1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,000 Speaker 1: Welcome to everybody to Wednesday edition the Texans All Access 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 1: from the Honday Texans Radio studio. Glad to be back 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 1: into dig although I love going over to Sports Radio 4 00:00:09,039 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 1: six ten as I did on Monday night. I'm your host. 5 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: This evenee John Harris, football analyst and Sidelo reporter and 6 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:19,160 Speaker 1: a little over twenty four hours away from the NFL Draft, 7 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:21,160 Speaker 1: joining me right now as he will throughout the weekend, 8 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:24,239 Speaker 1: the voice of Texans, Mark vander Meer Draft Time. Mark, 9 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: get excited. It is so exciting. And you know what, 10 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: I'm so pumped up about Round one? Really, you Andre 11 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:33,239 Speaker 1: where me. We're gonna be hunkering down here in the 12 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: studio doing the broadcast. And we've never worked with Andrea 13 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: and a draft broadcast before, so I'm looking forward to 14 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 1: that part of it. And even though the Texans don't 15 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:43,480 Speaker 1: have picks, I mean, all the drama with the quarterbacks 16 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:46,239 Speaker 1: in the first round, what the AFC South teams do, 17 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 1: what the Texans opponents do, just what happens overall, it's 18 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 1: so exciting. It's the off season super Bowl. It's here, 19 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: this is the eve of the Draft. I'm pumped. When 20 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 1: was the last time there was some drama and intrigue 21 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 1: that you can remember around pick number one. I tried 22 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:08,839 Speaker 1: to think back. I couldn't think of one going back. 23 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 1: I mean, we knew pretty much. We knew Miles Garrett 24 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: last year for the most part. We knew Clowney in fourteen. 25 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 1: We knew the quarterbacks before that. With Winston and Golf, 26 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:21,120 Speaker 1: we knew they were gonna be There was a little 27 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: bit with golf, but right at the end it was like, Okay, 28 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 1: it's golf, and then it's Whence. We knew that. I 29 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: have no idea what the Browns are gonna do it 30 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:30,040 Speaker 1: one none, and I actually I like it. I love 31 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 1: it makes more intrigue that first pick because it changes 32 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 1: everything at that point. Who goes number one. It's funny 33 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:40,720 Speaker 1: with the Jets. I mean, when you look at the 34 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: Jets saying they like Baker Mayfield, that they like him. 35 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 1: How does that happen? How does Mike mccagnan come out 36 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: and say that. But he does. He says, we like 37 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 1: a lot of the quarterbacks. Yeah, we like him. But 38 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 1: you know, he made me basically asked about him. I 39 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: can't believe GMS. I know. Brian Gaine talked last Friday 40 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: anybody who speaks this week, I'm thinking, that's so close 41 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 1: to it. That's so and Brian Gain, you could go 42 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: through the whole thing and not find anything that's going 43 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 1: to give away what they want to do, other than 44 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: the fact that he said he does admit, and he 45 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: did this previously too, he does admit that need does 46 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: come into play. He said, theoretically it doesn't, but it 47 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 1: does because you do have needs. And you're not gonna 48 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 1: draft a quarterback in the third round. I don't think 49 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 1: if you're the Houston Texans. We'll find out soon enough 50 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 1: on Friday Night. So Friday Night a lot of suspense. 51 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:29,519 Speaker 1: Here's the other thing about Friday Night, the draft parties 52 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,639 Speaker 1: here at NRG Stadium. We'll be on the first concourse 53 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:35,799 Speaker 1: doing our show where we always do it. And I'm wondering, John, 54 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: what it's gonna be like Friday night when that fourth 55 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 1: pick in the third round arrives and all the fans 56 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:43,959 Speaker 1: are there. There's gonna be first round pick enthusiasm and 57 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 1: who is it? Oh my gosh, you know it's but 58 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 1: there's not gonna be that build up. You're not gonna 59 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 1: have Goodell at the podium. It's round three for crying 60 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 1: out loud. It's gonna leak out on Twitter or something 61 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 1: like that, but the fans in the building might be 62 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: finding out from us. It really interesting to see how 63 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 1: that plays out. I'm excited for that moment. Yeah, I 64 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:07,079 Speaker 1: am as well. It really is. And the Rams a 65 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 1: gotta wait even longer. The Rams aren't on the clock 66 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 1: until number eighty seven. Now. They also brought in a 67 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 1: keep to leave in Marcus Peters and yeah, Tomkinsue, and 68 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 1: they've done pretty well, so they went, they went jaguar 69 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:25,079 Speaker 1: on themselves. Yeah, what we call it now? I don't 70 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: know what to call it. I guess I think about 71 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 1: it from this this perspective. Back in two thousand and five, 72 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:33,360 Speaker 1: the Giants were in two thousand and four, the Giants 73 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 1: were picking fourth, the Chargers were picking first, and the 74 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 1: Giants wanted Eli, and Eli didn't want to go to 75 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: San Diego. But Eli wore a Charger hat that night 76 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 1: he died. Day he did, he did, he did the 77 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 1: he did the uh, I guess, the politically correct thing 78 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 1: as it pertains to the draft with Paul Taglia. A 79 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 1: little while later, he gets traded to the Giants, but 80 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 1: in doing so, the Giants in those three spots. The 81 00:03:57,440 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 1: Chargers got filled rivers and they were happy with that, 82 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 1: but they also pulling some picks. So that left the 83 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: Giants draft picks in two thousand and five a very 84 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: small lot. Four players. That was it. The first pick 85 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 1: was in the second round of picking them forty three 86 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: Corey Webster starter had the interception against Brett fav in 87 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 1: the NFC Championship Game. Good player of melshow Third round 88 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:26,839 Speaker 1: pick number seventy four, Justin Tuck Pro Bowl defensive end 89 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:31,720 Speaker 1: amount of Notre Dame. Fourth round pick one ten, Brandon Jacobs, 90 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 1: Southern Illinois. Three of the four picks were guys that 91 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:36,479 Speaker 1: had now only made the roster and made a significant 92 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 1: impact for the Giants. So you can have a small draft. 93 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:41,920 Speaker 1: You just got to make sure that you hit on those. 94 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: And obviously Coughlin and the guys there in New York, 95 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: Jerry Reece, they hit on those four. You brought up 96 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 1: the Rams and their free agent Binge here, and I said, 97 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 1: they went Jaguar. So now the vogue thing seems to 98 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: be go with the free agents because they're gonna work out. 99 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:01,160 Speaker 1: How many years did we you have, how many examples 100 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: did we have of teams that went heavy and free 101 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:07,920 Speaker 1: agency and have it backfire on them. Washington maybe fifteen 102 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,919 Speaker 1: years ago. You look at you could say Jacksonville in fifteen. 103 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: I mean they went with Dan Scuta and Julius Thomas 104 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:17,599 Speaker 1: and I'm trying to remember there was one other player 105 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 1: they went with. It kept going there because they were 106 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 1: drafted so badly for all and they had a much 107 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 1: of money to spend because they couldn't draft and develop 108 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: their own and pay their own What about the Eagles 109 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:29,799 Speaker 1: Dream Team Vince Yon. Yeah, that was Nambias that didn't 110 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 1: work out. Yeah, even it worked out terribly for them. 111 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 1: So you just never know. And I think with the 112 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: Rams they already have a solid foundation. Obviously they went 113 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:41,279 Speaker 1: to the postseason. But when you look at I think 114 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 1: the problem with free agency is this, never mind the 115 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:47,679 Speaker 1: contract issues. You have a lot of veterans, great, great, 116 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:50,360 Speaker 1: but how do they gel? How does the chemistry really 117 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 1: work out? When you draft? You sighted the Giants draft, 118 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:57,280 Speaker 1: they had the follow fire after the Eli trade. When 119 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 1: you draft guys and they come in as babies and 120 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,599 Speaker 1: el babies and they grow up together, they're bound to 121 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: generate the kind of chemistry that you hope for if 122 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,279 Speaker 1: they're really good. But if you bring in a lot 123 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 1: of guys who are already really good, it's hard to say. 124 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 1: You know, egos are what they are. These are established veterans. 