Speaker 1: Welcome to everybody to a Wednesday edition of Texans All Access,
Speaker 1: a bye week edition of Texans All Access. John Harris
Speaker 1: your host football side of the Reporter alongside Mark Vandimir Mark.
Speaker 1: Good evening. Are you enjoying the buy just yet? While
Speaker 1: we're working, as you know, Johnny, and still creating content
Speaker 1: and doing what we do for the Houston Texans organization.
Speaker 1: And it's a joy to be part of the NFL,
Speaker 1: even during the bye which comes early. I prefer the body.
Speaker 1: They don't ask me when they make the schedule and
Speaker 1: what would you like the buy. I'd like it in
Speaker 1: early November, late October, that'd be great. But this is fine.
Speaker 1: This is a little breather. I think that Johnny correct
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong. For the rookies, it might be better. Now,
Speaker 1: why wait until some might hit a wall? Right? And
Speaker 1: I say might because you never know. But people talk
Speaker 1: about that rookie wall a lot because you have the
Speaker 1: pre draft, workout stuff, draft itself, rookie camp, OTAs, all
Speaker 1: these things. They play in the preseason games more than
Speaker 1: anybody else probably, And now you get to, okay, we're
Speaker 1: five games into a season. Good time to take a
Speaker 1: little rest. Get the legs back and get ready for
Speaker 1: the final twelve games of the regular season. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: definitely when people talking about sprints and marathons, it's it's
Speaker 1: definitely a marathon. And we're gonna be kind of in
Speaker 1: between that. Today's show, it's gonna be part sprint, part marathon.
Speaker 1: We're gonna ga Kissio joining us. The next segment, you're
Speaker 1: gonna hear a where are they now? From? A mobi,
Speaker 1: a Koyer And then if you miss Texas matchup last night,
Speaker 1: I can get your thoughts on this because I just
Speaker 1: brought this up. Good show. I did a segment with
Speaker 1: the inspiration of Damian Pierce's run the other day against
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars. I used the FTP as my guide,
Speaker 1: so I started with twenty twelve. Okay, twenty twelve through
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, because eleven seasons, well, ten seasons in
Speaker 1: the five games gotcha best running back runs that you
Speaker 1: can remember in that time frame, Well, obviously Damian's got
Speaker 1: one of them. I also gave him a two. I
Speaker 1: gave him a second one because the seventy five yard
Speaker 1: run against the Chargers. You gotta put that in there.
Speaker 1: So from twenty twelve. You've seen every one of you
Speaker 1: called every single running back run. Yeah, that there is,
Speaker 1: I say, Aaron in the playoff game. Okay, I'm going
Speaker 1: in no particular order here. Which playoff game? The first
Speaker 1: the first one against? Okay, Now, so I started twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: That's because that's the FTP starts at twenty twelve. Pees. Well,
Speaker 1: I could have hooked you up with some earlier things.
Speaker 1: I no, that's like it's like an act of Congress.
Speaker 1: I don't want to worry about that, Okay, because do
Speaker 1: you know Steve Slayton once had a seventy one yard
Speaker 1: touchdown run in this franchise in two thousand and eight
Speaker 1: against I have to find it, but I just saw
Speaker 1: it on the stat sheet here. It might have been
Speaker 1: it was it on Monday night. That would have been
Speaker 1: legendary to do that. But I will find that for you,
Speaker 1: all right. So twenty twelve on obviously Lamar Miller ninety
Speaker 1: seven yard touchdown and the Monday night or against Tennessee
Speaker 1: and two eighteen, the night we celebrated the life of
Speaker 1: mister McNair. That run is the to me, the best
Speaker 1: run in franchise history. Yes, I will put it there
Speaker 1: because of what it meant that night. Now arians in
Speaker 1: twenty eleven, which you didn't have in the show last night.
Speaker 1: That wasn't a playoff game, so that was super cool.
Speaker 1: Second half icing on the cake, a terrific run, crowd
Speaker 1: going absolutely nuts. That was great. Also, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: right there in the top five. Gotta be if you
Speaker 1: allow yourself to go prior to twenty twelve Slayton Colts
Speaker 1: on the Road. Oh man, that's why it doesn't like
Speaker 1: pop out that game. The Texans had the ball in
Speaker 1: the final drive with Sage Rosenfeld's had the controls but
Speaker 1: couldn't win for the first time ever in India. So
Speaker 1: that there's that one. Okay, yes, but think twenty twelve twelve.
Speaker 1: It's the second longest run in history, the second longest
Speaker 1: run in the history eighty one yards by justin force set.
Speaker 1: I'm thanksgiving, but does it really can't? Should there have
Speaker 1: an asterisk because he was down, got back up, should
Speaker 1: have been down and changed the rule in the NFL
Speaker 1: shorts through the flag and that was automatically reviewable. That
Speaker 1: rule never made any sense to me. I took it
Speaker 1: that day. But wait a minute, I know they automatically
Speaker 1: review it. He threw the flag by mistakes, so it's
Speaker 1: a penalty to throw the flag. Who does it hurt
Speaker 1: to throw the flag? Well, you insulted us by insinuating
Speaker 1: that we would need to review this play. That's automatically reviewable.
Speaker 1: But then they changed the rule anyway, right they did.
Speaker 1: They change it the next year. So yes, justin for set. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you. I'll give you the year. You
Speaker 1: may not get this one, okay, because it's a game
Speaker 1: that Texans lost twenty fourteen. There were two runs back
Speaker 1: to back runs in twenty fourteen and they lost. Think
Speaker 1: game five Pittsburgh, Oh up forty five Dallas. Remember the
Speaker 1: third Arrian had a run that was called back. No,
Speaker 1: he he had two runs back to back. He broke
Speaker 1: a thirty three yard run. I knew, I knew there
Speaker 1: was a point in the game. I knew there was
Speaker 1: a point in the game where he makes two runs.
Speaker 1: The thirty three yard run he had, really he had
Speaker 1: great blocking on a thirty three yard run. But in
Speaker 1: the very next play, they ran the very same play,
Speaker 1: and this time he jocked you and said it during
Speaker 1: your call. He jocked a dB. I mean there was
Speaker 1: laundry left on the field because that guy was grabbing
Speaker 1: ghosts and Arian jocked him in it got in the
Speaker 1: end zone. I remember us taking the lead. I think
Speaker 1: it was six to three, and I think that gave
Speaker 1: us the lead of ten to six if I remember right.
Speaker 1: And I remember I had those two runs in there
Speaker 1: because I thought those runs, the thirty three yard run
Speaker 1: was well blocked. He showed everything the very next run,
Speaker 1: so it was kind of a back to back thing.
Speaker 1: So in as a duo, I had those in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: That one hurt light losing a playoff game that stung.
Speaker 1: It hurt a lot because it was such a great game,
Speaker 1: went into overtime, played well to come back because weren't
Speaker 1: they down. They came back to force overtime. And I
Speaker 1: remember when I think when Arion ran into score, I'll
Speaker 1: never forget it. He runs into score and I look
Speaker 1: over and on our sideline, so he went to right,
Speaker 1: We're on the left side, and I just watched Andre
Speaker 1: Johnson all by himself because the dB had gone. They
Speaker 1: had gone to go try and help on a tackle,
Speaker 1: Andrey is just standing there by himself, and there were
Speaker 1: this this group, huge, massive group of red shirted cowboy
Speaker 1: Texans fans and he is just pumping his fist and
Speaker 1: he's like getting love back. He's given love to them,
Speaker 1: and it was just really cool. And then it went
Speaker 1: to overtime. All right. So it's great that you play
Speaker 1: them again this year in December up there, because I think,
Speaker 1: no matter what the record is, that's a huge games.
Speaker 1: So you have at least two Bowl game type atmospheres
Speaker 1: coming up that one because you're gonna bring a lot
Speaker 1: of battle red clad Texans fans and Cleveland here for
Speaker 1: reasons I can't remember, but that'll be a huge day.
Speaker 1: Everyone will want to be here in the building, no
Speaker 1: matter what the situation. Back to back, back back weeks
Speaker 1: in December, getting ready grief? Um next run twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: Twenty sixteen the Brock year. Yeah, what was a great
Speaker 1: run in that by Lamar Miller? No? I think Christmas
Speaker 1: Eve night Alfred Blue. Yes, that's a good run. Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: good runned Alfred Blue. You signed Lamar Miller and Brock
Speaker 1: to be the guys, and that night you have Tom
Speaker 1: Savage and Alfred Blue doing the job, clinching the division
Speaker 1: on a missfield goal by Randy thank you, Randy. But
Speaker 1: I remember that run because that was such a low
Speaker 1: scoring game, twelve to ten, and that was a four
Speaker 1: play drive. It was the best the offense had looked.
Speaker 1: I mean it was. It was savage, the fuller savage scramble,
Speaker 1: Yeah savage, the Hopkins blue twenty four yard run touchdown.
Speaker 1: And the place. What I loved listening to those calls
Speaker 1: was the sound in the noise it made in your
Speaker 1: call was just it was Chris to see electricity knowing
Speaker 1: you can clinch the division. Because the Jags beat the
Speaker 1: Titans that day, it was such a grab, such a
Speaker 1: great that's it's one of my favorite days of my
Speaker 1: adult life. It was such a fun day because my
Speaker 1: wife and I were getting ready for Christmas. We're cleaning
Speaker 1: the house. She's watching the Jags Titans. She knows, so
Speaker 1: she's watching the game in the kitchen. I'm watching it
Speaker 1: out and she was. She was ahead of the game,
Speaker 1: so she would hear something or see something to start cheering,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what happened? And I look up and
Speaker 1: I would see it happen in our game. And then
Speaker 1: we I was up late watching the game, like two
Speaker 1: in the morning, you know, early Christmas Day. It was incredible.
Speaker 1: Twin eighteen was Lamar Milla run. Twenty nineteen. I put
Speaker 1: this run in there because it was the key run
Speaker 1: in the game. We didn't clinch the Vision, but beating
Speaker 1: Tennessee in twenty nineteen, got that run from Carlos hide
Speaker 1: over the left side that gave us a lead. We'd
Speaker 1: taken the lead on Still's touchdowns. They tied it at fourteen.
Speaker 1: We got the ball back and the fourth quarter or
Speaker 1: late in the third and Carlos bounced to run out
Speaker 1: to the side scored. That was that was the difference
Speaker 1: in the win over Tennessee in nineteen that we were
Speaker 1: able to clinch the Vision next week at Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: But at the ginning that win at Tennessee was big.
Speaker 1: So it was those and then twenty twenty twenty run one.
Speaker 1: Trying to find a run in those two years, Um,
Speaker 1: that's tough. Not gon final to twenty twenty. David Johnson
Speaker 1: nineteen yard or against the Kansas City Chiefs on opening
Speaker 1: one of his first runs of the year. And the
Speaker 1: thought was all right, David Johnson, but it didn't quite
Speaker 1: work out the way you wanted it too. I'll give
Speaker 1: you another one from days gone by in a loss
Speaker 1: though Dominic Davis now known as Dominic Williams. He had
Speaker 1: a fifty one yard run against the Bengals on the road,
Speaker 1: and that was the longest in team history. That was
Speaker 1: year two of franchise history. I remembered that game. But
Speaker 1: a fifty one yard run by Dominic, who again had
Speaker 1: three great years with the Texans. I mean we could
Speaker 1: add a whole I could have done a whole show
Speaker 1: with the Arian runs. And I didn't do twenty twenty eleven.
Speaker 1: I just went by twenty twelve. That's the thing about
Speaker 1: what McLean said the other day, it's the greatest run
Speaker 1: in franchise history. Then he put a disclaimer on it.
Speaker 1: It's the greatest run that didn't result in a touchdown
Speaker 1: in franchise history. But it was a great run on Sunday,
Speaker 1: a twenty yarder by our buddy Damian Pierce. But yeah,
Speaker 1: if you go back, you're gonna find a few. But
Speaker 1: if you just look at the Arian Foster highlight reel
Speaker 1: from opening Day two thousand and ten alone, you're gonna
Speaker 1: find a bunch in that game. Yeah there there, I
Speaker 1: mean just that that opening game. But there were so
Speaker 1: many runs you're like, oh, do you see that? I
Speaker 1: mean he would drop a dead leg. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think the runningains Pittsburgh in twenty eleven. Then he cuts back,
Speaker 1: he starts left and he cuts all the way back.
Speaker 1: I think it was ten to ten and he makes
Speaker 1: that run. Now, like whoa. This guy can do pretty
Speaker 1: much anything. So there's probably a few that I missed
Speaker 1: along the way, but as I started with twenty twelve,
Speaker 1: that was That was pretty much where I ended up going.
