Speaker 1: Welcome into Texans All Access. On a Tuesday, Texans are
Speaker 1: getting ready to prepare for a game at Dallas. We've
Speaker 1: got a lot to get to you guys. With hot rads,
Speaker 1: Mark vanderm and Drew Doherty joining me, I feel like
Speaker 1: we should just do a hot reads like spin the wheel.
Speaker 1: We got Christian Kirksey Texans, Walter Peyton man of the Year, congrats, congrats.
Speaker 1: Titans firing their GM John Robinson on a Tuesday, congrats, congrats.
Speaker 1: And then you know what else, whatever is there everything
Speaker 1: else going on around? Like there's so many quarterback injuries
Speaker 1: and things going on around the NFL. It's hard to
Speaker 1: keep up with how many teams are now trying to
Speaker 1: make the playoffs in playoff contention, with serious aspirations that
Speaker 1: have their reserve quarterback in there. Right, you have the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers, you have Washington with heinekee Let's face,
Speaker 1: it Wentz was the starter when they began. You know,
Speaker 1: it's interesting to rad all this stuff. Playoffs. The Ravens
Speaker 1: are gonna go with Huntley for a bit and he
Speaker 1: can play played well. On Sunday, we'll see how Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson's out speculation. His one to three weeks and that's
Speaker 1: the show. Goodnight everybody. Right now you're all caught up. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean you look at the team we're facing on
Speaker 1: Sunday with Dak Prescott. I remember it didn't seem that
Speaker 1: long ago. After Week one, I was asking what's the
Speaker 1: worst scenario of these teams? And I threw a bunch
Speaker 1: of scenarios out there, and one of them was finding
Speaker 1: out that Dak Prescott might have to undergo thumb surgery.
Speaker 1: And we thought that was like a devastating diagnosis for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. They'd lost their first game and then they
Speaker 1: lost their starting quarterback, and yet here they are. Well,
Speaker 1: I thought to Brad sham Voys of the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: That'll be on tomorrow night. And Brad is really interesting.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was on the sideline. He was the
Speaker 1: sideline reporter for the catch in San Francisco in nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty one Dwight Clark from Joe Montana in the NFC
Speaker 1: Championship game that beat the Cowboys. So he's been around
Speaker 1: for a long time. But he said, yeah, there was
Speaker 1: thought that this is it. Cooper. Russia has got to
Speaker 1: come in. They're not gonna win, but they end up winning,
Speaker 1: and they did very well with him. Now Dak's back
Speaker 1: in there. They running the ball great there top four
Speaker 1: and scoring in points defensively and offensively, and their second
Speaker 1: in turnover differential. So I mean, they're just rule these guys.
Speaker 1: This is like a train coming down the track with
Speaker 1: big spikes in front of him, like flames. And you
Speaker 1: know what what's funny is I I talked to David Hellman,
Speaker 1: who used to be Cowboys team reporter now he's with Fox.
Speaker 1: Is he your guy this week to talk about? He's
Speaker 1: my guy? Because he was talking about I asked him,
Speaker 1: and you know it's funny when you're not a team
Speaker 1: reporter anymore, how you can talk about what's going on.
Speaker 1: He can really tell you some stuff. Well, he said,
Speaker 1: like Dak Prescott. I asked him. I was if this
Speaker 1: was the best he's seen him play since he's come
Speaker 1: back from the thumb injury, and he was like, well,
Speaker 1: he's thrown a lot of interceptions yea, which he has,
Speaker 1: He's thrown seven. Yeah, but you know in the last
Speaker 1: three games it's like one. So okay, coming back from
Speaker 1: the injury, he spoiled Cowboys fans throw a lot of
Speaker 1: interceptions from one. That was another question I had for
Speaker 1: Brad's boiled Cowboys. Fans were talking about that are they
Speaker 1: really They haven't done anything since the mid nineties, so
Speaker 1: how spoiled are they? You know, Brad made the point
Speaker 1: they haven't made the playoffs back to back in fifteen years.
Speaker 1: Think about that for a minute. So it's been a
Speaker 1: long time since they've had consecutive playoff appearances. And you know,
Speaker 1: they don't win playoff games much. The Texans have more
Speaker 1: playoff victories than the Cowboys since the Texans have come
Speaker 1: into the league, So there's that as well. This is
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, though for some reason, they have this entitlement
Speaker 1: that they should be winning Super Bowls all the time.
Speaker 1: Why because you're the Cowboys? And I guess that's the answer.
Speaker 1: I remember my other topic on the wheel of hot
Speaker 1: reds obj THEBJE because, as David Hellman said, it's the
Speaker 1: most obnoxious player that might go to the most obnoxious
Speaker 1: team in football. So it's just like a matchmate at Heaven.
Speaker 1: But it seemed like today Jerry Jones was hedging his
Speaker 1: bets on Odell Beckham Junior. I mean, he was out
Speaker 1: and about at a MAVs game, the other day with
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons and some teammates, but he's very Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: was very hesitant unsigned him site unseen without passing a
Speaker 1: physical coming off the knee surgery, which is different from
Speaker 1: what we've heard in the past few weeks about them
Speaker 1: wanting OBJ. How could you not demand to work out
Speaker 1: ob j before you sign him and Johnny And now
Speaker 1: we're talking about this either on the air off I
Speaker 1: can't even remember anymore, but it's not that precious to
Speaker 1: say it was off the record, but we were talking
Speaker 1: about OBJ as the marketing machine he is. He has
Speaker 1: turned himself into this incredibly valuable commodity. Everybody's interested in him,
Speaker 1: and he's really good. But he's not the best in
Speaker 1: the league, not even close, right, He's just really good.
Speaker 1: You can add him to your mix like the Rams
Speaker 1: did last year. He can play really well for you,
Speaker 1: great good for you. I think he would help the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: But what do you upset the chemistry that they have
Speaker 1: going on right now? Because they do have something going
Speaker 1: on right now. Dak Prescott is playing better. I mean,
Speaker 1: you have a lot of assets there to work with,
Speaker 1: including Ceedee Lamb, who is dangerous but based on all
Speaker 1: the stuff you said just a few moments ago about
Speaker 1: how it's been so long since these guys have won, yeah,
Speaker 1: a super Bowl, and what we've seen over the last
Speaker 1: twenty five years playoff wise, Are you kind of like me?
Speaker 1: I don't believe in these guys. I think they're great.
Speaker 1: I think they'll get to the playoffs, but I think
Speaker 1: they'll figure out a way to screw things up once
Speaker 1: they get there. Yeah, I mean that's what I'm hoping.
Speaker 1: That's my assumption, Drew, because I'm not a cowboy fan.
Speaker 1: I'm quite the opposite here, so I want to see
Speaker 1: them screw it up. If I were a fan of theirs,
Speaker 1: i'd say, hey, you know, give it a shot. You're
Speaker 1: gonna be playing at home, and you take it from there. Now,
Speaker 1: how are things going on the NFC here? Because they
Speaker 1: are in a race. Sure, look there's a number one seed.