125 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:15,160 Speaker 1: We'll see how they go. The Texans free agent class 126 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:19,479 Speaker 1: is a very kind of selective value class. Uh. The real, 127 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 1: obviously bell cow guy of the classes, honey Badger, is 128 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:25,359 Speaker 1: Tyrn Matthew. And he's just such a total pro and 129 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 1: so pre adored and respected anyway the word might be 130 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 1: too strong a word, respected by everybody in the building, 131 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 1: and he has that mutual respect. It's interesting when De 132 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:36,919 Speaker 1: Shan sat in here and we asked him about that, 133 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: and we asked Tyrann about that. I mean, look, Tyre's 134 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 1: twenty five, Seawan's twenty two. There's only three years difference. 135 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 1: But when you're when you're growing up, you're watching the 136 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: guys in college, you're watching the level that you're you're 137 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: gonna go to. And who did you see? And he 138 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 1: said it, he saw cam he saw Tebow, and he 139 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 1: saw Tyron Matthew. I mean those guys of course. Then 140 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 1: the Shawn Tyran Matthew is old. He's like an old 141 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: federal and he's twenty five years old, but he's he's 142 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: like a thirty year old maturity, twenty five year old, 143 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 1: just like DeAndre Hopkins, who's been in the league. It 144 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:09,359 Speaker 1: feels like a long time and he's still in his 145 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 1: mid twenties. Some of these guys coming so young. It's 146 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 1: just that way. It wore my heart yesterday walking out 147 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: of the studio going to the cafeteria and dbs are 148 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 1: walking out and tiring and j Joe just lockstep with 149 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 1: just talking football. Is like, that's cool. I like, I 150 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: like that a lot funny because and that's why this 151 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: program I think does a service, if you will, for 152 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 1: Texans fans. We keep you plugged in year round, kind 153 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 1: of get you fired up for the season year round 154 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 1: because we have it every day. We're lucky enough to 155 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 1: work in this building. And right now the players are 156 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: back for conditioning. So you know, you and I are 157 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 1: walking down the hallway yesterday we see Jovian Clowney and 158 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 1: that gets you pumped up. Just seeing JD Like the 159 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: mere sight of him makes you think football kill the 160 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 1: corner back. It's kind we have that every day working here, 161 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 1: and so we're trying to bring that to you through 162 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 1: the radio, through whatever social media channels we have, that's 163 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 1: our job. Okay. So here's the question. And I got 164 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 1: this question on Monday night, and I thought it was 165 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 1: I thought it was really intriguing question because there's two 166 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 1: ways that you can play this right. Number one, I'll 167 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 1: say the Texans did not get to Shaun Watson in 168 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 1: the trade last year and still had their pick this 169 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: year sitting at number four. All right, so they need 170 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 1: a quarterback, so they don't have Watson, you're saying, and 171 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 1: do not have Watson. Hypothetically, they don't have Watson. They 172 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 1: never have Watson, never made to Watson deal, staying with 173 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 1: their pick in the first day, still get rid of 174 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 1: Brock last year and this little hypothetic Yeah, yeah, they 175 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 1: still get Brock. Okay, Yeah, of course, so they went. 176 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: You know, it's funny because you get rid of Brock, 177 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: you don't have Watson. You go four and twelve. It's 178 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:46,000 Speaker 1: so funny because Watson, he contributed to those wins. Yet 179 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,679 Speaker 1: you're thinking, oh man, he got hurt. Obviously we all 180 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: know what happened. It's just like that's pretty much the 181 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:54,320 Speaker 1: record you would have had. Yeah, yeah, there's no question, 182 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:58,079 Speaker 1: So you don't have Watson. You're sitting at number four. 183 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 1: So at that point a cup both things. Number one, 184 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:03,080 Speaker 1: you go to the free agent route again, throw a 185 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 1: bunch of money at Kirk Cousins. Do you throw some 186 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 1: money at case Keenum and try and case back after 187 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: a year with Minnesota. Would they have done that? Yeah? 188 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 1: Would they have done that? That was that was my 189 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:15,319 Speaker 1: That was my part. I feel it was the quarterback 190 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 1: last year, so it was Savage and maybe weed in 191 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 1: and Savage plays the whole year. You go forward twelve, 192 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 1: let's just say, yeah, all right, so they're starting over 193 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 1: at quarterback. Do they go they would I don't think 194 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 1: they would go for Kirk Cousins. They would have even 195 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 1: though he is. They would take the tires on it, 196 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: but not eventually not done it. It would be Osweiler 197 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 1: expense there to get Cousins or the two thous eighteen 198 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: equivalent of that, and Cousins obviously great more games, a 199 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 1: great many more games body of work than Oswiler coming 200 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:46,400 Speaker 1: in here. But I still don't think they would have 201 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: done that. I think the Keenom thing maybe it feels 202 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,040 Speaker 1: sort of hoyerish or even though Keenam had a much 203 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:54,679 Speaker 1: better year than Hoyer. Ever had and the tremendous success, 204 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 1: go to the NFC Championship game. It still feels kind 205 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: of hoyerish to do keen him and then draft a guy, 206 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 1: but they would have had to. They would have had 207 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:06,320 Speaker 1: to do something like that John. They would have had 208 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 1: to get a veteran backup placeholder guy and then go 209 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 1: heavy in this draft for a quarterback. Having the number 210 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:16,319 Speaker 1: four overall pick, you're gonna get one of those guys. 211 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:18,560 Speaker 1: You might get a Mayfield. You're not gonna get Darnold 212 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 1: in all likelihood. You could get Alan, you could get 213 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:23,199 Speaker 1: one of the other guys, could give him R. Jackson. 214 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 1: Here's the thing that I proposed which could have worked 215 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 1: out I think beautifully, and that's if the Patriots had 216 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 1: held on a Jimmy Garoppolo. Then he becomes then he 217 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:36,839 Speaker 1: becomes a free agent. Then you make a deal for him. 218 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 1: Because you get a deal with him, you're gonna pay 219 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 1: him decent money. Now there would probably be a lot 220 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 1: of rock. No, he's gonna be the same thing. He 221 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:47,559 Speaker 1: would not have played at all for the forty nine. 222 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 1: He would have been the backup in New England all year. 223 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 1: All you would have had to evaluate is the starts. 224 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:55,960 Speaker 1: He had the action he had when Brady was out 225 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:58,840 Speaker 1: with the suspension, and would that have been enough to 226 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 1: pay him whatever he was gonna get. But here's another question. 227 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 1: Garoppolo never goes to San Francisco. What's he getting in 228 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:06,240 Speaker 1: the open market as a free agent. Certainly not what 229 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 1: he got with the forty nine ers right now. No, 230 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 1: it's still gonna be a huge But that's that's what 231 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,200 Speaker 1: I'm saying. You would have you would have you would 232 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: have paid on the potential of what he's doing. Now, 233 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 1: you hope that with Brock. You just did that with 234 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 1: Brock and and but that's the action then Brock, I know, 235 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 1: But you know Brock, and you know Garoppolo, well now 236 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:26,599 Speaker 1: you do, But you don't know Garoppolo. You don't know 237 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:29,240 Speaker 1: what he's going to become. Brock. Look at his numbers 238 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: with the Patriots pre forty nine ers, better than what 239 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 1: Brock put up with the Broncos. Brock did navigate the 240 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 1: Broncos through some tough waters that year when manning whatever. Yeah, 241 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 1: I mean he did some things, not unbelievable numbers, but 242 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 1: you know, help them get some important wins and all 243 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 1: of that. Man, that's a tough one. I don't know 244 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:52,840 Speaker 1: how you would have the fact to have the show. Yeah, exactly, 245 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:56,840 Speaker 1: I don't Why are we talking about this? Yeah, let's 246 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 1: go to the let's go the flip side, right, Okay, 247 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 1: I'm out of the Texans get the Shawan and they 248 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:06,439 Speaker 1: still have their pick at number four. Well that's called luxury. 