WEBVTT - Eye-opening day around the NFL | Texans All Access 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:04.520 Welcome into Texans All Access. On a Tuesday, Texans are 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:07.240 getting ready to prepare for a game at Dallas. We've 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:08.920 got a lot to get to you guys. With hot rads, 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.119 Mark vanderm and Drew Doherty joining me, I feel like 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:13.600 we should just do a hot reads like spin the wheel. 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:19.280 We got Christian Kirksey Texans, Walter Peyton man of the Year, congrats, congrats. 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:23.800 Titans firing their GM John Robinson on a Tuesday, congrats, congrats. 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:28.360 And then you know what else, whatever is there everything 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:30.760 else going on around? Like there's so many quarterback injuries 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:32.800 and things going on around the NFL. It's hard to 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:35.599 keep up with how many teams are now trying to 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:40.120 make the playoffs in playoff contention, with serious aspirations that 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:44.440 have their reserve quarterback in there. Right, you have the 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:47.760 forty nine ers, you have Washington with heinekee Let's face, 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:50.400 it Wentz was the starter when they began. You know, 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:53.400 it's interesting to rad all this stuff. Playoffs. The Ravens 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:55.160 are gonna go with Huntley for a bit and he 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:58.680 can play played well. On Sunday, we'll see how Lamar 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.680 Jackson's out speculation. His one to three weeks and that's 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.400 the show. Goodnight everybody. Right now you're all caught up. Well, 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:05.920 I mean you look at the team we're facing on 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:09.000 Sunday with Dak Prescott. I remember it didn't seem that 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:11.920 long ago. After Week one, I was asking what's the 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.120 worst scenario of these teams? And I threw a bunch 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:16.759 of scenarios out there, and one of them was finding 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:20.040 out that Dak Prescott might have to undergo thumb surgery. 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:22.760 And we thought that was like a devastating diagnosis for 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.280 the Cowboys. They'd lost their first game and then they 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:28.240 lost their starting quarterback, and yet here they are. Well, 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:30.399 I thought to Brad sham Voys of the Dallas Cowboys. 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:33.640 That'll be on tomorrow night. And Brad is really interesting. 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:35.800 I mean, he was on the sideline. He was the 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:40.039 sideline reporter for the catch in San Francisco in nineteen 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.600 eighty one Dwight Clark from Joe Montana in the NFC 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.240 Championship game that beat the Cowboys. So he's been around 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:47.960 for a long time. But he said, yeah, there was 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:50.720 thought that this is it. Cooper. Russia has got to 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.160 come in. They're not gonna win, but they end up winning, 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:56.320 and they did very well with him. Now Dak's back 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.240 in there. They running the ball great there top four 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:05.160 and scoring in points defensively and offensively, and their second 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:09.640 in turnover differential. So I mean, they're just rule these guys. 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.240 This is like a train coming down the track with 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:16.400 big spikes in front of him, like flames. And you 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:19.000 know what what's funny is I I talked to David Hellman, 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:21.960 who used to be Cowboys team reporter now he's with Fox. 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:23.960 Is he your guy this week to talk about? He's 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:26.520 my guy? Because he was talking about I asked him, 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:27.679 and you know it's funny when you're not a team 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:31.440 reporter anymore, how you can talk about what's going on. 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:33.519 He can really tell you some stuff. Well, he said, 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:35.639 like Dak Prescott. I asked him. I was if this 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:37.840 was the best he's seen him play since he's come 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.040 back from the thumb injury, and he was like, well, 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:43.079 he's thrown a lot of interceptions yea, which he has, 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:47.600 He's thrown seven. Yeah, but you know in the last 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:50.760 three games it's like one. So okay, coming back from 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:54.359 the injury, he spoiled Cowboys fans throw a lot of 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:57.000 interceptions from one. That was another question I had for 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:00.560 Brad's boiled Cowboys. Fans were talking about that are they 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.760 really They haven't done anything since the mid nineties, so 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:06.680 how spoiled are they? You know, Brad made the point 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:10.280 they haven't made the playoffs back to back in fifteen years. 