Speaker 1: What is happened? Everybody?
Speaker 2: Welcome into a Monday edition of Texans All Access from
Speaker 2: Monday Texans Radio Studio. John Harrish, you host plan Out
Speaker 2: Sideline reporter alongside the voice that Texans won, Mark Vanimir Mark.
Speaker 1: Good evening.
Speaker 2: Tell me how your Saturday went. I know it was
Speaker 2: a big Saturday Saturday ago.
Speaker 3: So we didn't make it to the bubble, but we
Speaker 3: got within one game of making it to the bubble.
Speaker 3: And the Bubble is a great event with the final
Speaker 3: four this Saturday. Because the districts have expanded for the Texans,
Speaker 3: more funding, more schools.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: But we basically won Fort Ben County the Clements Rangers
Speaker 3: flag football team and we were in the final against
Speaker 3: Memorial for the whole district. The Memorial got us. It
Speaker 3: was zero zero at the half. They scored in the
Speaker 3: second half and that was it. It was the end of
Speaker 3: a long day. Didn't make it. They're a great team.
Speaker 3: But the Raiders ot a heck of a season. Johnny
Speaker 3: winless last year and went all the way to the
Speaker 3: championship with the district this year.
Speaker 1: So that was it. That's coaching, man, That is coaches,
Speaker 1: the players, the coaches. No, you know this. It's you
Speaker 1: know you could do what you could do.
Speaker 3: They play the game, that's right, you know you, but
Speaker 3: you always think about what you could have done better
Speaker 3: to put them in better positions in.
Speaker 1: Any kind of loss, you know.
Speaker 3: And it's funny because like coaching anything, I would imagine
Speaker 3: you always think about the losses more than the wins.
Speaker 1: And you want to celebrate the wins, but you think
Speaker 1: about the losses.
Speaker 3: Constantly because you're thinking what could I have done to
Speaker 3: get them over the top.
Speaker 1: But I'm really happy with those girls.
Speaker 3: They did a tremendous job and it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 3: I'll go to some of the bubble games or there
Speaker 3: are three or four of them on well it's a
Speaker 3: final four, so two to two one on Saturday, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna check those out and good luck Memorial.
Speaker 1: They were a great team. They took us out, so
Speaker 1: that was fun that.
Speaker 3: We had a heck of a run, won three games
Speaker 3: on Saturday to get to that championship.
Speaker 1: But it got hot, no excuses.
Speaker 3: They dealt better than we did with it, and I'm
Speaker 3: just really proud of them, really proud of them and
Speaker 3: coach hang at Clements and I were just thrilled with
Speaker 3: these girls wonderful time.
Speaker 2: Twenty six years later, and I still sick about the
Speaker 2: loss of loss.
Speaker 1: In my mind.
Speaker 2: I can see every I can see every play. I
Speaker 2: can see it from my angle on the sideline. I
Speaker 2: can see it from the film Angle, which I've watched
Speaker 2: a thousand times. And I remember one time, this is
Speaker 2: probably about I don't know, six or seven years ago.
Speaker 2: I remember I just happened to be sitting at my
Speaker 2: computer and I had my computer plugged in. I've got
Speaker 2: a hard drive that's all kinds of stuff on it,
Speaker 2: and I just was kind of clicking through there, just
Speaker 2: kind of messing around, and I pulled the game up,
Speaker 2: and at one point my wife walked by and she
Speaker 2: just went, really, what are you doing? Really, what are
Speaker 2: you doing? And I was just like, ah, you know,
Speaker 2: I just was kind of curious. So I went back
Speaker 2: to watching.
Speaker 1: I'm curious if we still lose this?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, do we still lose it? At some point?
Speaker 2: And when we're up twenty four to twelve in the
Speaker 2: fourth quarter, you think, now, now we got this one.
Speaker 1: We got this one.
Speaker 2: And then we lose twenty seven, twenty twenty five, twenty four,
Speaker 2: and it's like didn't choice six years later, remember every play.
Speaker 3: I'm like that with Texans games though, when I see
Speaker 3: these videos Texans and Jacks fantastic finish from twenty twenty five,
Speaker 3: and I'm watching the fourth quarter of that game here
Speaker 3: at Reliott Stadium, and I'm looking and I'm thinking, are
Speaker 3: we going to pull this out?
Speaker 1: And this looks really dicey. I'm worried and then scared.
Speaker 3: You know how it ends, But it's still a doubtful
Speaker 3: situation when you look at the way some of these
Speaker 3: things unfold. The playoff game against the Browns the year before,
Speaker 3: but now two years before, I watch that, and that
Speaker 3: doesn't you know, like a lot of blowouts, it doesn't
Speaker 3: happen right away. It's not like you're up twenty eight
Speaker 3: nothing after one minute of the game, right The game
Speaker 3: with the Chargers is the one that one was super
Speaker 3: close going into the fourth and then you pull away.
Speaker 3: The game with the Steelers this past year, super close,
Speaker 3: as we all know, seven to six, and then you
Speaker 3: pull away in the fourth quarter. Big It looks like
Speaker 3: a blowout at the end, and it was. But it
Speaker 3: didn't happen overnight, within the course of the game. It
Speaker 3: took a while to get it going. So it's funny
Speaker 3: how those things play out.
Speaker 1: It went from seven to six to thirty to six
Speaker 1: and like a blink, yeah, whoa yeah, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: play them again, Johnny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we are gonna Oh, which brings me to today's topic. Okay,
Speaker 2: and that is I created an eighteen week fake twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six schedule.
Speaker 3: Okay, I want to see what you do here, because
Speaker 3: the news this morning broke that we will not open
Speaker 3: the season against the Dallas Cowboys because they open against
Speaker 3: the Giants on Sunday Night Football, which you know, all right,
Speaker 3: I get at NBC.
Speaker 1: We want you want to get the Giants on before.
Speaker 3: They start stinking right, Yeah, I bet the Giants still
Speaker 3: get a pretty healthy complement of prime time games because
Speaker 3: it is the New York team, even more so than
Speaker 3: the Jets. They are the New York team. So Giants
Speaker 3: Cowboys on opening weekend. It makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 3: You just it's not ripping off the band aid. It's
Speaker 3: let's serve some steak here on opening weekend that we
Speaker 3: know is gonna work TV.
Speaker 2: Well, it's a hardball John Harbaugh taking over with the Giants,
Speaker 2: and you know, drafted R. L.
Speaker 1: Reese and Cissimos. Hopefully he's going to be healthy enough to.
Speaker 3: Don't oversell it. It's just the Giants. It's that n
Speaker 3: y on the helmet, that's what it is.
Speaker 1: So that was announced today. So you're the.
Speaker 3: Cowboys who attract eyeballs whatever they do, because you either
Speaker 3: want to watch them win or lose.
Speaker 2: Right, So week one we know at this point somebody
Speaker 2: will open at Seattle when the Rams and Niners are
Speaker 2: playing in Melbourne and the Giants of Cowboys, as you mentioned,
Speaker 2: announced today for Sunday night football. So you have a
Speaker 2: mock schedule. So I have a mock schedule. I have
Speaker 2: a fake schedule you want, and I put together. There
Speaker 2: was one piece of news. I don't even call it news.