249 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 1: It would be luxury. But what would you do? So okay, 250 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 1: here here a second rounder, but I have the first rounder. 251 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 1: You got the first rounder at number four, so you're 252 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 1: getting an elite player. So here are the names that 253 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 1: have been talked about. Sam Donald quarter Now, quarterbacks, you're 254 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 1: probably not. You got the Sean, You're good. So non 255 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 1: positioned players to talk about Unca Fitzpatrick, Saquon Barkley, Quintin Nelson, 256 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 1: Derwin James, Bradley Chubb, Roquan Smith, Tremaine Edmonds, number of 257 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:40,840 Speaker 1: different names. I said Derwin James and I said Derwyn 258 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 1: James after going back and forth. First of all, I 259 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 1: think Barkley's not even gonna be there at four. I 260 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 1: think Barkley's I think Barkley's gone. But Chub is there 261 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:49,520 Speaker 1: at four. That was the other one. Yeah, you and 262 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,520 Speaker 1: I talked about this uh, and you can hear that 263 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 1: in the lab. Derwin James and Bradley Chubb. Those are 264 00:12:55,559 --> 00:12:56,959 Speaker 1: the two names that came back to. It's like, wait 265 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 1: a second, who we need some offensive line help? Well, 266 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 1: this is one of those years where there's not that 267 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:04,440 Speaker 1: offensive tackle and I feel like the guys you've added 268 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 1: to what you've already had on the interior. Right, if 269 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:10,720 Speaker 1: you add Nelson, yes you're better. But if you add 270 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:13,840 Speaker 1: Nelson and some other player versus Durwin James and what 271 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 1: you already have, I think you're better off. I think 272 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 1: Drwin James at six three two fifteen and you saw 273 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 1: him played the University of Miami. It reminds me a 274 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:22,560 Speaker 1: little bit of Sean Taylor. I don't know anybody who 275 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 1: ever get close to Sean Taylor, but he's got a 276 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:26,040 Speaker 1: little essence. He's got a little bit of that, And 277 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 1: you're right, essence that's the best way of putting it. 278 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 1: This exactly what he has. It feels like that a little. 279 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:33,320 Speaker 1: But I think Seth and Mike were talking about this. 280 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:35,320 Speaker 1: I didn't hear what they said. I heard them tease 281 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:39,080 Speaker 1: the segment, but my feeling is this, you trade down, 282 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 1: you know, if you actually had that number four pick. 283 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:43,760 Speaker 1: If I'm Brian Gaine, I would say I love Bradley Chubb. 284 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:46,120 Speaker 1: He's my favorite player ever. I mean, this guy's gonna 285 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 1: be J. J. Watt, and he's gonna be Whitney, Merciless, Jedeveon, Clowney, 286 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 1: everybody wrapped up into one. I mean, because you want 287 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: to make people think that you're really interested in that pick, 288 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 1: then I'd take every phone call I possibly could, because 289 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:02,160 Speaker 1: somebody's gonna trade up with you to take a quarterback. 290 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 1: And you know who's gonna do that? Who's that? Where's 291 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:07,960 Speaker 1: Brian Gain? Last year Buffalo, Buffalo's got two first rounders. 292 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: Would you take those two first rounders and move down 293 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:13,440 Speaker 1: to twelve and twenty one? Yeah, heck yes, yes, this 294 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 1: year's team Watson. Yes. Now, unfortunately you don't have that 295 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 1: pick and you pick fourth in the third round, so 296 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:22,560 Speaker 1: they'll still get a players there. They look, there's a 297 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 1: there's a pretty rich area. But I'm with you. I 298 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 1: would have traded. I would have traded out of four, 299 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: and I would have come up with a boatload of picks, 300 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 1: especially if three quarterbacks go off the board at one, two, 301 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 1: and three and there's only two quarterbacks left value. Oh, 302 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 1: the Cardinals and Bills beating the Dolphins. They're all clawn 303 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: over each other to get up to the day off. 304 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 1: So you could get an overpay, right, Absolutely, somebody's gonna 305 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 1: pay much. I mean, there's no doubt. And by the way, 306 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 1: tuneitar draft covers this weekend to see if the Texans 307 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 1: will make a trade, because if they do, then so 308 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 1: can you. Mattress firm offer a discount, a twenty five 309 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 1: percent discount for you to trade in your mattress. The 310 00:14:57,640 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 1: Texans make a trade in the draft that has cursed 311 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:03,560 Speaker 1: your match for him, our official mattress retailer of the 312 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 1: Houston Texans. I'm with you, Mark. I would trade down 313 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: as well. But have I had to sit there, Durwin James, 314 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 1: I'll take him, I'll take I'll take the next closest 315 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 1: thing to Sean Taylor I am. If I have to 316 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 1: stay there, I'll take Chubb because I'm can't have enough 317 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 1: pass you can't have enough, you can't have enough. Look 318 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 1: at the injuries last year. You lost two of your 319 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:25,640 Speaker 1: best three. Come on, I'll take him and I'll deal 320 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 1: with the luxury problem later if they're all healthy. Was 321 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 1: the Browns washing the Browns end up with Bradley Chubb, 322 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 1: with Miles Garrett and have Garrett and Chubb going forward. 323 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 1: That's gonna be SAE quarterback. Can this quarterback who's learning 324 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 1: the ropes and h they can hold opponents low? But 325 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: not I said it last year. I did not want 326 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 1: to see the Browns going for because I feel like 327 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 1: the Browns are gonna be much much better. And I 328 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 1: got a feeling December second, they're gonna be much much better. 329 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 1: If they still. If the Browns don't win six games 330 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 1: this year, what should happen. Well, Hugh Jackson is gonna 331 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 1: be there. I don't care what he does this year. 332 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:56,720 Speaker 1: I got a feeling he's not there in twenty eighteen. 333 00:15:56,840 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 1: He'd have to go twelve and four. I think to 334 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 1: stay twenty nine. Yeah, I think you're right. They've got 335 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:05,440 Speaker 1: to win at least six games. I think they're good 336 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 1: enough to do it. I thought they were good enough 337 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 1: to win four five games a minimum. Last They were 338 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 1: close in a few, just couldn't pull it off. If 339 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 1: they've got better quarterback play, more consistent quarterback play, I 340 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 1: think they'll end up winning those games. Mark appreciate it. 341 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 1: Thank you, John, Drew Dohrty coming in next. We'll talk 342 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 1: a little bit more about this proposal and the draft 343 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 1: on Thursday night. We're back here in a few on 344 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:27,680 Speaker 1: Texas to Axas. Welcome back to a Wednesday edition of 345 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 1: Texans All Access. Been at the radio thing all day long, 346 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 1: being San Antonio, Houston, Saint Louis, Tomorrow, Austin yesterday talking 347 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 1: about the draft. I'm so ready for it to get here. 348 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 1: But we are in the Honday, Texas Radio studio where 349 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 1: we will be tomorrow Thursday night. Mark vander Meer, Andre Ware, myself, 350 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 1: three of us talking draft on night one. Looking forward 351 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:54,600 Speaker 1: to that. Now, typically on Night one, my man Drew 352 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 1: Doherty would be at the draft location. But Drew Year 353 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 1: actually gonna be here on Thursday night because there is 354 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 1: no first round pick. It's like gonna few weird. By 355 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:04,959 Speaker 1: the way, Hello, how you doing. I'm great, live late 356 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:06,680 Speaker 1: breaking a local. That's what I'm gonna be this year. 357 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 1: But yeah, I know it is kind of gonna be 358 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 1: kind of odd. And you you reeled off the list 359 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 1: lists of cities that you've been on the radio with. 360 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:16,120 Speaker 1: You also did radio in the lab. That's right, we're 361 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 1: talking draft that's on iTunes stitch your tune in, so 362 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 1: check that out. But yeah, it's gonna be weird not 363 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 1: being up in Dallas. What was I mean? The fact is, 364 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:26,160 Speaker 1: first of all, you went to college up in Dallas. 