Speaker 1: This is Texans huddle, and this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: fun one because hey, it's me Drew Doherty. We got
Speaker 1: Travis Johnson two thousand and five first round pick of
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. Played in the NFL for about a
Speaker 1: decade here and in San Diego with the Chargers.
Speaker 2: And to his right is right.
Speaker 1: Tackle George Fant George you ready, ready, you got a
Speaker 1: little teeny tiny taste of Travis and kind of who
Speaker 1: his personality is, what his personality is when you walked in.
Speaker 1: But first things first, how you feel in two days
Speaker 1: after a pretty darned impressive win on the road at Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: Man feels good. Man, come off a you know, second
Speaker 3: second win in a row. It feels good. So you know,
Speaker 3: I just go out there and played well, get a win.
Speaker 1: So and you're playing for a head coach and Dimigo
Speaker 1: Ryans who played played right behind this guy in Travis.
Speaker 1: What's what's it been like coming here? Because you've been
Speaker 1: in Seattle, you've been with the New York Jets, and
Speaker 1: now you're here. What's it been like playing for him?
Speaker 1: You've seen some different coaches in your time in the NFL.
Speaker 3: Man, I was just talking about that man, And I'm
Speaker 3: really enjoying myself. Man, my eight years in the league
Speaker 3: feel like I'm honestly having the best time in my career.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: You know, so, uh, you know, it's it's pretty cool
Speaker 3: to play for a coach like that, man who's been
Speaker 3: in been in it with, been in it before, played
Speaker 3: the game at high level, kind of understands the players
Speaker 3: a little differently, man. So so, like I said, I
Speaker 3: really enjoying myself having a really good time.
Speaker 2: There, Travis, how much does that matter?
Speaker 1: The understanding of the players, And after having gone through
Speaker 1: what Demiko went through? And you're the perfect guy to
Speaker 1: talk to about this because you know, played with the
Speaker 1: Miro and you've seen what's be going on.
Speaker 2: How big an impact can that be?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 5: I mean I always say, man, when you look at
Speaker 5: when you look at teams, teams are direct reflection of
Speaker 5: their leadership, and at the position coaches. You look at
Speaker 5: position coaches their directly reflection of the guy that's the
Speaker 5: leader in their room. And when you get guys like Demko,
Speaker 5: who once again when he was here, he was our
Speaker 5: he was our leader from the first day he got here,
Speaker 5: you know, so it's exciting to see you know, like
Speaker 5: when I saw him after the game and I seen them,
Speaker 5: you know, I just.
Speaker 4: It gave me.
Speaker 5: It gives me so much enjoyment when I see him,
Speaker 5: I see me, I see the kids, and just how
Speaker 5: we've all come, but how far he's come. And it's
Speaker 5: phenomenal to watch because I see the guys buying in.
Speaker 4: I see and they know it's not fake. You know.
Speaker 4: You know you've been around coaches.
Speaker 5: You know when you play long enough in the league
Speaker 5: where they might be friends with somebody else to get
Speaker 5: to get a job. You know, you see a guy
Speaker 5: who might not know as much as the eight year
Speaker 5: vet that sitting in the room, and they sitting there like, man,
Speaker 5: this is what we got to do. But when it
Speaker 5: comes from a guy like Miko, who learned the game
Speaker 5: from behind that face mask, it's a whole different ball game.
Speaker 1: And he just brought something up behind that face mask.
Speaker 1: There's a little tidbit. First thing, I've been here a while.
Speaker 1: I got here about four years after you, two thousand
Speaker 1: and nine, and one of the first things I learned
Speaker 1: was Demko Ryans had to get a new face mask
Speaker 1: installed on his helmet after every game. Yeah, he's bending
Speaker 1: it and cracking it and all that. Anyhow, what's it
Speaker 1: like right now? You guys are on a roll. I
Speaker 1: mean two in a row, Texans having won two hadn't
Speaker 1: had two game win streaks in a long, long time
Speaker 1: around here.
Speaker 4: It has been two thousand and would have been nineteen. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the last time that happened.
Speaker 1: Had a three game win streak since eight team in
Speaker 1: the midst of the nine game win streak. But what's
Speaker 1: it like because you've been here since Week one before
Speaker 1: that really, but regular season wise, you guys are clearly
Speaker 1: taking massive, massive steps along the way.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: What I'll say, bro, I feel like not much it's changed, man.
Speaker 3: I think I think that's what makes this situation kind
Speaker 3: of dope. Man, Just like I think that guys are,
Speaker 3: you know, the same from from weak ones they are now.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't think anybody is like, you know,
Speaker 3: too high off the winds, you know, and after a loss,
Speaker 3: you know, it hasn't been too low. It's not a
Speaker 3: situation where guys where like people panning. I've been in
Speaker 3: situations where you lose a game, you lose two, and
Speaker 3: then it's panning mode. You know what I'm saying. People
Speaker 3: and that's when things go downhill. Man, I don't think
Speaker 3: it's ever been that, no waiver anybody in it in
Speaker 3: it's building, you know. So man, it's refreshing to be
Speaker 3: around that bro. It's like really refreshing to be around
Speaker 3: some people who you know, are the same way every
Speaker 3: single day, attacking the day the same every day. So
Speaker 3: I feel like the building right now is definitely on
Speaker 3: the you know, in the right path, and people are
Speaker 3: you know, thinking the right things, just you know, working
Speaker 3: with the guys every day and not changing up who
Speaker 3: they are.
Speaker 1: So all right, Travis quipping, So damn serious, let's have
Speaker 1: some fun on the show.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: My biggest thing is, you know, when I look at
Speaker 5: this team, I laughed because and I told Miko yesterday,
Speaker 5: I told cal, I told all I said, man, look
Speaker 5: right now, we easily get be seven to two facts,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. And a seven and two
Speaker 5: team right now is scary, like to come off of
Speaker 5: what we've been through the last few years and the
Speaker 5: bs from top to bottom.
Speaker 4: And to see me go come in.
Speaker 5: When you get coaches like that, man, and you get
Speaker 5: people who seriously genuine man, you can't beat that man,
Speaker 5: and I think for me, I'm excited because I see,
Speaker 5: like you said, nobody gets too high, nobody gets too low.
Speaker 5: But you see how much they love winning and they
Speaker 5: love being around. Like when we had to running back
Speaker 5: kick the freaking field goal the other day, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm.
Speaker 4: Saying, And you did?
Speaker 2: You did you know he could do that?
Speaker 3: I didn't even notice who it was, so I was
Speaker 3: thinking it was gonna be Cam kicking. I didn't know,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. I'm thinking, like, I'm like, man,
Speaker 3: why he ain't kicked the ball. I knew, I knew
Speaker 3: how he was hurt, but I didn't know that was
Speaker 3: you know else. No, I look back at him, like,
Speaker 3: oh yeah.
Speaker 5: And when I when I watched the clip Miko like
Speaker 5: they had they had the dual clip, Miko looking at
Speaker 5: it and him kicking it, and I watched Miko not
Speaker 5: get too high. But I've seen that smirk on his face,
Speaker 5: and it reminded me of when I when I used
Speaker 5: to tell him like random you know, I can't I
Speaker 5: don't know if he cares on this, but random stuff,
Speaker 5: you know exactly, that's on the other one, you know,
Speaker 5: random stuff in the game, and he gave me that smirk,
Speaker 5: like tighten up now, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: But no, but George, I got a quick question. What's up?
Speaker 4: Who like one on one game? You and your wife?
Speaker 4: Who wins?
Speaker 1: Okay, give a little background here that man, give a
Speaker 1: little background, George, tell us the audience.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I was a college basketball player. Four years
Speaker 3: of college basketball, switched over football.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. You don't know I'm playing the.
