July 22, 2025 • 53 mins
00:00 - 12:48 - Greg Rakestraw from the ISC Sports Network joins the show all the way from Iceland! Greg and JMV discuss the passing of Ozzy Osbourne, before turning their attention to the start of Colts training camp, as well as NCAA football!
12:49 - 30:39 - Mike Dirocco of ESPN joins the show! Mike and JMV discuss the Colts and their roster battles as training camp gets ready to kick off! They then talk about the Colts AFC South rival, the Jacksonville Jaguars!
30:40 - 43:16 - Comedian Jeff Boggs drops by to tell an Ozzy Osbourne story! Laura Steele from WTHR, The Fox in Cincinatti and more joins the two of them to give their memories of The Prince of Darkness!
43:17 - 53:00 - Marc Vandermeer, voice of the Houston Texans, joins the show! Marc and JMV discuss the Colts AFC South rival, and if we will see them take the AFC South crown again this year. They go over the quarterback situation for the Texans as C.J Stroud enters his 3rd season in the league.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Meantime of the Andy Moore automotive group Potline, one of
Southern Indiana's finest from Lanesville High School, and he does
a little bit of everything, including assuming by a brick.
On coverage this weekend, Greg Greggs draws with us, Hello, Greg,
how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm good, my friend, how are you?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Greg? It's a sad day in music with the loss
of Ozzy?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Are we going to go all headbangers hairspray Saturday night
edition of the show?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
That well, I don't know if we're going to go
the entire way, but we will sprinkle sprinkle in a lot.
I guarantee you that, and we would do that anyway,
So yes, we will will celebrate it.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I just mentioned this earlier.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
It seems like that that I've had a show that's
been a part of some of those moments, whether it's
Michael Jackson or Prince or David Bowie or Tom Petty,
you know, those that have been so significant in music,
and Ozzy is one of those today that we end
up discussing because again, music and sports are a perfect crossover.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
As we know, I am in a place where I
have access to both the BBC and Sky right now,
and it is being given the proper protocol in in
Great Britain as he's passing, knowing that he just you know,
played his last show at Villa Park in Birmingham, and
(01:20):
so it is being given the proper coverage where I'm
currently located.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Oh wait a minute, where are you brother?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I am just south of the Arctic Circle. I am
on the north side of Iceland as we speak.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
You're in Iceland right now.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I'm in Iceland. Amy's listening to your phone call. We
are sitting on our celebrity cruise ship. We're getting ready
to go whale watching here in about an hour.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yes, does Amy Rastraw know how much I love Amy
Rakestraw is She realized.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
That's what he listens to the show on a recorvations.
She was bummed because I had life in a northern
town dream academy all cup whist night, and I called
you taking international fees four different times, slipping you off
as we speak. By the way, Oh no, I sent
you pictures. The pictures are on your phone so you
can reference them during tween them out if you want
to during the show. But you were so busy on
(02:14):
Saturday night you wouldn't answer the phone.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Man, I apologize, it was busy on Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I would I know I called four different times.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
John, I would have prioritized that. Especially how far are
you from the Arctic Circle right now?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
So we were north of the Arctic Circle? Hang on,
there's a channel here that basically is navigation and gives
like our location the Arctic Circle is sixty six degrees
north and like thirty three minutes I got to flip
off the women's euros hang on a second one nil
Italy with the semi final lead against England on that.
(02:49):
But we are located at sixty five degrees and forty
one minutes, so we're like one hundred miles I think, No,
I'm not far or maybe like like fifty miles south
of the Arctic Circle right now. I am in Akirie, Iceland,
making our way to Reykiavik in about three days.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So are you going to fly from rankievic to here
to do the Indy eleven then fly back like you
normally do on your vacations.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
So here's the way that this works. Because you know
that's a lot of time zones the cover, John, So
we scheduled this so I am missing the first days
of Colts training camp. We fly back Friday. Ian Gilmore
for a second week in Arrow will fill in for
me on soccer Saturday, but Kurt Darling and I will
do Brickyard preview on Saturday. I will make an appearance
(03:35):
at Colts camp on Saturday afternoon, and then I will
do the Indy eleven FC Tulsa game coming up on
Saturday night and then Brickyard coverage on Sunday. So I
will literally be in country for about if the flights
work properly, I'll be in country for about seventeen hours
(03:55):
before I crack a microphone on Saturday afterage.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
There's nothing more straw in that description.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
By the way, I am and I have already registered
for an Iceland national team shirt sized medium for you
that I'll be bringing back with me from Iceland. You're wealth.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Is that where that that whole chance started with? Everybody
does that thing?
Speaker 5 (04:17):
All?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yes? And I remember where you were passion when I
was born. It's this is the time. This vacation is
just me and Amy, But it was a vacation with
the JMV family nine years ago where John was bumming
my laptop to watch the iceland men in the Euros
I when we were at Cape San Blast, so I've
been thinking about that this entire trip. So there will
(04:38):
be some Icelandic soccer gear that's coming home with me.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
You what's the weather like of it?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Not JMV weather, although surprisingly when we were on land
earlier today it was sunny in mid seventies. Two days
ago it was like sonny in seventy five. But right
now it's rainy and fifteen degrees celsius John, which I
think translates to fifty nine degrees.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Wow, that is now. Have you been? The hot springs?
Are the deal up there?
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Right?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Are the volcanic springs?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Right? So we saw an active volcano after we land
at the airport on Friday morning and drove to Reykievic.
We have been to two different lagoons. We will see
hot springs and jump in them at some point in
time tomorrow. It was my job to pay for this
and Amy is the tour director, so she has set
(05:33):
all this stuff up. We are literally done talking to you,
going to make a short walk in the rain, hop
another boat and we will go whale watching in the
Arctic Ocean tonight.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
That is pretty awesome right there, that's a hell of
a trip. This is Amy's idea. Correct, Oh this trip?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
So the trip idea was mine. I'll give it away.
My lovely wife turns fifty later this year, and she
kind of off handedly mentioned to me a few months ago, hey,
I'm kind of feeling this. I'd like to go someplace special.
Another friend of mine happens to be in the trip
planning business and advertise this Iceland trip that she had
(06:12):
scheduled for August. I go, hey, there's something here, but
obviously August a little busy for me. So I sent
her a note and said, all right, here's my two
week window where we can do this. What do you have?
And she goes, all right, I've got this cruise that
goes all around Iceland that goes from you leave the
seventeenth you get back to twenty fifth. I'm like, sold, American,
(06:32):
let's go. So that's what we've been.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Doing, all right.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
So have you been paying attention to cold stuff? I
know you're not here as a part of the report
dates and the start of camp, but anything pique your interest.
I'm not going to get too deep into it because
you are in Iceland. I want you to celebrate that
and not you know, have to live in the dialogue
that we live in right now.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
As far as the cults until further notice, well, obviously,
you know, normally my first day up there wouldn't be report,
they would be tomorrow would be the practices, and those
first couple of practices are even more walkthroughs in kind
of one hour deal to stole better than the alternative.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
The obvious big news going into it is that, And
maybe Chris Ballard said otherwise today. But in terms of
any sort of restrictions that Anthony Richardson would have in
terms of throwing them, yeah, just ball I.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Think he said volume, which is described as no restrictions,
But I think volume is that restrictive or is volume?
Is that that's protocol? Right, Volume's protocol, but not restriction something.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I've had a couple of drinks today, so I may
get lots that.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
No, I'm just making crap up at this point. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
So here's what I would say is this is, first
of all, if you have a legitimate competition, nobody's going
to be throwing out their shoulder because you've got to
get important reps for both guys. I mean, I think
you're gonna see a significant drop off in reps from
Daniel Jones, Anthony Richardson down to Riley Leonard and Jason Bean.
But the fact that he has been seemingly given the
(07:58):
all clear going into camp means that we get to
see a legitimate competition that I really don't think is
going to be settled or determined until at least past
August twenty. Third of the importance of that date is
that's the third and final preseason game.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Is Greg Rerakestraw and Amy Rakestraw reporting live from Iceland today?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
So what's on the menu in Iceland Sea.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
We're we're on a cruise ship, so, you know, not surprisingly,
you know, like every American food you can think of.
But I did notice they were in town. There was
an advertisement for crapes with shrimp in them, which I
thought was interesting. And then we also ran by a
place today that specialized in both itzza and kebab, so
(08:49):
I don't think that's a local thing, but I found
the combination rather interesting. There is a subway though, about
three blockshoms, just in case we needed it.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Greg Gregstaw's with us. I brought up the analogy it
was a part of a really segment number one monologue
analogy regarding if it's work and go with it, and
Barry Otum had mentioned I think it was on the
Morning show late last week. Yeah, kind of took a
shot at I use scheduling and you know the lack
(09:17):
of heavy hitters in the pre conference schedule, and you
know a lot of people had comments. I'm sure you
probably read that even before you took off for rankiovic
Iceland and this particular cruise. But I would suggest this,
you got to find your niche and your groove and
you got to roll with it. I listen if it's
if it's playing you know, you and I in the
(09:39):
pre conference schedule and it works, especially having a season
like this past year.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I would go with what got you there?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
And I'm sure as hell, and I'm sure Signetty doesn't
worry about what anybody else has to say about it.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
A couple of quick things that come to mind. One,
it's not a problem until it is. In other words,
the college football Playoff now has expanded to such a
degree that with that schedule and missing other than Ohio State,
you know Penn. Stand they didn't play Penn. They didn't
play organ last year, they still qualify for the College
Football Playoff. In other words, if you're the Big Ten
(10:13):
and we're now talking about potentially the Big Ten getting
like four guaranteed bids, you know of this thing, which
I don't think is right, but that's a conversation for
a different day. If you're Indiana, you remarkably, in the
span of about eighteen months, have gone from hey, don't
play u of L in a non conference game because
you need to schedule Indiana State, Ball State and somebody
(10:35):
from the Fun Belt before you get in the conference,
play the guarantee six wins, to now that same combination
of teams, you simply do what you have done in
the Big Ten and now we'll get you the CFT
anyway because your conference is so good, and now that
you do mix in at USCA, UCLA A, Washington, Oregon. Basically,
(10:55):
what Indiana is saying is that, you know what, we
don't have to play any by the non conference schedule,
because if we do what we think we can do
in the Big Ten, that enough gets you in the
College Football Playoffs. So when this would change would be
as if let's say Indiana goes ten and two, this
year and doesn't make it. You know what's gonna happen.
(11:17):
They're gonna fix it, and they're gonna play somebody else
because they feel they have a good enough program to
be in there if they would alter their strength of schedule.
So to me, what they are doing is saying, all right,
here with the recipe for success last year, let's follow
that until we know it's no longer a recipe for success.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
As ten Cup wants so profoundly stated, write it until
at bucksha or you don't write it all, correct it correct.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
It ain't broke what they say we're from back home, Yeah,
it ain't broke. Don't fix it.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Oh all right, this is for you and Amy. As
we close here.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Greg Greagstraw is live from Iceland on the Anymore Automotive
Group plotline. The Salvationamie band played, and the children drank limonade,
and the morning lasted all day, all day.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
That's okay for you. The Dream Accadicy.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I never thought i'd be I never thought I would
be so happy hearing you, Sarah and ade me you know,
in person or four time zones away. Well done by you.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yes, Life in a northern town from the Dream Academy.
Greg and Amy Rakestraw live with us internationally from Iceland
on the any More Automotive Group Potline. You guys, enjoy
that cruise and the time away, and we'll see you
back here. Man, Thanks for the call.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
See you for the weekend, buddy. Be good.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
So Greg Rakestraw at Amy Rakestraw. The any More Automotive
Group potline was I as good as the Dream Academy
right there? Are they any More Automotive Group Potline. We
gotta thank him for calling us today. From ESPN at
ESPN dot Com. Mike Dorocco is in the house today
as the Culture Report and cams are underway and we
(13:00):
are right back into the NFL season all over again.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Hello, Mike, how are you?