Speaker 1: I know Philly's up there right now. But they play
Speaker 1: them once more. They can hope that Philly loses and
Speaker 1: they maybe win out other you know, not other than
Speaker 1: they just went out and Philadelphia loses to Dallas and
Speaker 1: one more and then they've got it. Then they've got
Speaker 1: the number one seed. All right, I have a question
Speaker 1: for you guys, I asked. I asked my guy David
Speaker 1: this as well. If I told you that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: would be nine and three and Dak Prescott would have
Speaker 1: to miss some games, what would be more surprising that?
Speaker 1: Or the fact that everybody in the NFC East is
Speaker 1: over five hundred right now? The NFC East thing. Who
Speaker 1: would have seen either of those? But yes, the Giants
Speaker 1: in Washington being over five hundred. If you told me
Speaker 1: that prior to the season, that a in December, they're
Speaker 1: both over five hundred? What? And then you look at
Speaker 1: the AFC South and that is a big reason because
Speaker 1: the AFC South cannot beat the NFC East yet. And
Speaker 1: that's a huge reason why the NFC East is doing well.
Speaker 1: We thought, well, you're playing a division that's kind of soft, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, they get the Giants and you know, Philly's good,
Speaker 1: they made the playoffs last year. How good are they
Speaker 1: going to be? Well, look at them, best record in
Speaker 1: the league, undefeated, coming in here on November third. We
Speaker 1: know the story Washington. Look at what they've done. The
Speaker 1: Giants are way better than anybody thought. So good for them.
Speaker 1: It's too bad, so sad, too bad, so sad for
Speaker 1: really everybody us and actually even if you're in contention
Speaker 1: the NFC East, because I don't we've ever seen all
Speaker 1: four of those teams being strong at the same time,
Speaker 1: usually like one right, or the Joyants are good, We're
Speaker 1: good for a long time. Then the Eagles were good.
Speaker 1: Washington's always sort of struggled, and the Cowboys the same.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys have like up and down years. But back
Speaker 1: to the what you guys were talking earlier, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think this is a really talented Cowboys team, at
Speaker 1: least on Pio No. I mean, I think they could
Speaker 1: make a run on the playoffs just because they're so balanced.
Speaker 1: They should they should, they should stellar running backs, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have two stellar running backs. They have a good
Speaker 1: enough receiving crew, They've got the tight end. They've got
Speaker 1: a lot going for them, their defense, their defenses and
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons. Aside from him, they've got other playmakers and
Speaker 1: they've got forty eight sacks right now, which leads the NFL.
Speaker 1: They get some pressure on opposing quarterbacks. They've got to
Speaker 1: go out win that division. You if you're the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: you cannot play on the road. Opening weekend, and I
Speaker 1: think they know it. So they still have a chance
Speaker 1: to win the division. We'll see. I know that it sounds.
Speaker 1: Look every week we say it, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: football left. Five games is not a ton, but it's significant.
Speaker 1: A lot of different things can happen. It can be seismic,
Speaker 1: especially in the NFC. We'll see how it goes. Hell,
Speaker 1: five games? Think about it. What do the Texans do
Speaker 1: five games in? There were one, three and one. They
Speaker 1: went to their buy and you're feeling good after a win? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Well how about this what they do in their final
Speaker 1: five games last year? The Texans in the final five
Speaker 1: games last year, Mills played well enough and you thought, okay,
Speaker 1: the arrow is pointing up. We're going in the right
Speaker 1: direction here. You want a couple of games out of
Speaker 1: those five. Let's see what happens. Good, good, good, and
Speaker 1: then wham, twenty twenty two arrives and speaking of division,
Speaker 1: speaking of final five games and Davis Mills, Oh well,
Speaker 1: we don't know yet. We don't know anything, but let's
Speaker 1: any speculation. You guys want to throw any speculation out there,
Speaker 1: all right? So the Lovey Translator was out yesterday DP
Speaker 1: okay based on what love he said, and I don't
Speaker 1: I'm not sharing anything. I don't know anything off the
Speaker 1: rate for the record, we know nothing and have a
Speaker 1: nice day everybody. But the fact that love he said,
Speaker 1: you know, we do things. We don't announce things earlier
Speaker 1: in the week or whatever he said yesterday. I'm paraphrasing,
Speaker 1: but it was something like that that made it sound like, Okay,
Speaker 1: they might go back to Davis Mills now because Kyle
Speaker 1: Allen has had a rough go of it the last
Speaker 1: two games, or Love he's just playing possum here and
Speaker 1: just saying Okay, I'm not going to reveal anything and
Speaker 1: we'll go back to all or we'll stick with Alan
Speaker 1: I don't know how he's gonna do it, or the
Speaker 1: dristcll cat when we comes into the flow for this,
Speaker 1: like Mark Vanimer has. But Yeah, to kind of add
Speaker 1: on to what Mark was saying. Normally love he's very declarative,
Speaker 1: very definitive. When asked about are you gonna make a
Speaker 1: change at this or with this or with that, well
Speaker 1: yesterday the answer was guys, you kind quote guys, you
Speaker 1: kind of know how we do it right now on
Speaker 1: a Monday afterwards, we can talk about that play right there.
Speaker 1: Things get out a little bit quicker around here, so
Speaker 1: if there's a so he just kept on going and
Speaker 1: going and going, and normally he's quick and declared. That
Speaker 1: seemed to be if there's any tell or any tip
Speaker 1: of the hand, Yeah, that looked like it to me.
Speaker 1: So And I don't know what it's going to mean
Speaker 1: for this team, honestly, but it feels like why not
Speaker 1: at this point, you know, try something else or try
Speaker 1: that again, because last year when Mills sat came back
Speaker 1: a lot better. I know, it's only been two games.
Speaker 1: Who knows, maybe something changed. We'll see how they handle it.
Speaker 1: I mean, the reason why you benched Davis Mills in
Speaker 1: the first place was because of the turnovers. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: and then you haven't really fixed that problem with Carl Allen.
Speaker 1: It's kind of gotten worse. Yeah, it's gotten worse in
Speaker 1: the sense that when you do have a turnover, it's
Speaker 1: so costly because it ends up being like a fumble
Speaker 1: six or a pick six. Yeah, and that hasn't changed.
Speaker 1: I mean, the issue obviously lies elsewhere. I've never heard
Speaker 1: it called a fumble six. That's me, that's yours. Now.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's bumble six. Yeah, sure, kick six fumble.
Speaker 1: I've heard kick six, kick six fumble six doesn't have
Speaker 1: that ring? Do it? Stop it? Of course it does.
Speaker 1: You're just saying that because you think because you think
Speaker 1: I made it up. That's why you don't ring to it.