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:12.840 Think about that for a minute. So it's been a 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:16.600 long time since they've had consecutive playoff appearances. And you know, 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:19.040 they don't win playoff games much. The Texans have more 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:21.600 playoff victories than the Cowboys since the Texans have come 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.480 into the league, So there's that as well. This is 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.600 the Cowboys, though for some reason, they have this entitlement 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:29.800 that they should be winning Super Bowls all the time. 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:32.960 Why because you're the Cowboys? And I guess that's the answer. 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.520 I remember my other topic on the wheel of hot 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:41.640 reds obj THEBJE because, as David Hellman said, it's the 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:45.240 most obnoxious player that might go to the most obnoxious 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:47.880 team in football. So it's just like a matchmate at Heaven. 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.280 But it seemed like today Jerry Jones was hedging his 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.320 bets on Odell Beckham Junior. I mean, he was out 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:55.040 and about at a MAVs game, the other day with 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:58.960 Michael Parsons and some teammates, but he's very Jerry Jones 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:02.840 was very hesitant unsigned him site unseen without passing a 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:06.560 physical coming off the knee surgery, which is different from 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:08.640 what we've heard in the past few weeks about them 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:12.520 wanting OBJ. How could you not demand to work out 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.080 ob j before you sign him and Johnny And now 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.000 we're talking about this either on the air off I 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.520 can't even remember anymore, but it's not that precious to 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:22.479 say it was off the record, but we were talking 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:26.480 about OBJ as the marketing machine he is. He has 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:31.000 turned himself into this incredibly valuable commodity. Everybody's interested in him, 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:33.479 and he's really good. But he's not the best in 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:37.159 the league, not even close, right, He's just really good. 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.080 You can add him to your mix like the Rams 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.280 did last year. He can play really well for you, 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.400 great good for you. I think he would help the Cowboys, 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:46.320 But what do you upset the chemistry that they have 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.159 going on right now? Because they do have something going 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:52.440 on right now. Dak Prescott is playing better. I mean, 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.480 you have a lot of assets there to work with, 0:04:55.560 --> 0:05:01.720 including Ceedee Lamb, who is dangerous but based on all 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:03.680 the stuff you said just a few moments ago about 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:07.159 how it's been so long since these guys have won, yeah, 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.760 a super Bowl, and what we've seen over the last 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:13.560 twenty five years playoff wise, Are you kind of like me? 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:15.359 I don't believe in these guys. I think they're great. 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:17.880 I think they'll get to the playoffs, but I think 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.000 they'll figure out a way to screw things up once 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.320 they get there. Yeah, I mean that's what I'm hoping. 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.839 That's my assumption, Drew, because I'm not a cowboy fan. 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.400 I'm quite the opposite here, so I want to see 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:30.880 them screw it up. If I were a fan of theirs, 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:32.520 i'd say, hey, you know, give it a shot. You're 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:35.680 gonna be playing at home, and you take it from there. Now, 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.760 how are things going on the NFC here? Because they 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.760 are in a race. Sure, look there's a number one seed. 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:44.400 I know Philly's up there right now. But they play 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.039 them once more. They can hope that Philly loses and 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.480 they maybe win out other you know, not other than 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:53.039 they just went out and Philadelphia loses to Dallas and 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:54.720 one more and then they've got it. Then they've got 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:56.640 the number one seed. All right, I have a question 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.080 for you guys, I asked. I asked my guy David 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:02.080 this as well. If I told you that the Cowboys 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:05.280 would be nine and three and Dak Prescott would have 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:07.640 to miss some games, what would be more surprising that? 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.680 Or the fact that everybody in the NFC East is 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.680 over five hundred right now? The NFC East thing. Who 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.680 would have seen either of those? But yes, the Giants 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:18.960 in Washington being over five hundred. If you told me 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:21.040 that prior to the season, that a in December, they're 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:24.000 both over five hundred? What? And then you look at 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.080 the AFC South and that is a big reason because 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:30.360 the AFC South cannot beat the NFC East yet. And 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.000 that's a huge reason why the NFC East is doing well. 