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Speaker 1: Neale Hunter, will Anderson, Togi I togi aw Alshire Alshire here,

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how do you want to pronounce Sheldon Rankins, Sheldon Ranks,

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Jalen Petrie, Kaylin Bullock. I mean this Stingley Kamari Lasser

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is a dog. I've been missing a lot of You

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mean Georgia bulldog. He's a dog. It's again, I brought

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this up thirty minutes ago. I should go find Baltimore

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radio host and find out how you talk about a

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team that Trent Dilfer was your quarterback and you won

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a Super Bowl with him. And I'm not saying, look,

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c D shroud is I would think should be better

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than the Trent Dilfer. Yes, they didn't play like it yesterday.

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He was Trent dolver esk yesterday. The assignment is don't

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cost them the game. He tried to. But you can't

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ross going way ahead of the came. You can't pay

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somebody sixty million dollars a year to say, don't cost

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us the game Anders stand And also, I mean, look,

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you know we were talking to we were talking about

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this middle of the season. If he can, if he's

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going to turn the ball, if he's going to play

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like that every game. Of course, you can't pay him. Obviously.

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I'm not saying, hey, this guy's turning the ball over

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three times, having horrible fumbles and throwing ineptly bad interceptions.

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Pay the guy. Last night was if you'd have dropped

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me out of a or woke me up out of

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a coma, and I only saw that game of c. J. Stroud,

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I would have said, you're never paying that guy. So

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if he is going to play like that, obviously don't

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pay him, and don't get anywhere close to even offering

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him any kind of big money. He's got to be better.

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You got me, You have a legitimate and this will

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be This obviously is for stuff we'll talk about when

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the season is done, whatever that may be. But you've

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got a potential conundrum because here's the thing, Ross, you

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don't have to extend him after this year. Although I

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think in report alluded to the fact that they're going

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to start talking about it. Yeah, it's better to get

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it done now than wait a year from now. But

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how do you go to your fan base and say

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we're about to put this amount of money into the

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piggy bank of a C. J. Stroud. When Fellow first

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round Pickwell Anderson wants to be that paid. The highest's

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gonna pay them both, and there you're going to but

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you're going to be losing players because of it. Yes,

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and every team goes too. Daniel Hunter. Bye. We were

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talking about this yesterday. With this hard salary cap. You

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have to seize the moments of when everything is Kamari

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Lassiter on a rookie deal, Daniel Hunter on his deal

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right now, Will Anderson on a rookie deal, Cej Stroud

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on a rookie deal. You have to seize these moments.

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It's like college where you have to have guys graduating

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and everything working out at the same time, where the

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freshman and the and the juniors and the sophomores and

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you have this great UH team. You have to seize

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those moments. The windows can close so quickly. Yeah, the

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window close. How's the window looking for the Baltimore Ravens.

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How's the window looking for the Kansas City Chiefs? Right now?

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You have to seize these moments, and right now this

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is a moment for the Houston Texans because if you

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don't guess what you're gonna be. Dak Prescott, the Dallas

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Cowboys paying crazy amounts of money, but letting Michael Parsons

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go crazy amounts of money, but not being able to

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have secondary people that you trust. Yeah, I mean, this

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is this is the it's the hardest. I think being

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a general manager of an NFL team is the hardest

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of them all. I really do, because you are having

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because even look Baseball, general managers have to worry about

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position players and a pitching staff. I get that, but

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you are worrying about now not only the twenty two

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guys that are on the field playing, but you're worried

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about saving money for future drafts, saving money for free agency,

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and knowing now you do have a caveat you can

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also release. Playing a lot of language with I mean

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hard well with the hard cat, but talking about like, yeah,

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roster bonuses and signing buy it's very convoluted restructuring of contracts.

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It's every Yeah, every general manager job is tough. The

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CBA for the NBA is probably the biggest. Yeah, with

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the aprons and all that stuff. Yeah, but I mean

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in terms of just construction of roster, it's like, you know,

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you're gonna pay Kevin Durant, You're gonna pay out and

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all those I mean, you got you got your five

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to six core guys you're paying, you get your You've

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got bird rights in your back pocket, right, and which

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means you can pay your own guys. For those of

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you who don't know, you need to pay your number.

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You're gonna ma sure. You've got a good running back

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who's gonna want to be heavy to heavily compensated. You're

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gonna need your quarterback who needs to behave. You need

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your left tackle be heavily competent, you need your number

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one cornerback to be high. And then you got an

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edge rusher who, by the way, is playing unbelievable. And

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you get two to three golden tickets every year in

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the draft, and you don't want to squander those golden tickets.