Speaker 1: I don't think if somebody else came up with it,
Speaker 1: give you credit. He's like, it just doesn't sound as good.
Speaker 1: But the other one sounds six. I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well he had a couple of those, so why not
Speaker 1: why not go back to Davis Mills at this point
Speaker 1: a couple of T six is turnovers that lead to six.
Speaker 1: Director all alright, I like mine better. Okay, I just
Speaker 1: think it change is coming based off of what he
Speaker 1: said yesterday, the way the hesitation. Yeah, and we'll see. Look,
Speaker 1: you brought up divisions right, NFC East, AFC South. This
Speaker 1: division is flat out weird right now because John Robinson
Speaker 1: got fired today. Yeah. And you look at GM of
Speaker 1: the Titans, Okay, you look at what's happened this year,
Speaker 1: all right. You look at the Colts firing their coach.
Speaker 1: So these are two projected teams to go to the playoffs, right,
Speaker 1: to do very well. Some people have the Cults winning
Speaker 1: the division, and the Titans are leading the division, and
Speaker 1: they've made major moves, one firing a coach, one firing
Speaker 1: a GM, and the Jacksonville Jaguars are sitting there like, well,
Speaker 1: we have a coach, we have a GM. Texans are here,
Speaker 1: we have a coach, we have a GM. But the
Speaker 1: two teams on top, they're making those moves now, I say,
Speaker 1: on top. We'll see where they all end up. Maybe
Speaker 1: the Jags going a winning streak, maybe the Texans going
Speaker 1: a winning streak. But they are where they are right now.
Speaker 1: All right, Since you brought up the Titans, like, what
Speaker 1: can we make of the timing of this firing of
Speaker 1: John Robinson on a Tuesday heading in a week fourteen?
Speaker 1: Like you said, they're they're at the top of their division,
Speaker 1: they're in a playoff race to fire. Usually you don't
Speaker 1: see GM's fired until after the seasons. I think purely
Speaker 1: from a football standpoint, because I've also seen stuff about
Speaker 1: well this has this has nothing to do with football,
Speaker 1: it's it's behind the scenes, done it out. But if
Speaker 1: you just go from a football standpoint, yeah, maybe they've
Speaker 1: really just not liked his drafts last few years, and
Speaker 1: what he's done and they want to get ahead of it,
Speaker 1: and now's the time from now through you know, the
Speaker 1: end of the draft. You got to get that out
Speaker 1: of the way. So it's a good point. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: something a lot of haze, but yeah, I don't think
Speaker 1: during the draft last year when they make that trade
Speaker 1: for a trade him away, I don't think everyone was
Speaker 1: on board with that. It looked like from that organization standpoint.
Speaker 1: So union to combine that with the draft coming up
Speaker 1: in five six months and let's get it get ahead
Speaker 1: of it. You're a month away from the end of
Speaker 1: the season. So yeah, you get the gun jumped by
Speaker 1: a month here with the GM and are you gonna
Speaker 1: hire somebody or you're gonna know they got an interim.
Speaker 1: I don't know how they're gonna handle it. But Rabel
Speaker 1: has power. This is a power grab right here. So
Speaker 1: Mike Rabel has power. The owner ownership makes the move,
Speaker 1: but Rabel wanted this done. Rabel is an evaluator just
Speaker 1: like everybody else. And as the coaches win, they get
Speaker 1: more power. Now. To John Robinson's credit, he came in
Speaker 1: the team was three and thirteen, right, he didn't draft Mariota,
Speaker 1: all right, so he comes in and they have two
Speaker 1: winning seasons with Mike Mularkey. All right, they're able to
Speaker 1: do that. They win a playoff game with Mike Mularkey,
Speaker 1: and they fire Mike Malarkey. Robinson hired Vrabel. He brought
Speaker 1: Rabel through the door. But these things happen in the
Speaker 1: NFL because somebody grabs power, somebody's winning, somebody's got the
Speaker 1: juice with the ownership or whatever, and things change. And
Speaker 1: that's just life in the National Football League. It just happens.
Speaker 1: And you know, Mike Vrabel probably deserves to have a
Speaker 1: lot of say and Robinson, if you look at it,
Speaker 1: the bad moves, they look bad. He has brought in
Speaker 1: a lot of good players. He has, and I know
Speaker 1: sometimes it's a collective thing, but you got to give
Speaker 1: him credit at least some for bringing in Ryan Tannehill
Speaker 1: as a backup to Mariota. Then he ends up being
Speaker 1: a very capable starter for them. Here's the other thing
Speaker 1: about them, and I'll shut up after this. They haven't
Speaker 1: won a playoff game since the day before the Texans
Speaker 1: played their last playoff game. Think about that for a moment.
Speaker 1: It was twenty nineteen when they last won a playoff game.
Speaker 1: They've made the playoffs each of the last two years,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty and twenty twenty one, but they exit quickly,
Speaker 1: all right, and they exit at home both times. So
Speaker 1: in Vrabel's mind, an ownership's mind, they're thinking, are we
Speaker 1: getting better? Are we getting worse? Here? We're about to
Speaker 1: go into the postseason again. We should win this division,
Speaker 1: but are we equipped to deal with anybody? Philly just
Speaker 1: came in here and boat raced us with a player
Speaker 1: we traded to them, which might be another source of
Speaker 1: contention between Rabel and John Robinson. So there's a lot
Speaker 1: to consider here. Can you imagine I was gonna go
Speaker 1: I was gonna say a J. Brown? They just played him.
Speaker 1: He had like what one hundred two touchdowns a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know on the heels of that, Burks gets
Speaker 1: can cost. Unfortunately for him, he's been playing well for them.
Speaker 1: He has since he started. I mean, we heard a
Speaker 1: lot in the offseason of him not being in good
Speaker 1: conditioning and he's the rookies. He's coming around. But Isaiah Wilson,
Speaker 1: their first round draft picked two years ago that didn't
Speaker 1: work out. They've had a couple of first round picks
Speaker 1: that have been total bus and then the AJ Brown trade,
Speaker 1: which you know, like we heard all the reports that
Speaker 1: Mike Ribbell was not happy with that trade, and then
Speaker 1: you go to Philly, he beats you and I somebody
Speaker 1: tweeted or quote tweeted video of Philly fans in front
Speaker 1: of the owner's box turning around and like basically taunting
Speaker 1: the owner's box every time A J. Brown did something
Speaker 1: or made a big player or scored a touchdown. And
Speaker 1: then two days later you fire your GM. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I just feel like it was maybe coming,
Speaker 1: but that just sort of that just tipped things over
Speaker 1: because they were probably not pleased with how that trade.
