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Speaker 1: News anyway, Johnny, how are you doing today? How you
Speaker 1: feeling physically, feeling a little bit better mentally? Head is
Speaker 1: completely out of it with all this college football news today.
Speaker 1: It's really kind of upset the apple cart with what's
Speaker 1: happened with college football. But you know, they as they say,
Speaker 1: this show goes on. It's not completely canceled or waiting
Speaker 1: to see what the Big twelve, I, SEC and ACC do,
Speaker 1: but it's it was a rough day. I'm considering those
Speaker 1: are kind of my beginning in my roots in this
Speaker 1: whole business. We're in college football and just seeing all
Speaker 1: that happened today, as some had surmise and thought maybe
Speaker 1: there'd be a last second Hail Mary that could save
Speaker 1: the season, but definitely did not happen. So Big ten,
Speaker 1: Pac twelve won't see them until the spring, and we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens in the Big twelve. A cec Neassy, Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's such huge news that it does play
Speaker 1: into what we talk about all the time here. And look,
Speaker 1: it's really affected our lone star sports and entertainment calendar
Speaker 1: of course with the Houston Texans and you know, the
Speaker 1: college football situation now, Johnny, when you look at the
Speaker 1: Big Ten wanting to play in the spring, I mean,
Speaker 1: is this even doable? Can you play? I mean I
Speaker 1: think like five games, maybe four? Get you can't play
Speaker 1: a season in the spring on a college campus. When
Speaker 1: are you gonna start this thing? And the dead of
Speaker 1: winter in February? How's that gonna be good for you? Well?
Speaker 1: I mean that's that's the main question. And I just
Speaker 1: saw a tweet from a guy I think he covers
Speaker 1: it for either the Athletic or Iowa. Yeah, Scott Dockerman.
Speaker 1: He said, you know, if the Big Ten open camp
Speaker 1: on January fourth, they could have games by January twenty
Speaker 1: nine through the thirty first open week before the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Maybe go to indoor doubleheaders and Detroit, Indie Mini even Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: Maybe do that for two weeks and play campus football
Speaker 1: the week after the Super Bowl. I just don't know
Speaker 1: how you can ask student athletes to play a full
Speaker 1: I mean, you just can't get a full schedule in
Speaker 1: the spring and they turn right around and play a
Speaker 1: normal twenty twenty one, right, You just couldn't. Now, I
Speaker 1: think what you could do in the Big Ten is
Speaker 1: even though you could play an eight to ten game schedule.
Speaker 1: I think, play a Big ten conference championship game and
Speaker 1: leave it at that. Maybe you have some sort of
Speaker 1: pseudo bowl game with the other conferences I guess if
Speaker 1: they're still play mean, you know, have one, you know,
Speaker 1: move the Rose Bowl. Heck, this is Big ten Pac twelve.
Speaker 1: This is probably the Rose Bowls dream in some sense.
Speaker 1: But I think there's a way you maybe could get
Speaker 1: an eight game schedule in the spring, and then maybe
Speaker 1: you push back the fall and condense that schedule. Maybe
Speaker 1: you start September twenty sixth, and you do what you
Speaker 1: were gonna do this year, but you do that in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, you play a ten game schedule and
Speaker 1: then try and get your try and get your Big
Speaker 1: ten championship in, and then maybe try and get your playoff.
Speaker 1: Hopefully by twenty twenty two you've got a normal schedule
Speaker 1: back on hand. But by moving it to spring, I mean,
Speaker 1: the team, it's gonna be really interesting what players decide
Speaker 1: to do. Because I thought about this one. If you decide, okay,
Speaker 1: well I'm gonna play. I'm a senior. I gotta I've
Speaker 1: got to play. I've I've got to show what I've
Speaker 1: got through. I have a future in this game. I
Speaker 1: think I do, but I've got to show them that
Speaker 1: on tape. So you play your games and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the combine doesn't move and Michigan playsin. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know they're gonna they're gonna make adjustments for that.
Speaker 1: They'll look if the Big ten and all these conferences
Speaker 1: are playing in the spring, they're moving the draft. They're
Speaker 1: okay to hold on though the season. But if it's
Speaker 1: but if it's just a Big ten, IMPAC, twelver, they're
Speaker 1: gonna move to combine. If the ACC, if the ACC
Speaker 1: and the Big twelve and SEC play, are they gonna
Speaker 1: move the combine. They won't move the comb I see it.
Speaker 1: This is my feeling. They won't move the combine. But
Speaker 1: so what about the combine. They'll still interview these guys,
Speaker 1: they'll interview them on campus. The most important thing you
Speaker 1: get out of the combine, though, is the most important
Speaker 1: thing you get out of these players, and that's the
Speaker 1: one thing none of us get and that's medicals. Now
Speaker 1: you could do you could do another combine later on
Speaker 1: a medical combine. Now they do they do do that.
Speaker 1: They have players come up come back to Indye for
Speaker 1: rechecks all the time, so you could you could do
Speaker 1: that medical recheck as such. So I do think there
Speaker 1: is a way that you could figure this out, um
Speaker 1: with with the NFL. And I think the NFL would
Speaker 1: have a vested interest in doing thing, in moving things back.
Speaker 1: So maybe they move the bat in the draft back
Speaker 1: to you know late, may give it another month. Let
Speaker 1: these teams finish an eight game schedule, Let them get
Speaker 1: clear this this season by I don't know, middle of March.
Speaker 1: Put the combine in middle of April. That gives you
Speaker 1: four or five weeks. Then at that point to kind
Speaker 1: of you know, get ready for the draft. Maybe you
Speaker 1: sneak a couple of pro days um in there if
Speaker 1: you can. Maybe what you end up doing is doing
Speaker 1: the pro days for the player years that do play
Speaker 1: in the fall. Maybe you get those pro days done early,
Speaker 1: you stagger everything, and you just move your draft back
Speaker 1: a month. And I think, listen, I think anything is doable.