Speaker 2: There's a rumor from an account on Twitter at Nerding
Speaker 2: on NFL. This is where he comes up or she
Speaker 2: don't know who it is what it is, comes up
Speaker 2: with a bunch of schedule leaks and had one over
Speaker 2: the weekend.
Speaker 1: A ninth was that Saturday. People have run with this
Speaker 1: like it's the gospel. Yeah, absolutely, So this person has
Speaker 1: been wrong before, They've been right. They've been right a lot,
Speaker 1: but they've been wrong.
Speaker 2: A handful Toody's confirmed this correct, but they have suggested
Speaker 2: that the Texans will actually be going to London again.
Speaker 2: The last time we went internationally was to London to
Speaker 2: Wembley to play the Jags. Yeah, and that's exactly what
Speaker 2: they have. They say, week six, October eighteenth, eight thirty
Speaker 2: local time in the morning or Houston time, which I
Speaker 2: think is like two thirty over there.
Speaker 1: But we'll we'll get that all squared away.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: What we know is that the Jags are playing twice
Speaker 2: in London, so either they're playing us then somebody, or
Speaker 2: playing somebody then playing us. But this apparently is in
Speaker 2: the Jaguars away home away from home, Wembley, according to
Speaker 2: Nerding on NFL. And I can't emphasize enough this may
Speaker 2: not be correct, but in my fake schedule, I went
Speaker 2: with it. Just figured okay, I'll just take that one
Speaker 2: slotted in week six and go from there. Now, as
Speaker 2: I went through this schedule, I combined elements from different
Speaker 2: years that I remember in which ooh, that was really tough. Now,
Speaker 2: with nine road games, it's already tough, and apparently one
Speaker 2: of them being internationally, according to at Nerding on the NFL.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be eight eight and one.
Speaker 2: So the first thing that I brought into the fray
Speaker 2: was twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: Okay, what do you.
Speaker 2: Remember about the start of twenty eighteen? Do you remember
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen? It was Patriots Titans?
Speaker 3: Yeah that it was winless, Yes, bought after that, and
Speaker 3: then the Colts Patriots Titans cults picked up.
Speaker 1: Before that, it was road Road. Thank you, road Road,
Speaker 1: Road Road. I went road road.
Speaker 3: Okay, Week one at Tennessee Titans. Johnny, I'm gonna share
Speaker 3: something with you. The Texans have never opened with the
Speaker 3: Tennessee Titans. Why, I don't know's weird. It's never happened.
Speaker 1: It's weird.
Speaker 3: And I went through it this morning, and you know what,
Speaker 3: I was in a digital content creation meeting and I
Speaker 3: was doodling every opener in Texans history, and I could
Speaker 3: do it off the top of my head. And we've
Speaker 3: never opened with the Titans. We've closed with them several times,
Speaker 3: but we've never opened with that. No, I think it's
Speaker 3: a great prediction. I actually second this that it's gonna happen,
Speaker 3: because it's never happened, and why not now? And you
Speaker 3: know what, I'm down with it open at Tennessee all
Speaker 3: day long. I'm down with it, you know why. Look,
Speaker 3: nothing's easy in this league. We know the Titans could
Speaker 3: be a total ambush team whatever, but I'd like to
Speaker 3: open the season with a nice dub, a nice big
Speaker 3: fat dub on the road.
Speaker 1: They don't expect to win, and.
Speaker 2: You kin catch them before they maybe start to turn acud.
Speaker 1: Yeah a little bit.
Speaker 3: Now, you don't know what they're gonna do, but you
Speaker 3: can kind of predict some things.
Speaker 1: You know, Dable is gonna be the see he is
Speaker 1: the OC, Robert solid defensive coordinator, Calleen know what he does.
Speaker 1: We know who they have.
Speaker 3: Let's just go in there, beat them one to Oh,
Speaker 3: let's go. I'm down with opening on the road against
Speaker 3: the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 2: Then we go back schedule, that's right, Then we go
Speaker 2: back on the road.
Speaker 1: So road, like I said.
Speaker 2: Channeling twenty eighteens at Washington Commanders get that NFC team
Speaker 2: in week two. So that's channeling a little bit of
Speaker 2: last year where we had Tampa Bay in Week two,
Speaker 2: but we played them here on Monday night. Now we're
Speaker 2: playing the Washington Commanders in Washington. So go road, road,
Speaker 2: So fly to Nashville, get a win, come back, prepare,
Speaker 2: go back, and take on Washington in week two.
Speaker 3: I sign off on this because now after that, you're
Speaker 3: gonna get eight at home, seven on the road. You're
Speaker 3: gonna get the buy in there. Look I like that.
Speaker 3: I like ripping off two road band aids early Washington Now,
Speaker 3: I think they're more likely to be good early than late.
Speaker 3: But we'll see. We'll see what Jade and Daniels, Jaden
Speaker 3: Brown three. There's no Cliff Kingsbury anymore. What does it
Speaker 3: all mean?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: How's that gonna go for them? It's it's a strange dynamic.
Speaker 3: It feels uneasy in the Nation's Capitol from here anyway.
Speaker 1: I don't really study them every day, do you no?
Speaker 2: But I feel like it's an older team. I was
Speaker 2: looking at a graft the other day. They showed the
Speaker 2: age of the the NFL, and the Texans are like
Speaker 2: twenty first. I guess twenty first youngest, which would be
Speaker 2: what eleventh oldest? The Washington Commanders, I think, are the
Speaker 2: oldest team in the league. So we go Titans Commanders
Speaker 2: week one week.
Speaker 1: David blau is a blower. He's their offensive offense. Cordiad
Speaker 1: I think good. I think it's gonna be good. Smart guy.
Speaker 1: So we go road road, just like twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3: All right, who's next? Monday Night football? Home opener? Home opener?
Speaker 3: Monday night Football?
Speaker 1: So you get them.
Speaker 3: It's not really a mini buye, but you get an
Speaker 3: extra day after the week two game at Washington to.
Speaker 1: Play Dak Prescott in the Dallas Cowboys. All right, so
Speaker 1: this is it. It's Monday Night Football. It's the opener.
Speaker 2: It can't be the opener opener like opening week, but
Speaker 2: the opening game in the twenty fifth season will be
Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys on Monday.
Speaker 1: Night Week three.
Speaker 3: Can I shoot a hole in it right now? Oh no,
Speaker 3: it can't happen. You gotta look at the Cowboys schedule, okay, because.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, damn it. They're in Rio. Can you
Speaker 1: make a quick switch? Let me see, let me see
Speaker 1: if I can. Okay, okay, okay, I got got like
Speaker 1: North Junior, make a quick switch. I got a switch.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: If we're not gonna put the Cowboys on the road here,
Speaker 3: then send them to Rio.
Speaker 1: I'd love to see it happen.
Speaker 2: Okay, So all right, so we're sticking with a primetime game.
Speaker 2: But I okay, here's the one I moved. You made
Speaker 2: a switch, Okay, I did. We just mentioned him little
Speaker 2: while ago the g Man on Thursday night football.
Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, we gotta go short week after Washington. Yeah,
Speaker 1: short week after watching You're killing me, Johnny. I know.
Speaker 1: But we've done that before, and we've had to go
Speaker 1: on the road.
Speaker 2: Remember twenty seventeen we played here, we played the Jags,
Speaker 2: and then to go right on the road in week
Speaker 2: two to play Cincinnati on Thursday night.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: Now I'm getting back from Washington and I play my
Speaker 3: home over on a Thursday after no rest. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm getting back, Johnny, I'm getting back late from that game.
Speaker 3: That's a not a terribly long flight. But it's not
Speaker 3: a short flight either.
Speaker 1: No, all right, I'll.
Speaker 3: Take it whatever I have to take it, don't I. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's the Giants on a Thursday. You're gonna go Amazon
Speaker 3: Thursday night.
Speaker 2: I'd rather have the Thursday night Amazon game earlier in
Speaker 2: the year than later.
Speaker 3: Did I tell you almost ran over Kirk hurb Street's
Speaker 3: dog in the loading dock. Well it wasn't that close,
Speaker 3: but I was. You know, I'm not driving a big
Speaker 3: dog by the way, Yeah, big dog. I drive a
Speaker 3: rapid amente, but not on the not in a loading
Speaker 3: dock on a game. Damn, my head on a swivel. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's why I saw the dog walking in front of
Speaker 3: my car. And he must have been on a leash,
Speaker 3: I guess. But it wasn't Kirk with the dog. It
Speaker 3: was a dog handler.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: And the dog I think is not exactly totally obedient
Speaker 3: yet because it's still a young dog, although you would
Speaker 3: think you'd have that thing trade pretty well. And the
Speaker 3: dog was somehow just I want to say, Johnny, the
Speaker 3: dog was wandering.
Speaker 1: I want to say that.
Speaker 3: But I just thought this is a story for later
Speaker 3: that I encountered Kirk Hurbstreak's dog Ben.
Speaker 1: Is it Ben? What is it? Now? Ben was the
Speaker 1: other dog? Peter Peter? Who's Ben? The previous dog?
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sorry, I really really blew with this one.
Speaker 3: Now you had been and Peter Wright. I think Ben
Speaker 3: passed away, so Peter the new dog. All right, So
Speaker 3: Peter was in front of my car. But Peter's okay,
Speaker 3: last I checked.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we're taking on the Giants on Thursday night football.
Speaker 2: So now we get the mini buy. In week four,
Speaker 2: we go to Pittsburgh to take on seemingly Mason Rudolph
Speaker 2: and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Is Mason Rudolf still the backup there?
Speaker 1: I don't even know if he is.
Speaker 2: But we take on the Pittsburgh Steelers in week four,
Speaker 2: the first four on the freaking road.
Speaker 4: That's right?
Speaker 1: What are you doing to me? Is that a regular
Speaker 1: Sunday nooner for us?
Speaker 2: That is a Sunday nooner's Sunday for us.
Speaker 1: After the Thursday night game.
Speaker 2: Then week five, we're going back home, coming back home good.
Speaker 2: And two years ago, twenty twenty four, I channeled it
Speaker 2: Week five and twenty twenty four we played the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 2: But we will play on Sunday Night football. Okay, Texans
Speaker 2: Bills Week five, Sunday Night Football.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 2: This is John Harris's twenty twenty six mock schedule. All right,
Speaker 2: So so far two primetime games. You got the Amazon
Speaker 2: primetime game against the Giants yep, and you got this
Speaker 2: against the Bills on Sunday night football.
Speaker 3: So primetime both of our home games thus far. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I like it, Okay, I like it. So we got
Speaker 3: two of our four or five primetime games.
Speaker 2: Then this is when we'll take nerding on NFL. For now,
Speaker 2: we'll take his or her word for it, and we'll
Speaker 2: play the Jacksonville Jaguars in London in Sunday, October eighteenth,
Speaker 2: with a.
Speaker 1: Bye week in week seven.
Speaker 3: Okay, wait a minute, so we're on week six right now.
Speaker 1: Six will play the Jaguars Week seven, will take the buy.
Speaker 3: So he had he had week six Jags at Wembley,
Speaker 3: and the Tottenham Hotspur website or a website that deals
Speaker 3: with Tottenham stadium dates, what did they have?
Speaker 1: They had Let's see, they had Jaguars on the eleventh.
Speaker 3: They had Jaguars in the eleventh at Tottenham, which would
Speaker 3: make sense because it's a home game for Jacksonville if
Speaker 3: that's the case, If that's the truth, and the Jags
Speaker 3: home is Wembley. So they played back to back games
Speaker 3: in London this year, that's correct. One of them has
Speaker 3: got to be at Tottenham because it's a road game.
Speaker 1: They need a road and a home. That works.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that works, So math works according Now, look the
Speaker 2: Matt I used to tell my kids this all the time.
Speaker 2: There were certain things in a math equation you could
Speaker 2: look at and know Okay, that doesn't make sense. It
Speaker 2: doesn't tell you the answer is right. It just tells
Speaker 2: you it can make sense exactly.
Speaker 1: What you do.
Speaker 2: Did so Week six at Jacksonville in London at Wembley,
Speaker 2: Week seven the bye.
Speaker 3: How do you feel about a week seven by Because
Speaker 3: if they're right, that's the case here and later six
Speaker 3: it's better than week fourteen. I'd rather be eight nine
Speaker 3: or ten, but it's it's an improvement. Everybody wants eight
Speaker 3: nine or ten. We can't have, like Joe Burrow suggested,
Speaker 3: everybody take a week off in the middle of the season.
Speaker 3: It's never gonna happen, so we'll have to live with it. Wait,
Speaker 3: who's said that, Joe Burrow?
Speaker 2: Week eight at home, comeing out of the bye, Cincinnati
Speaker 2: Bengals and Joe Burrow?
Speaker 3: Is that the time when the nagging Burrow injury flares up?
Speaker 1: About then and we're gonna get another quarterback?
Speaker 2: So I channeled a couple of years, like I said,
Speaker 2: into kind of my my scheduled thoughts. Well, we get
Speaker 2: to week nine. Week nine through week fourteen is about
Speaker 2: as tough as it could possibly get for the Texans.
Speaker 3: All right, so you're gonna go middle of the schedule.
Speaker 3: Week nine, Okay at Indianapolis.
Speaker 2: So take on the Bengals and then go to Indianapolis
Speaker 2: the very next week.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, week ten.
Speaker 2: Since I couldn't put it in Week three, I put
Speaker 2: in Week ten the Dallas Cowboys on Monday Night football.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: Week eleven, eleven, and twelve are tough. Eleven, twelve and
Speaker 2: thirteen are just wow. Eleven at Philadelphia? Okay, twelve? Is
Speaker 2: that a regular Sunday after.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got that as a regular noonor for right
Speaker 1: now it could be a late afternoon.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Week twelve at green Bay, so go to Philly. So
Speaker 2: play Dallas on a Monday night, then go to Philly,
Speaker 2: then go to green Bay and return for Week thirteen
Speaker 2: against the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday night.