Speaker 1: If Robinson's going to do that without vraybel being on board,
Speaker 1: then that's to Robinson's fate, right, that is signing with
Speaker 1: the organization. Because I understand not wanting to pay a
Speaker 1: receiver gargantuan money. I get that because they're paying Tanna Hill,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, they're paying Tana Hill, Henry, They're
Speaker 1: paying Henry, they're paying Jeffrey Simmons. You know, they've got
Speaker 1: bills do it's hard to pay everybody. We all know
Speaker 1: that here. But A J. Brown was he worth it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: probably easy for me to say. If Rabel didn't want
Speaker 1: it and it got done, that's terrible. Those moves should
Speaker 1: not be made without Vrabels signing off. Draft choices should
Speaker 1: not be made without Rabels saying, yeah, I'm on board
Speaker 1: with this, let's go. If there's a tremendous disagreement, then
Speaker 1: you need ownership to break the tie, or ownership has
Speaker 1: to designate one of those guys to have finals say
Speaker 1: we'll think about it on draft night when it's the
Speaker 1: first round. When they peek into the war room, almost
Speaker 1: would you say eighty five ninety percent of the time,
Speaker 1: the war room is very happy. There's lots of guys
Speaker 1: shaking hands and pumping fists and we got our guy,
Speaker 1: any type of sentiments the war room last year is
Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel walking up, turning his back on the camera,
Speaker 1: walking away, and then turning around with a frown on
Speaker 1: his face and sitting back down. That's normally not the
Speaker 1: move you make and the body language you make when
Speaker 1: you're excited about what's going on, when you're pumped about
Speaker 1: what you've just done. And that's what happened. That's what
Speaker 1: they showed last year. Right off the trade. They got
Speaker 1: a lot for him, but maybe he wasn't happy about
Speaker 1: losing a great player, because what do coaches want great players? Right?
Speaker 1: I don't care what it costs. We want the great player.
Speaker 1: Although that doesn't always happen, because it didn't happen here
Speaker 1: in a certain instance when a great player was too soon,
Speaker 1: dismissed too soon? Sorry, Okay, go on. He should be
Speaker 1: a free agent next year, so it will always be
Speaker 1: too soon soon. Yes, and another wide receiver trade away,
Speaker 1: but anyway, one of the other hot reads that we
Speaker 1: wanted to get to a big one, Christian Kirksey, Texans
Speaker 1: Walter Peyton Man of the Year nominee. He spoke to
Speaker 1: the media today and did you guys get to know you?
Speaker 1: Guys talked to We talked about Lee Collins. We didn't
Speaker 1: talk to Christian one on one, but we have a
Speaker 1: video out Houston, Texans dot Com, Texans social media platforms.
Speaker 1: Very good vid on Christian Kirksey and Nikas Sarrio. He'll
Speaker 1: be on tomorrow to talk about this. I played a
Speaker 1: cut on Texans today on the Odyssee stations today. Very
Speaker 1: cool that he gets this honor. It's for the team now.
Speaker 1: You're up for the entire league and we'll see how
Speaker 1: that goes. Obviously, the Texans have had a winner in
Speaker 1: the past, and JJ Watton I feel like it that's
Speaker 1: always such a tough competition because oh yeah, you see
Speaker 1: what players are doing across the league. And then Christian
Speaker 1: Kirksey mostly I think everything he's done in the community,
Speaker 1: but Valdi helping to raise money. The players donated two
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars of their own money after the shooting
Speaker 1: at rob Elementary, and then ownership put in another two
Speaker 1: hundred thousand, so they donated four hundred thousand. And then
Speaker 1: when to Valdi met with the high school football team,
Speaker 1: donated uniforms, met with the players and so it was
Speaker 1: really cool today. Actually, the Uvaldi High school football coach
Speaker 1: and their team captain gave Christian Kirksey one of their
Speaker 1: jerseys in a frame that's at fifty eight and it
Speaker 1: was at Walter Peyton Man of the Year. So yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a guy that walks the walk. And it was
Speaker 1: cool hearing from Desmond King this afternoon. Desmond was a freshman,
Speaker 1: he said, when Kirksey was a senior at Iowa, and
Speaker 1: he said even back then he was always community minded
Speaker 1: and he's the epitome of a community leader. So that
Speaker 1: was really cool to see. And it's a guy who
Speaker 1: really walks the walk when it comes to all that stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely love seeing that and I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: more of it when we get to the NFL Honors
Speaker 1: to night before the Super Bowl. See if you want it.
Speaker 1: But look whoever wins it, it's great. It's great to
Speaker 1: see all these guys doing wonderful stuff in the community.
Speaker 1: I know, I mean, Offensive Rookie of the Year. Isn't
Speaker 1: that one of the awards that they give out that
Speaker 1: night or do they give that out? Good? I think
Speaker 1: it does come out that. I feel like finished though
Speaker 1: he needs a strong finished. I hate to wish injury
Speaker 1: on anybody, but Kenneth Walker Junior did get hurt or
Speaker 1: the third got hurt. Yeah, he did, stop it. I
Speaker 1: didn't wish it on him. That's what I'm just prefacing
Speaker 1: that I did not wish it talking about. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: talking about Damian, but that's the race right right, right
Speaker 1: right right, Damian Pierce and the other offensive rookie running
Speaker 1: Berkes with a big finish could get it too. You know,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of players. Watson is lighting it
Speaker 1: up deep. I thought I thought Breece Hall was on
Speaker 1: track until he got I mean, yeah, you're right, there's
Speaker 1: plenty of other players. But you know, our guys, the
Speaker 1: first you had to reach a thousand scrimmage yards among
Speaker 1: all these rookies. That is nice. You had the head
Speaker 1: coach on Monday saying our offense is based on Damian Pierce,
Speaker 1: so he just anointed him that. We all knew that already,
Speaker 1: but to hear a head coach say that about a rookie,
Speaker 1: it's cool stuff for Damian and I hear the guys
Speaker 1: debated on six ten all the time about don't wear
Speaker 1: him out to bring his carries down because we don't
Speaker 1: want to out. We don't want to overdo it this year.
Speaker 1: And I'm all about that too, because I want him
Speaker 1: to last the rest of the way and I want
Speaker 1: him to be healthy going into the offseason so he
Speaker 1: can have a nice, RESTful and productive ramp up to
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. But at the same time, yeah, look,
Speaker 1: I know how people feel draft pick and all that
Speaker 1: you can still win a couple of games and still
Speaker 1: get the number one overall pick, So let's win let's
Speaker 1: see them beat the Cowboys on Sunday. Let's run the
Speaker 1: rock with Damian Pierce, play keep away, get turnovers. Whin.