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:35.360 We thought, well, you're playing a division that's kind of soft, right, 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.720 I mean, they get the Giants and you know, Philly's good, 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:39.520 they made the playoffs last year. How good are they 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:41.720 going to be? Well, look at them, best record in 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:44.159 the league, undefeated, coming in here on November third. We 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:48.280 know the story Washington. Look at what they've done. The 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:51.360 Giants are way better than anybody thought. So good for them. 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.279 It's too bad, so sad, too bad, so sad for 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:58.160 really everybody us and actually even if you're in contention 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.760 the NFC East, because I don't we've ever seen all 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:02.640 four of those teams being strong at the same time, 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:06.400 usually like one right, or the Joyants are good, We're 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:08.360 good for a long time. Then the Eagles were good. 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.880 Washington's always sort of struggled, and the Cowboys the same. 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:14.560 The Cowboys have like up and down years. But back 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:17.400 to the what you guys were talking earlier, I mean, 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.320 I think this is a really talented Cowboys team, at 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.840 least on Pio No. I mean, I think they could 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:26.200 make a run on the playoffs just because they're so balanced. 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:32.760 They should they should, they should stellar running backs, Yeah, 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:34.640 they have two stellar running backs. They have a good 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:37.160 enough receiving crew, They've got the tight end. They've got 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:40.760 a lot going for them, their defense, their defenses and 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.920 Michael Parsons. Aside from him, they've got other playmakers and 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:47.160 they've got forty eight sacks right now, which leads the NFL. 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.600 They get some pressure on opposing quarterbacks. They've got to 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.440 go out win that division. You if you're the Cowboys, 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.360 you cannot play on the road. Opening weekend, and I 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:57.640 think they know it. So they still have a chance 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:00.920 to win the division. We'll see. I know that it sounds. 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:02.520 Look every week we say it, there's a lot of 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:06.160 football left. Five games is not a ton, but it's significant. 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.040 A lot of different things can happen. It can be seismic, 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:11.960 especially in the NFC. We'll see how it goes. Hell, 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.040 five games? Think about it. What do the Texans do 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:17.120 five games in? There were one, three and one. They 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:20.600 went to their buy and you're feeling good after a win? Yeah, yeah, 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:22.440 Well how about this what they do in their final 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:24.520 five games last year? The Texans in the final five 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.760 games last year, Mills played well enough and you thought, okay, 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:30.320 the arrow is pointing up. We're going in the right 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.560 direction here. You want a couple of games out of 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:36.160 those five. Let's see what happens. Good, good, good, and 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:41.000 then wham, twenty twenty two arrives and speaking of division, 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:45.720 speaking of final five games and Davis Mills, Oh well, 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:47.880 we don't know yet. We don't know anything, but let's 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.959 any speculation. You guys want to throw any speculation out there, 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.079 all right? So the Lovey Translator was out yesterday DP 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.560 okay based on what love he said, and I don't 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:58.520 I'm not sharing anything. I don't know anything off the 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:03.400 rate for the record, we know nothing and have a 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.520 nice day everybody. But the fact that love he said, 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:08.840 you know, we do things. We don't announce things earlier 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.800 in the week or whatever he said yesterday. I'm paraphrasing, 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:15.960 but it was something like that that made it sound like, Okay, 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:18.560 they might go back to Davis Mills now because Kyle 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.400 Allen has had a rough go of it the last 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.160 two games, or Love he's just playing possum here and 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.480 just saying Okay, I'm not going to reveal anything and 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:27.520 we'll go back to all or we'll stick with Alan 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:30.079 I don't know how he's gonna do it, or the 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:37.880 dristcll cat when we comes into the flow for this, 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:41.120 like Mark Vanimer has. But Yeah, to kind of add 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:45.719 on to what Mark was saying. Normally love he's very declarative, 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:47.760 very definitive. When asked about are you gonna make a 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:51.200 change at this or with this or with that, well 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:56.400 yesterday the answer was guys, you kind quote guys, you 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:57.920 kind of know how we do it right now on 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.800 a Monday afterwards, we can talk about that play right there. 