Speaker 1: It's fun to talk about though. It's fun to have
Speaker 1: a running back where you can have these discussions. Now,
Speaker 1: where does that measure up? How does it measure up?
Speaker 1: So I thought about this degree of difficulty because it
Speaker 1: wasn't the length of run. It was the amount of
Speaker 1: broken tackles on the run that really sold it. And
Speaker 1: we complained about the angry runs segment. Oh, good morning,
Speaker 1: Kyle Brant. Really, I think wanted Damian Pierce to win,
Speaker 1: but the cohorts on the table did not pick Damian
Speaker 1: Pierce because they're New York people. They're not really New
Speaker 1: York people, but they work in New York and their
Speaker 1: New Jersey ights now or whatever, And that was terrible
Speaker 1: Quinnon Williams hit Tyreek Hill and Tyreek is going to
Speaker 1: be a jet. Oh give me a break. Twenty pounds
Speaker 1: and tyreeks one seventy five. It's physics. Yeah, exactly, stop
Speaker 1: it go to class. My god, big that. I was
Speaker 1: so mad. I found that out as I was driving,
Speaker 1: and I called Tyler Marcott and I was like, do
Speaker 1: we need have a response because this is awful. I
Speaker 1: think the PR department here was none too happy with
Speaker 1: Good Morning Football over that. Oh I was not happy.
Speaker 1: But that's the world we live in. We're complaining about
Speaker 1: not getting the scepter. Yeah, well, nice to get the scepter.
Speaker 1: Henry and Jonathan Daylor get it. We get a scepter.
Speaker 1: We're gonna hang it up in the lobby. Heck yeah,
Speaker 1: but big spotlight on that thing, you kid. But made
Speaker 1: me thinks I'm watching just watching Damian the other day
Speaker 1: and this is one of the things I heard a
Speaker 1: lot in Houston last year. Whose jersey would you go get?
Speaker 1: Whose jersey would you go get? I got a feel
Speaker 1: in October thirtieth, will we come in this building? They're
Speaker 1: gonna be a whole heck of a lot more. Number
Speaker 1: thirty one jerseys in that building we've seen in a while.
Speaker 1: There were no Tristan decouse and there were some David
Speaker 1: Johnson's not a whole lot, but they're gonna be some
Speaker 1: thirty one jerseys in that building, my friend, Yeah, ag,
Speaker 1: some people might have some the old Reebok Aaron Glenn, Yeah, Clause,
Speaker 1: just take the name plate off and just slap pierced
Speaker 1: on that to Aaron. I don't know, maybe others, but
Speaker 1: but I got feel they're gonna be a few more
Speaker 1: thirty one ers. And what made me think about this
Speaker 1: was watching back on the game copy when he makes
Speaker 1: that run, camera pans to a fan in the stands.
Speaker 1: Now it could have been family, I don't I don't know,
Speaker 1: but he had a battle red thirty one on and
Speaker 1: they just flashed right to him. And that got me thinking, oh, man,
Speaker 1: October thirtieth, when the Titans come in here, how many
Speaker 1: thirty one jersey is gonna be out there? I'm gonna
Speaker 1: see if And then I started thinking about, man, there
Speaker 1: there's a good handful of because I thought about it myself,
Speaker 1: like if I had if I hadn't have money to
Speaker 1: go in there and get a jersey and could wear
Speaker 1: it and felt good wearing it as a fifty year
Speaker 1: old man. Which one would I choose? Because you got
Speaker 1: you got five? Thirty one, twenty four, twelve, love twelve,
Speaker 1: Um I would I would wear five. I'd wear five
Speaker 1: right now. Five looks good. I mean, I love them all,
Speaker 1: you know, they're all my guys. But I'd probably get
Speaker 1: a five if you've said you got you have to
Speaker 1: buy a jersey today because I like, Um, he's local,
Speaker 1: he's a leader. You know, pierces all those things too,
Speaker 1: except local. But Pierce is a leader just by what
Speaker 1: he's doing, you know. And I don't want to get
Speaker 1: into who's the leader or whatever, but you know, Petree's Pettree. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think twenty four is gonna sell a bunch. Hey, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would buy twenty four for sure because I was
Speaker 1: my number of college. Yeah, I think twelve is a
Speaker 1: good option here. Uh, the Jersey exchange is going very well,
Speaker 1: by the way. That's where I was going with forty
Speaker 1: four percent discount. And vander kid wants to participate now
Speaker 1: because he has a certain jersey, yeah that he wants
Speaker 1: to exchange. But what does he want to get? He
Speaker 1: wants to get Metchi He very clear. Is good. He
Speaker 1: wants a mess. He loves Metschi and he can't wait
Speaker 1: for Metchi to play. And I'm like, well, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to wait a little longer here. But well wait,
Speaker 1: you don't have an number eight jersey in the mothball somewhere.
Speaker 1: I know, Wait a minute, here, here's the deal. Here's
Speaker 1: what the vander kids have. They got a lot of eighties, right,
Speaker 1: a lot. You've got a picture of Luke Vandermere as
Speaker 1: a nine month old in an eighty jersey. Okay, as
Speaker 1: a nine month old in two thousand and six, he's
Speaker 1: wearing number eighty. Eighty has been the most popular number
Speaker 1: in the household by far. I don't think we've ever
Speaker 1: gone well. I think we had one quarterback, but that's it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And there's been a ten. You know, there's been a
Speaker 1: ten or two. There's an eighty with VanderMeer on the back.
Speaker 1: That's what he wanted. Yeah, Andre won't mind if I
Speaker 1: do that, right, So, Luke VanderMeer was wearing an eighty
Speaker 1: with vandermir on the back. And I'm sure some of
Speaker 1: the people have seen him around stadium wearing that. But
Speaker 1: that's been a while I think Liam's ready to put
Speaker 1: that one on now. Yeah, she's a good One's a
Speaker 1: great one. He's inspired by Metchi and he loves he
Speaker 1: loves when he did at Alabama. Wants to see what
Speaker 1: he's gonna do here. Is inspired by the recovery. Loved
Speaker 1: the feature that we did. It's still on Houston Texans
Speaker 1: dot com. Check it out. Such a great feature. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so so good. Yeah, I'm gonna put that all a
Speaker 1: player's show soon enough here on a Tuesday night. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get all the Metchi sound from that feature and
Speaker 1: get it together. And obviously he's very busy. Sean Seth
Speaker 1: we're talking about that this morning about I don't know
Speaker 1: how they got how this guy brought up. I think
Speaker 1: maybe because they were talking to Nick, who will have
Speaker 1: in our next segment. But they were talking to Kissario
Speaker 1: and then afterwards we're talking about the draft and oh,
Speaker 1: I think John McClain was on it. They were talking
Speaker 1: about the draft and I think, as it sits right now,
Speaker 1: it's eleven picks. I think it's eleven picks. That that uh, well,
Speaker 1: whatever Texas is going to end up being eleven. No,
Speaker 1: it's not that we don't won't stay the same. But
Speaker 1: we do know one thing. One of the quote unquote
Speaker 1: as they do air quotes on radio, the one of
Speaker 1: the draft picks will be John Metchi because not playing
Speaker 1: this year, having him next year, it's almost like you
Speaker 1: get an extra draft pick. But he's had the whole
Speaker 1: year to learn the system, to know where the building is,
Speaker 1: you know where things aren't a building, no personalities in
Speaker 1: the building, all that kind of stuff. He'll have a
Speaker 1: leg up there, but it's just an opportunity to get
Speaker 1: on the field at that point. But it's like having
Speaker 1: an extra draft pick having John Metchi out there. Now
Speaker 1: we've seen that before with with other rookies, but just
Speaker 1: I think a guy like Metchi coming in at receiver
Speaker 1: helping that group out. I mean, I can't wait to
Speaker 1: see what he does. But it's like getting an extra
Speaker 1: draft pick next year. So whatever he ends up with,
Speaker 1: eight picks, nine picks, whatever it is, you throw John
Speaker 1: Metchi on there, and you get like an extra draft
Speaker 1: pick as it pertains to the draft. But the way
Speaker 1: down the room, if he could somehow be available at
Speaker 1: the start of training camp, that would be huge. Oh
Speaker 1: I would love to see it. I mean Obviously, the
Speaker 1: health is the most important thing. Don't see if he
Speaker 1: can get there and take it from their football wise health,
Speaker 1: health is the most important thing, says Hyman Roth from
Speaker 1: Godfather Part two. I'd want to get a fifty nine jersey.
Speaker 1: I know that sounds sort of but to me, you said, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is just some left to the offensive line. Seventy eight.
Speaker 1: I'd wear Laramie jersey for sure. I still see this
Speaker 1: the fifty nine and I do a double tip. Yeahstand,
Speaker 1: I've been around so long, Johnny that sometimes I'll see
Speaker 1: a number and for no reason, like on the practice
Speaker 1: field or something, I'll see like thirty eight. I'll be
Speaker 1: like Pete Fagins, wait in it, that's so many thirty
Speaker 1: eights ago. But it just pops into my mind. Well,
Speaker 1: especially if the players bodies dimensions are similar. Yeah, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't look at Sting and think j Joe. They
Speaker 1: just look they just looked. They look different, right, But
Speaker 1: if there's similarities in the way that guys look like, oh,
Speaker 1: it throws me out. That one doesn't bother me for
Speaker 1: some reason. Sometimes oh man, now I'm gonna forget who
Speaker 1: wore fifty in the early days. But I want to
Speaker 1: say Charlie Anderson. Yeah, Charlie Anderson was like, oh seven,
Speaker 1: that's when I that's when I got here, like oh seven.
Speaker 1: So I'll see a certain number and it'll just take
Speaker 1: me there, like fifty does that. Thirty one always used
Speaker 1: to take me back to Aaron. I'm kind of past
Speaker 1: that now, yeah, but I still think about that because
Speaker 1: now this is a very prominent thirty one we have
Speaker 1: growing for Yeah, no doubt. But yeah. Fifty nine also
Speaker 1: fifty nine to me in Houston, like people call it
Speaker 1: sixty nine now, No, it's fifty nine south, those freeways
Speaker 1: fifty nine. Oh. You know, people are new to the
Speaker 1: city when they refer to fifty nine sixty nine. When
Speaker 1: they at sixty nine, I'm like, what, no, fit Okay, Yes,
Speaker 1: I was a freeway, Okay, it is an interstate. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's funny because I still have to translate. You know,
Speaker 1: I've only been here twenty one years. I still have
Speaker 1: to translate, uh Northwest Freeway East tex. Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: that's that's fifty nine north right east Tex. Okay, got it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Gulf Freeway, all right, got it? Forty five south.
Speaker 1: I like the numbers better. I do like the numbers better.
Speaker 1: I just hate the fact that it went from fifty
Speaker 1: nine to sixty nine. So fifty nine. Hey, it's Kenyon,
Speaker 1: but be it also represents Houston, you know, especially leaving
Speaker 1: on the southwest side like I did beyond the Land
Speaker 1: of Sugar. I was down there in Richard Rosenberg. So
Speaker 1: fifty nine took you all the way from Richard Rosenberg,
Speaker 1: took you allway into Houston, went to downtown. We can
Speaker 1: get to downtown much, but fifty nine meant a lot
Speaker 1: to us growing up, and mcknyon green is meaning a
Speaker 1: lot to this offensive line as we go forward. Now
Speaker 1: we mentioned Nick Kissario a little earlier. He will join
Speaker 1: us next me Mark, Nick, Mark it down, stay here.
Speaker 1: It's Texas All Access. Welcome back this Wednesday issue of
Speaker 1: Texas All Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio. I'm
Speaker 1: your host, John Harris Football on a sideline reporter. It's
Speaker 1: time to get to our weekly interview with one of
Speaker 1: our favorite people in the building, General manager Nick Cassario.
Speaker 1: He stepped into the hot seat, man, not really, he
Speaker 1: just stepped into the third seat next to myself and
Speaker 1: Mark Vanamir. We wax poetic about a number of things
Speaker 1: including Randy Moss. Here we go, joining us. Now we're
Speaker 1: in studio. Texans general manager Nick Kassio. Nick, welcome, it's
Speaker 1: the buy So here we are. You said in your
Speaker 1: press conference you earned the record you have. It's it's
Speaker 1: almost like the old parcels thing. You are what your
Speaker 1: record says you are. You've been right there in all
Speaker 1: these games. It seems like in the Jacksonville game you
Speaker 1: did make those plays in the fourth quarter that you
Speaker 1: really coveted. Yeah, any we were able to finish the game.