Speaker 1: I'm getting fired up. Hey. Speaking of Pierce, one of
Speaker 1: my boys at home asked me the other day, Hey,
Speaker 1: is he gonna be a team count? And initially I
Speaker 1: was like, no way, he's a running back and he's
Speaker 1: a second year player. But then I thought, oh wait,
Speaker 1: he's probably your best player. Yeah. He also is continuously
Speaker 1: called out by the head coach as a leader. Hey,
Speaker 1: this guy, uh plays the way and finishes the way
Speaker 1: we want to all finish. He's beloved by everybody in
Speaker 1: the locker room. They all they all gig. I mean,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter who you're talking to, whether it's defensive guy,
Speaker 1: special teamer, offensive guy, they all love this guy. And
Speaker 1: I was like, he could that's the possibility he could
Speaker 1: be a captain. I suppose absolutely, Why why not? Why not? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I can't name the starting quarterback for twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: right now, and if you can, that's tremendous. You know,
Speaker 1: I give you a multiple choice, but we're not going
Speaker 1: to do that game right now. But Damian Pierce is
Speaker 1: definitely going to start opening Day twenty twenty three with health,
Speaker 1: and I think you're right, Drew. He's a team guy.
Speaker 1: He always credits the office no matter what matter. He's
Speaker 1: even if they didn't really play all that great, he
Speaker 1: still is saying they did. I mean it opened it
Speaker 1: up for it like it's really he makes all the
Speaker 1: right moves, says all the right things, all the right
Speaker 1: steps in that regard. So it's been impressive. I absolutely.
Speaker 1: I actually asked him about reaching a thousand yards from
Speaker 1: scrimmage and being the first Workie to do so, and
Speaker 1: he said, well, there's no reason for me to not
Speaker 1: do it every single year because now that I know
Speaker 1: I can do it, that expectation is there that I
Speaker 1: need to reach that mark every single year. And I
Speaker 1: really like that because you know, some guys are like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's all about the team, and you know it's we
Speaker 1: didn't get the win, which is fair, and you know,
Speaker 1: I think he had said all those things too, but
Speaker 1: the fact that he put the onus on himself that
Speaker 1: he should always reach that milestone. I really like that.
Speaker 1: But speaking of team captains, I want to see my
Speaker 1: guy Laramie get team captain to get next year. I
Speaker 1: had a one on one with him, and people think
Speaker 1: that things things like that don't matter to players, and
Speaker 1: a guy like Laramie, who's seven years into the league,
Speaker 1: he really I could feel how important that was to
Speaker 1: him to wear the sea on his He said that
Speaker 1: really meant a lot to him. I'm glad you pointed
Speaker 1: out that interview, and I really think we should run
Speaker 1: that again on these shows and people can check it
Speaker 1: out again on Houston Texas Let's later tonight. Why not?
Speaker 1: I mean we could let uh no, but it was
Speaker 1: so good, deep and people need to hear that. They
Speaker 1: need to hear Laramie like that because you never get
Speaker 1: to here Laramie, right, You really don't get to hear
Speaker 1: him much at all. And you got a lot out
Speaker 1: of that. And I felt it that night against the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles here just walking watching him walk out to
Speaker 1: midfield for the coin toss. There was just something about it.
Speaker 1: There was a spring in his step. You could tell
Speaker 1: he was juiced up about having that sea on his chest.
Speaker 1: And I think you'll see it again next year. Why not? Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: I'm announcing the captain's right now for twenty two. Al
Speaker 1: Laramie Damien. That's all we need right now. You need
Speaker 1: two offensive, two defensive, and one special team. So that's
Speaker 1: usually how we're doing. Right. I'll go Petree, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: her still here? Way? Who do Oh? Jerry Hughes. I
Speaker 1: want Jerry. He's back. I want Jerry Hughes back. I'll
Speaker 1: take Jerry Hughes until he can't play anymore than I
Speaker 1: want him as a as a Texans legend, or as
Speaker 1: a coach or an advisor or whatever somehow. I want
Speaker 1: him in this organization forever. Yes, stake stay close to home.
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes, Yes, Jerry Hughes. Petrie and then John Weeks
Speaker 1: of course, of course John Weeks, but two weeks for
Speaker 1: president and tasted the Texans last night, which is an
Speaker 1: annual event with the best restaurants in Houston that you
Speaker 1: need to check out every year here with the Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: But anyway, tasted the Texans last night. I'm introducing a
Speaker 1: group of players. Not everybody was there, a bunch of
Speaker 1: but a bunch of guys. And last on our list
Speaker 1: was John Weeks. Oh maybe they did it alphabetically. I
Speaker 1: thought they did it. They gave it to me that way,
Speaker 1: and I thought, maybe he's the Most Important Player Ardi
Speaker 1: or whatever. But I I just wound up for that
Speaker 1: announcement and no ve you know, I just really let
Speaker 1: it rip for John Weeks because he needs the love.
Speaker 1: I mean, he doesn't need the love. He deserves the love.
Speaker 1: I should say. I feel like that when Nick Cassario
Speaker 1: first got here and one of the first moves he
Speaker 1: made didn't he didn't. We we released John Weeks in
Speaker 1: the offseason, but then we brought him back. So it
Speaker 1: was like a period of maybe like a week or two.
Speaker 1: People were in like an uproar about John Weeks not
Speaker 1: being here, and I was like, that's really cool to
Speaker 1: see because he's just always been here. But to know
Speaker 1: that once he was gonna even we felt it too, like, wait,
Speaker 1: so John Weeks is not the long stamper anymore. You
Speaker 1: know that day's gonna come, but it's it's like, weird
Speaker 1: not going to be prepared for the John Weeks tell
Speaker 1: all book. You won't really be prepared for it and
Speaker 1: won't really believe it until week one of whatever year
Speaker 1: that is, or whatever week it happens, and you see
Speaker 1: somebody else out there snapping the ball. Yeah, like it's
Speaker 1: not weaksy anymore because it was was the last guy
Speaker 1: that did it? That'll be weird. Who Wittsman? When it Witzman?
Speaker 1: Now it was geez, that's a good question. Remember in
Speaker 1: the day. Yeah, that's wait, did it go from Pittman
Speaker 1: to Weeks? Directly? It had been the guy and then
Speaker 1: they screwed around and had treeson and James case he
Speaker 1: doing it. No, then let's bring back. I could understand
Speaker 1: that team's always trying to find Hey, maybe we can
Speaker 1: get this guy to do it. They don't have to
Speaker 1: use the roster spot on the long snapper, but j
Speaker 1: Watt was once the third string long snapper when he
Speaker 1: was here. You know he'd love to do that. He
Speaker 1: wants to do anything that he possibly can, like block
Speaker 1: punts and commit fifteen yard penalties like Dan got him
Speaker 1: in Cleveland. Though. No, honestly, I don't know why you
Speaker 1: wouldn't put Clowney and Watt and all those guys on
Speaker 1: for very important ones. But then it's like, move over,
Speaker 1: we got a big one here, buddy. I know you've
Speaker 1: been serving the time on special teams, but now it's
Speaker 1: my turn. So I guess there's some of that. Another
Speaker 1: guy that did multiple things justin Reid kicking. He's getting
Speaker 1: himself in a little bit of hot water with the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. We'll get into that and some more
Speaker 1: on Texans All Access don't go anywhere. Welcome back Texans
Speaker 1: All Access. Justin Reid you may have heard of him.