365 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 1: I mean, it's like the one year for the Texans 366 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:30,320 Speaker 1: to not have a first round pick for you not 367 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:32,479 Speaker 1: to go. Yeah, you're going to New York, you're going 368 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 1: to Chicago, You've gone to Philly, and now here it 369 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:38,920 Speaker 1: is in Dallas where you went to college. I mean, 370 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: basically a stone's throw away relatively speaking, and we don't 371 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 1: a first round pick, so you're gonna stay here. I know. 372 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:46,879 Speaker 1: I got some buddies up there. They're kind of bummed 373 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be there, and I'm bummed I don't 374 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:50,679 Speaker 1: get to see him, but hey, if it meant to 375 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:53,440 Speaker 1: Shaun Watson, then I'll just see them some other time. 376 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:55,719 Speaker 1: What was it? Like? I thought about this the other 377 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 1: day because we were talking about the schedule and we 378 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:00,159 Speaker 1: talked a little bit about that game in Philadelphia. Over 379 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 1: the weekend, NFL Network was playing drafts and old drafts, 380 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:06,199 Speaker 1: and so what they did is they took you know, 381 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:08,199 Speaker 1: the first round, which is now in the back end 382 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:09,680 Speaker 1: the day. He used to be like five and a 383 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:13,680 Speaker 1: half hours, six out of remember that long. It was long. 384 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:16,639 Speaker 1: They they would cut it down to like ninety minute, 385 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:18,600 Speaker 1: and they showed him from twenty eleven all the way 386 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:20,639 Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, And so I was watching the twenty seventeen 387 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:22,240 Speaker 1: one because I wanted to relive the moment. And when 388 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:25,479 Speaker 1: we're doing the show, we can't hear anything going on, 389 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:27,640 Speaker 1: so I have no idea what Mike Mayax saying, can't 390 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 1: hear what rich Eisen saying, Kenny here, anything, So it 391 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:31,359 Speaker 1: was interesting and I wanted to hear what they had 392 00:18:31,359 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 1: to say about the Shan when the Sean got picked, 393 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:35,120 Speaker 1: and rich Eisen had some really nice things to say 394 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 1: about the FC South, and they were talking about the 395 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:39,000 Speaker 1: Sean in a nice way, and then they cut the 396 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 1: show such that they immediately went to the Arizona pick. 397 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 1: What was it like being there when the Shawan ended 398 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:49,480 Speaker 1: up getting picked? Was awesome. It was unlike any of 399 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 1: the other drafts I'd been too, obviously, But what we 400 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:55,879 Speaker 1: did was we got there probably five hours early to 401 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:59,600 Speaker 1: set up get things ready, because there's a pretty massive 402 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:02,879 Speaker 1: secure presence there you have to get through. So we 403 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:05,360 Speaker 1: got set up, we did some work ahead of time, 404 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:08,680 Speaker 1: and then we had about an hour before the draft 405 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:10,840 Speaker 1: even started, and we went out in the crowd and 406 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:14,920 Speaker 1: looked around, and they had a pretty robust crowd. They know, 407 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 1: they said it was seventy k, but I feel like 408 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 1: there were more of it. It looked like more people 409 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:22,359 Speaker 1: because it was just this massive green space that they 410 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 1: did in front of the Art Museum. So then we 411 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 1: went up and the draft started, and it was kind 412 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 1: of like, well, we're gonna wait for a while because 413 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:31,080 Speaker 1: Texans are gonna pick. And I really did not think 414 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:33,679 Speaker 1: the Texans would move up too high. I just didn't. 415 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:37,199 Speaker 1: I was not accustomed to that. And we're in this 416 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 1: media workroom with probably four or five hundred other journalists, 417 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 1: TV types, all that stuff, and we're hearing the movement 418 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 1: about thirty seconds ahead of the television, so just kind 419 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 1: of in the middle of it all, and it's a loudspeaker. 420 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 1: It's just a calm voice over. The loudspeaker says, the 421 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:01,800 Speaker 1: Houston Texans are now on the clock. They've made a 422 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:04,880 Speaker 1: trade with Cleveland. And it was like a bomb went off, 423 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:07,800 Speaker 1: because you know, we're the only ones they are really 424 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:11,720 Speaker 1: from Houston. Yeah, and I just hit the capslock and 425 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,800 Speaker 1: I tweeted out basically what they said. Yeah, and then 426 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 1: it went bananas because you knew that's who the Texans 427 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:20,840 Speaker 1: were going up together. You knew it was they're going 428 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:23,440 Speaker 1: after the quarterback because the other two had gone off 429 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:26,360 Speaker 1: the board and there was one first round or left 430 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:28,880 Speaker 1: kiddie up. You know. It was so from that at 431 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:31,440 Speaker 1: that point we went into action because we were kind 432 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 1: of we were ready, we were ready, but we were 433 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:35,920 Speaker 1: just sort of waiting. And then it was weird because 434 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:37,960 Speaker 1: at the time the Texans were picked number twenty five, 435 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:41,479 Speaker 1: So the difference between pitting twelfth and twenty fifth that 436 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:44,959 Speaker 1: is a good a good couple of hours at least, 437 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,160 Speaker 1: and we you only sprung into action and got ready, 438 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:51,000 Speaker 1: and you know, once he finished hugging Goodell and doing 439 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:54,400 Speaker 1: a few side interviews, he came back and that's when 440 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 1: we meet him and it's like, hey, to Sean, how 441 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 1: are you doing. I'm Drew with the Texans. We're gonna 442 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:01,200 Speaker 1: put this microphone on you, and you know, he we're 443 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 1: the first people from the team that yeah, if you 444 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:07,199 Speaker 1: think about it, yeah, that he met after becoming a drafty, 445 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:10,200 Speaker 1: he had met others obviously, but we put the microphone 446 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:12,160 Speaker 1: on him and then we just followed him and they 447 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:16,720 Speaker 1: go through an absolute car wash once they get picked. 448 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:20,439 Speaker 1: Because once your name gets called, okay, you hug your 449 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,240 Speaker 1: family and you go up and you hug the commissioner. 450 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:26,520 Speaker 1: You do a few interviews with like Dion Sanders and 451 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 1: then one with ESPN, and then you do a few 452 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:32,520 Speaker 1: other things that you come out and we get him. 453 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:34,359 Speaker 1: He goes and does a radio interview with like the 454 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:38,200 Speaker 1: serious guys. He went and signed some stuff for Panini, 455 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:42,639 Speaker 1: He did something with EA Sports. NFL media has their 456 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:44,920 Speaker 1: things and one of the coolest things I've ever seen 457 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 1: post draft. It is the coolest thing that I've seen 458 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:52,159 Speaker 1: as far as content wise. Last year they had the 459 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:56,920 Speaker 1: draft picks mothers write them a letter. So yeah, because 460 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,119 Speaker 1: they're in town about three or four days prior to 461 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 1: the draft, so they get the mothers aside at some 462 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,080 Speaker 1: point and they say, write a letter, just want your 463 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,119 Speaker 1: son to read aloud. And I mean it's just so 464 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:09,399 Speaker 1: touching seeing him read that and and and all that. 465 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:11,440 Speaker 1: So that was really cool. He started crying, and you know, 466 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:13,640 Speaker 1: we were in there watching it, and he the group 467 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:15,760 Speaker 1: of people that were following around. Was pretty interesting too, 468 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 1: is his agent and then ye, Jordan Palmer's quarterbacks coach, 469 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:22,440 Speaker 1: his brother Carson Palmer, and um, it was it was 470 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:24,720 Speaker 1: just fun seeing him go through all that and seeing 471 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:28,640 Speaker 1: him um interact with people because he was He's a magnet. 472 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:32,240 Speaker 1: I mean, you you run across backstage there at the draft, 473 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 1: you run across all manner of folks, national media, other 474 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 1: draft picks, other draft picks, families, hall of famers, you know, 475 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,959 Speaker 1: other former players doing stuff. And they were all drawn 476 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,639 Speaker 1: to him. Other college coaches, you know, there's a lot 477 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 1: of college coaches that are hanging around. They they all 478 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 1: came up to him. And not that they didn't in 479 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 1: the past with the other draft picks that Texans have taken, 480 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 1: but this guy's different. Man. I mean, he was a magnet. 