Speaker 5 (13:05):
I'm good? How are you guys?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Well done forgiving me a call like that. I appreciate it,
no problem.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Yeah, it's probably my phone that was having the issues
I've had. It doesn't want to go back to camp.
I guess my phone still wants more vacation, so I
think that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
You viewed the AFC South and this I guess includes
the Texans too, because there's been a bit of a
change of pace there as well. Do you view the
AFC South as wide open as everybody else does right now?
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Uh? Yeah, to a degree, I suppose. I think there's
I don't think the Titans are going to be factoring
into that mix, but I do think the Jags and
the Colts could make it definitely interesting for sure, depending
on how honestly the quarterback situation at both places plays out.
(13:56):
I do think the Titans are seeing the Texans are
still probably the team to beat, but that offensive line
is still a mess, and you know, who knows what
could happen if CJ. Stroud goes down. But you know,
I don't think that this is a division where the
Texans are going to run away with it with twelve
thirteen wins. I think it's going to be another year
where ten, maybe eleven wins wins the division.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
So Mike Deroko of ESPN, ESPN dot com dot com,
I should say, notably covers the Jaguars, but certainly the
entirety of the AFC South. You know, Chris ballad met
with the media up here a little bit earlier, and
you know, obviously what was supporting Anthony Richardson, which is
the only play to make right here?
Speaker 3 (14:38):
It's funny.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
So we have a fan base here that's kind of
how should I say, stealer's wheel, it's stuck in the
middle with you, right, it's hey, it'd be great if
you'd have some success, because they have seen and really
soaked up the Pacer success. It was great, But at
the same time, they've wanted to move on from this
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ridge for such a long period of time. Now I
think there's also okay with the team being as it
has been, But I mean, really you have to prove it,
I think, to get a fan base on board and
believe it at this point in time, right, if you're
the Colts and you've got to kind of back up
(15:19):
everybody until further notice.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Yeah, absolutely, Look, the grass isn't always greener. I will
say that anyone who's followed the Jaguars will know that,
you know, you can want all the change in the world,
and even when you get it, it doesn't necessarily mean
you're going to be in a better place. Now that
being said, when you make the decision to pick Anthony
(15:43):
Richardson what fourth overall? A guy who did not play
a ton of college football, a guy who doesn't really
know how to be a quarterback or didn't know how
to be a quarterback you know at the time, and
was relying on athletic ability, which was off the charin arts.
You know, that's a risky move. It's just as risky
(16:04):
as the Jaguars trading up and you know, to take
Travis Hunter and play in both ways, and they essentially
gave up quarterback premium to go ahead and move up
and get them. So when you make those kind of big,
bold moves and risky moves, you know, you got to
live with the results. It's a gamble. And you know
they you know, might be at the point where this
(16:26):
is it do or die this camp, this season, the
first part of this year for Anthony Richardson, and if
it doesn't work out, then maybe there will be that
regime changeing. You probably should you know, we would probably
argue that it would be the best thing to do. Well.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
It's funny, this is like an all or nothing thing
I think right now. And what I mean by that,
Mike is it's like when you play the you know,
the the dime or the nickel slots or the penny
slots or whatever, you're not I don't think that the
risk is now. I think the risk has already long
since been passed, and what you're looking out for is
(17:00):
this kind of lightning bolt strike that would stir a
little bit something around here, because really, the fan base,
the mediocrity combined with a lack of results, this is
about as apathetic as I can remember. This fan base
this time of year, just started a NFL season.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
That's an awful place to be a franchise. Yeah, I
mean you need to either really be like ungodly bad,
you know what I mean, like disastrously bad like the
Jaguars were in twenty twenty one with Urban Meyer, or
you need to be in that playoff perennial playoff team era.
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I mean if not, then then you have an apathetic
fan base. And you know what an apathetic fan base
doesn't do. They don't buy tickets, they don't come to
the games, they don't buy merchandise. And if you live
in that area too long, it's hard to get out.
So I think, you know, the Jaguars are pretty much
existing in that era and in that area for the
(18:05):
last you know, eight of the last ten years, and
it's hard to get out. And to do it you
have to have you have to hit on the quarterback,
and you know, the Colts thought they had and we'll see.
I mean, I'm not writing Anthony Richson off, but man,
another year like last year or the year before, and
then you're living in that no man's land of basically
(18:27):
being irrelevant and nothing is worse than the NFL to
being irrelevant.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Mike Doroco, He's Sunday Andy Moro at a Motive Group hotline.
What is your thought on Daniel Jones? Because it has
been said both of these quarterbacks will compete and they
start even However, I think a lot of us believe
maybe Daniel Jones has a step up and it's going
to be interesting to see around here how that whole
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thing goes. I mean, really, every single throw is going
to be dissected by everybody in Westfield over the course
of this camp. But what do you think about the
reclamation project hope that is Daniel Jones and the coaching
cults uniform in a year one here?
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Well, I mean, I think we've seen it over the
last several years that sometimes that change of scenery is
really really good for a guy. I mean, Baker Mayfield,
Sam Donold, you know, Geno Smith. It can kind of
help re energize the guy as long as they're in
that right situation. So I don't know if this is
the right situation for Daniel Jones, but I do know
(19:29):
he started a lot of games in the NFL, and
he may not have the athletic ability and the amazing
upside of Anthony Richardson, but he can be a solid,
steady quarterback in the NFL, and and sometimes that's better
than gambling on all of that upside, especially if you're
in the situation like the Colts are in a division
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that really is you know, they're they're in that second level.
You know they're behind the Texans, but the Texans are
one injury away, or you know, one or two bad
games away from this division really and truly being open
for two or three teams. So if you can get
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some solid quarterback play, I think the rest of the
roster is in good enough shape for them to contend
in the division. But if you're not getting that consistent
quarterback play, I mean, it's just a mess. You just
don't know what's gonna happen. Yes, yeah, yeah, I don't
think he's great, but I think it's you know, there's
something to be said for knowing what you're gonna get
every week?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Do you know what you're gonna get in Jacksonville at all?
Right now? Are you just rolling the dice to see
what the hell happens there?
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Yeah? Pretty yeah? No, do don't know what we're going
to see out of this group here? Trevor Lawrence? Is
he going to stay healthy? Hasn't the last two years?
Can you put together one full solid season where he
plays at a really, you know, consistently high level. Hasn't
done it yet either, end of twenty twenty two. In
first part at twenty twenty three, he did a seventeen
(20:59):
game stretch. But I mean, that doesn't do any good
if it's not in a single season. Is the offensive
line going to be any better? Will they be able
to run the ball. Everybody seems to think that, you know,
Liam Cohen can automatically work the same kind of magic
he did in Tampa here with taking the Bucks from
running last to fourth and rushing and having Baker Mayfield
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throw her career high in passing yards and passing touchdowns.
I mean, people just expect that to automatically happen, and
that's not how things work in the NFL, or in
general either, So there's optimism here that things will be
significantly better. And you know, the longer we are, the
further away we get from last season, the further the
(21:42):
more this dysfunction is not the right word, because what
happened in twenty twenty one with Ramaya was dysfunction that
like was at another level then last year, you know,
things just weren't right. There are a lot of things
that went wrong. So the more we find out about
the stuff that went wrong in the attitude and stuff
that was going on around the building, which on a
(22:05):
panic level was probably a level three or four. But
I mean, I still think sometimes when you move away
from the dysfunction and you get somebody new, you can
have a jolt, which is what happened to this franchise
in twenty twenty two, but they weren't able to sustain it.
So you know, if Trevor Lawrence can finally do all
the things I talked about, then they've got a chance.
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If he can't, then he's going into twenty twenty six,
and that truly really is a make or break year
for him.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Here in Jackson, he is Mike Derocco with us Liam Cohen,
do you think he.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Can unlock the higher level and I mean.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
The consistent higher level of Trevor Lewrence under center.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
You think that's a possibility. Do you foresee that at all?
And how would how would that work?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Just on the entry level fans that are out there,
how would that work?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
And what's your expectation playing off of that at least.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
On Yeah, let me just do it this way, because
this was striking to me in talking to people inside
the organization there when they got here, meaning this staff
with William Cohen and whatever, and they were watching Trevor
Lawrence on film and stuff, and the one thing they
were the footwork was just not there. It was not good.
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And that's the big priority. That was their big priority
with him in the spring, even when he had the
shoulder he couldn't do something. You know, he's recovering from
the shoulder surge. He couldn't throw. It was like, you,
we need you to fix that footwork because everything a
quarterback does, you know, evolves from the footwork. If your
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foot feet are in the right spot when they're supposed
to be there, then you can make the throw you're
supposed to make and it's not off target, it's not
all armed, you know what I mean. Obviously, all hell
breaks loose on place and you have to improvise here
air at times. But you also if you're in the
right position and your body's in the right position, and
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you can make those throws and you can make things happen.
And his footwork was just not where it needed to
be for a guy in his fourth year. You know,
after talking to people after the spring, I've been told
his footwork is you know, it's a one eighty and
his footwork is so much better. And that that to
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me tells me that A. Cohen has a pretty strict
plan for the kid, and B Trevor is willing to
put in the work and has made the significant strides needed.
Now the big question becomes, when all hell breaks loose
on Sunday, does he revert back to the bad stuff
or does he stick with the training and stick with
the things that he's been working on since Cohen got
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here and make that improvement, Because I think the offense
itself is going to be a significant upgrade for everybody
here in Jacksonville. But it's all in come on Trevor
Lawrence making that leap, and from the standpoint of just
what I talked about. That leads me to believe that
there's at least a little bit of confidence level that
(25:11):
Trevor can take the next step, you know, but again,
we got to see it on Sundays.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Yeah, speaking of unlocking here, Mike, is there a higher
excitement level than usual with the Jaguars fan base in
wanting to see the anticipation of Travis Hunter.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Yeah, it's the last time they were just excited for
the for a player. It was when they were going
to draft Trevor Lawrence. And it was like that was
in twenty twenty, when they realized they were drafting Trevor Lawrence,
they were going to be in spot to get them.
I mean, I haven't seen anything like that since since.
You know, I haven't seen anything like what we're seeing
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about Travis Hunter since then. And the fun thing is
is there's a big debate among the fans here about
whether he's going to be more of a receiver or
more of a corner. And then there's a significant number
of people that think there's no way he's going to
be able to play both sides of the ball, to
the extent that the Jaguars are telling everyone that he's
(26:09):
going to So there's a whole lot of mystery. How's
he going to break down in practices? You know? Is
he going to spend a full practice on defense one
day in a full practice on offense the next? How
is he going to split his time in meetings once
the season gets here? You know, is he gonna basically
take Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays off to rejuvenate his body
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after playing? You know, fifty snaps on offense, another fifty
on defense? Like, how is it all going to work?
And I think that, to me is the biggest part
of my excitement in terms of covering Travis Hunter and
them possibly having the first full time or regular two
way player since Chuck ben Erik in the sixties years. Wow,
that to me is the most exciting part of It's like,
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how's it going to work? From that standpoint? And you know,
I can't wait for the season to get it. Unfortunately,
we've got to go through six weeks of camp to
get there.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I would have to ask you, I don't even know
if there is an exact answer here, but you've had
so many incredible athletes enter the NFL. Why is he
so consistently considered the one to be able to go
both sides as you just described, right, because I mean
(27:23):
we've had a lot of athletes, great athletes too, and
nobody's done it significantly, and you know, we're thinking he
may be able to do it.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Why is he different in your estimation.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Well, he's got the track record of doing it at
the power five level, so there is that. You know,
it's one thing for him to do it at Jackson
State and then he ends up at Colorado, and then
he does it for two years at Colorado, so there's
a you know, at least you can point to something
and say, hey, at a high level of competition, he
was able to do it. Now, what allows him to
(27:57):
do that is the fact that this guy may be
the best conditioned athlete of the last ten years. I mean,
I've had multiple people inside that organization tell me they
are amazed and astounded at the fact that this kid
does not get tired. He can run all day long,
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never gets tired, never slows down, and he still has
the energy to dance in between drills and dance in
between plays and have a good time. It's just he's
a freak of nature. You know. People have called him
a unicorn and all this other stuff. I mean, he
is just a freak of nature to have the athletic ability,
the conditioning, the lung capacity, the you know, the physical
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the ability to physically withstand the punishment that that does
to the body playing both ways. Now, I'll say this,
he is a corner and a receiver. So there are
a lot of plays where those guys don't get contact.