Speaker 3: I played defense, but nah, so and then my wife
Speaker 3: is an All American basketall player, Like she killer, killer
Speaker 3: on that court.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: So she still plays now, like you know, requees and
Speaker 3: stuff like that. But she was don't don't listen, don't
Speaker 3: don't don't call it down now.
Speaker 5: She was the next Smith watch list. Person was up,
Speaker 5: was up for player of the year last year in school.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean, Like, hey, you god for
Speaker 4: the year, and she was. She was a dog. The
Speaker 4: question is with them kids, the kids gonna play.
Speaker 2: Football, the chosen ones, them kids?
Speaker 4: Because you know, I don't know your name. I was like, man,
Speaker 4: I breathed it because I tell you know what.
Speaker 5: It makes me so mad when you see guys with
Speaker 5: great genetics.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, like this dude got little ankles.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. You know, you know something,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 3: You got to pick the right You got to pick
Speaker 3: the right partner. You can't go and find it because
Speaker 3: just because she to find this little short.
Speaker 4: Girl out of here. You can't listen.
Speaker 5: I dated the ones like that, and I'm like, man, listen,
Speaker 5: I love you, don't get me wrong, but we can't
Speaker 5: have no kid is together. You know, the Lord blessed
Speaker 5: me with great a first round DNA, and I gotta
Speaker 5: have somebody else next to him.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: I look at like my guy, Marcus Spears, who's on ESPN.
Speaker 5: Marcus married a basketball player, and right now, Marcus, his
Speaker 5: daughter is the number one volleyball player of classes twenty
Speaker 5: six or twenty four, whatever.
Speaker 4: Class is coming up. Yeah is she six foot fall?
Speaker 4: Like you gotta breache your kills. Yeah, I know something. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So my boys, I got two boys, seven and six,
Speaker 3: and I got.
Speaker 4: A little girl. My oldest he he got it. Man.
Speaker 3: He athlete, all three of my athletes. Man, but he
Speaker 3: basketball football. My daughter's basketball with my son, my middle son.
Speaker 4: He's like the polar opposite.
Speaker 3: He playing hockey right now ice hockey. So I'm excited
Speaker 3: about that man, because we just moved to Nashville, so
Speaker 3: he got to see the Predators a little bit. And
Speaker 3: then the school he goes to some of his some
Speaker 3: of the people in his classy hockey so and he
Speaker 3: told me he wanted to play. I was automatically excited
Speaker 3: because I like, I liked I just started Likeking hockey.
Speaker 2: Too, a tremendous athlete.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, So I'm like, man, let's do it.
Speaker 3: So he just started. He just learned how to ice skate.
Speaker 3: He just finished that. But the start of practice in
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks. So first year at it.
Speaker 5: I don't think people realize, like it's it's the lacrosse
Speaker 5: players and hockey players. How big some of them dudes
Speaker 5: nice too, and they made a little.
Speaker 2: Dudes and if they're good, they're shifting exactly.
Speaker 4: And when you see that, it's a whole different ball.
Speaker 4: Who was it? Popak Jones had had the son that was.
Speaker 5: Yeah, who was he was a basketball player's son?
Speaker 4: Black kid on the ice? I love it.
Speaker 5: PK Subband one of my favorites. PK Suban used to
Speaker 5: be out there like, you know, like who was it?
Speaker 4: Said?
Speaker 5: The entertainer said, you know, they let black people on ice,
Speaker 5: they didn't want to let us one because they out
Speaker 5: there with no with no stick, just.
Speaker 4: Out here out here hitting people, you know.
Speaker 5: And I think it's dope that she got him in there, man,
Speaker 5: because I used to play.
Speaker 4: I used to play street hockey.
Speaker 2: So you know he's from southern California.
Speaker 5: Okay, southern cal And so we moved out of Englewood.
Speaker 5: I moved to the predominantly white neighborhood, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying, And all the kids down in the cult
Speaker 5: to Sack will play hockey. And the first couple of
Speaker 5: times I'm out just running around with the stick. But
Speaker 5: you know, didn't have no skates. First thing I did. Man,
Speaker 5: hey I need some inline skates. I need to be
Speaker 5: able to inline skate.
Speaker 4: I need.
Speaker 5: I wanted to get out there. So I think that's
Speaker 5: super dope, man. I think we and the beauty of it, man,
Speaker 5: when you got kids, and you know this too, is
Speaker 5: that you get to watch them grow and you get
Speaker 5: to watch their past, the past they take. Like when
Speaker 5: my kid I got five of them and two boys.
Speaker 5: Probably my best athlete overall is probably my youngest daughter,
Speaker 5: my youngest son probably is the one who's gonna be
Speaker 5: the greatest out all of them.
Speaker 4: Because he just he just want them dudes. He's just
Speaker 4: a dude, you know.
Speaker 5: What I'm saying, means a rattlesnake all the time, and
Speaker 5: he's just he's just that guy, you know. But it's
Speaker 5: beautiful to watch him, to watch him grow. Man, that's dope. Man,
Speaker 5: I like that hockey. Man, that's cool. Why why Nashville, though,
Speaker 5: Why you pick Cashville?
Speaker 4: The move?
Speaker 3: So I'm I'm I'm from closer there. I'm like forty
Speaker 3: five minutes Kentucky.
Speaker 5: The first black dude I've met from Bone the Green real. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean I know, I know they're out there.
Speaker 3: But brothers, some hoopers out the We hoop. Yeah, that's
Speaker 3: what we do. Because because you went to what's the name,
Speaker 3: what's high school?
Speaker 4: You went to war Warriston. You always got good basketball,
Speaker 4: high school basketball.
Speaker 5: What I was in high school, I remember watching them
Speaker 5: come up, you know what I mean, Like, okay.
Speaker 4: All right, we hoop out of there. Man.
Speaker 3: So, so it's forty five minutes from from the crib man,
Speaker 3: So I was like, I want to be in a city,
Speaker 3: you know what, I'm saying I've been I've been in
Speaker 3: all these different cities and I can't go back to
Speaker 3: on to a small town. So and then I do
Speaker 3: a lot of work in Nashville too, So it was
Speaker 3: kind of kind of made sense for me.
Speaker 4: What so my my, I mean, I know we're getting
Speaker 4: off topic a little bit.
Speaker 1: But that's what we do on the ships, right tackle
Speaker 1: George fan as well.
Speaker 5: So, so my thing is you far enough, You far
Speaker 5: enough from the crib, and you ain't got to be
Speaker 5: your cousin.
Speaker 4: Stuff like coffee you pull up, no question, Yeah, just
Speaker 4: popping up. No, not forty five.
Speaker 3: I mean, I love my family. It's all good, it's
Speaker 3: all love. But they're gonna call man, it's all.
Speaker 5: Why you when you came down to your top five schools,
Speaker 5: did West Kentucky was at one of oll the schools
Speaker 5: to let you play both?
Speaker 4: So I didn't.
Speaker 3: So I never I've never played football, man, Like I
Speaker 3: tried to play football one year in high school because
Speaker 3: you didn't play football in college and I never played
Speaker 3: the last time I played football was like eighth grade,
Speaker 3: seventh grade, seventh grade.
Speaker 2: Never remarkable, So it's dope.
Speaker 3: So I tried to so my senior crazy story. Like
Speaker 3: my senior year, I all these different college I offers
Speaker 3: in basketball, like different different all kind of good ones,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. So it's like my high
Speaker 3: school football coach is like, man, look, man, just come
Speaker 3: out and try it one time. Like don't just just
Speaker 3: come and give it a try, and give it a try.