Speaker 1: He was, yes, one of our favorites here in the
Speaker 1: locker room. Talked every single week. Was great with the media.
Speaker 1: You know, was also was he not also Walt bat
Speaker 1: Main of the Year nominee one year? I mean it
Speaker 1: was was that the COVID season might have been the
Speaker 1: COVID season that last year. It was last year, ok,
Speaker 1: just last year. Last year was like COVID Part two,
Speaker 1: the sequel, and it wasn't as good. It wasn't as
Speaker 1: powerful as the COVID. It was COVID light. It was
Speaker 1: the season started off normally. I still see pushing on
Speaker 1: afication headlines on my phone like COVID flare up and
Speaker 1: stop it. So the Chiefs faced the Bengals on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and oh, Justin Reid is is not done tweeting today.
Speaker 1: Earlier today he tweeted unpopular opinion. We lost, but I
Speaker 1: was still right, um zipper emoji face cry about it.
Speaker 1: What was he right about. I guess Tyler Higbee he
Speaker 1: shut him down. But but he's not that good. Well,
Speaker 1: we're posting videos of all of the plays that he missed,
Speaker 1: one of them being stiff armed by samaj p Ryan
Speaker 1: and it's a it's not a good look, and so
Speaker 1: people are really after justin read on Twitter. When I
Speaker 1: saw him trending this morning, I thought, here it is.
Speaker 1: Reid had predicted this is Bengals wire that he'd locked
Speaker 1: down Hurst and others, but Hurst left early with an injury. Yeah,
Speaker 1: te Higgins scored a touchdown, Jamaar Chase had ninety seven
Speaker 1: yards and a pair of critical plays in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd would have scored two if it didn't drop
Speaker 1: a wide open touchdown. So there it is. And I
Speaker 1: think te Higgins had that dart from borrow reception that
Speaker 1: killed the clock. It was third and whatever, and he
Speaker 1: threw him a laser made the catch, and that enabled
Speaker 1: the Bengals to take a knee. So you didn't have
Speaker 1: to give it back to Mahomes up three because you
Speaker 1: know what's going to happen there. He's at least going
Speaker 1: to drive for a game tying field goal. So look,
Speaker 1: we love Justin Reid former Texan Stop just stop, you
Speaker 1: put the phone down. Rising he was surprising, you know,
Speaker 1: because that he's doing this. Yeah, yeah, I mean he's
Speaker 1: just a based on knowing him and being around him
Speaker 1: all those years, but he was not like that when
Speaker 1: he was here. And also he has a brother who
Speaker 1: preceded him in the NFL and kind of it's like,
Speaker 1: you don't do that type of thing getting up to
Speaker 1: a game, you know. And I think he's surprised. I
Speaker 1: think he's doubling down on his beds, like he said,
Speaker 1: all that stuff, and now he's going to get back
Speaker 1: on there because people are crucifying get ready if they
Speaker 1: meet in the postseason, which is entirely possible with these
Speaker 1: two squads. A Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow shrugged off Justin
Speaker 1: Reid's midweek comments. I would have cared a lot more
Speaker 1: if he knew what he was talking about, Like, louch,
Speaker 1: this is great for the league. Actually it is. I mean,
Speaker 1: Justin shouldn't be doing it, but the fact that people
Speaker 1: talk about it and get all bent out of shape,
Speaker 1: I know, I'm surprised. When are you gonna do Monday
Speaker 1: night football? Deep? When Are you gonna do that? Come out?
Speaker 1: Am I going to do? What? The Monday night football
Speaker 1: game from last night? Oh, let's do it? Were you
Speaker 1: watching it till the very end? No? You know what
Speaker 1: I was doing. I was at Taste of the Texans.
Speaker 1: But you know what I did. I watched the twelve
Speaker 1: minute replay on YouTube. Oh wow, which is awesome because
Speaker 1: you get every crucial play and in twelve minutes breezed
Speaker 1: through an NFL game. You don't look, I don't need
Speaker 1: to hang on every word of Monday. I have football, necessarily,
Speaker 1: I would have if I were home, but I wasn't.
Speaker 1: I was at Taste of So I came back. I
Speaker 1: saw that Brady led them to victory when they were
Speaker 1: down sixteen to three, so I wanted to see exactly
Speaker 1: how it happened. And mark Ingram running out of bounds
Speaker 1: before he gets the first down and that means, oh,
Speaker 1: it's third and one. They don't get it, and guess
Speaker 1: who gets the ball back? But with barely a prayer
Speaker 1: yet it's Tom Brady. It's kind of like the just
Speaker 1: the Patrick Mahomes saying, don't allow Brady a crack in
Speaker 1: the door, a crack of daylight. But with the way
Speaker 1: that the Bucks have been playing this year and Brady, like,
Speaker 1: I didn't watch the game at all until maybe the
Speaker 1: last like the second half of the fourth quarter Miley,
Speaker 1: and then that last drive, I was like locked in.
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, I'll leave when there's a commercial break.
Speaker 1: They just that drive just would not end. It, just
Speaker 1: him driving down the field. I thought, well, this could
Speaker 1: be fifty fifty because like, is Tom Brady washed up?
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe? I mean really won like six games, well
Speaker 1: five heading into last night's game, and yet that was
Speaker 1: they said the biggest comeback he'd ever had in a
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, which I found surprising. They kept referencing the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl against Atlanta. That's the only other time in
Speaker 1: his career he's come back. He's never had to come
Speaker 1: from behind, from from double down. It's always like they're
Speaker 1: down score, they're or they're down to score and he
Speaker 1: rallies them to victory or something. And it was the
Speaker 1: latest because I think that when the touchdown was actually scored,
Speaker 1: there were three seconds left on the clock, So it
Speaker 1: was the latest comeback that he'd ever launched where he scored.
Speaker 1: So I thought that was very fascinating. And then of
Speaker 1: course he's so fired up afterwards, like you kind of
Speaker 1: he's like the underdog. Now do you don't feel like
Speaker 1: he's the underdog? He's never He's never not thought he's young.
Speaker 1: He's always thought he's I now look at him, like, oh,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, this might be it for him. He got divorced.