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The Texans defense will be raising a Lombardi Trophy now,

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whether doing it their own and the season party for

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their main manufactured Lombardi trophy or the real one. Is

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remains a b C A lot of football left, but

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they can beat anybody with this defense. And that's the

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crazy part, is it. I think generally speaking, again, I'm

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only speaking, I'm only listening to the show before us,

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but it feels like most people are very happy that

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things are going as well as they are, but they're

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also of concern. And the fact is New England is

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going to be a significant step up in competition. Drake

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May is significantly better than Aaron Rodgers. Their running back

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situation with Stevenson is significantly better. They've got better skill

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pas it. I mean, dk metcalf was good in the

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first quarter, but you couldn't hear from him after that. Yeah,

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they didn't even go to the tight end. Was a

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hell of youth or Frankan Muth, Frankenmuth or whatever to

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like the early fourth quarter. And I think the good

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news is, though, too, is that no matter what city

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we're in, matt and we're talking playoff football, nobody's completely

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happy with their team. Drake, I guarantee you. Boston Sports

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Radio is nervous as hell about Drake May. Bustle has

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been nervous about the run defense, interior run defense, which

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the Texans thrived in Denver radio. Are we sure Bonicks

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is the quarterback? Right? Are we sure? Yeah? Z? And

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Courtland Sutton's r WR one. He's good but in a

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w exactly All right, Let's go to the phone talk

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to some people. We'll start with Vince in Midtown on

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the Mat Thomas Show. Ross Vince, good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning guys, Thanks for taking the call.

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Speaker 1: Sure.

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Speaker 2: Hey, if you guys remember, maybe about three or four

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weeks ago, I called and I was talking about how

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CJ play scared and if I was like a lawyer

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and I was in Portalaal, I could just show that

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last interception he's through, and I think I would win

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the case. I mean, he had no business trying to

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make that throw. His feet were all over the place,

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he looked like he didn't know what he was doing.

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I mean, it was just crazy. And you know, in

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light of what you guys have been talking about whether

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we pay him or not, I just I just don't

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think so. I mean we lost in spite of him.

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I mean three turnovers and thank God for the defense.

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That's all I got to say about that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, Vince. I remember call, and I remember

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I argued with you, Vince. I was like, no, he

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doesn't play scared, And on that particular play and a

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couple of other plays last night, he did look scared,

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but he didn't look scared when he had Titus Howard

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in his grill and he was throwing the ball forty

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yards downfield. He didn't look scared when he was loft

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in the ball to Christian Kirk over the right side.

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For huge games as well, and that unfortunately has been

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too much the CJ. Stroud experience, those plays where he

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looks completely lost and those where he looks very comfortable

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and like he knows what he's doing. And last night

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was even more extreme for everybody. It felt like, Yeah,

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and the fact is either he's not doing it because

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he doesn't want to, or he's been told he's not running,

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and he's also not very He's just not fast. He's

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the truth. Just because he's a black quarterback does not

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make him runing quarterback. I I'm sorry, he just doesn't

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say that because I think people do have that misconception.

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Absolutely tell you Josh Allen is a significantly better runner

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than there would be Josh all Lily White arch Manning

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will be better as a running quarterback in the NFL

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than C. De Strout will be. Yeah, he doesn't mean.

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I do like the little rolls out of the control rolls.

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I did like yesterday those are good. He lumbers, and

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he even talked about it this season, how he just

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doesn't move like he used to, even from his rookie year.

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I think a lot of it is not because he

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doesn't want to do it. I think you'd like to

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do it. I think he's afraid of getting hit. I

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think I think he has had too many concussions in

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his young NFL career that he's like, I'm not taking

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much chances. Yeah, but here's a round that coached into

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you can you can actually just you can cuss just

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as much. In the podcast, multiple concussions that they don't

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want him getting hurt again. There was multiple people, maybe

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even at least a dozen, saying Davis Mills needs to

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play in this game. That's ridiculous. The Texans are not

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doing that. You think you think you for the first

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class or coach to Pittsburgh yesterday Davis Mills. Yeah, I'm

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sure your first class from So he was going to

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miss the game because he had a baby, right, No, no, no,

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that was not going to miss the game. They were

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gonna he was not. He missed the commercial, he missed

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the charter flight to Pittsburgh because of his baby. Yeah, okay,

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name Maximilian or something or maximics. Well you know what

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he does. Got dad's strength, now, That worked for Bregman

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a couple of years ago. Yeah, oh, he'd been ready.

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But to replace him? No, no, no, no you think no,

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not even a conversation