Speaker 1: It's just a matter of is it what what's the
Speaker 1: feasibility of players playing a full schedule in the spring
Speaker 1: and full you can't do that, so you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to adjust that schedule in the spring to seven eight games,
Speaker 1: maybe play a bowl game, and then you know, move
Speaker 1: on to twenty twenty one, and then it just that
Speaker 1: schedule back a little bit, just so that you have
Speaker 1: more time in between the games you have in twenty
Speaker 1: early twenty twenty one and then late twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: Good grief, it's confusing. Well, we always talk about it
Speaker 1: from a pro football perspective, right, the draft and the
Speaker 1: combine and everything. What about the guys who definitely aren't
Speaker 1: going to the NFL but they're good college football players, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like they might have the dream, but they really might
Speaker 1: not and they know that it's gonna end. Let me
Speaker 1: ask you this, would you have wanted to play in
Speaker 1: the spring. Would you have said, Okay, yeah, we can't
Speaker 1: play in the fall here at Brown University, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna play in the spring, so I'm in Hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, all right, you would Heck yeah, I would
Speaker 1: have absolutely played. Uh, there's there's no doubt about it. Now. Obviously,
Speaker 1: natually we maybe have every year one or two guys
Speaker 1: that end up making it, but there are probably about
Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty guys that will end up going to
Speaker 1: Pro Days and are going to uh, you know, get
Speaker 1: looks from teams that might end up maybe not even
Speaker 1: that many. Maybe it's like eight to ten that'll maybe
Speaker 1: get an NFLPA invite, that will get invites to camp.
Speaker 1: Those kind of things. We don't have many, And so
Speaker 1: I don't think those players would have opted out in
Speaker 1: any way, shape or form. I think, Yeah, when I
Speaker 1: have job search, if you're a senior, like spring is big,
Speaker 1: I gotta get that job. I gotta get my job
Speaker 1: when I graduate. Ye, Spring is when they look for
Speaker 1: at these football players, you know. And then here's another question,
Speaker 1: college basketball. What's gonna happen with that? You're gonna have
Speaker 1: overlap because the college campuses are gonna be crazy. And
Speaker 1: here's one more note. I don't want to spend too
Speaker 1: much more time, but I might have mentioned this last
Speaker 1: week a little bit in a different context, but I was.
Speaker 1: I was on with Penn State on I was on
Speaker 1: the phone with Penn State the entire university last week
Speaker 1: trying to find a John Reed pick. And I went
Speaker 1: to the website, was going through that athletic administration. They
Speaker 1: have just acres of employees because it's not just a
Speaker 1: football program. It is all the other programs, and women's
Speaker 1: basketball is big there, and wrestling, and I used to
Speaker 1: work in Happy Valley doing all sorts of broadcasting there
Speaker 1: early start to my career. And the amount of employees
Speaker 1: they have that are affected by this because they're not
Speaker 1: paid by field hockey revenue. They're paid by football revenue,
Speaker 1: and they got to be able to get that going somehow,
Speaker 1: because if they don't play at all in twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one this academic year, if you will, that
Speaker 1: is a huge hit. Now Penn State probably has big coffers,
Speaker 1: and people are like, just take it out of the endownment.
Speaker 1: That's not a piggy bank you can just make a
Speaker 1: withdrawal from. It's like you're trying to take it from
Speaker 1: your IRA. It's worse. So it's a whole big mess, Johnny,
Speaker 1: and I really feel for the kids most of all,
Speaker 1: and I do feel for the employees because it's college
Speaker 1: and it's just a different deal. At least the pro
Speaker 1: leagues can afford all this testing and yeah bubbles or
Speaker 1: whatever else they need to try to make a go
Speaker 1: of it. That's the biggest thing I think is the
Speaker 1: fact that the professional teams. I think there are two
Speaker 1: major factors that I said on tech SAgs. I said
Speaker 1: with the NFL. First of all, in the NFL, you
Speaker 1: have a commissioner in league office in thirty two teams
Speaker 1: abide by whatever the commissioner League office saying college football.
Speaker 1: You don't have that. You got this conference making this decision.
Speaker 1: You got this conference making that decision. It's totally anarchy
Speaker 1: in college football. The other aspect of it is with
Speaker 1: college campuses because colleges have refused to acknowledge the actuality
Speaker 1: that players are. Yes, they're student athletes. I get that.
Speaker 1: The majority of them they go to college to get
Speaker 1: an education, but there are a lot of them that listen,
Speaker 1: look at the time that they put into being college athletes.
Speaker 1: They're more than just student athletes. They're more than employees.
Speaker 1: But the sham of amateur athletics comes into playing all this.
Speaker 1: But in the NFL, so they got college students all
Speaker 1: around them and everything they do and go into classes,
Speaker 1: so you have that, whereas NFL players you can kind
Speaker 1: of live in a semi bubble where they can go
Speaker 1: to the stadium where they're supremely protected. They can go
Speaker 1: back home and that's it and there and they're doing
Speaker 1: those two things, they're not surrounded by college kids all
Speaker 1: over the place. And think about what you and I
Speaker 1: talk about all the time. You talked about this and
Speaker 1: kind of went on rant one day. When you go
Speaker 1: in and you do you do remotes, and you do
Speaker 1: those kind of things where you're going into restaurants or
Speaker 1: bars and they're playing music and it's loud. You've you've
Speaker 1: got to sit there, And I mean that's the one
Speaker 1: way you transmit the virus is through that. Well, what
Speaker 1: happens when you get a college to and a few
Speaker 1: a few pops in them, they get a little closer.
Speaker 1: They don't worry about the mask. They're a little bit inhibited.
Speaker 1: And then they're just you've been to a college party,
Speaker 1: you know how it goes, and it's nuts. It's people
Speaker 1: all on top of you. They're you're partially getting spill
Speaker 1: all your face from some drunk guy um, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to talk to you about what's going on. And
Speaker 1: that's the virus out there. You're not gonna have that.