Do they have to run? Absolutely, But it's not like
he's an offensive lineman or a defensive line which is
getting contact on every single play. So there is that
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little bit of wiggle room for him to kind of
sustain the level of conditioning and you know, not take
the kind of beating that he might otherwise take in
another position. But still, you know, to be able to
do it at this level on a regular basis is
something that you know, we, like I said, we haven't
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seen since I think nineteen sixty two is the last
year Bed and Erik did it, and I think we
all know the league was a hugely different perfection then
it is now just a little bit.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Yeah, hey Mike, and closing you a Ozzy Osbourne.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Fan, A little bit yeah, the crazy train has left
the station. Today and it is.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Yeah, Now, would you more note the music of Black Sabbath,
Ozzie being just Ozzy Osbourne on his own and obviously
introducing us to a host of other talents around him,
or from the MTV show The Osbourne's.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
No, I would know him more from the music. I
was not an MTV Osbourne's guy like Mike generating here's
the old guy right here, like I actually remember when
MTV played music videos. Yes, exactly, nothing but music videos.
So yeah, I know Ozzie Moore from The Black Sabbath
and the music than watching the Osbourne's on MTV.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Well done.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
We're going to keep pace with you over the course
of camp and then into the season and we can't
thank you enough as always for coming on the show, Mike,
and we'll do it again soon.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
Absolutely, Thanks Lon, good luck.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Ozzy Osbourne passed away earlier today at the age of
seventy six. The heavy metal music icon Laura Steele. In
just a second, Laura Hank tied because Jeff Boggs is
in studio too. Jeff Boggs on loan from The Hammer
and Nigel Show Across the Hall on ninety three.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
WIBC is a.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Former writer for Letterman, and you were on the couch
once upon a time, not in a not in a
romantic way right with Ozzy, but on the couch for Letterman.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Correct.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
No, it wasn't for Dave. It was after days on
a random couch. It wasn't a random couch. We were
doing a show out in La called Osbourne's Reloaded Okay,
and it was a it was a one off for
Fox and Ozzy. We were doing a Golden Girls bit,
a bit about the Golden Girls and so Ozzy. We
were trying to explain to Ozzy, here's what we're doing.
(31:26):
Let's you see the show. And he sat in my
office on my couch next to me.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Yeah, And I pop.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
Into the VCR. This is how long ago the VHS tape? Sure,
and an episode of the Golden Girls comes up, and
I go, let's just watch this, and Ozzie watches about
ten seconds of it and then he looks at me
and he goes, oh, you did this, and I go, oh, no,
I didn't. I didn't do the Golden Girls. This is
the bit that Sharon told you we're going to be
shooting today and he goes hum. And then we watched
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ten more seconds and he goes, so you did this,
you wrote this show?
Speaker 3 (31:54):
And I go not the Golden Girls.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
And then everything went to crap after that, so we
ended up not doing ended up not doing the bit.
Jack thankfully came in tried to sell his dad on it,
and he goes, but who did it? And we were like,
forget it, moving on. So Ozzie was a sweet dude.
I've been over to their house, the their big you know,
the MTV house, and one time we were just sitting there.
I was talking to Jack. They were doing a show
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about Jack and Ozzie were going to travel the country
and they ended up doing three years of that show.
We were setting that show up and in the middle
of the meeting, Ozzie walks through their living room, dripping
wet and a speedo and he just walks past and
he's dripping everywhere, and Jack goes, Dad say hi, and
he goes and he kept walking. So so those were
my Those were my two big That's good. But I
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noticed that they were very sweet to each other. As
much as they go after each other, they really were.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
It was a few with.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Black Sabbath in and certainly early Ozzie out, even had
never ever thought that. Jeff Boggs and Studio, the former
writer for the David Letterman Show. Let's bring on board
friend of the show iconic personnel here locally in her
own right, the awesome Laura Steele is with us on
the any More Automotive Group hotline.
Speaker 8 (33:06):
Hello Laura, Hi, guys, Hold up, Hold up. You're telling
me Jeff that you watched The Golden Girls with Ozzy Osbourne.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Yeah, that's exactly what happened. It doesn't make sense. Maybe
the only one right there that's ever done that.
Speaker 8 (33:21):
In what world does that happen? That's pretty epic, my friend.
You've always got that. You've always got that, Laura.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
I got to tell you there are some moments that
still don't make sense for me.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
That was That was That was one of it.
Speaker 7 (33:31):
And I would have brought it up when you and
I were just talking twenty minutes ago on the Hammer
of Nigel Show, but Nigel was too busy blabbering.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
He just doesn't let anyone it's Nigel blabbering. He just
keeps talking.
Speaker 7 (33:40):
He doesn't let anyone get a word in.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
Well, that's what we do in radio, right, jamb.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yes, yes we do. I just let everybody else talk,
and I sit here and read the Internet at the
entac time.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
This is what happens here.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
He's popping into somebody's DM.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yeah, I mean I must slide. I must slide into
somebody's DM. Slide slided. In a musical voice for eras
here with Laura Steele, Ozzy Osbourne means to you, what
are we still?
Speaker 8 (34:09):
Well, you were talking about the Golden Girls. I got
an Ozzie story. Well, it would have been probably Deer Creek.
I saw Ozzy at Deer Creek and somehow my friend
Heidi and I weaseled our way up to the front
row and it was a very hot night, and.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
Ozzie had buckets of water.
Speaker 8 (34:26):
I'm not sure what that was all about, but apparently
it was something that he did at shows where he
had buckets of water. He would take the buckets of
water and he would dump it on his head at shows.
I don't know if anybody listening remembers.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
That or saw that.
Speaker 8 (34:37):
Well, he decided to dump a bucket of water on
our heads. And at that time we had purses, and
my friend had all of her bills and it with stamps,
and her mail got ruined. But We felt like we
were pretty much baptized by Ozzy, so it was all good.
Speaker 6 (34:52):
It was all good.
Speaker 8 (34:52):
Yeah, he dumped a bucket of water on us in
the front row at Deer Creek, so that's mine was.
Speaker 6 (34:59):
Jo show.
Speaker 7 (35:00):
Yeah, this doesn't happen to John and I. This wouldn't
if you and I went to a NAUSI concert. We're
not getting up to the front row and Azzie's not.
You were just pushed out of there. I have a
feeling there were other things that play here.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
It could be like a wet T shirt contest.
Speaker 8 (35:16):
Just.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
For the wet T shirt contest? What the hell? Why
is that?
Speaker 8 (35:22):
I'm not saying that's what happened. I'm mis gassing that
he saw a couple of girls in the front row
and decided to just pick pick a little fun with
it have been fun.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
That is a hell of a time. How many, uh
in guestimation here are you doing rock radio for so long?
How many times did you talk up or backing ounce
a NAZSI song?
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Do you recollect Laura thousands?
Speaker 6 (35:42):
Probably?
Speaker 8 (35:43):
Yeah, I will get close to it that yeah, quite
a bit. I mean I've been in classic rock radio
for three decades, so it's safe to say with Black
Sabbath and you know, paranoid talking up Paranoid's not one
you would really talk up though, GMV Right.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
It's a little loud talk cup stuff and rock radio though,
are you. I guess you kind of are. Now.
Speaker 8 (36:03):
You gotta pick and shoes, you gotta you gotta respect,
you gotta respect the music.
Speaker 6 (36:07):
I tend to not like to like you know, people
are there for the music. Maybe a little bit bumping
up a little bit. I don't mind it. I hear
you do it on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Yes, you are hitting a post. Hit well, listen.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
I can't report back to Mark Patrick n if I
don't hit the post every time, Okay, I can't. I mean,
as a member of the family of Nica, I can.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
I've got to hit the post every time.
Speaker 6 (36:32):
Okay, that's pretty funny. That's pretty funny. Yeah, it's been
a sad day.
Speaker 8 (36:35):
I'm I will say that I've gotten more phone calls.
You know, we hear about these stories of people we love,
we know and we've listened to their music for years,
and especially when we're up at that point in age
we're not Ozzy age, but you know, it's kind of
it's a sad time. Like you know, it's an end
of an era. Ozzy had like a bunch of different eras.
If you think about Ozzie with Black Sabbath, Ozzy Solo,
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Ozzy with his television show. You know, there have been
an odd stuff as well that was part of his career.
But when we hear about these things and all this
stuff under the belts of Ozzy Osbourne, if you will,
it's just really an epic loss. He was one of
a kind. He was He was very I thought, very funny,
and it was probably because you know, he didn't get
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things sometimes.
Speaker 6 (37:21):
He was dyslexic, So he went from.
Speaker 8 (37:23):
Being a dyslexic child to dealing with a lot of
health issues, some brought on by himself.
Speaker 6 (37:29):
With the ATV.
Speaker 8 (37:30):
I think he was in an ATV accident or a
bad accident to put him in a coma.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
He's had Parkinson's, He's dealt with.
Speaker 8 (37:37):
A lot of issues health wise, and it really kind
of it felt like it kind of came to.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
Fruition in the last couple of years.
Speaker 8 (37:45):
I mean, he flat out would talk about a miserable
I feel terrible, this is no way to live. He
did not like the way he felt and who would
if he felt crummy? I mean, you don't, you don't
want to live. So that brings us to today and
a couple of weeks ago as well with his farewell
show with Black Sabbath.
Speaker 6 (38:02):
What does this all mean? Did they was?
Speaker 8 (38:04):
I don't know if they knew he was sick. I
don't know if he said this is it for me?
I don't know the dynamics do have we found out yet?
What may?
Speaker 1 (38:12):
I mean? They just I think they just kind of
attribute that to the effects of Parkinson's and what he
was dealing with right there, and people had wondered, I
think what was it two three weeks ago, Jeff where
they did.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
The tribute show for him over in Bowingham, England.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
And yeah, you wondered why there wasn't anything significant from
him and he was, like.
Speaker 7 (38:35):
You said, he was sick for a while, so you
don't know. And the immediacy of right now. I think
that's what's shocking all of us, but definitely didn't come
out of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Laura still ye.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Lauras deals with us on the Andy Moore Automotive Group Hotline,
Jeff Boggs and Studio with us as well Laura, you
mentioned the iconic passing, and I ranked Ozzie right up
there with with Bowie, with Prince, with Patty, with Michael Jackson,
with absolutely everybody, Kurt Cobain, because I thought heavy metal
music I thought began with him. You would know better
(39:08):
than I would because you have been around it and
at the top of your game for such a long
time in radio.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Did Ozzie? Was he the one that started what we
know now is heavy metal?
Speaker 8 (39:19):
I would say that it began with Black Sabbath, as
in part with some other bands, but that definitely was
kind of the beginning of it. And just I mean,
it's amazing still to this day to hear that and
it still rocks. But you go back in time and
think about Paranoid and all these songs that Black Sabbath
came out with, and I would say that that crunchy,
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really super crunchy rock that's not really annoying, like some
of the rock that can be really heavy can kind
of be like, oh gosh, you know, it almost sounds
dangerous to listen to it. They were kind of a
little bit more palatable, and I thought in that for
me because I'm not like a heavy, heavy heavy rocker.
I'm a classic rocker, but I would say that Black
Sabbath was definitely you can attribute that to the beginning
(40:03):
of heavy metal and just an amazing career that he
had and really one of the few in the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame. Twice he was inducted with
Black Sabbath. He was inducted as a solo artist. If
I'm not mistaken, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, he's in there twice.
I'm pretty sure. Did you know JMB what is his
(40:24):
birth name was? Or well birth name? He got ended
up with a nickname. But do you know what his
name is? No, you should know.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
You should know, Go ahead, tell me.
Speaker 6 (40:35):
John Michael Osborne.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
But I did not know that.