Speaker 3: So like one of my best friends at the time,
Speaker 3: my point guard, he was a quarterback too, so he
Speaker 3: went back to play for a year. So I snuck
Speaker 3: out there, you know what I'm saying. Tell my parents,
Speaker 3: ain't tell nobody. I just after school. I just they
Speaker 3: usually think I'm working out basketball. I just skipped that
Speaker 3: with the full practice, you know what I'm saying. When
Speaker 3: out there in practice and stuff, had a really good practice,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. It kind of came natural
Speaker 3: for me. And then uh my mom found out, like
Speaker 3: probably had practice, so she showed up. She drove her
Speaker 3: van on the field. On the field, bro Like literally
Speaker 3: they literally drove her van on the field.
Speaker 2: What the team do? How they react?
Speaker 4: They laughing?
Speaker 3: Man like to take this stuff off and getting the
Speaker 3: car about the coaches though everybody was so the coach
Speaker 3: at the time was a pastor and like he's a
Speaker 3: past or whatever.
Speaker 4: So he came on mind.
Speaker 3: He was like, man, his fans like I talked to God,
Speaker 3: Like he said, George need be playing football.
Speaker 4: She's like, I don't give it. I don't. You got
Speaker 4: this car.
Speaker 3: But what's funny is and we always joke about it,
Speaker 3: like he was right, man, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: This whole time, I wish I had to play in
Speaker 3: high school, but I didn't play, man. So but going
Speaker 3: back to picking that school, man, it was like a
Speaker 3: hometown deal, like you know what I'm saying. Honestly, was
Speaker 3: about to go to Kent State. The committed there first,
Speaker 3: but then uh, you know, last minute, last minute decision,
Speaker 3: end up switching back.
Speaker 1: A few hours, a few hours west of Bowling Green though, right,
Speaker 1: Penn State. No, No, no, Western Kentucky where you want him?
Speaker 3: No? No, It's like literally, bro, like not even a
Speaker 3: mile to my high school on the campus.
Speaker 2: Are you serious? Okay, I walked my ignorant of geography
Speaker 2: right there.
Speaker 5: So that's my thing because I mean, I see it,
Speaker 5: and I guess for me, I played I hoop growing up,
Speaker 5: playing the A U circuit all that stuff. But it
Speaker 5: was always you're the biggest dude on the team or
Speaker 5: near the big you got to play down down low,
Speaker 5: and it's like a yeah, I played a little powerful.
Speaker 5: We got a nice little shot. But at the same time,
Speaker 5: nobody ever tears you. Like man, you've got these big bones,
Speaker 5: this big structure like basketball Lake Joe sports man.
Speaker 3: By Betweeno trying to get me to come out. Uh
Speaker 3: because he's a Louisville then he's at Westerns after.
Speaker 5: He fell off the can am he would never fell off.
Speaker 4: I don't still fell off. I don't think he ever
Speaker 4: fell on the screen. Is he got you know?
Speaker 3: But uh but but Bobby was trying to give me
Speaker 3: out there that uh will he tagger was trying to
Speaker 3: get me out there.
Speaker 4: Man, I'm glad.
Speaker 5: I'm glad you played for Willy Willy Terrible Willy my
Speaker 5: dog Will.
Speaker 4: I just really tagging man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, system everywhere. You know what I'm saying. You know,
Speaker 3: and it ain't I don't know. For me, it wasn't
Speaker 3: the system. It was the outside of stuff like that.
Speaker 5: Day to day the day I'm like, man, you like
Speaker 5: Florida boy is different than the boys in Kentucky.
Speaker 4: Like y'all got more disciplined I don't know. Man. Our
Speaker 4: whole team is from Florida and it's probably a bunch
Speaker 4: of undisciplined be you know what I'm saying. I ain't
Speaker 4: gonna lie. And they got some dudes up out of it.
Speaker 4: I don't know where they found them from.
Speaker 5: They can, they can bar because that's all they eat. Breech,
Speaker 5: sleep and use the bathroom football, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: But when it comes time to when it comes time to,
Speaker 5: you gotta have At Florida State, when I was there,
Speaker 5: we had killer stills and drug dealers. You got to
Speaker 5: put You got to give them direction. And that's what
Speaker 5: everybody wants. And when we wh you go to practice,
Speaker 5: the music louder than than anything. And I'm like, it's
Speaker 5: cool to have music at practice. That's cool, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean. It was a change for us, old dudes.
Speaker 5: But at the same time, if I can't coach you up.
Speaker 5: That's one thing about football. If you make a mistake
Speaker 5: in practice, especially at the college level, you make a
Speaker 5: mistake in practice, you got to be able to correct
Speaker 5: him right now and give them that correction, give them
Speaker 5: that guidance. If you go back later on an hour
Speaker 5: or two hours later, and talk about it in the
Speaker 5: film study. It ain't nothing he could do to fix that,
Speaker 5: and he probably gonna forget about it next time he
Speaker 5: stepped on the field. And I just, you know, it's
Speaker 5: just it. Some of the stuff just bothered me.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 5: It was it was just and I hated it because
Speaker 5: I knew what it meant for the culture of black coaches,
Speaker 5: the opportunity, the opportunity and the gold of Tallahassee and
Speaker 5: not do well. It's said, I think it set a
Speaker 5: lot of coaches back for some years, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. And because I wanted him to be successful too,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. But it just was and
Speaker 5: when it when it started, when it started going downhill
Speaker 5: from day one, it.
Speaker 4: Was like, oh my goodness, what we're gonna do.
Speaker 3: But I feel it's one of situations too, Man. You
Speaker 3: had you had a school like Florida State, Man, and
Speaker 3: it has to be now. It ain't no, you know, no,
Speaker 3: no two through your plan, you know, especially in college football, Man,
Speaker 3: it's it's a now you always, especially and especially if
Speaker 3: you're a black coach. That's why I think that kind
Speaker 3: of played a part in it. Man, And bro I
Speaker 3: love Willie Man. I think I think Willy is a
Speaker 3: good coach.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: I just think that you know, situations will always work
Speaker 3: out for you.
Speaker 1: We got George right tackle for the Texans as the guests,
Speaker 1: as well as Travis Johnson, former Houston Texans, current Texans
Speaker 1: legend and ambassador Hey Bowling Green. It's really close to Nashville,
Speaker 1: like you said, it's also not too too far about
Speaker 1: three hours from Cincinnati. Was there were there some extra
Speaker 1: fans in the building on behalf of the fans on Sunday.
Speaker 2: What was that like?
Speaker 3: So originally I'm from Cincinnati, Okay, that was like a
Speaker 3: homecoming game for me.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: That's why I grew up most of my life and
Speaker 3: then moved to Kentucky after so Man, being able to
Speaker 3: go home, like my grandmother got to see me play, like,
Speaker 3: and all my family, my moms still live there, you know,
Speaker 3: so they all have to come down to the game, man,
Speaker 3: And that was a good opportunity for for all my
Speaker 3: family in Cincinnati. We've never been to a game to
Speaker 3: come see me play.
Speaker 2: So for both of you, I want to hear this.
Speaker 1: But starting with you, George, that post game experience right
Speaker 1: after you you've you've gotten dressed, in showered, you've done
Speaker 1: your media or whatever.
Speaker 2: You go out.
Speaker 1: What happens next when you're mingling with family and friends
Speaker 1: on the road, especially in a spot like that where
Speaker 1: you know you've got a pretty big continuent.
Speaker 4: Folks for me, you ever been, you've been before?
Speaker 2: I have.
Speaker 3: I love you know, it's this nice famous for the skyline.
Speaker 3: That's what I had. Right when they game over, I
Speaker 3: was like, loove, man, whatever y'all do. Make sure y'all
Speaker 3: bring me twenty coneyes in a three way and I'm good.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. Like so, so they pull
Speaker 3: it up with the Conies. I got to I got
Speaker 3: to share with the old line who never had it.