Speaker 1: For geez, that's a murderer who when I put it
Speaker 1: down on paper, I went, son of a gun. That
Speaker 1: is not.
Speaker 3: Fun Johnny here the last three years for Burrow, by
Speaker 3: the way, who starts this stretch?
Speaker 1: Yep? Allegedly that's what That's where I put it.
Speaker 3: The Texans definitely faced him in twenty twenty three at Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: He played ten games that year. The following year he
Speaker 3: plays all seventeen. They get really hot at the end
Speaker 3: of the year, but they were really struggling defensively, as
Speaker 3: we all know. They're putting up Gargantua and the Man
Speaker 3: of Points and losing games like thirty four to thirty three.
Speaker 3: Last year he played eight games. So that's a lot
Speaker 3: of games missed in the last.
Speaker 1: Three years for Joe. For Joe Cool, he basically lost
Speaker 1: the whole season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that essentially lost the whole Season's that's
Speaker 3: a real damaging resume.
Speaker 1: When you look at the injury count for Burrow.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Contrast that to Josh Allen, who I mean, you look
Speaker 3: at the last five years, he's missed one game and
Speaker 3: that might have been a we don't needed a play.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you go seven years, he's only missed
Speaker 3: at the most one game a year.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's Josh Allen. I that's crazy. This weekend, I
Speaker 1: this weekend.
Speaker 2: I can't remember which day it was Friday, said or Sunday,
Speaker 2: one of them, but I just went to YouTube and
Speaker 2: the first thing I popped up on YouTube was the
Speaker 2: Final I think it was the Final.
Speaker 1: It was the Bill's Final Drive.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you going back and watching it again, and
Speaker 2: you know, just watching it all the way through and
Speaker 2: seeing it again.
Speaker 1: Roller, we beat the hell out of that man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like he took a beating that. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't know how long it must have
Speaker 2: taken for him to get right after that game. Now,
Speaker 2: it was a Thursday night, so we had a couple
Speaker 2: extra days. But we just kept coming after him. I mean,
Speaker 2: we were hunting him. It was amazing. And that was
Speaker 2: just a two minute drive. And by the way, the
Speaker 2: hooking ladder is one of the great calls ever, so perfect.
Speaker 3: It's perfect. It took the air out of my lungs.
Speaker 3: It was just, what are we doing after a performance
Speaker 3: like this? Is he going to be able to Are
Speaker 3: we gonna be too gassed? Is he gonna be able
Speaker 3: to find the end zone? Are we gonna be too
Speaker 3: gassed to make the stop?
Speaker 1: Yes? And we weren't. They weren't.
Speaker 3: Kept the pressure on him, kept the pressure on him.
Speaker 3: He made the bad bullock with the pick.
Speaker 2: Found a way, so to reiterate, after going to Jackson,
Speaker 2: after going to London, we get to buy Week seven,
Speaker 2: Week eight, Bengals at Home. Week nine at Indy mock
Speaker 2: schedule Week ten Cowboys on Monday Night, Week eleven, at Philly,
Speaker 2: week twelve, at Green Bay, week thirteen, Baltimore Ravens on
Speaker 2: Sunday Night Football, and then we go out to LA
Speaker 2: for Week fourteen.
Speaker 3: So wait a minute, we've played the Colts once. Have
Speaker 3: we played the Jags yet.
Speaker 1: In your mock? Yeah, we're going to win to London.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's right. We open the at Tennessee.
Speaker 2: Then we went at Jacksonville at Indian now again, so
Speaker 2: we channeled. I channeled different years the schedule. I channeled
Speaker 2: last year for one particular part at the end.
Speaker 3: Right, So you're telling me we have three divisional dates left. Yes, okay,
Speaker 3: so after the Ravens who after the Ravens at Chargers
Speaker 3: week fourteen.
Speaker 1: This thing's brutal. I know this is brutal.
Speaker 3: I mean trying to make it as tough as possible,
Speaker 3: but there's no way to not make it tough because
Speaker 3: these teams are on your schedule. You have to play
Speaker 3: them at some point. This is really difficulty. Very A
Speaker 3: big hope is that the division is not as good
Speaker 3: as you think, because you know you're going to be
Speaker 3: thick in the division.
Speaker 1: In all likelihood at the end of the year.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it doesn't happen with all teams, correct, But you
Speaker 3: want to be thick in the divisional games at the
Speaker 3: end of the year so you can further control your
Speaker 3: destiny within the division. Right, And I'm just hoping that
Speaker 3: Tennessee is terrible and the cold so just awful and
Speaker 3: the Jags take a big step back. But go on,
Speaker 3: that's a big, big trip to go out to La
Speaker 3: that late the season again because you have to do
Speaker 3: it last year.
Speaker 2: It's right, So again, I channeled various years of this schedule,
Speaker 2: the first four out to six on the road with
Speaker 2: the first two you know, it's a.
Speaker 1: Twenty eighteen theme.
Speaker 2: Then this four out of it's a four out of
Speaker 2: that's four out of seven, but four to seven with
Speaker 2: the three out of four, with going two Indy home Dallas,
Speaker 2: then at Philly at green Bay.
Speaker 1: That's got some twenty sixteen elements. Yep.
Speaker 2: Remember we went to Jacksonville and then we had we
Speaker 2: had we had Jacksonville, then we played the Chargers, and
Speaker 2: then we played the Raiders and somebody else in Green Bay.
Speaker 2: Kind of they were all kind of in a mix,
Speaker 2: and that's kind of what that stretch is. Then thirteen,
Speaker 2: like I said, Week thirteen Baltimore Ravens Sunday at Football,
Speaker 2: Week fourteen at Chargers. Then I channeled last year's schedule
Speaker 2: a little bit, getting three out of last four at home.
Speaker 2: Three as you know, because I've gone Titans on the
Speaker 2: road Week one, Jags in London Week six, Colts week nine.
Speaker 2: That means we're getting all three games in the division
Speaker 2: at home in the final month of the year. And
Speaker 2: it starts with Week fifteen Jaguars. Monday Night Football. Oh,
Speaker 2: let's get sexy. That is sexy, all right, Monday Night
Speaker 2: Football is gonna love that one. You know, we are
Speaker 2: both in it. If Monday Night Football, If Monday Night
Speaker 2: Football got the game that we played at noon last.
Speaker 1: Year, oh forget about oh.
Speaker 2: People, Oh it's the number one game, best game of
Speaker 2: the year. That's the one. No game better than that one.
Speaker 2: I guarantee you that's what it would be. That's what
Speaker 2: the narrative would be.
Speaker 3: Now, there are those who would think, and I'm one
Speaker 3: of them, that NBC, for instance, would not want that
Speaker 3: game booked that late because they would look at the
Speaker 3: Jags and say, oh, oh, this is flex City. I don't
Speaker 3: trust them, right, right, But look, you could have that
Speaker 3: happen with any team. Yes, but the Jags are not
Speaker 3: exactly bad team rating proof right if you have the
Speaker 3: Cowboys booked late in the season, I got the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: Even if they stink, I'm gonna get viewers because people
Speaker 3: like to watch them stink.