481 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,800 Speaker 1: It's so funny because he when he got here the 482 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 1: next day, so he gets heround Friday, So Friday is 483 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,640 Speaker 1: always Friday is always a really interesting day. I think 484 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,800 Speaker 1: around here after the first round because the first round 485 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:16,280 Speaker 1: pick shows up and then you have the second and 486 00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 1: third rounds later that night. So you have this energy 487 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:20,560 Speaker 1: that comes in the building when the first the first 488 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:22,479 Speaker 1: round pick is and they meets the media, and then 489 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 1: he does radio with us, he does TV with you, 490 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:26,639 Speaker 1: he does all these different things, and then it dips 491 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 1: for a few hours, and then it right exactly and 492 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 1: it's like this. You get this jolt of energy when 493 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:33,159 Speaker 1: he comes in, and then you get this jolt of 494 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: energy in the second and third round start. So I 495 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:38,480 Speaker 1: always look forward to that Friday. This one even more 496 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 1: so because it's it's DeShawn Watson and it's the National 497 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,400 Speaker 1: Championship quarterback. You know, it's the guy that I saw 498 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 1: on TV. I said, this is Tyron Matthew other day. 499 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,800 Speaker 1: When Tyran walked in, I said, man, I gotta admit 500 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 1: I love that you're here. Please don't misunderstand me. It's 501 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 1: surreal to see you here. Yeah. But it was kind 502 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,119 Speaker 1: of that way with Deshaun when he walked in, and 503 00:23:58,119 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 1: it's like he I was. We were in the old 504 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,960 Speaker 1: study next door and he walked in and he goes, hey, 505 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 1: I'm Deshaw Watson. I was like, yeah, we are, Yeah, 506 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,479 Speaker 1: I'm good. I know you are. We're all right with that. Well. 507 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,200 Speaker 1: It's funny though, you know. I started summer of O nine, 508 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 1: so the first draft with the Texans, I was here 509 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:17,320 Speaker 1: was two thousand and ten, So ten, eleven, twelve, and thirteen, 510 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:21,399 Speaker 1: I'd go to the airport in the limo, right and 511 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 1: we'd have a camera and put a microphone on these 512 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:27,920 Speaker 1: guys and we'd film their first day. So Kareem Jackson, J. J. Watt, 513 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:31,080 Speaker 1: Whitney Merciless, and DeAndre Hopkins. I did that with Well 514 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 1: then once I in fourteen, when we had the first 515 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 1: overall pick, we decided, well, we should be there. We 516 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 1: need to be there for that because at the draft, 517 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,160 Speaker 1: because there's so much content that we think we'll get, 518 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 1: and when we went we realized we didn't realize how 519 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:46,680 Speaker 1: much content we were gonna actually get. We should be 520 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 1: here no matter when we're picking in the first round, 521 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:50,879 Speaker 1: and that's what we've done ever since. So so the 522 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 1: first time was the first year you went in New 523 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 1: York with Clowney and that was really really fun. Yeah, 524 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:58,879 Speaker 1: I thought Chicago did it better in the next two 525 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:02,880 Speaker 1: years fifteen and six, even though New York did it splendidly. 526 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,200 Speaker 1: So I think Chicago was a bet. I like Philly. 527 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,439 Speaker 1: I just think I like Chicago better. I'm curious to 528 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:10,119 Speaker 1: see how it goes in Arlan. It'll be the biggest. 529 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,159 Speaker 1: It'll be the I mean some of the pictures that 530 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:14,560 Speaker 1: you know, some of the NFL network personnel and some 531 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 1: of the ESPN personnel or twenty pictures from inside, and 532 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,200 Speaker 1: it's a pretty amazing setup from what you can see. 533 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:21,880 Speaker 1: But it looks like the way they have it set 534 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:25,840 Speaker 1: up that kind of like with it's like a it's 535 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,919 Speaker 1: like a member Candlestick. When Candlestick was set up for football, 536 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:31,479 Speaker 1: there would be certain seats that would block you were 537 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,960 Speaker 1: blocked by the way that they had other seats come out. 538 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,320 Speaker 1: The way that the set is set up, there might 539 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 1: be some areas in the in the lower stands. It's 540 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:41,879 Speaker 1: supposed to be like a political right. It's exactly what 541 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 1: it looks like. So in the third and the second deck, 542 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:46,159 Speaker 1: and I'm bob, you probably can have people because they 543 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,600 Speaker 1: can look down for the back of it, but you 544 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,520 Speaker 1: may not have people down on the first row. But 545 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:52,920 Speaker 1: they're expecting two hundred and seventy thousand people this week, 546 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,240 Speaker 1: and it's just gotten bigger and bigger and bigger, and 547 00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 1: it's it's not obviously on hard at the Super Bowl 548 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,520 Speaker 1: because there's no true football going on, but it has 549 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:08,720 Speaker 1: become such an event, such an event, and it's gonna 550 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,920 Speaker 1: come here someday, it'll it'll come Yeah, they're gonna bounce. 551 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 1: This is what's gonna happen, I mark my words. I 552 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:17,119 Speaker 1: don't know how soon, but in in the next decade. 553 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: I think what you're gonna see is it rotate every 554 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,800 Speaker 1: single year. The first round be in a different city 555 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:25,880 Speaker 1: every every single year, but then the second night will 556 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:27,920 Speaker 1: also be in a different city than the first night was, 557 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:33,000 Speaker 1: So it'll be like a and then Houston, Dallas, Yeah, 558 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:34,199 Speaker 1: and then the third day will be the same thing. 559 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 1: It'll be in a different city as well. But you 560 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,399 Speaker 1: could do the first night in an NFL city, the 561 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:40,400 Speaker 1: second night in an NFL city, and then you could 562 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:42,080 Speaker 1: do like the third day in an NFL city, or 563 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:46,199 Speaker 1: you could go to Austin or Omaha or Portland or 564 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,359 Speaker 1: tusc I think that's what they want to do. They 565 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:50,359 Speaker 1: want to expose it to as many different places because 566 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:53,160 Speaker 1: they set up and do a fan experience in every 567 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 1: single spot, and with computers and phone you can make 568 00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,440 Speaker 1: it happen. It's not there's a way to make this happen. 569 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:01,000 Speaker 1: I think that's what are gonna We're gonna see the 570 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,119 Speaker 1: NFL do eventually, it was pretty fascinated to watching in 571 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,720 Speaker 1: Philadelphia last year. I think they had some I want 572 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,680 Speaker 1: to say they had some bad weather the last day, 573 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:11,680 Speaker 1: but the first two days after gorgeous. Yeah, it was 574 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:15,840 Speaker 1: it was yeah, And I've just been fascinated about that process. 575 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,760 Speaker 1: When Sean, it's funny you brought up the letter, because 576 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:20,760 Speaker 1: that was that was the thing that I had seen, 577 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,159 Speaker 1: I was like, I got it when my when my 578 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,960 Speaker 1: um my dad, when I when I turned seventeen, called 579 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 1: my dad out a little bit. We should always drive 580 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:34,280 Speaker 1: together to school. And so it's my seventeen birthday and 581 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,120 Speaker 1: we get in the car and he doesn't say a word. 582 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:38,960 Speaker 1: And my dad was not talking to by nature. So 583 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:40,639 Speaker 1: I wasn't too surprised by it, but I was a 584 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:42,840 Speaker 1: little appeeling. You know, it's my birthday. Man, I didn't 585 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 1: say anything. So I go to my first period class, 586 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,639 Speaker 1: which was triggering abitry, and no big deal. I go 587 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,840 Speaker 1: to my second period class, and that was history, and 588 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:52,920 Speaker 1: he was a history teacher, and so my classroom was 589 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,320 Speaker 1: right next to his. And so when I walk in 590 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:59,880 Speaker 1: to class, I see there's a note on my death 591 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,600 Speaker 1: and it says, you know, for the desk of John Harrison. 592 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,680 Speaker 1: He's crossed out John Harrison, he's put Dad. And then 593 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:07,080 Speaker 1: it just wrote me this note and it was a 594 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 1: short note and it just basically was, UM, happy birthday, 595 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,400 Speaker 1: proud of you. You know all these seventeen years, you've 596 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,439 Speaker 1: done some great things and you've got great things in store. 