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.839 Things get out a little bit quicker around here, so 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:05.560 if there's a so he just kept on going and 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.800 going and going, and normally he's quick and declared. That 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.440 seemed to be if there's any tell or any tip 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:14.520 of the hand, Yeah, that looked like it to me. 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:16.480 So And I don't know what it's going to mean 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:20.560 for this team, honestly, but it feels like why not 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.679 at this point, you know, try something else or try 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:27.160 that again, because last year when Mills sat came back 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.040 a lot better. I know, it's only been two games. 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:32.079 Who knows, maybe something changed. We'll see how they handle it. 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:34.200 I mean, the reason why you benched Davis Mills in 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.720 the first place was because of the turnovers. Yeah, right, 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.280 and then you haven't really fixed that problem with Carl Allen. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.000 It's kind of gotten worse. Yeah, it's gotten worse in 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:43.960 the sense that when you do have a turnover, it's 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.960 so costly because it ends up being like a fumble 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:50.440 six or a pick six. Yeah, and that hasn't changed. 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.640 I mean, the issue obviously lies elsewhere. I've never heard 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:57.200 it called a fumble six. That's me, that's yours. Now. 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:03.720 I feel like that's bumble six. Yeah, sure, kick six fumble. 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.000 I've heard kick six, kick six fumble six doesn't have 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.600 that ring? Do it? Stop it? Of course it does. 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:12.080 You're just saying that because you think because you think 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.240 I made it up. That's why you don't ring to it. 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:17.040 I don't think if somebody else came up with it, 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:20.520 give you credit. He's like, it just doesn't sound as good. 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.680 But the other one sounds six. I don't know. Yeah, 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:25.839 well he had a couple of those, so why not 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:27.840 why not go back to Davis Mills at this point 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.600 a couple of T six is turnovers that lead to six. 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.640 Director all alright, I like mine better. Okay, I just 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:36.240 think it change is coming based off of what he 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:40.880 said yesterday, the way the hesitation. Yeah, and we'll see. Look, 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:46.640 you brought up divisions right, NFC East, AFC South. This 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:51.080 division is flat out weird right now because John Robinson 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:55.280 got fired today. Yeah. And you look at GM of 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.680 the Titans, Okay, you look at what's happened this year, 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:01.560 all right. You look at the Colts firing their coach. 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:08.240 So these are two projected teams to go to the playoffs, right, 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:10.600 to do very well. Some people have the Cults winning 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:14.920 the division, and the Titans are leading the division, and 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:18.920 they've made major moves, one firing a coach, one firing 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:22.560 a GM, and the Jacksonville Jaguars are sitting there like, well, 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.959 we have a coach, we have a GM. Texans are here, 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:26.520 we have a coach, we have a GM. But the 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:30.080 two teams on top, they're making those moves now, I say, 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.040 on top. We'll see where they all end up. Maybe 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:33.960 the Jags going a winning streak, maybe the Texans going 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:35.760 a winning streak. But they are where they are right now. 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:37.600 All right, Since you brought up the Titans, like, what 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.120 can we make of the timing of this firing of 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:44.199 John Robinson on a Tuesday heading in a week fourteen? 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:46.960 Like you said, they're they're at the top of their division, 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:49.520 they're in a playoff race to fire. Usually you don't 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.800 see GM's fired until after the seasons. I think purely 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:56.080 from a football standpoint, because I've also seen stuff about 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.280 well this has this has nothing to do with football, 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:01.679 it's it's behind the scenes, done it out. But if 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.920 you just go from a football standpoint, yeah, maybe they've 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.480 really just not liked his drafts last few years, and 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.960 what he's done and they want to get ahead of it, 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:12.960 and now's the time from now through you know, the 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.319 end of the draft. You got to get that out 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:17.960 of the way. So it's a good point. Maybe that's 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:22.719 something a lot of haze, but yeah, I don't think 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:24.559 during the draft last year when they make that trade 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:28.040 for a trade him away, I don't think everyone was 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.559 on board with that. It looked like from that organization standpoint. 