Speaker 1: That's right. I like it.
Speaker 3: The Monday night football schedule is not the sexiest schedule.
Speaker 3: Usually it's Sunday Night, and I think Amazon has actually
Speaker 3: moved ahead of Monday Night.
Speaker 1: I think you're right.
Speaker 3: Even though the league owns ten percent of ESPN and
Speaker 3: disney O's ESPN and they've always paid more money than NBC,
Speaker 3: it didn't matter. The Sunday night game was going to
Speaker 3: be the one. But the Thursday night game, which used
Speaker 3: to stink, now is really beefy because Amazon has backed
Speaker 3: up the truck full of cash and they want good
Speaker 3: games on a Thursday game.
Speaker 1: So I could see it happening.
Speaker 2: So Week fifteen, Jaguars Monday Night football. Week sixteen in
Speaker 2: a nooner. Now again, remember two years ago a nooner
Speaker 2: against the titan lead.
Speaker 1: The season you lost lost. But last year Week.
Speaker 2: Sixteen, Tennessee at home, I like it then Week seventeen.
Speaker 3: By the way, last year they're really tight game. We
Speaker 3: always point that out, yea.
Speaker 1: You know, like I was doing my YouTube of Palooza.
Speaker 2: That was the very next thing to come up was
Speaker 2: our final drive and got a little dicey. I'm telling
Speaker 2: you of all the plays all year and I and
Speaker 2: we ranked him and talked about him. That's that's throw
Speaker 2: from Davis Mills is one of the great throws ever
Speaker 2: Daryl Baker. They're playing cover to Daryl Baker. The corner
Speaker 2: misses it by literally two inches.
Speaker 1: And Nico two inches brilliance makes the catch. I mean
Speaker 1: he gets both feed don.
Speaker 3: This is a great throw that only a great receiver
Speaker 3: can catch, really, or a receiver just playing out of
Speaker 3: his mind who's not as great.
Speaker 1: And he had a great game.
Speaker 3: He had a great game, a great catch, excellent throw,
Speaker 3: good coverage.
Speaker 1: What can you say if you're them, even you have
Speaker 1: to say, well, what are you going to do?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And I had a good draft choice. It was just
Speaker 1: awesome to watch. It showed a slow motion.
Speaker 2: You could see the bench there bench reacting to it like,
Speaker 2: oh no, I remember that.
Speaker 1: A couple like no, no catch, and then they were
Speaker 1: like oh, well, their bench is right in front of
Speaker 1: our broadcast position. The booth is a little low, and
Speaker 1: I remember thinking, is this Oh.
Speaker 2: I remember, I remember, I remember distinctly when I've listened
Speaker 2: to that call. I remember you're waiting, You're waiting to
Speaker 2: see because you can't you can't.
Speaker 1: See his body. I'm all the way over so I
Speaker 1: can't see.
Speaker 3: It looked like it, but it's like a Hopkins catch
Speaker 3: in that his body lean is so far. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's catching that thing two three yards out of bounds,
Speaker 3: but with the feet down, drags that toe and that's
Speaker 3: the only place you could put that throw.
Speaker 1: In that and it was so good.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Second last week of the year, Week seventeen at the
Speaker 2: Cleveland Browns. Now, I make the schedule as tough as
Speaker 2: possible for everybody. And who is gonna hate a Week
Speaker 2: seventeen game in late December early January in Cleveland, your truly?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, that's hard for you.
Speaker 3: It's also hard for the Texans if the Browns defense
Speaker 3: is up to the challenge, because the Browns held the
Speaker 3: Steelers to six in their place last year. The Browns
Speaker 3: beat the Packers in their places last year by the lake,
Speaker 3: the wind the cold. Ye, this could be Deshaun Watson C. J.
Speaker 1: Stroud.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, thirteen twelve could be twelve degrees with
Speaker 3: wind out of the northwest.
Speaker 1: Twenty per hour. Thirteen twelve, it's gonna be like nine
Speaker 1: to seven. Yeah, this could be nasty.
Speaker 3: And then and the Brown's probably dead for everything at
Speaker 3: that point postseason wise. But so what, Maybe you got
Speaker 3: to go in there and go cold weather and come
Speaker 3: out with the wins.
Speaker 1: Right, get you ready for the playoffs.
Speaker 3: But you know what, Johnny, if that game you could
Speaker 3: play be playing in Green Bay that week, You could
Speaker 3: be in Philly that week. You could be in Pittsburgh
Speaker 3: that week. You could be in Washington that week. It
Speaker 3: could be cool.
Speaker 1: It could also be in La that like we were
Speaker 1: last year.
Speaker 2: We K eighteen, We close at home against the Horseshoe.
Speaker 1: Nap. You gotta do it. You gotta do it.
Speaker 3: Although I think this year, if the league is thinking
Speaker 3: AFC South title, they would put us in the Jags
Speaker 3: in the last game.
Speaker 1: Of the year. Yep, they would do it.
Speaker 3: Might not work out that way, maybe the Colts are better,
Speaker 3: but I like it either way. I do like opening
Speaker 3: with Tennessee like you have in your mock schedule, and
Speaker 3: I like closing with the Colts, but I could see
Speaker 3: the league going for the Jags late.
Speaker 2: I could flip week fifteen and eighteen and put Indianapolis
Speaker 2: in week eighteen. I'm sorry, Innapolis in week fifteen and
Speaker 2: put the Jags in Week eighteen. Man Jags Jags Texans
Speaker 2: at home for maybe THEFC South title.
Speaker 1: I mean that would wow.
Speaker 3: I think that when you're a good team like the
Speaker 3: Texans are. How many prime time is this?
Speaker 2: By the way, So Thursday night against the Giants, Sunday
Speaker 2: night against the Bills, Monday night against the Cowboys, Sunday
Speaker 2: night against the Ravens, Monday night against the Jags.
Speaker 1: So too, five five, well five plus London.
Speaker 3: But you took us out of that late season Saturday
Speaker 3: Sunday swadd.
Speaker 1: Figure we did last year. I wasn't gonna put us back.
Speaker 3: You have it in week eighteen, no matter what, because
Speaker 3: that that could be settled any which way they want. However,
Speaker 3: week seventeen, like last year, you had that possibility and
Speaker 3: it ended up you were penciled in for Saturday. It
Speaker 3: was heavy pencil, but you could have been moved out
Speaker 3: of there. Could if they wanted.
Speaker 2: You to, but they had a I mean we were
Speaker 2: what we were ten and five, they were eleven and four.
Speaker 2: I was watching that game again today, A lot of
Speaker 2: time watching us so last last few days. So that
Speaker 2: is your mock schedule, real fast Week one at Tennessee,
Speaker 2: Week two at Washington, Week three, Thursday Night Football against
Speaker 2: the g Man, Week four at Pittsburgh, Week five, Sunday
Speaker 2: Night FOOTBA against the Bills, Week six, London, Jags Week
Speaker 2: seven by eight home since the nine at Indy Week ten,
Speaker 2: Dallas on Monday Night. Week eleven, Philly week twelve, Green Bay,
Speaker 2: both those on the road, Week thirteen, the Ravens on
Speaker 2: Sunday Night football, Week fourteen at the Chargers, and then
Speaker 2: we closed with three out of four at home Week fifteen,
Speaker 2: the Jags on Monday Night football, Week sixteen, the Titans
Speaker 2: week seventeen at Cleveland. Week eighteen the Colts at home.