597 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,760 Speaker 1: And I kept that with me. You know, every day 598 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,480 Speaker 1: it's in my it's in my wallet. Sometimes I don't 599 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:24,200 Speaker 1: carry my wallet, it's carried like you know, the cards 600 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,240 Speaker 1: in you that day. But I've carried that with me 601 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:30,680 Speaker 1: every day everywhere I've gone since. And I remember when 602 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,520 Speaker 1: he walked in. I said, you got that letter and 603 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:34,960 Speaker 1: he goes, yeah, I'm gonna be carrying it with me 604 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,359 Speaker 1: and I said, I'm reaching to my wallet. I said, 605 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:38,960 Speaker 1: this is what my dad wrote to me when I 606 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 1: was seventeen. I was like, I keep it with me. 607 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:42,920 Speaker 1: And he was just like, ah, that's really cool. And 608 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:44,320 Speaker 1: so it was kind of neat to kind of share 609 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 1: that that sort of thing with him, but especially the 610 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,520 Speaker 1: connection he has with his with his mother, who has 611 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:53,040 Speaker 1: gone through through some tough times physically having gone to cancer. Uh, 612 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 1: it was it was really touching. But it was just 613 00:28:55,800 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 1: amazing to see him in this building. But we remember 614 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,440 Speaker 1: when we it was funny because the draft, you know, 615 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 1: on our our our clock is set for the show. 616 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 1: We have three segments, we have you know, three breaks, 617 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 1: and they're all pretty set standard where they're supposed to be. 618 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,360 Speaker 1: The draft is a little different because you try and 619 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:20,040 Speaker 1: time it between a couple of picks, and he and 620 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:21,840 Speaker 1: Mark does a hell of a job trying to get 621 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,920 Speaker 1: us in and out of breaks, and so decided after 622 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:30,600 Speaker 1: the I think it was the eleventh pick he told it. 623 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,280 Speaker 1: I think it may have been Brandon back in studio. 624 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:34,000 Speaker 1: I can't remember. He tells Brandon, Hey, we're gonna go 625 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 1: to a break, and this is probably a good time 626 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:38,800 Speaker 1: to take it. Then we're trying to plan it out, like, okay, 627 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,240 Speaker 1: this will probably get us the next probably for five picks. Okay, 628 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:42,560 Speaker 1: this is probably a good time to take a break, 629 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:44,880 Speaker 1: trying to plan it out, all thinking about pick number 630 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 1: twenty five. So so he goes to the bathroom. Seth 631 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,000 Speaker 1: goes to the bathroom and I kind of just step 632 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:52,560 Speaker 1: away from my chair a little bit, and I just 633 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:56,239 Speaker 1: happened to hear somewhere the Texans have traded up, and 634 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 1: I don't even know where I heard it, but I 635 00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 1: immediately sat back down on my computer and went what 636 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 1: And I just get on the computer and I started 637 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:04,720 Speaker 1: looking like, Okay, what can I see? What kind of see? 638 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:06,880 Speaker 1: And then I see it and I'm like And at 639 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,280 Speaker 1: that point Marcus finally walked back up. Yeah, I'm like, 640 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,560 Speaker 1: we gotta get out of this break, Mark, the Texans 641 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:14,760 Speaker 1: are about to pick and his eyes just went and 642 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:17,720 Speaker 1: I was like, we've traded up. And so at that 643 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,040 Speaker 1: point we're like scrambled. We put on the headphones, like, Brandon, 644 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 1: you gotta get us. Okay, what what do we have 645 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 1: left in this break? Okay, we've got thirty seconds. Okay, 646 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 1: you know, we're just going nuts. And luck we were 647 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,160 Speaker 1: able to get back on. And as we came back 648 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 1: on about a minute later, Goodell said, somebody said, hey, 649 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,360 Speaker 1: there's gonna be a trade. And I just remember saying 650 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:40,400 Speaker 1: to your point about quarterback. I remember saying, because as 651 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 1: soon as it happened, as soon as it was announced 652 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:45,160 Speaker 1: the draft party, everybody was like, we got our quarterback 653 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:46,920 Speaker 1: to show wanted. Everybody's going crazy. And I just remember 654 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,080 Speaker 1: saying to Mark on the air, I said, Mark, I said, 655 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:50,840 Speaker 1: if this is not a quarterback. If this is not 656 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,200 Speaker 1: the Sean, I'm out the gate and I'll see on 657 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:56,400 Speaker 1: Monday because it's gonna be a full on riot. And 658 00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:58,360 Speaker 1: ended up being to Sean. But it was just to 659 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:00,000 Speaker 1: see the look on his I mean, I was shocked, 660 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:01,600 Speaker 1: and then I looked at Mark. I was like, we 661 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:03,680 Speaker 1: trade it up, and he just went well. And so 662 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:05,840 Speaker 1: at that point, now we've got to navigate how do 663 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 1: we get back on the air to make sure that 664 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,400 Speaker 1: we capture this we got it and capture it live 665 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:11,400 Speaker 1: and luckily, you know, we happily there's a little bit 666 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,600 Speaker 1: of time. Luckily there's such a buffer of time. It's 667 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:15,800 Speaker 1: a little bit the leaks to get out and the 668 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,720 Speaker 1: actual pick itself. It helps, It definitely helps, and it 669 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:20,640 Speaker 1: helped us in that case. I would imagine for Round 670 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:24,080 Speaker 1: one this year it'll be that case. But plenty nineteen 671 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:25,760 Speaker 1: down the road, it definitely will be there. But I 672 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:27,360 Speaker 1: always wanted to kind of pick your brain about what 673 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,840 Speaker 1: it was like to be on site. Especially it was 674 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:31,600 Speaker 1: a lot of fun. There's such an energy there. It 675 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,680 Speaker 1: was a great time and it was it was just 676 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:38,200 Speaker 1: so cool. I'm on Instagram, todapp I pumped out one 677 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:39,960 Speaker 1: of those pictures and me saw it. But that's what 678 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:43,280 Speaker 1: made me think about it because I'll do one in 679 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:45,760 Speaker 1: a couple of days of me with JJ. I can't 680 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,840 Speaker 1: find the ones where I did it with Kareem and 681 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 1: Whitney for some reason, but yeah, I got JJ and DeAndre, 682 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:52,880 Speaker 1: so those are pretty fun. That's very cool to appreciate you. 683 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:56,080 Speaker 1: Stop by time, man, it's the draft. We're finally here. Man. 684 00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,520 Speaker 1: I can't wait. Oh Man, finally can't wait. You're in 685 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,800 Speaker 1: the best room already coming up. We have got the 686 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,680 Speaker 1: draft starting tomorrow, So I gotta get on the books 687 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:09,240 Speaker 1: about some of my favorite sleepers. I talked about some 688 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:13,040 Speaker 1: of them, but I've come up with about a dozen. 689 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,680 Speaker 1: Try to get one at each position if I could. 690 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,040 Speaker 1: That You've got to keep an eye on throughout this 691 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:22,240 Speaker 1: entire three day draft, including an IVY League great quarterback. Yes, 692 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,080 Speaker 1: we'll talk about that next right here my Texas All 693 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:28,760 Speaker 1: Access one final last segment before the NFL Draft tomorrow. 694 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,880 Speaker 1: A reminder we will have the draft for you right 695 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 1: here on Sports Radio six ten. I'll start at six 696 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:38,120 Speaker 1: o'clock with Texans All Access at seven o'clock. Mark vandermir 697 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 1: myself and Andrea Ware will take over the draft coverage 698 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:44,400 Speaker 1: and have you for the rest of the evening on Thursday. 699 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,959 Speaker 1: On Friday, we'll take over at six Mark Vandermir, myself, 700 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 1: and Mike Meltzer. On Friday, Robert Hensley will also will 701 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,520 Speaker 1: be along with us, I believe on Friday as well. Saturday, 702 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,360 Speaker 1: we're split up into two groups. The first morning group 703 00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,600 Speaker 1: is going to be Sean Pendergast, Ted Johnson and myself. 704 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,520 Speaker 1: The second group on Saturday will be Mark Vanimer, myself 705 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 1: and Paul Gallant. So looking forward to our draft coverage 706 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,720 Speaker 1: all weekend long right here in our flagship sports Radio 707 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:15,000 Speaker 1: six ten. Now that it's finally here, my Harrison one 708 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:18,080 Speaker 1: hundred is set. I can't change it. I say that, 709 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,320 Speaker 1: yet there are a couple of players I would change. 