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:33.960 So union to combine that with the draft coming up 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:36.120 in five six months and let's get it get ahead 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:37.679 of it. You're a month away from the end of 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:41.240 the season. So yeah, you get the gun jumped by 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.920 a month here with the GM and are you gonna 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:46.240 hire somebody or you're gonna know they got an interim. 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:47.760 I don't know how they're gonna handle it. But Rabel 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:49.480 has power. This is a power grab right here. So 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:53.679 Mike Rabel has power. The owner ownership makes the move, 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:57.000 but Rabel wanted this done. Rabel is an evaluator just 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.600 like everybody else. And as the coaches win, they get 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.800 more power. Now. To John Robinson's credit, he came in 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:08.160 the team was three and thirteen, right, he didn't draft Mariota, 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:10.839 all right, so he comes in and they have two 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:14.240 winning seasons with Mike Mularkey. All right, they're able to 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:16.440 do that. They win a playoff game with Mike Mularkey, 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:20.160 and they fire Mike Malarkey. Robinson hired Vrabel. He brought 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:22.840 Rabel through the door. But these things happen in the 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:28.120 NFL because somebody grabs power, somebody's winning, somebody's got the 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:31.240 juice with the ownership or whatever, and things change. And 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:34.320 that's just life in the National Football League. It just happens. 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:36.800 And you know, Mike Vrabel probably deserves to have a 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:38.760 lot of say and Robinson, if you look at it, 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.160 the bad moves, they look bad. He has brought in 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.760 a lot of good players. He has, and I know 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:45.680 sometimes it's a collective thing, but you got to give 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.640 him credit at least some for bringing in Ryan Tannehill 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:50.680 as a backup to Mariota. Then he ends up being 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:53.440 a very capable starter for them. Here's the other thing 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:56.520 about them, and I'll shut up after this. They haven't 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:59.920 won a playoff game since the day before the Texans 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.680 played their last playoff game. Think about that for a moment. 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:05.080 It was twenty nineteen when they last won a playoff game. 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.200 They've made the playoffs each of the last two years, 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.880 twenty twenty and twenty twenty one, but they exit quickly, 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.760 all right, and they exit at home both times. So 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:15.560 in Vrabel's mind, an ownership's mind, they're thinking, are we 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:17.600 getting better? Are we getting worse? Here? We're about to 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.000 go into the postseason again. We should win this division, 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:22.680 but are we equipped to deal with anybody? Philly just 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.240 came in here and boat raced us with a player 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.400 we traded to them, which might be another source of 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:31.520 contention between Rabel and John Robinson. So there's a lot 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.160 to consider here. Can you imagine I was gonna go 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:36.520 I was gonna say a J. Brown? They just played him. 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:42.560 He had like what one hundred two touchdowns a lot. Yeah, 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.480 and you know on the heels of that, Burks gets 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:49.800 can cost. Unfortunately for him, he's been playing well for them. 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:51.800 He has since he started. I mean, we heard a 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.280 lot in the offseason of him not being in good 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:58.760 conditioning and he's the rookies. He's coming around. But Isaiah Wilson, 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:01.560 their first round draft picked two years ago that didn't 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:03.520 work out. They've had a couple of first round picks 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.960 that have been total bus and then the AJ Brown trade, 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:09.320 which you know, like we heard all the reports that 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:12.360 Mike Ribbell was not happy with that trade, and then 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.240 you go to Philly, he beats you and I somebody 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:19.040 tweeted or quote tweeted video of Philly fans in front 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:22.720 of the owner's box turning around and like basically taunting 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:26.600 the owner's box every time A J. Brown did something 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:28.880 or made a big player or scored a touchdown. And 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.240 then two days later you fire your GM. I mean, 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.920 I don't know, I just feel like it was maybe coming, 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.120 but that just sort of that just tipped things over 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:38.960 because they were probably not pleased with how that trade. 