Speaker 2: And that is my mock schedule for the twenty sixth season.
Speaker 2: Keep in mind the full schedule will be announced at
Speaker 2: seven o'clock on NFL Network. Now, we are also digging
Speaker 2: into some things that we believe we think that might
Speaker 2: give an opportunity on Thursday.
Speaker 1: But we'll see.
Speaker 2: We're not gonna kind of put the cart in front
Speaker 2: of the horse here, but we might. We're looking for
Speaker 2: some information. Yeah, so we might be able to do
Speaker 2: some things live. On Thursday, we'll see the International Games
Speaker 2: will be announced eight o'clock Central time. So is Nerding
Speaker 2: on NFL correct? Will we play the Jaguars at Wembley
Speaker 2: on Sunday, Actober eighteenth? We will find out Wednesday, the
Speaker 2: day before the full schedule is released. We will get
Speaker 2: to see whether that is correct, that the Texans take
Speaker 2: on the Jaguars. There are only two possibilities for the
Speaker 2: Texans to play in nationally Jaguars commanders. Both of them
Speaker 2: would be at London, either Tottenham or Wembley. We will see, uh,
Speaker 2: but that will be announced Wednesday. We're getting ever so
Speaker 2: close to that, all right. It was rookie mini camp
Speaker 2: this past weekend. Got a little Texans audio juke box,
Speaker 2: a little de Beeka, Ryan's, a little Keelon Rutledge, a
Speaker 2: little kayten McDonald.
Speaker 1: Very confident about what that young man can do in
Speaker 1: year one.
Speaker 2: We'll have all that for you next right here on
Speaker 2: Texans All access'sping, everybody. Welcome back, Texans All access on
Speaker 2: this wonderful Monday evening, John Harris Football and only a
Speaker 2: sideline reporter for your Houston Texans and a small piece
Speaker 2: of news. The Texans have signed the guy who was
Speaker 2: a tryout player this past week, Evan Hall. Now, and
Speaker 2: that name does sound familiar than you're a football nerd
Speaker 2: like me. But Evan Hall was at Northwestern, played for
Speaker 2: the Colts for a little bit. Was a draft pick
Speaker 2: of the Colts. Chris Ballard drafted him two three years ago.
Speaker 2: He tried out. I like his look, kind of thick, strong,
Speaker 2: stocky looking guy that can do something. So he joins
Speaker 2: the roster at running back to along with Noah Whittington,
Speaker 2: Josh Pittzenburger.
Speaker 1: Both those three or all three of those guys were at.
Speaker 2: The Rookie Minty camp this weekend in addition to what
Speaker 2: the Texans already have on hand to Dave Montgomery and
Speaker 2: what he marks Juar Jordan and British Brooks. So bringing
Speaker 2: another guy to the party at running back, Evan Hall
Speaker 2: now officially a signed Texan. Okay, the man who leads
Speaker 2: these Texans on the field is head coach Demiko Ryans.
Speaker 2: Here is what it sounded like when he stood up
Speaker 2: and talked to the media and he started with a
Speaker 2: question about culture.
Speaker 5: Our culture here is sent so I don't have to
Speaker 5: say much on it, and I still have to make
Speaker 5: sure I teach our rookies what.
Speaker 4: That looks like.
Speaker 5: A lot of guys coming from a lot of different
Speaker 5: places all over the country, a lot of different schools.
Speaker 5: We do things a lot of different ways, so we
Speaker 5: just have to let them know how we do it
Speaker 5: here in Houston may be a little different. We believe
Speaker 5: in what we do here. We think it works. We
Speaker 5: build it around the people, and that's what you'll notice
Speaker 5: about the draft class and the guys and when you
Speaker 5: talk to them, like it's built on really high character guys.
Speaker 5: Starting you know with Rutledge, he's just a really great guy.
Speaker 5: Loves football right, He's ready to put on pass today,
Speaker 5: so I have to have to slow him down. But
Speaker 5: it's exciting to work with these guys, exciting to see
Speaker 5: them and my main message for these guys, it's not
Speaker 5: about coming out of being perfect today.
Speaker 4: I just want to see how they progress the next day.
Speaker 6: Do you want to see them take away for these
Speaker 6: few days that they're here classroom.
Speaker 5: On the field, The main thing I want to see
Speaker 5: our rookies come away with is the sense of urgency
Speaker 5: that we have here like they're behind. Unfortunately it's great
Speaker 5: you get drafted, got a lot of parties, a lot
Speaker 5: of who but you're behind. Our events have already begun
Speaker 5: working out and you have to catch up.
Speaker 4: You got to play catch up and it's gonna be
Speaker 4: a lot of catching up to do.
Speaker 5: So I want them to feel that sense of urgency
Speaker 5: and I want them to just.
Speaker 4: Also get understand and learn the guys that they're working with.
Speaker 5: So you know, ask them to sit with someone different
Speaker 5: each day, communicate with someone different, learn something about you know,
Speaker 5: their teammates, the quicker we can earn that connection and
Speaker 5: get that connection and buy end. I think it helps
Speaker 5: them along this process of a long rookie season.
Speaker 6: Funner situation, what are some things that you break across?
Speaker 6: Saw and jack did that?
Speaker 4: Than you want to bring him in And.
Speaker 5: For jack Man, we saw a guy who's been very consistent.
Speaker 5: He has a very strong leg, does a good job
Speaker 5: of booting the ball, had a really good first day today.
Speaker 5: Just you can hear the ball coming off of his foot.
Speaker 5: That's the thing that stood out by the day so
Speaker 5: having that healthy competition is only gonna make make that
Speaker 5: position better. Right when it comes to the punter position,
Speaker 5: we got kyks do it in the league, and now
Speaker 5: adding Jack is going to be really healthy competition.
Speaker 4: Come through training camp.
Speaker 7: Their enthusiasm, what you saw in their eyes before they
Speaker 7: hit the field, you talked about wanted to put on bed.
Speaker 5: And for our rookies, you talk about the excitement our
Speaker 5: yesterday is walking through the halls. The first guy I
Speaker 5: saw was for Betchy and just seeing him, big smile
Speaker 5: on his face, gave me a big hug, strong guy,
Speaker 5: stronger than I thought. It almost knocked me down, but
Speaker 5: it was you feel that excitement. He's excited to be here.
Speaker 5: We're excited to have the guys here.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: The cool part about these rookie meetings, everybody in my meetings,
Speaker 5: everybody's sitting on the front row, just starting to meet.
Speaker 5: Is everybody sitting on the front row, notebook out, eyes up, attendive.
Speaker 5: And I always remember that picture, and I tell you, guys, man,
Speaker 5: remember where you're sitting. Remember how locked in you are.