Speaker 3: So so that was dope, man. But usually you know
Speaker 3: after the games, man, when you got family, there a
Speaker 3: whole lot of family. There's a good like I said, man,
Speaker 3: a lot of them people. You ain't seen itfever.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. You hear every day for months.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying at the time, and then
Speaker 3: when you're not here, you in the off season, you
Speaker 3: training and you're traveling.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, which immediate family.
Speaker 3: So it's a good opportunity to you know, see them,
Speaker 3: and especially for people who ain't seen you play and forever,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. So it's a good time
Speaker 3: to go see them and get to you know, take
Speaker 3: pictures and they can meet other guys on the team
Speaker 3: who they you know, fans of and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: So and I know, guys on the team. I don't
Speaker 3: know how it was, you know, obviously, like if we're
Speaker 3: on the team and you know drav is great player,
Speaker 3: you know, one of my family members, going to meet him,
Speaker 3: it's always love.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's a good opportunity for that too, man,
Speaker 3: and especially for the kids and select that too.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1: When you were was it the Chargers games on the road,
Speaker 1: when the Texans played there?
Speaker 3: Was that the biggest Those were Those were my Those
Speaker 3: were my biggest because yeah, you remember, so for me
Speaker 3: was you know, I left when I left home at
Speaker 3: seventeen to go two thousand, nine hundred and seventy eight
Speaker 3: miles away from the house.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. That's crazy, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Like that that was it was different and nobody did it.
Speaker 5: And then I I the part that wasn't that part
Speaker 5: that was terrible. Was my parents only could come to
Speaker 5: one or two games at Max, you know, every year,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. And so going home to
Speaker 5: the Chargers game, you know, the first time we went,
Speaker 5: I think that was was it right after it right
Speaker 5: after the big fire out there?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: And so Jay Bird, who was our equipment guy, he
Speaker 5: had a bunch of Texans shirts and jerseys printed up
Speaker 5: for me. So I gave it to all the families
Speaker 5: so that everybody had it on. And you know, after
Speaker 5: the game, you give some you know, get gains because
Speaker 5: I had to buy one hundred tickets. But I told everybody, hey, listen,
Speaker 5: you come up with half. I pay for the rest
Speaker 5: of it, because I just you know, if you want
Speaker 5: to come nothing, I ain't giving you nothing.
Speaker 4: Exactly.
Speaker 5: But what I but what I ended up really doing
Speaker 5: was I gave all the bread that they gave me.
Speaker 5: I gave it to the younger cousins, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying, the ones who never really ever seen me play,
Speaker 5: the ones who never was able to do that.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: But I think the thing you said that was probably
Speaker 5: the like where it gave me chills because my grandmother
Speaker 5: never got to see me play except for on the
Speaker 5: TV that was sitting on top of her, you know,
Speaker 5: because she was always either too sickly just too old
Speaker 5: to travel like that for for a game, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean, even when she came here, you know,
Speaker 5: for when I'm when I was playing home games when
Speaker 5: she was still alive, it was, you know, she's too
Speaker 5: old and too frail to take her and try to
Speaker 5: get her through the chaos of a stadium game.
Speaker 4: That yeah, So that I think that was.
Speaker 5: I don't think not until because I don't know how
Speaker 5: old your grandma, your granny is. Yeah, my granny was
Speaker 5: was late eighties, you know what I'm saying, almost ninety
Speaker 5: years old, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: And it was so for me.
Speaker 5: It's like, I don't think until you know, twenty years
Speaker 5: from now she passed. I don't think you really truly
Speaker 5: appreciate how dope it is for the kids to be
Speaker 5: around your around your grandmother, they great grandmother, and for
Speaker 5: her to be able to see her baby, who she
Speaker 5: probably probably was her favorite out of all these grandkids,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: And excuse my.
Speaker 5: Grandmama, cheating boy is different, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: And it just I remember her just even like when
Speaker 5: my granddaddy passed, like she gave all us twenty dollars,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, Like, hey man, this was
Speaker 5: this was just hanging around the house and it just
Speaker 5: was to me, Like, man, I get chills just thinking
Speaker 5: about my grandmama never got to see me place. I
Speaker 5: can only imagine how much pride. Like you gotta think
Speaker 5: like if like my parents, my family immigrants, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, from Panama, his family from from the States,
Speaker 5: probably you know what I'm saying, So you got to
Speaker 5: think about it. His grandmama, her grandma probably was a
Speaker 5: slave or went through you know, tough times. And to
Speaker 5: see and to see the maturation of my family to say,
Speaker 5: we got this dude up here who's doing big things
Speaker 5: against all odds in our family, Like look how far
Speaker 5: we come in a hundred years, Look how far our
Speaker 5: our families come. And I think that to me is
Speaker 5: the special stuff, Like when you really get to break
Speaker 5: down like like we are. I mean, it's thirty thousand
Speaker 5: of us to ever play the eighteen thousand of us
Speaker 5: still living, you know what I'm saying. And the same man,
Speaker 5: my baby, my grandchild is the one percent of the
Speaker 5: one percent. I think it gives them pride that I
Speaker 5: don't think people I don't think people even realize how
Speaker 5: much pride that gets you later on, especially for the
Speaker 5: older family members, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: No doubt in fact.
Speaker 1: And I guess you're in a sense you're looking forward
Speaker 1: to when the Texans play at Nashville at the Titans
Speaker 1: in a few weeks, you know what a month. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's gonna be almost as equal.
Speaker 3: Right, that's gonna be that one right there is gonna
Speaker 3: be crazy because like like I said, man, I grew
Speaker 3: up in that town of Bowling Green after LI Cincinnati
Speaker 3: and like high school, college, you know, and even like now,
Speaker 3: like I just moved from there, I still got the
Speaker 3: house there, you know what I'm saying. So I know
Speaker 3: for sure there's gonna be a lot of a lot
Speaker 3: of fans coming from from Bowling Green to that game.
Speaker 3: The games packed for us.
Speaker 4: So how big the house with that in Nashville, I
Speaker 4: know it's huge, spread out.
Speaker 5: Listen, I know the boy lived like country singers out there, man.
Speaker 1: The audio version of Cribs that mean over.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, like I got the old
Speaker 5: boy Chris Hold Chris Hope live in Nashville. He played,
Speaker 5: but he played for the Titans. But he played for
Speaker 5: the Steelers in Atlanta. But he's from rock Hill. You
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. It was right down the road
Speaker 5: and he got man. First time walked into his I said, man,
Speaker 5: I thought would be a grip. Well you got a spread.
Speaker 4: Out of it. Yeah, I'm staying with him the means,
Speaker 4: but it's it's straight.
Speaker 1: Was the one It was the one luxury, the one
Speaker 1: thing you really really want. I want this in my
Speaker 1: house or I want this. What was the one thing
Speaker 1: that you had?
Speaker 3: It's not in my house, but it's you know there,
Speaker 3: but uh.
Speaker 4: My simulator, my golf simulator.
Speaker 3: And uh yeah yeah, I had to do the golf simulator.
Speaker 3: And then I got like a so I got my
Speaker 3: weight room. But it's like it has like a rooftop
Speaker 3: to it, and I have a chipping and putting the
Speaker 3: area outside I can like chip off the So you
Speaker 3: a golfer, so you like I just got into Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I remember my first golf Did you play in
Speaker 5: textan tournament?
Speaker 4: I didn't, So that was the first.
Speaker 5: That was my first experience with golf hook and I
Speaker 5: was stuck. I was, but I love the game, but
Speaker 5: I hate it, like because he's like, it's how can
Speaker 5: I could do all this?
Speaker 4: But I can't control this a little ball to do
Speaker 4: what I needed.
