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Speaker 1: He's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross seven one three

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one two five seven ninety It is a Matt Thomas

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Show with Ross. Tweet came in uh fifteen hours ago.

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Ross kudos the Houston Texans on advancing to the second

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round of the playoffs. This team showed real determination, playing

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with hard and discipline despite major offensive injuries. That kind

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of resilience matters. Jack Easterby Nope, Michael, I mean Magic

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Johnson out of sports, out of sports. Mm hmm, Dom Deluiz, No,

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he's dead. Oh, I don't know. Lena Hildago, who Leana Hildago, Elena,

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He'll that'll go, He'll that'll go. Lea hilde Shut your

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bumb ass up. Nobody wants to see that. How those

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corruption cases going, She's funneling funds and whatnot? I don't know.

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I don't want to hear teflon from politics, political people

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or TV news anchors wearing gear. Your team gets your asking.

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The last thing you want to hear about is how

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resilient the team was. Shut your bumb ass up? Seriously?

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Ah you all right, man? Yes, a good weekend. I

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had a great weekend. Come on, I'm ninety nine percent

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sure I have her muted. So well I didn't. I

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got it sent to me, and I'm like, are you

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kidding me? I don't follow any politicians there. She's muted.

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Good for you. I'm gonna hit they see that. So seriously,

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just just take care of our county. Be a judge

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whatever judges do. I don't even know what judges. I

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don't know she's I don't know. I'm not worried about it. Well,

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I just had to saying, come on, and by the way,

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they did a wave and energy stadium yesterday, you should

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get your ass kicked by doing the way it did well.

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The watch party thing. Yeah, they had enough people for

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a wave. Yeah, people were there. I don't know, but

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they did the lower level and doing the wave. McNair's

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are cashing in a little because they charged full prices,

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don't they. That was free to get in, but everything

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else is probably That's what I'm say. Yeah, yeah, yah,

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don't know who it was. They make enough of those

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twenty dollars beers. So I'm a flight aware geek. What's

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flight away? That is a wide website you can track planes.

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There were three PJS private jets leaving a suburban Boston airport. Okay,

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headed to Houston, and then the big one, that's the

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Texans plane did not leave until the middle of the night,

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like a two o'clock in the morning. They had icing

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issues and other sort of delays. Okay, So I just was, so,

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what are the three that left? I don't know who

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they're owned by. One of them's got to be the

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McNair family, right, Okay, the other two I can't tell you,

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but I'm just gonna be by was of the game? Yeah?

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Was he throwing up his h It? Probably we're gonna

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take a little highus and thrown hes up. No, then

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we're not mad. Yes, we literally know one. But you

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is mad about that. You're the only person I've ever

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heard complain about I'm not an anxious fan. I know

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because you know what. People throwing their ages up put

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them down. That's what your team did. Either way you

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throw it, that's true. I'm gonna throw you an h

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right now, Matt, you h doesn't use your middle finger? Man? Oh,

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sorry about that. ROSSI all right, we have to tell

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the truth at the bottom of the hour, Okay, I

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have Oh, this could get spicy. It's a spicy one.

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Three three truths and one line? Okay? Three truths, yes,

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one line? Okay? How many lies? Jonathan seven?

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Speaker 2: This?

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Speaker 1: No one? I just said three truths one lie? You

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said three truths? Three truths? I said, how many lies?

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How one lie? No? You said, wait? How many truths? Yeah?

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Press truths? How many truths? Three? Okay? Alright? Eleven? Three truths?

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One lie? Can't wait? All right, Let's go to the phones.

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Manual eleven eight on the Matt Thomas Show, A Ross Manuel,

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thank you for holding a good morning, very good morning.

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Speaker 2: Tell us.

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Speaker 1: How are you good? Great? Good good good?

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Speaker 2: You know, man, I've I've got a good night's rest

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as best as I could get.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: You know that that loss was probably about his worst

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as Game seven the Rockets face twenty eighteen. That's about

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as hurd as I felt in a long time. But

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I just want to ask this one, what has CJ earned?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: We keep feel like as a fan base, maybe we're

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fifty to fifty in this What is he earned? He

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hasn't earned. In my opinion, he hasn't anything. He doesn't

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earned anything. He's not an all pro, he's not a

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pro bowler. He's not an elite at any one thing.

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Maybe he had an elite, elite moments his rookie year,

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but he's not elite. I don't even think he's good.

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He's teetering on averages at best some days. But I

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just want to know what is he earned. And I

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really believe and I don't think this is a debate.

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I really think we've got a Sam Darnell situation on

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our hands here. I think he's lost, and I think

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he's gone. I think he's up there. It's obvious that

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he's seeing ghost and I really don't believe that there

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is anyone on our staff. I don't think there's anyone

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that Demiko will hire that can fix him. I do

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not think this is a Demiko problem. He was drafted

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the second overall for Christ's sakes, you know, like at

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the end of the day, there has to be some

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accountability within himself.

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Speaker 1: To get better and to be better.

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Speaker 2: And I think Demico and Nick are perfectly safe.

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Speaker 1: Hell, even Nick Chiley.

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Speaker 2: I mean I blasted him for four months, and for

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christ sakes, he got better. I'll be damned, he got better.