Speaker 1: The NFL as long as guys are minded p's and q's,
Speaker 1: and they've got a financial they've got a financial stake
Speaker 1: in keeping it, you know, on board and keeping to
Speaker 1: the plan. So I think there are huge differences between
Speaker 1: the NFL colle football From that regard, I do think
Speaker 1: you can do some things in the spring, but man,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be really tough. And Mark, you hit on
Speaker 1: a berry. Alvarez said today, he said, look, if we
Speaker 1: don't play football, this is gonna cost a lot of
Speaker 1: people jobs. And he goes, it's gonna be the worst
Speaker 1: fall of my life. And and you're You're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: You hit on it. Football and basketball pay the bills
Speaker 1: for a lot of a lot of programs. And it's
Speaker 1: really it's gonna staying a lot of programs at all
Speaker 1: levels throughout college college athletics. It's changed. This whole thing
Speaker 1: has changed college sports and college athletics as we know
Speaker 1: it going forward. It will never for a long time
Speaker 1: we might see realignment out of this because people are
Speaker 1: so upset crazy. I know, you do stuff with tech SAgs.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's nuts. All right, Well, let's get to
Speaker 1: some texts and stuff. I promised this. I tweeted it out.
Speaker 1: It's Texans Audio jukebox first of all, yes, and right
Speaker 1: on key and everything. That's the Texans All Access singers.
Speaker 1: You do a great job, you people. All right, let's
Speaker 1: get to Will Fuller. So I tweeted a picture of Will.
Speaker 1: You talked about it. You saw Will a few weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and he said, Will, he's jacked up, man. I mean
Speaker 1: you could see he's been working out. So I don't
Speaker 1: know if you saw the picture that I tweeted out,
Speaker 1: but you know he's just at the podium and you
Speaker 1: could see that the arms look inflated, all right. That
Speaker 1: you know, he put the bicycle pump out the arms
Speaker 1: a little bit, and he did cut the hair as well.
Speaker 1: But the first thing, or one of the first things
Speaker 1: that was discussed was, hey, no more DeAndre Hopkins. What
Speaker 1: does that mean for the offense? Here's what Will had
Speaker 1: to say, obviously, with How'm not being here anymore? Um,
Speaker 1: you know that that's gonna open up things for for everybody.
Speaker 1: You know, he had a lot of targets and then
Speaker 1: so those targets gotta be filled with other guss So
Speaker 1: you know, we're all gonna be able to get it done.
Speaker 1: And I'll Fleck is gonna be a great season as year.
Speaker 1: All right, positive approach there. You know, the ball Will
Speaker 1: he's spread around and Will will certainly be one of
Speaker 1: the beneficiaries of that. Johnny. We've talked about that all
Speaker 1: offseason long. Yeah, I mean, think of high targets that
Speaker 1: you know, Hop had over the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: Just just take the last couple of years. I think
Speaker 1: it was about three hundred and twenty ors somewhere in
Speaker 1: that range over the last couple of years targets. Now
Speaker 1: you take us three hundred and twenty targets, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to be spread amongst a number of different guys.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've talked about it at nauseum. Three or
Speaker 1: four tight ends, two running backs, four or five wide receivers,
Speaker 1: and those three hundred and twenty targets are gonna get
Speaker 1: eaten up pretty quickly. It's not as if will is
Speaker 1: gonna get the next three hundred and twenty targets over
Speaker 1: the next two years, or he's not gonna get one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty targets this year. He's gonna end up
Speaker 1: getting a decent share of what Hop you know, a
Speaker 1: decent percentage of it. But he's not gonna get obviously
Speaker 1: all of them. But you have so many different weapons
Speaker 1: that you can spread those out too. And I remember
Speaker 1: reading a tweet somebody had put earlier this this spring,
Speaker 1: I think it was, and I remember seeing it was like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: what's what's Deshaun Watson gonna do on third down? But
Speaker 1: now he doesn't have DeAndre Hopkins And I wanted to
Speaker 1: tweet beatback, but then I thought, well, maybe it's a
Speaker 1: little too snarky. He's like, he's gonna throw the ball
Speaker 1: the open guy. That's what he's gonna do. And he's
Speaker 1: got more guys with the opportunity to get open, He'll
Speaker 1: throw it to the open guy. That's that's what he's
Speaker 1: gonna do this year. And it wasn't a failsafe that
Speaker 1: every single time he went to DeAndre Hopkins on third
Speaker 1: down and sometimes when he got locked in I'm going
Speaker 1: to DeAndre Hopkins on third down and ended up not
Speaker 1: being a good thing. So if he is able to
Speaker 1: on third down get through his progressions quickly read the defense,
Speaker 1: which he does much better now than he even did
Speaker 1: he did when he was a rookie. He did it
Speaker 1: pretty well when he's a rookie, But if he can
Speaker 1: be that much better, he throws at the open guy,
Speaker 1: you get third down to move the sticks Yep, yep,
Speaker 1: you always said take the pocket change. Okay, more from
Speaker 1: Will Fuller. He did cut his hair. Why how all
Speaker 1: the stuff about the hair cut? Will Fuller definitely, um,
Speaker 1: I want to say that and that has anything to
Speaker 1: do with my hair. I just feel like I just
Speaker 1: needed a new stars, just kind off my hair out.
Speaker 1: That was a good start to day. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: like I said, I'm feeling good. So I don't really
Speaker 1: know what I'm want to do with my hair, so
Speaker 1: I'm just taking it day by day. Yep. Mindset shift
Speaker 1: for Will having the different kind of hair, he doesn't
Speaker 1: know what he's gonna do with it. Uh, so you know,
Speaker 1: good luck to him with that. I think it'll be faster.
Speaker 1: And he kept talking about his posture Johnny, his posture
Speaker 1: and how he was working with Ben Fairchild working out
Speaker 1: with him, and kept talking about his postures. So Brandon
Speaker 1: the social media guru from Sports Radio six ten asked
Speaker 1: him to elaborate a little bit, and here's what will
Speaker 1: Fuller had to say. Yeah, so this is this is
Speaker 1: something I've been dealing with for a long time, just
Speaker 1: you know, just standing up, not even doing not even
Speaker 1: moving or just just standing my lower back would always
Speaker 1: you know, tighten up or bother me. So just I'll
Speaker 1: just walk with like my bag extended. So just just
Speaker 1: trying to get that to like a normal posture. Uh,
Speaker 1: could could fix a lot of lower extremity injuries that
Speaker 1: I've been having. I've been dealing with. Boy, this was
Speaker 1: inspirational to me, Johnny, because I'm a sloucher and I
Speaker 1: always have to fight against that. So hearing will talk
Speaker 1: about posture, I was like, tarn it. I really got
Speaker 1: to do better with posture. And it's funny because like
Speaker 1: you know, he's he's talking about his posture. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you still run faster than any human. You know, It's incredible.