Speaker 3: Because you, like, I mean, because I was just starting off,
Speaker 3: I was the same way. I'm like, I'm an athlete, Like,
Speaker 3: I know I can do it.
Speaker 4: I gotta.
Speaker 3: I gotta swing the club as hard as I can,
Speaker 3: like all this stuff.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: Once I started learning and started playing my grandfather a
Speaker 3: little bit, I started learning a little bit, like just
Speaker 3: like finesse, and just like the less not like the like,
Speaker 3: the less you put into it, the more you're gonna
Speaker 3: get out. Okay, now I'm hooked.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: So like, who's the best golf from the team right now?
Speaker 4: Is it? Man?
Speaker 3: I don't know, Man, I heard, I heard he's like that.
Speaker 3: I played with h I played with Michael Dieter one time.
Speaker 4: He's solid here, really good player.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: I want to play with a few guys I ain't
Speaker 3: really played.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: I ain't got to go out there a whole lot
Speaker 3: of guys yet.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: But man, first I was playing on every off day,
Speaker 3: every Tuesday. I'm out there. I'm at the was Wow,
Speaker 3: I played, I played the course, played the lakes.
Speaker 2: Okay, you like that one?
Speaker 3: I thought I did every time I hit the ball. Okay,
Speaker 3: it's a nice shot. I'll get down there at water.
Speaker 3: I can't even see the water. You guys, you gotta
Speaker 3: play the highlands. So we start, we start playing. You
Speaker 3: gotta because the lakes is long drive. But there's water here,
Speaker 3: water there, water.
Speaker 4: In spots man. So I was I lost.
Speaker 3: I think I went through a whole pack man, like
Speaker 3: I had at least go through twelve balls. Man, I'm
Speaker 3: like this crazy.
Speaker 2: He just made Travis. He just made me.
Speaker 1: Uh you me and my my eyes perk up when
Speaker 1: you said you're the first golf experience was here, oh five.
Speaker 1: So he most likely was at this tournament. And I think,
Speaker 1: if I'm guessing, President George H. W. Bush probably was
Speaker 1: in a car mighty have played a guy named James
Speaker 1: Baker who was like secretaries, he did everything in politics.
Speaker 2: He's still live, still was real powerful guy. He was
Speaker 2: probably there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, those those were first and I remember so so
Speaker 5: Bob was so like we show up and this was,
Speaker 5: you know, texting Urnam. I don't know, like I said,
Speaker 5: I don't know if you went this year, but like, uh,
Speaker 5: and what it used to because all of us when
Speaker 5: I first hear the team was so young, all of
Speaker 5: us lived here, so and the tournament used to be
Speaker 5: like I think during OTAs or one of them times,
Speaker 5: and we all went out and you know, we showed
Speaker 5: up just to come show up and be around the people.
Speaker 5: And I remember I showed up in Shorees T shirt,
Speaker 5: my little polo and some and some fresh new ones,
Speaker 5: and Bob was like, you're gonna play. And I'm sitting
Speaker 5: there like, man, but I don't know.
Speaker 4: How to play. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: He literally had to me his club and and I'm
Speaker 5: sitting on the drive. I'm sitting on the driving range,
Speaker 5: you know the one right out front, and just driving
Speaker 5: the ball going everywhere.
Speaker 4: I literally left there in a soaking sweat.
Speaker 5: I'm like, man, I'm but I left there and went
Speaker 5: and bought me a brand, brand, whole set and they
Speaker 5: was out. They was like, what you want, I said, man,
Speaker 5: shootin the maids.
Speaker 4: Man, I need the best thing right, give me the
Speaker 4: saint swinging I want. I don't know that, don't know.
Speaker 2: What are you still? Are you still on your first
Speaker 2: pair of clubs.
Speaker 3: Or no, no, no, So I so I'm on my
Speaker 3: third set right now.
Speaker 4: What you swing?
Speaker 3: Callaway a pas right now? At the clubs you.
Speaker 5: Use the NFL discount to get the cot making sure,
Speaker 5: let me get that off yeah.
Speaker 3: And then and then I got the h I got
Speaker 3: the for I got my drivers. Was it pined three
Speaker 3: twenty G three twenty five?
Speaker 4: I think it is. I think that's what it is.
Speaker 3: And uh so I got my driver the pin. But
Speaker 3: I'm not to probably get a new set though.
Speaker 5: Man see my second So at the time, I'm responsored
Speaker 5: by Nike.
Speaker 4: So Nike used to have clubs. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So we used to buy the clubs all night. You
Speaker 3: know they're given us twenty thirty thousand years.
Speaker 2: Tiger Woods Rock.
Speaker 3: We heard the Nike joints is nice.
Speaker 4: They don't make them no more. They all blaze. Is funny.
Speaker 4: You can get them offline. I think I want to.
Speaker 3: I want to get I want to get a set,
Speaker 3: just like I have a pair of man have a
Speaker 3: set of them. But yeah, but I'll have to get
Speaker 3: them in there and get it extended.
Speaker 1: So the driving range, the golf set up is that's
Speaker 1: the big thing at your Do you have a basketball court?
Speaker 3: I do?
Speaker 2: How how nice is that?
Speaker 4: Half court?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 4: Half court?
Speaker 2: Glass backward?
Speaker 3: Uh nah, just I think it's just regular. So we're
Speaker 3: installing that right now. But gotcha the basketball basketball court,
Speaker 3: and then.
Speaker 1: You gonna painted up at all, have a have a
Speaker 1: lane or anything or with what you gotta paint up.
Speaker 3: The Yeah, yeah, we're gonna do it. It's like a
Speaker 3: little towels, like little towels, a little court. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: it's perfect and you can use it for that, and
Speaker 3: then you can use it for all kinds of different
Speaker 3: stuff too.
Speaker 1: So all right, we got right Tackle George Fan as
Speaker 1: well as Travis Johnson, former Texan. We're going to take
Speaker 1: a break here on Texans Huddle. We'll be right back
Speaker 1: and just a bit stick with us. Welcome back at
Speaker 1: segment two of Texan's Huddle. Normally this is Indy Kalu's show.
Speaker 1: I'm Drew Doherty. That's Travis Johnson, former Houston Texan, and
Speaker 1: we've got right Tackle George Fan joining us this week.
Speaker 1: We were talking golf, we were talking basketball, we were
Speaker 1: talking family. George is a Kentucky guy. He was born
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati and.
Speaker 2: You are on a roll. This team is on a roll. CJ.
Speaker 1: Stroud on a roll. What's it been like blocking for
Speaker 1: that guy up front?
Speaker 3: Man, it's different, bro. Like I played with some really
Speaker 3: good quarterbacks. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. I played
Speaker 3: with a really good one of course in Seattle. It's
Speaker 3: not even my favorite, man, just yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: It's just just the poise he has, like the command
Speaker 3: that he has a He's a natural leader. You just
Speaker 3: know what you're getting. And I think the number one
Speaker 3: thing that I think I like the most about him
Speaker 3: bo is just how consistent he is and attention to
Speaker 3: detail he is about things. Man, I think to be
Speaker 3: able to really good in his leagues, you know, like
Speaker 3: you can have a good game, to have two good games,
Speaker 3: but to be consistent every week and you know, like
Speaker 3: what you're gonna get at this person that that's uh,
Speaker 3: that's rare in this league.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: That keeps you in this league for a long time.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't. I'm sorry I said, but I don't know
Speaker 3: another quarterback in the league playing better than c J.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. You turn to turn the
Speaker 3: film on. You don't see it. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So bro like just just the way he plays. And
Speaker 3: then I think for us upfront, man like just the
Speaker 3: the probable we take, keep them clean.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh, guy's playing at a high level right now. Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, so I'm having a really good time. I'm
Speaker 3: really enjoying myself.