Speaker 1: So six sixth, they're kind of going into the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: We're able to get the ball down near the goal
Speaker 1: line and then able to put the ball in the
Speaker 1: end zone, and then we're able to get some stops
Speaker 1: there at the end of the game to you know,
Speaker 1: come out with the win. So it was a good
Speaker 1: team effort. Did enough offensively, i'd say defensively, which I
Speaker 1: would say for the most part, we've been pretty good
Speaker 1: in the red area all year when you go back
Speaker 1: and look at you know, and it's about points. So
Speaker 1: we're able to keep them out of the red area.
Speaker 1: They got red area defense. You know, we've done you know,
Speaker 1: top ten or fifteen in the league, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: So being able to keep mine of the end zone,
Speaker 1: be able to get some stops get off the field,
Speaker 1: either force a field goal or force some other you
Speaker 1: know situation. So and made some plays in the kicking game,
Speaker 1: I'd say, be able to control field positions, so kind
Speaker 1: of that was a game where hidden yards sort of
Speaker 1: showed up and mattered m and then resulted in a victory. So, um,
Speaker 1: it's always good to win. It's hard to win in
Speaker 1: this league. But I think everybody was excited for the
Speaker 1: opportunity to to win, and we earned earned a victory. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, now we got a transition and try to
Speaker 1: improve and continue to improve as a team and then
Speaker 1: get ready for the next challenge in front of us,
Speaker 1: which will be you know, the Raiders here in a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Nick, was there any secret saw in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter? There's been so many close games. I mean,
Speaker 1: you had and lead against the Colts, just tie going
Speaker 1: into the fourth quarter against Broncos Bear the same thing,
Speaker 1: tied in third charges you got it back within three.
Speaker 1: But this when you push over the top, is there
Speaker 1: any sort of secret sauce in the fourth quarter to
Speaker 1: make it sure you got that. Yeah, not necessarily. I
Speaker 1: think it was just we had good execution as a team,
Speaker 1: so we were able to execute. I forget how many
Speaker 1: plays on that particular drive where we scored. I mean,
Speaker 1: everybody wants to talk about, you know, Damien's rown, which
Speaker 1: was you know a big part of that drive, but
Speaker 1: rabble to executing third down. I mean, Walker had the
Speaker 1: personal file penalty, so you know, in the end that
Speaker 1: worked to our advantage. So but it just goes to
Speaker 1: show you, like a play like that, just playing smart
Speaker 1: situational football and not putting your team in a position
Speaker 1: where it could sustain a drive. So we got the
Speaker 1: penalty and they kept the drive moving and then get
Speaker 1: the ball down there the goal line and be able
Speaker 1: to finish the drive. So it's saying in the end,
Speaker 1: nothing magical, but other than we were really execute enough
Speaker 1: plays to get the ball into the end zone. Well,
Speaker 1: the third and ten conversion was as big as anything, right,
Speaker 1: because if you don't make that, it's decision time. How
Speaker 1: are you going to handle the situation? And Aikins with
Speaker 1: the catch, it extended for the marker the needed yardage?
Speaker 1: What about him? The tight end group and that play
Speaker 1: in particular, I know, a double edged question, but we've
Speaker 1: got time. Yeah, no, it was you know, it was
Speaker 1: a bank bang play there, so tight throw, tight coverage,
Speaker 1: and after the catch there was still a yard or
Speaker 1: two that we had a game to get the sticks. Um,
Speaker 1: and Ache was able to do that. So ACH's taken
Speaker 1: advantage of his opportunities here in the passing game. UM,
Speaker 1: I think he only played ten plays but had two
Speaker 1: conversions on third down. Mason played I don't know, twenty
Speaker 1: five snaps whatever it was, and Oj and he's played
Speaker 1: a lot of snaps here since you know, we signed
Speaker 1: him there at the beginning of the year. So I
Speaker 1: mean that collectively, that group collectively, as it was worked
Speaker 1: and you know, done enough good things here to kind
Speaker 1: of help us at different points, all three of them. Um.
Speaker 1: And then even you throw Troy in there, kind of fullback, fullback,
Speaker 1: tight end or that group. I think Troy played the
Speaker 1: most snaps in this game that he had, you know,
Speaker 1: all years. So, UM, you know, at any end, it's
Speaker 1: accredit to the players. It's a credit to the coaches
Speaker 1: for being able to go out there execute their job,
Speaker 1: have enough offense to put those players in a position
Speaker 1: to help our team You've mentioned this a few times
Speaker 1: and Nick to us because we always ask you what
Speaker 1: the practice squad and practice squad rules and all that,
Speaker 1: and whenever people mentioned and when we first started talking
Speaker 1: to you, we would talk about the fifty three man
Speaker 1: roster and you were like, who whoa, whoa, whoa whoa,
Speaker 1: sixty nine, sixty nine man roster. If you're here, you're
Speaker 1: going to have an opportunity to play. It felt like
Speaker 1: that game against Jacksonville was a perfect example of that
Speaker 1: because guys that have been contributing a special teams are
Speaker 1: playing on defense. You know, JRM's playing at linebacker. You
Speaker 1: have never playing linebacker. Jake's getting into game at linebacker.
Speaker 1: But the only place you didn't rotate guys was on
Speaker 1: the offensive line. But you're not going to But it's
Speaker 1: not that we doubted you. But if you're on this roster,
Speaker 1: sixty nine man, you're gonna get on the field at
Speaker 1: some point. It seems it felt like you got contributions
Speaker 1: from everybody. Is that the way you saw it on Sunday? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And I think and we've been pretty consistent from the beginning,
Speaker 1: even when kind of starting a program, you know, last year,
Speaker 1: if we bring a player in the building, you're going
Speaker 1: to have an opportunity, and you're going to earn your opportunity.
Speaker 1: So and at some point we're gonna need everybody and
Speaker 1: part of your responsibility, regardless if you're on the roster,
Speaker 1: you're on the practice squad, it's to prepare to play.
Speaker 1: So your job is prepared to play. I would say,
Speaker 1: you know, Mason was an example where not this week,
Speaker 1: but the previous week went through the whole week, really
Speaker 1: hadn't taken a rep. You take most of his reps
Speaker 1: on the look squad. At the end of the week,
Speaker 1: we had a situation where like he had to play
Speaker 1: in a game, so he had to play against the
Speaker 1: Chargers when he hadn't practiced all week. But because it's
Speaker 1: some of the things that happened to the end of
Speaker 1: the week from a health standpoint, that was the way
Speaker 1: that we had to go. So if he's not preparing
Speaker 1: the right way, if he doesn't have the right mindset,
Speaker 1: if he doesn't have the right approach, they's not gonna
Speaker 1: be able to go out there on the field, and
Speaker 1: we're not gonna have enough confidence to put him on
Speaker 1: the field. So to your question and to your point,
Speaker 1: everybody earns the opportunity to play, and everybody's going to
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to play, and you have to prepare
Speaker 1: for that opportunity to play because you really never know
Speaker 1: when that's going to take place. I say one of
Speaker 1: the things where a bey the positive things that's come
Speaker 1: out of it, and I think the NFL has done
Speaker 1: a great job of recognizing this is the expansion of
Speaker 1: the practice squad rosters. So it's just given you more
Speaker 1: roster flexibility. It gives more players more opportunities, and every
Speaker 1: team has to be judicious with how they use the
Speaker 1: practice squad. So we'll buy buy the rules. Well, we'll
Speaker 1: play within the rules, but we'll try to use them
Speaker 1: to our advantage and be smart and try to make
Speaker 1: the right decision for our team. Nike, it feels like
Speaker 1: every game is a state of the union address on
Speaker 1: where the team is at, where the organization is at.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's that way in the NFL anyway. But let's
Speaker 1: talk about the passing attack here, because not a high
Speaker 1: volume of yards, but you made the plays when you
Speaker 1: needed to make them better on third down. Some of
Speaker 1: that was on the ground too, Nico, with not a
Speaker 1: fifty eight yard or this week, but with some big
Speaker 1: plays branded as well. Can you talk about that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's at a passing game. You know, there
Speaker 1: are some chunk play opportunities. So had some completions on
Speaker 1: p and ten situations, you know, through to come back
Speaker 1: to Nico, through the pod past Nico, and then the
Speaker 1: play on third down near the sideline. You know, it's
Speaker 1: kind of a circus catch. But I would say as
Speaker 1: a quarterback, and you see this all throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the league, um, you just want to give the
Speaker 1: receiver an opportunity to make a play on the ball.
Speaker 1: And depending on how the corner is positioned and the
Speaker 1: technique that he's using, it's one or two things that's
Speaker 1: probably gonna happen. Your guy's gonna catch it, or there's
Speaker 1: going to be a penalty, or something's gonna happen unless
Speaker 1: the receive the defensive back is kind of in phase
Speaker 1: and he's able to turn his head back and find
Speaker 1: the ball, which some are more skilled, more equipped to
Speaker 1: do that than others. So I would say the passing
Speaker 1: games had its moments. Um certainly can do a better job,
Speaker 1: you know in that area, and just trying to continue
Speaker 1: to find ways to maybe create some chunk opportunities which
Speaker 1: help shortened drives and move the ball down the field
Speaker 1: with less place. Nick Mark and I had this conversation
Speaker 1: heavy to do with Damien, and it's it's about what
Speaker 1: Damien's doing, but it's it's a bigger conversation, and that
Speaker 1: is with Margaret's talking about with Damien, like, Oh he's
Speaker 1: t well, No he's not. Oh he's tackled. Oh he's not.
Speaker 1: He's keeping fighting through these tackles. As a player on
Speaker 1: the field, when you have a running back like that,
Speaker 1: you know he has a propensity to break tackles like that.
Speaker 1: You have to adapt as a player, knowing, hey, look
Speaker 1: I can't just stand this block two three seconds. I
Speaker 1: gotta be on this thing all the way because he
Speaker 1: might break this thing. Sort of like when in New
Speaker 1: England when you got Moss, when Randy's running rights down
Speaker 1: the field, how long did it take for Tom to understand, Okay,
Speaker 1: he doesn't look like he's open, but it's Randy Moss,
Speaker 1: so he's actually open. How long does it kind of
Speaker 1: take for other players to adjust When you have a
Speaker 1: player like that that does some things they're different than
Speaker 1: what you're used to I think the more you play
Speaker 1: with somebody, you sort of learn to understand some of
Speaker 1: the nuances associated with that particular player. So I would
Speaker 1: say your goal offensively if the ball, if it's a
Speaker 1: running player or a passing play, is to finish. So
Speaker 1: the emphasis should be unfinished in the play. So if
Speaker 1: you have to block the run for us, you have
Speaker 1: to block them down safety block him as long as
Speaker 1: you to block him right, and you have to be
Speaker 1: I would say, committed to doing that. So let's say
Speaker 1: player like Moss, so you can't underestimate like his speed
Speaker 1: or whatever it is, so you might have to adjust
Speaker 1: the timing. So a lot of this is when you
Speaker 1: play with somebody for a longer period of time, you
Speaker 1: have better understanding the nuances and some of the things
Speaker 1: that they're capable of doing as a player. And each
Speaker 1: player is different. There's no one player that's the same.
Speaker 1: So part of the education of your teammates is understanding
Speaker 1: each other. So the offensive line, okay, that's the one
Speaker 1: group those five guys have to work cohesively on each
Speaker 1: play in order to have a successful place. So the communication,
Speaker 1: so communication usual, he goes from inside out, so it
Speaker 1: goes from the center to the guard, and you got
Speaker 1: from the guard to the tackle, So that communication from
Speaker 1: the guard of the tackle, then the tackle to the
Speaker 1: tight end if it's a run play. So you're relying
Speaker 1: on a guy next to you and understanding, all right,
Speaker 1: here's kind of how he operates. Here's some of the
Speaker 1: things that he does. Well, maybe you have to adjust
Speaker 1: or modify something on your end, but that's part of
Speaker 1: learning each other and that's part of understanding how to
Speaker 1: play football with your teammates. So you were coaching when
Speaker 1: Randy was there, So what does it like to coach
Speaker 1: coach to coach a player who's so good? His name
Speaker 1: is also a verb. Players make coaches coaches don't make play,
Speaker 1: But you're there to guide. And he's a really intelligent
Speaker 1: guy too. Yeah, yes, I have a great Moss anecdote
Speaker 1: and the story. So we we knew he was going
Speaker 1: to help our team once we got through the spring
Speaker 1: and you know, started training camp. So I want to
Speaker 1: say it was a first or second day of training camp,
Speaker 1: runs a post route and he kind of pulls up
Speaker 1: with a little bit of a hamstring issue. So I mean,
Speaker 1: we're literally two days into training camp, so we don't
Speaker 1: see him until the opener against the Jets, so he
Speaker 1: literally he's a couple of days of training camp and
Speaker 1: then until we played the Jets, We're like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure how this is going to go.