Speaker 1: But I thought that was pretty interesting. Maybe they found
Speaker 1: a little something here about something causing lower leg injuries. Well, Mark,
Speaker 1: it hit home for me because that's probably what I'm
Speaker 1: dealing with in some regards, is what because I feel
Speaker 1: the pain down my leg from you know, and presumably
Speaker 1: and I go to the spot of doctor tomorrow to
Speaker 1: see for sure, but I've had that. I've had that
Speaker 1: pain in my leg before. Now, when I was in college,
Speaker 1: I had a bad hamstring injury on my left leg.
Speaker 1: And that's pretty much where you feel it kind of
Speaker 1: down your left leg, about where your hamstring would be.
Speaker 1: So who's to say. When he kept when he kept
Speaker 1: saying the word posture, it really was kind of hitting
Speaker 1: home for me, like, maybe that's an issue with me too,
Speaker 1: Maybe my posture needs to be better. It's something my
Speaker 1: son is battled his entire life, like he has kind
Speaker 1: of this hunched over you know, We've talked to him
Speaker 1: about posture all the time, and he's had back issues
Speaker 1: hill for a long time. So it really rang true
Speaker 1: to me when I heard him say that. I'm sure
Speaker 1: some people were like, posture, This dude runs four three.
Speaker 1: I'll take his posture, but it absolutely no doubt in
Speaker 1: my mind, could affect your lower legs and your lower extremities. Now,
Speaker 1: I do think that his knee injury from twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: and I could see it down on the sidelines last
Speaker 1: year during games and even practice, there would be times
Speaker 1: where I would see him kind of just grabbing that
Speaker 1: knee and just kind of massaging that knee. So I
Speaker 1: guarantee you he had a he had a couple of
Speaker 1: things going on, but the posture aspect of and I
Speaker 1: heard that today, I was like, that's one hundred percent
Speaker 1: dead on, dead on for will Folder. Okay, let's get
Speaker 1: to tightus Howard, who also met with the media today
Speaker 1: and talked about getting back together with the old line.
Speaker 1: The boys are back in town. Here's tight as Howard.
Speaker 1: It feel pretty good, you know, follows. Yeah, pretty close group.
Speaker 1: You know with us, all of us be making and building.
Speaker 1: It felt goodes basically having five starters back something I
Speaker 1: don't think has happened here in a long time or ever.
Speaker 1: So you know, with us, keep building that chemistry. It's
Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna be the key for us. And
Speaker 1: we got all five starts. Like I said, we got
Speaker 1: all five starters, and just for us to have that,
Speaker 1: you know, I know it's it's important for the offense.
Speaker 1: Coach Devin, coach O'Brien, and I'm just looking forward to
Speaker 1: see what we can do. You know, once we keep
Speaker 1: on building up these games together, I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: build something pretty special. Well, that sounded good from Titus Howard,
Speaker 1: and he mentioned afterwards he before he left the podium,
Speaker 1: he gave a shout out to Chris Clark, who is
Speaker 1: a free agent. Chris Clark, who's had a couple of
Speaker 1: tours of duty with the Houston Texas. What more here
Speaker 1: for Bradley Robie Johnny, And of course he's paired up
Speaker 1: with Gary and Kinley in the defensive backfield and these
Speaker 1: two now have some water under the bridge, some time together.
Speaker 1: Here's Robie. It's super cool for me, you know because
Speaker 1: when I was out of Higher State, he was my
Speaker 1: little brother. So you know, your last year the Ohio State,
Speaker 1: you have to get a rookie or a freshman and
Speaker 1: he has to be a little brother and goes around
Speaker 1: with you and stays in the same hotel as you
Speaker 1: you know, in the World games and stuff. You know,
Speaker 1: he was my little brother. So fast forward, you know,
Speaker 1: six seven years. You know, for us to be on
Speaker 1: the same team, it's pretty special. You know. Like I said,
Speaker 1: you know, secondary is all about that connection you guys have,
Speaker 1: and we have that. You know, he looks up to me,
Speaker 1: and it's fun to play with him. Man. Just it's
Speaker 1: just fun to play with guys that you're friends with.
Speaker 1: And it's not just it does seem like a job
Speaker 1: then it seems like, you know, you're a group just
Speaker 1: out to convers big things. That's very cool, Johnny, because
Speaker 1: you have him and Hargraves, and he mentioned how you
Speaker 1: know they got together during the season, they pieced it
Speaker 1: together on the fly, and now at least they have
Speaker 1: some time together. And Lonnie's in year two, and you know,
Speaker 1: maybe the whole thing looks a whole lot better here
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. Yeah, no doubt. And I one thing
Speaker 1: he said I thought was really interesting, and he said
Speaker 1: playing with your friends. And at first when I heard
Speaker 1: him saying, I was like, playing with your friends, you know,
Speaker 1: But then I thought more about it, and I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, it rings true for any occupation in life. Basically,
Speaker 1: if you're around people that you enjoy, then you're gonna
Speaker 1: want to stay there. You're gonna want to do good work.
Speaker 1: You want to be around your friends, and those friends
Speaker 1: end up pushing you. And I think about our department
Speaker 1: and I think about who I'm around every single day,
Speaker 1: and I see the creative things that you all do,
Speaker 1: and I see the creative things SuDS and Marcott put
Speaker 1: together our video guys, and I'm like, man, I want
Speaker 1: to do that in my way, you know, I want
Speaker 1: to do But we're friends, and so that helps all
Speaker 1: of us want to come to work every single day.