Speaker 1: He's so sad. He will always be a sixth round
Speaker 1: pick in his mind. He will always be replaced by
Speaker 1: Drew Henson in his mind. And nothing that he's accomplished
Speaker 1: will ever ever forget that. And now he's thinking, Oh,
Speaker 1: they're trying to push me out the door. Everybody is,
Speaker 1: they're they're done with me. He's still here. It's twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, it's over twenty years later. He's still here
Speaker 1: making plays. And I watched that drive and I thought,
Speaker 1: why does it look so easy for him? It's a
Speaker 1: funny thing with the great ones in any sport, they
Speaker 1: make it look easy. I Tiger ones, Oh just make
Speaker 1: the putt. Just just hit a great drive, a great
Speaker 1: approach within four feet, Just do it. Michael Jordan, just
Speaker 1: hit that bucket, Lebron James whatever, Brady, just bang bam
Speaker 1: bam right down the field. Ball is accurate. Guys are
Speaker 1: not that open, but open enough, and he puts the
Speaker 1: ball exactly where it needs to be. Give me just
Speaker 1: enough time, but you know what, I don't need that
Speaker 1: much time. Just give me enough, barely enough, give me
Speaker 1: two seconds, and I'll get the ball out accurately. Okay,
Speaker 1: But in your twelve minute recap, did you see what
Speaker 1: happened before? Because I feel like you're missing so much
Speaker 1: context here, because that's not the view that Yeah said
Speaker 1: and so good. First of all, this is how Mark
Speaker 1: watches Game of Thrones. He fast forwards the whole things.
Speaker 1: We cannot be bothered to watch the intro. No, you
Speaker 1: don't need to watch I just fast forward the fighting. Well, Mark,
Speaker 1: it's all fighting. What did you watch it? I fast
Speaker 1: forward Game of Thrones and shows like that. Oh we're
Speaker 1: walking through the woods now, I'll just zip along, all right.
Speaker 1: And if something like happens, like some evil thing just
Speaker 1: flashes out of the dirt, okay, then I'll rewind, like
Speaker 1: what happened here? Who flashed out of the dirt? Like
Speaker 1: what what apparition came up at it? I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's how I do it, so I don't have to
Speaker 1: wait through all that same so much context, Dazed and Confused,
Speaker 1: one of the all time great movies. You love classic rock. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I told you to watch it because you would love
Speaker 1: the music. Mark watched it on an itty bitty TV
Speaker 1: screen on the plane. Yeah, and then fast forwarded all
Speaker 1: the songs. Can't do that, can't do that? No, you
Speaker 1: would love that. You would love that movie. Plus the
Speaker 1: sort of spiritual sequel to it. Everybody wants some the
Speaker 1: baseball I actually watch too. You'd like that? Is that? Oh,
Speaker 1: spiritual sequel? So not in fact the sequel? Correct? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: but Link later himself has said, you know what I've
Speaker 1: been into lately, though, the rewatchables on the Ringer, like
Speaker 1: Bill Simmons and those guys, they watched movies and talk
Speaker 1: about them. They fast forward through them. Uh no, they
Speaker 1: actually they watched them borous lee laboriously. Anyway, I had
Speaker 1: a point to all this. Oh yes, your okay. So
Speaker 1: the Brady thing before he threw the touchdown, he threw
Speaker 1: another touchdown pass which got called back because of offensive holding.
Speaker 1: I did see that, so I was I did he
Speaker 1: was gonna. I was like, oh no, back up? He
Speaker 1: backed up, like I didn't think it was that coming
Speaker 1: that easy to him on that final drive. Remember in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl where Montana had that final drive against
Speaker 1: the Bengals and hit John Taylor. They had a holding
Speaker 1: penalty on Randy Cross right or was it a false start?
Speaker 1: It was some kind of penalty that had them go backwards.
Speaker 1: But no problem, it's Joe Cool getting the job done. Well.
Speaker 1: Brady got the job done last night, as he's done
Speaker 1: so many times. And look with the Patriots, I hate
Speaker 1: him like poison with the Bucks. They're in the NFC.
Speaker 1: He's the old guy. I'm kind of pulling for the
Speaker 1: old guys sometimes, especially against the Saints. I don't care
Speaker 1: about them. Sorry. I do like these Saints for preseason
Speaker 1: practice purposes, and you're kind of a sister team of
Speaker 1: the Texans, but right now, forget it. Yeah, it's they've
Speaker 1: got some former Texans on that Saints team. I like that.
Speaker 1: After the game, they asked Brady about his comeback and
Speaker 1: he said it was his daughter's birthday and she said, oh, no,
Speaker 1: it's the Saints. You never play well against the Saints.
Speaker 1: He's so quaint, he like wins all these games and
Speaker 1: his daughter's swaying him. But you always he don't. He's
Speaker 1: so folksy, like, even when you know he used to
Speaker 1: we used to play him against the Patriots. I was
Speaker 1: always so taken aback by when him when he would
Speaker 1: talk to the media, he was so folksy in his
Speaker 1: little stories. The Brady back to New England story that
Speaker 1: came out last week, there were rumors or whatever that
Speaker 1: Tom Brady could could go back to New England for
Speaker 1: a reunion with Bill Belichick. No, I doubt it. But
Speaker 1: the funny thing is, doesn't this have to end at
Speaker 1: some point? Why are we talking about this like, well,
Speaker 1: Brady gonna be next year, because obviously he's still gonna
Speaker 1: be able to play great? Are you serious? And they
Speaker 1: were talking about San Francisco again, And I'm thinking that
Speaker 1: is incredible, the fact that you even discuss this for
Speaker 1: a forty five year old guy. Ten years ago, when
Speaker 1: the thought was, well, Brady wants to play till he's
Speaker 1: forty five, we were thinking, ha, that's ridiculous, and look
Speaker 1: at him now. But I think that's the reason why
Speaker 1: it is because for so many years we've speculated on
Speaker 1: his retirement and now we know it's never gonna happen.
Speaker 1: So when he does retire. We're gonna be shocked. We're
Speaker 1: gonna be so shocked when he retires. No, I think
Speaker 1: it could happen. Well, never mind, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I think that Why would he want to end on
Speaker 1: a losing note, especially if you know he thinks they
Speaker 1: wouldn't count them out. They get healthy postseason. They two
Speaker 1: years ago, they went on the road everywhere. They could
Speaker 1: do it again, you know, And you don't have to
Speaker 1: play everybody, You just have to play who's right in
Speaker 1: front of you. It's like the NCAA tournament. You don't
Speaker 1: have to play sixty five teams. You just have to
Speaker 1: play who's ever in front of you. There are sneeze
Speaker 1: away from the Super Bowl last year. I mean, think
Speaker 1: about that. I should have been the Rams. Yeah, Stafford
Speaker 1: made some plays and that was it. And now look
Speaker 1: at the Rams. How are those picks? Now? I have
Speaker 1: won the person agree with you are we've already I
Speaker 1: feel like this whole show has been around the NFL.
Speaker 1: So one final segment, I'm gonna give you some little
Speaker 1: tidbits from my Laramie Tunsil interview that we're not aired
Speaker 1: in the interview. About that, Oh, I like that? Why
Speaker 1: don't we do that. We'll do a little bit of
Speaker 1: revealing here, nothing nothing major or earth shattering, but just
Speaker 1: some insight. And so the major, oh, it's major breaking news.