Speaker 1: So that was kind of fruit we had. You know,
Speaker 1: had Randy, we had Dante Stallwarthy at Gaffney l Welker,
Speaker 1: so we were going to be more of an eleven
Speaker 1: personnel team. You know, Moroney was back, so like we
Speaker 1: had a decent skill group. You know, Tommy was a quarterback.
Speaker 1: So we get into I want to say, we were
Speaker 1: in like thirteen personnel with Randy as a single receiver,
Speaker 1: and we called a pistol route basically where Mosters runs
Speaker 1: down the field and he can freaking pretty much go anywhere.
Speaker 1: We hadn't run this played before at all, so put
Speaker 1: Moss on the field. They kind of played it the
Speaker 1: way that we thought we were going to play it.
Speaker 1: And you know, Randy gets going and you know tom
Speaker 1: just like launches the ball down the field and we
Speaker 1: score a touchdown. We all kind of look at each
Speaker 1: other like, oh god, you know, so it worked. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: Randy's is a skilled a receiver. Um, it's probably his
Speaker 1: reason you know, the history NFL very unique what he provided.
Speaker 1: So but each player again has their own strengths as
Speaker 1: real weaknesses, and you just have to figure out how
Speaker 1: to play with that player, and you know, how you
Speaker 1: help each other ultimately is the most important thing. Nick
Speaker 1: after the game. I don't know if you guys, I'm
Speaker 1: sure you guys get this that I'm holding my hands.
Speaker 1: This is the game book Omar hands us to the
Speaker 1: gives these to us, and we obviously look back in
Speaker 1: the things. It's so much of stats and stuff. And
Speaker 1: you know, they say stats are for you know, nerds
Speaker 1: and losers, but I don't think that's quite the case.
Speaker 1: But when you grab this and when you get this
Speaker 1: game book, what's the first thing that you look at
Speaker 1: after the game? What's the first stat you want to
Speaker 1: see after the game? I'll add one on top of that.
Speaker 1: Let's say you're looking at an old game that you
Speaker 1: didn't really you don't remember or you didn't see, like
Speaker 1: something from the nineties, and at nineteen ninety six the
Speaker 1: Broncos played Whoever, and I want to see what happened.
Speaker 1: What would be the first thing you'd look at besides
Speaker 1: the score? Yeah, everybody has a different process of what
Speaker 1: they go through, and it's kind of their their postgame
Speaker 1: preparation or evaluation. So really I'll look at the situational elements,
Speaker 1: just kind of third down, red area, turnovers and penalties, Okay,
Speaker 1: what happened in those situations, and then you kind of
Speaker 1: fill in some of the other information and then let's
Speaker 1: say feel position is a big part of it. So
Speaker 1: drive start, you know, factors in So do we have
Speaker 1: control of the game, do we you know, the drive
Speaker 1: start situation, how did that stack up? Not the transition
Speaker 1: to the kicking game a little bit, but when you
Speaker 1: kind of look at some of the things that we've
Speaker 1: done in the kicking game, So our opponents drive start
Speaker 1: or you know, we're top of the league in terms
Speaker 1: of the opponent us covering the kickoff like we've you know,
Speaker 1: our kickoff team has done a you know, done a
Speaker 1: great job. And it's been i'd say a number of
Speaker 1: different players. I'd say the last couple of weeks, JRM
Speaker 1: is shown up. I'd say MJ has been as consistent
Speaker 1: as any special things player in the league. Has done
Speaker 1: a great job for us as a personal protector um
Speaker 1: and I'd say, you know, Agnew is a really good
Speaker 1: returner and he's hard to tackle in the game space
Speaker 1: on the first one, and you know they got the
Speaker 1: block in the back on that. But then we had
Speaker 1: a couple of tackles inside the twenty. So anytime you
Speaker 1: can spce the offense to start inside the twenty, that's
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a good thing. So I'd say our
Speaker 1: coverage has been probably one of our strengths. Going back
Speaker 1: to your question, like drive start, there's a big part
Speaker 1: of it, and then some of the situational elements. How
Speaker 1: do we handle those because ultimately those are probably going
Speaker 1: to be a big part in winning or losing the game.
Speaker 1: All Right, so it's bye week. What are you going
Speaker 1: to do other than watch film and study college players?
Speaker 1: In that kind of you What do you got, Nick?
Speaker 1: What do you have on the agenda for the buyer?
Speaker 1: Watch more film, watch our next two or three opponents? UM,
Speaker 1: I think it's important for us to kind of understand
Speaker 1: our team and what are some of the things that
Speaker 1: we're doing well, where are some of the areas that
Speaker 1: we can identify and try to make some incremental improvements.
Speaker 1: And then if we may make some incremental improvements, maybe
Speaker 1: you can help the overall performance. So I think, really,
Speaker 1: like anything, just staying true to your process, stay consistent,
Speaker 1: try to stay on schedule. We talked about this last
Speaker 1: week a little bit, so the next opponents or kind
Speaker 1: of have played each other here a little bit, right,
Speaker 1: So Tennessee played Washington, so we're gonna play both teams
Speaker 1: here over the next you know, four to six weeks,
Speaker 1: so being able to go through that game here a
Speaker 1: little bit. So we obviously had the Vegas game from
Speaker 1: last night in Kansas City, but we've seen them multiple times,
Speaker 1: so I'll play against the Chargers, so we've seen them,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna work on our preparation for Vegas. I'd
Speaker 1: say Philly's kind of a newer team or newer opponent
Speaker 1: NFC East, so you'll probably maybe have to spend a
Speaker 1: little more time on them. And I mean they're one
Speaker 1: of the best teams in the league and undefeated team
Speaker 1: in the league. So i'd say he's next three to
Speaker 1: four weeks, you know, certainly going to present some challenges,
Speaker 1: So just trying to stay ahead in the preparation and
Speaker 1: then mix in some of the I would say college
Speaker 1: work probably been to and full of games this year,
Speaker 1: seeing some teams live, you know, watch some some players
Speaker 1: in the office had some information come in relative to
Speaker 1: player evaluations from our scouts. So just try to keep
Speaker 1: the ball moving forward here a little bit and not
Speaker 1: fall behind your preparation. Next week, will we are a
Speaker 1: thousand foot view of the Raiders, but I feel like
Speaker 1: you could talk about all thirty two teams in detail.
Speaker 1: Thirty thousand foot view of the Raiders. I know you've
Speaker 1: seen them. Thoughts about facing them in a couple of weeks, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of respect and admiration for I'd
Speaker 1: say a lot of people in that building, in that program.
Speaker 1: I mean, arguably, you know, two of my closest friends
Speaker 1: probably in the league are basically running, you know, running
Speaker 1: a team. And they've got a lot of good people,
Speaker 1: a lot of good coaches, and they're a talented team.
Speaker 1: So I mean they're one and four. I think their
Speaker 1: four losses have been six points or less, so some respects.
Speaker 1: I mean, some of their games have been similar to ours.
Speaker 1: I mean, so last night comes down to fourth and one,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's a one point game, comes down
Speaker 1: to two point conversion against Tennessee. Did a Chargers games
Speaker 1: probably one game you know, kind of got away from
Speaker 1: them a little bit, and then they were able to
Speaker 1: make up some ground there early. And you know the
Speaker 1: Arizona game, I mean, Murray basically ran around like a
Speaker 1: video game and converted a fourth down and then converted
Speaker 1: a two point conversion from outside of where you normally
Speaker 1: convert the two point conversion. So but I mean, they're
Speaker 1: very talented offensively, a lot of good skill players. I
Speaker 1: mean Crosby, I mean is a menace. Like I think
Speaker 1: that's the best way to describe this Guy's a great
Speaker 1: football player. His story is incredible as well, kind of
Speaker 1: what he's had to deal with and the way he's persevered.
Speaker 1: But I mean just a lot of respect and appreciation
Speaker 1: admiration for the people in that building. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: I think they're in good hands. And you know, it's
Speaker 1: a big challenge each week, um, and so we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to prepare ourselves for the challenges that we face
Speaker 1: with their team and with their players. Well. I threw
Speaker 1: passes with Derek Carr when he was in sixth grade
Speaker 1: here on these fields, so you need to scout. I
Speaker 1: knew sixth grade Derek Carr. I'm your guy. I know
Speaker 1: all about it and make a good place to start.
Speaker 1: And uh, one more thing. We do a segment every
Speaker 1: week called more likely to Happen, So more likely to
Speaker 1: happen You watching a family move movie with the girls
Speaker 1: or sneaking off and watching a college game in your
Speaker 1: man cave. Oh, that's that's not fair. I don't have
Speaker 1: a man cave. And we have a very open floor plan,
Speaker 1: so the way the office is situated, it's open. So
Speaker 1: it's if I'm with everybody, even if I'm in my
Speaker 1: watching the game, So do it so I'm involved. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not a big family movie guy. So whatever Charlie wants
Speaker 1: to put on the television where we have like different
Speaker 1: viewing appetites, so but whatever she wants, she gets. So
Speaker 1: that's my responsibility being dad. All right, Nick, have a
Speaker 1: great bye week. Thanks a lot. Thanks guys. Oh he's great.
Speaker 1: When the general manager, Nick Sarrio steps into studio, we'd
Speaker 1: love getting an opportunity to chat with him weekly right
Speaker 1: here on Texas Radio each and every Wednesday. All right,
Speaker 1: we get back. We got a little bit of news.
Speaker 1: Nick made a couple of moves today, so we'll talk
Speaker 1: about those right here on Texas All Access. Next. Welcome
Speaker 1: you back to Wednesday, NITIU of Texas All Access. I'm
Speaker 1: John John Harris Football on All Sideline, Porter and Supper
Speaker 1: Little Texans news if you will. Texans even a bye week,
Speaker 1: Texans making some transaction news. And I actually loved seeing
Speaker 1: this news because it included someone we've been talking about
Speaker 1: for a while. When Jordan Nakins came back to the Texans.
Speaker 1: He came back to the practice squad week one teaging
Speaker 1: Equatoriano was banged up. Trying to think if anybody else
Speaker 1: was banged up at that point. The Farrell Brown had
Speaker 1: kind of been banged up at that point, and so
Speaker 1: the tight ends needed a little bit of boost. So
Speaker 1: they had Mason Shrek. They kept him on the practice squad,
Speaker 1: but then he also added Jordan Nakins, who had spent
Speaker 1: eighteen through twenty one so those four seasons with the Texans.
Speaker 1: Texas invited him back, he accepted, came back on the
Speaker 1: practice squad, got in the ballgame in Chicago, first time
Speaker 1: he had been up. Ivan Jordan been banged up, didn't
Speaker 1: play in that game yet farall yet oj Oj made
Speaker 1: a couple of catches in the first game, so that
Speaker 1: was great addition. So it gets on the field, touchdown catch,
Speaker 1: second quarter, first down catch a little later, three catches,
Speaker 1: thirty one yards and a touchdown. Like, man, he just
Speaker 1: picked up right where he I don't want to say
Speaker 1: where he left off, because at the end of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one he's kind of forgotten. Man. I hated that
Speaker 1: because he had always been reliable. You know, I've been
Speaker 1: a guy that you could get the ball too, a
Speaker 1: lotted from ways quarterbacks relied on him. Well, today Jordan
Speaker 1: Nakins goes from the practice squad to the active roster
Speaker 1: and man, I just I'm so thrilled. I'm so thrilled.
Speaker 1: And if you look back at what the tight end
Speaker 1: room looked like back during training camp, Parall Brown has
Speaker 1: been waived. You had Brevin Jordan who has been banged up,
Speaker 1: so hopefully we get Brev back before we go to
Speaker 1: his hometown to Las Vegas where he grew up, went
Speaker 1: to Bishop Gorman High School. And it was those two
Speaker 1: a long with Mason Shrek was in training camp. You
Speaker 1: had Seth Green, who was in training camp, a rookie
Speaker 1: from University Houston, trying to think if there's anybody I'm missing,
Speaker 1: And then he had Teagan who was kind of in
Speaker 1: and out a training camp. Well, since then, Farrell Brown
Speaker 1: has been waived, Brevin Jordan has been banged up. So
Speaker 1: they brought in Oj Howard two touchdowns first game, Benny
Speaker 1: Struman on the run blocking, and also the past game
Speaker 1: since Jordan Nakins they brought to the practice squad. He
Speaker 1: stepped up. Now he's to the active roster. So you've
Speaker 1: got OJ, You've got Jordan Naikins, You've got Brevin Jordan.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say right now, that's as good at tight
Speaker 1: end group as they've had in a while. So got
Speaker 1: Mason Shrek there. He adds to that group. And then
Speaker 1: when Teagan's ready to go, and I don't know when
Speaker 1: Tiaguan's gonna be ready to go, but then you throw
Speaker 1: Teak into the mix. Now you got that y in
Speaker 1: line blocker. Plus he had a touchdown catch, he gets
Speaker 1: the ramps, so he's got a little bit of that.