Speaker 1: So what he said is absolutely on point about being
Speaker 1: on the other side of a guy in Garyan who
Speaker 1: he knows very well, and they know each other and
Speaker 1: they're friends, and I do I think that helps when
Speaker 1: you sign as a free agent and a lot of
Speaker 1: times you go into situation going I don't know what
Speaker 1: am I getting into. This team offered me an opportunity
Speaker 1: to prove it on a one year deal, but then
Speaker 1: halfway through the year they trade for one of my
Speaker 1: little brothers. Well, heck, yeah, maybe I'm gonna think twice
Speaker 1: about being here now. And so who knows how much
Speaker 1: that played a role in the decision of to stay
Speaker 1: with the Texans in twenty twenty and beyond. So if
Speaker 1: it did, great, I'm glad for that. I'm just glad
Speaker 1: for him because you can just telling his voice. He's
Speaker 1: a little bit more confident. I don't know if confidence
Speaker 1: the right word, but he just seems a little more
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Speaker 1: All right, Johnny, let's do who's better next. Will Fuller
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Speaker 1: So Mark Vadimir, John Harris with you. Who's better? Let's
Speaker 1: do it? We do it this time on Tuesday's Johnny. Now,
Speaker 1: this is a fair question, I think, and it's not
Speaker 1: an insult to whoever's not better, But I think you
Speaker 1: got to digest this one, and I'm just gonna put
Speaker 1: it out there in wide receiver land for the Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: Who's better? Will Fuller or Brandon Cooks? Okay? Now, so wrong? Man,
Speaker 1: It's like me, it can between my kids. Oh, it's
Speaker 1: your kids. It's your children, it's your football children. Here
Speaker 1: now Will healthy? Will presuming, But this is a This
Speaker 1: is a tough one. Cooks is obviously much more accomplished
Speaker 1: and has been able to stay healthy, So I get
Speaker 1: all that I'm just talking about. This is gonna be
Speaker 1: really interesting, like if Will has really taken care of
Speaker 1: the health issue to a point where he can play
Speaker 1: thirteen fourteen, fifteen games, somewhere and there, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: the whole season. Who knows, But if if he could
Speaker 1: do that, and Cooks plays a similar amount. I mean,
Speaker 1: and we talked about targets too, Who's getting more targets,
Speaker 1: who's gonna get the most targets of Deshaun Watson, who's
Speaker 1: gonna lead you know, whoever leads in targets, I would
Speaker 1: presume would leading receptions as well. But there's so many
Speaker 1: unanswered questions. You know, whatever we see in training camps
Speaker 1: really not going to give us a great idea. It's
Speaker 1: gonna unfold as we go through the twenty twenty campaign.
Speaker 1: I love May more than Jack. No, I'm kidding. I
Speaker 1: mean it is. It's like trying to pick between your kids.
Speaker 1: And here's why this one's toughing me. People are like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: Brandy Cooks just got here. I understand that. I was
Speaker 1: a huge Brandon Cooks guy coming out Oregon State. I
Speaker 1: wanted him so badly on this team. I wanted him
Speaker 1: so badly with the Texans because I just felt like
Speaker 1: he was going to be the perfect fit opposite a
Speaker 1: guy like Andre Johnson. Now, I don't know if Matt
Speaker 1: would have been able to take advantage of it, just
Speaker 1: given his arm issues kind of at the end of
Speaker 1: his run here with the Texans. But man, I would
Speaker 1: have loved to have seen Brandy Cooks opposer Andre Johnson.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was. I just wanted that to happen,
Speaker 1: so I but I knew it wasn't going to because
Speaker 1: I knew Brandy was gonna go a lot earlier and
Speaker 1: the Texans were selecting. So I'm finally glad, all these
Speaker 1: years later that we finally do have an opportunity with
Speaker 1: Brandy Cooks to see what he can do with the
Speaker 1: guy in his absolute prime, New throws as as good
Speaker 1: a deep ball as anybody in the league. He and
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson are probably the two that the best deep
Speaker 1: accurately those two. Obviously you can throw a Pat in
Speaker 1: the mix. He's tremendous at all levels. But Deshaun is
Speaker 1: one of the better deep ball throwers in the league,
Speaker 1: so he's gonna be able to take advantage. That said,
Speaker 1: I think about it from this perspective, and when we
Speaker 1: talk about who's better a lot of times, I think, Okay,
Speaker 1: if I'm a defensive coordinator, which guy scares me more? Healthy?
Speaker 1: Fully healthy? Which guy scares me more. It's fuller. Fuller
Speaker 1: scares me more. I am going to roll my coverage
Speaker 1: to fuller. And even at that point, I'm not one
Speaker 1: hundred percent confident that even with a double in some way,
Speaker 1: shape or form, I'm gonna be able to take him
Speaker 1: completely out, because he might just be able to run
Speaker 1: past the double so or run through, you know, some
Speaker 1: sort of bracketing coverage. He may just run by both
Speaker 1: your guys. And I think Cooks has that, and I
Speaker 1: think Cooks can do that, but I think I think
Speaker 1: defensive coordinators are like, uh, yeah, fifteen is the guy.
Speaker 1: That's the guy that we've got to slow down because
Speaker 1: that's where your deep balls are going, which in turn
Speaker 1: earn and this is where people are gonna say, well,
Speaker 1: you know, Cooks will end up with more receptions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Cooks might have better numbers, but it might be Will
Speaker 1: that is helping him get there. Because there's so much
Speaker 1: focus on Will. I think Will is going to take
Speaker 1: the focus. And I can tell you from watching the
Speaker 1: way that teams played the Texans one of the biggest
Speaker 1: misnomers over the last year, maybe even year and a half.
Speaker 1: I can't say a year and a half But when
Speaker 1: Will was healthy in twenty eighteen, who got the double
Speaker 1: team attention. It wasn't DeAndre Hopkins all the time, as
Speaker 1: people always talking, oh, DeAndre Hopkins, man, that's a that's
Speaker 1: a narrative that started at some point, but it started
Speaker 1: to fall off by twenty eighteen. When Will was doing
Speaker 1: his thing. Will became much more dangerous. Oh, in twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen before the injury. In the twenty nineteen when Will
Speaker 1: was hot, that was the guy teams wanted to take away.