Speaker 1: You guys went through a three game stretch earlier this
Speaker 1: year where he did not get sacked. It's never happened
Speaker 1: in franchise ever. And there's been some good offensive line.
Speaker 4: You have some great off more.
Speaker 5: I guess starting in six right the old line got started,
Speaker 5: they started really being an old line.
Speaker 2: Dane Brown fantastic left.
Speaker 5: Everything from staying the Brown, d Brown different was a
Speaker 5: different cat man. Yeah, like from the I remember I
Speaker 5: remember himbers the rookie. I laughed because you know, I
Speaker 5: came back. I came back. I think this was like
Speaker 5: this my sixth seventh year, and I came back. We charged,
Speaker 5: got traded charger. We played against him and mess around
Speaker 5: got hurt because I got.
Speaker 4: I got.
Speaker 5: We run they run the zone and I got and
Speaker 5: I got Dee Brown out and I'm just I'm and
Speaker 5: I'm playing. I'm staying in my whole Dee Brown hit
Speaker 5: my arm. It did, and all of a sudden, I said, damn,
Speaker 5: he wasn't that strong when he when I was in before,
Speaker 5: like he just was. It was so crazy, like how
Speaker 5: he just he kept on getting better and better and better.
Speaker 5: And I mean, Dee Brown still got a job in
Speaker 5: the league and this is what it's gotta be.
Speaker 4: Fourteen.
Speaker 2: He's a little bit like you. He had a tight
Speaker 2: end background.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, and a basketball Have you ever seen
Speaker 4: the play back? He got some real game.
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, yeah, all right, we got right tackled George
Speaker 1: Fan as well as Travis Johnson, former Texan. Speaking of
Speaker 1: hoops again, I Stroud. I was talking with Noah Brown,
Speaker 1: who that's a guy who's exploded in the last four
Speaker 1: games injury. I was talking with him. He played hoops
Speaker 1: in high school, and I was like, okay, who else? Uh,
Speaker 1: who's your starting five? If it's you and just other Texans,
Speaker 1: you were the first guy chose. Stroud was the second,
Speaker 1: and he couldn't come up with two others. So he's like,
Speaker 1: I'll make it a three on three team. But Stroud
Speaker 1: and hoops. You talk talk basketball with him?
Speaker 4: Ever? Yeah? Hoop?
Speaker 3: I don't know for sure, right you guys, he's seen
Speaker 3: his highlight tape. I've seen his highlight tape as as
Speaker 3: a as a as a hooper, like I know, hoop
Speaker 3: when I see when he can hoop, shoot, he can shoot.
Speaker 2: What was your first impression of him? Just in general?
Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about watching him at Ohio State
Speaker 1: or any of that, but like when you get here
Speaker 1: in the building, first impression, how'd that go?
Speaker 2: What was it?
Speaker 4: Man? It was cool? Man.
Speaker 3: I think he just you know, I said, like right
Speaker 3: right away and it came it to me, you know,
Speaker 3: introduced himself and just like right away, he was pretty
Speaker 3: cool man, right from the jump.
Speaker 4: Man. You know, wasn't no, wasn't no like no ego
Speaker 4: anywhere anything like that. Man.
Speaker 3: So I think, you know that's why all the guys
Speaker 3: how they all were when I first got here, man,
Speaker 3: So you know you first get here, I got here
Speaker 3: kind of late, you know, I get here in the summer,
Speaker 3: like I think the week before like the training camp
Speaker 3: started a week training camp, you know. So uh, you know,
Speaker 3: I think when I first got here, man, I got
Speaker 3: the whole the whole building was just like embracing right
Speaker 3: right away. Man, and just like called me up the
Speaker 3: speed and all the stuff, and and it was like
Speaker 3: right from the jump, man, I just kind of hit
Speaker 3: the ground running from there.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: So it was a you know, great, great first impression
Speaker 3: from from everyone.
Speaker 1: Here, right tackle George Fan as well as Travis Johnson
Speaker 1: former Texan Travis.
Speaker 2: I got one more.
Speaker 1: I want you to jump in on this one though.
Speaker 1: You get here, and this is a unique locker room.
Speaker 1: It's never been like this here. You're not necessarily just
Speaker 1: with the old lineman or just with the offense. It's
Speaker 1: offensive and defensive next to each other.
Speaker 2: And I don't know that. Did you ever have that
Speaker 2: elsewhere in the locker room? Who's not who's next to
Speaker 2: you on either side?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, so it's uh JJ the running back is
Speaker 3: next to me. He just from from the Patriots.
Speaker 1: Like for example, Xavier Hutchinson, he's a rookie receiver. He's
Speaker 1: next to Jake Hanson the linebacker, and Henry to Ote.
Speaker 5: Well I think that for me, I guess for me
Speaker 5: it was different because, yeah, our locker room used to
Speaker 5: be split. You know, he used to be the all
Speaker 5: line on it, I mean, offense on this side, defense
Speaker 5: on this side. But I was fortunate that my my
Speaker 5: two lockers was actually directly on the line. So Chester,
Speaker 5: Chester and Ephraim were my two locker mads on this side.
Speaker 4: And then I had I had who was it right
Speaker 4: next to me?
Speaker 2: Chester good offensive line and.
Speaker 5: Like Chester played every single snap for nine straight years
Speaker 5: starting from first nine years to tam And then that's
Speaker 5: a whole nother story because he wanted to fight Sherian
Speaker 5: with Sheron pulled him out in that game too. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so I had I had two on linemen here. Then
Speaker 5: I had two d linemen right here, so it was
Speaker 5: you know, I kind of got the best. Well, I
Speaker 5: guess what it is now, you were just good, But
Speaker 5: this is hot. But I think that's I think that's
Speaker 5: I think it's nice because it gets you. You gotta understand,
Speaker 5: like if I can like another guy on the other
Speaker 5: side of the ball, because a lot of times, yeah,
Speaker 5: we might be co workers, but I really don't know
Speaker 5: you like that because you're on office building.
Speaker 4: I'm on defense side of building.
Speaker 5: On Thursdays, the defensive line goes out, the linebackers go
Speaker 5: out to DB's the whose officeve line, they do their
Speaker 5: thing that you know they go to. They do all
Speaker 5: of their stuff, They got their own little fine pots,
Speaker 5: they got everything, you know what I mean. So I
Speaker 5: think if you when you intermingle with everybody, I think
Speaker 5: it's dope for camaraderie.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. I think it takes to
Speaker 4: hold the level.
Speaker 5: Because now if I'm sitting next to George and I
Speaker 5: know and we're talking, you know, because even though we
Speaker 5: might not be in the locker room a lot, it's
Speaker 5: just sitting down, even putting your clothes on, we just
Speaker 5: mad housing. What you got insur this weekend, what you
Speaker 5: did this, and you're talking about your kids, and now
Speaker 5: you more invested in those guys. I can't tell you
Speaker 5: when I was here what Zach Wiegert and the rest
Speaker 5: of them cats was doing.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I couldn't tell you because they wasn't necessarily on our side.
Speaker 5: We wasn't on they side, We wasn't sharing different And so,
Speaker 5: like Mick, Chester had been business partners for a long
Speaker 5: time because of that relationship of being right next to
Speaker 5: each other. And lord knows what them guys can do
Speaker 5: being next to each other every single day.
Speaker 1: And yeah, what I mean, have you ever encountered that
Speaker 1: in your career is it has been kind of like
Speaker 1: what he's talking about.
Speaker 3: I think I think two things. I think it's either
Speaker 3: I think COVID had a part of that, you know,
Speaker 3: I think that, Uh, when I was in Seattle, it
Speaker 3: was it was that, you know, offensive line, defensive line,
Speaker 3: you know, whatever how that goes. And then I think
Speaker 3: when COVID happened, you didn't want guys like we both
Speaker 3: play off the line. I have COVID, you don't want to,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, so infect the whole room
Speaker 3: kind of deal. So it's like they started mixing matching.