Speaker 1: He's got that club in his bag if you will.
Speaker 1: But the key to me was Jordan Nakins. You have OJ, Jordan,
Speaker 1: Brev those three plus whatever you get from Tiguan, and
Speaker 1: then you've always got Mason on practice squad who has
Speaker 1: come up for a couple of games, has done a
Speaker 1: really nice job when he has been brought up. So
Speaker 1: Jordan Nakins goes to the active roster. Congratulations. Now there's
Speaker 1: gotta be some machinations at that point, practice squad roster
Speaker 1: spot open. Texans added Micauld do Treadway from Minnesota, six
Speaker 1: foot four, three hundred and eight pound rookie, twenty five
Speaker 1: year old rookie from out of Minnesota, and you're going,
Speaker 1: what wait, a second defensive lineman, defensive linement. They tight end, Well,
Speaker 1: he had Mason Shrek already there, and you got Brevit Jordan,
Speaker 1: you know, coming back. So you fill the spot with
Speaker 1: the defensive lineman. Why, well, this is the bad news.
Speaker 1: Michael twe four has been placed on the injured reserve list,
Speaker 1: so he was on the active roster. So you had
Speaker 1: Thomas Booker already available there. So Booker's there. So Booker
Speaker 1: probably steps right into at twemp fourth spot. But you
Speaker 1: gotta have some depth behind it, especially in the practice squad.
Speaker 1: So they go get Michael do Treadway from out of Minnesota,
Speaker 1: played the big ten twem or unfortunately goes to the
Speaker 1: injured list. Hate that for big Mike God does some
Speaker 1: good things on the inside, and we'd love to see
Speaker 1: him back on the field, hopefully sooner than later. But
Speaker 1: D one four goes to the injured list, might could do.
Speaker 1: Treadway goes to the practice squad, and Jordan Nakins the
Speaker 1: big News goes to the active roster from the practice squad.
Speaker 1: Really excited for Ake and hopefully he'll continue to produce
Speaker 1: as he has thus far. All right, we get back.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go a little where are they now with
Speaker 1: no Men behind the Mice because there's no game, So
Speaker 1: Ambia Koye's gonna step in with Drew Doherty. That's next
Speaker 1: on Texans All Access. Welcome you back to the second
Speaker 1: hour of Texans All Access on a wonderful Wednesday evening
Speaker 1: right here in h Town. So glad to be with you.
Speaker 1: I'm John Harris Football, I know a sideline reporter for
Speaker 1: your Houston Texas Now I would normally right here play
Speaker 1: a wonderful interview that we call Men behind the Mikes
Speaker 1: where Mark Vanimer sits down with the play by play
Speaker 1: voice on the other side. So it's the voice, the
Speaker 1: voice the men behind the Mikes. Last week it was
Speaker 1: Frank Frangie, good friend of mine from Jacksonville alongside Mark
Speaker 1: Vannamer This week, no game. So what do you do? Well,
Speaker 1: you go to a little where are they now? Drew
Speaker 1: Doherty steps in and had an opportunity to catch up
Speaker 1: with a Mobia Koya, first round pick for the Texans
Speaker 1: back in two thousand and seven. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you knew this, but Amobi was nineteen when he was drafted.
Speaker 1: I joke because the Mobi was a young guy, and
Speaker 1: that was pretty much said by everybody how young he was.
Speaker 1: Well he's a little older now, but still a young
Speaker 1: man in obviously everybody's eyes as well. I think he's
Speaker 1: thirty four now. My goodness, time has flown by. But
Speaker 1: where is Ambi? Now? What's he doing? Now? Well that's
Speaker 1: what we have Where are they now? With Drew Doherty?
Speaker 1: Drew take it away? All right? Well this is a
Speaker 1: fun one because we've got former Texans defensive linemen a Moobi,
Speaker 1: a Koya. It's where are they now? A Moby? It's
Speaker 1: good to see my friend. What's going on? Man? Where
Speaker 1: are you these days? And what are you doing? What's
Speaker 1: going on? Drew Man? I'm good man, I'm good, old
Speaker 1: Houston until everybody else. Like once I got drafted by
Speaker 1: the Texas and I fell in love with this, with
Speaker 1: this just town, the city, and I retired here. I
Speaker 1: got a daughter here now, So I'm I'm I mean Katie,
Speaker 1: but uh, I mean, but I'm you know, I'm a
Speaker 1: texting for life. What do you what occupies your days? Well,
Speaker 1: you got a job, you retire. What's the deal. What's
Speaker 1: going on? Well? My daughter okay, okay, raising raising Huh.
Speaker 1: I still have my nonprofit foundation, the Mobile Corey Foundation,
Speaker 1: and uh it's not as active as it was while
Speaker 1: I was a player, but we're still doing some things.
Speaker 1: And um yeah, people want to find out more information
Speaker 1: or Facebook or on Instagram, so can reach out to
Speaker 1: me on those two and uh yeah, so just just
Speaker 1: two for now. Man obviously stilling golf everything, texting and
Speaker 1: so yeah you know that league, little league? Yeah, what sport?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? Well? Football? A little football? Okay,
Speaker 1: little football and uh yeah, buddy of mine, Andrew a dean,
Speaker 1: he played at Katie High as well. He asked me
Speaker 1: to join his uhs his team and help him out,
Speaker 1: have him out. So that's been fun so far. So
Speaker 1: what's that like? Because how old are these kids and
Speaker 1: what exactly are you are you? I'm guessing your coach
Speaker 1: help coach defense? What did he do? Okay, yeah yeah
Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah yeah. So it's fine, it's fun. Uh,
Speaker 1: gotta have a lot of patience for sure, and h
Speaker 1: but I enjoy it. Well, let's take us back down
Speaker 1: memory lane. You're coming out of Louisville and what was
Speaker 1: draft day like for you? Because the Texans take you,
Speaker 1: you know, the first round, you're their first pick. It's
Speaker 1: the first pick of the Rick Smith as general manager era.
Speaker 1: Where were you? How did you find out? What happened? Oh? Well,
Speaker 1: I got invited to UM coming to New York, but
Speaker 1: I decided I wanted to U stay at home and
Speaker 1: do a family and France for that this time, I
Speaker 1: was getting all kind of projections as far as UM Lena,
Speaker 1: a couple of visits places. The funny thing was the Texas.
Speaker 1: I didn't take a visit to the Texas. There. They
Speaker 1: interviewed me during the combine, but I had no idea
Speaker 1: it was gonna pick. That's how crazy the drafts man like, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the mock drafted the mock class for a reagent. But
Speaker 1: you never knew, and so I was. I was thinking
Speaker 1: at first, uh Tampa Bay because I had played UH
Speaker 1: at the Senior Bowl and uh it was he had
Speaker 1: coached UH who was the coach with the South team
Speaker 1: day and I had performed real good. It did like
Speaker 1: me to said available, I'm gonna take you. So um,
Speaker 1: I was. I was shocked. And then Black Petrainer, who
Speaker 1: was my coach and in college, it just got to
Speaker 1: job in Atlanta. At the time, I thought he was
Speaker 1: gonna take me at eight UM with at that time
Speaker 1: the Atlanta and UH he staturally had switched picks because
Speaker 1: that's how they got a shot shoe and uh. So
Speaker 1: by the time eighth they came in Atlanta to take me,
Speaker 1: I was like, I had no idea what I was
Speaker 1: gonna go next. So when I got there, called a
Speaker 1: three two call and uh rickuld Uh spoke to me
Speaker 1: and I was just I was, I was, I was.
Speaker 1: I was excited on the inside, but I didn't want
Speaker 1: to show it an outside when it was I was,
Speaker 1: I was. I was ecstatic, oh man, And from there
Speaker 1: what happens. I mean, you get picked. Obviously, you celebrate
Speaker 1: with the family and friends and all that stuff. But
Speaker 1: then how soon before you're in Houston kind of not
Speaker 1: for good, but you obviously visit the team and do
Speaker 1: the press conference that next day, but then you go
Speaker 1: back home after that. When did you come to town,
Speaker 1: you know for rookie camp and setting things up and
Speaker 1: what was that like for you? I think we only
Speaker 1: got like a few weeks, a week or two, I
Speaker 1: want to say, and then we had to come in
Speaker 1: for a rookie mini camp and it was cool. It
Speaker 1: was cool. It was still warm, and it was still
Speaker 1: like you know, the weather was was was was was
Speaker 1: great during that time. It was the spring when I
Speaker 1: got when I got my welcome to Houston weather, it
Speaker 1: was training camp. Yeah, at first two I think I
Speaker 1: want to say, hey, rookie relcome to the NFL. Was
Speaker 1: actually recording me then, So that clicked is somewhere out there.
Speaker 1: But the first two of the practice, I think I
Speaker 1: lost like fifteen pounds that day. Oh my gosh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So that was like my welcome to Houston humidity and
Speaker 1: I had to get an ib and everything. But uh yeah,
Speaker 1: used to it, yeah, used to it. Yeah, you do,
Speaker 1: or you get shipped out. So you go through that
Speaker 1: first training camp and then you kind of start with
Speaker 1: a bang. You've got three sacks within that first month.
Speaker 1: What was it like when you you finally hit the
Speaker 1: field for the first time and you're playing in NFL
Speaker 1: game action. You joke about that welcome to the NFL moment,
Speaker 1: being in training camp and being so hot. But what
Speaker 1: about on the field, what was your first yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: in the big leagues now type of moment. I want
Speaker 1: to say it was the very first you're the first
Speaker 1: OT as the first um mandatory OTAs the first training camp.
Speaker 1: One of those I noticed the speed change. Yeah, college
Speaker 1: to the pros um that was the very first thing
Speaker 1: I knows the speed of the game. Um, everybody is quicker, rights,
Speaker 1: fasten and the whole technique ordeal about it. So um
Speaker 1: yeah that that was probably the the first thing I
Speaker 1: know for sure I recognize as the speed of the game.
Speaker 1: And how different changed from high school of college and
Speaker 1: college to the NFL. Yeah, yeah, kind of off the
Speaker 1: subject of football, but how good was it that you
Speaker 1: were picked by Houston seeing as how the city of
Speaker 1: Houston there's there's a pretty sizable Nigerian population, and you
Speaker 1: know that that's your roots as far as your family
Speaker 1: and everything, right, How beneficial was that for you having
Speaker 1: some folks who knew a little bit about your background
Speaker 1: and could relate. Oh, it was, it was. It was huge.
Speaker 1: Um my dad actually um prior to him um having
Speaker 1: us a game bager avinesc when he u when he
Speaker 1: was when he was in the US, Houston was where
Speaker 1: he went to Tsu and the Prey of View. This
Speaker 1: is where he graduator before he went back in Nigeria,
Speaker 1: met my mom and had us. So when when the
Speaker 1: when when the call came in and the pig came in,
Speaker 1: he was the most ecstatic because he was like, I'm
Speaker 1: going back to you know, my roots. And for me,
Speaker 1: I was just in shock. And uh. But then as
Speaker 1: soon as I got here, Um, I had already I
Speaker 1: only visited Houston once on a family visit. This is like,
Speaker 1: uh while I was in college. And then when I
Speaker 1: got here, I just remembered the huge Africa and I
Speaker 1: especially Nigeria and uh presidence. I was like, okay, well
Speaker 1: this is I feel home. That's awesome. Yeah. So moving on,
Speaker 1: what was that first month of the regular season, like,
Speaker 1: for you take me through that. It was great because
Speaker 1: I had the rookie of the of the of the
Speaker 1: month old ward and the first game I didn't have
Speaker 1: any sack. In the first of the second game, I
Speaker 1: had two sacks, And it's that coming in and come
Speaker 1: in and then I hit a long and you just
Speaker 1: talk about the NFL man and you know, but um,
Speaker 1: but the very first month, first call of the first
Speaker 1: half of the first half of our rookie year was
Speaker 1: just splendid. Yeah. And then moving into you know, oh
Speaker 1: you get here at oh seven, Texans finish a five hundred.