Speaker 8 (40:39):
Yes, well born John Michael Osborne. I think that y'all
may be related.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
We might be. That's got to be listen.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
I still don't to this day know what tell my
dad was doing. So who the hell knows all the.
Speaker 8 (40:53):
Matters that you're here, that you are here, But yeah,
we really we really have a big loss here.
Speaker 6 (40:59):
And I think he was endearing, you know.
Speaker 8 (41:01):
On the Osbourne Show, we just kind of learned to get,
you know, into his life and what he had dealt
with And I just saw an interview just I can't
remember exactly when it was released, but it was really
quite sad where he was talking about, you know, what
he had been through and how he had been through
so much on the medical side of things. And he
even has a book out called Trust Me, I'm Doctor
Ozzy about all the things that he's been through, even
(41:24):
bit the head off a bat.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
We all know that he snorted a lot of ants too,
I believe didn't he.
Speaker 8 (41:28):
He snorted ants. That's right, He snorted ants and lived
to talk about it. Yes, had wrote a book about it.
And now we have to kind of just say that
he's a legend that lived and brought us great music,
and that's a beautiful thing. Jam V and I know
you know this. You have such a great respect for music,
and I respect you for that. But the music lives on.
We lose these rocks, oh doubts, but we still have
(41:50):
Tom Petty songs and when Mary Jane's Last Dance comes on,
or when you know, Crazy Trained from Ozzie comes on,
and these songs that are so iconic. Thank you to
those who left us with these songs that live on.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Laura Steele We're going to see her a lot the hostess,
which is awesome inside the bullseye Vincent with the Bullseyevent
group dot Com. Our good friend Kyle Kinnett has the
best pregame party anywhere.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
Laura.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
I cannot wait to see you there. It is always
fantastic to hear your voice. I'm doing a live JAMV
takeover at the State Fair. If you want to slide
into my DMS out there and maybe do a couple
of segments or something with me, You're more than welcome
to on the ninth of August.
Speaker 6 (42:30):
Hold on, I'm writing it down. Ninth of August.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
Yeah, in the tap room out there, the tap room, the.
Speaker 6 (42:34):
Ninth of August, we come see you know.
Speaker 8 (42:36):
I'm moving my my teenager into iuin so I've kind
of been lightning my workload and haven't been doing a
whole lot.
Speaker 6 (42:42):
But boy, once she's off to IU, parties on and
you got it.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
Well, I'll let you know. Thanks for hopping on today too.
Speaker 8 (42:50):
Absolutely, Jeff, You've got that story forever, Jeff, Ozzy.
Speaker 6 (42:54):
And the Golden Girl.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
There you go. Nice bye, guys, Thank you, Laura.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Laura Steele's are they Andy Moore Automotive group potlines, Jef's
gonna hot back over because there's no way it's a
rudderless ship over there. Right now, Nigel has no clue
what he Joey Allison has jumped in because Nigel's all
over the map are hearing.
Speaker 7 (43:08):
To Elison's the only reason that show is staying on
the air right now.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
Boggs man, I appreciate you, brother, Thanks she right now.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
The South the winner a year ago and a lot
of people selecting them to do so once again this season.
The voice of the Houston Texans, Mark VanderMeer, talks about
that squad and then some within the South as he
joins us now the Andy Moore Automotive Group hootline. Hey,
welcome back to an NFL season Mark, how ay you, sir?
Speaker 9 (43:36):
I'm doing great. You know, it's such a great time
right the off season is finally over all the talk
now we're still going to talk for a few more
weeks here, right, nice. At least we have some practice
with not that Ota vibe where it's all dressed up
in no place to go. We're going places now we're
wrapping up to the games.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
I'm curious, this is the entirety of just fans in
general in the Houston era, are I should say, with
this era of sports. Whether I know, the Rockets were
disappointing in the postseason, but they had a really nice
year and there are expectations through the roof going into
next year the Astros doing what really they normally do.
(44:14):
And then you compound that with the Texans. Where is
this compared to eras of the past, with the overall
effect of winning that's having on that fan base there.
Speaker 9 (44:24):
Well, I wasn't around for the Oilers, and the Astros
are putting together a run that this city has never seen.
You know, this is ridiculous what they're doing. In fact,
I don't know if people truly appreciate it. Now their
diehard fans will say, yes, we do, but this is ridiculous.
If you had this happening in New York or Boston,
they'd be making movies and writing songs about it for
(44:45):
World Series appearances to World Series wins, all the postseasons.
I mean, it's incredible, but it's still a football talent
because if the Texans were doing that, it would be
absolutely bonkers. And I think that there's no question that
has camp begins. All the talk is going to be
Texans here until the Astros get to the postseason. You know,
obviously some Astros sprinkled in, but it's a football town.
(45:08):
People are obsessed with it. And here's how. You know,
how angry are they when you lose? It's not how
happy they are when you win, it's when you lose.
Are they upset? Are they disappointed? Are they angry? Are
they calling the stations? If the Astros would check out
and just go on a big draft for the next
few years, people would be disappointed, but it wouldn't be
this bitterness that happens when your football team's not doing well,
(45:29):
like this team didn't do well in twenty twenty twenty
one and twenty two.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
But here we are.
Speaker 9 (45:33):
They're in a good spot and I think they're going
to do well this year.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
What's amazing too, and this is a comment about the Astros,
is they've had significant change from those title teams that
you're talking about right there. And you know, the whole
winning thing con t five game advantage as of right now,
fifty eight game winner as of right now. It has
been an amazing run in cultivating talent in that category,
(45:57):
without a doubt there.
Speaker 9 (45:59):
Oh yeah, they've definitely flipped it. And the good franchises
in any sport are able to do that.
Speaker 2 (46:05):
Right.
Speaker 9 (46:05):
You look at the NFL, and I know we look
at the Chiefs and say, oh, Mahomes, but look how
different the team is from twenty eighteen twenty nineteen to
the way it is now. At twenty nineteen, the Texans
lost to the Chiefs in the playoffs, and they lost
to them this past season in the playoffs in the
division round again. But that Chiefs team from twenty nineteen
is a completely different squad except for Kelsey and Mahomes
(46:27):
that maybe a couple of other guys, Chris Jones one
of them. But you look at how rosters change over
on these perennial powers. They're able to reload around the quarterback,
around the top talent on the team. And that's what
the Texans hope to do because before you know it,
they're going to need to do it here and you know,
I'm hoping they're in a position where they can do
it well.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
No, Mark vandermer is the voice of the Texans on
the Andy Morrow At a Monic Group plotline. So before
things officially get started, for you, give me the new
face because there have been old faces that have exited,
but new exciting faces are coming in. What most excites
you what individual does, at least on the surface before
things officially get underway With Houston.
Speaker 9 (47:06):
I think it's a great question. Nick Chubb is the
biggest name they've acquired, but we don't know how.
Speaker 5 (47:11):
Good he's really gonna be.
Speaker 9 (47:13):
And Joe Mixon was banged up in the offseason, so
what's his availability going to be. We'll all find out
when camp gets started. I'm excited about the receivers. I'm
excited about Christian Kirk. I think he'll be a good
addition to this team. You know, last year, everybody was
so pumped up about Stefan Diggs and Tank Dell and
Nico Collins being in that group together, and rightfully so,
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but the way it played out, Dell got hurt in
December and he was hurt at other times. Nico missed
five games along the way, and Diggs only played less
than half the season, so it didn't work out the
way they wanted.
Speaker 5 (47:46):
Now they've got a.
Speaker 9 (47:46):
Group with these guys they've drafted, with Jayden Higgins and
Jalen Knowl along with Kirk and the others. They have.
I think this could be a really exciting group. Justin
Watson from the Chiefs that got him, don't sleep on
him either. I mean, he's not going to catch fifty
balls even maybe, but he's going to make big plays
and play special teams unless he is replaced by some
(48:08):
upstart guy. And we'll see how that all goes. Because
it's camp and jobs are up for grabs. I know
you have on this team, and this is the way
they set it up. They set it up where a
veteran should win the job, but he could be replaced
by a rookie like Kamari Lassiter did a corner last
year for them and turns into this Pro Bowl caliber
player for them opposite Derek Stingley Junior. So we'll see
(48:30):
if they've acquired the right talent this year.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
Well, I can tell you this with nicro Collins. I mean,
I think with the attention that he gets defensively, that
automatically can make other guys that maybe have not produced
at that level ever coming into the league, or maybe
he has been more of a supporting role player or
someplace else can up their game. And it's Mark VanderMeer,
the voice of the Texans on the Andy Moore Automotive
Group potline. How are you looking at that revamped left
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side of the offensive line to start.
Speaker 9 (48:55):
Well, I'll let you know, because I think a lot
of different things can happen there. The likeliest thing is
Cam Robinson starts at left tackle and you'll go Lake
and Tomlinson at guard over there. But we don't know.
They could switch things around. It looked like Titus was
playing more at right guard during the offseason practices. Right
tackles Blake Fisher's second year out of Notre Dame center
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either Jake Andrews or Patterson, So you don't know what
they're going to do. They have a lot of different possibilities.
I can imagine one five or the other and build
a case for each one, which is like saying, if
you have two quarterbacks, you might not have one. I
get it. But I think they have enough there where
they can come up with a five that's going to
be good enough as long as they stay healthy.
Speaker 3 (49:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (49:40):
CJ.
Speaker 1 (49:41):
Stroud always is going to be the straw that stirs
here too. What do you start with him? Like here,
It's like a different set of circumstances. Wondering about Anthony
Richardson going into your number three obviously, how you feel
about Stroud with another year under his belt to become
that veteran leader where the expectations are to higher level.
Speaker 9 (50:00):
Now, I think there's no question he is him. He
had a year last year, A lot of people call
it a sophomore slump whatever. The production wasn't the same
as his rookie year, and Byron large because they weren't
protecting him well you know, and some of that is
on the quarterback. But I think Stroud is the kind
of guy who's smart enough to mature as a player,
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grow get better. Let's face it, they all have to
get better, all the quarterbacks, all the players have to
get better. If you're not getting better, you're getting worse,
and that means you're going to be out of this
league soon. Quarterbacks have to continually try to improve and
he does that. He's still, as we speak, only twenty
three years old, which is amazing. So he has a
great head on his shoulders. Smart kid. I think this offense,
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with Nick Kelly as the new coordinator, it's going to
have a lot more autonomy at the line, and Stratt
is the kind of quarterback that can benefit from that,
that can take advantage of that. So I'm eager to
see what he produces.
Speaker 1 (50:53):
All right defensively, And this is just me in closing
here Mark doing the eyeball test. I look at the
dee and this looks like a great deal of depth
to start camp to me?
Speaker 3 (51:05):
Is that accurate? Is that a good assessment? Eyeball was?
Speaker 5 (51:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (51:08):
I think they could be deeper in the secondary, but
they have frontline players who are just all out great.
You know, they have Derek Stingley Junior is probably the
best cornerback in the league. The safeties look good. I
mean you add CJ. Gardner Johnson to the mix and
Kellen Bullock, who had a really good rookie year ready
for year two.
Speaker 5 (51:28):
I mentioned lass.
Speaker 9 (51:29):
I think that secondary is potentially all world We'll see
how it plays out. But I think defensively as a whole,
this is a defense you can win a Super Bowl
with if your offense is playing at a high enough level.
And that's the big if with this team. A lot
of teams have ifs. That's the if with the Texans.
Can their offense be consistently good running the football, taking
the heat offf Stroud allowing the defense to help them
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win the game, which was happy what happened in the
playoff game against the Chargers. That game was really close
through three quarters and the defense help them blow it
open and the offense was able to take advantage of
some things down the stretch as well. They have to
be like that in a lot of these big games
because the schedule's very tough.
Speaker 1 (52:08):
Yeah, you, Houston's got things moving right now. Get a
little Kevin Durant coming up once the NBA season is underway,
I guess, not too far up the road. Get the
arch manning experience at Texas. I mean, what the hell
is going on around there in Texas right now? It's amazing,
it's fun.