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But for some reason CJ has regressed, and I think

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that he's broken. I don't think he's fixable here. I

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just want to know what he's earned. And why do

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we need to give him another year?

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Speaker 1: You don't have a backup play? No, no, you're yeah,

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you're giving him. Thank you manyel for the call. You

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are giving him another year? This this, this, Okay. There

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are two things we're not going to discuss. CJ is

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the quarterback next year? And number two Joe Burrow. Ain't

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it Joe Burrow makes about fifty million dollars. You got

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to send fifty million dollars back. You don't have fifty

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million dollars to send back. Let me make sure I'm

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very clear in this. Joe Burrow will not be a

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Houston Texan period and a story. I'm putting my name

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on it. Joe Burrow not a Houston Texans. You're gonna

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be right, but I'll still write it down. Just you

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need to write it down. Because the guy I was

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working with somebody, I want to bring up a name.

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She managed Manton. Like you can just three fifty million back?

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What are you going to trade him back? Yeah? No,

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you need to send a bunch of picks. You gotta

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send picks and money and no no chance, no way,

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no house. Yeah, go ahead, but I'm just gonna say

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c J. Stroud is your quarterback in twenty twenty six.

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After that, I cannot guarantee. Yeah. And you're saying what

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he's earned, I mean what he's earned was was his

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I mean his rookie year. He was insane, he was

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he was every bit of the franchise quarterback that you

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thought you were gonna get. And these it's tough to

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say out loud, but these last two games they're not.

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also under the bright lights in the playoffs. That's you

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know what, you pay franchise quarterbacks to fifty million dollars

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a year to beat playoff teams. You don't do it

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to beat Carolina. Yeah, that's just the truth. So you

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can find somebody to give you nineteen touchdowns and eight interceptions.

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That's what Jack Prescott has crushed. Even though he's had

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a really good year. That's a lot of money spent

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for a guy that, again not through any a lot

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of fault of his own, but that his contract, in

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part with Ceedee Lamb's contract, hamstrings year. I'd rather have

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Dak Prescott than c J. Stroud. That's not even close

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right now. But what CJ. Stroud is earned, he's asking

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what he's done to earn it. He was a pro

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bowler his rookie year. I don't know if he was

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named to it or or an injury replacement, a Matt

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Schaub pro bowler or a real ride. I don't know.

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I think it probably was the last the former. But

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he has been a Pro Bowl. He hasn't been all pro.

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He was the he was the offensive Rookie of the Year.

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He's earned that. All right, I got one for you.

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Let's port into our comps. You're ready twenty four years old?

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Sam Donald or c J. Stroud right now? Right this second? Okay,

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but with assuming Sam Donald, who's not been healthy, is

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healthy Sam Donald? Sam Donald? But he brought up that name,

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which we is gonna be a part of what we

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need to fold into the conversation because what Sam Donald

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has around him is better than what c J. Stroud

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has around him. That's fair. Oh, CJ's got a few

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things going against him, for sure. CJ. Stroud. Could I

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you envision a scenario where c J. Stroud ends up

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with like this the Pittsburgh Steelers or something, and he

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plays well and he's successful. Yes, But what's gonna happen

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here is if you want to keep c. J. Stroud,

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you're gonna have to pay him fifty to sixty million dollars.

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and you can build a better roster around him. That's

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the thing. You need a better offensive line. You need

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a legit RB one. You probably need a legit WR two,

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although maybe the two young guys may be coming into that.

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Maybe Higgins can be that. So you're gonna have to

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pay all those things that we just said, and you

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gotta pay him, and you're gonna try to retain your

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entire defense. That ain't happening. It's not happening. So I'm

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saying there is a cap for a reason. Yes, And

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that's why I was saying this yesterday to you know,

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the family and people. We were talking about the game.

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You need a podcast on this. No, I didn't do

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a podcast. I should have. There's a world where we

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just witnessed the best Texans offensive all time, also healthy

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into the playoffs, Lassiter, Petrie Anderson, and Daniel Hunter everybody's healthy.

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Everybody was healthy in the playoffs in the divisional round. YEP,

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if I say out loud, that was the best and

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healthy at the Texans defense will ever be during this

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Demiko Ryan's run, that's not crazy. Even with lass are

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in and out of practices for the last month, even

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with Petrie were in that soft shell on his head,

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that's fine. He played, was out there playing, flying around,

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making plays, and you squandered it. The best defense in

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the history of this franchise, which goes now twenty four years,

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still can't compete in the championship game. Let that's soakin.

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I don't want to too bad to throw it out.

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We had this, We had this all off season long.

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Do you understand this? All off season long? Seven one

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three two one two five seven ninety Does Demiko treat

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cj differently than his other players? The answer to that,

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no doubt in my mind is yes. But in relation

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to the other quarterbacks, I'm a dermom crush Josh Allen.

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Probably not on Sunday, I think Saturday, I'm thinking did

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Ben Johnson crush Caleb Williams with throwing the interception light

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in the game yesterday. Probably not so I know what

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you're going to say, Well, you know, Dimiko's gotta be

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harder on him, of course, but knowing that the fraternity

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between a quarterback and his coach in the podium are

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two very similar things