Speaker 1: It was not so much DeAndre Hopkins getting doubled every
Speaker 1: single play. That was a narrative that just got started
Speaker 1: and people just ran with it whenever they saw DeAndre,
Speaker 1: you know, do his thing. DeAndre got a lot of
Speaker 1: single coverage, he got singled up a lot. But Will
Speaker 1: Fuller is the dangerous one to me. So I'm gonna say,
Speaker 1: Will Fuller fully healthy, you give me sixteen games of both,
Speaker 1: first of all, slice you up. Secondly, I think it
Speaker 1: ends up being Will is being more dangerous. Now. That
Speaker 1: might be more catches and receptions for Brandy Cooks, but
Speaker 1: it also means that defenses are gonna be on full
Speaker 1: alert wherever fifteen is all the time, all right, let's
Speaker 1: speaking of narratives. By the way, narratives and these are
Speaker 1: narratives sometimes exist accurately. Often sometimes, however you want to
Speaker 1: rate this, but good offensive lines, we are talking about Indy's.
Speaker 1: They have a really good offensive line. They have a
Speaker 1: great offensive line. Maybe Dallas they have a really good
Speaker 1: offensive line. Who's better Dallas or Indy upfront? O line? Indy, Indy.
Speaker 1: I think Tyrant Smith is still one of the great
Speaker 1: tackles in the league. I ask any question, I think
Speaker 1: where the Cowboys have what the Cowboys had a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, when Travis Frederick was there and Ron
Speaker 1: Larry was at guard. Then I would have said the
Speaker 1: Cowboys because those two missing Travis Frederick is huge for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. And I don't know that they have really
Speaker 1: found the answer at center with no Travis Frederick. And
Speaker 1: we played the Cowboys without Travis Frederick in twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: because he was dealing with gyen Barr syndrome. I think
Speaker 1: it was what it was. The Colts don't have that.
Speaker 1: When Ryan Kelly is healthy, Kelly Nelson Costanzo from center
Speaker 1: all the way out the left tackle, it's as good
Speaker 1: as it gets in the League, and then you talked
Speaker 1: about Lewinsky who's a grinder, and Bradon Smith gets better
Speaker 1: and better by the season at right tackle. So I
Speaker 1: think it ends up being the Colts, and I think
Speaker 1: the advantages the Colts are better on the interior, even
Speaker 1: though the Cowboys with Tyrant Smith better than the Costanzo.
Speaker 1: But Costanzo was really good last year. I think that
Speaker 1: was one of the more underrated and untalked about, non
Speaker 1: talked about stories, was how good Costanzo was last year
Speaker 1: and he was actually thinking about retirement going into the season.
Speaker 1: So from that perspective, I think it's the Colts because
Speaker 1: they're better all around, from left tackle to right tackle,
Speaker 1: up and down that lineup. I think the Colts are
Speaker 1: are better than the Cowboys. I think Tyrn Smith's the
Speaker 1: best lineman, well he's just tackling that group. Nelson's the
Speaker 1: best lineman overall. But I think it ends up the
Speaker 1: being the Colts are the Cowboys, all right? Who's better?
Speaker 1: Better off the bench? Quarterbacked victory for the Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: I've got three You're Ready? Two thousand and fifteen, Monday
Speaker 1: to Night Football. TJ. Yates comes in for a concust
Speaker 1: Brian Hoyer and wins the game touchdown past to hop.
Speaker 1: Defense plays great. Two fifteen, brand and Wheaton comes in
Speaker 1: for injured TJ. Yates and throws a touchdown pass to
Speaker 1: jail And Strong and the defense plays great and the
Speaker 1: Texans win sixteen to ten. And two thousand and sixteen,
Speaker 1: Tom Savage comes in for a bench to brock Oswiler
Speaker 1: when the Texans are down fourteen nothing and rallies them
Speaker 1: to an important victory that they could not afford to
Speaker 1: Let's slip away. So Savage actually faced the biggest deficit.
Speaker 1: The other two games were huge, no doubt eight no
Speaker 1: Cincinnati at the time and the Cults gunning for the
Speaker 1: division and the Texans able to steal the inside track
Speaker 1: with the twenty fifteen victory by Whedon. So Whedon Yates
Speaker 1: Savage off the bench victories which one was best? Now?
Speaker 1: I respect Whedon Savage tremendously to come in situations like that, Brandon.
Speaker 1: I mean that, I mean to get the win up
Speaker 1: in India the first time in Indianapolis is tremendous. But
Speaker 1: that game doesn't mean Hillibeans if we don't get the
Speaker 1: money in the football win with TJ. Yates and TJ
Speaker 1: had been back in the building for all of I
Speaker 1: think two weeks. I think he had. I think he
Speaker 1: had come in the week before the bye and that
Speaker 1: was it. So he was there for that week, then
Speaker 1: the bye week, and now he's got to come into
Speaker 1: this game against Cincinnati on a Monday night. And I
Speaker 1: remember he throws the first pass basically a Ryan Griffin's
Speaker 1: feet on a little, a little mini boot, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I remember whispering, your year, Oh no, this could get ugly.
Speaker 1: And then on a third down he throws a laser
Speaker 1: to Griffin for a first down, and I remember saying
Speaker 1: to you in your ear, like, I take back what
Speaker 1: I said, this could get kind of interesting. And it did.
Speaker 1: It got really really interesting, and we And so the
Speaker 1: comparison to me is, okay, twenty sixteen Savage versus twenty
Speaker 1: fifteen Yates. The thing for Savage, Savage had been there
Speaker 1: all year, he had been there for three years. He
Speaker 1: was just chopping at the bit to get his shot,
Speaker 1: and he got one, and he played really well that day.
Speaker 1: But I think TJ against eight no Bengals Monday and
Speaker 1: night football on the road, saving the season with that win.
Speaker 1: That helped get a little street going and get them
Speaker 1: to a point where they could win that game at Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: I would say TJ from that perspective, just a little time,
Speaker 1: he had to prepare eight no Bengals Monday night football
Speaker 1: on the road, a massive one you had to have.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna I'm gonna go with that one just barely.