Speaker 5: That's how you should always be throughout your entire career.
Speaker 5: That helps you to become a really good pro So
Speaker 5: I'm that's excited to see these guys not only show
Speaker 5: up with that kind of enthusiasm, but understand that here
Speaker 5: in Houston, that's what our culture is built around, enthusiasm.
Speaker 5: So let's continue to have that enthusiasm through those hot
Speaker 5: days of training camp that are coming as well.
Speaker 8: With rookies, you know, I think obviously the biggest learning
Speaker 8: adjustment for them is more on the mental side. So
Speaker 8: when it comes to you, you're talking about learning and things
Speaker 8: of that nature, what do you think is the biggest
Speaker 8: difference for them learning and veem to apply it and
Speaker 8: the people that try to learn it but fail to
Speaker 8: at times or struggle to apply it within it is
Speaker 8: sometimes the biggest difference is slash hold up in the
Speaker 8: application on the field, And.
Speaker 5: The biggest difference when it comes to learning, it starts
Speaker 5: with us as coaches.
Speaker 4: As a coach, I have.
Speaker 5: To figure out how do my guys learn best, and
Speaker 5: that comes from spending time with the guys doing trying
Speaker 5: different techniques in your meeting rooms. Most importantly, I think
Speaker 5: you learn by actually doing it, and that's for all
Speaker 5: of us. You get better by actually doing and so
Speaker 5: for us, you not only spend time in a meeting room,
Speaker 5: but we want to make sure our meetings are not
Speaker 5: too long to extend extensive. We want our guys to
Speaker 5: be able to get up, move around and actually walk
Speaker 5: through the fundamentals, the techniques, the things that we're asking
Speaker 5: them to do. We want them to actually walk through it.
Speaker 5: And that's how guys learn best. So as much as
Speaker 5: we can put them through those situations at a slow
Speaker 5: pace and then gradually speed it up, that's when you
Speaker 5: can see retention. The retention ratepe it really pick up.
Speaker 4: This is in college football.
Speaker 6: How much do you feel like you watch him and say, hey,
Speaker 6: you know this can really translates to our run stopping
Speaker 6: and what we want to do to club up the middle.
Speaker 5: And what I liked about Caden from his tape at
Speaker 5: Ohio State was the physicality.
Speaker 4: It shows up right when he's across.
Speaker 5: The line from an offensive lineman, no matter who it was,
Speaker 5: he was knocking those guys back in the backfield. That
Speaker 5: translates to Houston Texans defense. We want to knock guys back.
Speaker 5: He does that, and he's still a very young player
Speaker 5: who has so much room to grow, so much room
Speaker 5: to a sin, but it starts right here today. You
Speaker 5: see him in his individual drills. He has the power.
Speaker 5: We can win with that type of power.
Speaker 9: What's it like for you?
Speaker 10: And I'm assuming you obviously liked him throughout the process,
Speaker 10: y'all make the first round selection, and then y'all go
Speaker 10: into day two and.
Speaker 4: Y'all end up getting him. What is that like it?
Speaker 10: Do you attack the next day like we gotta get
Speaker 10: this guy. Do you kind of regather and say, this
Speaker 10: is our guy? What is that like when obviously you
Speaker 10: didn't select him with the first but you ended up
Speaker 10: getting him the next day.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Each day, as we go throughout the draft process,
Speaker 5: Nick and myself we get together and we set our
Speaker 5: game plan for the day, and it helped by having
Speaker 5: a pick high in the second round where we can
Speaker 5: position ourselves in a spot to where we see a
Speaker 5: player that we value that we had really high on
Speaker 5: our board and he's still sitting there on day two.
Speaker 5: So let's find a way to get the guy on
Speaker 5: our team. We like Caden. We visited with him on
Speaker 5: a thirty visit. We really really liked the tape, We
Speaker 5: liked the visits. So man, if we added this guy
Speaker 5: to our team, we knew he would be an impact
Speaker 5: player for us. So we found a way to do that,
Speaker 5: and that starts with Nick and his preparation and knowing,
Speaker 5: you know, the needs of other teams, knowing how the
Speaker 5: board is probably gonna fall, and him making the moves
Speaker 5: that we need to make to go get guys that
Speaker 5: we really want.
Speaker 7: What did you like about How do you feel like
Speaker 7: he could potentially infinity to this team?
Speaker 5: What I liked about Marlin is you see a big
Speaker 5: guy Marlin's Of course, everyone knows his story, right, kids
Speaker 5: from Germany.
Speaker 4: I came here at fifteen, and he's been.
Speaker 5: Through a lot, and he's overcome a lot, right, And
Speaker 5: to see this kid grow into the football player that
Speaker 5: he's become at the University of Michigan. Strong at the
Speaker 5: edge of the line of scrimmage, does a good job blocking,
Speaker 5: sustaining blocks, running his feet, and you know it didn't
Speaker 5: show up a time of when you see it. I
Speaker 5: feel like he can be a dynamic player in the
Speaker 5: passing game, big, tall target, good hands to catch the ball.
Speaker 5: So he just wanted to continue to work with him
Speaker 5: to develop him. He's still a young player, and our
Speaker 5: coach has done a great job already, right, Kaylee and
Speaker 5: James done a great job working with him today and
Speaker 5: its individual drills.
Speaker 6: What's your message to the guys as they leave from
Speaker 6: this weekend in terms of until they come back for
Speaker 6: the next Thay.
Speaker 5: Yeah, As our guys leave for the weekend, the first
Speaker 5: and most important thing is make sure you.
Speaker 4: Contact your mother.
Speaker 5: Make sure we understand his Mother's Day is coming up
Speaker 5: on Sunday, so make sure you know they show some
Speaker 5: love to their mom. That's the most important thing. But
Speaker 5: then the football aspected things who want to make sure
Speaker 5: they're taking care of their bodies, they're recovering the right way,
Speaker 5: you know. There they have to get back in with
Speaker 5: our veterans come Unday and they're expected to fall right
Speaker 5: in line and get into the drills with those guys.
Speaker 5: So it's it's going to be a very quick process
Speaker 5: for them a short weekend, but we're gonna make sure
Speaker 5: we take care of them the proper way. And as coaches,
Speaker 5: we have to be conscious of how we're loading these
Speaker 5: guys from. You know, they haven't probably done as much football,
Speaker 5: so we got to make sure we're conscious of their
Speaker 5: loading and make sure we get them prepared when it
Speaker 5: comes to our OTAs.
Speaker 9: We're gonna have number fifty nine plus Senus that you didn't.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I gotta work fifty nine like you didn't plus Sixenius.
Speaker 9: Yet what you like by Aden Fisher?
Speaker 4: Why came from Indiana?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 4: What I liked about Aida and Fisher? Indiana.
Speaker 5: You put on the tape and you instantly see a
Speaker 5: guy who is a great communicator. You see him point in,
Speaker 5: you see him talking, directing traffic and something that you
Speaker 5: don't see a lot you know in college football. But
Speaker 5: you see a guy he knows the safety rotation. You
Speaker 5: can see a guy who's very sharp. He understands the
Speaker 5: entire defense and how the puzzle fits together. So really
Speaker 5: smart football player all American made a ton of plays
Speaker 5: there in Indiana to lead them to a national championship.