Speaker 1: They do so the next year as well, oh nine,
Speaker 1: they go nine and seven. That was a real different
Speaker 1: year because you guys start out and you go into
Speaker 1: the by at five and three. Never been that successful
Speaker 1: going into a bye or at a midway point of
Speaker 1: the season, come out of the by and you guys
Speaker 1: lose four in a row to go under five hundred
Speaker 1: by two games, and then you've closed out with four
Speaker 1: straight wins and you win that game on the last
Speaker 1: game of the season against the Patriots, And if some
Speaker 1: things had fallen the right way and some other games
Speaker 1: around the NFL, Texans would have been in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: What was it like being a part of that kind
Speaker 1: of like flipping the script turning the table. It was.
Speaker 1: It was an emotional role customer show for sure, because
Speaker 1: you know we we we felt good. We feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, we were making him some some some leadway in.
Speaker 1: It just tells you about the NFL man and it
Speaker 1: gives Sunday you gott you know, you gotta bring it
Speaker 1: all and uh and that's then about the pro sports,
Speaker 1: especially in football. So yeah, it was. It was promising.
Speaker 1: It was definitely promising. But the turnout wasn't what we wanted.
Speaker 1: But I know, I know for a fact we gave it.
Speaker 1: We gave it a lot like Kubiak, definitely he coached
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, definitely as well. Yeah, what are your
Speaker 1: memories of him? Uh? Hands down him? I love you.
Speaker 1: The best two head coaches I had in my as
Speaker 1: my my uh my playing career. Um, no doubt he. Uh.
Speaker 1: What I liked about both of them is they they
Speaker 1: treated you as as a man first and play a second. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: remind folks about your Lovey Smith connection. We knew about
Speaker 1: the Kubiak connection. Use your head coach here, But after
Speaker 1: you leave the Texans, what was it like you played
Speaker 1: for love Smith for a little bit more? Were the circumstances. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so uh yeah, I played, I was. I was in
Speaker 1: Chicago with the Love You in twenty eleven and twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: So it was just uh going from an offensive minded
Speaker 1: head coach to a defensive minded head coach. But they,
Speaker 1: like I said, they both did you you know, as
Speaker 1: a man first then a player and uh them they
Speaker 1: did they did you respect. That's what That's what I
Speaker 1: really liked about about both of them. Yeah. Who do
Speaker 1: you keep in touch with Texans wise from your your
Speaker 1: playing days? Um? Antonio Smith for sure? All right? Right yeah,
Speaker 1: uh uh Demiko until he got the you know, the
Speaker 1: the defensive coaching dad job national it's hard to get
Speaker 1: hold of. Yeah, he's coaching all the time. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, Jacobi actually just saw him. He's coaching as
Speaker 1: well now too with the mistake and then they played
Speaker 1: at t out of him. Uh Zack dows uh case
Speaker 1: he stuttered, Um, just about all the guys still keep well.
Speaker 1: Of course were through the the uh nflo Legends group
Speaker 1: that way Chester. I tell him, you know, when is
Speaker 1: he gonna run from me? Because I know you're reading
Speaker 1: my mind, because I was gonna say, well, he knows
Speaker 1: just about everybody doesn't. He yeah, just just you know,
Speaker 1: we we practiced against each other a lot. Start out attack,
Speaker 1: so um, defuse attack on it. So yeah, man Chester,
Speaker 1: that's my guy. Man all right, he brought him up.
Speaker 1: So I gotta gotta ask you, what's your favorite Antonio
Speaker 1: Smith memory? Because that guy has a personality that is
Speaker 1: about as big as the state of Texas. I mean,
Speaker 1: that thing is enormous. His personality. Oh m would probably
Speaker 1: just be his his first couple of days when he
Speaker 1: came to us, um, you know, Arizona and just kind
Speaker 1: of left that. I think they just they just lost
Speaker 1: the um the Steelers in the Super Bowl, the stealing bow.
Speaker 1: So he just brought that that that that dog mentality
Speaker 1: of of wanting to go out there and I know
Speaker 1: he experienced it just recently so that that that really
Speaker 1: helped out in the locking room for show and then
Speaker 1: he was He's just a loose guy, you know. When
Speaker 1: it was time to work, it was time to working.
Speaker 1: When he was signed to play, it was time to play.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite Texans memory overall? O, man, I want
Speaker 1: to say, uh, the Monday night game probably oh oh oh,
Speaker 1: I definitely got one. What is it? Andre? And courting
Speaker 1: a Filicky, what was your vantage point? Take me through this,
Speaker 1: what happened? What you see? I was? I was. I
Speaker 1: was because he had kind of been knowing to be
Speaker 1: a brulant, like you know right, I mean, and and
Speaker 1: I just gave he reached the straight show because it
Speaker 1: takes a lot to reach the show. For that play today,
Speaker 1: we all know Andre, he's sure all this guy he
Speaker 1: could never ever bean. So once that came about, everybody
Speaker 1: dow was that okay, he had enough? I was. I
Speaker 1: was on the side. I was with the officers on
Speaker 1: day on the sideline and we could just sense he
Speaker 1: was coming and then interrupted and po I was like, hey, calling,
Speaker 1: you had to coming, fight you buddy. I mean that
Speaker 1: that is a special level of agitation because you you
Speaker 1: bring it up. But just Andre is the calmest guy,
Speaker 1: and how you could never see that happening, but that
Speaker 1: guy got it out of him. And it's it's remarkable.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's remarkable that you were able to not
Speaker 1: you that he was able to get him. So Rile, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like we're talking about the guy who I mean, I
Speaker 1: thought he talks more now, but like back then an
Speaker 1: then talk at all. So that it was like, who
Speaker 1: who is this? So that's your favorite memory has a Texan?
Speaker 1: And since you brought up Andre Johnson, why does Andre
Speaker 1: Johnson belong in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in
Speaker 1: your mind? I mean the the you know they say
Speaker 1: numbers don't lie, the numbers itself. Just it's just you know,
Speaker 1: what he's put out there. I let alone could tell her.
Speaker 1: But you know what he was able to do, you
Speaker 1: know with with you know, I'm telling we had a
Speaker 1: quarterback at Charlotte was quarterback. Yeah, So what he's able
Speaker 1: to do and it's it's just it's just remarkable. And
Speaker 1: I was shockling he didn't get in last year, but
Speaker 1: he better being this this next one. Amen, he better,
Speaker 1: he better, that's for sure. Well what's next for you? Man?
Speaker 1: What's what's the future hole for you? Mobi? Um, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm definitely I'm thinking do more in the coaching
Speaker 1: now that you know I started doing the coaching with
Speaker 1: the kids. Uh there maybe some of them some media
Speaker 1: stuff as well, so I might be coming that longer.
Speaker 1: What you're in doing some more stuff man, So anything
Speaker 1: involving football, sit down, I still have the heart as
Speaker 1: far as what I was doing while I was um
Speaker 1: active poplarizing football in Africa and uh ocuman yours, he's
Speaker 1: been picked it up and doing a real job with
Speaker 1: that what he's doing, So might jump on board with
Speaker 1: damagement and with what they're doing and just anywhere I
Speaker 1: can be a part of growing the game globally. Um,
Speaker 1: of all the five major sports, American football is still
Speaker 1: you know, the fifth when it comes to global and
Speaker 1: it just overall everything. So let's uh, let's let's let's
Speaker 1: I'm working and get that to be number one, because
Speaker 1: it's it's been, it's viewed, it's view the whole of
Speaker 1: the world like it's it's really being beautiful over Like
Speaker 1: I'm being like, it's surprising to hear when you when
Speaker 1: you call back home a year, you're talking about football
Speaker 1: and it's like, wow, it's growing for sure. And you've
Speaker 1: been to Nigeria a few times in the last decade,
Speaker 1: haven't you. Yeah, doing no. As soon as I got drafted,
Speaker 1: I started my nonprofit and uh half of it is
Speaker 1: was was giving back home to Nigeria and what I
Speaker 1: was trying to do. And uh so you know, since
Speaker 1: I had the brain illness in twenty thirteen, I'm kind
Speaker 1: of you know skill, scale back on the nonprofit stuff
Speaker 1: obviously to focus on my health. But now that I'm
Speaker 1: feeling all the way, you know, back, I want to
Speaker 1: get back to get to get the foundation back to
Speaker 1: what it was when I was prior to the illness.
Speaker 1: That's great. Yeah, I remember going I think it was
Speaker 1: twenty and ten maybe, uh, going with you to a
Speaker 1: warehouse like can near the Heights and you I think
Speaker 1: you had like a shipment of books going back to Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was Yeah, it was a pretty big undertaking for sure.
Speaker 1: Oh for sure, for sure. So that all that stuff
Speaker 1: we're working on, getting that, getting that, going back, going
Speaker 1: on getting this, using this the same platform. So give
Speaker 1: the legend players and the current active players our opportunity
Speaker 1: to go back home and uh and give back. It's
Speaker 1: not just it's not just Nigeria, all of Africa. One
Speaker 1: of the good guys a Mobia Koya. It's always fun
Speaker 1: talking with you, my friend. It was great seeing you
Speaker 1: at the game. It's great to see you now and
Speaker 1: it's always fun hearing your story. It's it's a unique
Speaker 1: one in so many different ways. So I'll take care
Speaker 1: of yourself. Yeah, Manual TV again together sound good? No doubt,
Speaker 1: no doubt. I want to come back home for sure.
Speaker 1: Uh the kids from Buffalo almost beat my record. I
Speaker 1: still got it, but I'm sure it's gonna evation to
Speaker 1: get broken. As far as the youngest player ever, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I did bring that up. We gotta, we gotta. Let's
Speaker 1: rewind because you were nineteen years old when you were
Speaker 1: drafted by the Texans. I mean, how does a nineteen
Speaker 1: year old fit into an NFL locker room? Initially it's
Speaker 1: it's it's I don't think anybody. Everybody can do it.
Speaker 1: But I think it's that that's some kids nowadays. Like
Speaker 1: I can nausea Harris, Yeah he could. I could see
Speaker 1: him playing if he didn't, you know, come in in
Speaker 1: time he gave me. I could see him coming in
Speaker 1: the nineteen It's just it's some kids. I could tell
Speaker 1: that that they probably could that could have done it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the Edmund kids. But Bubbalo he always beat me. Man,
Speaker 1: So you still got it. I like it. I like
Speaker 1: it's a great record to hold man. All right, Well, Amobi,
Speaker 1: awesome to see you, and let's do this again soon.
Speaker 1: Sounding good, I'll be bad. I'll be bad. Go Texas. Baby,
Speaker 1: you go Texas, Go Texans, Go. Amobia Koya. This has
Speaker 1: been where are they now? One of us stuff there
Speaker 1: with Drew Doherty and Amobia Koya, Texans defensive lineman, first
Speaker 1: round pick back in two thousand and seven. That was
Speaker 1: my first year here, and so Amobia Koya is a
Speaker 1: name that resonates because it was my first training camp.
Speaker 1: I got a chance to see the rookie up close.
Speaker 1: All right, Another rookie that we're getting a chance to
Speaker 1: see up close is Damien Pierce. Damien's twenty yard tackle
Speaker 1: breaking run inspired me to look back a little bit
Speaker 1: and find some of the great runs over the last
Speaker 1: ten to eleven years. That's next right here on Texans
Speaker 1: All Access wing Back this Wednesday issue the Texans All
Speaker 1: Access from Monday Texans Radio Studio. I am John Harris
Speaker 1: Football on a sideline reporter and your Schlumberge Stats Challenge
Speaker 1: of the week. That stat is seventeen. Now it sounds
Speaker 1: just like a random number, right, Well, there was a
Speaker 1: number for this player broadcast Wilder War seventeen. No. Seventeen
Speaker 1: is the number of broken tackles that Damian Pierce had
Speaker 1: on Sunday at Jacksonville that's in a Mets number of
Speaker 1: broken tackles, and he had seven of them on one run. Now,
Speaker 1: that run was inspiration for me thinking back to some
Speaker 1: of the great runs that I have seen from running
Speaker 1: backs for the Texans over the past ten to eleven years.
Speaker 1: So I thought, let's look back a little bit at
Speaker 1: those runs. But it all started because of the run
Speaker 1: that Damien made against the Jaguars. Here's that Damian Pierce
Speaker 1: run courtesy of the Voice of the Texans, Mark Vandimir.