Speaker 1: I would put that just barely over what Brandon Whedon did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll go Yates, all right, who's better the Big ten
Speaker 1: of the Pac twelve? In that who are you more
Speaker 1: mad at? Less mad at? So who's been better right now?
Speaker 1: The big ten of the Pac twelve. I've I'm probably
Speaker 1: more upset at the Big ten just because when I
Speaker 1: think about what's in the pack in the I mean really,
Speaker 1: I mean, just form a prospect standpoint, you know, at
Speaker 1: a house state, it's loaded. I was watching the House
Speaker 1: stay Penn State last night, and I mean Ohio States
Speaker 1: still loaded. Sean Ways a nickel corner safety. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: justin fields playing quarterback is going to be a top
Speaker 1: five pick, could be a top five pick, should be
Speaker 1: a top five Pickum. The offensive line is loaded. They're
Speaker 1: so interesting from that perspective, But with no PAC twelve.
Speaker 1: That means Penney Sewell, the best tackle in this draft.
Speaker 1: He won't get a chance to see him in his
Speaker 1: third year, and he's he's one of I think he's
Speaker 1: either one or two on my board. He's two because
Speaker 1: I got Trevor Lawrence one at Clemson. I got Penna
Speaker 1: Swool number two. So but I just said the Big
Speaker 1: ten because I think the Big ten had teams this year.
Speaker 1: I think Penn State was gonna be very good. I
Speaker 1: think Ohiose State was gonna be exceptional. I think on
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve you were hoping that Oregon was gonna
Speaker 1: be good. But beyond that, I don't know. Across the board,
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve was gonna be as probly I think
Speaker 1: at PAC twelve is probably gonna be the weakest Power five.
Speaker 1: So you know Big ten was gonna be in the
Speaker 1: mix because of Ohio State, but also you had Penn State.
Speaker 1: You know Michigan was gonna have some players. I was
Speaker 1: curious to see whether Dylan McCaffrey could be the quarterback
Speaker 1: brother of Christian McCaffrey at Michigan. That was gonna be
Speaker 1: kind of fun to watch in Wisconsin what they always
Speaker 1: do so the Big Ten was gonna be I think
Speaker 1: a little bit more competitive, and I think the Big
Speaker 1: ten overall had more prospects to watch for the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one draft. So I probably were mad at the
Speaker 1: Big Ten, especially that we won't get a chance to
Speaker 1: see another year at Justin Fields. I really like Justin Fields.
Speaker 1: I love his demeanor. He's a lot like de Shaun
Speaker 1: and the way he goes about his game. He's very calm.
Speaker 1: He broke all of Justin's or he broke all of
Speaker 1: up most of the Shawn records until Trevor Lawrence shattered
Speaker 1: him in the State of Georgia. Man of State of
Speaker 1: Georgia's spit out some quarterbacks by the way. So I
Speaker 1: probably more mad at the Big ten just because I'm
Speaker 1: shot those prospects. I'm in shot. You know, this is like,
Speaker 1: this is like being in denial. It's Elizabeth Coogler Ross.
Speaker 1: I mean it really is. I am in denial about
Speaker 1: because we're so focused on the NFL. But I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, really, they're not gonna have college football,
Speaker 1: Big ten, College Football and Pac twelve, and I don't
Speaker 1: know what's gonna happen with the Big twelve. SEC at
Speaker 1: acc they're hanging by a thread right now. We'll see
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Speaker 1: Whinny a regular on our fund Rutgers Texans players shows.
Speaker 1: We will not be out and about this year, but
Speaker 1: we will have zoom shows with the players and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be fun on Tuesday nights. Will be on the
Speaker 1: air obviously, and maybe we'll put out that video a
Speaker 1: little bit later because we do some fun stuff and
Speaker 1: we're gonna take it to another level, take it to
Speaker 1: another level. That's what you have to do during Corona
Speaker 1: media time, and everybody in media is challenged by this,
Speaker 1: so we're trying to make the best of it. Heartbreaking
Speaker 1: for those who are affected by the loss of college
Speaker 1: football for this fall in the Big Ten, Pac Twelve,
Speaker 1: so many other leagues that have decided to wait play
Speaker 1: in the spring whatever. So it's it's just very gut
Speaker 1: wrenching for everybody involved, and of course fans, but people
Speaker 1: who whose lives are really directly affected. And I know
Speaker 1: fans are thinking, well, my life is directly affected. I know,
Speaker 1: I know, But the ones who make their living doing it,
Speaker 1: it's just heartbreaking, all right, Johnny, And I said I
Speaker 1: was gonna be positive, and look what I lead with
Speaker 1: in the segment. But all right, here's here's the story.
Speaker 1: ESPN and ABC, with very little or perhaps no college
Speaker 1: football to show, they'll be interested in moving some NFL
Speaker 1: games to Saturday. Are you in? Are you in? Absolutely
Speaker 1: got to fill up those time slots. It's the fall,
Speaker 1: it's the weekend. The NFL is gonna play. Spread it out, man,
Speaker 1: get some national games going. Now. We have, of course
Speaker 1: already booked travel for so many games, so this is
Speaker 1: gonna be great. But whatever, gotta do what you gotta do,
Speaker 1: and let's roll. Don't know how or you know what
Speaker 1: Texans games might be affected. I mean, if you're gonna
Speaker 1: isolate some Texans games for a Saturday showing that were
Speaker 1: originally scheduled for Sunday, I mean the three that follow
Speaker 1: the opener are prime candidates. If it's gonna come down
Speaker 1: to marquee value you're playing the Baltimore Ravens at home.
Speaker 1: That could be a Saturday you're playing, and I don't
Speaker 1: know how it's all gonna shake out with networks and
Speaker 1: everything else, but you are also going to play the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers on the road the following week, and then
Speaker 1: you're back home for the Vikings. Those three, right there
Speaker 1: are prime candidates I would think to move if there's
Speaker 1: no other network kind of situation that would affect it. John, Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: And with the Big Ten and the Pac twelve out
Speaker 1: of the mix, you've got a pre decent opportunity for
Speaker 1: Fox to jump in because I'm just thinking of who,
Speaker 1: which conference, Which conferences have the TV deals and what
Speaker 1: they who they have them with. SEC has it with
Speaker 1: ESPN and CBS, the Big twelve has it with Fox
Speaker 1: and ESPN, and ACC has it with ESPN and ABC.