Speaker 5: So I'm excited to add another tough, smart, dependable football
Speaker 5: player to our team.
Speaker 2: One of those tough, smart, dependable players, Keelan Rutledge, the
Speaker 2: first round pick, also met with the media. Now he's
Speaker 2: not as boisterous, I guess it's the right word to
Speaker 2: say as Debiko ryans.
Speaker 1: But it's fun to hear from the first round pick
Speaker 1: Keelan Rutledge.
Speaker 7: Right here, Keiler, what kind of processes you made working
Speaker 7: at it center and how difficult is that position to
Speaker 7: put in the work at the NFL level and taposition.
Speaker 9: I mean anything coming to the NFL is gonna be
Speaker 9: more challenging, right, I mean, better players, scheme is gonna
Speaker 9: be more, It's gonna be different, It's gonna be more.
Speaker 9: But I mean, I was, you know, coach, keep preparing me. Well,
Speaker 9: I'm always always knowing conceptually what everybody was doing up
Speaker 9: front at Georgia Tech, and obviously got snaps there at
Speaker 9: practice and did it with the Senior Bowl. So I'm
Speaker 9: very confident in playing anywhere up there. Just whatever they
Speaker 9: need me to playoff play.
Speaker 7: How what important the center is in this offense and
Speaker 7: how they want to make sure that they don't put
Speaker 7: too much on the plate initially the mental the physical
Speaker 7: aspect of the position. How do you kind of weigh
Speaker 7: that and how have you felt like they've done a
Speaker 7: good job kind of quitting but enough you put not.
Speaker 4: Too much when you play?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I think you're weighing the same right
Speaker 9: because you know you could block the guy, but if
Speaker 9: you don't go the right way, it don't matter, right,
Speaker 9: And then if you go know to go the right way,
Speaker 9: but you don't block the guy. What is it doing
Speaker 9: for you?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 9: So I think they're they're equal. That's any position up front.
Speaker 9: I think you know, a good offensive lineman knows what
Speaker 9: everybody's doing. So I think that's the way I kind
Speaker 9: of look at it.
Speaker 6: What was like just to kind of take some of
Speaker 6: these first steps of their first prayers?
Speaker 9: Yeah, heck yeah, just first and foremost a blessing to
Speaker 9: be out here, right like you dream of your whole
Speaker 9: life to work to this point, and that's what you
Speaker 9: want to do. And then yeah, I mean, you know,
Speaker 9: as offensive lining, you won't put the paths on, right Uh,
Speaker 9: Obviously you get out there and there's so much technique.
Speaker 9: I gotta learn so much I gotta catch up on
Speaker 9: and I'm gonna continue to do that and we're learning
Speaker 9: that now. But I mean it gets real when you
Speaker 9: put the paths on. But these details now really matter.
Speaker 10: You got other offensive linemen kind of trying to show
Speaker 10: you the way or give.
Speaker 4: You any advice, given you the dance.
Speaker 9: I mean, yeah, they've they've they've you know, introduced yourselves
Speaker 9: and stuff like that. They're kind of doing their own
Speaker 9: thing right now. And I just got it in yesterday.
Speaker 9: But sure they've they've definitely made some touch points and
Speaker 9: welcomed me and stuff like that.
Speaker 10: Coach popping at surely and early imprecious.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he's all ball, all ball, all nonsense kind of guy,
Speaker 9: just the way I like it. I mean, I want
Speaker 9: to I want him to coach me hard, I want
Speaker 9: him to hold me accountable, and I will to work
Speaker 9: together to go win some football games.
Speaker 4: It's the biggest thing you learned today.
Speaker 9: I mean just so much, right, like so much. You
Speaker 9: know football football, right, you got his own skin, you
Speaker 9: got a gap scheme, all that stuff's so similar. But
Speaker 9: just the way you're attacking techniques is way different. And
Speaker 9: you know, certain coach wants in a certain way. So
Speaker 9: that's probably the biggest adjustment to do it the Houston
Speaker 9: Texans way how coach Pop wants it done.
Speaker 4: So that's what I'm trying to do. Speaking to take me.
Speaker 6: Too, what are some of the things that you feel
Speaker 6: like when you watch when you watch you on film?
Speaker 4: As far as.
Speaker 6: NFL offensive linement in general, concern the difference between college
Speaker 6: pass blocking and pros pass.
Speaker 9: Blocking, I think just you know, leverage. I think that's
Speaker 9: a lot of things. Like in college, you know, you
Speaker 9: can get your hands up high and you're probably bigger
Speaker 9: and stronger and you can get the job done. You know,
Speaker 9: in this league, you get your hands out, you're gonna
Speaker 9: put on your back right. So I think that's that's
Speaker 9: the biggest adjustment, and you you know that technique in
Speaker 9: those details, that's what makes the good players a good players.
Speaker 6: A little bit that that she got about him and
Speaker 6: the first mount.
Speaker 4: Uh, I mean not really.
Speaker 9: Obviously we went through the process together, saw him here,
Speaker 9: saw him there, But as soon as he got drafted,
Speaker 9: just reached out to him and you know, talked to
Speaker 9: him since he's been remain's a good dude, wired the
Speaker 9: right way, really good ball player. So I'm so excited
Speaker 9: to get there and just get to work with him.
Speaker 9: Not really, I mean they had crossover tape one or
Speaker 9: two games just him playing at Oklahoma, saw up, saw
Speaker 9: him play.
Speaker 4: He played right guard.
Speaker 9: I played right guard, so but not not too much.
Speaker 1: When is the humility that you have come from?
Speaker 9: I mean, I think it's just my upbringing, just how
Speaker 9: I was raised, just the faith I have, Like a lot,
Speaker 9: a lot of things gotta go right for you to be,
Speaker 9: you know, to put it on the pads and play
Speaker 9: in the NFL. Right, it's not just god given talent,
Speaker 9: it's work. It's people that poured into you. So you
Speaker 9: gotta be you know, you gotta be great fun on
Speaker 9: for just all the many blesses you have to even
Speaker 9: put this jersey on and.
Speaker 4: Where everybody you go talks about your drive?
Speaker 6: What what what drive?
Speaker 4: I mean not you're driving your mindset? What drives you think?
Speaker 9: He points to a lot of things. I think, first
Speaker 9: and foremost faith, It's rooted there. So I can go
Speaker 9: out and just perform how I want to perform. Pallas
Speaker 9: raised didn't grow up, you know, maybe the best situation
Speaker 9: so always football was a way out right, Football was
Speaker 9: outlet just pour poured all my passion, all my blood,
Speaker 9: sweat and tears into it.
Speaker 4: So I just love it.
Speaker 9: And you know, if you love the game, anybody that
Speaker 9: really loves the game, they're gonna be passionate and they're
Speaker 9: gonna do anything for it. So I just love getting
Speaker 9: out on the grass and play.
Speaker 1: It's a great stuff there.
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