Speaker 9 (52:24):
It's a good time to be here. But we all
know it. It's all about football, and NFL football especially,
so it's going to be exciting and I'm not I
will never look past overlook the Colts. You never know
what they're able to put together. They have a lot
of pieces there. You know, if they avoid turnovers and
things like that, they could be in a lot of
these games, go nine to eight or better.
Speaker 1 (52:45):
Mark, it's a pleasure always to talk with you. We
will do it again soon. Enjoy camp when things get
officially underway and we'll catch catch you up here here,
not too far down the road, but have a great
camp with the Texans you too, XH ANDB.
Meantime of the Andy Moore automotive group Potline, one of
Southern Indiana's finest from Lanesville High School, and he does
a little bit of everything, including assuming by a brick.
On coverage this weekend, Greg Greggs draws with us, Hello, Greg,
how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm good, my friend, how are you?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Greg? It's a sad day in music with the loss
of Ozzy?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Are we going to go all headbangers hairspray Saturday night
edition of the show?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
That well, I don't know if we're going to go
the entire way, but we will sprinkle sprinkle in a lot.
I guarantee you that, and we would do that anyway,
So yes, we will will celebrate it.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I just mentioned this earlier.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
It seems like that that I've had a show that's
been a part of some of those moments, whether it's
Michael Jackson or Prince or David Bowie or Tom Petty,
you know, those that have been so significant in music,
and Ozzy is one of those today that we end
up discussing because again, music and sports are a perfect crossover.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
As we know, I am in a place where I
have access to both the BBC and Sky right now,
and it is being given the proper protocol in in
Great Britain as he's passing, knowing that he just you know,
played his last show at Villa Park in Birmingham, and
(01:20):
so it is being given the proper coverage where I'm
currently located.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Oh wait a minute, where are you brother?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I am just south of the Arctic Circle. I am
on the north side of Iceland as we speak.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
You're in Iceland right now.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I'm in Iceland. Amy's listening to your phone call. We
are sitting on our celebrity cruise ship. We're getting ready
to go whale watching here in about an hour.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yes, does Amy Rastraw know how much I love Amy
Rakestraw is She realized.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
That's what he listens to the show on a recorvations.
She was bummed because I had life in a northern
town dream academy all cup whist night, and I called
you taking international fees four different times, slipping you off
as we speak. By the way, Oh no, I sent
you pictures. The pictures are on your phone so you
can reference them during tween them out if you want
to during the show. But you were so busy on
(02:14):
Saturday night you wouldn't answer the phone.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Man, I apologize, it was busy on Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I would I know I called four different times.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
John, I would have prioritized that. Especially how far are
you from the Arctic Circle right now?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
So we were north of the Arctic Circle? Hang on,
there's a channel here that basically is navigation and gives
like our location the Arctic Circle is sixty six degrees
north and like thirty three minutes I got to flip
off the women's euros hang on a second one nil
Italy with the semi final lead against England on that.
(02:49):
But we are located at sixty five degrees and forty
one minutes, so we're like one hundred miles I think, No,
I'm not far or maybe like like fifty miles south
of the Arctic Circle right now. I am in Akirie, Iceland,
making our way to Reykiavik in about three days.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So are you going to fly from rankievic to here
to do the Indy eleven then fly back like you
normally do on your vacations.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
So here's the way that this works. Because you know
that's a lot of time zones the cover, John, So
we scheduled this so I am missing the first days
of Colts training camp. We fly back Friday. Ian Gilmore
for a second week in Arrow will fill in for
me on soccer Saturday, but Kurt Darling and I will
do Brickyard preview on Saturday. I will make an appearance
(03:35):
at Colts camp on Saturday afternoon, and then I will
do the Indy eleven FC Tulsa game coming up on
Saturday night and then Brickyard coverage on Sunday. So I
will literally be in country for about if the flights
work properly, I'll be in country for about seventeen hours
(03:55):
before I crack a microphone on Saturday afterage.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
There's nothing more straw in that description.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
By the way, I am and I have already registered
for an Iceland national team shirt sized medium for you
that I'll be bringing back with me from Iceland. You're wealth.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Is that where that that whole chance started with? Everybody
does that thing?
Speaker 5 (04:17):
All?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yes? And I remember where you were passion when I
was born. It's this is the time. This vacation is
just me and Amy, But it was a vacation with
the JMV family nine years ago where John was bumming
my laptop to watch the iceland men in the Euros
I when we were at Cape San Blast, so I've
been thinking about that this entire trip. So there will
(04:38):
be some Icelandic soccer gear that's coming home with me.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
You what's the weather like of it?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Not JMV weather, although surprisingly when we were on land
earlier today it was sunny in mid seventies. Two days
ago it was like sonny in seventy five. But right
now it's rainy and fifteen degrees celsius John, which I
think translates to fifty nine degrees.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Wow, that is now. Have you been? The hot springs?
Are the deal up there?
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Right?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Are the volcanic springs?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Right? So we saw an active volcano after we land
at the airport on Friday morning and drove to Reykievic.
We have been to two different lagoons. We will see
hot springs and jump in them at some point in
time tomorrow. It was my job to pay for this
and Amy is the tour director, so she has set
(05:33):
all this stuff up. We are literally done talking to you,
going to make a short walk in the rain, hop
another boat and we will go whale watching in the
Arctic Ocean tonight.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
That is pretty awesome right there, that's a hell of
a trip. This is Amy's idea. Correct, Oh this trip?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
So the trip idea was mine. I'll give it away.
My lovely wife turns fifty later this year, and she
kind of off handedly mentioned to me a few months ago, hey,
I'm kind of feeling this. I'd like to go someplace special.
Another friend of mine happens to be in the trip
planning business and advertise this Iceland trip that she had
(06:12):
scheduled for August. I go, hey, there's something here, but
obviously August a little busy for me. So I sent
her a note and said, all right, here's my two
week window where we can do this. What do you have?
And she goes, all right, I've got this cruise that
goes all around Iceland that goes from you leave the
seventeenth you get back to twenty fifth. I'm like, sold, American,
(06:32):
let's go. So that's what we've been.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Doing, all right.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
So have you been paying attention to cold stuff? I
know you're not here as a part of the report
dates and the start of camp, but anything pique your interest.
I'm not going to get too deep into it because
you are in Iceland. I want you to celebrate that
and not you know, have to live in the dialogue
that we live in right now.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
As far as the cults until further notice, well, obviously,
you know, normally my first day up there wouldn't be report,
they would be tomorrow would be the practices, and those
first couple of practices are even more walkthroughs in kind
of one hour deal to stole better than the alternative.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
The obvious big news going into it is that, And
maybe Chris Ballard said otherwise today. But in terms of
any sort of restrictions that Anthony Richardson would have in
terms of throwing them, yeah, just ball I.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Think he said volume, which is described as no restrictions,
But I think volume is that restrictive or is volume?
Is that that's protocol? Right, Volume's protocol, but not restriction something.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I've had a couple of drinks today, so I may
get lots that.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
No, I'm just making crap up at this point. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
So here's what I would say is this is, first
of all, if you have a legitimate competition, nobody's going
to be throwing out their shoulder because you've got to
get important reps for both guys. I mean, I think
you're gonna see a significant drop off in reps from
Daniel Jones, Anthony Richardson down to Riley Leonard and Jason Bean.
But the fact that he has been seemingly given the
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all clear going into camp means that we get to
see a legitimate competition that I really don't think is
going to be settled or determined until at least past
August twenty. Third of the importance of that date is
that's the third and final preseason game.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Is Greg Rerakestraw and Amy Rakestraw reporting live from Iceland today?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
So what's on the menu in Iceland Sea.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
We're we're on a cruise ship, so, you know, not surprisingly,
you know, like every American food you can think of.
But I did notice they were in town. There was
an advertisement for crapes with shrimp in them, which I
thought was interesting. And then we also ran by a
place today that specialized in both itzza and kebab, so
(08:49):
I don't think that's a local thing, but I found
the combination rather interesting. There is a subway though, about
three blockshoms, just in case we needed it.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Greg Gregstaw's with us. I brought up the analogy it
was a part of a really segment number one monologue
analogy regarding if it's work and go with it, and
Barry Otum had mentioned I think it was on the
Morning show late last week. Yeah, kind of took a
shot at I use scheduling and you know the lack
(09:17):
of heavy hitters in the pre conference schedule, and you
know a lot of people had comments. I'm sure you
probably read that even before you took off for rankiovic
Iceland and this particular cruise. But I would suggest this,
you got to find your niche and your groove and
you got to roll with it. I listen if it's
if it's playing you know, you and I in the
(09:39):
pre conference schedule and it works, especially having a season
like this past year.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I would go with what got you there?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
And I'm sure as hell, and I'm sure Signetty doesn't
worry about what anybody else has to say about it.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
A couple of quick things that come to mind. One,
it's not a problem until it is. In other words,
the college football Playoff now has expanded to such a
degree that with that schedule and missing other than Ohio State,
you know Penn. Stand they didn't play Penn. They didn't
play organ last year, they still qualify for the College
Football Playoff. In other words, if you're the Big Ten
(10:13):
and we're now talking about potentially the Big Ten getting
like four guaranteed bids, you know of this thing, which
I don't think is right, but that's a conversation for
a different day. If you're Indiana, you remarkably, in the
span of about eighteen months, have gone from hey, don't
play u of L in a non conference game because
you need to schedule Indiana State, Ball State and somebody
(10:35):
from the Fun Belt before you get in the conference,
play the guarantee six wins, to now that same combination
of teams, you simply do what you have done in
the Big Ten and now we'll get you the CFT
anyway because your conference is so good, and now that
you do mix in at USCA, UCLA A, Washington, Oregon. Basically,
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what Indiana is saying is that, you know what, we
don't have to play any by the non conference schedule,
because if we do what we think we can do
in the Big Ten, that enough gets you in the
College Football Playoffs. So when this would change would be
as if let's say Indiana goes ten and two, this
year and doesn't make it. You know what's gonna happen.
(11:17):
They're gonna fix it, and they're gonna play somebody else
because they feel they have a good enough program to
be in there if they would alter their strength of schedule.
So to me, what they are doing is saying, all right,
here with the recipe for success last year, let's follow
that until we know it's no longer a recipe for success.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
As ten Cup wants so profoundly stated, write it until
at bucksha or you don't write it all, correct it correct.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
It ain't broke what they say we're from back home, Yeah,
it ain't broke. Don't fix it.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Oh all right, this is for you and Amy. As
we close here.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Greg Greagstraw is live from Iceland on the Anymore Automotive
Group plotline. The Salvationamie band played, and the children drank limonade,
and the morning lasted all day, all day.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
That's okay for you. The Dream Accadicy.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I never thought i'd be I never thought I would
be so happy hearing you, Sarah and ade me you know,
in person or four time zones away. Well done by you.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yes, Life in a northern town from the Dream Academy.
Greg and Amy Rakestraw live with us internationally from Iceland
on the any More Automotive Group Potline. You guys, enjoy
that cruise and the time away, and we'll see you
back here. Man, Thanks for the call.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
See you for the weekend, buddy. Be good.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
So Greg Rakestraw at Amy Rakestraw. The any More Automotive
Group potline was I as good as the Dream Academy
right there? Are they any More Automotive Group Potline. We
gotta thank him for calling us today. From ESPN at
ESPN dot Com. Mike Dorocco is in the house today
as the Culture Report and cams are underway and we
(13:00):
are right back into the NFL season all over again.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Hello, Mike, how are you?
Speaker 5 (13:05):
I'm good? How are you guys?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Well done forgiving me a call like that. I appreciate it,
no problem.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Yeah, it's probably my phone that was having the issues
I've had. It doesn't want to go back to camp.
I guess my phone still wants more vacation, so I
think that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
You viewed the AFC South and this I guess includes
the Texans too, because there's been a bit of a
change of pace there as well. Do you view the
AFC South as wide open as everybody else does right now?
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Uh? Yeah, to a degree, I suppose. I think there's
I don't think the Titans are going to be factoring
into that mix, but I do think the Jags and
the Colts could make it definitely interesting for sure, depending
on how honestly the quarterback situation at both places plays out.