Speaker 1: It's all coming up on Texans All Access. Don't Go Anywhere,
Speaker 1: final segment of Texans All Access. We usually go around
Speaker 1: the NFL, but I thought we've we've kind of already
Speaker 1: done that. And we mentioned the Laramie Tunsil one on
Speaker 1: one that I was able to do with him last week,
Speaker 1: and I thought, it's a twelve and a half minute interviewer.
Speaker 1: So the podcast is up on Houston Texans dot com,
Speaker 1: as is the video. But there were some notable things
Speaker 1: that I learned about Laramie both during the interview and
Speaker 1: after the interview, which I thought I would share. Okay,
Speaker 1: first of all, it was a big week for Laramie
Speaker 1: because he was going to be facing Myles Garrett, and
Speaker 1: we also what happened when he faced Myles Garrett last year.
Speaker 1: He basically shut down Miles Garrett. Yes, and Miles Garrett
Speaker 1: sort of cried about it afterwards and said that the
Speaker 1: Texans had chipped him a bunch and they need a
Speaker 1: lot of help. But Brian Baldinger had a great breakdown
Speaker 1: of it where he just showed Laramie one on one,
Speaker 1: just beating Miles Garrett over and over and over again.
Speaker 1: So this year, after the game, I was talking, I
Speaker 1: was in the locker room. We're talking to Cody Stuts
Speaker 1: and were talking about Laramie and how he did. And
Speaker 1: Cody said, you know, I don't think there was much
Speaker 1: of Laramie and Miles. I feel like they didn't have
Speaker 1: Miles on him. So I chatted with Laramie afterwards after
Speaker 1: the media had left, and I said, what did you see? Well,
Speaker 1: I asked him during the interview, what did you see?
Speaker 1: He said, he saw him a lot of Jadevian Clowney
Speaker 1: during the game. So he had told me that the
Speaker 1: Brown's defensive the d line coach actually recruited him at
Speaker 1: ole Miss and so they did a little switcheroo and
Speaker 1: they put they put a Clowney on him, and Clowney
Speaker 1: didn't have much in the statuet. By way of that
Speaker 1: happened in twenty eighteen when Tunsil was a Dolphin, Clowney
Speaker 1: was still here. Clowney didn't do too much in that game,
Speaker 1: and that's something that I remember John Harris always pointed
Speaker 1: to early on, right after the Texans had traded for
Speaker 1: Tunsel back in twenty nine, You're not going to get
Speaker 1: much on Laramie if you're a pass rusher, no matter
Speaker 1: who you are. Now, as we say all this, there's
Speaker 1: no parade being thrown because of what happened with the
Speaker 1: offense and the turnovers. And that's how we began the
Speaker 1: show right talking about fumble sixes and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So that was a rough day for the offense, but
Speaker 1: great for Laramie because he's one of the very best
Speaker 1: around well. And I feel like in a season like this,
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of the I mean, aside from the losing.
Speaker 1: The other unfortunate thing is that if a player is
Speaker 1: having a great season like Laramie Tunsel or Jerry Hughes,
Speaker 1: it doesn't get as much recognition because you know, around
Speaker 1: the league, nobody wants to talk about the teams at
Speaker 1: lost and I you know, I was talking to Laramie.
Speaker 1: He really feels like this is probably one of the
Speaker 1: best seasons he's having, Like he's really locked in, as
Speaker 1: is Jerry Hughes. Jerry Hughes is off to a tremendous star,
Speaker 1: you know, and you know, it seems almost like a
Speaker 1: waste that's such a good campaign goes unnoticed. But I
Speaker 1: just feel like we highlight so many other things. You know.
Speaker 1: It's I like to highlight stuff like that because I
Speaker 1: don't think enough people are tomb at Laramie Tunsel and
Speaker 1: what he's been able to do this year and the
Speaker 1: fact that, you know, he has never been All Pro
Speaker 1: and this could be an All Pro season for him.
Speaker 1: He's a two time Pro Bowler, and you know, he
Speaker 1: all of these accolades like he really cherishes every single
Speaker 1: one of them, even going to the Pro Bowl. The
Speaker 1: first year he went to the Pro Bowl. I remember
Speaker 1: him saying, I have on a piece of paper when
Speaker 1: I was a kid a list of my life goals
Speaker 1: and going to the Pro Bowl was one of them.
Speaker 1: Oh that's great, you know, and you here we are.
Speaker 1: You know, it's the Pro Bowl. What differences to make,
Speaker 1: But it means a lot to these guys, as does
Speaker 1: being team captain. And I think All Pro is really
Speaker 1: the next level for Laramie Tunsel, and this year it's
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl games. So how is he at hula
Speaker 1: hoop or whatever that wouldn't it be fantastic to see
Speaker 1: being bags that hot dog eating contests bring sure that'll
Speaker 1: go over big. Yeah, well it's the off season. They
Speaker 1: can just work it off, right, it's all that muscle.
Speaker 1: Muscle will eat up the hot dogs. I like that though.
Speaker 1: I like that he'll get something in the postseason. I
Speaker 1: would figure Pro Bowl. But I gotta think about everybody
Speaker 1: else in the AFC, because with the Texans record being
Speaker 1: what it is, it's farge. I think that brings any
Speaker 1: chance it really all pro for just about every guy
Speaker 1: at all press team. But when you look at actual
Speaker 1: stats and like pressures and sacks given up, look at
Speaker 1: all that nerds stuff, Drew, look at the nerds stuff,
Speaker 1: and also how about you know, the writers and the
Speaker 1: people that vote for it, Like, they can't just vote
Speaker 1: based on record. They got to look at a guy's
Speaker 1: individual I think maybe like if the offense were just
Speaker 1: putting up monster numbers but the defense was failing you
Speaker 1: or something like that. But it's been just so rough
Speaker 1: and on defense it's gonna be tough. I don't think
Speaker 1: there's anybody who's got a shot to make it, despite
Speaker 1: some pretty good campaigns, and look Hughes could still get
Speaker 1: four sacks in the last five games end up with twelve,
Speaker 1: but is that going to be enough to do it?
Speaker 1: I would doubt it. So it's too bad about that.
Speaker 1: But the real tough thing is the record and you know,
Speaker 1: maybe you can get some wins. Are on the way
Speaker 1: out well. Jylen Petro has mentioned in Peter King's article
Speaker 1: this week for boll in America. Is that what it's called.
Speaker 1: So players are getting some recognition here and there. It's
Speaker 1: hard to overlook if you're really having a great campaign.
Speaker 1: So that's gonna do it for Texans All Access and
Speaker 1: are mini around the NFL, which was not really Maybe
Speaker 1: we'll start doing that. We'll just talk about random things,
Speaker 1: random random things. In the final segment. That's what this
Speaker 1: show is. We are so random. But what's not random
Speaker 1: is the next show it's Texans matchup with John Harris,
Speaker 1: so stay tuned for that. That's gonna do it for
Speaker 1: All Access. Thank you so much for listening, and as always,
Speaker 1: go Texans.