Speaker 1: I think so Fox is the one that really kind
Speaker 1: of misses out on this because they've got I mean,
Speaker 1: they've got Big twelve games. But could you imagine on
Speaker 1: a Saturday, Fox says twelve o'clock College game, Big twelve game,
Speaker 1: two thirty college game, Big twelve Saturday Night NFL matchup
Speaker 1: on a Saturday night at Fox's huge. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: play a two thirty if you're playing at a twelve.
Speaker 1: This is a high school I mean, I mean, sorry,
Speaker 1: eleven o'clock game, my bat eleven. I did my Eastern times,
Speaker 1: but yeah, eleven college game, two thirty college game, and
Speaker 1: then seven thirty NFL game. I mean, could you imagine
Speaker 1: what your Saturday is like at that point? Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you just get more exposure. You uh, you get a
Speaker 1: get a prime time Saturday night game, you get a
Speaker 1: prime time Sunday night game, you get a prime time
Speaker 1: Monday night game. I mean, my goodness, I mean that's
Speaker 1: that would be a night that would be that would
Speaker 1: be something I think everybody would be all in on,
Speaker 1: you know, for the most part, to have a smorgus
Speaker 1: board of that, especially I'm saying a Fox. Now. The
Speaker 1: other side of this is, you know CBS, So CBS
Speaker 1: has got SEC, right, you know, you could do kind
Speaker 1: of maybe you're doing all all you alternate because they're
Speaker 1: each gonna have SEC and big. Well, it's connected to
Speaker 1: Fox and CBS, so maybe one week it's Fox with
Speaker 1: a Saturday night um, a Saturday night NFL primetime game.
Speaker 1: But CBS has nothing. But then the next week it's
Speaker 1: a CBS game that moves to Saturday night, and then
Speaker 1: Fox doesn't have So you could have afternoons eleven and
Speaker 1: two thirty for your college games, and then your night
Speaker 1: game becomes your UM becomes your NFL matchup. You could
Speaker 1: do Heck, you could do that, absolutely tell I could
Speaker 1: tell you what you're not gonna have. Here's what you're
Speaker 1: not gonna have. You're not gonna have an SEC game
Speaker 1: on CBS and Fox running an NFL game against it.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna have that. No, No, you won't have it.
Speaker 1: I mean they're gonna CBS will say, are you kidding?
Speaker 1: We pay you guys gazillions of dollars. That's what I'm
Speaker 1: saying to alternate on us, That's all I'm saying. To
Speaker 1: alternate that you'd have a you wouldn't put a college
Speaker 1: game matched up against that NFL prime timer. You'd have
Speaker 1: the college games going at each other, but then that
Speaker 1: that top one would end up being your prime time game.
Speaker 1: That is that one game just like like just like
Speaker 1: NBCs Sunday Night, there's nothing that competes with it. Nothing.
Speaker 1: That's when your NFL there's no competition there are you
Speaker 1: out to the silver lining and all this if I
Speaker 1: can find here's a little bit of a silver lining.
Speaker 1: If if they're able to pull off spring football, can
Speaker 1: you imagine you're gonna have football? Like I know you
Speaker 1: have the XFL last year, but come on, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have a lot of football going on all year long.
Speaker 1: And that's gonna be totally cool if they can do it,
Speaker 1: because I have my doubts about their ability to pull
Speaker 1: this off. Plus, look, as long as we keep looking
Speaker 1: at positives as a death blow, and I don't know
Speaker 1: if we will or not. You know a lot of
Speaker 1: people have this thing and a lot of asymptomatics out
Speaker 1: there and everything. I don't want to get into a
Speaker 1: COVID conversation, stop me. So anyway, let's just hope that
Speaker 1: we get this thing resolved as quickly as possible. Well
Speaker 1: with spring football. Think about this too. If the NFL
Speaker 1: season is over right and they do play spring football,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have an opportunity for more people to have
Speaker 1: eyes on live games than ever before. NFL coaches, head coaches,
Speaker 1: slash general managers like Bill O'Brien, they can be at
Speaker 1: those games and watch those players Yeah, it might not
Speaker 1: be the SEC Big twelve MACC because they play in
Speaker 1: the fall, but you have a good opportunity to go
Speaker 1: see some Big ten players that are gonna play. So
Speaker 1: those players are gonna get some serious looks during that time. Now,
Speaker 1: they might not be out on the road all the
Speaker 1: time because you still have to worry about free agency
Speaker 1: and all that, but they're gonna be opportunities for those
Speaker 1: coaches and those play and head coaches and gms to
Speaker 1: get out to games and really evaluate these players in
Speaker 1: live game situations, which is something they've never been able
Speaker 1: to do. So there's another silver lining for personnel departments.
Speaker 1: But that's that's the other side of this that I
Speaker 1: kind of feel for. You know, we have scouts in
Speaker 1: the building that scout the Big Ten. You know, that's
Speaker 1: what they scout. I mean, like that's their conference. They
Speaker 1: do a Big Ten in the MAC. Well, now they
Speaker 1: gotta do it in the spring, or you better go
Speaker 1: back to last year's tape. Right. Well, that's why I
Speaker 1: was watching High State Penn State last night. My wife
Speaker 1: said to be depressed, and I'm like, no, I've got
Speaker 1: all the football I need right here, and we'll get
Speaker 1: football back Andrew Brain, who I've said in all this
Speaker 1: has been kind of the voice of reason. He said, look,
Speaker 1: Coag football is gonna be okay, and I needed to
Speaker 1: hear that it will be okay when though, when exactly?
Speaker 1: That's the key. When, yeah, we're all gonna be okay.
Speaker 1: When let's I mean sooner around than later. I hope Okay.
Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for tonight. Thanks so much, Johnny,
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