(13:56):
I do think the Titans are seeing the Texans are
still probably the team to beat, but that offensive line
is still a mess, and you know, who knows what
could happen if CJ. Stroud goes down. But you know,
I don't think that this is a division where the
Texans are going to run away with it with twelve
thirteen wins. I think it's going to be another year
where ten, maybe eleven wins wins the division.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
So Mike Deroko of ESPN, ESPN dot com dot com,
I should say, notably covers the Jaguars, but certainly the
entirety of the AFC South. You know, Chris ballad met
with the media up here a little bit earlier, and
you know, obviously what was supporting Anthony Richardson, which is
the only play to make right here?
Speaker 3 (14:38):
It's funny.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
So we have a fan base here that's kind of
how should I say, stealer's wheel, it's stuck in the
middle with you, right, it's hey, it'd be great if
you'd have some success, because they have seen and really
soaked up the Pacer success. It was great, But at
the same time, they've wanted to move on from this
(14:59):
ridge for such a long period of time. Now I
think there's also okay with the team being as it
has been, But I mean, really you have to prove it,
I think, to get a fan base on board and
believe it at this point in time, right, if you're
the Colts and you've got to kind of back up
(15:19):
everybody until further notice.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Yeah, absolutely, Look, the grass isn't always greener. I will
say that anyone who's followed the Jaguars will know that,
you know, you can want all the change in the world,
and even when you get it, it doesn't necessarily mean
you're going to be in a better place. Now that
being said, when you make the decision to pick Anthony
(15:43):
Richardson what fourth overall? A guy who did not play
a ton of college football, a guy who doesn't really
know how to be a quarterback or didn't know how
to be a quarterback you know at the time, and
was relying on athletic ability, which was off the charin arts.
You know, that's a risky move. It's just as risky
(16:04):
as the Jaguars trading up and you know, to take
Travis Hunter and play in both ways, and they essentially
gave up quarterback premium to go ahead and move up
and get them. So when you make those kind of big,
bold moves and risky moves, you know, you got to
live with the results. It's a gamble. And you know
they you know, might be at the point where this
(16:26):
is it do or die this camp, this season, the
first part of this year for Anthony Richardson, and if
it doesn't work out, then maybe there will be that
regime changeing. You probably should you know, we would probably
argue that it would be the best thing to do. Well.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
It's funny, this is like an all or nothing thing
I think right now. And what I mean by that,
Mike is it's like when you play the you know,
the the dime or the nickel slots or the penny
slots or whatever, you're not I don't think that the
risk is now. I think the risk has already long
since been passed, and what you're looking out for is
(17:00):
this kind of lightning bolt strike that would stir a
little bit something around here, because really, the fan base,
the mediocrity combined with a lack of results, this is
about as apathetic as I can remember. This fan base
this time of year, just started a NFL season.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
That's an awful place to be a franchise. Yeah, I
mean you need to either really be like ungodly bad,
you know what I mean, like disastrously bad like the
Jaguars were in twenty twenty one with Urban Meyer, or
you need to be in that playoff perennial playoff team era.
(17:43):
I mean if not, then then you have an apathetic
fan base. And you know what an apathetic fan base
doesn't do. They don't buy tickets, they don't come to
the games, they don't buy merchandise. And if you live
in that area too long, it's hard to get out.
So I think, you know, the Jaguars are pretty much
existing in that era and in that area for the
(18:05):
last you know, eight of the last ten years, and
it's hard to get out. And to do it you
have to have you have to hit on the quarterback,
and you know, the Colts thought they had and we'll see.
I mean, I'm not writing Anthony Richson off, but man,
another year like last year or the year before, and
then you're living in that no man's land of basically
(18:27):
being irrelevant and nothing is worse than the NFL to
being irrelevant.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Mike Doroco, He's Sunday Andy Moro at a Motive Group hotline.
What is your thought on Daniel Jones? Because it has
been said both of these quarterbacks will compete and they
start even However, I think a lot of us believe
maybe Daniel Jones has a step up and it's going
to be interesting to see around here how that whole
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thing goes. I mean, really, every single throw is going
to be dissected by everybody in Westfield over the course
of this camp. But what do you think about the
reclamation project hope that is Daniel Jones and the coaching
cults uniform in a year one here?
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Well, I mean, I think we've seen it over the
last several years that sometimes that change of scenery is
really really good for a guy. I mean, Baker Mayfield,
Sam Donold, you know, Geno Smith. It can kind of
help re energize the guy as long as they're in
that right situation. So I don't know if this is
the right situation for Daniel Jones, but I do know
(19:29):
he started a lot of games in the NFL, and
he may not have the athletic ability and the amazing
upside of Anthony Richardson, but he can be a solid,
steady quarterback in the NFL, and and sometimes that's better
than gambling on all of that upside, especially if you're
in the situation like the Colts are in a division
(19:51):
that really is you know, they're they're in that second level.
You know they're behind the Texans, but the Texans are
one injury away, or you know, one or two bad
games away from this division really and truly being open
for two or three teams. So if you can get
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some solid quarterback play, I think the rest of the
roster is in good enough shape for them to contend
in the division. But if you're not getting that consistent
quarterback play, I mean, it's just a mess. You just
don't know what's gonna happen. Yes, yeah, yeah, I don't
think he's great, but I think it's you know, there's
something to be said for knowing what you're gonna get
every week?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Do you know what you're gonna get in Jacksonville at all?
Right now? Are you just rolling the dice to see
what the hell happens there?
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Yeah? Pretty yeah? No, do don't know what we're going
to see out of this group here? Trevor Lawrence? Is
he going to stay healthy? Hasn't the last two years?
Can you put together one full solid season where he
plays at a really, you know, consistently high level. Hasn't
done it yet either, end of twenty twenty two. In
first part at twenty twenty three, he did a seventeen
(20:59):
game stretch. But I mean, that doesn't do any good
if it's not in a single season. Is the offensive
line going to be any better? Will they be able
to run the ball. Everybody seems to think that, you know,
Liam Cohen can automatically work the same kind of magic
he did in Tampa here with taking the Bucks from
running last to fourth and rushing and having Baker Mayfield
(21:20):
throw her career high in passing yards and passing touchdowns.
I mean, people just expect that to automatically happen, and
that's not how things work in the NFL, or in
general either, So there's optimism here that things will be
significantly better. And you know, the longer we are, the
further away we get from last season, the further the
(21:42):
more this dysfunction is not the right word, because what
happened in twenty twenty one with Ramaya was dysfunction that
like was at another level then last year, you know,
things just weren't right. There are a lot of things
that went wrong. So the more we find out about
the stuff that went wrong in the attitude and stuff
that was going on around the building, which on a
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panic level was probably a level three or four. But
I mean, I still think sometimes when you move away
from the dysfunction and you get somebody new, you can
have a jolt, which is what happened to this franchise
in twenty twenty two, but they weren't able to sustain it.
So you know, if Trevor Lawrence can finally do all
the things I talked about, then they've got a chance.
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If he can't, then he's going into twenty twenty six,
and that truly really is a make or break year
for him.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Here in Jackson, he is Mike Derocco with us Liam Cohen,
do you think he.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Can unlock the higher level and I mean.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
The consistent higher level of Trevor Lewrence under center.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
You think that's a possibility. Do you foresee that at all?
And how would how would that work?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Just on the entry level fans that are out there,
how would that work?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
And what's your expectation playing off of that at least.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
On Yeah, let me just do it this way, because
this was striking to me in talking to people inside
the organization there when they got here, meaning this staff
with William Cohen and whatever, and they were watching Trevor
Lawrence on film and stuff, and the one thing they
were the footwork was just not there. It was not good.
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And that's the big priority. That was their big priority
with him in the spring, even when he had the
shoulder he couldn't do something. You know, he's recovering from
the shoulder surge. He couldn't throw. It was like, you,
we need you to fix that footwork because everything a
quarterback does, you know, evolves from the footwork. If your
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foot feet are in the right spot when they're supposed
to be there, then you can make the throw you're
supposed to make and it's not off target, it's not
all armed, you know what I mean. Obviously, all hell
breaks loose on place and you have to improvise here
air at times. But you also if you're in the
right position and your body's in the right position, and
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you can make those throws and you can make things happen.
And his footwork was just not where it needed to
be for a guy in his fourth year. You know,
after talking to people after the spring, I've been told
his footwork is you know, it's a one eighty and
his footwork is so much better. And that that to
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me tells me that A. Cohen has a pretty strict
plan for the kid, and B Trevor is willing to
put in the work and has made the significant strides needed.
Now the big question becomes, when all hell breaks loose
on Sunday, does he revert back to the bad stuff
or does he stick with the training and stick with
the things that he's been working on since Cohen got
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here and make that improvement, Because I think the offense
itself is going to be a significant upgrade for everybody
here in Jacksonville. But it's all in come on Trevor
Lawrence making that leap, and from the standpoint of just
what I talked about. That leads me to believe that
there's at least a little bit of confidence level that
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Trevor can take the next step, you know, but again,
we got to see it on Sundays.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Yeah, speaking of unlocking here, Mike, is there a higher
excitement level than usual with the Jaguars fan base in
wanting to see the anticipation of Travis Hunter.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Yeah, it's the last time they were just excited for
the for a player. It was when they were going
to draft Trevor Lawrence. And it was like that was
in twenty twenty, when they realized they were drafting Trevor Lawrence,
they were going to be in spot to get them.
I mean, I haven't seen anything like that since since.
You know, I haven't seen anything like what we're seeing
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about Travis Hunter since then. And the fun thing is
is there's a big debate among the fans here about
whether he's going to be more of a receiver or
more of a corner. And then there's a significant number
of people that think there's no way he's going to
be able to play both sides of the ball, to
the extent that the Jaguars are telling everyone that he's
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going to So there's a whole lot of mystery. How's
he going to break down in practices? You know? Is
he going to spend a full practice on defense one
day in a full practice on offense the next? How
is he going to split his time in meetings once
the season gets here? You know, is he gonna basically
take Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays off to rejuvenate his body
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after playing? You know, fifty snaps on offense, another fifty
on defense? Like, how is it all going to work?
And I think that, to me is the biggest part
of my excitement in terms of covering Travis Hunter and
them possibly having the first full time or regular two
way player since Chuck ben Erik in the sixties years. Wow,
that to me is the most exciting part of It's like,
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how's it going to work? From that standpoint? And you know,
I can't wait for the season to get it. Unfortunately,
we've got to go through six weeks of camp to
get there.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I would have to ask you, I don't even know
if there is an exact answer here, but you've had
so many incredible athletes enter the NFL. Why is he
so consistently considered the one to be able to go
both sides as you just described, right, because I mean
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we've had a lot of athletes, great athletes too, and
nobody's done it significantly, and you know, we're thinking he
may be able to do it.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Why is he different in your estimation.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Well, he's got the track record of doing it at
the power five level, so there is that. You know,
it's one thing for him to do it at Jackson
State and then he ends up at Colorado, and then
he does it for two years at Colorado, so there's
a you know, at least you can point to something
and say, hey, at a high level of competition, he
was able to do it. Now, what allows him to
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do that is the fact that this guy may be
the best conditioned athlete of the last ten years. I mean,
I've had multiple people inside that organization tell me they
are amazed and astounded at the fact that this kid
does not get tired. He can run all day long,
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never gets tired, never slows down, and he still has
the energy to dance in between drills and dance in
between plays and have a good time. It's just he's
a freak of nature. You know. People have called him
a unicorn and all this other stuff. I mean, he
is just a freak of nature to have the athletic ability,
the conditioning, the lung capacity, the you know, the physical
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the ability to physically withstand the punishment that that does
to the body playing both ways. Now, I'll say this,
he is a corner and a receiver. So there are
a lot of plays where those guys don't get contact.