710 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:24,480 Speaker 1: Here's one of the things about about doing trying to 711 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,480 Speaker 1: do what I do, and I read so much and 712 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,080 Speaker 1: I go through so much, and I look at what 713 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:31,960 Speaker 1: other people have just to kind of, you know, mind 714 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,080 Speaker 1: the ballpark on this, and sometimes I talk myself out 715 00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:38,720 Speaker 1: of what I know to be true, and it bothers 716 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:42,240 Speaker 1: me because there are times that I look at a 717 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:45,760 Speaker 1: player and go, that's a dude. I know it's a dude. 718 00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:51,120 Speaker 1: I know he's gonna be an absolute stud. And I 719 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:55,200 Speaker 1: give you as an example, Frank rag Now. Here's my 720 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:59,000 Speaker 1: overall assessment of rag Now watching rag Now versus TCU. Now, 721 00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:00,960 Speaker 1: this is early in the twenty six season. I was 722 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,720 Speaker 1: a bit worried that I was going to get carried away. 723 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:04,360 Speaker 1: At the time, I thought that he was the best 724 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:06,200 Speaker 1: center in the country. But it didn't want to be 725 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,520 Speaker 1: a guy that instantaneously overreacts to one game, etc. I 726 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,360 Speaker 1: mean a note to watch him closely to the season, 727 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,280 Speaker 1: closely as the season progressed, Yet my opinion didn't change. 728 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,080 Speaker 1: Ragnow is still the best center in the nation draft 729 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:21,399 Speaker 1: prospect or otherwise. And now Ragnow's being he talked as 730 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,919 Speaker 1: a first round pick. I produced that piece of work 731 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:27,759 Speaker 1: back in June. So I feel like I was a 732 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:29,719 Speaker 1: little bit ahead of the curve on Ragnow. And he's 733 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:32,160 Speaker 1: probably gonna go in the first round. But you know, 734 00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:34,120 Speaker 1: all the predictions are there, the mock drafts are there, 735 00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:36,120 Speaker 1: the top one hundreds are there, all that kind of stuff. 736 00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:38,600 Speaker 1: How do you expect Ragnow to go in the first round. 737 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:40,480 Speaker 1: There's been a lot of smoke around him going in 738 00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:42,759 Speaker 1: the first round he deserves too. He's a really he's 739 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,279 Speaker 1: an excellent football player. I was hoping that he made 740 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,600 Speaker 1: me stick around to the bottom of the second round, 741 00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:49,520 Speaker 1: that Texas could sneak up and go grab him and 742 00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,360 Speaker 1: put him on the interior with Nick Martin, Zack Folden, Cineo. 743 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,520 Speaker 1: Come leta and let those guys all fight it out, 744 00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:56,480 Speaker 1: because Frank Ragnow is a heck of a football player. 745 00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:59,440 Speaker 1: But that's just one. Now, they're gonna be guys, especially 746 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:03,359 Speaker 1: going on day three, that I think are sleepers to 747 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,560 Speaker 1: keep an eye on. Guys ended up going on day three. 748 00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:07,840 Speaker 1: I'm gonna start in the Southland Conference because some people 749 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:12,120 Speaker 1: know that I do on Texans home games or bye 750 00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,680 Speaker 1: weeks or Monday night games, and I have the opportunity 751 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:16,319 Speaker 1: to go call a college game on Saturday. I've been 752 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,480 Speaker 1: doing a lot of Southland Conference games, and so Southland Conference, 753 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,600 Speaker 1: I think against two, oh, it's you know what, I'm 754 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:24,360 Speaker 1: gonna give you three. I'm gonna give you three sleepers 755 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,160 Speaker 1: that I think two of them are gonna be drafted. 756 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:27,640 Speaker 1: I think the other one may not be, but I 757 00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,360 Speaker 1: think he's gonna end up getting to a roster and 758 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:32,120 Speaker 1: making a bid for a fifty three man roster. I'm 759 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,120 Speaker 1: gonna start with Tray Smith, the cornerback out of Central 760 00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:38,120 Speaker 1: Arkansas five ten one ninety ran a four three eight 761 00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:41,440 Speaker 1: is pro day smoked it and a heck of a player. 762 00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:44,960 Speaker 1: Has some baseball in his background, plays a deep ball 763 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:48,120 Speaker 1: extremely well. I saw him against HBU, and I had 764 00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,640 Speaker 1: seen him a week before against Sam Houston preparation for 765 00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,160 Speaker 1: my game against HBU. He had been a defensive player 766 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:54,879 Speaker 1: of the week, so immediately and that was against Sam 767 00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:58,759 Speaker 1: Houston State, and Sam Houston State scores on everybody. And 768 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:00,480 Speaker 1: when I see that you're defense a player of the 769 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,359 Speaker 1: week against Sam Easton State, I gotta check you out. 770 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:04,239 Speaker 1: So I started looking at this kin, went whoa he 771 00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,719 Speaker 1: could play? So I'm in a game against HVU. He 772 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:10,480 Speaker 1: makes the spinning, leaping interception on the sideline, gets the 773 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,640 Speaker 1: toin bounce, playing with the cast on his hand. He's phenomenal. 774 00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,200 Speaker 1: And I remember writing down this guy is an NFL player, 775 00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,719 Speaker 1: total buddy of mine. About him, I said he need 776 00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:21,279 Speaker 1: to go check him out. But a week later I 777 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:23,320 Speaker 1: got a text and said, poor, you were right, And 778 00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:25,160 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Traymont Smith has been visiting the 779 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:28,280 Speaker 1: Eagles the Colts, a number of different teams, the Raiders 780 00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,960 Speaker 1: as well, Tray Smith, Central Arkansas. I think he ends 781 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,040 Speaker 1: up going on Day three. But man, he is a 782 00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:35,359 Speaker 1: big time player, and I think he's gonna end up 783 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:38,360 Speaker 1: making a roster and be a part of a team's 784 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:42,600 Speaker 1: secondary and eventually impact that secondary by getting on the field. 785 00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:46,120 Speaker 1: Second one Southland Conference PJ. Hall. I think Hall is 786 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:47,600 Speaker 1: going to go higher than any of the players from 787 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:50,600 Speaker 1: the Southland Conference, and I think he could sneak into 788 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:54,600 Speaker 1: the third round. I don't ultimately think he's probably a 789 00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:58,160 Speaker 1: three to four round, three, round four guy. But those 790 00:36:58,200 --> 00:36:59,960 Speaker 1: of you that have fouled Sam, he's stayed football, you 791 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:05,080 Speaker 1: know the guy was a complete just shop wrecker every time. 792 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,319 Speaker 1: And I probably did. I think I did five same 793 00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:11,120 Speaker 1: Houston State games. No, I did six, six and two years. 794 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:13,160 Speaker 1: One of them Hall didn't play. That was the opening 795 00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,560 Speaker 1: game against Richmond where I saw Kyle Aletta up close, 796 00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:19,200 Speaker 1: and I didn't think second or third round, but that's 797 00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:20,640 Speaker 1: ultimately where he might go. But I thought he'd be 798 00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:23,800 Speaker 1: an NFL player either way. PJ. Hall could dominate it 799 00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:27,200 Speaker 1: could completely just take over games against FCS competition. Had 800 00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,239 Speaker 1: a great week at the Shrine at the Shrine Bowl, 801 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,520 Speaker 1: and he part layed that into a Oh no, that's right. 802 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:35,200 Speaker 1: He didn't get a combined invite, so on his pro 803 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:38,919 Speaker 1: day back in late March, he blew it up. It's 804 00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:41,880 Speaker 1: a guy at six foot a six foot and a 805 00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,919 Speaker 1: half inch. So about the hype. The Baker Mayfield three 806 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:47,399 Speaker 1: O eight played his junior year at two eighty five, 807 00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:50,319 Speaker 1: played three three ten as a senior three O eight. 808 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,520 Speaker 1: His pro day had a thirty eight inch vertical. I 809 00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:55,280 Speaker 1: just said, three hundred eight pounds thirty eight inch vertical, 810 00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:59,400 Speaker 1: ran four seven five and the forty did thirty seven 811 00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:05,359 Speaker 1: reps of twenty five at a bench. Strong's knocks, quick, fast, disruptive, 812 00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:10,560 Speaker 1: blocked fourteen kicks in his career. Could dominate FCS competition 813 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:12,400 Speaker 1: when he wanted to, and that was if there's an 814 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:16,000 Speaker 1: issue that was it would he always do that because 815 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,040 Speaker 1: there were times he kind of but he could play 816 00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:21,200 Speaker 1: every position on the defensive line and when it was 817 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,480 Speaker 1: time to make a play, ninety two may to play PJ. 818 00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,080 Speaker 1: Haff from out of South sam Houston State. The third 819 00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,920 Speaker 1: one is actually right here in Houston, an HBU. Garrett Dolan, 820 00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:34,440 Speaker 1: one of the smartest, most instinctive linebackers I saw on 821 00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:37,319 Speaker 1: film at any level and watching him and I did 822 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,799 Speaker 1: I think probably four HBU games in the last couple 823 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:44,080 Speaker 1: of years he was. He was the middle of that defense. 