Speaker 1: Second and five from the twenty two piers again over
Speaker 1: the middle, twenty breaks a tackle, fifteen ten gang tackle
Speaker 1: inside the five. Does he stay on his feet? He
Speaker 1: does down of the two yard line. What a run
Speaker 1: by Damian Pierce. Got out of trouble again and again
Speaker 1: until Cisco brings him down first in goal. Texans. Now,
Speaker 1: I've done a pretty good job, I guess because games
Speaker 1: have been a little bit more stressful, I' done a
Speaker 1: pretty good job of kind of holding things in, just
Speaker 1: letting things unfold. I don't have kind of those moments
Speaker 1: like I used to the first few years, or I
Speaker 1: was losing in on every single play. I lost it
Speaker 1: on app play. That's one of my favorite running back
Speaker 1: runs of all time. I mean not just the Texans,
Speaker 1: but of all times. So it got me thinking as
Speaker 1: we were flying home, but I'm thinking about how many
Speaker 1: running backs have had a run maybe not similar, because
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's any one of them that
Speaker 1: you can go back and go, yeah, that run right there,
Speaker 1: broke tackles, multiple tackles, got it down into one in
Speaker 1: a poor game, all that kind of stuff. So I
Speaker 1: thought about that. I was like, yeah, I think I
Speaker 1: could find I think I can find a few. So
Speaker 1: on my server, I have this this FTP server, and
Speaker 1: on that server it has all of our game audio,
Speaker 1: all of our radio shows, everything that we've done on
Speaker 1: radio with Sports Radio six ten, matchup shows, interviews, everything,
Speaker 1: It's all there on the FTP. Now it only goes
Speaker 1: back to twenty twelve, So if I want to go
Speaker 1: get anything from before twenty twelve, it's yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: an Act of Congress, and I'm just like, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not really up for an Act of Congress, So
Speaker 1: let's focus from twenty twelve through twenty twenty two. Also,
Speaker 1: because I got on the sidelines of twenty fourteen, so
Speaker 1: I've seen every one of these runs, except for the
Speaker 1: first one. Now I saw it as the game was happening.
Speaker 1: Of course. I was in Deston, Florida in twenty twelve
Speaker 1: for Thanksgiving. I had gotten a few days off and
Speaker 1: my wife said, look, I'll you can watch football all weekend,
Speaker 1: but I want to get out of Dodge. I want
Speaker 1: to go to the beach. Let's go to Destin. So okay, cool,
Speaker 1: packed up, kids, go to deston Thanksgiving Day twenty twelve
Speaker 1: on the couch watching the Texans against the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 1: And it's not going well, not going well at all,
Speaker 1: but the Texans are keeping it relatively close. And then
Speaker 1: they got one of the biggest breaks and one of
Speaker 1: the more controversial runs. But the second longest run in
Speaker 1: the history of the franchise happened right here as Justin
Speaker 1: for Set broke through the line, didn't think he was down,
Speaker 1: took off running for the end zone, scored a touchdown,
Speaker 1: and immediately Jim Schwartz through the challenge flag and as
Speaker 1: a result, it was a penalty on the Lions for
Speaker 1: delay of game. Because it was a score, it was
Speaker 1: automatically challenged. The rule was changed the next year. Well
Speaker 1: luckily it wasn't changed on that day because this run
Speaker 1: would have been called back. But justin foreset with eighty
Speaker 1: one yards in twenty twelve against the Detroit Lions has
Speaker 1: to make the list A given the length and be
Speaker 1: given the importance on Thanksgiving Day in this win over
Speaker 1: the Lions. Second and ten for the Houston nineteen, here's
Speaker 1: a gift of for set. A cut back to the
Speaker 1: right across the twenty five. He's down at the twenty
Speaker 1: six yard line and he was never tagged. He gets
Speaker 1: up forty fifty forty a Detroit the thirty to the right,
Speaker 1: twenty five twenty fifteen ten five touchdown, just in four set.
Speaker 1: They thought they had them down, but they didn't. Eighty
Speaker 1: one yards and a red flag comes out in a
Speaker 1: big hurry out of the pocket of Jim Schwartz. So
Speaker 1: that red challenge flag was actually a penal twenty twelve,
Speaker 1: it was, and so the touchdown counted. The Texans ended
Speaker 1: up winning that game in overtime in twenty twelve. And
Speaker 1: it's the one run on my list that I didn't see.
Speaker 1: So my first year was twenty fourteen, and we had
Speaker 1: gone to Dallas this week five Texans three and one,
Speaker 1: at that point had gotten a couple of wins, or
Speaker 1: at least start the year against the Washington The artist
Speaker 1: formula noticed the Redskins then went out to Oakland beat
Speaker 1: Oakland lost the Giants to one beat Buffalo, so three
Speaker 1: and one going into Dallas. But the first half had
Speaker 1: fallen behind that terribly, but had fallen behind, and it
Speaker 1: was in the second half when Arian Foster took over.
Speaker 1: And he took over on this drive, and there were
Speaker 1: two runs back to back. Texas were at I believe
Speaker 1: their forty eight yard line and Arian Foster went off.
Speaker 1: These two runs were just glorious. A thirty three yarder
Speaker 1: where he shook a dB and then a fifteen yard
Speaker 1: touchdown where he did the same thing. He gave him
Speaker 1: that dead lag audience. These are two of the best
Speaker 1: runs that I had seen from Arian Foster up close
Speaker 1: in Dallas in twenty fourteen. Handoff are and running left,
Speaker 1: has a big hole forty five forty thirty five thirty
Speaker 1: left sideline cuts inside twenty fifteen to out of a
Speaker 1: fourteen yard live Foster rupts first out of the red zone.
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick looks it over, takes the snap, the gift to
Speaker 1: air and again running to the left, little cut inside
Speaker 1: the ten to five to the goal live touchdown, Kiston
Speaker 1: Arry and Foster gives the Textans the lead fifteen yard run.
Speaker 1: Now this sounds like a game at NRG Stadium right now.
Speaker 1: Mante Co is sick. I mean he just left the
Speaker 1: dude grasping for air. That was just awesome. Those two
Speaker 1: runs were absolutely incredible. It's fast forward a couple of years.
Speaker 1: People forget this run, but I remember this because of
Speaker 1: the four play drive. There was a there was a
Speaker 1: throat of Fuller, there was a sneak, there was a
Speaker 1: throat of Hopkins, and the ball was sitting at the
Speaker 1: twenty four yard line. On Christmas Eve night against the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals in twenty sixteen, Texans down need to score.
Speaker 1: I mean it was a must that they get the
Speaker 1: ball in the end zone down four, ten to six,
Speaker 1: and Tom Savage turned around, handed the ball to Alfred
Speaker 1: Blue and Alfred with the game winning score from twenty
Speaker 1: four yards out, and I to the left of Savage,
Speaker 1: whos in the gotten first down at the Cincinnati twenty
Speaker 1: four yard line. Blue and fedor Witz in the backfield.
Speaker 1: But I'm two receivers to the right handoff, Blue to
Speaker 1: the left side, cuts it off twenty fifteen ten five
Speaker 1: Brooke and roll touchdown, Texans Puston retext the lead, twenty
Speaker 1: four yard touchdown run Alfred Blue. That one gets forgotten
Speaker 1: because that was just not a great offensive team in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, so you forget about that one. But that
Speaker 1: twenty four yard run was one of the longer runs
Speaker 1: that year and a hugely important one, obviously in a
Speaker 1: game they ended up twelve ten. That was the game
Speaker 1: winning touchdown, the last points in that night, and it's
Speaker 1: one of my favorite nights, one of my favorite just
Speaker 1: games the entire day Christmas Eve, watching the Jaguars beat
Speaker 1: the Titans, meaning that game was for the division struggling
Speaker 1: a little bit in that game, clowning was incredible, but
Speaker 1: it coming down to that four play drive after a
Speaker 1: brand La Fell ninety yard touchdown where the Bengals finally
Speaker 1: took the lead and the Texans took it back with
Speaker 1: that drive culminating with that run by Alfred Blue. Now
Speaker 1: another two years forward, let's go to twenty eighteen Monday
Speaker 1: Night football. Tennessee. Titans founder Bob McNair had passed away
Speaker 1: over the weekend this game was as emotionally got Titans
Speaker 1: up ten nothing early, but the Texans getting right back
Speaker 1: in the ball game. They'd gotten a fourth in one
Speaker 1: stop at the three yard line, excuse me, two yard line,
Speaker 1: so the ball sat stuffed them right there. Never forget that.
Speaker 1: Linebackers bang bang stuffed Luke Stocker, full black slash tight
Speaker 1: end for the Titans. The week before, Justin Reid had
Speaker 1: gone one hundred one yards and a pick six, and
Speaker 1: I remember saying during a break, I was like, man,
Speaker 1: with fourth and one, I thought, guys, could we get
Speaker 1: a ninety eight or one hundred yard pick six again?
Speaker 1: Can we have that? Well, it was two plays that
Speaker 1: got them there to stop and then this run, the
Speaker 1: longest run in Texans history, ninety seven yards by Lamar
Speaker 1: Miller and what it called by Mark Vannimer. I didn't
Speaker 1: hear it at the time because I'm freaking out as
Speaker 1: Lamar's run down the field. When I did Texans match
Speaker 1: up the following week, which we call Texas replay at
Speaker 1: the time, I heard the call for the first time
Speaker 1: and I just got choked up. It's an incredible call
Speaker 1: by Mark and an incredible run by Lamar Miller in
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen against the Titans. First down for the Texans
Speaker 1: three and here's Miller over a right guard has a
Speaker 1: little round Brexit tackle ten fifteen, twenty right side, twenty five, thirty,
Speaker 1: He's still the sideline, the forty to fifty. He's gonna
Speaker 1: go all the way, the thirty, the twenty, the ten,
Speaker 1: the five rocket roll touchdown stand ninety seven yards. That
Speaker 1: once for you, Bob. But I never never not get
Speaker 1: choked up when I hear Mark say that that one's
Speaker 1: for you, Bob. I just I still, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it'll go down in the pantheon from Mark for a call.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just tremendous, and we talked about
Speaker 1: that over the years. But the run was so good.
Speaker 1: I mean, Lamar found a little bit of a scene.
Speaker 1: Blocking was great. He avoided Vaccaro and then sprinted to
Speaker 1: the end zone. And what I loved about it as
Speaker 1: Lamar and I talked about this earlier in the year
Speaker 1: because he had kind of taken a little bit of
Speaker 1: grief for not getting all the way to the end
Speaker 1: zone on some of these runs. I mean, Lamar was
Speaker 1: a fast dude, and so when he broke out in
Speaker 1: the open me he told me there was nobody gonna
Speaker 1: catch him at that point. He was gonna run as
Speaker 1: fast as he needed to get all the way in
Speaker 1: the end zone. So he didn't take any more ribbing
Speaker 1: in the locker room. Oh man, Well, our next run
Speaker 1: happened again against the Tights. Now this wasn't the greatest run,
Speaker 1: but I remember the game itself. I mean, twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: we had gone to Tennessee and it was cruise Tennessee
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen was starting to, you know, kind of rear
Speaker 1: back a little bit and kind of find itself and
Speaker 1: really become a factor. MAYFC South we had gone there.
Speaker 1: Kenny Still has caught two touchdowns early in the game,
Speaker 1: jumped out front, then John hu Smith and made some plays.
Speaker 1: Titans tied the ball game. Oh man, but the Texas
Speaker 1: gotta drive going and handed the ball to Carlos Hide.
Speaker 1: He bounced in, he bounced out. He scored this touchdown
Speaker 1: and ended up being essentially the AFC South clinching touchdown
Speaker 1: in Tennessee. Carlos Hide in twenty nineteen. First of all,
Speaker 1: at the ten split backs Watson and the gun. Watson
Speaker 1: hands off to Hide, wading to the left, Carlos has
Speaker 1: the five Carlos to the pylon, he's in touchdown justuston
Speaker 1: ten yard TD run l Guapo for the league. Now,
Speaker 1: any Foster made this list in twenty fourteen with two
Speaker 1: runs in the same game on the same drive. Damian
Speaker 1: Pierce is making it for his tackle breaking run against
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars. But how can we forget this that
Speaker 1: happened the week before against the LHR Here, first down
Speaker 1: from the Houston twenty five yard line. Backs Offset Mills
Speaker 1: with the toss to Pierce right side as a block
Speaker 1: across the thirty thirty five to the outside forty, the
Speaker 1: fifty by sideline, the forty of the Chargers, the thirty
Speaker 1: twenty ten five brook and roll touchdown Houston seventy five yards,
Speaker 1: Damian Pearce all the way. So it's just a handful
Speaker 1: of the great runs by the Texans running backs over
Speaker 1: last ten to eleven years. Justin for Set Carlos, eyed
Speaker 1: Alfred Blue, and then Arian Foster Damian Pierce getting on
Speaker 1: that list as well. So that was fun to take
Speaker 1: a little look back at those runs over the last
Speaker 1: decade plus. All right, coming up, my man Drew Doherty's
Speaker 1: gonna stop by and join me for a little in
Speaker 1: the lab to close this show down. That's next the
Speaker 1: Texans All Access. We got one funnal segment of this
Speaker 1: edition of Texans All Access from the Unday Texans Radio studio.