Do they have to run? Absolutely, But it's not like
he's an offensive lineman or a defensive line which is
getting contact on every single play. So there is that
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little bit of wiggle room for him to kind of
sustain the level of conditioning and you know, not take
the kind of beating that he might otherwise take in
another position. But still, you know, to be able to
do it at this level on a regular basis is
something that you know, we, like I said, we haven't
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seen since I think nineteen sixty two is the last
year Bed and Erik did it, and I think we
all know the league was a hugely different perfection then
it is now just a little bit.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Yeah, hey Mike, and closing you a Ozzy Osbourne.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Fan, A little bit yeah, the crazy train has left
the station. Today and it is.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Yeah, Now, would you more note the music of Black Sabbath,
Ozzie being just Ozzy Osbourne on his own and obviously
introducing us to a host of other talents around him,
or from the MTV show The Osbourne's.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
No, I would know him more from the music. I
was not an MTV Osbourne's guy like Mike generating here's
the old guy right here, like I actually remember when
MTV played music videos. Yes, exactly, nothing but music videos.
So yeah, I know Ozzie Moore from The Black Sabbath
and the music than watching the Osbourne's on MTV.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Well done.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
We're going to keep pace with you over the course
of camp and then into the season and we can't
thank you enough as always for coming on the show, Mike,
and we'll do it again soon.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
Absolutely, Thanks Lon, good luck.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Ozzy Osbourne passed away earlier today at the age of
seventy six. The heavy metal music icon Laura Steele. In
just a second, Laura Hank tied because Jeff Boggs is
in studio too. Jeff Boggs on loan from The Hammer
and Nigel Show Across the Hall on ninety three.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
WIBC is a.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Former writer for Letterman, and you were on the couch
once upon a time, not in a not in a
romantic way right with Ozzy, but on the couch for Letterman.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Correct.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
No, it wasn't for Dave. It was after days on
a random couch. It wasn't a random couch. We were
doing a show out in La called Osbourne's Reloaded Okay,
and it was a it was a one off for
Fox and Ozzy. We were doing a Golden Girls bit,
a bit about the Golden Girls and so Ozzy. We
were trying to explain to Ozzy, here's what we're doing.
(31:26):
Let's you see the show. And he sat in my
office on my couch next to me.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Yeah, And I pop.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
Into the VCR. This is how long ago the VHS tape? Sure,
and an episode of the Golden Girls comes up, and
I go, let's just watch this, and Ozzie watches about
ten seconds of it and then he looks at me
and he goes, oh, you did this, and I go, oh, no,
I didn't. I didn't do the Golden Girls. This is
the bit that Sharon told you we're going to be
shooting today and he goes hum. And then we watched
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ten more seconds and he goes, so you did this,
you wrote this show?
Speaker 3 (31:54):
And I go not the Golden Girls.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
And then everything went to crap after that, so we
ended up not doing ended up not doing the bit.
Jack thankfully came in tried to sell his dad on it,
and he goes, but who did it? And we were like,
forget it, moving on. So Ozzie was a sweet dude.
I've been over to their house, the their big you know,
the MTV house, and one time we were just sitting there.
I was talking to Jack. They were doing a show
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about Jack and Ozzie were going to travel the country
and they ended up doing three years of that show.
We were setting that show up and in the middle
of the meeting, Ozzie walks through their living room, dripping
wet and a speedo and he just walks past and
he's dripping everywhere, and Jack goes, Dad say hi, and
he goes and he kept walking. So so those were
my Those were my two big That's good. But I
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noticed that they were very sweet to each other. As
much as they go after each other, they really were.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
It was a few with.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Black Sabbath in and certainly early Ozzie out, even had
never ever thought that. Jeff Boggs and Studio, the former
writer for the David Letterman Show. Let's bring on board
friend of the show iconic personnel here locally in her
own right, the awesome Laura Steele is with us on
the any More Automotive Group hotline.
Speaker 8 (33:06):
Hello Laura, Hi, guys, Hold up, Hold up. You're telling
me Jeff that you watched The Golden Girls with Ozzy Osbourne.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Yeah, that's exactly what happened. It doesn't make sense. Maybe
the only one right there that's ever done that.
Speaker 8 (33:21):
In what world does that happen? That's pretty epic, my friend.
You've always got that. You've always got that, Laura.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
I got to tell you there are some moments that
still don't make sense for me.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
That was That was That was one of it.
Speaker 7 (33:31):
And I would have brought it up when you and
I were just talking twenty minutes ago on the Hammer
of Nigel Show, but Nigel was too busy blabbering.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
He just doesn't let anyone it's Nigel blabbering. He just
keeps talking.
Speaker 7 (33:40):
He doesn't let anyone get a word in.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
Well, that's what we do in radio, right, jamb.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yes, yes we do. I just let everybody else talk,
and I sit here and read the Internet at the
entac time.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
This is what happens here.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
He's popping into somebody's DM.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yeah, I mean I must slide. I must slide into
somebody's DM. Slide slided. In a musical voice for eras
here with Laura Steele, Ozzy Osbourne means to you, what
are we still?
Speaker 8 (34:09):
Well, you were talking about the Golden Girls. I got
an Ozzie story. Well, it would have been probably Deer Creek.
I saw Ozzy at Deer Creek and somehow my friend
Heidi and I weaseled our way up to the front
row and it was a very hot night, and.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
Ozzie had buckets of water.
Speaker 8 (34:26):
I'm not sure what that was all about, but apparently
it was something that he did at shows where he
had buckets of water. He would take the buckets of
water and he would dump it on his head at shows.
I don't know if anybody listening remembers.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
That or saw that.
Speaker 8 (34:37):
Well, he decided to dump a bucket of water on
our heads. And at that time we had purses, and
my friend had all of her bills and it with stamps,
and her mail got ruined. But We felt like we
were pretty much baptized by Ozzy, so it was all good.
Speaker 6 (34:52):
It was all good.
Speaker 8 (34:52):
Yeah, he dumped a bucket of water on us in
the front row at Deer Creek, so that's mine was.
Speaker 6 (34:59):
Jo show.
Speaker 7 (35:00):
Yeah, this doesn't happen to John and I. This wouldn't
if you and I went to a NAUSI concert. We're
not getting up to the front row and Azzie's not.
You were just pushed out of there. I have a
feeling there were other things that play here.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
It could be like a wet T shirt contest.
Speaker 8 (35:16):
Just.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
For the wet T shirt contest? What the hell? Why
is that?
Speaker 8 (35:22):
I'm not saying that's what happened. I'm mis gassing that
he saw a couple of girls in the front row
and decided to just pick pick a little fun with
it have been fun.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
That is a hell of a time. How many, uh
in guestimation here are you doing rock radio for so long?
How many times did you talk up or backing ounce
a NAZSI song?
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Do you recollect Laura thousands?
Speaker 6 (35:42):
Probably?
Speaker 8 (35:43):
Yeah, I will get close to it that yeah, quite
a bit. I mean I've been in classic rock radio
for three decades, so it's safe to say with Black
Sabbath and you know, paranoid talking up Paranoid's not one
you would really talk up though, GMV Right.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
It's a little loud talk cup stuff and rock radio though,
are you. I guess you kind of are. Now.
Speaker 8 (36:03):
You gotta pick and shoes, you gotta you gotta respect,
you gotta respect the music.
Speaker 6 (36:07):
I tend to not like to like you know, people
are there for the music. Maybe a little bit bumping
up a little bit. I don't mind it. I hear
you do it on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Yes, you are hitting a post. Hit well, listen.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
I can't report back to Mark Patrick n if I
don't hit the post every time, Okay, I can't. I mean,
as a member of the family of Nica, I can.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
I've got to hit the post every time.
Speaker 6 (36:32):
Okay, that's pretty funny. That's pretty funny. Yeah, it's been
a sad day.
Speaker 8 (36:35):
I'm I will say that I've gotten more phone calls.
You know, we hear about these stories of people we love,
we know and we've listened to their music for years,
and especially when we're up at that point in age
we're not Ozzy age, but you know, it's kind of
it's a sad time. Like you know, it's an end
of an era. Ozzy had like a bunch of different eras.
If you think about Ozzie with Black Sabbath, Ozzy Solo,
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Ozzy with his television show. You know, there have been
an odd stuff as well that was part of his career.
But when we hear about these things and all this
stuff under the belts of Ozzy Osbourne, if you will,
it's just really an epic loss. He was one of
a kind. He was He was very I thought, very funny,
and it was probably because you know, he didn't get
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things sometimes.
Speaker 6 (37:21):
He was dyslexic, So he went from.
Speaker 8 (37:23):
Being a dyslexic child to dealing with a lot of
health issues, some brought on by himself.
Speaker 6 (37:29):
With the ATV.
Speaker 8 (37:30):
I think he was in an ATV accident or a
bad accident to put him in a coma.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
He's had Parkinson's, He's dealt with.
Speaker 8 (37:37):
A lot of issues health wise, and it really kind
of it felt like it kind of came to.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
Fruition in the last couple of years.
Speaker 8 (37:45):
I mean, he flat out would talk about a miserable
I feel terrible, this is no way to live. He
did not like the way he felt and who would
if he felt crummy? I mean, you don't, you don't
want to live. So that brings us to today and
a couple of weeks ago as well with his farewell
show with Black Sabbath.
Speaker 6 (38:02):
What does this all mean? Did they was?
Speaker 8 (38:04):
I don't know if they knew he was sick. I
don't know if he said this is it for me?
I don't know the dynamics do have we found out yet?
What may?
Speaker 1 (38:12):
I mean? They just I think they just kind of
attribute that to the effects of Parkinson's and what he
was dealing with right there, and people had wondered, I
think what was it two three weeks ago, Jeff where
they did.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
The tribute show for him over in Bowingham, England.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
And yeah, you wondered why there wasn't anything significant from
him and he was, like.
Speaker 7 (38:35):
You said, he was sick for a while, so you
don't know. And the immediacy of right now. I think
that's what's shocking all of us, but definitely didn't come
out of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Laura still ye.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Lauras deals with us on the Andy Moore Automotive Group Hotline,
Jeff Boggs and Studio with us as well Laura, you
mentioned the iconic passing, and I ranked Ozzie right up
there with with Bowie, with Prince, with Patty, with Michael Jackson,
with absolutely everybody, Kurt Cobain, because I thought heavy metal
music I thought began with him. You would know better
(39:08):
than I would because you have been around it and
at the top of your game for such a long
time in radio.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Did Ozzie? Was he the one that started what we
know now is heavy metal?
Speaker 8 (39:19):
I would say that it began with Black Sabbath, as
in part with some other bands, but that definitely was
kind of the beginning of it. And just I mean,
it's amazing still to this day to hear that and
it still rocks. But you go back in time and
think about Paranoid and all these songs that Black Sabbath
came out with, and I would say that that crunchy,
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really super crunchy rock that's not really annoying, like some
of the rock that can be really heavy can kind
of be like, oh gosh, you know, it almost sounds
dangerous to listen to it. They were kind of a
little bit more palatable, and I thought in that for
me because I'm not like a heavy, heavy heavy rocker.
I'm a classic rocker, but I would say that Black
Sabbath was definitely you can attribute that to the beginning
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of heavy metal and just an amazing career that he
had and really one of the few in the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame. Twice he was inducted with
Black Sabbath. He was inducted as a solo artist. If
I'm not mistaken, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, he's in there twice.
I'm pretty sure. Did you know JMB what is his
(40:24):
birth name was? Or well birth name? He got ended
up with a nickname. But do you know what his
name is? No, you should know.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
You should know, Go ahead, tell me.
Speaker 6 (40:35):
John Michael Osborne.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
But I did not know that.
Speaker 8 (40:39):
Yes, well born John Michael Osborne. I think that y'all
may be related.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
We might be. That's got to be listen.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
I still don't to this day know what tell my
dad was doing. So who the hell knows all the.
Speaker 8 (40:53):
Matters that you're here, that you are here, But yeah,
we really we really have a big loss here.
Speaker 6 (40:59):
And I think he was endearing, you know.