824 00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:46,319 Speaker 1: He's been a lot of talk about Chris Hardiman from 825 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:48,480 Speaker 1: Out of a Leaf, who went to Oklahoma State and 826 00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,440 Speaker 1: then went to HBU. Dolan may not have quite that 827 00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:55,319 Speaker 1: athleticism we talking about, smarts instinctive. I kind of liked 828 00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:59,120 Speaker 1: him to Max Bullo without some of the off the 829 00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:01,920 Speaker 1: field issues. I think that's kind of what Garrett Dolan is. 830 00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,359 Speaker 1: Big time player, and I know there's some teams around 831 00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:06,839 Speaker 1: the league that are looking at him, saying these guys 832 00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,080 Speaker 1: are sleepers. Don't talk about him. Well, I just talked 833 00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:12,879 Speaker 1: about him. So Garrett Dolan from HBU. I don't think 834 00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:14,560 Speaker 1: that Dole ends up getting drafted, but I do think 835 00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,440 Speaker 1: he's gonna be a priority free agent. So definitely keep 836 00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:20,880 Speaker 1: your eyes peeled for where Garrett Dolan and he would be. 837 00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:24,560 Speaker 1: I believe the first HBU player on into a camp 838 00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:26,920 Speaker 1: position player, I don't I don't think they've had anybody 839 00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:28,960 Speaker 1: else prior to that. I can remember. I could be wrong, 840 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,760 Speaker 1: but that I remember. But Dolan was an All American, 841 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:37,640 Speaker 1: All Southern Conference, tackled everything keeping on Garrett Dolan from 842 00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:39,759 Speaker 1: ont hbu my quarterback that I think it end up 843 00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,560 Speaker 1: being a sleeper. Everybody's talking about Kyla Letta and even 844 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:44,239 Speaker 1: some of the other guys, Kurt Bank, Kurt Mike White, 845 00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:45,920 Speaker 1: guys who are at the Senior Bowl. I'm gonna give 846 00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:50,799 Speaker 1: you Chad Knoff quarterback Princeton. Yes, I said Princeton. He's 847 00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,560 Speaker 1: an Ivy leaguer, deal with it. Six four two twenty 848 00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:56,680 Speaker 1: ran four eight in his forty. He's got a ton 849 00:39:56,719 --> 00:40:00,000 Speaker 1: of athleticism. And I saw two games with Canoff last year. 850 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:01,600 Speaker 1: One was against my and I had to turn it 851 00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:04,359 Speaker 1: off playing Brown, and they scored every time they had 852 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:08,080 Speaker 1: the ball. It was it was scary. And then against 853 00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:10,400 Speaker 1: Harvard he did the same thing. It was up and 854 00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:13,120 Speaker 1: down the field, complete over seventy three percent of his passes. 855 00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:17,080 Speaker 1: A tremendous developmental prospect. I think I would love to 856 00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:21,319 Speaker 1: see Chatknoff here, a guy with size, speed, dual threat 857 00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:24,319 Speaker 1: ability and arm strength and toughness. Man. I saw him 858 00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,719 Speaker 1: take some shots that stand in there, and there's one 859 00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:28,680 Speaker 1: corner route that he completed. I think it may have 860 00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:33,319 Speaker 1: been against Cornell and it was a deep corner routs 861 00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:35,759 Speaker 1: from the right hash all the way to the left sideline, 862 00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:37,600 Speaker 1: and he hung in there and he knew where he 863 00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:38,840 Speaker 1: wanted to go with the ball. He's just waited for 864 00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:41,080 Speaker 1: his receiver to get there and he let it go 865 00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,239 Speaker 1: and took a shot in the chops and I'm talking 866 00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:48,680 Speaker 1: to drop it in a bucket. Chatknoff Princeton definite sleeper 867 00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:53,800 Speaker 1: as a quarterback. Now, not all the sleepers that I 868 00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:56,680 Speaker 1: have pointed out all come from FCS schools. Those guys 869 00:40:56,680 --> 00:41:01,040 Speaker 1: all did. One that comes from FBS school In fact, 870 00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:03,640 Speaker 1: he played against I believe he played against the Shawan 871 00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:09,360 Speaker 1: from North Carolina names Andre Smith. Andre played at a 872 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:13,040 Speaker 1: tremendous high school in Jacksonville called Trinity Christian. Trinity Christian 873 00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:16,359 Speaker 1: in this draft alone has four guys that came out 874 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,799 Speaker 1: of that draft. The lat the twenty fourteen Trinity Christian team, 875 00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:21,759 Speaker 1: and I used to coach against Trinity Christian and it 876 00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:24,120 Speaker 1: was right at that point where Trinity decided we're gonna 877 00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:25,799 Speaker 1: be a really good football team and a really good 878 00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,319 Speaker 1: athletic program. And it's gone through the roof. Well. This 879 00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:32,280 Speaker 1: year they have Kevin Tolliver, coronerad lsu Kendrick Norton defensive 880 00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:37,720 Speaker 1: lineman at Miami, Andre Smith, and Jeff Holland out of Auburn. 881 00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:39,680 Speaker 1: Those are four guys that came out of the same 882 00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:41,880 Speaker 1: high school program. I mean, this was dominant state winning 883 00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:45,520 Speaker 1: championship team. Smith didn't play much this year. He was 884 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:47,399 Speaker 1: hurting the second game, miss the rest of the year, 885 00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,000 Speaker 1: but he was able to come back and work out. 886 00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:52,719 Speaker 1: Ran four six three at the combine, six foot but 887 00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:57,520 Speaker 1: two thirty five to forty and will knock your lights out. 888 00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:01,120 Speaker 1: He will hit you goodness. He filed in for Shaquie 889 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,560 Speaker 1: or Shot, who was in camp and on this Texas 890 00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:06,760 Speaker 1: practice squad for a couple of years, so he stepped 891 00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:09,080 Speaker 1: in for a Shaquille. Different kind of players. Smith is 892 00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:11,640 Speaker 1: a hitter, probably a first and second down player and 893 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,880 Speaker 1: special teams you talk about rocked up and will strike. 894 00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:17,840 Speaker 1: Andre Smith out of North Carolina is definitely one of 895 00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,719 Speaker 1: those guys. Tamone Paris is offensive tackle a Stony Brook 896 00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:23,759 Speaker 1: Stony Brook. Yeah, afters school got into the playoffs this year, 897 00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:25,160 Speaker 1: we went to go watch the playoff game to see 898 00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:27,120 Speaker 1: him and I'm trying to figure out where he is 899 00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:28,879 Speaker 1: and I'm i had seen him before him waiting. He's 900 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:30,920 Speaker 1: now in the field. He got hurt about halfway through 901 00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:33,879 Speaker 1: the year and missed most of the season. But an 902 00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:38,400 Speaker 1: athletic looking long arm offensive tackle, and I think he 903 00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:41,400 Speaker 1: probably stays at tackle that you probably can get in 904 00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:43,480 Speaker 1: rounds four and five, and the Texas don't have a 905 00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:46,120 Speaker 1: fifth round pick. Maybe he slips to six. But Tamone 906 00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:49,040 Speaker 1: Paris out of Stony Brook as a definite sleeper in 907 00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:54,080 Speaker 1: his draft worth keep an eye on, no doubt about that. Now, 908 00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:59,120 Speaker 1: a couple of guys from Grambling that I really like, 909 00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:04,040 Speaker 1: running back by the name of Martes Carter, little guy, 910 00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:07,680 Speaker 1: short guy five to seven two ten, ran four to 911 00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,920 Speaker 1: four nine, smoked it and you talk about a human 912 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:14,680 Speaker 1: highlight real, Holy smokes. And then safety Montrel Meander six 913 00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:18,680 Speaker 1: two two fifteen four four and to forty safety with 914 00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:20,960 Speaker 1: thirty seven and a half inch vertical leap. So both 915 00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:22,759 Speaker 1: him on film and thought, man, they could play you 916 00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:26,200 Speaker 1: match out with the pro day athleticism. Holy smokes. There's 917 00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:28,640 Speaker 1: some pretty good players right there from Grambling. Martest Carter 918 00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:33,400 Speaker 1: the running back and Montreal Meander the safety for the 919 00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,440 Speaker 1: Grambling Tigers. So there you go, a few sleepers to 920 00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:38,160 Speaker 1: keep an eye on. I got a few more. I 921 00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,120 Speaker 1: got an article coming out of Washington Post on Friday 922 00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:42,120 Speaker 1: where you can read a few more that I've pointed out. 923 00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,760 Speaker 1: But the draft starts tomorrow. It's gonna be fun. Glad 924 00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,879 Speaker 1: you're here with us for the entire weekend. I would 925 00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:51,240 Speaker 1: be their entire weekend, talking ball, talking draft. Andre marking 926 00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:54,040 Speaker 1: myself on Thursday a reminder you do not want to 927 00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:56,279 Speaker 1: miss it. All access at six. Appreciate you guys with 928 00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:59,920 Speaker 1: see tomorrow. The NFL is on the clock starting tomorrow night, 929 00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:02,440 Speaker 1: and I can't wait to see that. Everybody is always 930 00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:02,880 Speaker 1: go texting