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.560 If Robinson's going to do that without vraybel being on board, 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:46.960 then that's to Robinson's fate, right, that is signing with 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:49.640 the organization. Because I understand not wanting to pay a 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.760 receiver gargantuan money. I get that because they're paying Tanna Hill, 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.200 believe it or not, they're paying Tana Hill, Henry, They're 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:58.040 paying Henry, they're paying Jeffrey Simmons. You know, they've got 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.760 bills do it's hard to pay everybody. We all know 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.800 that here. But A J. Brown was he worth it, Yeah, 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:07.760 probably easy for me to say. If Rabel didn't want 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:11.080 it and it got done, that's terrible. Those moves should 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.760 not be made without Vrabels signing off. Draft choices should 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:15.840 not be made without Rabels saying, yeah, I'm on board 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.320 with this, let's go. If there's a tremendous disagreement, then 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:21.840 you need ownership to break the tie, or ownership has 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.440 to designate one of those guys to have finals say 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:26.919 we'll think about it on draft night when it's the 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:30.160 first round. When they peek into the war room, almost 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:32.640 would you say eighty five ninety percent of the time, 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.160 the war room is very happy. There's lots of guys 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:38.160 shaking hands and pumping fists and we got our guy, 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:42.600 any type of sentiments the war room last year is 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:46.840 Mike Vrabel walking up, turning his back on the camera, 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:49.960 walking away, and then turning around with a frown on 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.480 his face and sitting back down. That's normally not the 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.520 move you make and the body language you make when 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.679 you're excited about what's going on, when you're pumped about 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.560 what you've just done. And that's what happened. That's what 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:03.840 they showed last year. Right off the trade. They got 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.280 a lot for him, but maybe he wasn't happy about 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:09.520 losing a great player, because what do coaches want great players? Right? 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:11.760 I don't care what it costs. We want the great player. 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.240 Although that doesn't always happen, because it didn't happen here 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:17.400 in a certain instance when a great player was too soon, 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:20.000 dismissed too soon? Sorry, Okay, go on. He should be 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:23.480 a free agent next year, so it will always be 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:26.720 too soon soon. Yes, and another wide receiver trade away, 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:28.520 but anyway, one of the other hot reads that we 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:31.200 wanted to get to a big one, Christian Kirksey, Texans 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:33.280 Walter Peyton Man of the Year nominee. He spoke to 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:36.119 the media today and did you guys get to know you? 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:38.760 Guys talked to We talked about Lee Collins. We didn't 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:40.879 talk to Christian one on one, but we have a 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:44.160 video out Houston, Texans dot Com, Texans social media platforms. 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:48.600 Very good vid on Christian Kirksey and Nikas Sarrio. He'll 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:50.639 be on tomorrow to talk about this. I played a 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:54.359 cut on Texans today on the Odyssee stations today. Very 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:57.440 cool that he gets this honor. It's for the team now. 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:00.440 You're up for the entire league and we'll see how 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:02.440 that goes. Obviously, the Texans have had a winner in 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:05.480 the past, and JJ Watton I feel like it that's 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:08.480 always such a tough competition because oh yeah, you see 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:10.399 what players are doing across the league. And then Christian 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:13.320 Kirksey mostly I think everything he's done in the community, 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:17.440 but Valdi helping to raise money. The players donated two 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:20.439 hundred thousand dollars of their own money after the shooting 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:23.360 at rob Elementary, and then ownership put in another two 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:26.040 hundred thousand, so they donated four hundred thousand. And then 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:29.320 when to Valdi met with the high school football team, 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:33.520 donated uniforms, met with the players and so it was 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.840 really cool today. Actually, the Uvaldi High school football coach 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:40.360 and their team captain gave Christian Kirksey one of their 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:43.159 jerseys in a frame that's at fifty eight and it 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:45.080 was at Walter Peyton Man of the Year. So yeah, 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:46.600 he's a guy that walks the walk. And it was 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:49.600