Speaker 8 (41:01):
On the Osbourne Show, we just kind of learned to get,
you know, into his life and what he had dealt
with And I just saw an interview just I can't
remember exactly when it was released, but it was really
quite sad where he was talking about, you know, what
he had been through and how he had been through
so much on the medical side of things. And he
even has a book out called Trust Me, I'm Doctor
Ozzy about all the things that he's been through, even
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bit the head off a bat.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
We all know that he snorted a lot of ants too,
I believe didn't he.
Speaker 8 (41:28):
He snorted ants. That's right, He snorted ants and lived
to talk about it. Yes, had wrote a book about it.
And now we have to kind of just say that
he's a legend that lived and brought us great music,
and that's a beautiful thing. Jam V and I know
you know this. You have such a great respect for music,
and I respect you for that. But the music lives on.
We lose these rocks, oh doubts, but we still have
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Tom Petty songs and when Mary Jane's Last Dance comes on,
or when you know, Crazy Trained from Ozzie comes on,
and these songs that are so iconic. Thank you to
those who left us with these songs that live on.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Laura Steele We're going to see her a lot the hostess,
which is awesome inside the bullseye Vincent with the Bullseyevent
group dot Com. Our good friend Kyle Kinnett has the
best pregame party anywhere.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
Laura.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
I cannot wait to see you there. It is always
fantastic to hear your voice. I'm doing a live JAMV
takeover at the State Fair. If you want to slide
into my DMS out there and maybe do a couple
of segments or something with me, You're more than welcome
to on the ninth of August.
Speaker 6 (42:30):
Hold on, I'm writing it down. Ninth of August.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
Yeah, in the tap room out there, the tap room, the.
Speaker 6 (42:34):
Ninth of August, we come see you know.
Speaker 8 (42:36):
I'm moving my my teenager into iuin so I've kind
of been lightning my workload and haven't been doing a
whole lot.
Speaker 6 (42:42):
But boy, once she's off to IU, parties on and
you got it.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
Well, I'll let you know. Thanks for hopping on today too.
Speaker 8 (42:50):
Absolutely, Jeff, You've got that story forever, Jeff, Ozzy.
Speaker 6 (42:54):
And the Golden Girl.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
There you go. Nice bye, guys, Thank you, Laura.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Laura Steele's are they Andy Moore Automotive group potlines, Jef's
gonna hot back over because there's no way it's a
rudderless ship over there. Right now, Nigel has no clue
what he Joey Allison has jumped in because Nigel's all
over the map are hearing.
Speaker 7 (43:08):
To Elison's the only reason that show is staying on
the air right now.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
Boggs man, I appreciate you, brother, Thanks she right now.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
The South the winner a year ago and a lot
of people selecting them to do so once again this season.
The voice of the Houston Texans, Mark VanderMeer, talks about
that squad and then some within the South as he
joins us now the Andy Moore Automotive Group hootline. Hey,
welcome back to an NFL season Mark, how ay you, sir?
Speaker 9 (43:36):
I'm doing great. You know, it's such a great time
right the off season is finally over all the talk
now we're still going to talk for a few more
weeks here, right, nice. At least we have some practice
with not that Ota vibe where it's all dressed up
in no place to go. We're going places now we're
wrapping up to the games.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
I'm curious, this is the entirety of just fans in
general in the Houston era, are I should say, with
this era of sports. Whether I know, the Rockets were
disappointing in the postseason, but they had a really nice
year and there are expectations through the roof going into
next year the Astros doing what really they normally do.
(44:14):
And then you compound that with the Texans. Where is
this compared to eras of the past, with the overall
effect of winning that's having on that fan base there.
Speaker 9 (44:24):
Well, I wasn't around for the Oilers, and the Astros
are putting together a run that this city has never seen.
You know, this is ridiculous what they're doing. In fact,
I don't know if people truly appreciate it. Now their
diehard fans will say, yes, we do, but this is ridiculous.
If you had this happening in New York or Boston,
they'd be making movies and writing songs about it for
(44:45):
World Series appearances to World Series wins, all the postseasons.
I mean, it's incredible, but it's still a football talent
because if the Texans were doing that, it would be
absolutely bonkers. And I think that there's no question that
has camp begins. All the talk is going to be
Texans here until the Astros get to the postseason. You know,
obviously some Astros sprinkled in, but it's a football town.
(45:08):
People are obsessed with it. And here's how. You know,
how angry are they when you lose? It's not how
happy they are when you win, it's when you lose.
Are they upset? Are they disappointed? Are they angry? Are
they calling the stations? If the Astros would check out
and just go on a big draft for the next
few years, people would be disappointed, but it wouldn't be
this bitterness that happens when your football team's not doing well,
(45:29):
like this team didn't do well in twenty twenty twenty
one and twenty two.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
But here we are.
Speaker 9 (45:33):
They're in a good spot and I think they're going
to do well this year.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
What's amazing too, and this is a comment about the Astros,
is they've had significant change from those title teams that
you're talking about right there. And you know, the whole
winning thing con t five game advantage as of right now,
fifty eight game winner as of right now. It has
been an amazing run in cultivating talent in that category,
(45:57):
without a doubt there.
Speaker 9 (45:59):
Oh yeah, they've definitely flipped it. And the good franchises
in any sport are able to do that.
Speaker 2 (46:05):
Right.
Speaker 9 (46:05):
You look at the NFL, and I know we look
at the Chiefs and say, oh, Mahomes, but look how
different the team is from twenty eighteen twenty nineteen to
the way it is now. At twenty nineteen, the Texans
lost to the Chiefs in the playoffs, and they lost
to them this past season in the playoffs in the
division round again. But that Chiefs team from twenty nineteen
is a completely different squad except for Kelsey and Mahomes
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that maybe a couple of other guys, Chris Jones one
of them. But you look at how rosters change over
on these perennial powers. They're able to reload around the quarterback,
around the top talent on the team. And that's what
the Texans hope to do because before you know it,
they're going to need to do it here and you know,
I'm hoping they're in a position where they can do
it well.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
No, Mark vandermer is the voice of the Texans on
the Andy Morrow At a Monic Group plotline. So before
things officially get started, for you, give me the new
face because there have been old faces that have exited,
but new exciting faces are coming in. What most excites
you what individual does, at least on the surface before
things officially get underway With Houston.
Speaker 9 (47:06):
I think it's a great question. Nick Chubb is the
biggest name they've acquired, but we don't know how.
Speaker 5 (47:11):
Good he's really gonna be.
Speaker 9 (47:13):
And Joe Mixon was banged up in the offseason, so
what's his availability going to be. We'll all find out
when camp gets started. I'm excited about the receivers. I'm
excited about Christian Kirk. I think he'll be a good
addition to this team. You know, last year, everybody was
so pumped up about Stefan Diggs and Tank Dell and
Nico Collins being in that group together, and rightfully so,
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but the way it played out, Dell got hurt in
December and he was hurt at other times. Nico missed
five games along the way, and Diggs only played less
than half the season, so it didn't work out the
way they wanted.
Speaker 5 (47:46):
Now they've got a.
Speaker 9 (47:46):
Group with these guys they've drafted, with Jayden Higgins and
Jalen Knowl along with Kirk and the others. They have.
I think this could be a really exciting group. Justin
Watson from the Chiefs that got him, don't sleep on
him either. I mean, he's not going to catch fifty
balls even maybe, but he's going to make big plays
and play special teams unless he is replaced by some
(48:08):
upstart guy. And we'll see how that all goes. Because
it's camp and jobs are up for grabs. I know
you have on this team, and this is the way
they set it up. They set it up where a
veteran should win the job, but he could be replaced
by a rookie like Kamari Lassiter did a corner last
year for them and turns into this Pro Bowl caliber
player for them opposite Derek Stingley Junior. So we'll see
(48:30):
if they've acquired the right talent this year.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
Well, I can tell you this with nicro Collins. I mean,
I think with the attention that he gets defensively, that
automatically can make other guys that maybe have not produced
at that level ever coming into the league, or maybe
he has been more of a supporting role player or
someplace else can up their game. And it's Mark VanderMeer,
the voice of the Texans on the Andy Moore Automotive
Group potline. How are you looking at that revamped left
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side of the offensive line to start.
Speaker 9 (48:55):
Well, I'll let you know, because I think a lot
of different things can happen there. The likeliest thing is
Cam Robinson starts at left tackle and you'll go Lake
and Tomlinson at guard over there. But we don't know.
They could switch things around. It looked like Titus was
playing more at right guard during the offseason practices. Right
tackles Blake Fisher's second year out of Notre Dame center
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either Jake Andrews or Patterson, So you don't know what
they're going to do. They have a lot of different possibilities.
I can imagine one five or the other and build
a case for each one, which is like saying, if
you have two quarterbacks, you might not have one. I
get it. But I think they have enough there where
they can come up with a five that's going to
be good enough as long as they stay healthy.
Speaker 3 (49:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (49:40):
CJ.
Speaker 1 (49:41):
Stroud always is going to be the straw that stirs
here too. What do you start with him? Like here,
It's like a different set of circumstances. Wondering about Anthony
Richardson going into your number three obviously, how you feel
about Stroud with another year under his belt to become
that veteran leader where the expectations are to higher level.
Speaker 9 (50:00):
Now, I think there's no question he is him. He
had a year last year, A lot of people call
it a sophomore slump whatever. The production wasn't the same
as his rookie year, and Byron large because they weren't
protecting him well you know, and some of that is
on the quarterback. But I think Stroud is the kind
of guy who's smart enough to mature as a player,
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grow get better. Let's face it, they all have to
get better, all the quarterbacks, all the players have to
get better. If you're not getting better, you're getting worse,
and that means you're going to be out of this
league soon. Quarterbacks have to continually try to improve and
he does that. He's still, as we speak, only twenty
three years old, which is amazing. So he has a
great head on his shoulders. Smart kid. I think this offense,
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with Nick Kelly as the new coordinator, it's going to
have a lot more autonomy at the line, and Stratt
is the kind of quarterback that can benefit from that,
that can take advantage of that. So I'm eager to
see what he produces.
Speaker 1 (50:53):
All right defensively, And this is just me in closing
here Mark doing the eyeball test. I look at the
dee and this looks like a great deal of depth
to start camp to me?
Speaker 3 (51:05):
Is that accurate? Is that a good assessment? Eyeball was?
Speaker 5 (51:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (51:08):
I think they could be deeper in the secondary, but
they have frontline players who are just all out great.
You know, they have Derek Stingley Junior is probably the
best cornerback in the league. The safeties look good. I
mean you add CJ. Gardner Johnson to the mix and
Kellen Bullock, who had a really good rookie year ready
for year two.
Speaker 5 (51:28):
I mentioned lass.
Speaker 9 (51:29):
I think that secondary is potentially all world We'll see
how it plays out. But I think defensively as a whole,
this is a defense you can win a Super Bowl
with if your offense is playing at a high enough level.
And that's the big if with this team. A lot
of teams have ifs. That's the if with the Texans.
Can their offense be consistently good running the football, taking
the heat offf Stroud allowing the defense to help them
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win the game, which was happy what happened in the
playoff game against the Chargers. That game was really close
through three quarters and the defense help them blow it
open and the offense was able to take advantage of
some things down the stretch as well. They have to
be like that in a lot of these big games
because the schedule's very tough.
Speaker 1 (52:08):
Yeah, you, Houston's got things moving right now. Get a
little Kevin Durant coming up once the NBA season is underway,
I guess, not too far up the road. Get the
arch manning experience at Texas. I mean, what the hell
is going on around there in Texas right now? It's amazing,
it's fun.
Speaker 9 (52:24):
It's a good time to be here. But we all
know it. It's all about football, and NFL football especially,
so it's going to be exciting and I'm not I
will never look past overlook the Colts. You never know
what they're able to put together. They have a lot
of pieces there. You know, if they avoid turnovers and
things like that, they could be in a lot of
these games, go nine to eight or better.
Speaker 1 (52:45):
Mark, it's a pleasure always to talk with you. We
will do it again soon. Enjoy camp when things get
officially underway and we'll catch catch you up here here,
not too far down the road, but have a great
camp with the Texans you too, XH ANDB.
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