Speaker 1: I am John Harris Ball and Outside that reporter and
Speaker 1: also one half of the famed podcast duo on in
Speaker 1: the Lab, alongside my partner Drew Doherty. So let's bring
Speaker 1: it in. It's in the lab. Time to close down
Speaker 1: this Wednesday and night take it away. Bye week is
Speaker 1: upon us, but there's no buy for in the lab.
Speaker 1: This is Drew, you're John, and we are excited to
Speaker 1: talk Texas football. And John, we typically do a cream
Speaker 1: of the crop crop and we're gonna do that today.
Speaker 1: But what we're gonna do is we're gonna have our
Speaker 1: cream of the crop candidate for the first five weeks
Speaker 1: of the season, each of us, and then we'll also
Speaker 1: each have a guy who needs to be a cream
Speaker 1: of the cropper for the final twelve. Hasn't done so
Speaker 1: yet but could possibly have been, you know, an alternate
Speaker 1: or needs to be one basically for the final twelve.
Speaker 1: But first of all, you're doing okay, I'm doing okay.
Speaker 1: Any fun plans. No, No, this is gonna be one
Speaker 1: of the greatest weekends of college football maybe ever. The
Speaker 1: games are just insane, Yeah, absolutely insanity. Tennessee Alabama, I'm
Speaker 1: both undefeated playing in Knoxville. I mean, it's that's gonna
Speaker 1: be just bonkers. TCU, Oaklahma State both undefeated. I think games.
Speaker 1: It's you know, it's a Fort Worth that's gonna be bonkers.
Speaker 1: TCU with the big win last week. I about that
Speaker 1: catch by that receiver Quentin Johnston, number seventeen overall and
Speaker 1: the Harris one hundred. Pains me to say it as
Speaker 1: an SMU grad, but that was a heck of a catch.
Speaker 1: You just got a receiver too, by the way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: dude by name Rashi Rice. Oh look good in these colors.
Speaker 1: Yeah he would. I wish he and the Ponies had
Speaker 1: looked better on Wednesday night. Yeah, that was fun. It's
Speaker 1: a Wednesday night game. That's Florida. That's the problem. If
Speaker 1: we'll go to the Friday night game. They got a
Speaker 1: Navy and our buddy Andre where is gonna be calling it?
Speaker 1: So we got that right. Navy. Um, they've they've given
Speaker 1: the Ponies problems over the years, so anyways I could.
Speaker 1: That's neither here nor there. But let's talk about a
Speaker 1: cream of the crop, thank you, macho man. A cream
Speaker 1: of the crop candidate for the first five weeks. And
Speaker 1: let's rule out the obvious guy. No, Damian Pierce. We
Speaker 1: pick Damian Pierce. You can't pick Damian Pierce. We both
Speaker 1: I think would have picked him, right, I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: in the aggregate for five games. Yeah, And let me
Speaker 1: tell you about Damian Pierce off the field. From what
Speaker 1: I've seen, unprovoked, he's bringing up when asked about his performances,
Speaker 1: He's bringing up welves. It was the line helping me
Speaker 1: do this. My head, my running backs coach, Danny Barrett's
Speaker 1: helping me out. All the veterans are helping me out.
Speaker 1: Think about it. When Rex Burkheads scored his touchdown a
Speaker 1: week or two ago, who's the first guy on the
Speaker 1: field came off the bench to run and celebrate and
Speaker 1: thank Rex Burkhead and cheer with Rex Burkhead. He's just
Speaker 1: a joy in that regard to see. I mean, I
Speaker 1: remember after his first game, the preseason one where he
Speaker 1: punished people and got about nine yards per he had
Speaker 1: a ring of reporters around him in the post game,
Speaker 1: and his locker is up against the wall near one
Speaker 1: of the exits on one end of the locker room,
Speaker 1: and Lovey Smith was leaving for the night. He'd already
Speaker 1: done his press conference, and Lovey was getting a water
Speaker 1: from the cooler. And he looks over and sees Pierce
Speaker 1: and love He's a pretty stoic guy for the most part.
Speaker 1: He raised his eyebrows, had had a little bit of
Speaker 1: a glint in his eye, a little bit of a
Speaker 1: smile when he saw Pierce talking. Now, normally a lot
Speaker 1: of coaches they see a rookie chit chatting and the
Speaker 1: Golden Court, They're like, not the case. I mean, Damian
Speaker 1: Pierce is something special. He keeps this up, He's going
Speaker 1: to be extra special. And Texans fans are gonna love
Speaker 1: love They already do, but love it even more. And
Speaker 1: one more thing before I turn it over to you
Speaker 1: about Damian Pierce. His run amazing. And somebody replied, hey,
Speaker 1: just give him number thirty four already like Earl Campbells
Speaker 1: number thirty four, to which I replied with the Tony
Speaker 1: Montana take relax, So yeah, retort, we are Nick Serio
Speaker 1: say that on Monday, after the game gets the Jaguars,
Speaker 1: He's in the weight room squatting four twenty five. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: I mean, stolen Ryanish. If you want to talk about
Speaker 1: thirty four's yeah, kimelis one. Yeah, I'm saying that this squatting, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Nolan. Nolan made that popular in the nineties.
Speaker 1: Man guy in his forties. I mean, he was just incredible.
Speaker 1: But I think there's so many things about Damian that
Speaker 1: I love. I think one of them happened after he
Speaker 1: scored a touchdown the other day. He made a b
Speaker 1: line like he ran faster over to Laramie Tunsel than
Speaker 1: he did on his tackle breaking run. He ran right
Speaker 1: over to Laramie. Now, Bambridge, George is about three hours
Speaker 1: away from Jacksonville. Laramie's from Lake City, Florida, with the
Speaker 1: Lake City Columbia High School, and that is considered in
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville area. Whenever we always did Greater Jacksonville stats,
Speaker 1: they would include everybody in Jacksonville area. Well, they always
Speaker 1: included Columbia. So Lake City is kind of considered a
Speaker 1: Jacksonville like a far West, like think of the furthest West.
Speaker 1: I mean even beyond Katie that's still considered maybe seely. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of that distance from from Jacksonville Lake City
Speaker 1: is so. I don't know if if Damien did it
Speaker 1: for that reason or whatever, but he makes a bee
Speaker 1: line over to Laramie and hands him the ball. Like
Speaker 1: you know, Laramie is a Laramie is a very composed,
Speaker 1: very cool cat. Doesn't really get rattled by much, just
Speaker 1: very chill. Listen to Shade before the game. He's different, dude.
Speaker 1: He took that ball from Damian and spiked it with
Speaker 1: everything he's got. Our our Twitter handle, Texas Twitter handle
Speaker 1: had that picture in black and white. It's gorgeous and
Speaker 1: it's right at the point where he's the bauls coming
Speaker 1: out of his hand and hitting ground. I mean that
Speaker 1: thing went up. I mean, I don't know, manny yards
Speaker 1: in the air. But just the thought that Damien was
Speaker 1: that excited to bring the ball to him, to Laramie
Speaker 1: and let him spike it, I thought was really really cool.
Speaker 1: And he's done that. He did that on his um
Speaker 1: his uh do you have another touch I'm want to
Speaker 1: see he had another touchdown where he did that as well,
Speaker 1: and he got it to his lineman may have been
Speaker 1: in the preseason, but I just love the way he
Speaker 1: looks out for his lineman, all the way he talks
Speaker 1: about his lineman, all the way he flex praise, and
Speaker 1: he's just he's been fun to watch. But in the
Speaker 1: aggregate for through five games, there's no doubt it's it's
Speaker 1: Damien Pierce. So let's move beyond Damien. Who's your guy?
Speaker 1: I mean, I really want to, I really want to
Speaker 1: say Jalen Petrie. Okay, but I'm gonna leave that on
Speaker 1: the plate for you if you'd like it, all right,
Speaker 1: because I am going to go with the aforementioned Laramy Tunsel.
Speaker 1: I think Laramie has been really, really good. Now there
Speaker 1: have been there have been some plays that I know
Speaker 1: Laramy would like to have back. We none of us
Speaker 1: are gonna know what the Texas protection was against the Colts.
Speaker 1: They gave up that sack from b J Speed that
Speaker 1: gave him the fumble, and you know they were able
Speaker 1: to do something with that. Nobody's gonna I mean, some
Speaker 1: people think, oh, maybe it was maybe Lary's supposed to that.
Speaker 1: We don't know. We don't know what the protection scheme was.
Speaker 1: A lot of times when we think we know what
Speaker 1: it is. We don't really know. They have a particular
Speaker 1: scheme called and there's probably a block or two that
Speaker 1: he probably wishes he could have had in the run game.
Speaker 1: But man, he has been fantastic in the run game,
Speaker 1: better than I think I can remember seeing him, and
Speaker 1: I thought he was really good. The other day he
Speaker 1: had a key block on that run of Damien's they
Speaker 1: ran a power play, and so so he's improved. In
Speaker 1: the question, Laremy blocked down on Roy Robertson Harris and
Speaker 1: moved him out of the way. And that distance that
Speaker 1: he moved Roy Robertson Harris was enough because Tyler Johnson
Speaker 1: was getting just enough ray Seon Jenkins. So is that
Speaker 1: that gap? If that gap isn't there, it's just to stop.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be third and five. But because Laramie down
Speaker 1: blocked and because Johnson got enough of Jenkins, that's enough
Speaker 1: for Daming to fight through any kind of arm tackle
Speaker 1: and then get to the secondary. And once he got
Speaker 1: to the secondary, then he started embarrassing everybody. But I
Speaker 1: feel like Laramie has been really really good. Now are
Speaker 1: there players like I said that he'd like that back
Speaker 1: that I feel like he could have done a little
Speaker 1: bit more with because he is Laramie Tunseil. Sure, but
Speaker 1: I think it's been very, very evident how much we
Speaker 1: missed Laramie last year. After Week five he got hurt
Speaker 1: in that Patriots game and then we didn't have for
Speaker 1: the rest of the year. But he's playing at a
Speaker 1: top notch Pro Bowl like level, and I'm glad. Over
Speaker 1: the offseason, I remember seeing him tweet something. Pff IT
Speaker 1: put out their their top tackles or something, and they
Speaker 1: basically came up with a classification like a lead Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl level, above average starter or something like that, and
Speaker 1: they labeled him like an above average starter or something,
Speaker 1: and he was kind of like, Okay, you'll see And
Speaker 1: he's really been showing that through five games. So he
Speaker 1: is such a key because when you start going down
Speaker 1: the list of players that the Texans are gonna face,
Speaker 1: think about what they've already faced, and think about what
Speaker 1: he's gonna face. We go out to Las Vegas, He's
Speaker 1: gonna face Chandler Jones and Max Crosby, you know, further
Speaker 1: on down the list, gonna face the Eagles. I mean,
Speaker 1: they got a million guys they can throw out there
Speaker 1: Hassan Reddick, a guy with a bunch of speed. He's
Speaker 1: gonna see off the edge. You see the Titans. Now
Speaker 1: they don't have Harold Landry, but they still have got
Speaker 1: the Nikatre who rushes from the outside. Some bud dupree
Speaker 1: for the Titans. He's gonna see Josh Allen and Trayvon
Speaker 1: Walker again. We face the Jaguars every single week. He
Speaker 1: is facing some dude out on the outside and he's
Speaker 1: holding his own. And I think Laramy has been the
Speaker 1: best of the lineman this year. And I think the
Speaker 1: line off the line group overall has taken their game
Speaker 1: to a different level. And I think Damien's help that.
Speaker 1: But I think they've also up their play too, and
Speaker 1: I think that's helped. And I think it will help
Speaker 1: this offense get better and better as they get more
Speaker 1: in syncle with one another. I like it. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with Nico Collins as Michael Cream of the Cropper.
Speaker 1: So far like it now. I can promise you that
Speaker 1: at that point Drew made some very salient points about
Speaker 1: Nico Collins, but you're gonna have to listen to the
Speaker 1: rest of it. Wherever you get your podcasts, go download
Speaker 1: and the Lab. You can listen to all of it
Speaker 1: in its entirety wherever you get your podcast. A big
Speaker 1: thanks to Drew, to Amobia Koya, to Mark Vanomer, to
Speaker 1: Nick Caserio, to all of you for listening with Thank
Speaker 1: you so much. We will see you tomorrow. Yes, bye week,
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Speaker 1: that everybody, and as always, go Texans