Speaker 2: So you've you've experienced this before.
Speaker 3: I was in New York, So I thought that was
Speaker 3: either that or also, uh, you know, I don't know
Speaker 3: if it's like a San France thing because Solid had
Speaker 3: it the same way in New York where it was
Speaker 3: just like all you know, but I can see how
Speaker 3: it's I could see how, you know, you get you
Speaker 3: get the opportunity to meet different people like you know
Speaker 3: that that you're not gonna be around every single day,
Speaker 3: Like I'm not around j J every single day, and
Speaker 3: now I wouldn't be around every single day if it
Speaker 3: wasn't for him being next to me in the locker room.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, So uh kind of like
Speaker 3: you said, man, kind of gives you a little skin
Speaker 3: of the game with everybody in the in the locker room.
Speaker 3: And note that you said that, Like how like you
Speaker 3: and Chester still you know what I'm saying. That's like,
Speaker 3: I still don't understand how Like it's all these millionaires
Speaker 3: in the locker room and nobody nobody worked together, like
Speaker 3: you got an opportunity a network with other like with
Speaker 3: the top one percent in the world.
Speaker 4: And you're not You're not doing you know, And I
Speaker 4: think and.
Speaker 3: I'm like an advocate that I'm always in the locker
Speaker 3: room talking about what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: Like, Okay, Travis Johnson here on Texans Huddle. Will be
Speaker 1: right back with one final segment. Okay, one final segment
Speaker 1: of Texans Huddle with right tackle George Fan as well
Speaker 1: as Travis Johnson. We got into some fun stuff in
Speaker 1: the last segment. Let's look ahead to the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 1: I know you guys haven't dug into them too much
Speaker 1: film wise. We do this on a Tuesday, you guys
Speaker 1: get going on a Wednesday. But first impressions of them.
Speaker 1: You got to know a little something about him after
Speaker 1: being a Seahawk for all those years. What do you
Speaker 1: think of when you think of the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 3: Man, I think of you know, they're a historically been
Speaker 3: a solid team that right now they're in a situation
Speaker 3: where they don't have a lot, you know, a whole
Speaker 3: lot to lose getting guys back. You know, they got
Speaker 3: Kyler back now and I just come off of win
Speaker 3: and then you know, I think for us, it's a
Speaker 3: it's a time of do not relax, you know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying, Like, we can't. We can't relax going into
Speaker 3: this week.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: We got to take advantage of the role that we're
Speaker 3: on and you know, take advantage of being able to
Speaker 3: feed off of one hundred and fifty yard rushing.
Speaker 2: And yeah, oh my, how did that happen? How did
Speaker 2: that happen?
Speaker 3: I just think that, you know, up front, we you know,
Speaker 3: I think L T like l T and then Shack
Speaker 3: and then tie and then you know, myself and all
Speaker 3: of us we talked about it, bro like you know
Speaker 3: this this is the time of year, man, Like you're
Speaker 3: talking about ale. Few guys who's played in a lot
Speaker 3: of you know, a lot of playoff games. You know,
Speaker 3: some guys played in a lot of playoff games. Some
Speaker 3: guys been in the league for a while. If you can,
Speaker 3: if you can run the ball around the time of
Speaker 3: the year, if you can start getting the ball being run,
Speaker 3: the ball run the time of year, it.
Speaker 5: Get this when the when the weather get cold, please
Speaker 5: believe they gonna run that rock.
Speaker 4: You can it off.
Speaker 1: But so he runs it thirty times one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty yards. But you guys still hit all those explosives
Speaker 1: down the field with not just no brown but adult
Speaker 1: I mean, you.
Speaker 4: Still get and that that's and.
Speaker 5: That's that's the key is that everybody always everybody always
Speaker 5: sit there and be like they enamored with the quarterback play,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, which we all are.
Speaker 4: I mean, they want the thing the thing that we
Speaker 4: watching CJ. You know what I'm saying. But is especially
Speaker 4: it's never been done before in this league. It was
Speaker 4: never been seen before.
Speaker 5: So everybody, of course, you can be all in, but
Speaker 5: let's not forget the catalyst for all of it. The
Speaker 5: catalyst is you got to be able to run the ball.
Speaker 5: Because I don't care who you are.
Speaker 1: And the guy that we're enamored with it you're talking
Speaker 1: about and you bring up catalysts. The guy that we're
Speaker 1: talking about, c J.
Speaker 2: Stroud.
Speaker 1: The first thing he says is, well, I'm I'm going
Speaker 1: as my line goes, and he's.
Speaker 5: Because one thing about good quarterbacks, they understand that they appreciate.
Speaker 5: That's why the old line always for for the history
Speaker 5: of the game, always gets the best gifts at Christmas.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, what is the best gift
Speaker 2: from a quarterback?
Speaker 3: Looking back on it, man, Like at the time, I
Speaker 3: was just I didn't understand it. But my boy Rust
Speaker 3: came through with the you got the deal in Seattle.
Speaker 3: He gave all of us, uh some shares and Amazon Wow. Okay,
Speaker 3: so I got those and then I think, uh, last year,
Speaker 3: Zach Wilson, I got us some like scooters or some
Speaker 3: stuff like that. So I think my favorite gift has
Speaker 3: been the stock.
Speaker 5: Yeah, of course, because because forever you can pass those downs.
Speaker 3: And even the fact that it's like how many shares
Speaker 3: it is just the fact that it's like it's something
Speaker 3: like once again you get the wheels turning, like you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, Like it's an opportunity for goods
Speaker 3: never even had a stock, so now they know what
Speaker 3: it is.
Speaker 4: And now now you're checking it every day.
Speaker 3: Anybody your first stock is like golf, you get what
Speaker 3: can I do to get better than that?
Speaker 4: Right? Because automatically he gave you the stock.
Speaker 3: Now you automatically got to go find an advisor because
Speaker 3: you don't know what to do, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So like now you know what I'm saying. It's just
Speaker 3: all kinds of different things, man, But uh, I think
Speaker 3: that's my favorite. One kind of got the wheels turning
Speaker 3: for me.
Speaker 5: So yeah, but I mean but the run game, the
Speaker 5: way they the way they methodically ran that, like, that's
Speaker 5: one of them.
Speaker 4: So Rush is right there, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: And when I watched the game, and I watched Grave
Speaker 5: Dave Man, I watched, so I watched DJ get frustrated
Speaker 5: because he's watching these dudes that may necessarily ain't playing
Speaker 5: to try to play to his level with and DJ
Speaker 5: d a dog.
Speaker 4: Yeah you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: And for DJ to even not have a phenomenal game
Speaker 5: and you and we've done if you watch this old line,
Speaker 5: this old line has been all year long, especially early
Speaker 5: with the injuries and the piece together.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: But I think rooms like O line and D line,
Speaker 5: we thrive off of that. We thrive off of the
Speaker 5: adversity of you know what, they don't believe in us.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, We gonna sit there and
Speaker 5: we gonna grind the sucker out.
Speaker 1: Right tackle George Fan as well as Travis Johnson former
Speaker 1: Texan George, How special was it for you knowing that
Speaker 1: you guys were able to do that what he's talking about,
Speaker 1: seeing all the different guys that came through upfront for
Speaker 1: you this season. You you've been there pretty much all
Speaker 1: the way throughout. Yeah, there's been some mixing and matching.
Speaker 3: If you look back, if you go back and look
Speaker 3: at uh first couple of weeks, man, we had guys
Speaker 3: that didn't they didn't play, and then once we kind
Speaker 3: of got it going, I'll say, like week three we
Speaker 3: kind of got it going. I think that may have
Speaker 3: been a start.
