
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:56,480
Speaker 2: it continues. David Tykes left for joining us.

933
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 1: Thank you.

934
00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 2: There's our conversation with Davis Mills at the internal media Day.

935
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 2: Great stuff with the longest tenured Texans position player coming up.

936
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:07,920
Speaker 2: The league's got some special plans for a new league.

937
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 2: What we'll talk about it next on Texans All Access.

938
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 2: All right, wrapping it up on a Friday, Man, we've

939
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:16,759
Speaker 2: been busy this week and next week We've got some

940
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 2: special stuff and one of the things we're really looking

941
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 2: forward to is a visit with the very first sideline

942
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,360
Speaker 2: reporter in Texans radio history. Yeah, we will try to

943
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 2: get in touch with rich Lord, who Johnny replaced in

944
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 2: twenty fourteen. But John Granado's going to join us on

945
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,279
Speaker 2: the show next week, probably Wednesday, so stay tuned for that.

946
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 2: But Johnny I wanted to go here. I mentioned I

947
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:37,399
Speaker 2: teased it, Man, a new league, Well, we talked about

948
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:41,839
Speaker 2: the NFL possibly having a flag football league coming up, right,

949
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 2: flag football Olympic sport in twenty twenty eight. We know

950
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 2: it's huge. Texans hugely into it. UIL vote coming up

951
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 2: in October. Let's get it sanctioned now. The sports business

952
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:58,360
Speaker 2: journal people have leaked or reported on a modular stadium,

953
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 2: so a stadium that they could take around. I guess

954
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 2: Florio or that publication called it a big top kind

955
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 2: of thing where you would I love this played in

956
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:13,720
Speaker 2: one location, play a season in one location. I would

957
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:18,800
Speaker 2: like better to play a season in several locations, and.

958
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:20,319
Speaker 1: Maybe you don't even have to do it every week.

959
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,799
Speaker 2: I don't know how you do it, but what are

960
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:24,840
Speaker 2: your thoughts on playing in one location? Kind of like

961
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:27,279
Speaker 2: the way the USFL did when they came back. A

962
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:31,279
Speaker 2: lot of that was COVID driven, but it was also economics.

963
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 3: Driven, you know absolutely, I mean economics are are a

964
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 3: huge part of this, like what it's going to cost

965
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:36,799
Speaker 3: to be able to do this. But would be really

966
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 3: cool is if you did it in four different areas

967
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 3: and then you took the four teams and brought them

968
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:45,320
Speaker 3: together and did you know, had like you know, during

969
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:48,799
Speaker 3: Super Bowl week you had them playing like a championship

970
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:50,919
Speaker 3: from the four different regions. So let's say you say

971
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 3: you put one in Houston, you put one in New York,

972
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 3: you put one in Seattle, you put one in Chicago.

973
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:59,239
Speaker 3: I don't know, just those four for now, and you

974
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 3: have you the season right, and then you play and

975
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 3: you have you know, a champion. Those four champions get

976
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:09,400
Speaker 3: together like Champions League and they play super Bowl weekend.

977
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 3: There's three games, two semi finals, and there's a final

978
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:14,319
Speaker 3: and you play it during Super Bowl Week.

979
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:17,840
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make you commissioner for a moment. Okay, thirty

980
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 2: two teams are gonna have teams. Do you call it

981
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:23,400
Speaker 2: the Texans? Do you call the team the Cowboys that

982
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 2: represents the Cowboys? Do you call the team the Saints

983
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 2: that represent the Saints. Do you do it that way

984
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:30,319
Speaker 2: or do you do an offshoot sort of name like

985
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:32,719
Speaker 2: the Toros instead of the Texans or whatever you would pick.

986
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 1: No, I think you go with the team names.

987
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:38,920
Speaker 3: So let's just have there's three two teams, right, So

988
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 3: the Houston regional would have the Cowboys, the Saints, the Texans, Chiefs, Chiefs,

989
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:48,960
Speaker 3: the Jagers.

990
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:49,840
Speaker 1: My dream division.

991
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:52,400
Speaker 3: By the way, however, you would put eight teams into it,

992
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:54,880
Speaker 3: and you play a season with those eight teams and

993
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:57,400
Speaker 3: then whoever comes out of this particular regions. It's just

994
00:45:57,440 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 3: like the ANAA tournament. Then you play a uh, you

995
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 3: play a one game, you go it's the final four. Yeah,

996
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:06,880
Speaker 3: like again, you do it through. So yeah, absolutely, I

997
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 3: think you tied in. You know, the the younger kids

998
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 3: to air it out is the called air it out

999
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 3: the NFL flag. Last year we were watching and the

1000
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 3: Jaguars team won it and had his kid named Bryson Wright,

1001
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 3: and he he did some viral things. He made it

1002
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:22,719
Speaker 3: catching the ends on one handed, catching the ends on

1003
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 3: that just went. I mean every NFL player was commenting

1004
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:28,359
Speaker 3: on it. Patrick Mahomes was like eyeballs and uh on

1005
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:31,760
Speaker 3: Twitter and all that kind of stuff. So that, I,

1006
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:34,400
Speaker 3: that's that's huge. That thing is just grown and grown

1007
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 3: and grown and grown. So they all have Jaguars, Bills, Texans, whatever.

1008
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 3: I think you could do that obviously at a higher level.

1009
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:47,280
Speaker 3: And yeah, I like the one location thing because start

1010
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 3: out and let's see what we financially can handle. Right,

1011
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 3: Let's make sure we got the economics. I'm gonna be

1012
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 3: on TV, you're gonna be able to watch. Let's make

1013
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 3: sure we can do that.

1014
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:57,280
Speaker 1: Okay.

1015
00:46:57,360 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 3: Then the expansion part of this is, let's take the

1016
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 3: to four NFL locations and let's put the you know,

1017
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 3: teams from those locations in those cities, and let's play

1018
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 3: it out, and then we can move those four cities

1019
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 3: throughout the different cities of the NFL.

1020
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:12,920
Speaker 1: I like it. I like it.

1021
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:14,560
Speaker 3: I think you know, I think you could do that

1022
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 3: and then playoff and get a final champion at the

1023
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 3: Super Bowl.

1024
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:19,800
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, It's not gonna be an NFL football.

1025
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,399
Speaker 2: It'll be fun to watch. Hell, are you enjoyable to watch?

1026
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 2: And to see the team names would be pretty cool?

1027
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so too.

1028
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 2: Uniforms, the gear, the gear possibilities huge. Okay, big group

1029
00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:34,920
Speaker 2: of shows next week as we get ever so closer

1030
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,839
Speaker 2: to training camp. We're very close to Area forty five

1031
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 2: they are next. Have a great weekend, Go Texans.