Speaker 2: That at Jacksonville explored all life that may have.
Speaker 3: Been started at No Sacks. So I think you know
Speaker 3: that situation of when Josh came in, he stepped into
Speaker 3: the plate he had to play two different positions and
Speaker 3: that in those three weeks, you know, and then a
Speaker 3: D came in. He stepped into the plate, mixed Kendrick Green.
Speaker 3: We all you know what I'm saying, Like right away, Man,
Speaker 3: it was an opportunity for us to be like, look, Bro,
Speaker 3: it's a lot of guys who either bounced around the league,
Speaker 3: guys didn't believe in GMS, didn't believe in us is
Speaker 3: and that here you go whatever, and then you look
Speaker 3: up and then you get tightest back who's who's been bro,
Speaker 3: Like you know, at the end of the day, man
Speaker 3: like Titus deserves all the praise, man, because he's took
Speaker 3: He's took a like such a huge sacrifice, you know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying, to go inside when he didn't have
Speaker 3: to do that, you know what I'm saying, And then
Speaker 3: to be paid and then to like happened to a
Speaker 3: situation where like he had to go and they asked
Speaker 3: me going inside again, Like you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: Just for a guy to be like, man, whatever we're
Speaker 3: gonna do to win, bro, Like you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: Like I've never seen that, Like Yad should be like, man,
Speaker 3: I'll move my position to win.
Speaker 4: Games, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: And so he's as hungry to win games as anybody
Speaker 3: in this build. He's been here for five years. He
Speaker 3: want to go. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Tell the people the difference, because I don't think people
Speaker 5: understand outside the inside a go from left to right. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's like the equivalent of like if you're right handed
Speaker 5: bringing something.
Speaker 4: Up with your left. You know what I'm saying, It's
Speaker 4: not easy. You know what I'm saying, it's not easy, man.
Speaker 3: And like and that dude right there mans like working
Speaker 3: at it like every day, like working at it man like,
Speaker 3: no frustration, no nothing, bro like, just just working man like,
Speaker 3: ultimate team guy.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 3: Like the dude wants to win, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So like he's the I think he's a catalyst of
Speaker 3: this whole line of like being able to go in there.
Speaker 4: And go do that.
Speaker 5: What what does it do for the confidence of an
Speaker 5: old line like when you got when you got a
Speaker 5: guy behind you like seven and you say, you know what,
Speaker 5: as long as he got the rock back there, we're
Speaker 5: gonna be all right. But what does it do when
Speaker 5: you know you can depend on him on that On
Speaker 5: that end, how much conference does it give you in
Speaker 5: the run game to say you know what we are?
Speaker 4: Because I just and I keep going back.
Speaker 5: To reflection of leadership because confidence, and I tell my kids,
Speaker 5: is all the time. Confidence is not even sent of
Speaker 5: the battle. Talent is the next ten percent. You know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. Because if you believe, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. If you believe and you got a skill set,
Speaker 5: it goes a whole other level, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: But if you don't believe, no matter how much skill
Speaker 5: set you got, it won't get you anywhere.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Because that confidence is you know, when you were playing basketball,
Speaker 5: you bigger than everybody else. You were, you know, you
Speaker 5: might have been fastening everybody else.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you work.
Speaker 5: But the confidence that I have in myself, that that
Speaker 5: right there is not measured. You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: So the confidence y'all have for seven and the confinience
Speaker 5: y'all have for each other, I mean, what.
Speaker 4: Is it like?
Speaker 5: And I don't even know what I'm trying to ask,
Speaker 5: but what does it do for y'all in the total game?
Speaker 4: Because I watched this.
Speaker 5: I watched these guys and once again, this has been
Speaker 5: a mixed Max bunch. Yeah you got a couple first
Speaker 5: round picks in there, Yeah you got some talent in there.
Speaker 5: But these guys are a journeyman.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Who brings a whole different who brings George, He brings
Speaker 5: a whole different mindset.
Speaker 3: The whole offense. Man, You look a look at the offense.
Speaker 3: Man you got you got guys who got a lot
Speaker 3: of proof.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: Like I was just talking about how we don't have
Speaker 3: I don't want to tuck a number one, but we
Speaker 3: don't have like a guy that you gotta we gott
Speaker 3: to force the ball to. It's like, bro CJ can
Speaker 3: just like he don't have to be like I gotta
Speaker 3: get this gouta get just do the ball.
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 3: It's like he gonna he gonna find the open person
Speaker 3: and they're gonna make a play. And when it's time
Speaker 3: for your number to be called, make him play. And
Speaker 3: that's what we've been doing.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: I was just making plays all around the whole offense.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: It's like, we're not forcing the ball to one person.
Speaker 3: We're not doing this, We're not doing that. Bro, we're
Speaker 3: just like we're going to play football, We're doing it
Speaker 3: by committee.
Speaker 5: I'll be remissed as a D lineman if I don't
Speaker 5: talk about what the boys did up front this weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 5: please go watch that twenty two cut up of the
Speaker 5: past rush that was going on, and please go see
Speaker 5: what Sheldon Rankers was out there doing. He was out
Speaker 5: there putting on clinic work.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 4: Even on that defense, dudes, black committee.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like it's like on that defense, like Migo's
Speaker 3: bringing guys in who like who fit his game. You
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, Like I was I played with
Speaker 3: Rank in New York, so I know what Rank possible.
Speaker 4: I played.
Speaker 3: I played against Rank in New Orleans. You know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying, Like Rank still got that.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Health, You know what I'm saying. And then I think,
Speaker 3: you know for j G. Man, it's like, Bro, like
Speaker 3: I got to I got to see his like game.
Speaker 3: It's like it's like his game has changed, man, Like
Speaker 3: I've played I played him a couple of years ago,
Speaker 3: and he's a different player, right, Like you know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying, Like he's he's a problem right now, man,
Speaker 3: like I know for short time watching that film, like
Speaker 3: no question, and then you know you gotta do like
Speaker 3: will Bro like bro. But when he like when he
Speaker 3: gets it, like when he like bro the way he
Speaker 3: plays like so like so hard bro, when he like
Speaker 3: starts adding to his bag, no question, And I don't
Speaker 3: think it's gonna take long.
Speaker 4: No, he's not gonna take long either, man.
Speaker 3: But just like through that whole front, bro, like those dudes, Bro,
Speaker 3: like just these last four games, go back and watch them, bro,
Speaker 3: like that, that whole front and then the back end too.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: It's a lot of guys who banged up, and they're
Speaker 3: throwing different guys in there, and they're making plays kill Griffin, making.
Speaker 4: Plays like this guy's huge bit guys.
Speaker 3: Bro, I'm telling you, bro, like it doesn't matter who
Speaker 3: it is right now, Gods is making plays.
Speaker 1: Right tackle George Fan. If you've just been following the Texans,
Speaker 1: you're excited. If you're old like me and been here
Speaker 1: since two thousand and nine covering the Texans, you're excited.
Speaker 1: If you played for the Texans starting in two thousand
Speaker 1: and five, you're try like Travis Johnson, you're excited. Everybody
Speaker 1: else excited it's fun, fun times.
Speaker 2: George.
Speaker 1: We really do appreciate you coming on traps. It's awesome
Speaker 1: being with you as always.
Speaker 4: I appreciate.
Speaker 1: I wish we could do about four more hours of this,
Speaker 1: and I think George would too. We're getting kicked out
Speaker 1: of the studio, so we gotta go, but to all
Speaker 1: of you who listened, we appreciate that and we will
Speaker 1: talk to you again until next time.
Speaker 2: Go Texans.